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Agency listings appear to be on the rise with major brands seeing a spike in valuations and instructions. Data from national agent Jackson-Stops...

Estate agents are in a unique position – we handle the meeting of people’s aspirations probably more than any other profession....

Agents have heralded the beginning of the house price slowdown. The latest Land Registry House Price Index yesterday showed values increased by...

Buyers and sellers should focus on the Bank of England’s actions rather than words when it comes to the housing market,...

The number of areas where the average house sale price exceeded £500,000 has surpassed 15% of Great Britain for the first...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently announced that he is considering extending Margaret Thatcher’s Right-to-Buy scheme, that gives council tenants the chance to...

The limited amount of property stock continues to push up house prices despite cost of living concerns, surveyors claim. The latest RICS...

Rising house prices have rendered the government’s Help to Buy ISA scheme useless, an analyst claims. The Help to Buy ISA saving...

The prime country market outside of London appears to be booming again in a rush to beat a slowdown in house...

The property market is bracing for the start of the slowdown in the rate of house price growth.  The Halifax House Price...

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

Buyers are being urged to act now to secure decent mortgage pricing as interest rates hit a 13-year high yesterday. The Bank...

The property supply shortage may be easing but Zoopla has warned it will still take some time for stock to be...

April looks set to go down as the busiest month for house sales of the year.  And with record numbers of properties predicted...

The property recruitment market seems to be moving as fast as house prices. Here are some of the latest moves that took...

Estate agency recruiter Josh Rayner has said job demand is at the highest level he can remember. Rayner, who runs property jobs...

Rising house prices boosted HMRC’s coffers during the previous tax year. Analysts suggest the booming housing market has meant HMRC has attracted...

Properties are selling faster than ever either at or above asking price, Rightmove claims. It comes as the portal revealed that the...

A property expert has predicted that mortgage applicants are likely to find it 'much harder' to be approved for loans as...

Homeowners are now earning almost as much from their property as they are from their salary after prices hit new highs. The...

The pandemic may have helped first-time buyers get on the property ladder sooner but are they paying too high a price? Research...

A leading business analyst says that house prices may appear to be defying gravity but they will soon return to normality...

One of the country’s leading estate agents has played down the significance of the latest house price index which at first...

It’s not an easy time for many renters (and homeowners). The cost of living is going up across the board for...

Typical stamp duty paid by property purchasers now is actually 84 per cent more than before the pandemic and the SDLT...

The JLL property consultancy is opening a branch handling sales and lettings in an area of London often by-passed by rival...

The industry has reacted to the Spring Statement by breathing a sigh of relief that nothing was likely to cause damage...

The latest government house price data has sparked a fear that the market may be heading towards an affordability crisis. The Office...

If you want to sex-up the Chancellor’s financial statement scheduled for lunchtime on Wednesday, you’d call it a Budget or a...

The Building Societies Association’s regular confidence tracker about the housing market shows rising pessimism over interest rates, the escalating cost of...

An estate agent has suggested on social media that people who buy a Greggs breakfast each day could save well over...

Despite the latest Halifax house price index showing a 10.8 per cent annual rise, a leading housing market analyst is warning...

The market boom goes on, for now at least. In February, house prices rose at their fastest since June 2007 according to...

Peta Milne, founder of Instagram growth and PR service Monimo, and a content writer at Choices Estate Agents, recently sat down...

The founder of fledgling portal Boomin says the latest Nationwide house price index findings demonstrate that there’s no sign yet of...

The Bank of England has issued a consultation on changing the affordability tests for large mortgages introduced in the wake of...

One of the country’s leading agencies says the recent and expected interest rate rises, and the surging inflation, will not blow...

The Chartered Institute of Housing, set to unveil its latest annual housing review next month, has indicated that to no one’s...

A financial analyst says there could be tough times ahead for the housing market, despite another upbeat set of figures regarding...

The government’s heavily publicised Levelling Up initiative could benefit the UK’s overall property market by approaching £96 billion, it’s been claimed. Some...

Selling a home - the period from listing to completion - is now back to its pre-pandemic levels of 16 weeks...

Stamp duty statistics show that the introduction of a two per cent surcharge on residential properties by overseas buyers, means HM...

The latest house price data from the Halifax shows another absolute record but with a sharply reduced monthly rise indicating a...

As debate rages over levelling up and a north/south property divide, in the first of a new monthly column, property expert...

The level of house price growth is at a 17 year high at 11.2 per cent according to the Nationwide. The annual...

Agents are losing tens of thousands of pounds each - in some cases even more - because of the volume of...

With the drastic changes enacted on the industry over the past two years thanks to the pandemic and political events such...

The Nationwide has released data listing the most and least affordable locations in Britain - background information for agents. Some entries are...

