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Property sales slumped in April but are still above the pre-pandemic average, HMRC data shows. Provisional UK property transaction figures from the...

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

In retrospect, it was perhaps inevitable that the infamous dead cat would come into the debate over government housing targets and...

The issue of agency qualifications has finally been mentioned in the Houses of Parliament, almost three years since the landmark Regulation...

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

Independent Kent agent Miles & Barr took a musical approach to an office relocation last weekend. Miles & Barr, which has 12...

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

Propertymark has expressed hope that the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill will help boost much needed agency supply. The trade body has...

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...

After years of delays and upheaval, the Renters' Reform Bill finally appears to be back on the agenda, in an effort...

Agents have pledged to keep a close eye on planning reforms amid a proposed overhaul announced in the Queen’s Speech yesterday. Prince...

The Queen’s Speech has unveiled proposed overhauls on planning, consumer and economic crime laws that could all have an effect on...

The government’s legislative agenda will be set out this morning in the Queen’s Speech and there are plenty of potential laws that...

A lack of support to help people onto the property ladder has been highlighted as one factor for the Tory party’s...

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

What a difference two months and some local elections make. Cast your minds back to March 9 and the annual report of...

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

In this guest piece, Colum Smith, a property expert at law firm Taylor Rose MW, sets out why speedier transactions could...

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 market could be set for further upheaval when the Bank of England makes its latest interest rate decision today. The...

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

Elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly are due to be held on 5 May and agents are hoping that housing remains...

A third of first-time buyers have had to reduce their budgets as a result of recent interest rate hikes and the...

House price growth is expected to hit single digits by the end of the year as the cost of living crisis...

The property industry is fortunate in including many great people, doing great work across a range of businesses – from traditional agency...

You will hopefully have seen that the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act 2022 has now received its Royal Assent, meaning it...

Agents are being offered a free video that could help persuade homeowners who are unsure about listing their property. Industry trainer and...

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

The proportion of offers accepted at or above asking price has hit a record high, research shows. The latest Propertymark Housing Report,...

Record numbers of buyers are now purchasing homes chain-free research suggests. Analysis by Hamptons has found that an increase in the share...

Propertymark has given its backing to the ban on ground rents for new leasehold properties and has reminded agents of their...

It’s easy to overestimate the importance of something in one’s own industry or work, but there seems good reason for believing...

Although Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak’s Spring Statement did not include many announcements regarding housing, it did provide a good...

In this Q&A, I catch up with Jesper With-Fogstrup, chief executive officer of Smoove (formerly ULS Technology until a very recent...

Former Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick is believed to have become the first MP to take in Ukrainian refugees under the government’s...

Local residents are to be given the final say on changes to the name of their street under new government plans. The...

The stamp duty holiday last year has caused a surge of borrowers taking on mortgages with terms of more than 35...

All regions of the UK remain in a seller’s market as the traditional spring selling season begins for agents. Housing market consultancy...

A property analyst has warned against comparing the number of branches on Boomin to Rightmove. Challenger portal Boomin revealed its first batch...

The Ukraine conflict and cost of living crisis is likely to but a dent in the spring market for agents, an...

Agents are preparing their businesses for the cost of living crunch, with considerations on fuel use, heating and window display lighting. Much...

The lack of housing stock, rising inflation and rising mortgage rates could all lead to agents running out of stock in...

Purplebricks ended the trading day yesterday without being able to formally welcome its new chief executive but the markets appeared to...

Mystery surrounds the appointment of Purplebricks new chief executive following a stockmarket update this morning. Helena Marston was due to start as...

Agents and conveyancers have signed up to a new buyers’s and seller’s property information form that is described as having been...

Savills suggests that London is returning to its role as the dominant element in the high end housing market in the...

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...

Rightmove has created a league table to identify where new buyer competition is hottest across the UK housing market. Across the country...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned a property investment firm from using a letter claiming that it wanted to buy homes...

An estate agency which has already donated £50,000 to help the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, is now calling on other firms...

Demand in prime areas of London has fallen in the first quarter of the year, says estate agency Benham and Reeves. The...

Propertymark is urging restraint on the part of the Welsh Government as it moves to tackle what it sees as the...

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

In a new column, solicitor Colum Smith, an expert in combating fraud at Taylor Rose MW Solicitors, explains why those looking...

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

Hello and welcome to another Agents Do Charity, the weekly round up of fund-raising in our industry. Once more our thoughts are...

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

Earlier this month, the government’s energy regulator Ofgem announced a record 54 percent increase to the energy bill price cap. Combined...

