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The Government has taken the unusual step of intervening in the London Plan to boost housebuilding in the capital.   Housing Secretary Michael...

It’s taking an average of 17.61 weeks to sell a property across Greater London, with some parts taking up to 147 days on...

The last thing you want as we rake through the dying embers of 2023 is a journalist’s prediction of what’s going...

Rightmove has secured guests from the Bank of England to join a live webinar for agents today. The event aims to break...

The property market is unstable at the moment making it increasingly difficult for first-time buyers to get on the ladder. As a...

Dexters has hinted at more acquisitions, particularly around greater London. Andy Shepherd, chief executive of the London agent, suggested the brand is...

A high-profile agency brand has hit out at “cheerleader’ estate agents” who it claims encourage vendors to push up the asking...

The average price for larger detached homes has grown at almost twice the rate than for smaller properties such as flats...

Agents at Greater London Properties have got into the festive spirit with what this editor secretly considers the best Christmas song...

In this guest piece, Andy Jones, Corporate & Build To Rent Director at LRG, looks at whether commercial property can help solve...

The team behind Greater London Properties (GLP) have come up with a Halloween marketing treat (or is it more of a...

Property demand has dropped while price reductions have increased in recent weeks, data shows. Two separate pieces of industry data give new...

The level of agency stock for sale is at a 15-month high but buyer and seller sentiment is now varying on...

More properties went under offer in June 2022 than during the same month of the stamp duty holiday rush of last year,...

There are signs that properties are starting to take longer to sell. A lack of stock in recent months has meant agents...

Agency stock is shifting faster and buyers who hesitated last year are now finding it harder to afford similar priced properties,...

The JLL property consultancy is opening a branch handling sales and lettings in an area of London often by-passed by rival...

Agents have 21 per cent fewer homes on their books now than a year ago according to a quick buy company. In...

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, wants the government to put a stop to the capital being used for international money...

Research suggests there are substantial numbers of older Londoners using too-large properties but unable to downsize because of a lack of...

A hybrid agency that charges no fees to vendors but instead relies on referral fees for income has officially rolled out...

Areas with the biggest house price growth of 2021 have seen the value of homes rise by three times the national...

The lifestyle changes triggered by the pandemic are likely to have a lasting effect on the housing market, pushing property prices permanently...

A new forecasting model from a consumer website is predicting that house prices will rise by an average 30 per cent...

Yet another housing market snapshot is reporting the stock of property for sale plummeting further downwards.  Property website Home says that while...

New research suggests that the number of owners enquiring to sell across Greater London has increased by 68 per cent since...

Annual house price inflation is now at its strongest level in nearly seven years, says the Halifax House Price Index. The average...

Propertymark has thrown its weight behind the government’s First Homes initiative, describing it as “creative” and saying it’s a sign of...

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

The new Mayor of London, to be decided in an election tomorrow, has just received a six point set of demands...

For many, the funeral of HRH Prince Philip will be a solemn affair, while for some it will also be a...

Another leading research team in a major agency has revised upwards its forecast for the 2021 market. Savills revised its predictions recently...

It’s now more than a year since the government offered an additional £4 million to councils to combat rogue landlords. At the...

An international property and residency consultancy claims the sold prices of homes in some prime London locations have collapsed by up to 40...

A housing index says the market continues to defy Coronavirus and Brexit worries with asking prices up 4.9 per cent in...

London and other urban areas dominate the league table of locations seeing the biggest house price rises of 2020. This is despite...

A leading property consultancy is suggesting that a possible increase in Capital Gains Tax could end up losing money for the...

We’re off and running with our annual showcase of the decorations and festivities in agency branches and for those working from...

The Home website, which publishes a detailed monthly snapshot of the market, has raised the alarm over London because of a...

The number of people moving home dropped by almost a third in the first half of 2020, as the global pandemic...

Asking prices are up again for a third consecutive month in all English regions and across Scotland and Wales.  The measurement, from...

The latest monthly index suggests that the average asking price in England and Wales has jumped 1.5 per cent in the...

Government figures show the 218,975 properties within Greater London have Chinese owners - and two agents say there will be more...

As last Friday was the VE Day Anniversary bank holiday we have a bumper bundle of fund-raising activities to report on...

At the end of a strong week for housing market indicators, the latest survey from the website Home suggests a major...

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

Government figures suggest that the number of second homes in the UK has dropped two per cent in the eight year...

Congratulations from everyone at Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today to all those who triumphed at the Relocation Agent Network...

London Central Portfolio, the investment consultancy which  saw signs of an upturn in the prime market in the capital this autumn,...

It’s bizarre but true (apparently). London’s golf courses could provide the land for homes that could house a million people. An interesting...

