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There’s gathering momentum to do ‘something’ about the unfairness of council tax and stamp duty. This isn’t new in principle. Agents have...

The post-lockdown housing market boom is showing signs of a significant slowdown according to a new forecast. The prediction, from the quote...

Knight Frank’s network of residential sales offices in London had a record month in June as the end of the main...

A bank’s latest study suggests that self employed people are increasingly pessimistic about the chance of them being able to get on...

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

Over a fifth of properties have risen in value by more than the average salary according to a calculation made by...

The Covid-19 crisis has been marked by so-called high-wealth households amassing savings and benefitting from rising house prices far more than...

The Halifax is reporting a 0.5 per cent monthly drop in house prices, plus a fall in the annual rate from...

Labour says the stamp duty holiday is an example of the government’s “failed approach” to home ownership and housing affordability. Labour’s Shadow...

Average house prices have risen by £29,000 over the course of the stamp duty holiday as house price annual inflation hits...

Estate agency comparison website GetAgent has calculated the typical fees charged to vendors in different parts of the country. It says agents...

The distribution of home ownership across different generations has been a cause of strife according to a think-tank. The Resolution Foundation’s latest...

The frantic growth in house prices is showing its first sign of slowing down, says Rightmove. In its latest monthly market snapshot,...

The property market is currently in a unique position where the number of house hunters looking for their next home is...

Average house prices in the year to the end of April increased by 8.9 per cent according to the government’s Office...

The Stamp Duty holiday has been very beneficial for hundreds of thousands of buyers looking to take advantage of savings, even...

EweMove, the high profile hybrid estate agency owned by The Property Franchise Group, says it has recruited a record 30 new...

A leading agent has been in touch with EAT to vent his frustration at the government for extending most of the...

A home within 500 metres of a tube or railway station in London will carry a massive premium compared to a...

Right now it seems that another day means another house price record, an all-time high for transactions, and a conveyancing log-jam...

The government has dismissed a call for reform of the stamp duty system, which would have meant the tax would apply...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says its monthly sentiment measure of house prices is at its highest level since 1988. A...

Annual house price inflation is now at its strongest level in nearly seven years, says the Halifax House Price Index. The average...

There are now more mortgage products available than at any time since the start of the pandemic in March 2021. Data from...

An estate agency says disgruntled and delayed property buyers are fast falling out of love with the stamp duty holiday, which...

Agents have given their backing to the government’s First Homes initiative, offering discounted houses for local people and key workers and...

Prices in prime central London grew by 0.3 per cent in the year to May - tiny rise but a significant...

A gradual increase in the supply of homes coming to the market means the stellar price rises of recent months are...

The MP who chairs one of the most important committees in the House of Commons has urged the government to increase...

The Bank of England will intervene if it considers soaring house prices will affect the inflation rate says Sir Dave Ramsden,...

House prices have soared 10.9 per cent in the past year - the highest level since 2014 - according to the...

The government is to answer a call made in an online petition for stamp duty to apply when contracts are exchanged,...

The average price of a property in a British seaside town is now £265,978, a leap of 10 per cent -...

Books about property are, relatively speaking, commonplace - books by estate agents are far less so, hence the interest in The...

A global financial software and analytics firm says it’s launching a new PropTech tool which promises in the near future to...

Propertymark has thrown its weight behind the government’s First Homes initiative, describing it as “creative” and saying it’s a sign of...

The number of transactions is scheduled to reach 1.52 million this year - way above the norm of between 1.0 and...

An all-time record high of one in three properties sold for more than the original asking price last month. This is according...

An unusual price forecast based on conveyancing quotes suggests the housing market is to continue busy over the summer with more...

The Bank of England’s deputy governor says it’s possible that the current housing market boom may continue even after the end...

A think tank wants the government to scrap stamp duty and replace it with an annual property tax based on capital...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Christopher Keen and Company Director  What is ‘company name’ and what...

A relatively modest interest rate rise could trigger a crash in the housing market according to the housing analyst behind the...

