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The average price of a home in Wales fell to £229,263 in the first quarter of 2024, making this the fifth...

The Government’s proposal to introduce a new 1% deposit mortgage scheme to help young people onto the property ladder is unworkable...

In my last Natter, I recounted the story of how Angels media bounced back from the 2008 financial crisis by launching...

Five years ago, Lettings expert, Tim Lawler, wrote an article for Estate Agent Today charting his early experiences of setting up...

In 1999 (yep) I set up some websites thinking I could generate leads from everyone in the world. I had an...

Mortgage arrears and claims for repossession are on the rise as official data shows how much homeowners are still struggling in...

Mortgage borrowers now have the greatest choice of home loan products since February 2022, Moneyfacts data suggests. It is a boost for...

Transactions for the first half of 2023 are at their lowest level since the financial crisis of 2007-09 as a result...

Skipton Building Society has unveiled details of the first 100% loan-to-value mortgage launched since the 2008 financial crisis. Aimed at renters, the...

The level of agency stock has almost doubled since last year but repricing is on the rise and sales are taking...

The average discount to asking price on a sold property has almost doubled since last July as sellers are becoming ‘more...

Annual house price growth has fallen for the first time since June 2020 and is now at its weakest level since...

The proportion of take-home pay that first-time buyers are having to put towards mortgage repayments is returning to levels last seen...

Hatched founder Adam Day has drawn on his experiences of running the online agent during the 2008 financial crisis to advise...

Talk of a housing market crash is overstated, Zoopla’s chief executive Charlie Bryant has claimed. Speaking in an exclusive video interview with Estate...

The property market is ‘recalibrating’ but should be seen in context of economic events, agents are being urged. Kris Mclean, managing director...

The estate agency sector is close to being hit by a fall-through per minute as an industry veteran warns that the...

A report earlier this month warned that conveyancing firms should stress test their businesses for a sharp decline in work volumes. These businesses...

I’ve just read an article saying that this is the time of the online estate agency. The time in question is, of...

Fall-throughs doubled in the first two weeks of October compared with a month before, analysis claims. Chain-breaking service UPSTIX, which conducted the...

The housing market isn’t definitely facing a 2008-style cliff-edge moment, Knight Frank claims. New commentary from the agent has asked if October’s weak...

House prices could fall by 10% next year as higher mortgage pricing and rising inflation dampen buyer budgets, Savills has warned. The agency...

The housing market is set to turn “sluggish” rather than experiencing a major slump, new predictions claim. Agency and property consultancy brand...

Agents should be getting buyers to focus on what they can afford now and in the future rather than worrying about...

Mortgage rates look likely to fall after Rishi Sunak’s appointment as Prime Minister but analysts are still unsure how far the...

Conveyancers are being advised to prepare their businesses for a “significant fall in work volumes.” Many firms have complained about a backlog...

The share of homeowners struggling to repay their mortgages could hit the same peak levels of the 2008 financial crisis by...

The Bank of England increased interest rates to their highest level since the financial crisis yesterday, prompting fears of higher cost...

A property expert has warned that the Bank of England’s gloomy economic forecasts and last week’s rise in interest rates could...

Interest rates made their biggest leap in 27 years yesterday, rising by 0.5% from 1.25% to 1.75%. It was the biggest...

Recent months have seen interest rates rise from historic lows back closer to pre-financial crisis levels as the Bank of England...

Rightmove has been backed to weather the cost of living crisis and a property market downturn. Analysis by investment service Wealth Club,...

The Bank of England has confirmed plans to withdraw the requirement for lenders to conduct interest rate stress tests on mortgage...

A property expert has predicted that mortgage applicants are likely to find it 'much harder' to be approved for loans as...

The self-employed model, after years of not really catching on fully, was given a major boost by the pandemic and the...

Peta Milne, founder of Instagram growth and PR service Monimo, and a content writer at Choices Estate Agents, recently sat down...

The Bank of England has issued a consultation on changing the affordability tests for large mortgages introduced in the wake of...

The Chartered Institute of Housing, set to unveil its latest annual housing review next month, has indicated that to no one’s...

A prominent analyst says he expects a U-turn on the “folly” of interest rate rises sooner rather than later - but...

For the first time since before the global financial crisis of 2008, the number of first-time buyers is estimated to have...

High-value properties were the top-performers in the country house market in 2021, according to an agency that majors in this sector.  In...

A property finance expert is telling buyers to sit on their hands and not commit to purchases - as he believes...

UK house prices have reached an all time high - but 2022 will see a more normalised housing market thanks to...

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on all aspects of our lives, but undoubtedly one major negative side effect...

An estate agency owner who is also a qualified independent mortgage adviser has hit out against the suggestion that lenders may...

Annual house price growth hit 10.0 per cent last month - and is now tracking close to the level seen before...

Rightmove is warning that it’s “highly likely” interest rates will rise in the near future. The portal believes this now seems inevitable...

House prices rose by just 0.1 per cent in September - but they are still increasing by 10 per cent a...

A survey conducted by a bank suggests that over half of the self-employed sector of the economy believes its financial position...

