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There’s been another increase in the number of mortgage products available to buyers and landlords - a sign of all aspects...

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

The number of offers agreed on homes priced below £1m since mid-May is a healthy 41 per cent higher than the...

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

Agents have spoken out angrily against any uncertainty in the market caused by government leaks about future stamp duty changes. In recent...

One of the possible stamp duty options floated by Chancellor Rishi Sunak could mean 89 per cent of sales would be...

They are the names we hear about often, pushing for this or seeking clarifications on that. They are the representatives of...

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

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

With the UK housing market now largely open - there are still restrictions in some areas on home moves to occupied properties...

A prominent tax specialist has suggested that stamp duty cuts would not help improve the housing market, despite many agents suggesting...

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

Buyer demand for new-build property has bounced back 66 per cent in the six weeks since the resumption of the housing...

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

Over 50 jobs have been lost as a result of a Midlands regional estate agency falling into administration. The Shropshire Star reports...

Mortgage product choices for buyers have increased to the highest level in three months according to new data. PropTech platform Mortgage Brain...

Buyer registrations and sales enquiries are reportedly back to pre-Covid levels. Completions, however, are lagging behind. This is probably down to...

Countrywide has released details of its trading performance, including the knock its income has received as a result of the housing...

Few figures for the housing market can be truly representative in the current circumstances but NAEA Propertymark’s latest snapshot is showing...

The Say No To Rightmove campaign says the portal has merely kicked the fees can down the road, deferring a long-term...

The post-lockdown surge in housing market activity has continued into its sixth week, as at least one agency’s indicators hit record...

As we adjust to a life post-Covid-19, letting agents, landlords, and tenants are thinking - ways to speed up the process...

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

There was a big spike in the use of live chat across all agency sectors during lockdown - no doubt spurred...

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

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

Video tours, heralded as the next big thing just a few weeks ago, are being abandoned by buyers and dismissed as...

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

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I'm Darren Loftus and it says Commercial Director on...

A market commentator says it will take up to three months before the housing market stabilises into the ‘new normal’ after...

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

Online sector veterans Russell Quirk and Kenny Bruce have used social media to call for a temporary scrapping of all stamp...

An estate agency with a reputation for PropTech innovation says it now live-streams all instructions in a bid to operate more...

The devolved government in Wales - where the housing market is still officially closed - has urged agents to report rivals...

Data released this morning by Rightmove suggests that agents in England have agreed no fewer than 40,000 sales since the market...

Housing minister Chris Pincher has now been named in media investigations into allegations concerning his political boss, Robert Jenrick, and the...

OnTheMarket says it still aims to be the number one portal, but the acting chief executive has revealed a far more...

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

Today is one month since the government lifted restrictions on agents and the housing market - and since that time the...

Zoopla has upped the stakes in the war between rival websites with two major claims which implicitly challenge both Rightmove and...

OnTheMarket says in a trading statement this morning that as of May 31 only some 9,000 branches were on paying contracts...

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

The managing director of a Winkworth branch is threatening to report a senior member of a nearby Countrywide office to the...

There’s been a strong rebound in demand for homes and an “unprecedented” bounce in new sales agreed according to Zoopla. The portal...

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

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

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

The Guild of Property Professionals says “a remarkable number” of agencies has joined it during the lockdown. Some 27 agencies signed up...

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

In a wide-ranging video interview for his Move iQ service, Phil Spencer speaks to former agent and founder of Viewber, Ed...

The Property Franchise Group - parent company of six agency brands including EweMove and Martin & Co - says all of...

Agents’ declining income - the result of the lockdown and the collapse in transaction volumes - has been revealed for the...

Rightmove has contacted all member agents saying it has enhanced its automated online viewing feature first introduced in April. As part of...

The Covid-19 crisis has forced the UK property industry to rethink the way it operates. With little warning, the pandemic disrupted the...

A taxation institute is urging the government to delay Capital Gains Tax changes relating to housing transactions until the virus crisis...

Family houses are under-occupied and only incentives to downsize can help improve the housing market - with a stamp duty cut...

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

A senior property lawyer is to set up a franchise agency which he describes as embracing the best of the High...