Increasing optimism at the success of the Coronavirus vaccine programme and the relaxation of restrictions have contributed to house prices rising...

A market analysis by Fine & Country suggests that annual house price inflation could hit 10 per cent next month. Nicky Stevenson,...

The last 12 months have heralded significant change across the property market and indeed we could argue across all markets in...

House prices are 7.1 per cent above their level a year ago as the boom continues. The latest house price index, from...

A think tank claims that ‘urban flight’ - when people leave cities and head for towns and villages - is merely a...

A new petition has been launched asking the government to make the stamp duty holiday apply when contracts are exchanged, rather...

The average UK house price has risen 8.6 per cent - that’s typically £20,000 - in the past year. This is the...

A leading agent says that for every house he puts on the market, he has over 40 requests for viewings -...

From today buyers will be able to purchase properties worth up to £600,000 with just a five per cent mortgage, under...

Another week begins, another record tumbles - Rightmove this morning reports a monthly price surge of 2.1 per cent has propelled...

One housing market index suggests that average house prices in England and Wales have risen by 9.8 per cent in the...

The Chancellor’s decision to extend the stamp duty holiday has “put a spring in the step" of the housing market according...

A mortgage firm specialising in high net worth clients says the stamp duty holiday cliff edge will not impact the most expensive...

The stamp duty holiday has backfired and buyers almost everywhere are paying more for homes, rather than less. StripeHomes analysed house price...

Annual house price growth remains strong but it has slowed significantly according to the Nationwide. Prices dropped 0.2 per cent on average...

Welsh independent agency Nuttall Parker has been snapped up by Cardiff-based property business Seraph Group. Newport-centred Nuttall Parker is Seraph Group's second...

Liverpool - where commissioners have been ordered by Whitehall to run part of the council following corruption allegations - is the...

Another house price index shows a super-charged housing market with prices rising 7.5 per cent in the year to January according...

The original stamp duty freeze, which started in July 2020, has already helped push house prices to a record high and...

Residential transactions totalled 147,050 last month according to HMRC - that’s 23 per cent higher than the previous month and an...

The government’s highly-anticipated Tax Day was just a damp squib.  That’s the view of leading analyst Anthony Codling, who says the almost complete...

The Building Societies Association says there’s been a surge in consumer confidence in the housing market following the Budget. Some 37 per...

Another leading research team in a major agency has revised upwards its forecast for the 2021 market. Savills revised its predictions recently...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says the market should prepare itself for a glut of new supply thanks to the...

Transactions and house price forecasts for the mainstream housing market are being revised upwards by Savills following the Budget. The new predictions follow an...

The latest house price index from the Halifax suggests the market has softened ahead of the original scheduled end of the stamp...

Labour says Chancellor Rishi Sunak “will give away half a billion pounds to second homeowners and landlords through the stamp duty...

A surge in demand from buyers, even those unlikely to benefit from the stamp duty holiday, offers hope for the market...

  Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  Mark Meyer, CEO, Meyers Franchising What is Meyers and what...

A prominent conveyancer has hit out at the extension to the stamp duty holiday, which is now ending in late June and...

One of the chief figures behind Brexit and Boris Johnson’s role as London Mayor is now advising that stamp duty should be...

Affordability across the housing market is at its worst for 10 years according to an analysis by a London agency. Benham and Reeves...

A housing market analyst says stamp duty, for all its unpopularity within the property industry, may not be so bad after...

House price growth is running out of steam ahead of the stamp duty holiday cliff-edge. That’s the suggestion from the Halifax; its latest...

Estate agents have kept up the pressure on the Westminster government to consider some kind of tapered ending to the stamp...

A group that last year floated the concept of a one-off wealth tax - which would include taxing main homes as...

The Nationwide has pulled no punches with Chancellor Rishi Sunak - it’s made it clear that if the stamp duty holiday...

Homeowners staying at home during another lockdown are doing more than sharing memes of groundhog day or doing family quizzes on...