House sales in February were around a fifth lower than the same month in 2021, according to HM Revenue and Customs...

The mainstream UK housing market is overvalued by up to 20 per cent and the London market overvalued by as much...

A Russian billionaire says he no longer owns many of his former properties in the UK, raising question marks over the...

A prominent industry supplier has produced startling statistics about the numbers of fall throughs in just the first 10 weeks or...

There is a danger that some agents forget to undertake basic activities after a lengthy period of a super-strong market. That’s the...

Buyers are already tightening their belts and choosing not to borrow as much as they could, but instead calculate what they...

The Skipton Building Society, which owns Connells estate agency, says the house-selling arm helped it reach a record profit pre-tax profit...

There’s been a remarkable 1.7 per cent increase in the average asking price of homes coming to the market in just...

The jury is still out on whether the Ukraine crisis will damage public confidence in the UK housing market. Rightmove’s property data...

Fifteen businesses which had bought freeh­olds from housing developer Countryside have now given formal undertakings to remove terms that cause ground...

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

Sales agreed per Propertymark member branch are now running at eight per month - the highest figure since last October according...

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

The Bank of England has confirmed that base rate is to rise again, for the third time in three months, to a...

Rising inflation may soon overtake house price growth even in the most buoyant areas of the UK, a property market analysis...

A shift is occurring in the rental market across the UK. The Government is planning to reform the sector with increased...

The LSL Property Services group - which is increasingly focussing activities in the mortgage and personal finance world - has issued...

Too many leaseholders will fall through the cracks of the government’s “piecemeal measures” to combat the cladding crisis.  That’s the view of...

An industry trade body wants the government to scrap the three per cent stamp duty surcharge on additional homes - and...

The government has now formally launched the Homes For Ukraine scheme, heavily leaked in recent days. The Secretary of State for Levelling...

Storm clouds continue to gather over the UK economy with growing inflation, another likely interest rate rise, and a warning from...

A rural body in Wales has hit out at the Welsh Government’s proposals for draconian new taxes on second homes.  Earlier this...

High end estate agency Savills says the imposition of sanctions on Russians, amid new measures obliging overseas buyers to be more...

Buying agency Stacks Property Search is reporting g rising buyer demand for wrecks requiring significant levels of renovation. The agency says that...

There’s been a marked reduction in mortgage product availability for a second consecutive month.  Independent mortgage market monitor Moneyfacts says there are...

A scheme to help people to get on the housing ladder in one of the UK’s most expensive local housing markets...

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...

Almost exactly a decade ago I wrote a blog on the back of a spate on mainstream news stories about prime...

The market’s likely to slow this year as the rising cost of living saps some buyer confidence, so agents are understandably...

Momentum is building up in support of the government’s probe into whether the London homes of oligarchs on the sanctions list...

A new housing market snapshot from Zoopla suggests that in the supply of homes coming to the market has triggered a...

An analyst is warning that the latest buoyant house price figures could be the last hurrah before a significant depression. The Nationwide’s...

The government is considering seizing British property owned by Russian oligarchs on the sanctions list without paying compensation. The Financial Times says Housing...

The Welsh Government has announced an increase to the maximum level of council tax premiums for second homes, as well as...

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

The hot topic of rent controls has remerged in recent weeks, with passionate voices on both sides of the argument speaking...

A leading surveyor in London says the likely introduction of a register of overseas property ownership and sanctions making it difficult...

Agents have told Housing Secretary Michael Gove that his Levelling Up agenda needs to include positive efforts to bring hundreds of...

Housing market analyst and PropTech entrepreneur Anthony Codling says that the next few weeks will determine whether Boomin is the portal...

London mayor Sadiq Khan says he supports the seizure of property assets connected to the allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin.  The...

One of the UK’s leading economic experts is to be the speaker at a Rightmove seminar this week, considering whether events...

Until a few years ago, you would have been forgiven for not knowing who or what Coadjute was. But the company, founded...

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...

An average home appreciated more in 2021 than its owner will have earned, according to Savills. The agency says that with annual...

Rightmove - which issues its annual figures to shareholders later this week - has released a bullish snapshot of the housing...

Analysts are gearing up for the full year figures to be revealed by Rightmove to its shareholders at the end of...

Timothy Douglas, Head of Policy and Campaigns at Propertymark, analyses the impact that the lack of available data is having on...

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

Only 6.8m homes in England now have mortgages, just 28 per cent of the overall market and about two per cent...

The shortage of stock in the current market is making it tough for High Street agents according to one of the...

