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Another leading research team in a major agency has revised upwards its forecast for the 2021 market. Savills revised its predictions recently...
15 March 2021
From: Breaking News

It’s now more than a year since the government offered an additional £4 million to councils to combat rogue landlords. At the...
13 February 2021
From: Features

An international property and residency consultancy claims the sold prices of homes in some prime London locations have collapsed by up to 40...
26 January 2021
From: Breaking News

A housing index says the market continues to defy Coronavirus and Brexit worries with asking prices up 4.9 per cent in...
15 January 2021
From: Breaking News

London and other urban areas dominate the league table of locations seeing the biggest house price rises of 2020. This is despite...
31 December 2020
From: Breaking News

A leading property consultancy is suggesting that a possible increase in Capital Gains Tax could end up losing money for the...
10 December 2020
From: Breaking News

We’re off and running with our annual showcase of the decorations and festivities in agency branches and for those working from...
02 December 2020
From: Breaking News

The Home website, which publishes a detailed monthly snapshot of the market, has raised the alarm over London because of a...
18 November 2020
From: Breaking News

The number of people moving home dropped by almost a third in the first half of 2020, as the global pandemic...
20 August 2020
From: Breaking News

Asking prices are up again for a third consecutive month in all English regions and across Scotland and Wales. The measurement, from...
14 August 2020
From: Breaking News

The latest monthly index suggests that the average asking price in England and Wales has jumped 1.5 per cent in the...
16 July 2020
From: Breaking News

Government figures show the 218,975 properties within Greater London have Chinese owners - and two agents say there will be more...
30 June 2020
From: Breaking News

As last Friday was the VE Day Anniversary bank holiday we have a bumper bundle of fund-raising activities to report on...
15 May 2020
From: Breaking News

At the end of a strong week for housing market indicators, the latest survey from the website Home suggests a major...
17 January 2020
From: Breaking News

New build homes cost 19 per cent more than comparable pre-owned properties according to a new survey - and sometimes 50...
16 January 2020
From: Breaking News

Government figures suggest that the number of second homes in the UK has dropped two per cent in the eight year...
09 January 2020
From: Breaking News

Congratulations from everyone at Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today to all those who triumphed at the Relocation Agent Network...
26 November 2019
From: Breaking News

London Central Portfolio, the investment consultancy which saw signs of an upturn in the prime market in the capital this autumn,...
31 October 2019
From: Breaking News

It’s bizarre but true (apparently). London’s golf courses could provide the land for homes that could house a million people. An interesting...
19 September 2019
From: Breaking News

A rock bottom supply of homes on sale is helping to reinvigorate London sales according to a market monitor. The website Home...
16 September 2019
From: Breaking News

A former Foxtons estate agent has set up a property finding service which is exclusively for first time buyers - believed...
13 September 2019
From: Breaking News

A housing market monitor that for some months has been pessimistic about London and the rest of the England and Wales...
05 September 2019
From: Breaking News

The London market has “plummeted” because almost a third of vendors have cut their asking prices in anticipation of Brexit. Using data...
27 August 2019
From: Breaking News

There may be signs that the gloomy housing market which has hit Prime Central London for some years may finally be...
31 July 2019
From: Breaking News

London Central Portfolio, a respected property consultancy that has been pessimistic about the market in prime areas of the capital, says...
25 June 2019
From: Breaking News

It's becoming increasingly difficult to sell a property, especially in those regions undergoing a price correction. That’s the verdict from Home, a...
14 June 2019
From: Breaking News

Might the central London market gloom be broken by just a sliver of light? London Central Portfolio, an investment consultancy, has recently...
21 May 2019
From: Breaking News

The Property Ombudsman (TPO) has released its annual report for 2018, showing a 16% rise in the number of complaints made...
08 May 2019
From: Breaking News

Respected investment consultancy London Central Portfolio is warning that “sales go on falling and falling” across the capital, fuelled by Brexit...
30 April 2019
From: Breaking News

The controversial property portal Propertyheads has compiled a blacklist of tradesmen who have a criminal record. The website says this is the...
26 February 2019
From: Breaking News

Another estate agency has closed one of its prime London offices as the capital’s most exclusive areas continue to be hit...
26 February 2019
From: Breaking News

If anyone thought Brexit may allow domestic buyers a bigger share of the market, think again: no fewer than 57 per...
18 February 2019
From: Breaking News

A respected property investment consultancy is warning that the current premium put on the prices of new-build homes - around 15...
29 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A think tank is suggesting that micro-homes could be the answer to London’s shortage of available homes for first time buyers. The...
22 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A statement this morning by franchise agency Winkworth says lettings and property management now accounts for 50 per cent of its turnover. The...
16 January 2019
From: Breaking News

One of the country’s most detailed housing market forecasts for 2019 suggests house prices will fall in London and nearby regions...
27 December 2018
From: Breaking News

The chief executive of online agency HouseSimple says “sellers need to be prepared and willing to lower their expectations” in the current...
07 December 2018
From: Breaking News