An estate agency has issued an abject apology for calling the Covid pandemic “a blessing in disguise.” There was a huge social...

Well, what a start to 2021! None of us thought things would change as the clock struck midnight on New Year’s...

A leading analyst is questioning whether buyers have benefitted from the stamp duty holiday because demand has purshed up prices far...

Some 70 per cent of first time buyers in 2020 took out mortgages in excess of 25 years, says the Nationwide. A decade...

The speed and success of the Coronavirus vaccine programme holds the key to the housing market rebounding in the second half...

An estate agency is being criticised for marketing properties as second homes in an area reportedly suffering a housing shortage. Local media...

The average UK house price is now a record £253,374 according to the Halifax - but the rate of growth is...

Anthony Codling, the City analyst who made his name as a scourge of Purplebricks, says Brexit may be good news for the...

House prices surged in December to post their fastest growth in six years, according to the Nationwide.  Prices rose 7.3 per cent...

Zoopla has revealed precisely how much house prices have risen over the course of 2020. Across the UK as a whole prices...

London and other urban areas dominate the league table of locations seeing the biggest house price rises of 2020. This is despite...

The Brexit deal agreed in dramatic form on Christmas Eve is one part of a cocktail eventually boosting the London market...

The pandemic has reignited the flagging country house market and boosted demand for larger homes with gardens, claims Savills. Larger country houses...

Well, what a year it has been for everyone, including the property market. I don’t think there’s anyone out there who...

Another day, another index, another record - house prices rose 5.4 per cent annually in October according to official figures from the Office...

Described on this site as a ‘powerful disruptor’ in March 2020, few would deny that the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted on...

The industry seems almost back to normal. Not the ‘new normal’ we spoke so much of a few weeks and months ago,...

The sales market is currently strong but the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has issued a warning about a slowdown next...

Annual house price inflation is now running at 6.5 per cent according to the latest Nationwide index after a 0.9 per...

Public sentiment over the housing market remains stable despite the Coronavirus crisis and the possibility of a No Deal Brexit. That’s the conclusion...

The secure Conservative victory in the 2019 General Election meant the property market in the sunlit uplands was set for a...

The housing market in England and Wales is stabilising, according to analysis of web traffic from a property advice site.  Valuation requests...

Property tax rises and falling house prices look as if they are on the way according to the small print accompanying...

Average house prices in Wales have risen three per cent in the past year, despite multiple difficult lockdowns considered more severe...

The mixture of the stamp duty holiday and generally fast-rising house prices has led to a resurgence of flipping. Data released this...

It may make little difference to agents but a leading analyst suggests thousands of buyers have effectively lost money on their purchase...

Just when you thought the housing market was beginning to calm down... along comes a likely vaccine for Coronavirus. One of the country’s...

With a new President elected and the old one reluctant to move out, this is a good time to see how...

The first monthly market monitor to show activity in the housing market tailing off has appeared - and it says momentum...

House prices by the end of October were running 7.5 per cent above their level a year ago - but the...

The trend of buyers apparently fleeing the city to get more for their money in the country has hit the buffers...

High end agents usually keep their powder dry when it comes to party politics, to avoid upsetting customers. However Knight Frank has...

A leading market analyst says the widespread belief that we are ‘safe’ in our homes may indirectly lead to the recent...

Recent figures emanating from the mortgage and housing market suggest that – since lockdown was ended in mid-May – transaction levels...

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

Putting fingers to keyboard to create blogs and articles isn’t always the easiest job for agents, particularly when meetings, viewings and...

The new two per cent stamp duty surcharge applying to non-resident buyers may cause a wide range of properties to be...

Savills says the shape and size of the housing market in the coming months will be determined by the capacity of conveyancers...

Agents in some parts of the country may be able to make use of data from utilities comparison service uSwitch, which...

A prominent housing market analyst is warning that in 14 years of studying prices and transactions he has never seen the...

House prices in September were 7.3 per cent higher than a year earlier – the highest house price inflation since June 2016. The Halifax...

