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Worcestershire estate agent Nicol & Co is celebrating its “busiest month ever” for house moves. It has reported 26 completions in Droitwich...

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An estate agency has revealed which London boroughs have been the busiest in terms of the number of homes sold as...

The government is clamping down - at least a little - on unvaccinated buyers and tenants in some specific circumstances.  New guidelines...

The police have been called in to investigate the ongoing cyber-security incident which has led to many firms in the Simplify...

The existence of online agencies means some consumers believe real life estate agents are unnecessary in a deal - but the rest of...

The worst of the Covid-19 pandemic appears to be firmly in the rear-view mirror as we move into the last quarter...

Apart from a buoyant market, high transaction levels, and consumer confidence in the property market, one considerable additional benefit which has...

Here’s a new way to encourage house moves - pay the potential vendor £50,000. The Scottish Government is launching an official consultation...

Regional hybrid agency Hortons says its repaid its £50,000 bounce back loan at the earliest opportunity - because the industry has...

The government is considering stricter tier structures for the coming weeks as the number of Coronavirus infections continues to rise. There is...

A not-for-profit group of government and insurance industry representatives wants a Flood Performance Certificate to be issued for every home. The group,...

Propertymark is in touch with the government to see how the new Tier structure being introduced on December 3 will affect...

Agents should know in the next 36 hours how new Coronavirus restrictions will affect how they work. The Prime Minister is announcing...

One of the industry's senior agency leaders says it would be a mistake for agents to be stopped from working in...

Two agencies have entered the debate on whether the current frenzied housing market is seeing delays in completions. Yesterday EAT reported that...

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

The share of owners putting their homes on the market within five years of buying is rising again according to an...

The Welsh housing market is back in business today - at least in part. Letting and estate agents can reopen their offices...

It’s been confirmed by the Scottish Government that the housing market north of the border resumes for business - and house...

The housing market in Northern Ireland is resuming on Monday after its lockdown because of the Coronavirus crisis. Arlene Foster, first minister...

A quarter of vendors and buyers contacted by a high-end agency say the lockdown and the Coronavirus crisis have made them...

The coming week’s stories in the mainstream media - inevitably focused on Coronavirus - will be dominated by two things. Firstly there...

A major consumer survey of existing home owners and potential movers has resulted in a plea to government to allow house...

The government is being urged to allow estate and lettings agents to return to work as soon as possible when the...

Another body is calling for a stamp duty holiday to help resuscitate the housing market following the Coronavirus standstill. The Royal Institute...

We are still living in highly extraordinary times, perhaps evidenced best by the fact that the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, was...

The boss of controversial estate agency Dexters has hit out at social media reports and press articles about company staff working...

New guidance has just been agreed by conveyancers on house moves during the Coronavirus crisis. The procedures - made pubic only last...

Propertymark has been told the agents should shut their offices immediately - they are not “essential businesses” under the new Coronavirus...

*** Please see this story for the latest news on house moving, updated 12 noon on Tuesday March 24 *** The property...

The Bank of England has announced an emergency cut in the base interest rate to shore up the economy during the Coronavirus...

The government has been told that raising the stamp duty threshold would both trigger more house moves, and bring the tax...

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

This is the busiest week of the year for house moves, with the single busiest day being Friday according to a...

Some 115,000 house moves are delayed annually because of funds not being cleared on time or because sellers have not vacated...

Traditional High Street estate agents have been given the thumbs up by sellers in a new survey of over 5,000 vendors...

Just 200 conveyancing firms control over 39 per cent of the market in England and Wales, wielding significant power over customers,...

Equity release, seen by many agents as a reason why fewer older homeowners are downsizing these days, has reported more growth...

Another For Sale By Owner website has been launched - this one, apparently, because the founder was “frustrated” with estate agents’...

New data from Barclays Mortgages suggests Britons are now likely to stay in their homes for almost 19 years between house...

There’s little doubt that downsizing is less of a factor in the housing market than it used to be - so...

A ‘disruptor’ tech company claims that large numbers of people are dissastisfied with the conveyancing element of house moves, with many...

It’s not breaking new ground to say that younger people have what many regard as the raw end of the deal...

The Conveyancing Association says some of its members are piloting HIPs-style Digital Home Reports in a bid to reduce fall-throughs and...

More than 50 per cent of homes complete their formal transfers of ownership on Fridays according to a survey by a...

A building society claims that in the past three years alone no fewer than 1.2m buyers have given up on house...

Predicting ho­­w the housing market might play out over the next few months is incredibly difficult. There are a significant number...