A rock bottom supply of homes on sale is helping to reinvigorate London sales according to a market monitor. The website Home...

A former Foxtons estate agent has set up a property finding service which is exclusively for first time buyers - believed...

A housing market monitor that for some months has been pessimistic about London and the rest of the England and Wales...

The London market has “plummeted” because almost a third of vendors have cut their asking prices in anticipation of Brexit. Using data...

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

London Central Portfolio, a respected property consultancy that has been pessimistic about the market in prime areas of the capital, says...

It's becoming increasingly difficult to sell a property, especially in those regions undergoing a price correction. That’s the verdict from Home, a...

Might the central London market gloom be broken by just a sliver of light? London Central Portfolio, an investment consultancy, has recently...

The Property Ombudsman (TPO) has released its annual report for 2018, showing a 16% rise in the number of complaints made...

Respected investment consultancy London Central Portfolio is warning that “sales go on falling and falling” across the capital, fuelled by Brexit...

The controversial property portal Propertyheads has compiled a blacklist of tradesmen who have a criminal record. The website says this is the...

Another estate agency has closed one of its prime London offices as the capital’s most exclusive areas continue to be hit...

If anyone thought Brexit may allow domestic buyers a bigger share of the market, think again: no fewer than 57 per...

A respected property investment consultancy is warning that the current premium put on the prices of new-build homes - around 15...

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

A statement this morning by franchise agency Winkworth says lettings and property management now accounts for 50 per cent of its turnover. The...

One of the country’s most detailed housing market forecasts for 2019 suggests house prices will fall in London and nearby regions...

The chief executive of online agency HouseSimple says “sellers need to be prepared and willing to lower their expectations” in the current...

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

Foxtons is shutting its Park Lane office - the flagship of the agency in prime central London’s Mayfair. Estate Agent Today was...

House prices fell further this month as the slowdown tightened its grip according to he latest data from property platform Home. It...

New data reveals that new property listings have fallen for three successive months - and that includes a huge 17.1 per...

The London market continues to produce unexpected results with two high end agencies reporting contrasting fortunes.  Half year figures released by Chestertons...

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

Over 15,000 households have exchanged after listing with an online agent in the second quarter of 2018 - that’s eight per...

Transactions across Greater London have plummeted - they were down 7.9 per cent over the past three months and a whopping...

New figures from Hometrack show that a typical home in Greater London now takes 17 weeks to find a buyer -...

Investment consultancy London Central Portfolio has launched a new index which it claims uses “the most comprehensive data available” to assess...

Lloyds Bank has revealed a league table of the cities which have seen the highest price growth over the past decade...

House price indices provided each month by Halifax and the Nationwide have been branded as “misguiding” and “out of date” and...

One of the last major estate agencies to give its forecast for 2018 says London prices will drop another 0.5 per...

Agents look like they’re getting into their decorative strive - here are two more terrific-looking offices sent in by our readers. If...

Members of the Relocation Agent Network are celebrating after a successful annual awards event in London, combined with keynote conference sessions...

Your Move and Reeds Rains, both part of LSL Property Services, are the latest agencies to admit a slowdown in house...

Some 12 per cent of transactions in England and Wales so far this year have been subject to gazumping, being sold...

Savills has given a pessimistic outlook for the mainstream housing market for the next five years.  It says average house prices across...

The first of the major estate agency research teams to offer a forecast for the 2018 market has kicked off the...

Jackson-Stops & Staff, a critic of the stamp duty system since its reform in 2014, now says the government should slash...

Countrywide has issued forecasts for the housing market over the next two years amidst a warning that Brexit volatility is the...

Twenty areas in Greater London have an average price in excess of £5,000 per square metre according to new research from...

With several agent partner programmes available across the country, estate agents can often increase business by offering sales by auction, with...

The UK property market has entered a period of stagflation where house price growth is consistently lower than the rate of...

Purplebricks has released more details of expansion plans to recruit hundreds of additional Local Property Experts. The recruitment drive was launched yesterday...

Gently rising house values in the mainstream market and problems facing the prime market in the capital mean that over half...

Foxtons - a company seen by many as a barometer of the London housing market - is likely to face a...

The Property Ombudsman’s annual report reveals a significant increase in the number of formal complaints resolved by the scheme and a...

Analysis of over 120,000 sales valuations has revealed some of the UK's most expensive and cheapest property regions. Central London's 'W' postcode...

Average asking prices in London have fallen, while the majority of regional markets are performing strongly, according to the latest index...

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

Recent stats from the Council of Mortgage Lenders show that last year 360,000 people moved homes, meaning the number has stayed...