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There’s more bad news for online estate agencies this morning as a survey reveals that they have only a seven per cent...

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

Conservative Party leadership contender Boris Johnson has expressed an interest in switching the stamp duty burden from buyers to sellers. Until now Johnson’s comments on...

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

The price of property coming to market fell by 0.2 per cent or an average of £656 in the past month...

It’s now more than three years since the EU referendum result in June 2016, and we’re still no clearer on when...

A more stable trend is now emerging in the UK housing market, according to the latest results for the RICS UK...

Specialist providers catering for the over-50s has welcomed a move by high-end estate agency Knight Frank to move into equity release. Commenting...

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

With somewhere in the region of 1.2 million property sales transactions being completed each year, and 16,500 estate agents actively vying...

The summer market momentum building thanks to warmer weather and reduced Brexit uncertainty took a hit in June, according to new...

New figures released show High Street estate agents taking an increasingly large market share as online operators continue to crumble. According to the...

It’s unlikely to bring out the violins but the number of properties sold for £1m or more in Britain rose only...

The latest report commissioned by the Labour party to resolve the UK’s housing problems would crash the housing market rather than...

The number of cash buyers in London has recently plummeted by very nearly a fifth - and every other part of...

New figures from the National Association of Estate Agents suggest that supply is at last creeping back up to seasonal norms...

Britain lives in fundamentalist black-and-white times - all the more surprising when the country's most divisive point of contention sits on...

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

The latest asking prices data from Rightmove suggests that the national housing market is being dragged down by poor performance in...

It's becoming increasingly difficult to sell a property, especially in those regions undergoing a price correction. That’s the verdict from Home, a...

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

Sellers are back with a vengeance according to figures from online agency HouseSimple.  It claims the Brexit date extension has given sellers...

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...

Hello and here’s another PJT to start the week: we hope it’s your first port of call when you want to...

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

A portal specialising in prime and super-prime London property has turned perceptions of the capital’s housing market on their head -...

The estate agency industry is at a crossroads. A turbulent market, unstable political situation and a chronic lack of public confidence has...

A writer for the influential financial publication Money Week says investors should “steer clear” of Foxtons - at least for now. Sarah...

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

In the first Q&A Natter for a while, I catch up with Angelica Donati - CEO of Donati Immobiliare Group, PropTech...

The number of sales agreed per branch has increased for the first time this year, rising from an average of seven...

New research suggests it takes, on average, six months and 24 days to buy a home. The study, for PropTech virtual tours...

Homeowners will be able to extend properties more easily instead of moving home. In a surprise announcement this morning - less than...

While media attention has been on Theresa May, Brexit and the Tories, chatter in the agency industry has been about what...

An outspoken building society chief has taken the unusual step of calling for stamp duty to be replaced by capital gains...

House prices have remained roughly stagnant according to the latest figures produced by the Office for National Statistics and HM Land...

The number of residential property transactions across the UK fell very slightly last month according to new figures from HM Revenue...

Might the central London market gloom be broken by just a sliver of light? London Central Portfolio, an investment consultancy, has recently...

Rightmove’s latest house price statistics reveal that asking prices for newly-marketed property are on average 0.9 per cent higher than a...

Agents have reacted gloomily to the release of figures showing that the number of new mortgages offered to both movers and...

The average time on the market for a property is soaring across the UK thanks to Brexit uncertainty, according to the...

Consumer habits have changed massively over the past few years, and regardless of which market you operate in, being able to...

Some of the most expensive properties in London are selling typically between 13 and 21 per cent off the asking price. And...

The issue of ‘intergenerational fairness’ has been raised in recent weeks, some might say somewhat ironically by a House of Lords’...

1989 was a significant time for the property industry: it marked the beginning of the end of a period of unprecedented...

The breathing space offered by the October Brexit deadline and the receding prospect of a No Deal exit from the EU...

A new and comprehensive analysis of the housing market shows a jaw-dropping collapse in stamp duty revenue going to the Treasury...