The UK government will not achieve its pledge of delivering 300,000 new homes a year until 2028, according to analysis from...

A surge in activity ahead of June’s stamp duty deadline and tight supply saw price growth in the country house market...

Zoopla data has confirmed that buyer demand started to moderate in the months prior to the initial stamp duty holiday tapering...

The Halifax is reporting a 0.5 per cent monthly drop in house prices, plus a fall in the annual rate from...

A new analysis claims Help To Buy has improved building volumes and has not been a drain on taxpayers. The scheme which...

The distribution of home ownership across different generations has been a cause of strife according to a think-tank. The Resolution Foundation’s latest...

Banks and building societies want the government to offer more help to the housing market through additional assistance to home owners...

The Prime Central London pain throughout the pandemic can be seen by new figures just released by an investment consultancy, showing...

A leading analyst has told Knight Frank that the end of furlough this autumn is unlikely to kill off the housing...

The Chancellor’s recent announcement that the stamp duty holiday would be extended for another three months was undoubtedly great news for...

The latest house price index from the Halifax suggests the market has softened ahead of the original scheduled end of the stamp...

One of the biggest TV hits of lockdown has been the Netflix show Call My Agent! It’s a surprise success, perhaps, because...

By any available metric, Belvoir had a good 2020. Already a well-known and well-established name, it was highly praised for its...

Recent figures emanating from the mortgage and housing market suggest that – since lockdown was ended in mid-May – transaction levels...

The property market has bounced back with all of the expected resilience and flexibility that is its hallmark since it reopened...

It’s not a big rise, but price growth has returned to the Prime Central London sales market for the first time...

The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, better known as the furlough scheme, was introduced by the chancellor Rishi Sunak in March to...

There’s good news from the think-tank the Resolution Foundation, which says the threat of negative equity because of the Coronavirus crisis...

With the UK officially in what has been described as the single worst national recession in the world, one agency has...

Many young people are stuck unable to purchase their first home even if house prices fall in the wake of the...

You have to feel for Rishi Sunak - well, at least a little. Leave to one side that he carries more presentational...

Agents have remained calm in the light of Nationwide’s house price index which shows the first annual fall for eight years...

Savills has revealed the measures it has taken to mitigate the impact of the Coronavirus on its activities and balance sheet. The...

The chief executive of a property information platform says now is a “dangerous time” to buy or sell homes because of...

Price discounts are diminishing as the housing market strengthens, according to data from Knight Frank. The average discount to the asking price...

A survey of sellers by a high-end agency suggests that around a third expect price falls of six per cent or...

Restrictions introduced a decade ago after the financial crisis are holding back many first time buyers from purchasing a home. That’s the...

The outlook for the housing market is still taking shape, but here I take a look at three market indicators to...

Zoopla’s head of research says a stamp duty holiday could encourage more home owners to move which in turn could help...

All my recent Natters have been focused on one particular topic, the coronavirus crisis, for obvious reasons. But there has been...

There has been much speculation about when agents will be allowed back to work, and what the new office working environment...

Where else to start? Since my last Natter two weeks ago, all our lives have changed more than we could ever...

The coronavirus outbreak has highlighted once again how fragile and interconnected our societies have become. We don’t know yet how dangerous Covid-19...

After a year dogged by Brexit deadlock, political turmoil, and slow growth, estate agents’ confidence in the property market hit a...

First time buyers reached an estimated 353,436 in 2019, the highest level since 2007. This is the fifth time in six years...

First time buyers will constitute the largest single group of purchasers in 2019, despite the apparent difficulties of deposits and securing...

They will be the doctors, lawyers, teachers, thinkers, leaders and captains of industry of the not too distant future, but is...

Average house prices in the UK increased by a mere 0.9 per cent in the year to June - the lowest...

Savills, once a safe bet for year-on-year growth, has seen its underlying UK residential profits plunge 44 per cent with economic...

There may be signs that the gloomy housing market which has hit Prime Central London for some years may finally be...

The income required for first time buyers to purchase in the three most expensive UK cities has fallen slightly according to...

There’s a silver lining to another set of stodgy housing market figures - at least one sector, for those buying their...

House prices rose slightly more rapidly in the first three months of the year but growth is likely to remain subdued...

The number of movers has declined by around 50 per cent since the halcyon days of 2006, before the global financial...

Mortgage lenders are relaxing age limits so that house buyers can still be paying off their home loan well into their...

As 2018 draws to a close, it is fair to say that stretched affordability and uncertainty over the Brexit negotiations has...

The chief executive of online agency HouseSimple says “sellers need to be prepared and willing to lower their expectations” in the current...

The chief executive of Emoov and the founder of the new portal Rummage4Property had a dramatic spat on Twitter just hours...

At least some calls from potential customers to Emoov are being cut off and rival estate agents are now plundering the...

The circus surrounding the fate of online agency Emoov has taken an unexpected turn. Yesterday Sky News revealed that the company was...

The closure of Foxtons’ Park Lane office and five other branches in the capital are merely the start of things to come...