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

The combined market share of agencies in the Guild of Property Professionals is now higher even than it was at the...

There has been a huge surge in demand in some regions of the UK according to new data from Rightmove.  The portal...

Restrictions introduced a decade ago after the financial crisis are holding back many first time buyers from purchasing a home. That’s the...

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

Rightmove has enjoyed over six million visits to its portal in one day, for the first time ever. Three days ago -...

Last week was Mental Health Awareness Week, and there is a great deal of positive things to be said about a...

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

The government is jeopardising the success of the housing market relaunch through the inflexibility of the furlough scheme, claims a group...

Research from Zoopla suggests that demand from buyers across England surged 88 per cent shortly after the housing market reopened -...

A specialist legal advisory service is urging conveyancers to use the reopening of the housing market as an opportunity to increase...

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

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

Rightmove says it enjoyed 5.3m visits on Tuesday of this week - up four per cent on the comparable day of...

It’s a Bank Holiday weekend and if you’re taking time off we hope you and your families enjoy a well-earned break. We’ll...

It’s another Bank Holiday weekend and the first since lockdown was eased and the housing market returns - so perhaps a...

An analysis of seven countries which underwent different forms of lockdown during the pandemic suggests the British and Italian housing markets...

A survey of agents’ attitudes which two weeks ago showed a big majority of agents wanting to work as self employed...

The number of full property details viewed on Rightmove - a key indicator of market health - is already stronger than...

Countrywide has refuted claims that none of its branches have so far re-opened for business but has issued an explanation why...

A daily monitor of mortgage market activity has reported “significant volumes” of business across the sector, even over the weekend. Mortgage technology...

Rightmove has suggested there may be massive changes underway in buyers’ priorities as the housing market resumes and the country begins...

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

As you know, having professional images of your properties is the best (only?) way to get people wanting to step through...

There’s been a very significant increase in the number of listings carrying virtual viewings, accelerating during the period of the Coronavirus crisis and...

Over the past few weeks, estate agents have been forced to close high street branches and adapt to working from home,...

A large majority of property professionals polled by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors say a stamp duty holiday would be...

There’s been a huge surge of public interest in the housing market again, just hours after the industry lockdown came to...

It’s back to work today for England’s estate agents and the housing market - but it’s the start of a new...

A respected estate agency has revised downwards its price forecast for the housing market for the second time since the start...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick is expected to announce tomorrow that the housing market in England can resume with estate and letting...

There’s been a surge in buyers wanting to view properties - but agents must sit on their hands and wait for...

There’s been an explosion of anger about Rightmove’s pledge to undertake its biggest-ever marketing campaign - while at the same time...

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

Three of the highest profile industry suppliers and house moving services have given government a four-step plan to restart the housing...

There could be a wave of legal disputes as off-plan buyers seek to get out of purchase deals after the lockdown...

Countrywide has added its weight to the campaign asking the government to allow agents to get back to work - and...

A study by Rightmove suggests that 94 per cent of buyers and sellers currently in the market are determined to go...

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

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

NAEA Propertymark has today launched a campaign for the government to introduce what it calls a Property Sector Support Package. This would...

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

The government of one part of the British Isles has produced guidelines for removal firms. Until now, house moving in an era...

An online auction platform is offering agents full legal packs with no upfront cost in a bid to keep the housing...

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

A property law firm is the latest to back a call for a stamp duty holiday to help kick-start the housing...

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

Rightmove and Knight Frank are today both calling for a series of government incentives to kick-start the market after the Coronavirus...

This month saw the introduction of the final stages of the Section 24 tax changes, first introduced in April 2017. Whereas buy-to-let...

A high number of agents across the country have been furloughed in recent weeks and are now at risk of losing...

Allsop has staged its first principal residential auction entirely online, and has raised £28m. Some 76 per cent of all lots offered...

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

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

Just a month ago our homes felt, for many of us, to be a mere pitstop on a centrifuge of work,...

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

A leading estate agency says it has observed that some banks previously opposed to accepting remote and desktop valuations have started...

One of the first analyses of portal listings since the start of the Coronavirus crisis shows that new listings have plummeted...

