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If you want to hear of a tale for our industry’s times - featuring housing shortages, planning disputes, rampant  inflation and...

The UK Government should make better use of property taxes to deter foreign buyers, boost property supply and raise tax revenue,...

Properties favoured by first-time buyers are typically selling for an average of 8% or £20,300 below the local market average, Zoopla...

The number of mortgage approvals hit a six-month high in December as falling mortgage pricing and renewed buyer confidence “breathed new...

The number of first-time buyers fell by a fifth last year but this cohort still made up the largest proportion of...

Rightmove has unveiled plans for the next phase of its marketing campaign, aiming to take advantage of the so-called Boxing Day...

House prices increased for the second consecutive month in November, according to Halifax. The lender’s latest House Price Index recorded monthly growth...

Mortgage rates could be set to finally fall below 5%, brokers claim. The pricing of home loans has rocketed this year amid high...

The number of mortgage approvals for home purchase hit an eight-month low during September, Bank of England data shows. Mortgage data from...

Rightmove has unveiled its Autumnal marketing campaign, with a new advert aiming to convince potential buyers that they should have ‘belief’...

The number of mortgage approvals for home purchase hit a five-month low in July. Bank of England data shows there were 49,444...

Record numbers of homebuyers are set to get on the property ladder with the help of the “Bank of Family” this...

The number of mortgage approvals edged up for a second month in a row during June but remains below 2022’s monthly...

More than half of prospective homebuyers looking for a new location to move to want to be within a 20-minute walk...

Mortgage approvals bounced back in March but buyers are borrowing less at higher rates. The latest Bank of England data has showed...

The level of mortgage approvals for home purchases bounced back in February, Bank of England figures show, but buyers are borrowing...

Agents may be regularly debating increasing their fees but property buyers and sellers are already used to paying more for conveyancing,...

January was a record month for mortgage searches but mainly for remortgaging rather than home purchase, data from an industry software...

Lenders approved the lowest number of mortgages since May 2020 in December. The latest Bank of England data shows mortgage approvals for...

Mortgage approvals for home purchase hit their lowest level since June 2020 during November, the latest Bank of England data has...

New mortgage lending data from the Bank of England has indicated a slowdown in property market activity during October but agents...

Mortgage borrowers who paused home purchasing plans may be getting a respite from rising rates after new data shows average pricing...

The Bank of England has prompted new warnings of a housing market slowdown after revealing a ‘significant decrease’ in mortgage approvals...

In a statement likely to rile plenty of estate agents, a proptech firm is suggesting aspiring homebuyers should wait until 2024...

First-time buyers and homeowners seeking to sell alike are worried and confused about the current state of the housing market. With the average...

The current period of national solidarity over the death of Queen Elizabeth II has embraced the world of property as it...

A lender is predicting mortgage-backed home purchases will be “significantly lower” in the coming months after borrowing has dropped since the...

A property expert has warned against bans on second home sales and has suggested giving local buyers first refusal instead. It comes after...

Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) has long been the bugbear of many property transactions. Even the very wealthy will lose interest...

Mortgage search platform Twenty7Tec is predicting there could be one million searches for home loans this month. The technology company, which lets...

The average age at which someone buys their first home has risen to 32, up from 29 in 2011 and is...

Another day, another house price index record. The latest, from the Halifax, shows that typical house prices increased by over £24,500 in...

New data from Rightmove has analysed millions of supply, demand and pricing data points across the property market, to assess activity...

Relocation Agent Network, the network of primarily independent agencies, says it’s looking at global options for growth thanks to its relationship...

A housebuilding-led mortgage indemnity scheme called Deposit Unlock has now been launched nationally with 17 major developers taking part. Nationwide is the...

There is pressure growing in Brighton for the city to hold a referendum giving residents the opportunity to ban new build...

Mortgage approvals declined over the last month as the tapering stamp duty holiday deterred home purchases, according to data from the...

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

Our long-awaited ‘Freedom Day’ approaches. From Monday all of the restrictions, introduced since the Covid-19 pandemic made an impact across the...

A consultation into the draft New Homes Quality Code has been published with a consultation period for the industry ending on...

With property transactions taking longer than ever and many people operating at capacity, it is easy to overlook the progress made,...

Labour and Conservative MPs have expressed a unanimous view on their desire to see an extension of the stamp duty holiday...

A trade body has called on House Secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene over the growing problem of delays in councils providing...

