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06 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![Market confidence still not recovered from election, say building societies](/img/default/eat.png)
Confidence in buying property remains negative according to the quarterly sentiment measure undertaken by the Building Societies Association. Over a quarter of...
28 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![No crash but London market stalls 'thanks to Brexit, economy, taxes'](/img/default/eat.png)
Ten out of 14 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News say Brexit and economic uncertainty are likely to stall London’s housing market...
24 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Savills suffers fall in sales in London, country and new-build sectors](/img/default/eat.png)
Savills has reported strong figures for the first half of 2017 across its worldwide activities, but its UK residential divisions have...
11 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Bounce-back: NAEA reports market recovering from election](/img/default/eat.png)
The latest figures from NAEA Propertymark suggest that the market is bouncing back after its hiatus during the General Election and...
26 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Housing minister Sharma at centre of Twitter and speech disputes](/img/default/eat.png)
Housing minister Alok Sharma has blocked some of his Twitter followers, accusing them of “abusive language”. Sharma has a relatively modest 9,169 followers...
17 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Your Move says General Election exacerbated market downturn](/img/default/eat.png)
Your Move says the surprise General Election and the creation of a weaker minority government has exacerbated the slowdown in the...
17 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Agency chief condemns Theresa May's housing disaster](/img/default/eat.png)
First time buyers have finances stretched beyond their means, buy to let is attracting fewer investors because of taxes, and affordability...
13 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Senior agent undeterred by downbeat Halifax house price index](/img/default/eat.png)
Former RICS residential chief Jeremy Leaf says he is not downcast by the latest Halifax house price index which shows prices...
10 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Brexit and election result are stopping people moving, leading agent says](/img/default/eat.png)
One of the country’s leading buying agents says over six million people are living in the wrong property because they are...
04 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Regulators call for conveyancing to become more competitive, transparent](/img/default/eat.png)
The Competition and Markets Authority has released a set of recommendations on how conveyancing, and other legal services, could be made...
03 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![General Election hurt demand and house prices, admits NAEA](/img/default/eat.png)
The National Association of Estate Agents says the General Election led to a drop in the number of registered house hunters...
28 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![New housing minister to make first key industry speech this week](/img/default/eat.png)
New housing minister Alok Sharma is set to make his first key speech this week, at the Housing 2017 conference in...
27 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Uncertainty over government 'aim' to streamline house buying process](/img/default/eat.png)
The detailed paperwork accompanying the Queen’s Speech includes the Conservative party manifesto pledge to streamline house buying - but gives no...
22 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Industry veteran Harry Hill slams crass housing minister appointment](/img/default/eat.png)
Harry Hill - former chief executive of Countrywide and founder of Rightmove - has sharply criticised the appointment of Theresa May’s...
20 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Foxtons says Brexit destabilising sales but allowing lettings to thrive](/img/default/eat.png)
The managing director of lettings at Foxtons says Brexit and domestic political uncertainty have become ‘the new norm’ in the London...
20 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Disbelief, joy and nerves: Property industry reacts to general election result](/img/default/eat.png)
As the nation waits with bated breath to see if Theresa May can form either a minority or coalition government after...
09 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Investor consultancy wants new government to lay off property](/img/default/eat.png)
London Central Portfolio, a property investment consultancy, has set out a five point plan for the next government elected this week...
05 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Lib Dems change name of their 'mock estate agency'](/img/default/eat.png)
If a political party wants to run a country, it’s probably a good idea that it shows it can at least...
05 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![General election 2017: Facing the UK’s housing crisis](/img/default/eat.png)
Theresa May’s call for a snap general election on June 8 took many by surprise. But estate agents have been broadly...
03 June 2017
From: Features
![House prices down for third month in a row - first time since 2009](/img/default/eat.png)
House prices recorded their third consecutive monthly fall in May says the Nationwide. It's the first time this has occurred since 2009, and...
02 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Oops - Lib Dems open fake estate agency, but use name of real firm](/img/default/eat.png)
Vigilant followers of the Liberal Democrats may have spotted a blog in the name of Mark Pack early yesterday morning, commenting...
31 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Just eight sales agreed per branch last month as election hits the market](/img/default/eat.png)
The number of house hunters registered per estate agency branch fell last month to 381 - well down on its figure...
31 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![London average price rises plummet from 13% to 3.5% in a year](/img/default/eat.png)
The latest measure of house price rises in key UK cities by the property consultancy Hometrack shows house price in many...
30 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Leasehold reform: major political parties don't promise enough, says group](/img/default/eat.png)
The Conservative and Labour party manifestos do not go far enough to tackle problems with the leasehold system. That’s the view of...
