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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...

Savills says the shape and size of the housing market in the coming months will be determined by the capacity of conveyancers...

Delays across the house buying sector mean those wanting to benefit from the stamp duty holiday need to begin the buying...

Sales of £1m-plus homes have surged since lockdown as affluent buyers seek more space and lifestyle changes.  An average of 868 £1m-plus...

A mortgage service claims 46 per cent of buyers have had their prospective property down-valued by lenders - often forcing them...

The latest Rightmove asking price index shows the extraordinary market and amazing times we are living through. The average price of property coming...

2020 has definitely been a year of change. With little warning, the pandemic disrupted the day-to-day operations of almost every industry...

A prominent housing market analyst is warning that in 14 years of studying prices and transactions he has never seen the...

OnTheMarket’s acting chief executive says the portal will embrace more social media and innovative marketing strategies in the coming period. Yesterday the...

It’s not a big rise, but price growth has returned to the Prime Central London sales market for the first time...

The total Sales Agreed in 2020 so far has overtaken Sales Agreed up to this point in 2019, despite the Coronavirus...

New figures released this morning give weight to calls for the complete scrapping of stamp duty.  The dats shows there have been...

House prices in September were 7.3 per cent higher than a year earlier – the highest house price inflation since June 2016. The Halifax...

London’s properties are “over-valued” according to a leading bank. UBS, which has what it calls a Global Real Estate Bubble Index, says...

The so-called ‘trade up gap’ for people buying for the second time has grown to a record £67,761 according to Rightmove. The...

An estate agent in Liverpool has adopted the unusual technique of urging vendors to sell now “before prices crash.” Clearly unworried about...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he wants to create a ‘Generation Buy’ to help young people purchase homes with low-deposit mortgages. In...

The latest government rules combined with the Prime Minister’s recent address to the nation is clear – tougher measures are required...

Ed Mead has joined a growing chorus demanding government action on the cladding crisis. He is one of the industry’s leading figures from...

Agents have universally welcomed new Nationwide data showing annual price growth picked up to 5.0 per cent last month - the highest rate...

Savills has boosted its forecast for housing transactions this year because the stamp duty holiday has been such a success at...

Almost half of the country’s first time buyers say their plans have been delayed - or worse - thanks to Coronavirus,...

A leading agency says so-called Covid Clauses are being inserted into contracts as buyers become increasingly cautious ahead of a possible...

Mortgage approvals for house purchases have soared to a 13 year high according to Bank of England figures up to the...

Data from NAEA Propertymark shows that in August, some 13 per cent of properties sold for more than the original asking...

The first leading agency to make a 2021 forecast says the market should be stable next year - so long as...

Two reports this morning suggest that activity in the most expensive sectors of the housing market is doing as well as...

The frenzied housing market and the uncertain wider economic outlook during the pandemic have combined to lead to a surge in...

One of the growing number of free to list property portals, Residential People, claims a record-breaking number of sales and letting...

The government claims its stamp duty holiday has supported nearly 750,000 jobs thanks to the ripple effect in the economy. A statement from HM...

Two agencies have entered the debate on whether the current frenzied housing market is seeing delays in completions. Yesterday EAT reported that...

A survey of over 2,300 home owners across the UK suggests market sentiment is mixed, with most doubting house prices have risen. The...

When it comes to the future of the property market in the wake of Covid-19, there are two main schools of...

PropertyHeads, a portal which describes itself as the industry’s social network, has sold a three per cent stake partly to raise funds...

Rightmove, which recently posted a 37 per cent drop in revenue for the first six months of 2020, has lost almost...

A leading agent says the government’s new Coronavirus clampdown from Monday will push more home owners to sell. Caspar Harvard-Wills, a partner at...

House prices rose again in August to reach a record high level according to Halifax, which is part of the Lloyds...

Knight Frank says its analysis of the whole housing market across the UK shows that transactions in the final full week...

NAEA Propertymark has thrown its weight behind a Competitions and Markets Authority investigation into whether consumer protection law has been broken...

Record house prices recorded this week by the Nationwide index are set to go higher still according to a leading agent. Nationwide...

A specialist property lender says transactions are being delayed by key staff being furloughed. Gareth Lewis, commercial director of property lender MT...

There’s good news from the think-tank the Resolution Foundation, which says the threat of negative equity because of the Coronavirus crisis...

Recent speculation that the so-called Bank of Mum and Dad would be playing a reduced role in the housing market has...

A new study reveals that two thirds of property professionals expect a pay rise in the next 12 months, despite Coronavirus and the recession. Of 1,100 professionals questioned...

OneDome, which operates two free-to-list property listing sites, says it’s had a record month as it strives to build an alternative...

Figures from Zoopla quantify how Coronavirus is changing the market, with houses selling significantly faster than flats. The latest market report from...