Zoopla has confirmed that it’s to extend its ‘three months free’ plan to five months of free portal usage for agents...

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

What is thought to be the first survey of sellers since the start of the Coronavirus outbreak suggests that they anticipate...

I won't be the first or last person to say that society and the property industry in which we operate is...

The NAEA and ARLA have jointly written to the government asking it to include agents’ commission in its plans to help those financially...

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

It seems an eternity ago but the housing market in February - that’s only last month - was in rude health...

One of London’s most experienced estate agents says there has been a very significant surge in foreclosure sales in part of...

Two property portals insist they’re going to launch this spring despite the Coronavirus chaos effectively closing down much of the housing...

It’s been reported that the government is talking with banks and building societies about putting the housing market ‘on ice’ during the...

An international comparison of how major portals have discounted their charges to agents show Rightmove and Zoopla making “deeper and longer...

The Law Society says there is still some possibility that those home movers scheduled to complete in the near future might...

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

New research of the buying habits of first-time buyers in the UK we’ve undertaken here at reallymoving.com shows that Shared Ownership...

It’s far too early for authoritative figures on how devastating the Coronavirus lockdown has been on estate agents but there is...

The extraordinary past week of anger over portals’ fees plus early-warning statements like that from Foxtons indicate the anxiety in the...

The two major portals have unveiled their discounts and deals for agents facing a dramatic loss of business because of the...

The current market crisis caused by Coronavirus should present OnTheMarket with an opportunity to pause its existing strategy, talk to agents...

Another index shows how strong the market was in the build-up to the escalation in Coronavirus across the country.  The website Home...

Estate Agent Today is launching a daily service to help agents facing the Coronavirus threat. This is where you’ll find news, advice...

Rightmove’s latest market snapshot, released this morning, appears starkly at odds with the situation described by some agents in recent days. “The...

The three leading portals have rejected an appeal to give the industry a payment holiday to help firms through the Coronavirus...

Sales in February grew, for the third consecutive month, according to the latest market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered...

There will be a two per cent stamp duty surcharge on the purchase of UK investment properties by non-resident overseas buyers...

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

There has been broad support and relief amongst property industry players following announcements from several lenders that they would grant mortgage...

Sellers in the past 12 months accepted an average of 96 per cent of their asking price according to new research. Comparison...

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

It may be that we’re facing another year - make that yet another year - of disruption in the housing market. Coronavirus...

A survey shows over a sixth of buyers and sellers have already been deterred because of Coronavirus - and that figure...

There’s been a surge in UK enquiries to global free-to-list portal Residential People, and a comparable rise in interest from Chinese...

A second prominent agent has broken cover to say Coronavirus is slowing the market. Jess Simpson - an ex-Savills and ex-Strutt and...

Mortgage lenders approved the highest number of loans for house purchase in nearly four years in January, according to Bank of...

Purplebricks banked more than £18m in fees for thousands of homes it did not sell last year according to this morning’s...

Agents and senior industry figures fear Coronavirus may derail the strong start to the  2020 housing market. One of the country’s leading...

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

New figures from the National Association of Estate Agents show a big surge in demand despite the winter weather since the...

There’s been a significant rise in the number of transactions recorded in January - another sign of an improving housing market...

It’s been revealed that the branch closure programme by Your Move and Reeds Rains last year resulted in 460 lost jobs...

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

A new study suggests cash buyers secure lower sale prices than mortgaged purchasers - but is that really the case? The survey by...

The Financial Conduct Authority has issued a shock warning that mortgage borrowers who purchased properties through the Help To Buy scheme...

Rightmove has hit back at critics saying it’s no longer the force it used to be by reporting record traffic for...

The government will not announce a Mansion Tax at next month’s Budget. It was first reported by the Sunday Telegraph a week ago,...

The new housing minister is Christopher Pincher, who for the past decade has been Conservative MP for Tamworth having had a...

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

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

Agents have reacted angrily to the government contemplating introducing a Mansion Tax, and to the Housing Secretary not ruling out the...

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

The government has announced its First Homes scheme - a policy under which it says some new homes will see their...

