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The predictions game can be tricky. Sometimes you just don’t know whether to stick or twist. As reported in Estate Agent Today...

Uncertainty triggered by the new Labour Government and taxation concerns that await the 30th October Autumn Budget, have made many wealthy...

The latest Greener Homes Attitudes Tracker from NatWest and S&P Global, reveals that younger homeowners are more in favour of policies...

The number of home sellers entering the market increased by almost a quarter in the two weeks following the Bank of...

Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered property search app Jitty has launched a new feature that lets buyers find their dream home by simply...

Property taxes in Scotland raised almost £640m over the past twelve months, according to analysis of the latest statistics by agency...

TV presenter and property expert Martin Roberts has been named as host of the 2024 Variety North West Property Awards. Known for...

Agency stock has hit a seven-year high but realistic pricing is essential, Zoopla warns. The portal’s latest House Price Index for August...

Ongoing tax and regulatory clampdowns on landlords have led to warnings of a buy-to-let exodus and new data suggests that may...

Savills has strengthened its senior team with the appointment of Tommy Newbigging to lead its new homes department across Essex and parts...

Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) ratings may become a bigger factor for homebuyers in the Autumn market, Rightmove suggests. It comes as energy...

Lower mortgage rates have slowed the exodus of first-time buyers from London ,research suggests. Analysis by Hamptons for the first half of...

The 90-minute commute continues to flourish for family homes, it has been claimed. Speaking on the Winkworth’s latest Property Exchange podcast, the...

The new Labour government has committed to building 370,000 homes per year, but is it realistic? The housing crisis in the UK...

Spicerhaart is reigniting its acquisition strategy with a multi-million pound investment in its estate agency and lettings businesses after posting a...

The National Leasehold Campaign’s (NLC) heroic journey to get reform of the controversial tenure type on the statute book has hit...

EVER since Rishi Sunak stood in the rain and effectively announced he’d soon be moving house, Labour have been saying the...

Welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity, our chance to salute those who do so much to help others. If your agency...

The UK has the slowest home moving timeline among 12 global nations, research suggests. Upfront information provider Moverly has analysed the average...

Spicerhaart has appointed former Countrywide sales manager Victoria Kelly to lead its Land and New Homes division in the Midlands.  She has...

Average asking prices for new property listings had their usual summer drop this month but Rightmove is predicting a busy Autumn. The...

The expected dip in mortgage rates following the Bank of England’s base rate cut continued this week with NatWest’s lowest price...

One key point of difference in the parties’ housing policies during the recent general election campaign was that the Conservative Party...

The smart home movement has been gathering pace for some time and connected living should be top of the agenda for...

The ‘UK Seniors Housing Market Update Q2 2024’ from Knight Frank brings positive news that the supply of new seniors housing...

I have been an agent for 25 years and have represented a large corporate agency and Anderson Rose (my own independent...

The new Labour government has pledged to prioritise a ‘brownfield first’ approach to urban planning, as part of its promise to...

Overvaluations are making properties taking longer to go under offer but sales are at least finally completing faster, research suggests. Analysis by...

Welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity, our chance to salute those who do so much to help others. If your agency...

Demand for new-build homes in London eased in the run up to and just after the General Election but more recent...

Bloor Homes, the UK’s largest non-listed housebuilder has signed a 12-month contract Zoopla.  All Bloor Homes' 80 developments across all nine regions...

Plymouth has been named as the fasted location to sell a home in a new index. OnTheMarket has unveiled a new monthly...

Homeowners need greater protection from poor quality housing amid the Government’s plans for 1.5m new homes, an industry body claims. That’s the...

A new estate agency in Hampshire is celebrating expansion after securing more than £40m of property listings in its first half...

Homeowners are becoming more concerned about property fraud, research suggests. A freedom of information request has shown a 26% increase in the number...

A new analysis of buyers’ actions during viewings suggests many effectively ignore the truly important features, and are instead distracted by...

The director of a London estate agency claims a buyer needs an income of £100,000 a year to purchase a home...

The latest prime London market snapshot from Knight Frank suggests muted activity so far this summer and warns of possible hesitancy...

Now that a new government has been elected and interest rates appear to be on their way down, many buyers who...

The three months of May-July provide welcome news for both active buyers and sellers, and those thinking of buying or selling...

Rents have begun to stabilise, despite an exodus of landlords from the sector and resistance over rent reductions. The market is witnessing...

IT was the day the world malfunctioned.  From airport lounges to the reception areas of GP surgeries, the CrowdStrike IT Outage caused...

One of the most popular recent additions to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show has been the Balcony and Container Gardens category....

The Competition and Markets Authority has raised an unusual issue concerning Barratt’s £2.5 billion deal to buy rival house builder Redrow...

Savills has produced a strong ‘half year report’ to shareholders - but with an interesting take on how it’s operating in...

Price premiums on waterside properties are at their lowest in five years, according to Jackson-Stops’ annual Waterside Review.  While waterside homes in...

Moving further away from family, friends and familiar places to get onto the property ladder is becoming more common for first-time...

Most households in England today are ‘under-occupying’ their homes, according to the think tank the Resolution Foundation. And it says there doesn’t...

The Scottish housing market is proving remarkably stable according to figures from the Edinburgh Solicitors Property Centre. The average selling price of...

A building society is calling for stamp duty reforms to incentivise downsizing. A statement from the Suffolk Building Society says it believes...

