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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...

The property website Home is warning that while prices may show an early spring uplift there’s a long-term slowing of the market underway...

New data from LSL Property Services suggest that the image of London as one large housing market encountering difficulties at the...

The rental market has had to face a raft of changes over the past year, including the introduction of the 3% stamp...

New research suggests there has been a slight increase in the total number of estate agency offices in Greater London this...

Following a strong start to 2016, particularly in the lower to middle range of the UK housing market, that lasted up...

Estate agency Knight Frank says that the UK housing market has rebounded more strongly than expected after the Brexit referendum -...

Relocation Agent Network has ended the year handing out 28 awards to individuals and firms at a gala dinner in London. The...

A conveyancing firm says the buyers at former retirement hotspots such as seaside towns are getting younger because mainstream purchasers are obliged to...

Data just released from the Land Registry shows that the average price of a property in the UK is now £218,964...

Available stock levels across Greater London, the east of England, plus the south east and the south west are now 16...

A property website monitoring the housing market claims that the propertion of homes cutting their prices whilst on the market has...

The Property Ombudsman scheme’s annual report, just released, reveals that there has been a dramatic 32 per cent surge in the...

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

A property analytics company has devised a method of calculating the ‘best’ locations in which to work as an estate agent,...

The sales website Home claims that London house prices have dropped an average of 1.2 per cent in the past four...

Brexit is set to weaken the wider economy and will lead to a small house price dip of one per cent...

The Conveyancing Association has set out recommendations to end what it claims are significant delays and overcharging taking place within the...

London agency Stirling Ackroyd says planning consents for new homes recovered from previous lows in the second quarter of the year,...

Zoopla is beefing up its TV and bus advertising this week to consolidate its claim to be the property portal with...

The property website Home is warning that some regional house price rises are unsustainable. It says that prices in the East of...

Rightmove has released a series of online ‘portraits of how London might look after the completion of a series of development,...

Three separate surveys appear to suggest that even a long-term shortage of homes on sale is not enough to stop a...

Recent debate about a London market slowdown has clouded the fact that the areas seeing price falls are almost entirely in...

The latest price index from LSL Property Services suggests that the average home in Greater London has risen in price by...

It’s London Marathon weekend and while plenty of agents do great charity work in other ways, this event is always a...

Beresfords, which describes itself as the largest independent estate agent in Essex and Greater London, is strengthening its country property portfolio...

The average deposit paid for a Greater London property is over two and a half times larger than a home outside...

Yet another agency is opening a new office in Greater London - this time it is Century 21 UK which has...

Countrywide has rebranded its land and new homes team as Countrywide Residential Development and has announced a raft of new senior...

New research shows that the north-south divide over house prices is not only continuing but is getting significantly worse.  High-end agency Savills,...

Some 51 per cent of postcodes within Greater London now have average property prices of £500,000 or more according to one...

A major estate agency chain’s price index says average house prices in England and Wales have grown 6.6 per cent in...

Sellers know there is a shortage of supply of homes on the market and are therefore throwing caution to the wind...

- From April 2016 buy to let landlords and people buying second or holiday homes will have to pay an additional...

George Osborne has announced a shock additional 3.0 per cent stamp duty on second homes and buy to let properties. Details are...

Another house price index has suggested a strong mainstream housing market but a struggling one at the high end. The latest LSL...

A body called the UK Housing Market Observatory - consisting of economists at Lancaster University Management School - is giving a...

Strutt & Parker is early off the marks with its forecast for 2016 and beyond, predicting the strongest market growth in...

Property portal Home says in some regions of the UK the number of properties coming to the market is 74 per...

Average house prices in England and Wales are expected to rise by 5.0 per cent in 2015 and by 4.5 per...

Data from Countrywide Group shows the potential volatility that exists in the much-discussed Prime Central London housing market, simply because of...

Data from the estate and letting agency answering service Moneypenny appears to confirm what we have been thinking for some weeks...

The Financial Times says London Mayor and new Conservative MP Boris Johnson is lobbying the government in a bid to persuade...

A north of England firm that claims to offer a more affordable route into home ownership than available with a conventional...

A new analysis of rising property values measured in price per square metre, suggests one location has risen 773 per cent...

Telephone calls taken for estate and letting agents increased dramatically in a number of high-end London postcodes since the general election...

As the nation finally gets to cast its vote at the polling booths, telephone answering specialist, Moneypenny has reported a dramatic...

Twelve of the UK’s largest regional cities are now seeing higher price rises than central London as the capital’s performance continues...

There was a whopping 42 per cent rise in referrals to The Property Ombudsman last year according to the annual report...