One of the country’s leading housing market research experts has been poached from Knight Frank to join Zoopla. Gráinne Gilmore - a...

A new renovation start-up is operating across eight cities and claims to be able to transform properties - including ones that...

An analysis of the market share of online agents shows they are on 4.8 per cent - virtually unchanged from the...

A state-of-the-housing-market survey by Zoopla has led the portal to tell agents they have an opportunity to educate sellers about prices. “We...

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

Here’s a reminder of some news we broke last week - the hugely-respected Phil Spencer starts a regular column for the...

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

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

The average time it took a home to sell last year - measured from its first day listed on a portal...

The housing market appears to have ended 2019 on a positive note according to the National Association for Estate Agents. Its latest...

Suddenly Brexit Day is nearly here. It may have taken three and a half years from the Referendum but the UK will,...

The hugely-respected Phil Spencer is to write a regular column for the industry on Estate Agent Today under the auspices of...

Some buying agents have batted away the many signs of an improving housing market but one says the Boris Bounce is...

The number of residential transactions rose by 6.2 per cent in December - an unseasonal increase - according to data from...

There’s been an average asking price rise of 2.3 per cent in the past four weeks - the biggest ever increase...

As I look towards this year, I am sure that my thoughts are the same as many within the industry. I am...

A new analysis from a financial services trade body shows that gross mortgage lending is expected to rise significantly in the...

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

The  number of mortgage approvals rose 1.9 per cent in the final month of last year according to e.surv’s mortgage data...

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

A leading analyst says Purplebricks has clearly plateaued and will not reach its own target of a 10 per cent market...

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

Yesterday (January 10 2020), the Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (5AMLD) became law. It forms part of ongoing international efforts to tackle...

Almost exactly one quarter of house sales in England and Wales fell through prior to completion according to new figures. In the...

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

2020, the start of a new decade. Looking back, 2010 feels like such a long time ago, and looking forward to...

A veteran agent says the new government’s Budget, expected in the next few weeks, should not provide too much help to...

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

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

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

First time buyers reached an estimated 353,436 in 2019, the highest level since 2007. This is the fifth time in six years...

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

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

Countrywide’s share price yesterday went from little over 7p to 360p in one fell swoop. Is it the end of uncertainty about...

For the stock market generally, 2019 has been a positive year - but a few high profile agencies and associated companies...

A new year dawns - but will 2020 bring new change for the agency industry now that the market appears to...

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

The next 12 months will be an opportunity to reassess the housing market according to property consultancy JLL. It says price growth...

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

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

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

It’s one of the most crucial aspects of the homebuying and selling process but is too often bogged down by frustrating...

We’re nearing the end of another year in which many agents have faced challenging times and a frustrating market hit by...

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

The National Association of Estate Agents has given its analysis of 2019 - and it may have been a better year...

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

Rightmove predicts that the price of property coming to market in Britain will rise by two per cent next year. The portal...

Yes, believe it or not, we’ve nearly reached the end of a whole decade. And what an eventful decade it’s been. We’ve...

A high-profile investment advice service says as OnTheMarket nears two years listed on the stock market it “has yet to deliver...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Georgian mansion described as an oasis of seclusion and including a lake with 2,000 fish is being raffled by its...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Michelle O’Brien, mio Account Manager for Home Counties North What is...

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

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

Winkworth says the central London market has picked up from its lows of a year or more ago, but warns that...

Data from HM Revenue & Customs has revealed that residential property transactions have increased by 4.3 per cent year-on-year. In October 2019...

A shock prediction from a property management firm suggests that around 10 estate agencies have gone bust every week in Britain...

Rightmove is this morning reporting a huge fall in the number of new sellers coming to the market - a drop...

The listings website Home, which conducts a monthly survey of asking prices and wider market monitors, is reporting a show 10...

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

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

The latest market snapshot of prime central London suggests that homes there are now 15.2 per cent cheaper than five years...

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

It’s not-so-unlucky 13 for national property consultancy Bruton Knowles which has opened its 13th office in the country. The new office is...

A stridently anti-Labour estate agent has launched a stinging attack on the Opposition’s policies and has issued a stark warning of...

