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New data from one of Britain’s largest mortgage lenders shows that nearly one in five first-time buyers are now aged 40...

The plight of the nation’s first-time buyers may be the focus when it comes to government housing initiatives, but our latest...

The gap between the costs of home ownership and renting has reached its smallest level since 2019, according to the latest...

North Berwick in East Lothian, has been named the best place to live in the annual Sunday Times Best Places to Live...

Agents are hopeful of support for the property market in today’s Spring Budget. It could be the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s final fiscal...

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

Compared with a decade ago, today's first-time buyers are older, more likely to buy with a partner and more likely to...

The number of first-time buyers fell by a fifth last year but this cohort still made up the largest proportion of...

After months of negative messaging and anti-development sentiment, espoused both nationally by the Government, and locally during May’s local election campaigning,...

The number of first-time buyers has fallen this year but the proportion of sales to this cohort remains the same due...

It is just over one year since former Prime Minister Liz Truss and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s ill-fated mini-Budget and homeowners and...

The Government is facing calls to resurrect the Help to Buy Equity Loan scheme. The housing support scheme, which provided a Government-backed...

The Government’s First Homes Scheme is set to be the first state-backed initiative to use digital property logbooks. It comes after a...

After months of negative messaging and anti-development sentiment, espoused both nationally by the Government, and locally during recent local election campaigning,...

The Labour Party has announced it will be hosting an emergency mortgage summit this week. The summit, happening in London tomorrow, is...

New analysis from Rightmove claims to reveal the cheapest UK city for a first time buyers to get on the property...

The average first-time buyer in Britain has seen the cost of a home increase by £25 per day since interest rates...

First-time buyers in the UK are paying almost a third more to get on the property ladder than they were five...

For just over a decade, the Government has operated ‘Help to Buy’ schemes in England. The first of these, ‘NewBuy’, which...

Some top tips for saving for a deposit If you’re a first-time buyer - or even if you’re taking the next step...

Property sales are yet to decline amid higher mortgage rates and the cost of living crisis but there are signs of...

Determined first-time buyers are cutting back on going out and energy usage to still be able to save up for a...

The number of homebuyers putting a Help to Buy Isa towards their property purchase looks set to hit a five-year low. The...

In this guest feature, Ben Bailey, CCO at Even, a mortgage lender for first-time buyers launched this year, provides commentary on the end...

The average monthly mortgage payment for a household buying a first-time buyer home would increase to £1,302 if the average mortgage...

Many first-time buyers and homeowners are becoming more cautious of the property market. The cost of living crisis, combined with rising...

First-time buyers have been urged to manage their expectations after it revealed that 79% believe their first home will meet all...

In this Guides & Tips piece, Brian Murphy, Head of Lending at Mortgage Advice Bureau, offers insight into what rate rises...

Annual house price growth has dropped to its lowest level this year and is back to single digits, official data shows. The...

A record share of buyers are leaving London to purchase their first home, research shows. Analysis by Hamptons found that a record...

Asking prices for typical first-time buyer homes and equivalent rents have risen three times faster compared with the pre-pandemic years, Rightmove...

Property professionals and MPs were left wanting more after Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s much-anticipated housing announcements yesterday. Johnson yesterday promised a review...

Agents from Leaders are getting into the Platinum Jubilee spirit across the country. The brand’s branches have added a royal touch to...

It is no longer significantly cheaper to rent compared with making monthly mortgage payments, Rightmove claims, but raising a deposit remains...

A lack of mortgage knowledge could be holding buyers back, research claims. A survey of more than 1,000 consumers by Nottingham Building...

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

The pandemic may have helped first-time buyers get on the property ladder sooner but are they paying too high a price? Research...

The Building Societies Association’s regular confidence tracker about the housing market shows rising pessimism over interest rates, the escalating cost of...

Despite the latest Halifax house price index showing a 10.8 per cent annual rise, a leading housing market analyst is warning...

A young entrepreneur has won an award for creating an online service making it simpler for couples to buy their first...

There’s been a huge rise in the amount of money contributed to the housing market by first time buyers. They paid over...

Features often overlooked by agents and buyers now, such as double glazing and insulation, are likely to become high up on...

Outspoken TV property expert Kirstie Allsopp has told first time buyers they may have to sacrifice lattes, Netflix and gym membership...

Results of a study of 2,000 adults suggest that almost one in five of them want to buy or invest in...

The average age at which someone buys their first home has risen to 32, up from 29 in 2011 and is...

As this is the first Natter back since the Christmas break, I should like to first wish all our readers a...

A wealth tax on overseas owners of UK homes could raise £5 billion a year to help local people buy their...

As agents return to work after the Christmas break, here’s an insight into possible new instructions. A quarter of owners apparently think...

This year, Londoners purchased 112,780 homes outside the capital, the highest number since 2007. New data, from Connells-owned agency Hamptons, shows that...

The average first-time buyer’s home across Britain has increased in price by approaching £9,000 a year for the past decade. FTBs are...

