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A leading agent has been in touch with EAT to vent his frustration at the government for extending most of the...

Amro Partners, the Build to Rent and student accommodation operator, has launched a venture capital arm investing in PropTech and FinTech. Amro...

The cost of the average mortgage deposit has climbed £11,000 in some areas thanks to the stamp duty holiday fuelling the...

The policy and campaigns team at Propertymark, headed by Mark Hayward, has been expanded after what it calls “a number of...

The youngsRPS agency now has a fifth branch in the north of England - it’s in Darlington and will cover the...

Right now it seems that another day means another house price record, an all-time high for transactions, and a conveyancing log-jam...

“A hybrid offering, which serves customers of all needs and capabilities, is what we should all be working towards.” Following Aconveyancing opening...

A senior estate agent says even if the restrictions easing lockdown, still formally scheduled for June 21, are delayed by several...

The government has dismissed a call for reform of the stamp duty system, which would have meant the tax would apply...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says its monthly sentiment measure of house prices is at its highest level since 1988. A...

An industry supplier is urging agents to dust off old prospects to build their pipeline and keep the market boom going...

An estate agent has been accused of charging prospective clients to view a property. The claim has been made on Twitter by...

Over 500,000 homebuyers in England are set to benefit from the stamp duty holiday to the tune of £3.4 billion, according...

There are over 700,000 homes marked Sold Subject to Contract and going through conveyancing right now, according to a new Rightmove...

OnTheMarket’s new chief executive has posted his first full year’s trading figures - and they suggest the portal is making progress...

The Law Society has published new guidance for what it calls “under-pressure conveyancing solicitors” as the stamp duty deadline of June...

Annual house price inflation is now at its strongest level in nearly seven years, says the Halifax House Price Index. The average...

An estate agency says disgruntled and delayed property buyers are fast falling out of love with the stamp duty holiday, which...

The growth of the internet and technology has transformed virtually every aspect of our lives, including how we approach the property...

Figures released from the government show 19,400 people in the real estate sector are still on furlough - suggesting some agents have back...

A gradual increase in the supply of homes coming to the market means the stellar price rises of recent months are...

The MP who chairs one of the most important committees in the House of Commons has urged the government to increase...

The Bank of England will intervene if it considers soaring house prices will affect the inflation rate says Sir Dave Ramsden,...

House prices have soared 10.9 per cent in the past year - the highest level since 2014 - according to the...

The government is to answer a call made in an online petition for stamp duty to apply when contracts are exchanged,...

Banks and building societies want the government to offer more help to the housing market through additional assistance to home owners...

An agency says two thirds of its sales valuations in London in the first quarter of the year have been conducted...

Buying agents level the playing field with estate agents according to Phil Spencer - the TV property expert who started his...

An anonymous conveyancer has admitted increasing fees to deter buyers and sellers in the frenzied housing market during the stamp duty...

A global financial software and analytics firm says it’s launching a new PropTech tool which promises in the near future to...

The number of transactions is scheduled to reach 1.52 million this year - way above the norm of between 1.0 and...

An all-time record high of one in three properties sold for more than the original asking price last month. This is according...

Telephone and chat support service Moneypenny has outlined a strategy to help agents avoid burn out. The service argues that working throughout...

An unusual price forecast based on conveyancing quotes suggests the housing market is to continue busy over the summer with more...

One of the country’s leading estate agents claims some solicitors are charging exorbitant fees on transactions as they near the latest...

The head of one of the UK’s largest conveyancing legal practices is warning the property market could “fall off a cliff...

With property fraud on the rise and an ever-increasing number of transactions taking place in the lettings sector, having strict anti-money laundering...

A report by the Office of Tax Simplification on Capital Gains Tax has called for a series of changes. They include extending...

The Bank of England’s deputy governor says it’s possible that the current housing market boom may continue even after the end...

Data consultancy LonRes has given a typically upbeat assessment of the Prime London sales market - despite the effects of Coronavirus...

Nationwide Building Society is to become the largest mortgage provider to reintroduce 95 per cent Loan-to-Value home loans without government support.  These...

Some sellers are suffering cash flow issues as a result of glitches in the Capital Gains Tax reporting system, according to...

