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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...

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

The best news for the property sector to come from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget statement came not from any fiscal...

The Spring Budget last Wednesday rounded out to be mostly a disappointment for the property industry, but it was also perhaps...

Following the disappointment of his Autmn statement, many property professionals were hoping for a kick-start to property sales in Jeremy Hunt’s...

Now the dust has settled on what many described as an ‘underwhelming’ Budget, we take a look at what two business...

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has almost halved its house price forecasts after another relatively quiet fiscal update for the...

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

Last weekend, Levelling Up and Housing Secretary, Michael Gove wrote in the Sunday Times that the nation’s housing crisis was so...

Agency trade body Propertymark has expressed hope that housing will be a key part of the Spring Budget after the Treasury...

The factor most likely to influence the housing market next year is entirely outside the industry’s control: the General Election. Knight Frank...

Around half of homebuyers will continue to postpone plans to purchase a property after the Autumn Statement failed to provide sufficient...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will deliver his Autumn Statement this afternoon amid rumours of Stamp Duty reforms and support for first-time buyers. The...

Rumours about tax cuts in this week’s Autumn Statement are continuing but there are warnings that a Stamp Duty cut may...

As sure as night follows day, so our industry sets out a wish list of tax changes which it hopes the...

When Chancellor Jeremy Hunt gets to his feet on Wednesday to deliver his Autumn Statement, he should consider offering support to...

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has repeated calls for Stamp Duty to be scrapped as politicians prepare for party conference...

The chief executive of the Building Societies Association is warning that mortgage lending - already down on last year - is...

I’ve found myself in contemplative mode this week, looking forward to the future and remembering times past. In the immediate future –...

The Northern Ireland Executive should seek devolved powers over Stamp Duty, Propertymark claims. The agency trade body has urged the Executive to...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt warned tough times were coming ahead of his Autumn Statement yesterday and agents were left with plenty to...

Agency sale stock has improved by almost 40% in parts of Scotland over the past month, new research claims. Analysis by Scottish...

Average property values have decreased for the third time in the past four months as Halifax warns of the end for...

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

And…breathe. For a while back there, the only certainty for the housing market was uncertainty. That isn’t to say the election of Rishi...

I can’t really write about anything else this week, can I? Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you will have...

In a dramatic, fast-moving day, the Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng was sacked ahead of a press conference by Liz Truss which reversed the...

Buyer demand has dropped by a fifth in the fortnight since the mini-Budget while supply has increased from worried homeowners, Zoopla...

In tougher times – as is the case now, post-Covid, post-Brexit, cost-of-living crisis, war in Ukraine, etc – reputation and consumer...

Despite all the recent speculation surrounding the housing market after the badly-received mini-Budget and regular talk of a possible slowdown, new...

The stamp duty cut announced by the government in last week’s mini-Budget could save homebuyers across England more than £1 billion...

Annual house price growth returned to double digits in July, Land Registry data reveals. The figures will reignite the debate over the...

A stamp duty loophole in one part of the UK is likely to be closed later this year. Until now buying a...

By the time I next write this column, we’ll be just days before the next Budget and Autumn Statement. So I’ll...

Scotland was the first UK nation to scrap the equivalent of its stamp duty holiday, yet already the official economic monitor...

Every so often it comes around – the argument that stamp duty should be reformed/removed/replaced (delete as appropriate). But why? Where’s the...

A young Conservative says “the rich are getting a free pass” thanks to the current council tax system, and there should...

Agency staff who worked from home at any point during the pandemic - even for just one day - can still...

The Stamp Duty holiday has been very beneficial for hundreds of thousands of buyers looking to take advantage of savings, even...

Right now it seems that another day means another house price record, an all-time high for transactions, and a conveyancing log-jam...

A think tank wants the government to scrap stamp duty and replace it with an annual property tax based on capital...

One housing market index suggests that average house prices in England and Wales have risen by 9.8 per cent in the...

There’s a warning this morning that possible tax reforms to be unveiled next Monday could wreak huge damage on the property...

Today’s Budget is the most eagerly-anticipated for many years, as it juggles to shore up the economy with the longer-term issue...

With just two days to go, it's fair to say the property industry is eagerly awaiting Chancellor Rishi Sunak's Budget statement...

The Chancellor is considering extending the stamp duty holiday for a short period according to a newspaper report this morning. The Daily...

