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A report in the Times newspaper says Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is planning a stamp duty cut in the early autumn. The paper...

Rumours of the launch of a 1% mortgage deposit scheme have re-emerged with just weeks to go until the Spring Budget  Chancellor...

Chestertons, one of the UK’s oldest estate agencies, has been sold to a European real estate services and technology group. The buyer...

After a steady increase in mortgage rates, concerns about house prices have been rising too. The Financial Times reported in mid...

Everyone at Estate Agent Today is delighted to announce that our Editor, Marc Shoffman, has won the prestigious Headlinemoney freelance journalist...

Labour says it will reform how land is valued under Compulsory Purchase Order powers in a bid to increase house building...

Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) has long been the bugbear of many property transactions. Even the very wealthy will lose interest...

A Canadian investment fund with a roughly two per cent share in Foxtons is arguing for the agency to be put...

The government is considering seizing British property owned by Russian oligarchs on the sanctions list without paying compensation. The Financial Times says Housing...

PropTech firm CoreLogic UK has acquired the property search and marketing platform Rummage4. Rummage4 was founded in 2015 by agent Robert May...

Purplebricks’ share price has hit its lowest-ever level following the postponement of a trading statement after the company admitted a blunder...

Purplebricks’ official statement on the departure of chief marketing officer Ben Carter merely says he’s leaving at the end of the...

The housing market could be in for a financial boost of an unusual kind as a High Street bank plans to...

Agents are to be told this week that employees can drop face masks, social distancing and other workplace measures put in...

Foxtons is facing another shareholder revolt over the bonus being given to its chief executive despite taking £7m in state Covid...

It’s been revealed that some far reaching changes to property taxes may not be unveiled at Wednesday’s Budget and may wait...

Criticism of the management of Countrywide has reached new levels of derision as the mainstream media have attacked the chaos surrounding...

Knight Frank has launched a new radio advert for the first time. The rollout marks the firm’s fourth phase of its “partners...

The share of owners putting their homes on the market within five years of buying is rising again according to an...

A former City analyst best known for his scathing criticisms of Purplebricks has launched a PropTech platform that he describes as...

To most people, purchasing a home is the single most significant financial commitment made across a lifetime. Given the impact and...

There’s been a cautious welcome for the extension to the current mortgage holiday scheme, due to run out for ‘early adopters’...

A new analysis of the simmering Rightmove crisis says there is now “no clear downside” stopping agents leaving. The Financial Times says that Rightmove’s...

It’s been reported that the government is talking with banks and building societies about putting the housing market ‘on ice’ during the...

Prominent agency industry analyst Anthony Codling is asking agents whether the board of OnTheMarket did the right thing by firing Ian...

Increasing numbers of reports suggest that the government will use next week’s Budget to confirm a three per cent stamp duty...

Boris Johnson is considering introducing a mansion tax for high value homes according to a Sunday newspaper. The Telegraph - citing two...

The high-end estate agent who has quit his post after being found to have posted pictures of clients’ houses on Instagram...

Pressure is building on the Conservative party to honour its previous commitment to reform stamp duty for British buyers and sellers...

Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, who earlier this month told a newspaper that he wanted to introduce a Right To Buy policy for...

It’s been an interesting week of contrasts when it comes to online replacing ‘the old school’. Data from that clever consultancy The...

A new portal is launching next year with Countrywide and some 30 other estate agency groups signed up, as well as...

The Financial Times this morning says that Countrywide suffered a failed bond issue earlier this year, forcing it to rely on...

An analyst for business data consultancy Bloomberg has some news for Foxtons - he says its swashbuckling days are over and...

A report in the Financial Times lays bare the scale of the housing market downturn in central London - it suggests...

The stock market and at least one City analyst have shrugged their shoulders at the claim by Purplebricks that it is...

One of London’s best known high-end estate agents, Gary Hersham, says corruption crackdowns in this country and overseas may be deterring...

Ever wondered what it’s like to be on the frontline of property journalism? Well, wonder no more, as our very own...

The Financial Times has identified that 10 of the 21 tables at the notorious Presidents Club dinner last weekend were sponsored by...

OnTheMarket is declining to comment after suggestions were floated that some debts by its member agents could be deferred, or in some...

Last week’s acquisition of high-end agency Cluttons from pre-pack administration is to be investigated by the Pension Protection Fund. We reported on...

A Financial Times article reports a bank analysis shows Purplebricks with a market share of 3.3 per cent of properties marked...

Both Strutt & Parker and the French bank BNP Paribas are declining to comment on speculation that the finance house is...

The Financial Times is reporting this afternoon that BNP Paribas, the largest bank in France, is in talks to acquire high-end...

First details of the long-awaited Housing White Paper have emerged in stories in newspapers frequently used by government to float ideas. The...

One of the earliest entrepreneurs to found a website to allow for-sale-by-owner property listings back in 2000, predicts current online agents...

The Financial Times has beefed up its high-end house and apartment listings after the newspaper's property sector saw a 17 per...

The company that owns Heathrow airport is reported to have said that it will buy 750 homes on the site of...

Agents' Mutual was last week ordered to make a further payment into court as part of its ongoing legal case against...

Fergus and Judith Wilson, at one time considered to be Britain’s biggest private landlords, have sold off an estimated 400 of...

The government is reported to have yet again delayed a decision on whether to privatise the Land Registry. The Financial Times says...

The Competition Appeals Tribunal which is to investigate a dispute between OnTheMarket and two agencies is scheduled to hold its first...

It has been revealed this morning that OnTheMarket has been ordered to pay £1m into court - three quarters of it...

The Financial Times is reporting that a shareholders’ rebellion may be on the cards at Foxtons as some with a stake...

I wish it were otherwise, but there’s a crisis just beginning to sweep over newspapers – with, a bit beneath the...

OnTheMarket chief executive Ian Springett has sent an email to member agents following articles about alleged legal challenges to the portal...

OnTheMarket chief executive Ian Springett has sent an email to member agents following articles about alleged legal challenges to the portal...

Investors’ Chronicle, the weekly investment magazine published by the Financial Times Group, has lavishly praised high-end agency Savills for diversifying its...

New research from Countrywide suggests that the growth of the private rental sector and the higher number of mortgages means far...

A legal expert suggests central London’s house prices may have been skewed because of money-laundering - “and we all know it.” Jonathan...

OnTheMarket has achieved 5.2m visits in July – an increase of 18 per cent on the previous month and ahead of...

Research by the Financial Times shows that large numbers of flats at exclusive new London developments - led by Nine Elms...

The Financial Times says London Mayor and new Conservative MP Boris Johnson is lobbying the government in a bid to persuade...

A journalist has described the estate agents she has recently dealt with as 'borderline trustworthy' and 'downright agreeable', much to her...

Investors’ Chronicle, the Financial Times group magazine for private investors, says Zoopla’s acquisition of price comparison site uSwitch is ‘a creative...

Zoopla Property Group is looking for more potential acquisitions following its surprise announcement that it is buying price comparison website uSwitch. ZPG...

In a dramatic intervention in the sales market, Labour says it will scrap stamp duty for first time buyer purchases of...