Firstly, let’s get the obvious out of the way. Lockdown 2, as it’s being known, is now with us, but fortunately...

The housing market boom looks set to continue for some months yet as mortgage approvals for home purchases hit their highest...

As expected within the property industry, the Chancellor announced a stamp duty holiday in his Summer Statement. This now means that...

In the second of a series of articles, Emma Vigus, Managing Director of mio, the Estate Agents Sales Progression platform, explores...

Collaboration creates a bigger market Iain White, of the Innovation Collaboration Group “the Estate Agency industry must recognise that collaboration will...

Online sector veterans Russell Quirk and Kenny Bruce have used social media to call for a temporary scrapping of all stamp...

It’s been reported that the government is talking with banks and building societies about putting the housing market ‘on ice’ during the...

Predictions that landlords are not buying properties to let out because of tougher rental taxes and regulations appear to be short...

The typical house move in 2019 turned out to be just nine miles - and large numbers of buyers moved within...

A new tie-up between Coadjute, a network for decentralised workflow and data sharing within the property industry, and banks including NatWest...

Cash buyers have fallen in 90 per cent of major UK cities over the past three years according to a Zoopla...

There's good news for the market in at least one sector - mortgages offered to first time buyers. Latest figures from the...

A bid to ban the building of new homes for out-of-town buyers has backfired on a Cornish community - and now...

The number of mortgages approved by High Street banks increased 5.4 per cent to 44,000 in April. Data from trade body UK...

House prices in 20 UK cities analysed by Zoopla show an average 1.7 per cent increase over the 12 months to...

After several days of gloomy market news, here's something more optimistic - there were 370,000 new first time buyer mortgages completed in...

On the face of it, this year’s Budget was not what you could describe as ‘housing heavy’ in terms of the...

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

Few things anger the industry more than the effect of stamp duty and other costs on property transactions (well, maybe Purplebricks...

Figures from the mortgage lenders’ umbrella group, UK Finance, suggest the government desire to see more first time buyers and fewer...

You will perhaps have seen recently that the Government has decided to boost funding to the regulator, the National Trading Standards...

The housing industry has set out a list of demands in advance of the government’s hotly anticipated Autumn Budget on Wednesday.  Despite...

Some 41 per cent of parents are not in a position to provide any financial support towards helping their child get...

The number of existing home owners moving house fell two per cent in the first six months of 2017 compared with...

A new PropTech venture aims to do what the ill-fated Veyo system failed to achieve -  creating an online platform bringing...

In recent years the mortgage industry has gone through some testing times. Recession and regulation have led to more stringent lending...

Nationwide has introduced what it calls a ‘Family Deposit Mortgage’ in a bid to help first time buyers. It is aimed at...

Strutt & Parker has seen a fall in revenue and profits for the year ending April 30 - and it puts...

A solicitor has asked how the ban on the sale of new-build apartments and houses to holiday home buyers in a...

Fears raised over the UK housing market in the wake of the Brexit vote have so far proved to be ‘wide...

Next week sees a court case which will decide whether there will have to be a re-run of the ‘second homes...

Those working within the UK housing market would have felt considerable worry about the immediate impact of the vote to leave...

Humberts is introducing what it calls a ‘personal assistant’ for retirees in a bid to woo the growing market of elderly...

Home loans activity has fallen to a 12 month low as market torpor sets in ahead of the EU referendum.  According to...

Unlikely as it seems, the Treasury has tipped-off the 909 individuals and organisations that responded to formal consultation over the stamp...

The Nationwide is warning that the busy start to 2016 in the housing market is driven at least partly by the...

The chief executive of Countrywide says there’s “no change of course” after a 37 per cent slump in operating profits were...

Another online petition has been launched against one of Chancellor George Osborne’s fiscal measures seen as an attack on the private...

A major estate agency is demanding urgent clarification on a three per cent tax levy - a ‘mini-me’ version of the...

My suspicion in my December Industry Views column that the Chancellor, George Osborne, holds certain types of property owners in contempt...

Over one in 20 home buyers this year used a gift for all or part of their deposit, helping to fund...

Estate agents and accountants are investigating whether there are legal ways of circumnavigating the three per cent stamp duty surcharge that...

UK house prices increased by 4.3% in the three months to July 2015, the highest quarterly growth for eleven years, according...

First time buyer registrations have plummeted over the past year and the average price of a home purchased by FTBs has...

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

The reluctance of existing mortgaged homeowners to move house is starving the market of a source of new supply and risking...