With the UK officially in what has been described as the single worst national recession in the world, one agency has...

Data from Rightmove shows that demand is up 61 per cent compared to the same period last year - and the...

In another sign of the buoyant housing market, estate agency Savills is breaking tradition by staging its first ever August auction...

Zoopla has been awarded £50,000 of premium ad space with the Telegraph Media Group in recognition of a campaign to help the UK...

The scale of the market bounce back after lockdown is made clear in new figures from HM Revenue & Customs. It registers...

Whisper it quietly but in just 10 days time we have the final Bank Holiday before Christmas. We would like to mark...

The number of people moving home dropped by almost a third in the first half of 2020, as the global pandemic...

You may not actually have missed it, but the UK House Price Index - the official government index - returns this...

A leading expert on estate agency and the housing market in Australia has lifted the lid on how Purplebricks failed down...

The latest market snapshot by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors warns the current boom may not continue as government support measures...

The number of jobs advertised as available in the UK real estate sector plummeted from 14,000 at the end of the...

It has been three months since the property market was given the green light to reopen. During this time, we have...

Connells Group has announced its trading statement for the first half of 2020 - and its support for its staff is...

The share of owners putting their homes on the market within five years of buying is rising again according to an...

An investment adviser says Purplebricks remains “far too risky” for investors even though it now has “a fighting chance of survival”. Rodney...

Knight Frank says the stamp duty holiday for properties at £500,000 and below should be made permanent. The holiday is due to...

Agents have been understandably delighted at the latest Halifax index which shows house prices posting their biggest gain of the year...

It must have been a close thing on Friday as to whose faces were looking the most glum - those at...

Zoopla has revealed details of its biggest ever marketing campaign in a bid to cash in on agents’ growing dissatisfaction with...

The UK residential activities of high-end agency Savills suffered a 54 per cent reduction in profits and an eight per cent...

The proportion of the asking price achieved on average in the past year is 95.8 per cent according to a new survey. Comparison...

It’s probably not a surprise but new research has revealed where people want to move to - as well as where...

The chairman of LSL Property Services - Simon Embley - says he is “increasingly optimistic” about the outlook for the market,...

A BBC presenter has used her local newspaper column to mock an estate agency for suggesting fridge magnets be removed to improve...

The Nationwide says annual house price growth has recovered to 1.5 per cent. Its July house price index says the fall in...

One of the main points I’ve had reinforced to me from agent after agent over the last year of hosting a...

The debate over whether For Sale boards remain a valuable source of publicity has been in the headlines of late -...

A housing market snapshot for prime London shows a fall of over half in the number of £1m-plus properties sold so...

Mortgage approvals - a key indicator of short-term activity in the housing market - beat expectations in June according to Bank...

Government leaks to mainstream and building trade media suggest the controversial Help To Buy scheme will be extended beyond its end-of-2020 deadline. An...

Zoopla says while there may be speculation about people fleeing London and big urban areas for the countryside, the evidence suggests...

The housing market is still booming according to data released by the National Association of Estate Agents Propertymark - although the...

Zoopla says its sale and vendor leads have reached a 2020 high, beating volumes delivered even during the strong start to the...

If a week is a long time in politics (an old phrase, for younger readers), then a year is a very long...

The EweMove hybrid agency has been singled out for special praise in a trading statement from its parent company, which also...

Zoopla's Research and Insight Director Richard Donnell writes: Just over a fortnight on since the Chancellor announced the Stamp Duty holiday and...

Agents have almost unanimously been reporting a big surge in business since the reopening of the housing market, but new figures...

Large scale increases in and changes to the Capital Gains Tax regime could seriously hurt the housing market, a senior figure...

Speculation is mounting that Capital Gains Tax could for the first time be applied to gains made when owners sell first...

Rightmove says it’s going to reject over £150,000 in payouts from the government's Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. The portal furloughed 160 employees...

Rightmove is reporting a mini-boom that was existing even before the stamp duty holiday - enough to propel average asking prices...

Knight Frank has reported a remarkable set of figures for June showing how the housing market has bounced back with a...

Tuesday of this week was the busiest day of the year so far for searches for mortgages - widely seen as...

A think tank says the stamp duty holiday introduced a week ago is understandable and may be helpful to the housing...

With stamp duty cuts and 90% mortgages on their way back, anyone could think the housing market was about to go...

A major agency is warning that the current stamp duty holiday could leave the housing market in a state of lethargy...

Britain’s second largest lender is to offer 90 per cent loan to value mortgages once again from next Monday - a...

The Welsh First Minister, Mark Drakeford, has suggested that there will be further housing market lockdown easing later this month. His announcement...

The investment bank UBS says it’s forecasting that Rightmove revenues will be down £53m in the first half of this year. “The...

A property law firm is calling on the government to backdate the stamp duty holiday to include those buyers who completed...

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...