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The ValPal Network is launching a new tool for its 4,100 agent users - an area barometer which reflects the buoyancy of...

Rightmove’s monthly price index says the average asking price of homes coming to the market has fallen 1.2 per cent in...

It appears activity in the housing market in 2017 will be around 15% down on 2016. The number of housing transactions...

I’ve written before about the impact of headlines on the property industry. Interest rate speculation.   Market booms and busts. Demand...

Even so close to the event, I don’t think anyone will be deeming 2017 as the ‘summer of love’.  The summer of...

The housing market remains mixed across different parts of the UK but London and the south east remain the weakest areas...

Government figures suggest house prices are still rising by 5.1 per cent a year, with the average property value in the...

House prices in June, July and August were a tiny 0.1 per cent higher than in the previous three months according...

New research has revealed that Britain's impending exit from the European Union is not a consideration for 71% of consumers. A study...

Whenever any research is released, part of me can’t help thinking of that old adage, ‘lies, damn lies and statistics’ especially...

Stock levels for estate agents at the height of summer were their lowest for at least 15 years according to the...

Jackson-Stops & Staff, a critic of the stamp duty system since its reform in 2014, now says the government should slash...

There’s good news for the housing market from new mortgage and remortgage approval figures showing growth in July after three flat...

Independent financial service Moneyfacts says first time buyers who opt for a fixed rate deal might be better off if they chose...

The average price of a home in the UK is now £211,6712 - up slightly on last month but with growth...

Homeowners ready to take their second step up the property ladder say it's harder than getting on it in the first...

Property consultancy Hometrack says London’s 12 month market slowdown has bottomed out with the annual growth rate rising to 2.8 per...

Ten out of 14 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News say Brexit and economic uncertainty are likely to stall London’s housing market...

New data from UK Finance - previously the Council of Mortgage Lenders - paints a relatively optimistic assessment of the UK-wide...

The number of existing home owners moving house fell two per cent in the first six months of 2017 compared with...

Countrywide has issued forecasts for the housing market over the next two years amidst a warning that Brexit volatility is the...

The typical asking price of a home coming on sale has fallen by 0.9 per cent, equivalent to £2,758 - precisely...

Shelter, the campaigning charity that has been hugely critical of private landlords and letting agents in recent years, has now launched...

UK house prices grew by 4.9 per cent in the year to the end of June according to the government’s official...

The price of houses in the UK will remain high because a “structural decline” means fewer homes are being sold and...

The two main political parties have squared up to each other over the issue of increasing council tax on second homes...

Record low stock numbers, political uncertainty and the aftermath of tax changes are the obstacles hindering the housing market, according to...

The housing market may be a little sticky in the middle of summer right now, but there’s certainly no shortage of...

Last week the Nationwide reported house prices rising unexpectedly in July - now the Halifax has done the same, reporting a...

Marsh & Parsons will be opening a new office in Islington on September 4 - defying many analysts who say the...

Well over a third of buyers will view between four and eight houses before putting an offer in on their choice,...

A detailed analysis of the UK housing market by The Economist suggest many reasons lie behind the slump in property transactions...

Agents say the latest Nationwide index showing a surprise rise in house prices does not change the fact that it is...

LSL Property Services - owners of Your Move, Reeds Rains and Marsh & Parsons amongst estate agency brands - has enjoyed...

Some 19 per cent of estate agents in the UK currently show warning signs that indicate they are at risk of going...

New figures produced by estate agency Carter Jonas show that the long-term consequences of the credit crunch have exacerbated the historic...

  You’ll see a lot of 10th anniversary stories in the property industry and consumer media in the coming days: early August...

Households appear to be more optimistic about the strength of the housing market despite Brexit and political and economic uncertainty, according to...

Countrywide has revealed a massive plunge in its profits for the first six months of 2017.   Pre-tax profit for the six months...

High end estate agency Savills says the credit crunch - roughly 10 years old next month - is still having an...

The latest figures from NAEA Propertymark suggest that the market is bouncing back after its hiatus during the General Election and...

More than a third of the homes in London currently on the market have had their asking prices reduced according to...

The number of transactions in the housing market has fallen for the third successive month - and for the first time...

Gross mortgage lending reached £22.1 billion in June - that’s nine per cent higher than in May and three per cent...

PwC says the drop in the number of property transactions is the economic indicator where the uncertainty over Brexit is most...

The housing market is approaching something of a standstill as the summer holiday season begins according to a downbeat report from...

Your Move says the surprise General Election and the creation of a weaker minority government has exacerbated the slowdown in the...

Being a leading world-class city comes at a price – they are the most expensive for occupiers and the most lucrative...

For those of us working within the property sector, we’re in the very midst of what, for generations, has been one...

The UK property market has entered a period of stagflation where house price growth is consistently lower than the rate of...