There’s been some cynicism amongst the industry in response to new homes promises made by Chancellor Rishi Sunak in yesterday’s Budget. Sunak...

2021 redefined what it meant to offer exceptional customer experiences for consumers across multiple industries, but particularly for the residential property...

The Modern Method of Auction (MMoA), also known as Conditional auction, can sometimes get a bad rap. However, much of the...

The property industry and its many stakeholders are key participants in a global digital transformation that has been underway for quite...

Affordability has always been a hot topic when it comes to the property market, and this is doubly true for first-time...

It’s certainly the case that awareness of part exchange isn’t very high in the property and agency world, despite the potential...

Day in, day out, I see how good estate agents really are.  Whether it’s in my day job on Location, Location, Location...

A nationalist party has blasted a Labour government in one national region of the UK for its lack of intervention in...

If you were hoping for a summer lull during August, think again. That’s the messages from Nicky Stevenson, managing director of Fine...

Londoners purchased over 60,000 homes outside of the capital in the first half of 2021 - and many of those buyers...

Our long-awaited ‘Freedom Day’ approaches. From Monday all of the restrictions, introduced since the Covid-19 pandemic made an impact across the...

Labour says the stamp duty holiday is an example of the government’s “failed approach” to home ownership and housing affordability. Labour’s Shadow...

The property market is currently in a unique position where the number of house hunters looking for their next home is...

Agents have given their backing to the government’s First Homes initiative, offering discounted houses for local people and key workers and...

Propertymark has thrown its weight behind the government’s First Homes initiative, describing it as “creative” and saying it’s a sign of...

Nationwide Building Society is to become the largest mortgage provider to reintroduce 95 per cent Loan-to-Value home loans without government support.  These...

Government leaks ahead of today’s Queen’s Speech suggest a major planning shake-up is set to stop NIMBY objectors to new homes. News...

Hello and welcome to Agents Do Charity as we are on the threshold of May why not get on to the...

Some 80 per cent of the property market will remain free of stamp duty for first-time buyers, even after the current...

New research shared with Estate Agent Today suggest that in areas of the country almost four in 10 homes for sale...

The Chancellor’s decision to extend the stamp duty holiday has “put a spring in the step" of the housing market according...

First time buyers are now saving more than £800 a year in comparison with tenants, new analysis suggests.  The Halifax says the...

Data from Rightmove suggests a sharp increase in the number of chain-free properties on the market because sellers are increasingly willing...

The government has issued an official note to detail the announcement made yesterday by Chancellor Rishi Sunak regarding stamp duty holiday...

Older homeowners gifted an average of £42,500 to younger relatives to help them buy in the past year, according to new...

Affordability across the housing market is at its worst for 10 years according to an analysis by a London agency. Benham and Reeves...

The UK outlet of Warren Buffett's estate agency empire is launching its first TV advert in this country.  Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Kay &...

Here’s hoping you managed to have as good a Christmas and New Year as Covid rules allowed. Journalism in early January is...

A scathing document produced by MPs slams the government for its “deplorable” housing policies which are "invented, abandoned and reinvented" -...

Firstly, let’s get the obvious out of the way. Lockdown 2, as it’s being known, is now with us, but fortunately...

A new survey reveals the uphill struggle first time buyers appear to be having in securing a mortgage. A study of 1,000...

Almost half of the country’s first time buyers say their plans have been delayed - or worse - thanks to Coronavirus,...

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

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has confirmed that the First Homes scheme will provide newly built homes at a 30 per cent...

Speculation is mounting that Capital Gains Tax could for the first time be applied to gains made when owners sell first...

One of the highest profile and most widely respected figures in the British property industry has died suddenly. He was 72. Tony...

A Labour council in London has come out against the government’s plan to offer 30 per cent discounts to first time...

This month saw the introduction of the final stages of the Section 24 tax changes, first introduced in April 2017. Whereas buy-to-let...

A mortgage broker that’s just become a partner of OnTheMarket is warning that house prices are likely to fall 10 per...

A survey suggests that 77 per cent of first time buyers do not purchase their initial property in the same town...

The HomeOwners Alliance, a leading property consumer group, has now suggested it has some concerns about the government’s First Homes scheme. This...

One of the leading consumer groups has backed the government’s controversial First Homes policy, which aims to give 30 per cent...

Not for the first time, a government policy on housing ends up begging more questions than it provides answers - but...

The government has announced its First Homes scheme - a policy under which it says some new homes will see their...

We are facing a new world in the lettings industry, with the proportion of households in the private rented sector (PRS)...

The typical house move in 2019 turned out to be just nine miles - and large numbers of buyers moved within...

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

A former residential chairman of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has posed key questions for the government to answer over...

The government has given details of a scheme allowing 30 per cent reductions for what it calls ‘local first time buyers’...

Recent Zoopla reports stating that first-time buyers are deciding against purchasing one-bedroom flats came as no surprise to me, or I’m...