You can always tell when Budget day is approaching. There’s lots of comment from every imaginable quarter about what the Chancellor of...

Labour and Conservative MPs have expressed a unanimous view on their desire to see an extension of the stamp duty holiday...

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

An estate agency is warning that the likely rush of transactions when the new stamp duty holiday ends next spring will...

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

Three of the highest profile industry suppliers and house moving services have given government a four-step plan to restart the housing...

The coming week’s stories in the mainstream media - inevitably focused on Coronavirus - will be dominated by two things. Firstly there...

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

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

There are fewer ‘accidental landlords’ - vendors who resort to letting out their homes because the sales market is difficult. That’s the...

Housing experts have expressed their concerns that speculation about a radical stamp duty reduction to be introduced by Boris Johnson’s government...

Our own industry’s upheaval over recent years has been no less dramatic than the turmoil at Westminster. The political earthquake has seen...

Theresa May arrived in Downing Street some three years ago - but her premiership has not been a smooth ride. As she...

Figures released this morning show a surge in first time buyers securing mortgages in recent months, despite the market showing continued signs...

A recent 'red flag alert' report from an insolvency firm warned that the number of real estate businesses defined as being...

It’s Budget day and the government is once again on the receiving end of a blast from one of the country’s...

Perhaps it’s been our pre-occupation with Brexit, or on the other hand maybe we’re bored with politics, but this year’s Budget...

Even the cheapest local homes are out of reach for at least 40 per cent of young adults according to a...

One of London’s highest profile and most outspoken estate agent chiefs has scolded ‘Maybot’ Theresa May on the day she is to...

Home ownership among the young has fallen across all income groups according to a large scale research project looking at adults...

One of London’s leading estate agents says Brexit has had at worst a neutral effect on the housing market and may...

Prime London’s transactions are now the preserve of so-called ‘needs-based buyers’ and not investors according to high-end agency Knight Frank -...

One day, I’ll sit down to write for Estate Agent Today and I won’t express my dismay at the lack of...

Investment website The Motley Fool says comparisons between forecast and actual profits reported by Purplebricks suggest the company’s position isn’t -...

It’s not just the evenings drawing in that marks the approach of autumn - it’s also the return to work of...

Ten out of 14 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News say Brexit and economic uncertainty are likely to stall London’s housing market...

Shelter, the campaigning charity that has been hugely critical of private landlords and letting agents in recent years, has now launched...

A ‘disrupter’ estate agent says the English housing market operates in a way that is far less efficient than Scotland’s -...

The rapid growth in popularity of buy-to-let in recent years, fuelled in part by the failings of the pensions industry, has...

Data from HM Revenue & Customs shows that the sale of residential properties rose a marginal 0.8 per cent last month...

House prices in London are now rising at 7.6 per cent per year - the lowest figure for 39 months according...

Strutt & Parker has seen a fall in revenue and profits for the year ending April 30 - and it puts...

Just a couple of weeks ago, we waited with anticipation to see what the new Chancellor, Philip Hammond, would say in...

Prominent top end London estate agent Trevor Abrahmsohn says some homes in the higher levels of the market may now have...

It may still be too early to start compiling a Christmas wish list, but it is the right time to provide...

Forecasts are a tricky business. And as I wrote in a recent Industry Views opinion piece, any prediction in the current...

It’s been a heartening few weeks for those of us who thought that protest was dead – or, more precisely, that...

The government’s housing policy, while helpful outside London, has had a negative effect on the capital according to one of the...

There has been a surge of new crowdfunding platforms aimed at people who either cannot afford to purchase their own buy...

Another online petition has been launched against one of Chancellor George Osborne’s fiscal measures seen as an attack on the private...

The City consultancy which advises Purplebricks says the online agency will break even in terms of its month-to-month activities by the...

In January readers of Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today were given the opportunity to give their views on proposed...

In many respects 2015 has been a good year. Despite global challenges, we have seen a marked improvement in the UK...

Chancellor George Osborne remains convinced that his stamp duty reforms of a year ago benefit over 95 per cent of home...

A new website has been launched to fight back against the attack George Osborne made in the Summer Budget on the...

Hunters founder and new Conservative MP Kevin Hollinrake says he supports the Tory policy of extending Right To Buy to housing...