There’s a silver lining to another set of stodgy housing market figures - at least one sector, for those buying their...

With the UK population spending longer in rental accommodation, due to the upfront expense of buying a home, their time and...

Data produced by the government showed that some 211,000 homes have been bought using the Help to Buy: Equity Loan. The scheme...

There may be rain outside but the housing market is now officially in a drought according to the National Association of...

Respected investment consultancy London Central Portfolio is warning that “sales go on falling and falling” across the capital, fuelled by Brexit...

A property listings platform has revealed what it describes as ‘the best places to sell a home’ in England and Wales. The...

It’s clear that some agents are not fans of Trading Standards officers, described in the comments sections of the trade press...

The trade body for ‘home stagers’ says that properties that have been dressed sell three times faster than those that have...

House prices in 20 UK cities analysed by Zoopla show an average 1.7 per cent increase over the 12 months to...

A new housing market survey paints a bleaker picture than that from Rightmove earlier this week - and instead speaks of...

An ex-housing minister and ex-Brexit secretary says he wants to radically change taxes on buy to let capital appreciation to help...

On the same day as one of the most optimistic Rightmove market snapshots of recent months, the latest mortgage monitor from...

The estate agency industry is in a staffing dilemma because of the continuing uncertainty over Brexit and its effect on the...

There’s been a spring bounce with prices of new-to-the market properties increasing an average of 1.1 per cent in the past...

It has been a long time coming, but the tenant fees ban, which forbids landlords and letting agents in England from...

No, this isn’t about Brexit. But as the saga of leaving the EU is likely to bring about the downfall of...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says house price sentiment improved by a small amount last month for the first time...

At the end of a week consisting of largely depressing market reports, new data from Knight Frank suggests that the bad...

As many as one transaction in three is now undertaken by a so-called Last Time Buyer - twice as many as...

House prices rose slightly more rapidly in the first three months of the year but growth is likely to remain subdued...

Savills, which in the past has been restrained in its critique of Brexit’s effect on the housing market, now says that...

A long running property magazine delivered to homes in prime areas of London has shut down with immediate effect. London Property had...

A mortgage firm claims that around a third of all those who have moved homes since 2016 have done so -...

Agents appear to be speaking with one voice in response to the latest house price index, saying that once Brexit is...

It’s no secret that the UK’s housing sector is in crisis. Headlines scream about the shortage of new-build homes. TV pundits...

Virtual tours are a compelling way of enhancing a property’s potential through online marketing, increased transparency and efficiency for agents, and...

Zoopla’s Hometrack index of 20 major UK cities shows that London property prices are starting to stabilise after a three year...

The National Association of Estate Agents says the number of house hunters registered per branch fell 15 per cent in February...

A quick-buy firm that buys homes at around 85 per cent of market value claims the industry is concealing how slow...

A large-scale survey by a consumer group has revealed that over half of home owners regard stamp duty as a growing...

Hello and welcome to the regular Monday edition of Property Jobs Today. Everyone here contacted us on press@estateagenttoday.co.uk to espresso the word;...

Over the last few years, there have a number of changes to the stamp duty land tax (SDLT) regime, which have...

There’s good news from the market - property transactions increased by 1.7 per cent between the start of this year and February,...

A newspaper claims that 1,228 estate agent branches closed on Britain’s High Streets last year. The Mirror’s business editor, Graham Hiscott, says the...

Average house prices in the UK increased by 1.7 per cent in the year to the end of January according to...

Zoopla says the number of its leads delivered to member agents in the period March 2018 to February 2019 was 36...

Prices have dropped 0.5 per cent in the past year according to LSL Property Services, the parent company of Your Move...

The spring market has got off to a subdued start according to Rightmove - and the portal says more buyers are...

The topic of introducing rent controls in London crops up time and time again in our industry. But it’s been hitting...

A survey by the Centre for Ageing Better recently showed that 72% of people want to see every new home built...