Fall throughs remain a significant problem with transaction collapses costing buyers and sellers a wasted £880m in 2021 according to new...

A prominent analyst says he expects a U-turn on the “folly” of interest rate rises sooner rather than later - but...

An Australian PropTech platform called PEXA aims to break into the UK property industry this year, claiming to improve transaction processes. PEXA...

The government is threatening to deny planning consent to developers who refuse to pay towards the removal of unsafe cladding on...

A campaigning MP is to meet with a government minister to discuss controls and disincentives for second homes. Former Liberal Democrat MP...

An agency is warning some house hunters that they face a more competitive time this year following a “truly remarkable” change...

The number one portal is making a big marketing and research push to get reluctant owners to put up the For...

OnTheMarket says buyer and seller confidence has not been adversely affected by the first base rate rise in more than three...

I’m sure most readers would agree with me that cyber-security is vitally important for almost any business, particularly those businesses like...

With the new year in full swing, agents around the UK are likely to be making changes to the way they...

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

Average asking prices in Britain have risen by 53 per cent over the past 10 years according to Rightmove. They have risen...

There’s been a huge rise in the amount of money contributed to the housing market by first time buyers. They paid over...

After a long period of improvement in the level of product choice for borrowers, February has seen mortgage availability fall for the...

The estate agent known to his thousands of followers on Twitter as Mayfair Guru is predicting a ‘Roaring 2020s’ for the...

A new housing minister has been named this afternoon, to replace Chris Pincher. Stuart Andrew has been confirmed by Downing Street as...

Some regional property markets are perilously close to running out of any stock to sell. That’s the news from property data...

A leading estate agency figure has hit back at a lawyer’s claim that agents who use exclusivity agreements are “shysters”.  Last week...

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

The government’s call for a pack of property information to be made available upfront during the sales process has been welcomed...

A poll of Conservative voters shows strong majorities for higher taxes on second homes and empty properties, and tougher demands on...

Rightmove is running a series of webinars this month focused on legislation affecting agents. Tomorrow the former ARLA Propertymark supreme David Cox...

Housing ministers have lined up in recent days to support beleaguered Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Housing minister Chris Pincher, upon hearing of new...

Here’s the odd thing about interest rates - we all care about them, but they don’t directly affect that many people...

Boomin chief executive Michael Bruce wants government action to help save the housing market as the cost of living crisis grows.  Following...

Rightmove has revealed a major rise in visits to its site and app as the housing market boom shows no sign...

With a Bank of England base rate rise expected as soon as tomorrow, new figures from the government add weight to...

Research suggests there are substantial numbers of older Londoners using too-large properties but unable to downsize because of a lack of...

The Property Ombudsman should ban agents from using so-called exclusivity agreements on sales, claims a law firm.  Donal Blaney, founder of Griffin...

The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee is set to meet today to consider a possible rise in base rate -...

The average home sale in England and Wales in 2021 achieved 98 per cent of the asking price - slightly improved...

The government’s Levelling Up White Paper, released today, contains an unexpected and shock commitment - to create a new 'lite' version...

Data, when used to its full potential, holds the key to the property market’s growth. The reason for this is the...

The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper, revealed this morning includes a radical reshaping of the private rental sector. Section 21 eviction...

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

Results of a study of 2,000 adults suggest that almost one in five of them want to buy or invest in...

Hybrid agency EweMove - which has a mix of working-from-home agents and High Street branches - has had an outstanding year...

Low fee agents such as Purplebricks and some other online operators are generally not trusted by the public when selling their...

The total value of all UK homes broke the £8 trillion barrier in 2021 according to Savills - and London is...

Purplebricks says there’s an uncertain period ahead following a sharp loss of revenue in the first half of its trading year. In...

The supply of new properties coming to the market is up on this time last year in every single region of...

Our Agents Do Charity column each Friday does a fantastic job of highlighting the amazing charitable work of agents up and...

There’s been huge sale price inflation in the rarified high-end country estate market according to a buying agent. Jess Simpson, who runs...

High profile conveyancing supremo Rob Hailstone makes many announcements about government and industry housing policy - but he is less keen...

Research based on questioning almost 1,000 estate agents suggests that around 70 per cent are set to expand their business this...

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

Inflation could deal a double blow to the housing market, an agency expert warns. Last week it was revealed that UK inflation...

The market share of hybrid and online agents has fallen again, this time to 6.7 per cent. That figure - taken at...

Will he stay or will he go? You don’t need me to say who ‘he’ is - it’s the only story...

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...

Fears that the housing market may be seriously damaged by the worsening economy led to share price falls for Rightmove and others...