It’s Budget day and the government is once again on the receiving end of a blast from one of the country’s...
29 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Foxtons is shutting its Park Lane office - the flagship of the agency in prime central London’s Mayfair. Estate Agent Today was...
08 October 2018
From: Breaking News

House prices fell further this month as the slowdown tightened its grip according to he latest data from property platform Home. It...
13 September 2018
From: Breaking News

New data reveals that new property listings have fallen for three successive months - and that includes a huge 17.1 per...
13 September 2018
From: Breaking News

The London market continues to produce unexpected results with two high end agencies reporting contrasting fortunes. Half year figures released by Chestertons...
07 August 2018
From: Breaking News

Prices and transaction volumes have both fallen again in Prime Central London according to the index produced by Central London Portfolio,...
01 August 2018
From: Breaking News

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

Transactions across Greater London have plummeted - they were down 7.9 per cent over the past three months and a whopping...
26 June 2018
From: Breaking News

New figures from Hometrack show that a typical home in Greater London now takes 17 weeks to find a buyer -...
25 April 2018
From: Breaking News

Investment consultancy London Central Portfolio has launched a new index which it claims uses “the most comprehensive data available” to assess...
07 March 2018
From: Breaking News

Lloyds Bank has revealed a league table of the cities which have seen the highest price growth over the past decade...
02 February 2018
From: Breaking News

House price indices provided each month by Halifax and the Nationwide have been branded as “misguiding” and “out of date” and...
01 February 2018
From: Breaking News

One of the last major estate agencies to give its forecast for 2018 says London prices will drop another 0.5 per...
06 December 2017
From: Breaking News

Agents look like they’re getting into their decorative strive - here are two more terrific-looking offices sent in by our readers. If...
01 December 2017
From: Breaking News

Members of the Relocation Agent Network are celebrating after a successful annual awards event in London, combined with keynote conference sessions...
22 November 2017
From: Breaking News

Your Move and Reeds Rains, both part of LSL Property Services, are the latest agencies to admit a slowdown in house...
14 November 2017
From: Breaking News

Some 12 per cent of transactions in England and Wales so far this year have been subject to gazumping, being sold...
03 November 2017
From: Breaking News

Savills has given a pessimistic outlook for the mainstream housing market for the next five years. It says average house prices across...
03 November 2017
From: Breaking News

The first of the major estate agency research teams to offer a forecast for the 2018 market has kicked off the...
02 November 2017
From: Breaking News

Jackson-Stops & Staff, a critic of the stamp duty system since its reform in 2014, now says the government should slash...
31 August 2017
From: Breaking News

Countrywide has issued forecasts for the housing market over the next two years amidst a warning that Brexit volatility is the...
21 August 2017
From: Breaking News

Twenty areas in Greater London have an average price in excess of £5,000 per square metre according to new research from...
08 August 2017
From: Breaking News

With several agent partner programmes available across the country, estate agents can often increase business by offering sales by auction, with...
22 July 2017
From: Features

The UK property market has entered a period of stagflation where house price growth is consistently lower than the rate of...
14 July 2017
From: Breaking News

Purplebricks has released more details of expansion plans to recruit hundreds of additional Local Property Experts. The recruitment drive was launched yesterday...
12 July 2017
From: Breaking News

Gently rising house values in the mainstream market and problems facing the prime market in the capital mean that over half...
12 July 2017
From: Breaking News

Foxtons - a company seen by many as a barometer of the London housing market - is likely to face a...
10 July 2017
From: Breaking News

The Property Ombudsman’s annual report reveals a significant increase in the number of formal complaints resolved by the scheme and a...
22 June 2017
From: Breaking News

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...
12 June 2017
From: Breaking News

Average asking prices in London have fallen, while the majority of regional markets are performing strongly, according to the latest index...
12 May 2017
From: Breaking News

Peter Robinson, CEO of AIPP – Association of International Property Professionals – shines a light onto the international property market. Some UK...
01 April 2017
From: Features

Recent stats from the Council of Mortgage Lenders show that last year 360,000 people moved homes, meaning the number has stayed...
11 March 2017
From: Features

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...
16 February 2017
From: Breaking News

New data from LSL Property Services suggest that the image of London as one large housing market encountering difficulties at the...
16 January 2017
From: Breaking News

The rental market has had to face a raft of changes over the past year, including the introduction of the 3% stamp...
14 January 2017
From: Features

New research suggests there has been a slight increase in the total number of estate agency offices in Greater London this...
21 December 2016
From: Breaking News

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

Estate agency Knight Frank says that the UK housing market has rebounded more strongly than expected after the Brexit referendum -...
01 December 2016
From: Breaking News

Relocation Agent Network has ended the year handing out 28 awards to individuals and firms at a gala dinner in London. The...
22 November 2016
From: Breaking News

A conveyancing firm says the buyers at former retirement hotspots such as seaside towns are getting younger because mainstream purchasers are obliged to...
22 November 2016
From: Breaking News

Data just released from the Land Registry shows that the average price of a property in the UK is now £218,964...
19 October 2016
From: Breaking News