The latest RICS survey has one key message - 77 per cent of surveyors participating in the study say Brexit uncertainty...

Estate agents have responded cynically to the small-fry property sector announcements made by Chancellor Phillip Hammond in yesterday’s spring statement mini-Budget. Overshadowed...

Latest data from property platform Home suggests that instruction numbers across the UK as a whole are down four per cent...

Agency Express says that following a strong start to the year there’s a been a slowdown in the number of properties...

Countrywide’s senior executives have set out reasons why investors should put their money into the group, despite its troubled recent years. Yesterday...

Just when you thought it was all Brexit doom and gloom, a major index shows that house prices in February grew...

Countrywide’s executive chairman and group managing director have spoken to Estate Agent Today about the impact of Brexit on the company,...

It’s not just the high-end market for homes in the south east that’s hit by Brexit according to the Guild of...

OnTheMarket has stepped up its attack on Rightmove with a stridently-worded email to agents explaining how a drop in leads from...

Instagram (or, as the younger generation would have it, Insta) is, by any measure, massive.  Only launched in October 2010, it’s a...

More downbeat house price figures have prompted one leading estate agent to admit that the 2019 market had not taken off...

Data from NAEA Propertymark suggests there were 20 per cent fewer buyers in January this year than in the same month...

Connells Group says investment in PropTech will be the way to safeguard its almost-600 High Street branches - and it’s repeated...

No doubt we’ve all seen the recent Purplebricks news - shares have, according to the BBC, ‘plunged after it slashed its...

The chief executive and founder of a developer and property investment group says Purplebricks is “an excellent business” but its recent...

Both major portals have this morning revealed more evidence of a gently slowing housing market. The average time to sell a property...

The row over whether Help To Buy benefits house builders’ personal wealth more than it assists the housing market is continuing...

The first set of figures for the year from HMRC show that there were 0.8 per cent more residential property transactions...

In these tougher times, we recognise that helping agents win new inventory is the key to their businesses.  There were more than...

After several days of gloomy market news, here's something more optimistic - there were 370,000 new first time buyer mortgages completed in...

The number of movers has declined by around 50 per cent since the halcyon days of 2006, before the global financial...

A 36 per cent collapse in sales between November and January has created an “unprecedented” five year low in the number...

The latest Rightmove price index suggests that homes are at their most affordable level for some years thanks to wage growth...

Government figures show the UK’s annual house price growth now being down to 2.5 per cent - the lowest rate since...

The dust may have settled on the government’s recent announcement regarding housing and property complaints, but opinion is still split on...

Agents have suggested that the latest price figures from the Halifax may be masking increased activity in the market in recent...

The Property Ombudsman’s annual conference is to hear from the chair of the government’s ‘Property Agents Working Group’ - just days...

There’s been a big rise in the number of homes being listed for sale despite ongoing concerns over Brexit. That’s the news...

Strutt & Parker says the housing crisis - in the shape of too few homes and their stubbornly high prices -...

If former Chancellor George Osborne thought his 2014 stamp duty reform would produce more income for the government, it appears he...

House prices grew at the slowest annual rate for nearly six years in January, according to Nationwide, which says the market...

Brexit may be continuing to dominate the headlines - try to stifle that yawn - but there is still a housing...

A respected property investment consultancy is warning that the current premium put on the prices of new-build homes - around 15...

A review of the housing market at present, particularly when it comes to purchase transactions, might not necessarily feel overly positive.  The...

There were 102,330 residential property transactions in December - that’s up 3.6 per cent on the same month last year on...

The industry has long been critical of reports claiming house price movements are in some way uniform across the country, but...

Gloomy statements from some industry organisations have suggested the market is in trouble thanks to Brexit uncertainty but Rightmove says visits...

The share of the market taken by online agencies in the final quarter of 2018 slipped from last summer’s high of...

Another housing market snapshot is showing a pessimistic start to 2019 as the property platform Home reports that four regions of...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says the housing market outlook over the next three months is the worst for 20...