There’s been a surge in the number of sellers who resort to using quick buy firms, according to the sector’s trade...

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

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

If agents wonder why more older home owners don’t sell and downsize, it may be because they’re taking equity out of...

Agents finding it difficult to persuade potential vendors to come to the market this early in the year have new ammunition...

OnTheMarket chief executive Jason Tebb is warning that we might be near the top of the market. His portal’s latest sentiment index...

Rightmove’s first housing market report of 2022 starts when last year’s ended - on a high.  The average price of property coming...

As this is the first Natter back since the Christmas break, I should like to first wish all our readers a...

Owners of second homes who abuse a tax loophole by claiming their often-empty properties are holiday lets will be forced to...

Foxtons has this morning announced that it’s selling off the sales wing of a rival London agency that it bought just...

Soaring inflation means that house price growth in much of the country is being wiped out, according to a leading housing...

Estate Agent Today understands that the civil servant who has been at the heart of plans to reform the house buying...

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

Propertymark, the main industry trade body, has this evening updated its guidance on Covid safety for estate and letting agents in...

Strong house price growth since the pandemic began has boosted seller gains with the typical vendor who bought two decades ago...

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,...

A leading accountant is warning of a possible stamp duty change affecting residential property this year. HMRC is currently consulting on a...

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

Leaseholders in lower-rise blocks of flats will not have to take out loans to remove dangerous cladding under new government rules...

At the risk of mixing my metaphors, any mention of energy has become something of a blue touch paper in the...

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

The housing market boom of 2021 has given rise to an increasing number of £1m-plus deals.  Government statistics analysed by mortgage firm...

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

For the first time since before the global financial crisis of 2008, the number of first-time buyers is estimated to have...

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

The latest figures for mortgage approvals show demand as being relatively unchanged - a development welcomed by agents. House purchase mortgage approvals...

Planning delays, labour shortages and the surging price of building materials are combining to sharply cut the number of new homes...

Propertymark’s chief executive has rejected claims that his organisation’s housing market data inaccurately states the numbers of prospective buyers for each...

The surge in Omicron cases and possible future restrictions are set to hit the housing market in 2022 - and may...

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

As agents return to work after the Christmas break, here’s an insight into possible new instructions. A quarter of owners apparently think...

This year, Londoners purchased 112,780 homes outside the capital, the highest number since 2007. New data, from Connells-owned agency Hamptons, shows that...

A housing market forecast based on conveyancing instructions says average prices will dip this month. Average prices will fall by 1.1 per...

A probe by the Competition and Markets Authority has led housebuilder Taylor Wimpey to make changes for the benefit of leaseholders.  Taylor...

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

A property finance expert is telling buyers to sit on their hands and not commit to purchases - as he believes...

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

The last Propertymark housing market snapshot for 2021, based on date from the end of November, finds that there is an...

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

A company linked to the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower is being excluded from the government’s Help to Buy scheme, pending the outcome...

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

As 2021 draws to a swift close, there is much speculation about what 2022 will have to offer. Despite the emergence of...

The Bank of England has raised interest rates for the first time in more than three years, in response to surging...

Rightmove has identified the UK’s strongest sellers’ market - and it’s in Easton, Bristol. Four of the top 10 sellers’ markets are...

Demand will continue to outpace supply well into next year.  That’s the view of the Reallymoving House Price Forecast, based on an...

Lenders’ umbrella group UK Finance has given its housing and mortgage market forecasts for 2022 and 2023 together, plus a year-end report for 2021. It estimates...

Data out today from Rightmove shows the predictable seasonal effect of around 0.7 per cent knocked off the typical asking price. The...

As the UK housing market faces an ongoing boom, there’s one profession that’s certainly rushed off its feet — estate agents....

You’ve heard me bang on about the wonder of reservation agreements for some time now, but it’s definitely the case that...

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...

Rightmove is to try to help potential buyers get their finances in order much earlier in the transaction process, to reduce...

A survey of sellers shows that 61 per cent of them visit the agent’s website before instructing them. According to respondents the...

A leading agency has admitted that the uncertainty over the effects of the Omicron Covid variant has thrown forecasts for the...

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

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

Tomorrow sees the Relocation Agent Network’s first in-person conference since 2019.   The event, at the Metropole Hilton in Birmingham, will focus...

Propertymark has criticised the government over poor house building figures. New figures from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities show...

Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer has promoted housing minister Lucy Powell to a more senior position after just six months. This leaves...

The chief executive of Propertymark says the number of homes on sale has fallen to an average of just 21 per branch. “Figures from...