The number of properties coming on the market is still not meeting the huge demand from buyers, but the level of...

A relatively modest interest rate rise could trigger a crash in the housing market according to the housing analyst behind the...

A league table of the most important issues facing vendors places the scale of estate agents’ charges at the bottom - and this...

Increasing optimism at the success of the Coronavirus vaccine programme and the relaxation of restrictions have contributed to house prices rising...

It’s not just housing transactions that signal a red-hot market - the mortgage landscape is at its strongest for some time...

A row has blown up over a house raffle where the property prize was withdrawn and a cash alternative offered because...

A company which was once an early adopter of using a central resource for self-employed agents working under its name, says...

A market analysis by Fine & Country suggests that annual house price inflation could hit 10 per cent next month. Nicky Stevenson,...

The latest Coutts Prime Property Index has revealed that activity in this sector of the market - based mostly in London...

The interim executive chair of Propertymark has now taken up a leading role in The Conveyancing Association Nicky Heathcote is becoming the...

The Prime Central London pain throughout the pandemic can be seen by new figures just released by an investment consultancy, showing...

The last 12 months have heralded significant change across the property market and indeed we could argue across all markets in...

Mortgage lending has shown the biggest net increase on record according to the Bank of England.  Mortgage borrowing in March rose by...

Parts of the UK property market face a supply shortage with a quarter fewer properties listed for sale in England and...

A leading agency says the stamp duty holiday is not a big influence on the current housing market frenzy - and...

House prices are 7.1 per cent above their level a year ago as the boom continues. The latest house price index, from...

The anti-money laundering compliance service that is now part of data company LonRes is holding a training session for Rightmove member...

This time last year the industry was awaiting the launch of a new portal - the free to list public site...

The government has launched a formal consultation process on a new residential property developer tax which is to contribute towards cladding...

Britain’s second largest estate agency has outlined radical new plans to shift direction, making financial services and not sales or rentals...

One in six properties sold for over the original asking price last month, higher than the proportion in February and another sign...

New figures from Zoopla today emphasise just how frenzied the housing market remains. Here are the figures: - so far in the first...

Around 30 people spent all night queuing outside an estate agent ahead of 14 homes going on sale - the most...

As London plays catch-up with the buoyant housing market seen in the rest of the country, two agencies have announced new...

An insolvency specialist is warning that the real estate sector of the UK is seeing more firms in financial distress despite...

A consumer financial service suggests it’s already too late for most buyers to meet the latest stamp duty holiday deadline of June...

The average UK house price has risen 8.6 per cent - that’s typically £20,000 - in the past year. This is the...

As the property market continues to boom, competition between portals such as Zoopla, Rightmove, OnTheMarket and Boomin has been hotting up...

Iamsold, the company best known for its Modern Method of Auction online platform, has won top spot in an auction league...

A leading analyst has told Knight Frank that the end of furlough this autumn is unlikely to kill off the housing...

A leading agent says that for every house he puts on the market, he has over 40 requests for viewings -...

Zoopla today begins a new marketing drive - the latest move in the fierce battle between Rightmove, Zoopla, OnTheMarket and Boomin. Zoopla is...

There’s been a surge in activity in London’s prime housing market according to LonRes. The property data company says that new instructions in March...

For many, the funeral of HRH Prince Philip will be a solemn affair, while for some it will also be a...

The UK government has been told it should make the stamp duty cut permanent to encourage investment and make it easier...

New research shared with Estate Agent Today suggest that in areas of the country almost four in 10 homes for sale...

This time out, I speak to one of the industry’s biggest-hitters. Adrian Gill may have retired from frontline agency, having had...

One housing market index suggests that average house prices in England and Wales have risen by 9.8 per cent in the...

Rightmove has so far this year recorded 20 of its busiest ever days for visits to the site as the current...

A leading agency claims the stamp duty holiday has actually had a minimal impact in the mainstream market, despite many suggestions...

One in three property sales in England and Wales fell through before completion in the first quarter of 2021. The 32 per...

The Chancellor’s decision to extend the stamp duty holiday has “put a spring in the step" of the housing market according...

A mortgage firm specialising in high net worth clients says the stamp duty holiday cliff edge will not impact the most expensive...

The shortage of supply compared to demand, which has characterised the housing market in recent months, could soon be a thing...