While even agents of the calibre of Savills struggle in today’s market - see the agency’s figures here - it’s a...

Kenny Bruce, one of the founders of sector-leading online agency Purplebricks, has sent his good wishes to Russell Quirk, who founded...

One of Britain’s foremost property consultancies has given a relatively upbeat prediction for the UK housing market over the next five...

There may be a cloud over the economy right now but growth of 2.7 per cent in house prices last year...

It’s the word on everyone’s lips: after two and a half years of debate, and months before that leading up to...

Almost half of all house sales in England and Wales fell through before completion in the final quarter of 2018, according...

The former boss of Emoov, the controversial Russell Quirk, has resuscitated his career as a public relations man and pro-Brexit commentator. Just...

The latest Bank of England mortgage figures suggest that approvals for home buyers are running at more than a fifth below...

A slew of property experts and commentators have put the blame on Brexit for a surprise drop in house price growth...

Yet another property raffle has had to be abandoned because it has been deemed illegal under Gambling Commission rules. A Yorkshire couple,...

A new analysis claims transaction numbers fell in 241 of 374 local authority areas of the UK last year. Analysis of Land...

It’s safe to say that the majority of agents will be glad to see the end of the past two years....

Rightmove has revealed which day was its busiest in 2018 in terms of page views. It says February 19 was the date,...

Phil Spencer is on the warpath against “constant tinkering” by government in housing matters - and instead, he wants the problems...

The government says it will be releasing details of its ideas to revamp redress systems concerning agents and new homes “in...

Ilchester Place in London’s Holland Park may be the most expensive residential street in Britain - but it’s cheaper than a year...

As 2018 draws to a close, it is fair to say that stretched affordability and uncertainty over the Brexit negotiations has...

A major UK city which previously appeared to have avoided Brexit-induced problems is now showing signs of being affected by political...

There’s nothing new about identifying 10 figures who have helped shape an industry over the past year, but that doesn’t mean...

House price inflation across the UK has slowed to a six-year low of 2.6 per cent thanks to falls in London...

One of the country’s most detailed housing market forecasts for 2019 suggests house prices will fall in London and nearby regions...

Londoners paid some £30 billion on homes elsewhere in the UK this year - the highest amount since 2007. A report from...

Uncertainty will be a key characteristic of the housing market for “the next few years” warns Countrywide - and not just...

House prices are flatlining with the rate of annual growth having fallen continually since August according to LSL Property Services, which...

If your New Year’s resolution is to move to a four bedroom home in London or the south of England, you...

Asking prices of homes coming to the market have fallen for the second month in a row - and Rightmove says...

Hard not to mention two major breaking news stories of recent days; one directly affecting the property market and one which...

Has the bell finally tolled for online agencies? Emoov’s collapse and an investor revolt over crowdfunding have left a large question...

Estate agency Strutt & Parker says that despite Brexit and the economic and political uncertainty accompanying it, house prices in the...

There’s been a four per cent rise in the number of estate agencies becoming insolvent according to a new report. In the...

One of the country’s most influential bodies says house price rises over 2019 will be limited to around two per cent...

House price rises are now the slowest they have been for six years according to the Halifax. Across the UK, property values...

The chief executive of online agency HouseSimple says “sellers need to be prepared and willing to lower their expectations” in the current...

Property analysts say ‘flippers’ - those who buy new homes and sell them quickly, hopefully for a profit - are losing...

An end-of-year analysis from the National Association of Estate Agents shows the state of the industry - and it confirms just...

House prices showed an unexpected pre-Christmas boost last last month but worries about Brexit remain foremost for buyers according to the...

One of the country’s top buying agents says he expects 2019 to be a much better year than 2018 as Brexit...

The global chief executive of Purplebricks, Michael Bruce, has warned mortgage lenders against offering so-called ‘super-sized’ home loans to borrowers.  Bruce is...

Data from the National Association of Estate Agents suggests that the number of registered buyers per member branch has slumped to...