Some 74% of developers believe that the government setting targets for councils would be the key to unlocking planning issues faced...

Home buyers, movers, and existing owners making energy-saving improvements to their properties can now get up to £2,000 cashback from a...

Research from Zoopla shows that two-bed terraced homes are the fastest-selling property type in England and Wales, with a sale agreed...

At last! Well, they say small is beautiful and, if you’re in the property sector right now, you’d better believe it! The...

We welcome the thrust of the Deputy Prime Minister’s announcement this week on planning reform.  In particular, we support the return of...

SINCE the new Labour government was elected in early July, one phrase has been circulating more than any – grey belt....

Throughout the general election campaign, the Green Belt was central to the debate about the housing crisis. The new Labour government...

Self-employed agency brand eXp UK has agreed a listings deal with OnTheMarket (OTM), claiming that the CoStar-backed portal will overtake Rightmove...

The first councils are finally being signed up to a new logbook partnership between the Residential Logbook Association (RLBA) and the...

Small and medium-sized housebuilders are the key to delivering more new homes, according to Winkworth. Adam Stackhouse, head of developments and commercial investments...

All councils in England will be given new, mandatory housebuilding targets under planning reforms unveiled by the Government yesterday. Deputy Prime Minister...

Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered property app Jitty has surpassed 75,000 users since its launch earlier this year. Jitty, coined the ‘Instagram for homes,’...

The UK housing market is heating up, with buyers now agreeing to pay 96.8% of asking price, Zoopla claims. The figure is...

Chestertons has continued its London expansion with the acquisition of James Pendleton. With branches across Wandsworth, Battersea and Clapham, James Pendleton will...

Upstix has launched a part exchange partnership for a new-build development in Aylesbury. The aim is to boost plot sales for MCR...

An increase in agents, fees and rising take-up of its extra packages contributed to a 6% annual rise in average revenue...

The Government is being urged to keep the first-time buyer Stamp Duty relief threshold at its current level. Labour signalled before it...

Survey raises doubts over Government housebuilding targets Close to two thirds of Brits are not confident that the Government can meet its...

Estate agency brand Hamptons has named a new head of residential development. Tom Hawkins, who began his career at Hamptons in 2005,...

There is no doubt that the residential market in the UK slumped last year. Transactions were at around 1 million, whereas...

Mandatory housing targets are back, alongside a pledge to build 1.5 million homes in the next five years. But can Prime...

A recent appeal decision which allowed housing development on the Hertfordshire Green Belt highlights the need for greater flexibility on locational...

Further consumer education is needed to remove the stigma of auction property sales, iamproperty co-founder Jamie Cooke claims. Cooke has suggested TV...

A lack of new investment rather than landlords selling-up is causing rental market supply issues, research suggests. The latest Hamptons Lettings Index...

The Government will need the financial markets to play ball if its housebuilding plans are to be successful, a property expert...

The gap between what sellers want for their home and what buyers are actually paying has increased by a further 1.1%...

NOBODY does pomp and ceremony like us Brits and, wow, it was on full display in Westminster last week. Despite the prestige...

It’s so good to see housing at the top of the government’s agenda for change. Finally! The housing crisis has been met...

The new Government’s plan to ‘Get Britain Building’ is ambitious, to say the least.    And it is central to their mission, not...

The Chancellor’s plans to ‘get Britain building again’ are very significant for the property sector and property investment, specifically.  The plans...

We all know what defines a successful community: not just a range of homes to address a range of requirements, but...

Zoopla has been named as the official data partner of the latest series of popular Channel 4 programme ‘Worst House on...

Housebuilding, leasehold and rental reform are set to be key roles of the new Labour Government’s legislative agenda but agency regulation...

Half of all UK homes (15m) have increased in value in the first half of 2024 by 1% or more, research...

We’ve probably all had enough of people campaigning in recent weeks but I have to admit to one disappointment with the...

Just a week after Labour’s landslide election victory and already their top team is coming under scrutiny and being asked to...

The new Labour Government will set out its legislative agenda today with the King’s Speech set to reveal its policy priorities. Agents...

Agents in the East of England could face the toughest task filling the void left by first-time buyer Stamp Duty relief...

Reforms to the UK’s planning system must move from a one size fits all approach to boost development, the Government has...

Competition from Dubai and concerns about taxation under the new Labour Government have led the world’s super-rich to spend less and...

Demand for energy efficient new homes is on the rise, according to recent data from Knight Frank. A recent buyer sentiment survey...

A war of words is escalating between OnTheMarket owner CoStar and its rival Realtor.com in the US. It comes as CoStar was...

Asking prices dropped at the start of July as estate agents and sellers attempted to attracted buyers who have been distracted...

It's more than a week since we saw the removal vans enter Downing St and Labour’s promise to hit the ground...

Like a breath of fresh air, we now have a government that actually appears to be governing. OK, it’s only 10 days...

Just a week after Labour’s landslide election victory and already their top team is coming under scrutiny and being asked to...

The UK sales and lettings markets are in a state of flux, but an upcoming webinar from Reapit, the leading technology...

The Single-Family Rental (SFR) sector is experiencing rapid growth in the UK, presenting a unique opportunity for local lettings and estate...

While housing is a devolved matter, ESPC hopes that the promises made by Labour in the recent general election might help...

Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) continue to make headlines, and unfortunately, it’s once again for the wrong reasons. A recent investigation by Which?...