Data from agency Knight Frank suggests the number of UK exchanges last month was the highest in 10 years - well above...

An agency has analysed sold prices since the first lockdown in March 2020 and February this year - and has found...

One of the most outspoken campaigners against stamp duty has been fined for avoiding tens of thousands of pounds in … stamp...

The MP leading a new parliamentary committee on the housing market says a radical reform of tax would help more people move...

The stamp duty holiday has backfired and buyers almost everywhere are paying more for homes, rather than less. StripeHomes analysed house price...

Licensing of the short-term lets sector in Scotland was due to be introduced next month. However, it was recently announced that...

A new property board game called Gazumped aims to rival Monopoly but reflect a much more realistic view of how the house...

Annual house price growth remains strong but it has slowed significantly according to the Nationwide. Prices dropped 0.2 per cent on average...

With March marking one year since the beginning of the first national lockdown across all four nations of Britain in response...

Conveyancers should consider the provision of electric vehicle parking and charging in transactions according to a legal company. Law firm says that...

NAEA Propertymark says a record number of transactions are taking four months to move from offer to exchange. The organisation says this...

Bank of England figures reveal that in February there were 87,700 mortgage approvals - down from a peak of 103,700 in...

As an indication of the frenzied property market, this may take some beating - an agent has had 18 viewings on...

With just days before the launch of new portal Boomin, Rightmove says it’s hit a record 9.1m visits in a 24...

It’s costing taxpayers £750,000 just for the government to update its IT systems to handle the stamp duty holiday.  In a document...

Liverpool - where commissioners have been ordered by Whitehall to run part of the council following corruption allegations - is the...

Emoov’s new 'guaranteed offer' service means fall-thoughs and chain-related delays are effectively eliminated, the agency claims. Emoov - now owned by a firm...

Data from Rightmove suggests a sharp increase in the number of chain-free properties on the market because sellers are increasingly willing...

Another house price index shows a super-charged housing market with prices rising 7.5 per cent in the year to January according...

The government’s highly-anticipated Tax Day was just a damp squib.  That’s the view of leading analyst Anthony Codling, who says the almost complete...

The London housing market is enjoying the end of the lull before the storm, according to a leading buying agent. Sara Ransom...

The Building Societies Association says there’s been a surge in consumer confidence in the housing market following the Budget. Some 37 per...

Zoopla has crunched the numbers for the continuing stamp duty holiday in England and Northern Ireland, calculating 500,000 buyers will have...

Stamp Duty receipts for the year to the end of February fell just six per cent despite the high profile SDLT...

The events of the last 12 months have potentially shaped the future of our sector for years to come. There has been...

There is growing speculation that a raft of tax proposals to be unveiled next week will include reform of Capital Gains...

Later this year, on October 22, the ESTAS 2021 will take place in London. The glittering ceremony will welcome property professionals...

There’s a warning this morning that possible tax reforms to be unveiled next Monday could wreak huge damage on the property...

Agents have been warned they are likely to require PropTech assistance to cope with a surge in transactions expected this year. The...

Rightmove says the excess of demand over supply right now is bigger than at any time over the past decade -...

Another leading research team in a major agency has revised upwards its forecast for the 2021 market. Savills revised its predictions recently...

Following the fluctuation of the property market during the UK’s first national lockdown, the industry was given a lifeline by the...

Pressure is building on London agency Foxtons to repay its furlough funding. The company issued an upbeat trading statement on Wednesday; while...

A broker has launched the UK’s longest-ever fixed rate mortgage, with no early repayment charge or exit fees - the first product...

The latest breakdown of the stamp duty holiday extension has given a first estimate of the total number of deals to...

Mortgage availability has risen for the fifth consecutive month according to respected market monitor Moneyfacts. With 3,532 products on offer, this is...

Transactions and house price forecasts for the mainstream housing market are being revised upwards by Savills following the Budget. The new predictions follow an...

Savills has upgraded its house price and transaction forecasts following the Budget - and prime London, especially the centre, is tipped to...

The latest house price index from the Halifax suggests the market has softened ahead of the original scheduled end of the stamp...

Labour says Chancellor Rishi Sunak “will give away half a billion pounds to second homeowners and landlords through the stamp duty...

