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While lengthy lockdowns have caused many to re-evaluate their homes, the apartment lifestyle remains an ambition for many. That’s the view of...

Another house price index shows a super-charged housing market with prices rising 7.5 per cent in the year to January according...

Hello - another Monday dawns but the good news is that we can update you on the industry’s latest appointments. Everyone here...

Agents and a wide range of property experts have demanded yet more government funds to end the cladding crisis that is...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has announced “an exceptional intervention” promising that leaseholders in high-rise buildings above 18 metres will bear no...

One of the country’s most popular tourist destinations may ban the sale of new builds to second home buyers. The council in Padstow -...

Homeowners staying at home during another lockdown are doing more than sharing memes of groundhog day or doing family quizzes on...

Millions of leaseholders will be given the right to extend their lease by a maximum term of 990 years at zero...

The pandemic has reignited the flagging country house market and boosted demand for larger homes with gardens, claims Savills. Larger country houses...

The mixture of the stamp duty holiday and generally fast-rising house prices has led to a resurgence of flipping. Data released this...

Safety checks which are apparently now preventing thousands of owners selling flats are to be eased - but there is confusion...

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

A London property investment consultancy says 22 per cent of properties it’s advised overseas purchasers on this year have been bought sight-unseen. London...

Many agents, certainly those in London, will have faced the difficult task of selling a flat with a shorter lease. A...

A right wing magazine once edited by Boris Johnson has called estate agents “spivs with tape measures” who conceal information from...

The so-called ‘trade up gap’ for people buying for the second time has grown to a record £67,761 according to Rightmove. The...

Ed Mead has joined a growing chorus demanding government action on the cladding crisis. He is one of the industry’s leading figures from...

Survivors and bereaved family members from the Grenfell Tower fire have joined forces with residents trapped in allegedly dangerous flats in...

It’s fair to say that UK estate agents don’t have the best of reputations, often featuring in the lists of the...

Figures from Zoopla quantify how Coronavirus is changing the market, with houses selling significantly faster than flats. The latest market report from...

One of the country’s highest-profile mortgage lenders, HSBC, is restricting loans on apartments from today. Only buyers of flats who have a...

The latest in the recent surge of consumer information publicised by Rightmove suggests that demand for flats has fallen significantly as...

The housing market is set for long-term recovery, despite dips in the road on the way.  That's the message from the latest house...

Lockdown measures are still in place for another two weeks, at least, with the possibility of them being extended beyond that....

Another west country tourist hotspot looks set to ban any future new-build home being sold as a holiday or additional property. Bigbury...

One of London’s most experienced estate agents says there has been a very significant surge in foreclosure sales in part of...

A PropTech website has broken down the sales recorded by HM Land Registry in 2019 into property types - and apartments...

Another westcountry town may ban new-build homes being sold as holiday properties, even though the idea has backfired elsewhere. Fowey in Cornwall -...

The government is being urged to make commonhold ownership compulsory on all new apartments - and the move could even begin a...

  Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Catherine Shinerock - ARO Account Manager What is your ‘company name’...

Auction House, which says it’s the largest property auctioneer in the UK, is opening a new branch in Kent, with its...

After a challenging period for the UK property market, recovery is very much on the cards and the end to uncertainty...

New build homes cost 19 per cent more than comparable pre-owned properties according to a new survey - and sometimes 50...

The Law Commission has set out three ways to cut the cost that leaseholders have to pay to buy the freehold...

Here’s the final part of our questioning of the three portals based on comments and queries from our readers - thanks...

Hello and welcome to PJT: even with little more than a fortnight before Christmas it seems there are still plenty of...

Data scientists have released a study into the characteristics of homes and how they give away the likely voting intentions of...

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

An estate agency has been fined £30,000 for waiting until minutes after the sale of a flat was completed to tell...

A London estate agency says a new scheme of apartments being launched for sale this weekend will be the first ever...

A 10 point manifesto to drive forward leasehold reform has been published by prominent campaigner Louie Burns, of The Leasehold Solutions Group. The 10...