London’s properties are “over-valued” according to a leading bank. UBS, which has what it calls a Global Real Estate Bubble Index, says...

An estate agent in Liverpool has adopted the unusual technique of urging vendors to sell now “before prices crash.” Clearly unworried about...

Agents have universally welcomed new Nationwide data showing annual price growth picked up to 5.0 per cent last month - the highest rate...

The first leading agency to make a 2021 forecast says the market should be stable next year - so long as...

A survey of over 2,300 home owners across the UK suggests market sentiment is mixed, with most doubting house prices have risen. The...

I’m sure I speak for most in the property industry when I say that back in March and April I had...

When it comes to the future of the property market in the wake of Covid-19, there are two main schools of...

PropertyHeads, a portal which describes itself as the industry’s social network, has sold a three per cent stake partly to raise funds...

A leading agent says the government’s new Coronavirus clampdown from Monday will push more home owners to sell. Caspar Harvard-Wills, a partner at...

House prices rose again in August to reach a record high level according to Halifax, which is part of the Lloyds...

A sentiment survey conducted amongst 585 estate agents by the OnTheMarket portal suggests fewer than half have witnessed price rises since...

It’s no surprise the mainstream news remains dominated by coronavirus - not so much the actual effect of it right now,...

In the week the Nationwide recorded the UK’s highest ever average house price, high-end agency Savills has forecast that prime markets...

Record house prices recorded this week by the Nationwide index are set to go higher still according to a leading agent. Nationwide...

There’s good news from the think-tank the Resolution Foundation, which says the threat of negative equity because of the Coronavirus crisis...

Figures from Zoopla quantify how Coronavirus is changing the market, with houses selling significantly faster than flats. The latest market report from...

With the UK officially in what has been described as the single worst national recession in the world, one agency has...

It was officially announced last week that the UK is in recession for the first time since 2009, and although this...

The latest market snapshot by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors warns the current boom may not continue as government support measures...

Many young people are stuck unable to purchase their first home even if house prices fall in the wake of the...

Agents have been understandably delighted at the latest Halifax index which shows house prices posting their biggest gain of the year...

Strutt & Parker is warning that in a worst-case scenario house prices in some locations could drop 10 per cent this...

The Nationwide says annual house price growth has recovered to 1.5 per cent. Its July house price index says the fall in...

We have had a special relationship for many years and are bonded as countries in many ways – historically, politically and...

Zoopla says while there may be speculation about people fleeing London and big urban areas for the countryside, the evidence suggests...

Tens of billions of pounds of new taxes should be levied through a Capital Gains Tax imposed on main homes, not...

Agents have almost unanimously been reporting a big surge in business since the reopening of the housing market, but new figures...

A major agency is warning that the current stamp duty holiday could leave the housing market in a state of lethargy...

There’s more confirmation this morning that the housing market is enjoying a short-term bounce - and that’s before the effect of...

Mortgage enquiries in June surged to double the rate of the previous month according to the latest halifax house price index. Although...

We recently issued our Zoopla House Price Index, which analyses the latest real-time trends from the sales market. In our analysis, we...

A survey of 2,000 prospective movers by Zoopla shows the vast majority still intent on buying - but younger purchasers’ plans...

Agents have remained calm in the light of Nationwide’s house price index which shows the first annual fall for eight years...

A former City analyst best known for his scathing criticisms of Purplebricks has launched a PropTech platform that he describes as...

Zoopla predicts that the price strength that has been seen since the reopening of the housing market is likely to continue...

The chief executive of a property information platform says now is a “dangerous time” to buy or sell homes because of...

The property market is used to change, and I’m confident it will bounce back from any lockdown effects. Despite being acutely aware...

Price discounts are diminishing as the housing market strengthens, according to data from Knight Frank. The average discount to the asking price...

The latest sentiment snapshot produced by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors confirms the trend that the market is still improving...

An estate agency says the housing market could get a boost as a result of couples separating after the prolonged togetherness...