Another week and another frenzy of news, culminating in the Budget and the extension of the stamp duty holiday. A cliff edge...

Rarely do Budgets produce positive sentiments from the agency industry but Chancellor Rishi Sunak appears to have won widespread support for...

An independent agency has announced the opening of another office in what it calls a vote of confidence for the local housing...

When I joined Zoopla, I took the same approach that I always take whenever I enter a new sector: I was...

Today’s Budget is the most eagerly-anticipated for many years, as it juggles to shore up the economy with the longer-term issue...

A surge in demand from buyers, even those unlikely to benefit from the stamp duty holiday, offers hope for the market...

Mortgage approvals declined slightly in January as the market braces itself for the end of the stamp duty holiday - currently...

A leading agent says the worst thing that could happen with Wednesday’s Budget is if the Chancellor does not deliver on...

Rightmove has revealed its figures for the full year 2020 - down in terms of profit and revenue because of the impact...

An open letter from Boomin chief executive Michael Bruce shows how fierce the competition is going to be in the portal field...

A prominent conveyancer has hit out at the extension to the stamp duty holiday, which is now ending in late June and...

Much of the agency industry has reacted with delight at the extension of the stamp duty holiday deadline until June. Rightmove estimates...

Connells Group says it is the UK's largest estate agency group by market share - and that's before the Countrywide acquisition...

Transaction totals took a tumble last month for the first time since last summer as HMRC figures suggest the stamp duty...

The acquisition of Countrywide by Connells might just be the deal of the century in the British estate agency industry. That’s the...

The Law Society for England and Wales says it wants action now to prevent tens of thousands of  transactions collapsing at...

London still dominated the league table of locations with the highest volumes of sales by value in 2020, despite the apparent...

High net worth individuals are struggling when it comes to successfully applying for a mortgage, according to a lender.  Research by Butterfield...

A huge number of additional transactions completing in the next few weeks due to the stamp duty holiday provides estate agents...

A new forecast suggests 70,000 buyers will miss the March 31 stamp duty holiday deadline. Zoopla has undertaken a new analysis to...

The government has given details of two new taxes to provide funds to address the cladding problem on high rise tower blocks...

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and shifting tenant requirements are reinforcing the need for good broadband in the rental market...

A leading bank says as many as one in three buyers pay too much for a property because they are afraid...

A leading agency chief suggests there will have to be substantial bargaining between buyers and sellers as the stamp duty holiday cliff...

There’s now more choice in the mortgage market than at any time since last March, before the pandemic reached a peak. The...

One of the chief figures behind Brexit and Boris Johnson’s role as London Mayor is now advising that stamp duty should be...

Affordability across the housing market is at its worst for 10 years according to an analysis by a London agency. Benham and Reeves...

A housing market analyst says stamp duty, for all its unpopularity within the property industry, may not be so bad after...

There’s been a huge focus on both the stamp duty holiday and Help To Buy deadlines at the end of March...

House price growth is running out of steam ahead of the stamp duty holiday cliff-edge. That’s the suggestion from the Halifax; its latest...

The high-end housing market on Jersey has been rocked by a plan from the island’s government which may ban foreign investors from...

There is no scientific formula, no list of must-have elements in a successful campaign. That’s especially the case for a campaign involving...

A mortgage has been launched targeting borrowers who believe they are unlikely to complete their purchase before the stamp duty holiday’s...

A 10-point ’must have’ list of demands for Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget on March 3 has been issued by NAEA Propertymark. It’s...

Estate agents have kept up the pressure on the Westminster government to consider some kind of tapered ending to the stamp...

The Nationwide has pulled no punches with Chancellor Rishi Sunak - it’s made it clear that if the stamp duty holiday...

The government is keeping everyone guessing about the stamp duty holiday but one comment by a senior minister suggests movement towards a...

Almost a year ago the government announced that estate and lettings agencies were to be included in the business rates relief...

Mortgage approvals decreased slightly in December but remain well above pre-Covid levels thanks to the continuing incentive of the stamp duty...

Labour and Conservative MPs have expressed a unanimous view on their desire to see an extension of the stamp duty holiday...

Today’s the day when Parliament debates a possible extension to the stamp duty holiday beyond its March 31 cliff edge deadline...