Government data shows the average UK house price increasing by 10 per cent on an annual basis in November. On a monthly...

House prices are up by as much as £100,000 on this time last year according to a mortgage company. Research by the...

A wealth tax on overseas owners of UK homes could raise £5 billion a year to help local people buy their...

New research shows an estimated £200 billion worth of property sat vacant across Britain’s housing market - up 2.1 per cent...

A prominent agency chief is warning that record house prices could lead to a housing bust if lending gets out of...

Mortgage lenders serving the housing market are set for a quieter 2022 after the unprecedented levels of activity seen in 2021,...

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

The number of locations where average house prices still stand at below £150,000 has shrunk by 28 per cent in recent...

A new survey suggests two thirds of current or potential home owners would accept the idea of a mortgage interest rate...

House prices in the UK have ended the year of yet another record high. The Nationwide says annual house price growth increased...

Areas with the biggest house price growth of 2021 have seen the value of homes rise by three times the national...

As we slide into Christmas, with the busiest levels of house buying since 2006 and activity still buoyant, I don’t think...

Halifax has revealed the UK’s most expensive streets in 2021 - and it’s no surprise that the very dearest examples are...

UK house prices have reached an all time high - but 2022 will see a more normalised housing market thanks to...

Rightmove has revealed the UK’s property hotspot of 2021 - where prices have risen 31 per cent in just a year. The...

A new report wants the government to consider slapping Capital Gains Tax on profits made from appreciating house values for all...

There’s been yet another month of declining property listings according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors market snapshot. Those responding...

Increasing numbers of commentators are forecasting that the Bank of England will not, after all, raise the base rate next week. It...

Annual house price growth hit 10.0 per cent last month - and is now tracking close to the level seen before...

House prices will rise next year says Rightmove - but it warns that tax hikes will curb price rises, particularly later in...

By the end of 2021, one in 16 homes will have changed hands, making it the busiest property market since 2007...

High house prices relative to average earnings make raising a deposit a big barrier for first time buyers, a new study...

The prospect of higher mortgage interest rates mean the housing market may get tougher soon despite another set of upbeat house...

It’s been a busy and arguably fruitful year for the property market, with an eager consumer base pushing forwards with their...

The market may be soaring in most of the country but there are still locations where significant numbers of properties sell...

There’s been a significant rise in buyer interest in the energy efficiency of properties - but so far it’s making no...

Strutt & Parker has revealed where it believes the housing market will see the largest demand in 2022, outside of London. The...

A leading agency predicts that prime central London house prices, so long in the doldrums throughout the pandemic, will bounce back...

Annual house price growth increased to 8.1 per cent in October according to the Halifax.  The average UK property price is now...

The head of research at a leading agency is warning that although the housing market remains buoyant, there may be macro-economic...

The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee has defied expectations by keeping base rate at its historic low of 0.1 per...

The average price of a house in the UK has hit £250,000 for the first time as the  market shows no...

Sir David Amess, murdered at a constituency surgery last month, may have an unexpected housing market legacy for his constituents. To commemorate...

Increasing house prices has encouraged HM Revenue and Customs to launch huge numbers of probes into Inheritance Tax payments. According to law...

Official forecasts suggest house prices will rise for five years at least, although at well below the rate of growth seen...

The Nested online agency, which recently revamped its business model to attract more self-employed agents, is expanding outside London for the...

The Budget has proven more generous than many expected - and with most property taxation left unchanged. Chancellor Rishi Sunak has made...

The housing market is on track to record its strongest year since 2007 for transactions and house price inflation says Zoopla.  The...

Business consultancy Hargreaves Lansdown is predicting house prices will still rise, even after a possible hike in interest rates later this year or...

House price inflation accelerated to 10.6 per cent in August, up from 8.5 per cent in July as buyers rushed to...

Over-65s saw their property wealth increase by £800 a month recently thanks to frenzied demand during the stamp duty holiday, an equity release...

Another market snapshot has identified low supply as the chief characteristic of the sales landscape this autumn. Landmark Information Group’s latest Property...

A part of the Connells Group is telling the new Housing Secretary that he and his government “must do more” to...

Rising inflation triggered by the supply chain crisis following Brexit and the pandemic may undermine recent house price gains according to...

The total value of homes in Britain has risen 20 per cent - that’s £1.6 trillion – in the past five...

Agent wages have been in the news this week, with boastful claims from a number of self-employed businesses about the sums...

The property industry and its many stakeholders are key participants in a global digital transformation that has been underway for quite...

A leading business consultancy is warning that supply chain shortages as a result of Brexit and the pandemic will push up...

House prices rose by the most in almost 15 years in September ahead of the end of the stamp duty holiday.  The...