The price of new build homes could soar if developers are expected to pay for additional energy efficiency measures not necessarily...

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

The perception of the housing market, especially in London, being awash with ‘dirty’ money is a problem that needs to be...

Let’s begin with total transparency from this author: I believe there’s a place for Build To Rent in the wider portfolio...

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

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

A pilot scheme has been announced to test ways of limiting second home ownership and reducing the impact additional properties have...

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

Rightmove claims to have found the happiest place in the UK - and it’s in Northumberland. The market town of Hexham has...

Figures from the Building Societies Association show continued momentum in the housing market, with gross lending by building societies up 22...

The equity release market is on course for a record year after customers took out £1.049 billion in property wealth in...

The government should reset planning policy and scrap proposals for thousands of new homes in high-risk flood areas. The think-tank Localis, in...

The Treasury has enjoyed a record period for stamp duty income. In England from April to October this year - so almost entirely...

The Relocation Agent Network has unveiled its speakers for its national conference and exhibition early next month. Called RAN Live! 2021 it...

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 average asking price across the UK is now £43,000 higher than it was in late 2019 according to data and...

Hello and welcome to a new week - and even as Christmas approaches there remains plenty to report about people moving...

Boomin has launched a new tool - Chainmaker - which it claims cuts fall throughs and introduces agents to ‘hot buyers’. The software...

Savills has set out its annual house price forecast for prime London - and after years of price falls, the prediction...

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

A comparison website dealing with estate agency charges says commission varies hugely across 20 major cities of the UK.  GetAgent looked at...

OnTheMarket says it delivered a record number of instant valuation enquiries last month, beating its previous best period in June of...

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

Rightmove has revealed the strongest markets for sellers and buyers this autumn.  Grays in Essex has topped the list of the strongest...

A leading estate agency says the government may have to use stamp duty and council tax as incentives to persuade owners...

Knight Frank says it’s already being contacted by prospective vendors wanting their homes to be listed for sale next spring. James Cleland,...

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

A stamp duty surcharge which has been labelled ‘forgotten’ because of its low profile has nonetheless bagged £45m for HM Treasury in...

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...

A few weeks ago the ESTAS took place at the Grosvenor House hotel in London - the first chance for many...

In the Autumn Budget on Wednesday 27 October, very few impending tax hikes were revealed by the Chancellor Rishi Sunak –...

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

Purplebricks' share price tumbled a remarkable 34 per cent this morning when trading opened on the London Stock Exchange. The price crashed...

Analysts suggest there is a 50:50 chance of a base rate rise being announced by the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy...

There’s been a very low expression of interest in Commonhold, despite the government pushing the new tenure as an alternative to...

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

Despite the roaring housing market, a new report says that no fewer than 70,500 real estate and property businesses are showing...

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

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

We’ve probably all learned to be a little less cynical about politicians in recent weeks, given the tragic events. We perhaps...

At first glance, Rishi Sunak’s Budget speech earlier this week didn’t offer much from a property perspective. But digging down a little...

The proportion of properties selling above asking price has dipped according to Propertymark - a likely sign the market is softening at...

Agents trade body Propertymark has given its verdict on yesterday’s Budget with this statement - “Some good news but it leaves...

There’s been some cynicism amongst the industry in response to new homes promises made by Chancellor Rishi Sunak in yesterday’s Budget. Sunak...

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...

An agent is warning the government it must manage Covid and not simply react ‘too late and too little’. He’s suggesting some...

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

The government has given more details of its bid to change the energy efficiency of existing and new homes to meet...

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

Rightmove is warning that it’s “highly likely” interest rates will rise in the near future. The portal believes this now seems inevitable...

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

There’s a rising number of over-65s but a short supply of suitable affordable properties for them, Propertymark has told government. The agents’...

Leading politicians operating in the housing industry have paid tribute to murdered backbencher Sir David Amess. Housing Secretary Michael Gove tweeted: “David...

In this thought leadership article, Videosign CEO Steven Tallant looks at electronic signatures and conveyancing and whether the time is nigh for the...

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...

One of the country’s leading buying agents has set out what’s hot and what’s not in London’s housing market as it...

Some two thirds of agents and other property professionals who have worked alone have suffered an incident endangering their safety, according to...

The  housing market is not immune from the supply shortage hitting the economy, according to Knight Frank - with London the...

There were 13 new buyers for every property listed for sale in the UK in September according to Knight Frank.  Over the...

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

Former Housing Secretary James Brokenshire has died at the age of 53. The Conservative ex-Cabinet minister, who was diagnosed with lung cancer...