Properties are currently taking 29 per cent longer than average to sell once under offer, according to research by a home...

Homeowners staying at home during another lockdown are doing more than sharing memes of groundhog day or doing family quizzes on...

There is little doubt that the last year was one which none of us will easily forget both personally and professionally....

The Prime Minister this afternoon stated that lockdown will remain in effect until early March at the earliest. He told the House...

A large majority of estate agents fear a surge in 'failed sales’ as the stamp duty holiday cliff edge gets ever-closer. The latest National...

Zoopla's latest figures suggest 70,000 transactions are likely to miss the stamp duty holiday deadline of March 31.  And the portal says: “The...

Despite the booming housing market the whole property sector - a key indicator of the economy's performance - has seen 11,000...

There’s been a flurry of recent activity involving agencies quoted on the London Stock Exchange: Hunters, The Property Franchise Group and...

In a wide-ranging video interview for his Move iQ service, Phil Spencer speaks to buying agent and TV property pundit Henry...

Well, what a start to 2021! None of us thought things would change as the clock struck midnight on New Year’s...

A leading analyst is questioning whether buyers have benefitted from the stamp duty holiday because demand has purshed up prices far...

The BBC says some buyers are taking advantage of lockdown rules to travel hundreds of miles to view homes. The story suggests...

The government may be stopping MPs debating an extension to the stamp duty holiday - despite a pledge they would do...

An estate agent has shut both branches of his business for safety reasons and wants tighter Coronavirus restrictions on the industry.  ITV...

The latest Rightmove analysis shows it now takes 126 days from the time an offer is accepted until legal completion -...

Revenues for LSL Property Services - owner of Your Move and Reeds Rains - dropped last year by 15 per cent. Although...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is considering an extension to the current stamp duty holiday according to media reports today - and the...

One of the housing market’s senior analysts says the end of the stamp duty holiday on March 31 would not be...

The speed and success of the Coronavirus vaccine programme holds the key to the housing market rebounding in the second half...

A housing index says the market continues to defy Coronavirus and Brexit worries with asking prices up 4.9 per cent in...

The housing market remains open in Scotland, despite tighter restrictions announced yesterday by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. The only significant difference specific...

Property auctioneer Pugh, which has 11 offices across the UK, has unveiled bespoke new technology to support its work with estate...

Even the prospect of a stamp duty holiday is not enough to persuade many buyers and sellers to enter the market...

Sir Kier Starmer has told the government it should look again at whether estate agents’ viewings of properties for sale and...

Property expert Phil Spencer is warning that “chaos” and “mayhem” looms in the housing market if the stamp duty holiday is...

The Sunday Times has made new and detailed allegations regarding the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. For some weeks the newspaper has...

The average UK house price is now a record £253,374 according to the Halifax - but the rate of growth is...

HSBC UK is re-introducing its 90 per cent Loan To Value mortgages from next week - a possible lifeline for first...

Rightmove says it’s recorded the busiest ever start to a New Year in its two decade history with visits to the...

To kick off 2021, we have a Q&A with one of the most high-profile – and, it has to be said,...

There’s a call this morning for estate and letting agents to regard the physical viewing of any property on sale or...

New figures from the Bank of England show that mortgage approvals rose 7.0 per cent in November to reach 105,000 -...

The sudden end of the stamp duty holiday at the end of March could throw away the market gains achieved in...

Agents are sharply split over how they should operate during the current phase of the Coronavirus crisis.  In a poll of almost...

Agents and the housing market in England are still in business even during the third national lockdown which begins on Wednesday and...

A trade body has called on House Secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene over the growing problem of delays in councils providing...

The Daily Mail has mocked housing minister Chris Pincher for advising people to going £174-a-bottle champagne while awaiting the rollout of...

The government is considering stricter tier structures for the coming weeks as the number of Coronavirus infections continues to rise. There is...

Anthony Codling, the City analyst who made his name as a scourge of Purplebricks, says Brexit may be good news for the...

Firstly, Happy New Year – here’s to 2021 being less chaotic than the last! In the final part of our series on...

House prices surged in December to post their fastest growth in six years, according to the Nationwide.  Prices rose 7.3 per cent...