Typical house prices in England and Wales are set to fall over the rest of summer according to home moving service...

The housing market is set for long-term recovery, despite dips in the road on the way.  That's the message from the latest house...

Leading estate agents are warning that the sharp fall in house prices reported by the Nationwide may be just the first...

UK house prices fell by 1.7 per cent in May, after taking account of seasonal effects – this is the largest...

A survey of sellers by a high-end agency suggests that around a third expect price falls of six per cent or...

The outlook for the housing market is still taking shape, but here I take a look at three market indicators to...

Zoopla’s head of research says a stamp duty holiday could encourage more home owners to move which in turn could help...

All my recent Natters have been focused on one particular topic, the coronavirus crisis, for obvious reasons. But there has been...

Typical prices in the UK housing market will drop 12 per cent before long-term growth resumes in 2021 and beyond. That’s the...

Rightmove has taken the unusual step this weekend of issuing its usual monthly asking price index on a Saturday instead of...

The government has temporarily suspended its official house price index as a result of the Coronavirus crisis. In a long and far-reaching announcement...

The housing market is likely to rebound relatively strongly after the Coronavirus lockdown eases, according to the Nationwide. House prices grew at...

Savills has kept in touch with almost 2,000 of its vendors and prospective buyers through two mass webinars. Entitled ‘What COVID-19 means...

There’s a warning today that the housing market could face a wave of legal disputes if buyers of off-plan new builds...

At the moment, it somehow seems like tempting fate to think too far into the future, especially in terms of the...

The market could take five years to recover from the Coronavirus crisis after possible double-digit percentage price falls and fast-increasing repossessions.  That’s the...

The impact of the Coronavirus crisis is going to reduce agents' revenue into the third quarter finishing in late September warns a leading...

An economic consultancy predicts house prices will fall by a sixth as unemployment grows across Britain this year. The consultancy, Cebr, says...

The government has been called upon by one of the industry’s most respected bodies to announce a stamp duty holiday to...

One of Britain’s leading agents says online viewing and interest in videos for homes on sale continues to be relatively strong...

The latest market forecast comes from Knight Frank which says that by the end of the year there will have been...

The Nationwide says government measures mean the impact of Coronavirus on the housing market may be “much less” damaging than many...

Although all bets are off as to what the housing market will be like after the Coronavirus subsides, there is now...

A mortgage broker that’s just become a partner of OnTheMarket is warning that house prices are likely to fall 10 per...

The agency behind a poll showing one in six buyers putting plans on hold because of Coronavirus is warning that if...

House prices have risen 2.3 per cent in the past year - the strongest rate of inflation for property since July...

The Atlantic Ocean is a vast space – some 4,000 miles eastwards across from the USA until land is met again....

Despite still being in the transition period after leaving the EU on January 31, we are seeing an upturn in the...

In another positive sign for the housing market, every region of the UK has seen a price rise according to the...

For several years the regular monthly RICS market snapshot has made depressing reading - now, for there second month in a...

Annual house price growth increased to 4.1 per cent in January, up slightly from the end of 2019, according to Halifax...

Boris Johnson is considering introducing a mansion tax for high value homes according to a Sunday newspaper. The Telegraph - citing two...

Coutts has identified areas of London where house prices are still below peak. Although the wealth manager and private bank says there...

After a challenging period for the UK property market, recovery is very much on the cards and the end to uncertainty...

Is that a headline appropriate for Brexit Day? Surely not. No, instead it’s a description of the results of a survey...

The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee meets today for its monthly decision on whether the move base rate - and...

Zoopla’s Hometrack data research arm says the start of 2020 has seen buyer demand up 26 per cent compared to the...

At the end of a strong week for housing market indicators, the latest survey from the website Home suggests a major...

Whisper it quietly but the housing market could be significantly stronger in 2020 than in recent years. Two key indicators in the...

Three signs emerged over the weekend suggesting that the market may be shaping up well for 2020. Firstly a new survey by...