An agency says individual agents operating as self-employed can earn up to £64,000 more per year than fully-employed counterparts. Nested says the average UK...

I recently took part in a webinar hosted by ICG (The Innovation Collaboration Group) – titled ‘New estate agency revenue streams...

Prices in prime central London have risen for the past two quarters, prompting a tentative claim that the market may be...

A leading market commentator is warning that transactions and prices will fall without the stimulus of the stamp duty holiday. Karen Noye,...

By the time I next write this column, we’ll be just days before the next Budget and Autumn Statement. So I’ll...

House prices rose by just 0.1 per cent in September - but they are still increasing by 10 per cent a...

A government report suggests that house prices are rising at three times the national rate in some rural and coastal areas...

Zoopla has calculated how much the average house price has risen every single day since the start of the pandemic in...

The Halifax claims that homes with the highest energy ratings are worth up to £40,000 more on average compared to less...

The first agency to give its market forecast for 2022 and beyond has suggested an upbeat performance next year.  Hamptons says the...

Affordability has always been a hot topic when it comes to the property market, and this is doubly true for first-time...

Boris Johnson's sudden and unexpectedly ruthless Cabinet reshuffle, which drew comparisons with Margaret Thatcher's 'purge of the wets' in 1981, ended...

First-time buyers are £25,000 worse off thanks to the stamp duty holiday, according to estate agent comparison site GetAgent. The website revealed...

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

Buyers are getting less square foot for their money when buying a property. Research by insurer Churchill has found that the average...

The property market is unlikely to enter a last-minute rush before the final stamp duty holiday ends in October, research claims. Analysis...

2020 gave rise to an exodus from the city as work from home became the mandated norm for large swaths of...

An estate agency says it’s analysed the housing market’s long term cycles and forecasts that house price rises will continue -...

The lifestyle changes triggered by the pandemic are likely to have a lasting effect on the housing market, pushing property prices permanently...

More buyers in prime central London are choosing larger properties - a function of the pandemic and the race for space. That’s...

A new forecasting model from a consumer website is predicting that house prices will rise by an average 30 per cent...

The first house price index for August suggests they rose 2.1 per cent in just a month - despite forecasts that the...

A new survey shows that there’s just a 1.7 per cent house price premium on homes with EPC ratings A or...

A broker claims the high profile return of the 95 per cent mortgage has actually made little impact on the housing...

The very strong housing market seen throughout this year is set to extend into 2022 as a stock shortage is forecast...

A sentiment survey amongst wealthy international buyers suggests the affluent sector of the western world is seeing similar house buying frenzy...

An estate agency comparison website has conducted research into how much it costs to simply keep an average home in a...

The Guardian has sharply criticised Chancellor Rishi Sunak for introducing and then extending the stamp duty holiday - because helping estate...

There are 19 new distinct £1m-plus property markets in the UK thanks to the soaring house prices of the past 15...

Politicians in one of the most exclusive property enclaves are complaining after average house prices have risen around £100,000 in just...

Like most aspects of life since the pandemic hit, the employment arena has been hit hard. But not just with uncertainty...

A housing expert says the psychology of a population coping with the pandemic lies behind the house moving frenzy of recent...

Average house prices increased by 13.2 per cent over the year to June - the highest annual growth rate since November...

A nationalist party has blasted a Labour government in one national region of the UK for its lack of intervention in...

The average size of homes in England has plummeted by over 10 per cent in the past four decades. Research from ElectricalDirect...

House prices in Wales - where the equivalent of the stamp duty holiday has fully ended - rose to a new...

The market slowdown continues with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors reporting that new buyer enquiries have reduced for the first...

Rightmove data released this morning shows that the average asking price of a detached house has risen literally 10 times the...

House prices in July rose after falling in June, according to the Halifax. They were 0.4 per cent higher than in June,...

There’s already plenty of talk about autumn - depressing huh? - with agents pondering how the housing market will respond to...

If you were hoping for a summer lull during August, think again. That’s the messages from Nicky Stevenson, managing director of Fine...

As the Tokyo Olympics draws to a close this weekend, the Nationwide Building Society has analysed long-term capital appreciation in locations regenerated...

Some 18 months on, we’re only just beginning to understand the impact of Covid-19 and how it’ll shape the future economy...

The stamp duty holiday came and went with much fanfare. For many buyers it represented a rare opportunity to make some...

Annual house price growth remains above 10 per cent despite a small monthly dip in July according to the Nationwide. A 0.5...

New research shows that the surge in house prices this year has taken homes in at least 25 areas of England...

One of the leading housing market analysts says some of the extreme house price rises seen this year could unwind during...

Demand for all types of houses, from terraced to detached, has more than doubled in the current housing market - creating...

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...