Zoopla has revealed precisely how much house prices have risen over the course of 2020. Across the UK as a whole prices...

London and other urban areas dominate the league table of locations seeing the biggest house price rises of 2020. This is despite...

A house price index that is routinely one of the most pessimistic about the market claims the New Year will see...

The Brexit deal agreed in dramatic form on Christmas Eve is one part of a cocktail eventually boosting the London market...

The pandemic has reignited the flagging country house market and boosted demand for larger homes with gardens, claims Savills. Larger country houses...

High end agency Hamptons has quantified the trend of Londoners quitting the capital in the light of the pandemic. It says that...

Zoopla saw a record 70.5 per cent increase in traffic on Boxing Day as signs suggest the pre-Christmas boom is set...

The shock and almost immediate increase in stamp duty on additional homes in Wales has prompted one question in the industry...

The Bank of England is to review the affordability tests imposed on  borrowers, opening the door to a possible relaxation of...

Pressure is building on the government to agree a tapered end to the stamp duty holiday, even if a full-blown extension now...

Figures from Zoopla suggest there’s a Christmas present being unwrapped by agents across the country - a far busier housing market tha this...

The housing market is to stay open across the UK, including in the new Tier 4 areas of England. An announcement from Housing Secretary...

The importance of marketing properties is something that is often undervalued. Big budgets are dedicated to selling everyday items such as...

A 10 week marketing campaign is being launched by Zoopla - and the portal urges agents to stay open as much...

Around half of all estate agencies selling homes for £5m or more have not even registered for anti-money laundering processes, and/or...

Agents and property experts have reacted angrily to the government's refusal to extend the stamp duty holiday. The government has told campaigners that...

NAEA Propertymark has written to the Scottish Government demanding it extend the current Land and Buildings Transaction Tax holiday - the...

Douglas & Gordon, one of the highest profile London agency networks, is the latest signing for the yet-to-launch Boomin portal. The agency...

Down valuations could leave some surveyors liable to professional negligence claims, a law firm says. Nelsons law firm says down valuations have...

Purplebricks says it’s to continue to test new pricing models next year - and has not ruled out completely moving away...

If you fear the market will slow after Christmas, think again - Rightmove is expecting several months of frenzied transactions to...

Hello - and here we are nearing the end of the strangest of years.  With agents and industry suppliers rushed off their...

The industry seems almost back to normal. Not the ‘new normal’ we spoke so much of a few weeks and months ago,...

A leading property consultancy is suggesting that a possible increase in Capital Gains Tax could end up losing money for the...

The sales market is currently strong but the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has issued a warning about a slowdown next...

The UK has topped the rankings for the highest property taxes as a percentage of overall taxation in the developed world...

Another day, another house price record as the bull market continues. The latest Halifax index shows prices surging 7.6 per cent to...

MPs lobbied by agents to extend the stamp duty holiday are staying firmly on the fence with standard answers and no...

A petition has been launched demanding a stamp duty holiday extension. The online petition is the idea of Jonathan Steel - a layperson...

Zoopla has added over 1,000 branches since lockdown began in March, taking total membership of offices and new homes to a...

As we approach the most unusual of festive periods, many property professionals will already be thinking about the January market and...

If this year has taught us anything, it's that estate agents need their software provider and specifically their CRM, to help...

It now takes an average 12 days longer to complete a sale in Britain compared to a year ago - but...

Annual house price inflation is now running at 6.5 per cent according to the latest Nationwide index after a 0.9 per...

The housing market may be slowing as we enter December but the latest snapshot suggests there’s still momentum with mortgage approvals...

One of the biggest supporters of the self employed estate agent business model admits there are risks and it’s not for...

Public sentiment over the housing market remains stable despite the Coronavirus crisis and the possibility of a No Deal Brexit. That’s the conclusion...

NAEA Propertymark has renewed its warning that a cliff-edge threatens housing market stability as the stamp duty holiday ends. The organisation’s outgoing chief...

As what now seems like a common occurrence everything has changed again since I last sat down to write about the...

The housing market in England and Wales is stabilising, according to analysis of web traffic from a property advice site.  Valuation requests...

Property tax rises and falling house prices look as if they are on the way according to the small print accompanying...