Newspapers are reporting that Brexit’s impact on house prices - especially if there is No Deal - are likely to take...

Mainstream bank lending for house purchases grew by 3.6 per cent in October compared to the same month last year. However the...

A no-deal Brexit The biggest impact of a no-deal Brexit in relation to housing is a potential fall in house prices -...

The chief executive of Haart, Paul Smith, is warning that a No Deal exit from the EU could leave Britain with...

Shock figures out this morning show that a staggering £15.4 billion of annual interest is being paid by mortgage borrowers sitting...

A senior figure in the Knight Frank agency says those buyers who may be expecting Brexit-inspired bargains in the so-called ‘super...

The latest research from online estate agency Emoov shows at least one silver lining to the current Brexit-hit housing market -...

Purplebricks chief executive in Australia, Ryan Dinsdale, is quitting the firm after two and a half years. The influential Australian Financial Review...

Rightmove is this morning reporting that the asking price of property coming to market has fallen 1.7 per cent in the...

Conveyancing regularly adds unnecessary and costly delays to the home buying process and improvement could be far quicker than any efforts...

New research shows 35 per cent of deals fall through within three weeks of a seller receiving an offer and a...

New build property values are rising at a much greater rate than existing property values according to a study by DJ Alexander. The...

Price growth in the housing market is slow across the UK but London is again the most troubled region, seeing an...

The market is now over-supplied with homes to sell while at the same time demand is dipping and there are widespread...

A leading property consultancy has called out Manchester as the location which has seen the highest urban price growth of anywhere...

An online agency launched by a traditional high street agent to ward off competition says the online business model might have...

The latest Your Move house price data confirms what a wide range of indices have shown recently - slowing price growth and,...

Shocking figures from the Local Data Company, a consultancy monitoring the health of High Streets, show that 211 estate agency offices...

There was a drop in the number of new listings across the UK last month, suggesting that the usual autumn rush to...

Coutts Private Bank is the latest institution to express its concern over London’s housing market. The latest Courts London Prime Property Index...

A house in Mayfair that was sold for £19.175m in 2014 and put on the market this year at £25m has...

Rather like doctors, estate agents are present at critical points in our lives – moving in together, bidding farewell to a...

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

Purplebricks says it has seen year-on-year revenue growth of about 20 per cent despite what its chairman calls “a challenging UK...

A diverse cast-list has been announced for this year’s Relocation Agent Network national conference and exhibition to be staged in London...

On the face of it, this year’s Budget was not what you could describe as ‘housing heavy’ in terms of the...

Raffles are in the news as a way of ‘selling’ homes, and not just because an Irish club has won a...

Savills has issued its forecast for the housing market for the next five years, and while it highlights some bright spots...

As scary Halloweens go, yesterday was quite a shocker for Britain’s online estate agency sector - and not in a good...

It’s November so forecasts for next year are beginning to emerge from high-end agencies with research departments - and the first one...

An early sign of a possible recovery in the London housing market may be appearing, according to data consultancy Hometrack.  It’s just...

The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...

Stamp duty relief for first time buyers of full-priced houses and apartments is to be extended to first time buyers of...

It’s Budget day and the government is once again on the receiving end of a blast from one of the country’s...

An insolvency firm is warning that the real estate sector of the economy is showing a growing number of businesses defined...

Zoopla says 38 per cent of properties on sale have had their asking prices slashed. That’s a five per cent rise since...

Mortgage approvals fell again in September - this means that every month of 2018 so far has seen a drop against...

One of London’s most prominent buying agencies says post-Brexit the interest in buying in the capital will return - whether there...

Data from HM Revenue & Customs shows some 98,400 homes were sold across the UK in September - that’s slightly lower...

A London buying agent has called for a second referendum on Britain’s EU membership, suggesting that it would give more certainty...

Cash used to be king in the housing market but new figures released today show that in the first half of...

