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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...

The Government’s proposal to introduce a new 1% deposit mortgage scheme to help young people onto the property ladder is unworkable...

In 1999 (yep) I set up some websites thinking I could generate leads from everyone in the world. I had an...

The property market is ‘recalibrating’ but should be seen in context of economic events, agents are being urged. Kris Mclean, managing director...

A report earlier this month warned that conveyancing firms should stress test their businesses for a sharp decline in work volumes. These businesses...

I’ve just read an article saying that this is the time of the online estate agency. The time in question is, of...

The housing market isn’t definitely facing a 2008-style cliff-edge moment, Knight Frank claims. New commentary from the agent has asked if October’s weak...

Agents should be getting buyers to focus on what they can afford now and in the future rather than worrying about...

Mortgage rates look likely to fall after Rishi Sunak’s appointment as Prime Minister but analysts are still unsure how far the...

Conveyancers are being advised to prepare their businesses for a “significant fall in work volumes.” Many firms have complained about a backlog...

The share of homeowners struggling to repay their mortgages could hit the same peak levels of the 2008 financial crisis by...

A property expert has warned that the Bank of England’s gloomy economic forecasts and last week’s rise in interest rates could...

Interest rates made their biggest leap in 27 years yesterday, rising by 0.5% from 1.25% to 1.75%. It was the biggest...

The self-employed model, after years of not really catching on fully, was given a major boost by the pandemic and the...

Peta Milne, founder of Instagram growth and PR service Monimo, and a content writer at Choices Estate Agents, recently sat down...

The Bank of England has issued a consultation on changing the affordability tests for large mortgages introduced in the wake of...

For the first time since before the global financial crisis of 2008, the number of first-time buyers is estimated to have...

High-value properties were the top-performers in the country house market in 2021, according to an agency that majors in this sector.  In...

A property finance expert is telling buyers to sit on their hands and not commit to purchases - as he believes...

Annual house price growth hit 10.0 per cent last month - and is now tracking close to the level seen before...

A surge in activity ahead of June’s stamp duty deadline and tight supply saw price growth in the country house market...

Zoopla data has confirmed that buyer demand started to moderate in the months prior to the initial stamp duty holiday tapering...

The Halifax is reporting a 0.5 per cent monthly drop in house prices, plus a fall in the annual rate from...

Banks and building societies want the government to offer more help to the housing market through additional assistance to home owners...

The Prime Central London pain throughout the pandemic can be seen by new figures just released by an investment consultancy, showing...

A leading analyst has told Knight Frank that the end of furlough this autumn is unlikely to kill off the housing...

One of the biggest TV hits of lockdown has been the Netflix show Call My Agent! It’s a surprise success, perhaps, because...

The property market has bounced back with all of the expected resilience and flexibility that is its hallmark since it reopened...

It’s not a big rise, but price growth has returned to the Prime Central London sales market for the first time...

The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, better known as the furlough scheme, was introduced by the chancellor Rishi Sunak in March to...

There’s good news from the think-tank the Resolution Foundation, which says the threat of negative equity because of the Coronavirus crisis...

With the UK officially in what has been described as the single worst national recession in the world, one agency has...

Savills has revealed the measures it has taken to mitigate the impact of the Coronavirus on its activities and balance sheet. The...

A survey of sellers by a high-end agency suggests that around a third expect price falls of six per cent or...

All my recent Natters have been focused on one particular topic, the coronavirus crisis, for obvious reasons. But there has been...

There has been much speculation about when agents will be allowed back to work, and what the new office working environment...

Where else to start? Since my last Natter two weeks ago, all our lives have changed more than we could ever...

First time buyers will constitute the largest single group of purchasers in 2019, despite the apparent difficulties of deposits and securing...

They will be the doctors, lawyers, teachers, thinkers, leaders and captains of industry of the not too distant future, but is...

Savills, once a safe bet for year-on-year growth, has seen its underlying UK residential profits plunge 44 per cent with economic...

There may be signs that the gloomy housing market which has hit Prime Central London for some years may finally be...

The income required for first time buyers to purchase in the three most expensive UK cities has fallen slightly according to...

The number of movers has declined by around 50 per cent since the halcyon days of 2006, before the global financial...

The closure of Foxtons’ Park Lane office and five other branches in the capital are merely the start of things to come...

New data from Barclays Mortgages suggests Britons are now likely to stay in their homes for almost 19 years between house...

Countrywide is to give each of its 10,000 staff a strategy document setting out where the company is planning to be...

Savills has issued its forecast for the housing market for the next five years, and while it highlights some bright spots...

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

Transactions across England and Wales in September dropped 7.6 per cent year on year while Prime Central London now sees fewer than...

Prices and transaction volumes have both fallen again in Prime Central London according to the index produced by Central London Portfolio,...

Maplin, Toys R Us, Carpetright, Warren Evans – what do they have in common? All are well-known high street chains that...

Property has been changing hands for centuries, but when did estate agents as we know them today – with their branches,...

Sales in prime central London in the year to the end of March are a huge 41 per cent below the...

Since the seventies, housing starts and completions across England and Wales have been on a downward trajectory. The long run average...

There are more first-time buyers (FTBs) finding a way on to the property ladder than at any time since the Financial...

New data revealed by investment consultancy Central London Portfolio claims that transactions in prime central areas of the capital have dropped 24...

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

New figures from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors backs up the theory that the market is slowing down significantly ahead...