A new study by the London School of Economics suggests that a high profile ban on the sale of new homes...

This is stating the obvious to estate agents but the government has revealed that homes near parks, gardens, playing fields and...

In a revival of the Natter’s day in the life of series, I catch up with Rajeev Nayyar, managing director of...

There’s no doubt that we live in politically charged times and every day appears to bring something new to the ‘party’. For...

It may only be October 4, but temperatures have already started to drop this week as preparations for winter begin. As we...

I suspect that at some time we have all rented an Airbnb (I am sitting on the couch of one as...

Estate and letting agents are being urged to check that they are signed up with an approved redress scheme that covers...

A bid to ban the building of new homes for out-of-town buyers has backfired on a Cornish community - and now...

Once a year you might be perfectly justified in putting your feet up for a weekend and enjoying some great sport...

Britain lives in fundamentalist black-and-white times - all the more surprising when the country's most divisive point of contention sits on...

Research from OnTheMarket shows that 40 per cent of London homes costing around £1m have only two bedrooms or fewer. And only...

Property developing is an incredibly diverse and exciting career choice, and something that many people aspire to do in the UK.  I...

During our school days, most of us did that task where we imagined and drew the homes of the future, but...

The issue of ‘intergenerational fairness’ has been raised in recent weeks, some might say somewhat ironically by a House of Lords’...

It’s a new index but it tells an old story - how prime central London prices have dropped significantly since their...

The leasehold scandal continues to generate plenty of column inches, with fresh stories emerging almost daily of people living in unsellable...

Hello and welcome to Property Jobs Today - your final chance before the Easter break to catch up with the key...

The leasehold scandal has received plenty of press coverage, with horror stories of people living in homes that are impossible to...

It’s no secret that the UK’s housing sector is in crisis. Headlines scream about the shortage of new-build homes. TV pundits...

As the sales market across much of Britain appears to be mired in political and economic uncertainty, figures from Scotland appear...

A poster advertising shared ownership, promoting homes from a housing association, has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority. The poster, for...

The average prices of flats and maisonettes bucked the trend by falling very slightly in the year to December, according to...

At the end of January the Asian PropTech company PropertyGuru announced the imminent launch of beta-phase testing of its cutting-edge new product, PropertyGuru Lens. This...

Average prices of flats and houses in prime central London are now the same as they were six years ago; meanwhile...

A think tank is suggesting that micro-homes could be the answer to London’s shortage of available homes for first time buyers. The...

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

Property analysts say ‘flippers’ - those who buy new homes and sell them quickly, hopefully for a profit - are losing...

Communities have missed out on more than 10,000 affordable homes in the past three years as a result of government rules...

I remember renting flats when I was a 25-year-old negotiator at Foxtons. Many of you will remember my love for the...

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...

An open rental market, where neither landlord nor tenant is in a dominant position, enables rents to rise and fall, which...

No, I haven’t lost the plot. Such a thing exists – and if you’re familiar with North London, there is a...

A city’s housing market that suffered badly because of the collapse in North Sea oil prices is now likely to rebound...

The cost of new-build leasehold properties has surged 16 times faster than freeholds according to research from property investment platform. The revelation...

There’s more bad news for the long-troubled Prime Central London market. A new analysis shows that transaction volumes have plunged 11.6 per cent...

The National Association of Estate Agents has given broad support for radical proposals from the Law Commission to end leasehold abuse...

Almost all buyers of new build houses who purchased a leasehold regret doing so, and the vast majority say they definitely wouldn't...

A specialist property law firm is calling on the government to speed up changes in the law to avoid abusive leasehold...

The latest quarterly house price report published by property portal s1homes reveals that properties across Scotland sell on average at six...

There’s been another call for the government to reform stamp duty - and this time the request is that the duty...

A new website has been set up specifically to help leasehold flat owners who have been served a Section 5 Notice...

The government says its funding schemes such as Help To Buy will no longer be applied to what it calls “unjustified...