Stamp duty breaks have historically done little to help the housing market - and it’s the same now. So says David Hannah,...

Average house prices in Wales have risen three per cent in the past year, despite multiple difficult lockdowns considered more severe...

Zoopla’s research team is anticipating the first quarter of next year will see the current boom continue as 100,000 additional sales...

Today sees the government’s Spending Review, with Chancellor Rishi Sunak taking centre stage as he presents a 12 month spending plan to...

Agents should know in the next 36 hours how new Coronavirus restrictions will affect how they work. The Prime Minister is announcing...

The mixture of the stamp duty holiday and generally fast-rising house prices has led to a resurgence of flipping. Data released this...

A mortgage technology platform has released figures suggesting the housing market remains strong, with high numbers of searches by buyers for...

Tenants, landlords, agents, and house buyers all breathed a sigh of relief on Halloween when the government announced that home moves...

The director of a conveyancing technology company has hit out at what he calls “an over-reliance on outdated processes” and “age-old...

Transactions appear to be edging higher than in 2019 for the first time this year - despite lockdowns and concerns caused...

The founder of OneDome says a likely housing market slowdown is the perfect time for agents to optimise revenue by investing in PropTech. Babek Ismayil believes...

New research attempts for the first time to identify the most lucrative property markets in the country - with surprising results...

The Home website, which publishes a detailed monthly snapshot of the market, has raised the alarm over London because of a...

Just when you thought the housing market was beginning to calm down... along comes a likely vaccine for Coronavirus. One of the country’s...

Asking prices are down for the first time in many months. It’s a small drop - an average of 0.5 per cent...

With a new President elected and the old one reluctant to move out, this is a good time to see how...

Watching the government’s surprise press conference a couple of weekends ago the message was clear; we were heading into a gruelling...

The latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors review of sales and rentals, often amongst the most pessimistic of analyses, says Covid 19...

The first monthly market monitor to show activity in the housing market tailing off has appeared - and it says momentum...

A relaunched home buying service says it wants to partner with agents to unlock sales if the housing market deteriorates. The service...

House prices by the end of October were running 7.5 per cent above their level a year ago - but the...

While England’s national lockdown exempts the housing market and allows agents to operate normally, it’s not been the same in Wales...

Firstly, let’s get the obvious out of the way. Lockdown 2, as it’s being known, is now with us, but fortunately...

An agency in London which was stung by fierce criticism in the spring lockdown has announced its policy for branch activity...

There’s one key takeaway for agents from the weekend’s announcements on the next England-wide lockdown - the housing market is staying...

Purplebricks has issued a statement to its shareholders saying it’s ‘never been more relevant’. However, the expected radical change to its fees structure appears...

A leading market analyst says the widespread belief that we are ‘safe’ in our homes may indirectly lead to the recent...

The housing market is to remain open in the four week lockdown in England. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government...

Recent figures emanating from the mortgage and housing market suggest that – since lockdown was ended in mid-May – transaction levels...

The housing market boom looks set to continue for some months yet as mortgage approvals for home purchases hit their highest...

The housing market’s recovery will be threatened with drastic consequences for buyers and sellers if the stamp duty holiday isn’t extended beyond...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been told to avoid a stamp duty holiday cliff-edge next March at any price - because it...

The rise and rise of £1m-plus homes continues apace with new research from Rightmove showing the biggest growth areas. Data released this...

A conveyancing firm is blaming councils for delays in transactions. Conveyancers have themselves been sharply criticised in recent weeks as the sharp...

There are 140,000 more buyers waiting to complete on their properties right now than there were this time last year. The claim, by...

One of Britain’s most respected agents is suggesting Chancellor Rishi Sunak could ‘taper’ the stamp duty holiday to avoid a cliff-edge...

Staying on top of the numbers and figures in a constantly changing industry can be stressful. Changing property prices can be...

Estate Agent Today can reveal that a string of Countrywide offices across the country have been closed in recent weeks - but...

The outgoing chief executive of the National Association of Estate Agents is warning that the sales system continues to struggle with...

In recent years, the extent and role of the private rented sector (PRS) in the housing market has seen significant changes. The...

The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the way every industry operates and the property sector is no exception. Following an enforced seven-week...