Agents and property industry figures have given a clear message to the government six weeks ahead of the General Election -...

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

Agents have interpreted the latest house price figures as evidence that the market is in limbo waiting for the Brexit -...

A former 10 Downing Street adviser says stamp duty on house sales should be scrapped or at least slashed in order...

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

The number of new mortgages approved by banks fell to a six-month low in September - but the annual figure shows...

It was in this very column, back in July, when I wrote about how the British government was starting to take...

Young homebuyers want tech-savvy, astute and attentive estate agents who are able to handle their complex requirements via a range of...

There’s been an encouraging increase in property transaction volumes according to new figures from HM Revenue & Customs. The total number of...

The latest Rightmove asking price index indicates a smaller than usual autumn bounce - that’s a sign, the portal says, of...

A London estate agency chain says It’s seen a 59 per cent surge in the number of its clients who have...

The latest housing market snapshot from the listings website Home suggests more regional markets are heading for price corrections. Home says that...

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

Data from an agency comparison website reveals that in the current market it takes well over a year for a home...

There has been a surprise, but small, increase in the market share of online estate agents according to the latest survey. Business...

There are fewer ‘accidental landlords’ - vendors who resort to letting out their homes because the sales market is difficult. That’s the...

A London agent is urging rivals to provide realistic valuations, even if vendors want more and despite temptations to over-value to...

The average age of a first-time buyer in the UK is 27, according to research from Nested.com. The online estate agency says...

Of all the UK properties for sale over the last year, 59% would have been exempt from any type of transaction...

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

There’s no doubt that we live in politically charged times and every day appears to bring something new to the ‘party’. For...

Prospective property buyers have been provided with several reasons why they should stop delaying purchasing decisions due to Brexit uncertainty. Buying agency...

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

Purplebricks - which is at the centre of a string of controversies - has joined the growing campaign for stamp duty...

Cash buyers have fallen in 90 per cent of major UK cities over the past three years according to a Zoopla...

Stamp duty won’t take centre stage at the Conservative Party conference - that’ll be Brexit, quelle surprise. But if the government...

The latest market snapshot from the National Association of Estate Agents shows that the late summer period was a good one...

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

Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, who earlier this month told a newspaper that he wanted to introduce a Right To Buy policy for...

Hello and welcome to your regular Monday PJT, the essential guide to who’s moving where in our industry. Everyone mentioned here got...

In a previous Natter, I promised to talk more about CRMs – and here I stick to that promise. Following on from...

The first speakers have been announced for the 2020 conference of the National Association of Estate Agents, to be held on...

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

There's good news for the market in at least one sector - mortgages offered to first time buyers. Latest figures from the...

New research shows that three bedroom homes are the quickest selling property type this autumn. After a series of sluggish house price...

A pessimistic set of figures on asking prices, transaction volumes and stock levels culminates in Rightmove urging vendors to be willing...

Cluttons has downgraded its forecasts for the housing markets in London and the rest of the UK for the remainder of...

Another house price index has suggested the housing market continuing to show great resilience despite the continuing economic and political uncertainty. The...

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

It’s been six years since the Help to Buy scheme was launched, with the honourable intentions of helping more people onto...

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

A leading London estate agent has written to The Times dismissing MPs who have been squabbling over Brexit and a possible...

A senior estate agency director is warning that house price growth could continue to stall “with Boris loose at the wheel”. Benham...

There has been a sceptical response by agents and others in the property industry to the government’s latest headline-grabbing tweaks to...

A well-respected agent who was president of the NAEA just five years ago has written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking...

Purplebricks has revealed it is considering changes to its pricing structure to correct “mistakes” of the past. Chief executive Vic Darvey has...

The Essential Information Group reports that the number of auctions held in the UK in July was just 107. This was 21...

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

The former Countrywide chief executive Grenville Turner says it is an option for online estate agency Yopa to go to an...

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

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

Residential property transactions totalled 86,630 in July, representing a monthly drop of 8.5 per cent and an annual fall of 12.4...

If anyone thought a Boris Johnson government would be more decisive than Theresa May's when it came to housing policies, the last...