Few things anger the industry more than the effect of stamp duty and other costs on property transactions (well, maybe Purplebricks...

A service which describes itself as an alternative to part exchange has been launched to facilitate sales to ‘corporate property buyers’. It’s...

Figures from the mortgage lenders’ umbrella group, UK Finance, suggest the government desire to see more first time buyers and fewer...

A city’s housing market that suffered badly because of the collapse in North Sea oil prices is now likely to rebound...

Is Help To Buy going to remain in existence for much longer? Question marks over the scheme’s future are being raised through...

We’re sorry to be starting the week with more evidence of the housing market in the doldrums, but Rightmove’s latest index...

Hello and welcome to PJT, our weekly round up of key moves within the industry. Let us know what’s going on with...

Price cutting is becoming the new norm as the market adapts to reduced interest from buyers, according to property listings platform...

It’s time to sort the wheat from the chaff when it comes to overseas buyers of property. If you listen to Theresa...

Savills is warning that heightened uncertainty around Brexit negotiations will delay recovery in the prime central London housing market for up...

The latest market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests the number of properties on estate agents’ books is now nearing...

Knight Frank appears to have shrugged off the problems hitting the high end of the housing market, reporting a 14 per...

Foxtons is shutting its Park Lane office - the flagship of the agency in prime central London’s Mayfair. Estate Agent Today was...

One estate agent has described the latest price fall announced by the Halifax as “quite a retreat” for the housing market...

The latest assessment of supply across the housing market undertaken by online agency HouseSimple claims that the number of new properties...

One of London’s highest profile and most outspoken estate agent chiefs has scolded ‘Maybot’ Theresa May on the day she is to...

There’s more bad news for the long-troubled Prime Central London market. A new analysis shows that transaction volumes have plunged 11.6 per cent...

Estate agents say the continuing gentle slowdown reflected in the latest government house price figures will be the story of the...

The old cliche about statistics may be cruel but the government has perhaps left itself open to its use after announcing...

Rightmove is reporting a mini-boom as the autumn market gets into gear, with a surge in buyers and a one-month rise...

Bank of England governor Mark Carney says a no-deal Brexit exit could lead to a 35 per cent house price crash. The...

An estate agency claims that it’s gone from start-up to local market leader within 12 months - and now says it’s...

House prices fell further this month as the slowdown tightened its grip according to he latest data from property platform Home. It...

New data reveals that new property listings have fallen for three successive months - and that includes a huge 17.1 per...

A website claim by the London estate agency Moveli has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority after a complaint from...

The Property Ombudsman has urged the government to bring the new homes build sector under consumer redress. New builds are not currently...

The latest house price index from Nationwide shows a monthly fall of 0.5% in August, the largest decline recorded since July...

Speculation is growing that the Help to Buy scheme is set to be discontinued following a review by government ministers. Recent research...

Speculation is growing that Rightmove could drop out of the prestigious FTSE-100 within the next few days as the stock exchange...

A full 100 per cent of 20 to 24 year olds hope to buy their own home one day -  but...

A property management company is warning that some areas of the UK could be in line for a price correction this...

House prices in a quarter of the UK’s largest cities are struggling to recover to the level they were at during...

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

The number of property transactions in July fell 3.2 per cent on the same month last year according to seasonally adjusted...

The latest quarterly house price report published by property portal s1homes reveals that properties across Scotland sell on average at six...

Traditional estate agencies could be in for a stormy autumn and face being the next casualty of the high street shake-out...

Rightmove says the housing market is now into a ‘summer sale’ as newly-marketed property shows an average asking price fall of...

Were it not for climate change, I would be very close to predicting that the summer is close to being over,...

House prices are rising at their slowest rate for nearly five years as London suffers its largest decline in prices since...

A sales platform that monitors the market is warning that house price falls are likely to spread beyond London and the...

There’s been another call for the government to reform stamp duty - and this time the request is that the duty...

A PropTech firm has adopted the unusual position of claiming some agencies deliberately over-value properties in a bid to win instructions. Agent...