House prices rose 4.0 per cent in 2019 according to Britain’s biggest mortgage lender Halifax, as a December bounce - some...

House price growth in the past decade was at its weakest for 30 years - and despite that it remains though...

Annual UK house price growth exceeded one per cent for the first time in 12 months in December according to the...

After a year dogged by Brexit deadlock, political turmoil, and slow growth, estate agents’ confidence in the property market hit a...

A warning has been issued by a prominent industry figure that more bricks-and-mortar High Street agents will go under in 2020,...

The scores are in….and it looks like house prices are going to rise gently in 2020 according to forecasts from almost...

Analysts are putting a surprise surge in mortgage approvals from banks down to a spike in applications ahead of the General...

Here it is - the start of a new decade, a moment for resolutions and remembrance, and the last Bank Holiday...

The year just ending was when the North-South divide in house prices and capital appreciation slammed into reverse gear according to...

NAEA member agents have delivered a relatively downbeat forecast for 2020 - but the organisation says an injection of digital technology...

The new mood of apparent political stability promoted by supporters of Boris Johnson and Brexit appears to have failed to win...

Major UK cities have seen average house price rises of 54 per cent in the past decade - an increase of...

There are reasons to be optimistic that a majority government will improve the housing market, simply by ending political and economic...

Government figures from the Office for National Statistics show that house prices across the UK rose by a mere 0.7 per...

An estate agent in London claims he did £53m of property deals within hours of the Conservative victory in the General...

Home owners on Corbyn Road in a Midlands town are seeking a name change because they fear house prices will plummet. The...

House prices in England and Wales are set to fall over the next three months according to a price index produced...

The latest snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows that the UK housing market is still on hold, pending...

Agents have welcomed the surprise news from the Halifax that house prices last month saw their largest rise since the start...

With Brexit still unresolved, the domestic agenda has been pushed from the headlines by the seemingly overwhelming public and political discord...

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[Estate Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise...

Another estate agency has provided evidence of the problems that continue to hurt the prime central London housing market. Strutt & Parker,...

House prices increased 0.5 per cent in November, which was the strongest monthly rise since April according to the Nationwide.  However, annual...

The latest market snapshot from the National Association of Estate Agents continues to show how political uncertainty is dampening sentiment and...

It’s only five weeks to the New Year and new decade and the first agents have started making predictions for the...

Agents have reacted angrily to General Election proposals by all three main political parties to hike stamp duty for foreign buyers. The...

This morning’s new market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors confirms the worst - that the market is in...

House prices are forecast to dip as the year ends and stagnate at the start of 2020 according to the latest...

House prices dipped a tiny 0.1 per cent in October - but this led to the annual rate coming in at...

London Central Portfolio, the investment consultancy which  saw signs of an upturn in the prime market in the capital this autumn,...

The number of prime residential housing transactions has increased rapidly in the past two decades and even in the past five...

Since I started working with Zero Deposit for me the market leader in deposit replacement alternatives, the most common question I am...

Agents have expressed quiet optimism that the market may be over the worst as it continues to show resilience in the...

This is stating the obvious to estate agents but the government has revealed that homes near parks, gardens, playing fields and...

The latest figures from Halifax show annual house price growth has dipped to a six-year low. Average property price growth in...

House price growth in the UK 'ground to a halt' last month, according to the latest Nationwide figures. The lender's house price...

The annual number of property transactions edged down slightly according to the figures released applying to August. However, buyers and sellers email...

The annual rate of growth of UK house prices has slowed to its lowest level since September 2012. Official government data from...

A study from Santander Mortgages has blown the cover on first time buyers, suggesting they know almost nothing and research very...

It’s been revealed this morning that the organisation behind a new clean-air website is encouraging buyers to seek reductions of as...

The new housing minister has admitted that her party has tried to “put a lid” on house price rises and has...

The typical estate agency fee paid by a seller has actually fallen one per cent in the past year according to...

First time buyers will constitute the largest single group of purchasers in 2019, despite the apparent difficulties of deposits and securing...

