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An upbeat survey by online website HouseSimple claims there has been a 20 per cent increase in the number of homes...

Confidence in buying property remains negative according to the quarterly sentiment measure undertaken by the Building Societies Association. Over a quarter of...

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

Savills has reported strong figures for the first half of 2017 across its worldwide activities, but its UK residential divisions have...

The latest figures from NAEA Propertymark suggest that the market is bouncing back after its hiatus during the General Election and...

Housing minister Alok Sharma has blocked some of his Twitter followers, accusing them of “abusive language”.   Sharma has a relatively modest 9,169 followers...

Your Move says the surprise General Election and the creation of a weaker minority government has exacerbated the slowdown in the...

First time buyers have finances stretched beyond their means, buy to let is attracting fewer investors because of taxes, and affordability...

Former RICS residential chief Jeremy Leaf says he is not downcast by the latest Halifax house price index which shows prices...

One of the country’s leading buying agents says over six million people are living in the wrong property because they are...

The Competition and Markets Authority has released a set of recommendations on how conveyancing, and other legal services, could be made...

The National Association of Estate Agents says the General Election led to a drop in the number of registered house hunters...

New housing minister Alok Sharma is set to make his first key speech this week, at the Housing 2017 conference in...

The detailed paperwork accompanying the Queen’s Speech includes the Conservative party manifesto pledge to streamline house buying - but gives no...

Harry Hill - former chief executive of Countrywide and founder of Rightmove - has sharply criticised the appointment of Theresa May’s...

The managing director of lettings at Foxtons says Brexit and domestic political uncertainty have become ‘the new norm’ in the London...

As the nation waits with bated breath to see if Theresa May can form either a minority or coalition government after...

London Central Portfolio, a property investment consultancy, has set out a five point plan for the next government elected this week...

If a political party wants to run a country, it’s probably a good idea that it shows it can at least...

Theresa May’s call for a snap general election on June 8 took many by surprise. But estate agents have been broadly...

House prices recorded their third consecutive monthly fall in May says the Nationwide. It's the first time this has occurred since 2009, and...

Vigilant followers of the Liberal Democrats may have spotted a blog in the name of Mark Pack early yesterday morning, commenting...

The number of house hunters registered per estate agency branch fell last month to 381 - well down on its figure...

The latest measure of house price rises in key UK cities by the property consultancy Hometrack shows house price in many...

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

Conveyancers have backed a call by the Conservatives for reform of the house buying process - and says more up-front information...

The UK Independence Party’s housing policy for the General Election hinges around a huge expansion in modular factory-built housing - but...

A conveyancing expert is calling for sellers to complete and return their property information questionnaire to their conveyancer before there have...

The Green Party, one of the final political groups to launch their manifesto for the June 8 General Election, wants an end...

The Conservative Party says it wants greater competition and more digitisation to cut the costs and reduce the amount of time...

Asking prices of homes coming to the market have now been rising for five consecutive months says Rightmove.  Asking prices rose 2.0...

Home ownership has halved for young families across some parts of the UK according to a charity.  The Resolution Foundation says its...

The Conservatives now say they are not resuscitating Home Information Packs, despite a suggestion by a prominent former minister that they "had...

The Conservatives have this morning announced a reform of the house buying process in the party’s manifesto for the June 8...

The Liberal Democrats have set a building target of 300,000 new homes a year, have pledged to scrap housing association Right...

Is it the Brexit triggering of Article 50, the snap General Election or the cold weather we have had until recently?...

The next few weeks leading to the General Election on June 8 are likely to have “a short term adverse impact...

The Bank of England is warning that approvals of mortgages for property purchases in March were at a lower-than-expected 66,837, the weakest...

Speculation has grown that the Conservatives may make a manifesto pledge to remove some family homes’ long-established exemption from Capital Gains...

House prices recorded their second consecutive monthly fall in April, while the annual rate of growth slowed to 2.6 per cent,...

A London estate agency’s analysis of the latest Land Registry data suggests transactions in the capital are the lowest ever recorded.  Land...

The government should resist any further increase in stamp duty not only to help the property market but to help guarantee...

The snap General Election on June 8 adds to uncertainty but does not significantly worsen the market for prime properties in...

First time buyer registrations in the past month have jumped nearly 20 per cent across the UK and almost 30 per...

Anyone hoping that the General Election could herald an immediate change of heart by the Conservatives on high levels of stamp...

There’s no sign yet that the snap General Election is distracting our industry from continuing its fine record of doing good...

Average UK house price growth will reach 2.2 per cent this year, a rise of £4,460 that will see the average...

Yesterday’s decision by MPs to agree to Theresa May’s snap General Election on June 8 means that the current government -...

Estate agents have been broadly supportive of the decision by Prime Minister Theresa May to push for a snap General Election...

The industry has broadly welcomed the shock announcement of a June 8 General Election as a chance to end long term...