Rumours abound over the future of Countrywide, which lost further share value on Friday, closing very slightly down on the day...

Boris Johnson is calling for a cut to Britain’s “absurdly high” stamp duty. Writing in this morning’s Daily Telegraph - the same newspaper...

At first sight, to suggest this is a good time for an agency business to go for an IPO - that...

Research by Estate Agent Today reveals that there have been 12 different stamp duty regimes in the UK since the Millennium. What’s...

New property listings in July were down 6.0 per cent across the UK and down no less than 12.7 per cent...

The EY ITEM Club, regarded as one of the most influential groups of economists in the UK, says it’s still “dubious”...

One of London’s leading estate agents says Brexit has had at worst a neutral effect on the housing market and may...

The number of properties withdrawn from the market in the second quarter of this year was greater than the number of...

The redress scheme which formally quit the housing sector admits some estate agencies may have missed its deadline - and are thus...

The former Chancellor George Osborne - architect of drastic stamp duty reform - has come out fighting to defend the tax...

The business editor of right wing political weekly The Spectator says “what’s bad for Foxtons is on the whole likely to...

An analysis of HMRC stamp duty statistics for the second quarter of this year suggest that receipts are down 13.8 per...

Most estate agents have tried to dismiss the impact of the Bank of England’s base rate rise, which came following a...

A leading estate agent is warning that an interest rate increase today ould hurt the delicate balance of the housing market. The...

Data prepared for the BBC and shared with Estate Agent Today gives a snapshot of how estate agencies, lettings agencies and...

Connells Group - which now says it’s the country’s largest estate agency by market share and numbers of homes sold -...

The parent company of Your Move, Reeds Rains and other agency brands has succeeded where Foxtons yesterday did not - in...

The latest market snapshot released by the National Association of Estate Agents’ shows the challenges faced by the industry right now. The...

With the continued indecision surrounding Brexit and the final divorce settlement still months away, it seems property buyers are choosing to...

The latest transaction figures from HM Revenue and Customs make depressing reading - a three per cent drop between May and...

The mortgage industry may be throwing agents and the housing market something of a lifeline - it’s been revealed that 40...

At least one estate agency appears to be doing better than expected in the current challenging market - Hunters says sales...

You will notice that there is a new author for this regular column for Estate Agent Today. Last month I was...

Another day, another housing minister – at least that’s what it feels like! The resignation of the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson...

The creators of a website using market data to define postcodes as hosting a seller’s market or a buyer’s market have...

Only 24 hours after the Land registry released data showing a 20 per cent slump in housing transactions, new figures from...

Foxtons share price hit a new low yesterday, dropping to only 46p early in the afternoon: it eventually closed narrowly up...

Agents appear to be getting more pessimistic over the housing market as the latest government figures show prices still growing - but...

A report in the Financial Times lays bare the scale of the housing market downturn in central London - it suggests...

One of three schemes with government backing to offer redress for complaints about estate and letting agents has reignited the debate...

A new market snapshot shows how there’s now a two-tier market with homes in London taking substantially longer to sell than...

House prices in London are projected to fall in the short-term, down by two per cent by the end of 2018...

Asking prices are at a virtual standstill as the summer lull kicks in, according to the latest Rightmove index. New seller asking...

It may not be a good idea for a journalist to be personal about a politician, so I write about our...

There’s more gloomy reading for vendors from a new report by website Home, which says the volume of properties slashing their...

Auction House says the number of lots it sold in the first half of 2018 was some 3.8 per cent up...

A left-leaning think tank is urging the Bank of England to manipulate the housing market to ensure house prices don’t rise...

Industry groups have welcomed Kit Malthouse as housing minister - but make little effort to hide their frustrations, disappointment and disillusionment. Malthouse was announced...

One of the UK’s leading group of economic experts has repeated its warning that housing market is not going to see...

The Agency Express board company says its monitor of the sales market suggests that it’s in better shape now than it...