The latest market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows price growth dipping further, struggling transaction volumes and the...

A survey of just over 2,000 candidates and 1,000 employers across London’s residential property market suggests over half of them believe...

Gently rising house values in the mainstream market and problems facing the prime market in the capital mean that over half...

The housing market may appear stagnant but one of the leading monitors of the mortgage market says many rates for borrowers...

Foxtons - a company seen by many as a barometer of the London housing market - is likely to face a...

Former RICS residential chief Jeremy Leaf says he is not downcast by the latest Halifax house price index which shows prices...

We’ve had the Bank of Mum and Dad so is the next big thing to hit the market a growing number...

The chief economist of Price Waterhouse Coopers says that although by some measures the London housing market looks ripe for a...

Over a quarter of prospective house sales completed in the past three months had fallen through at some stage according to...

Sales in prime central London in the year to the end of March are a huge 41 per cent below the...

One of the country’s leading buying agents says over six million people are living in the wrong property because they are...

Government schemes like Help To Buy, supposedly assisting more people get on the ladder, have little impact on improving social mobility...

When it comes to provoking anger in property professionals, taxation takes some beating. Press releases are still arriving berating the December...

The political ebb and flow continues - seemingly with all the subtlety of a Boris Johnson rugby tackle on a 10-year...

The Nationwide is warning that a slowdown in household spending is likely in the near future, leading to a ‘drag’ on...

Prime London house prices are now 5.3 per cent lower than at the time of the EU referendum admits Savills, following...

Estate agents are increasingly helping customers who have been forced to sell their homes to pay off interest-only mortgages ahead of...

Estate agents are angry over delays in processing land searches by a local authority in the south west. The average land search time...

The National Association of Estate Agents says the General Election led to a drop in the number of registered house hunters...

LonRes has launched a new product which it says helps developers and agents ensure maximum exposure to previously untapped buyers. A new...

New research suggests the Bank of Mum and Dad is now helping so-called ‘second steppers’ - existing owners moving up the...

Figures released by the government suggest that over 285,000 people, including 240,000 first time buyers, have used one or more of...

The Council of Mortgage Lenders’s buy to let forecast for 2017 and 2018 has been revised down from previous expectations at...

The steep drop in price growth for homes across London is beginning to bottom out according to Hometrack, which says values...

The detailed paperwork accompanying the Queen’s Speech includes the Conservative party manifesto pledge to streamline house buying - but gives no...

Average prices in prime central London remained flat in May but are down 6.6 per cent on the year according to...

A new report, conducted by the Centre for Economics and Business Research for the financial services group Legal & General, claims...

The latest Rightmove figures show that the number of sales agreed by agents over the last month is up 7% when...

“Housing policy should be in independent hands.” That was the conclusion of a panel debate that Andrews held, not recently, but two...

In their election rhetoric all the political parties informed us that the UK is experiencing a ‘housing crisis’, with all promising...

Just 27% of property valuations in May were requested by prospective home sellers, according to the latest data from Connells Survey...

A regional estate agency has urged the Government and the new housing minister to implement the policies outlined in the housing...

Former housing minister Gavin Barwell has been appointed as Theresa May's chief of staff. Barwell lost his Croydon Central seat – and...

The housing industry has responded with shock, joy, and jitters, after Theresa May’s snap general election went catastrophically wrong, leaving her...

As the nation waits with bated breath to see if Theresa May can form either a minority or coalition government after...

The introduction of a 3% stamp duty surcharge on the purchase of additional properties has 'shattered' the property market, according to...

Average house prices in the three months to May were 3.3% higher than in the same period of 2016, according to...

British homeowners have the most confidence in the Conservative Party to run the nation's housing market. A survey of almost 4,500 homeowners,...

Theresa May’s call for a snap general election on June 8 took many by surprise. But estate agents have been broadly...

In years to come, students of political history might come to look at the 2017 General Election campaign with some interest....

House prices recorded their third consecutive monthly fall in May says the Nationwide. It's the first time this has occurred since 2009, and...

The number of house hunters registered per estate agency branch fell last month to 381 - well down on its figure...

New research gives an insight into the difficulties that older home owners have coping with their properties - and highlights the...

The latest measure of house price rises in key UK cities by the property consultancy Hometrack shows house price in many...

Barclays Bank has given an optimistic view of the housing market over the next five years, with a prediction that across...

As Dataloft’s home town and having been declared the best place to live, we needed no further excuse to have a...

A prominent agent admits to being “disappointed” at what appears to be slowing mortgage figures at a time of year when...

The proportion of mortgage products available for investor buyers operating through limited companies has risen by over 50 per cent in...

Asking prices of homes coming to the market have now been rising for five consecutive months says Rightmove.  Asking prices rose 2.0...

News headlines talk more and more about a slowdown in the property market, a drop in house prices and the need...