A housing market monitor that for some months has been pessimistic about London and the rest of the England and Wales...

No less than 56 per cent of properties across the UK are in areas that are affordable for first time buyers...

Pressure continued to mount on the government to clearly address the issue of stamp duty as a leading business consultancy suggested...

I think I speak for most people when I say that we are not currently where we thought we would be...

In the run up to his appointment as Prime Minister, Boris Johnson suggested that he might cut Stamp Duty Land Tax...

New figures produced by Zoopla’s research team shows for the first time the huge scale of regional variations in terms of...

The international estate agency Engel & Volkers is closing its single prime central London office - despite past claims that sales...

The property website Home has identified the four regions of the UK where it says the current market slowdown is at...

Average house prices in the UK increased by a mere 0.9 per cent in the year to June - the lowest...

Prime Central London’s average prices remain 20 per cent below their 2014 peak according to high end estate agency Strutt &...

Some homes in the UK are now worth 44 per cent less than they were a decade ago, claims the estate...

A new house price index that in June predicted big house price rises over the summer has now repeated its claim,...

One of the largest surveys of housing concerns amongst consumers suggests that agents fees - once a major issue - is...

House prices fell unexpectedly for the second month in a row in July according to the Halifax - but the mortgage...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Lino Goncalves – Area Sales Manager What is Lets bid property...

Rising house prices and the gender pay gap means that there is no English region where a single woman on median...

There may be signs that the gloomy housing market which has hit Prime Central London for some years may finally be...

The average house price growth across southern cities is running at the lowest level recorded since January 2012, according to Zoopla.  Prices...

British homes have increased in value by an average of £11 per day since the beginning of the year, but with...

We now have a new Leader of the Conservative Party and, rather more importantly, a new Prime Minister. That individual is Boris...

London and South East England are to see house price falls this year and only “very modest” growth in 2020 -...

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 UK residential mortgages approved with a term of 40-years or more jumped over 20-fold in 2018. London estate agency...

Agents have put a brave face on official government figures which have shown a shock fall in London house prices and...

Online estate agency Yopa is warning of price falls ahead in London and south east England - although price rises elsewhere...

Home, the property platform that often produces downbeat market forecasts, now says there are signs of improvement in London at least.  It...

Conservative leadership frontrunner Boris Johnson's plans to reverse stamp duty changes could help to kickstart the prime property market, according to...

Property sellers have been urged to list their properties now in the hope of selling their properties for maximum value within...

Theresa May arrived in Downing Street some three years ago - but her premiership has not been a smooth ride. As she...

With this summer marking forty years since Margaret Thatcher came to power, her legacy continues to invoke both celebration and consternation...

The income required for first time buyers to purchase in the three most expensive UK cities has fallen slightly according to...

London Central Portfolio, a respected property consultancy that has been pessimistic about the market in prime areas of the capital, says...

The number of residential property transactions in May was a thumping 11.3 per cent lower than the same month last year,...

Too many sellers are wedded to the idea that prices will rise after a Brexit deal is resolved, says one of the...

Research from OnTheMarket shows that 40 per cent of London homes costing around £1m have only two bedrooms or fewer. And only...

Over a third of homes across Southern England are at risk of suffering price falls as the housing market slowdown extends...

The National Audit Office says many users of Help To Buy would have been able to purchase a home anyway, without...

New research by comparison website GoCompare suggests almost a million house sales have been lost because of Brexit.  The study claims that...

Over 80 per cent of home owners say they expect house prices to rise in their area before the end of...

An analysis of transactions agreed this spring suggests there will be a surge in prices which will ultimately be reflected later...

Average UK house prices rose 0.5 per cent in May according to the latest Halifax house price index as the long...

The latest house price index shows very little happening in the market, with analysts expecting little significant movement until Brexit is...

The gap between average asking prices and average selling prices has increased in recent months according to Zoopla. Its latest study of...

Ultra slow broadband speeds could knock a quarter off the value of a property according to research undertaken by online agency...