Average property prices fell in all but one English region during March, according to the latest official UK House Price Index. Overall,...

Property sellers in Scotland are profiting from buyers' willingness to pay above asking price for a home.  This is according to portal...

Holiday home sales in one of the country’s most popular tourist destinations are holding up, despite stamp duty and the age...

London has 585 one bed flats on the market at £1m or more according to research by online agency HouseSimple.  HouseSimple says...

A forecast suggests HM Revenue & Customs will rake in no less than £8.8 billion in Capital Gains Tax in 2018...

Scottish portal s1homes.com has reported that the average property in Scotland sold for £10,000 higher than its asking price during the...

Readers of a certain age may remember the spoon-bending eccentric Uri Geller, self-proclaimed friend of Michael Jackson and an almost permanent...

Almost a third of all ‘Suspicious Activity Reports’ concerning possible anti-money laundering infringements and reported to the National Crime Agency have...

  A new league table showing how long it takes homes to sell on average in different postcodes across England and Wales...

While there is a distinct market for flats held on particularly short leases, there is a middle ground where flat owners...

A specialist leasehold enfranchisement firm has branded government leasehold reforms as "incredibly weak". In an announcement lost in the noise following Damian Green’s sacking,...

The London residential market is at last improving - but faces a make or break situation with next week’s Budget according...

Despite growing concern about the health of the housing market, a string of estate agencies have made appointments this week. Connells Residential...

The owner of a penthouse flat in London says he is willing to accept the cryptocurrency Bitcoin - providing the buyer...

An estate agency that started its life at a kitchen table in 1997 is now celebrating 20 years in business. City living specialist...

A new portal has been launched aimed at marketing ex-council properties for sale or to let through agencies.  Ex-Council.com says it is...

Crowdfunding is nothing new. As I pointed out in a previous Natter, it dates back centuries, playing a part in the...

Estate agency James Pendleton says the sales of flats across London have collapsed 47 per cent in only a year -...

Homes in the most expensive area of England and Wales cost 25 times as much as in the cheapest area, according...

Being a leading world-class city comes at a price – they are the most expensive for occupiers and the most lucrative...

A leasehold enfranchisement expert wants government action over what he calls the "forgotten casualties" of the recent ground rent scandal.    Louie Burns,...

The Conservative and Labour party manifestos do not go far enough to tackle problems with the leasehold system. That’s the view of...

Student accommodation is positively luxurious compared with the drafty digs of my student days. En-suites, studio flats, even cinemas in halls...

Analysis of over 500,000 transactions shows that completions are slowest in London and the South East. The average progress from an offer...

Peter Robinson, CEO of AIPP – Association of International Property Professionals – shines a light onto the international property market. Some UK...

The property market in northern England, supported in part by the Northern Powerhouse concept, has attracted a lot of media attention,...

A year ago, we were days away from the introduction of a 3% stamp duty surcharge on second homes – a...

Property Vision, one of the country’s oldest and most respected buying agencies, has added its voice to those saying that stamp...

What would Norwich’s own Alan Partridge say? An estate agency in the city is offering residents a one-off opportunity - the...

We’re used to stories on how the buying and renting of ‘formal’ accommodation - flats and houses - has become increasingly...

Lots of people buy new-build due to the perceived lack of hassle with maintenance, as they are built to the latest...

Over 168,000 new homes were completed in the year to March 2016, according to data released by the government, over 15,500...

The East of England, which takes in areas from Hertfordshire to Norfolk, has recorded the biggest hike in property prices over...

The end of 2016 saw the launch of 30,000 new build-to-rent (BTR) projects in London alone. With market growth projected to...

As the wait goes on for the government’s White Paper on Housing, due this month, one funding organisation has suggested that...

After years of surveys suggesting the UK’s new-build homes were getting smaller, and may even be the smallest in much of...

I recently came across a consumer comment expressing frustration at the length and complexity of UK conveyancing and raising the question...

The latest round of complaints made to the Advertising Standards Authority against property firms’ ads have once again ended only with...