30 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Conveyancers back Tories' call to modernise house buying process](/img/default/eat.png)
Conveyancers have backed a call by the Conservatives for reform of the house buying process - and says more up-front information...
26 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![UKIP pledges homes below £100k - but they can't be sold on open market](/img/default/eat.png)
The UK Independence Party’s housing policy for the General Election hinges around a huge expansion in modular factory-built housing - but...
26 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Conveyancer wants sellers to agree pre-viewing property info questionnaire](/img/default/eat.png)
A conveyancing expert is calling for sellers to complete and return their property information questionnaire to their conveyancer before there have...
25 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Manifesto wants new Land Value Tax and urges Right To Buy scrapped](/img/default/eat.png)
The Green Party, one of the final political groups to launch their manifesto for the June 8 General Election, wants an end...
23 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Tories backtrack on HIPs but still want massive house sales reform](/img/default/eat.png)
The Conservative Party says it wants greater competition and more digitisation to cut the costs and reduce the amount of time...
22 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Asking prices up for fifth month in a row says Rightmove](/img/default/eat.png)
Asking prices of homes coming to the market have now been rising for five consecutive months says Rightmove. Asking prices rose 2.0...
22 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Home ownership has halved for young families in parts of the UK](/img/default/eat.png)
Home ownership has halved for young families across some parts of the UK according to a charity. The Resolution Foundation says its...
22 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Tories insist HIPs are not on their way back after all](/img/default/eat.png)
The Conservatives now say they are not resuscitating Home Information Packs, despite a suggestion by a prominent former minister that they "had...
19 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Tories propose house buying reforms in election manifesto](/img/default/eat.png)
The Conservatives have this morning announced a reform of the house buying process in the party’s manifesto for the June 8...
18 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![New homes must be marketed to Britons first, say Liberal Democrats](/img/default/eat.png)
The Liberal Democrats have set a building target of 300,000 new homes a year, have pledged to scrap housing association Right...
18 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Stock supply drops as market bucks usual spring surge](/img/default/eat.png)
Is it the Brexit triggering of Article 50, the snap General Election or the cold weather we have had until recently?...
11 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Savills warns of election hiatus for high end house sales](/img/default/eat.png)
The next few weeks leading to the General Election on June 8 are likely to have “a short term adverse impact...
10 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Disappointing mortgage figures suggest housing market is increasingly cautious](/img/default/eat.png)
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...
05 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Will the Conservatives introduce Capital Gains Tax on family homes?](/img/default/eat.png)
Speculation has grown that the Conservatives may make a manifesto pledge to remove some family homes’ long-established exemption from Capital Gains...
02 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![House price growth slows 'as consumer prepare for cash squeeze'](/img/default/eat.png)
House prices recorded their second consecutive monthly fall in April, while the annual rate of growth slowed to 2.6 per cent,...
02 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Agency says some London boroughs seeing record low transactions](/img/default/eat.png)
A London estate agency’s analysis of the latest Land Registry data suggests transactions in the capital are the lowest ever recorded. Land...
27 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Don't make stamp duty even worse, agency warns government](/img/default/eat.png)
The government should resist any further increase in stamp duty not only to help the property market but to help guarantee...
26 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![More price cuts likely in prime London, agency warns sellers](/img/default/eat.png)
The snap General Election on June 8 adds to uncertainty but does not significantly worsen the market for prime properties in...
25 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Agency figures show many more first time buyers entering the market](/img/default/eat.png)
First time buyer registrations in the past month have jumped nearly 20 per cent across the UK and almost 30 per...
25 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Stamp Duty: no change imminent, predicts Communities Secretary](/img/default/eat.png)
Anyone hoping that the General Election could herald an immediate change of heart by the Conservatives on high levels of stamp...
21 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity - the never-mind-the-ballots edition](/img/default/eat.png)
There’s no sign yet that the snap General Election is distracting our industry from continuing its fine record of doing good...
21 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Housing market good news: price growth over 10% by end-2020](/img/default/eat.png)
Average UK house price growth will reach 2.2 per cent this year, a rise of £4,460 that will see the average...
20 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![#GE2017: Housing minister will leave his post on May 3](/img/default/eat.png)
Yesterday’s decision by MPs to agree to Theresa May’s snap General Election on June 8 means that the current government -...
20 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Agents back likely Conservative victory in June General Election](/img/default/eat.png)
Estate agents have been broadly supportive of the decision by Prime Minister Theresa May to push for a snap General Election...