Available stock levels across Greater London, the east of England, plus the south east and the south west are now 16...
17 October 2016
From: Breaking News

A property website monitoring the housing market claims that the propertion of homes cutting their prices whilst on the market has...
13 October 2016
From: Breaking News

The Property Ombudsman scheme’s annual report, just released, reveals that there has been a dramatic 32 per cent surge in the...
04 October 2016
From: Breaking News

Some of London’s ailing new homes schemes may have been thrown a lifeline by the decision of technology giant Apple to occupy...
29 September 2016
From: Breaking News

A property analytics company has devised a method of calculating the ‘best’ locations in which to work as an estate agent,...
05 September 2016
From: Breaking News

The sales website Home claims that London house prices have dropped an average of 1.2 per cent in the past four...
23 August 2016
From: Breaking News

Brexit is set to weaken the wider economy and will lead to a small house price dip of one per cent...
22 August 2016
From: Breaking News

The Conveyancing Association has set out recommendations to end what it claims are significant delays and overcharging taking place within the...
03 August 2016
From: Breaking News

London agency Stirling Ackroyd says planning consents for new homes recovered from previous lows in the second quarter of the year,...
01 August 2016
From: Breaking News

Zoopla is beefing up its TV and bus advertising this week to consolidate its claim to be the property portal with...
04 July 2016
From: Breaking News

The property website Home is warning that some regional house price rises are unsustainable. It says that prices in the East of...
23 June 2016
From: Breaking News

Rightmove has released a series of online ‘portraits of how London might look after the completion of a series of development,...
17 June 2016
From: Breaking News

Three separate surveys appear to suggest that even a long-term shortage of homes on sale is not enough to stop a...
10 June 2016
From: Breaking News

Recent debate about a London market slowdown has clouded the fact that the areas seeing price falls are almost entirely in...
17 May 2016
From: Breaking News

The latest price index from LSL Property Services suggests that the average home in Greater London has risen in price by...
12 May 2016
From: Breaking News

It’s London Marathon weekend and while plenty of agents do great charity work in other ways, this event is always a...
22 April 2016
From: Breaking News

Beresfords, which describes itself as the largest independent estate agent in Essex and Greater London, is strengthening its country property portfolio...
19 April 2016
From: Breaking News

The average deposit paid for a Greater London property is over two and a half times larger than a home outside...
19 April 2016
From: Breaking News

Yet another agency is opening a new office in Greater London - this time it is Century 21 UK which has...
03 March 2016
From: Breaking News

Countrywide has rebranded its land and new homes team as Countrywide Residential Development and has announced a raft of new senior...
02 March 2016
From: Breaking News

New research shows that the north-south divide over house prices is not only continuing but is getting significantly worse. High-end agency Savills,...
22 February 2016
From: Breaking News

Some 51 per cent of postcodes within Greater London now have average property prices of £500,000 or more according to one...
04 February 2016
From: Breaking News

A major estate agency chain’s price index says average house prices in England and Wales have grown 6.6 per cent in...
14 January 2016
From: Breaking News

Sellers know there is a shortage of supply of homes on the market and are therefore throwing caution to the wind...
13 January 2016
From: Breaking News

- From April 2016 buy to let landlords and people buying second or holiday homes will have to pay an additional...
26 November 2015
From: Breaking News

George Osborne has announced a shock additional 3.0 per cent stamp duty on second homes and buy to let properties. Details are...
25 November 2015
From: Breaking News

Another house price index has suggested a strong mainstream housing market but a struggling one at the high end. The latest LSL...
12 November 2015
From: Breaking News

A body called the UK Housing Market Observatory - consisting of economists at Lancaster University Management School - is giving a...
04 November 2015
From: Breaking News

Strutt & Parker is early off the marks with its forecast for 2016 and beyond, predicting the strongest market growth in...
04 November 2015
From: Breaking News

Property portal Home says in some regions of the UK the number of properties coming to the market is 74 per...
14 October 2015
From: Breaking News

Average house prices in England and Wales are expected to rise by 5.0 per cent in 2015 and by 4.5 per...
21 September 2015
From: Breaking News

Data from Countrywide Group shows the potential volatility that exists in the much-discussed Prime Central London housing market, simply because of...
18 September 2015
From: Breaking News

Data from the estate and letting agency answering service Moneypenny appears to confirm what we have been thinking for some weeks...
22 July 2015
From: Breaking News

The Financial Times says London Mayor and new Conservative MP Boris Johnson is lobbying the government in a bid to persuade...
02 July 2015
From: Breaking News

A north of England firm that claims to offer a more affordable route into home ownership than available with a conventional...
26 June 2015
From: Breaking News

A new analysis of rising property values measured in price per square metre, suggests one location has risen 773 per cent...
25 June 2015
From: Breaking News

Telephone calls taken for estate and letting agents increased dramatically in a number of high-end London postcodes since the general election...
29 May 2015
From: Breaking News

As the nation finally gets to cast its vote at the polling booths, telephone answering specialist, Moneypenny has reported a dramatic...
07 May 2015
From: Sponsored Content

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