The result of a referendum in a tourist hotspot seeking a ban on the sale of new-build flats and houses to...

As many northern cities struggled to recover from the 2008 global financial crisis, the north-south divide returned to plague the British...

Auction rooms across the UK are filled with people looking to buy property, from bargain hunters to seasoned investors, ensuring that...

Speculation was rife over the weekend that the government would today announce major changes to housing policy - possibly shifting the...

Some of London’s ailing new homes schemes may have been thrown a lifeline by the decision of technology giant Apple to occupy...

JLL and CBRE are the joint sole agents for Spire London, which at 771 feet and 67 storeys is to be the...

In the capital, people will pay a premium to live near great transport links, and as we’ve seen from Crossrail and...

Square foot prices at one of central London’s most controversial new developments - Nine Elms - are down eight per cent...

There is likely to be an October court date set for a judicial review into a ban on new-build houses and...

The morning after the EU referendum, and Westminster, Britain, Europe and the world were left in shock at the news that...

nu-move online estate agents -The Future of Property Nu-move is an online venture that has been created to meet the demand...

No fewer than 44 per cent of ‘second time’ buyers have no plans to save for a deposit to buy their...

A developer is making an offer to buyers of selected units at his new scheme in Slough - buy now but...

Dear Sales Doctor, I'm aware I sound robotic when qualifying an applicant and don't know how to change it; any ideas? When an...

A digital marketing agency says it has identified ‘top key phrases’ used by would-be buyers when they begin their property searches...

The developer of Battersea Power Station is holding back around 150 apartments in phase three of the landmark scheme. In an interview...

Agents in a London borough have been warned that the local council now has new powers to fine the firms behind...

Research by The Guardian has revealed that the Blair family’s property empire has expanded - secured just ahead of the stamp...

The former secretary of state at the Department of Communities and Local Government, Eric Pickles, is to write to Chancellor George...

Another Friday, another impressive array of agents doing superb work for causes close to their hearts.  Every week we salute agents helping communities...

A prominent Conservative activist is calling for a strict clampdown on estate agents’ boards which she describes as “a form of...

The service charges for new-build flats coming on to the market this year are on average 96 per cent higher than...

As we know, the property market in London is notorious for sitting a long way outside the conventions of the wider UK...

House prices in the UK rose by 6.7 per cent in 2015, down from 7.7 per cent in the year to...

A newspaper article claims that Rightmove and Zoopla are “awash” with what it calls “the unofficial resales of flats in developments...

An impressive piece of research by London agency Kay & Co chronicles a huge surge in the volume and price of...

This week, Storm Desmond has left devastation in its wake. Once again, the nation’s attention is drawn to the threat flooding...

An interesting story caught my eye a few weeks ago. A man from Lytham St Annes in Lancashire attempted to sell...

The head of a central London property firm says an unintended consequence of the new stamp duty thresholds is that fewer...

I make no apologies for returning to Build To Rent, the institutional investment in building and managing blocks of flats to...

The average price of an apartment has risen by 60 per cent over the past 10 years, far ahead of the...

A protest march in London's fashionable Shoreditch area turned nasty when the windows of a Marsh & Parsons estate agency branch...

We’ve enjoyed a bit of an Indian summer this week. Not sure it makes up for one of the coldest and...

Labour leadership front-runner Jeremy Corbyn says he would vote for a complete end to all forms of Right To Buy and...

Lord Sugar is to work with former TV Dragon and interior design guru Kelly Hoppen to design luxury apartments in the...

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

A developer is proposing to launch 345 new-build flats at Canary Wharf with a policy of selling to UK buyers before...

An estate agency that has been operating in a historic pub in St. John’s Wood has been ordered to vacate by...

If it is true (and who would doubt it?) that 90% of property searches start online, then how does this affect...

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

There is one common denominator amongst the majority of those who dominate the latest Sunday Times Rich List, regarded as the...

About ten years ago, I was working as the branch manager of an estate agency based in an affluent part of...