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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Some of Britain’s top property experts say bureaucracy, lack of cooperation and a dwindling number of smaller builders are the main...

An estate agency chain has produced strikingly successful sales figures for the first half of the year - evidence, it says,...

Two more price reports from high-end agencies make grim reading about the prime London housing market. New data from Savills suggests that...

Purplebricks is reported to be set to reveal increasing losses when it issues its full-year financial results to the London Stock...

Hometrack says other cities are now closing the gap on London in terms of house prices and market value. The latest Hometrack UK...

In what is regarded as his most important speech since becoming housing minister, Dominic Raab has told a conference that it...

House prices rose at their slowest annual rate in five years in June according to the latest indicator of this summer’s...

Just as some estate agents are reported to be making plans to retrench if the housing market continues to be sluggish,...

Purplebricks says it completely rejects any claim of bullying its representatives in Australia. The Australian Financial Review, which last week reported the...

To say this is a turbulent time for UK politics would be something of an understatement. As I write, the Brexit...

It looks as if Purplebricks has hit something less than a purple patch in the Australian housing market. The Australian Financial Review,...

High-end housebuilder Berkeley Homes says “macro and political uncertainty, including Brexit” is leading to some developers previously building in London to...

The Money editor of The Mirror newspaper has finally sold a home he first put on the market in late 2016...

Potential first-time buyers in every area of the UK would have lower monthly outgoings if they bought a property rather than...

The housing market “is clearly currently struggling to gain traction” and any real upturn ”will remain elusive over the coming months”...

Summer is traditionally the time of the year when the property market slows down, with people going away on their holidays...

A survey of owner-occupiers, landlords, property investors and insolvency practitioners has revealed that Brexit is the single biggest concern when it...

The average asking price of newly marketed property continues to rise according to Rightmove - and this is despite a dip...

Location, Location, Location: it’s no coincidence the TV show seized on that title because the importance of a property’s position is...

Government figures are the latest to show that house prices are still going up - but with a reduced rate of...

More stock and longer times on the market are combining to create a surge in asking price reductions according to a...

The proportion of homes sold in London was lower than any other part of England and Wales last year according to...

Prices grew at a faster than expected rate last month according to the Halifax House Price Index, which has reported a...

May saw the highest number of new sellers list their properties in any single month for at least 18 months, claims...

A poll of housing market experts suggests London house prices are likely to fall this year as a result of Brexit...

Major auction companies continue to claim successes despite the challenging housing market. Auction House says a recent auction of London properties produced...

One of the country’s leading experts on the housing market says first time buyers are still hampered from purchasing homes despite...

The housing market has swung back in favour of property sellers, according to the latest data from estate agents. NAEA Propertymark's Housing...

Research by Zoopla suggests that homeowners' confidence in the property market is on the rise.  The property website's latest Housing Market Sentiment...

Despite numerous reports of a 'stagnant market' and predictions of a 'housing bust', conveyancers have 'bounced back after a disappointing end...

How can you use data to benefit and better your business? It’s something you’ll no doubt have asked yourself down the...

As housing market stakeholders we’ve all had a month or so to try and digest the government’s own response to its...

Consumer body Which? is warning that those who used the Help To Buy equity loan to purchase their homes could face...

A service that tracks different types of mortgage demand reveals that remortgaging is on the rise while borrowing for new purchases...

New data from Haart estate agency suggests that despite many homes sticking on the market, apparently would be buyers are locked...

The housing market may have seen some depressing figures of late but there’s good news about mortgage arrears - they’re at...

The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee has decided to keep the base rate unchanged at 0.5 per cent this month. The...

Recent figures from the mainstream housing market may suggest a disappointing performance so far this year but Auction House, the UK’s...

House prices in the three months to the end of April were 2.2 per cent higher than in the same period...

Ever wondered what it’s like to be on the frontline of property journalism? Well, wonder no more, as our very own...

London’s housing market may be in the doldrums but two estate agencies have shown faith in its long-term recovery with moves...

The massive wealth of owners over 55 has been revealed by a new survey. They own £938 billion of UK housing, a figure...

Some 45 per cent of so-called Empty Nesters - older owners whose children have left home permanently - say they are...

Research from the Nationwide suggests that the share of cash transactions has declined over the past 18 months, at least partly...

Given the level of resource and energy being put behind upping the number of first-time buyers in the UK, you might...

Fewer mortgages were approved for home buyers last month than in the same month a year ago according to figures from...

LSL Property Services has issued a warning that market conditions are softer than expected so far in 2018 and that transaction...

Countrywide, the troubled agency group which today holds its annual general meeting, says it is “encouraged by the early progress that...

Leading housing analyst Kate Faulkner says the current low transaction level is “a little scary” because with so few sellers, buyers...

Stubbornly high house prices and concerns over leasehold-related charges top the list of worries amongst the public about the housing market. That’s...

The Henley Business School is often identified with cutting edge forecasts - but now it has revealed the history of what...

The UK’s largest property auctioneer says its first quarter’s sales figures for 2018 are ahead of those for the same period...

There has been a big rise in activity in the equity release market based on data from the first quarter of...

Property purchases for buyers requiring mortgages reached 50,000 in February, the highest level for the month since 2007.  The data, from mortgage...

Prices of new-to-the-market property rose by a modest 0.4 per cent over the past month says Rightmove - but that’s enough...

Franchise giant Hunters says independent agencies which joined the firm in recent years have typically beaten the performance of the housing market. Chief...

The latest mortgage snapshot from e.surv has reinforced recent claims from other sources that London’s housing market remains the most difficult...

Demand is down for the 12th successive month according to the latest market survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. New...

There were 43 per cent more new properties listed for sale than in the same month last year according to online...

Agency Express, which reported a muted housing market in February, says the pace picked up considerably last month. The board company, which...

The latest house price index figures from the Halifax gives just the spur the market may need as the spring sales...

The Property Ombudsman, Katrine Sporle, is to hold a briefing on the government’s redress reform on Wednesday - five days before...

A leading estate agent says his findings confirm those of the latest house price index in suggesting that prices are turning...

Gross mortgage lending is set to reach its highest level since 2007 despite Brexit, says the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association. But its...

House price growth in London has hit a seven year low according to Hometrack, with prices actually down across 42 per...

One day, I’ll sit down to write for Estate Agent Today and I won’t express my dismay at the lack of...

Countrywide has revealed precisely how many brands, branches and staff it has following the extensive and multiple restructurings of recent years. In...

The Haart agency group has given an upbeat picture of the housing market in its latest figures with instructions up 15...

House prices started 2018 with a modest 0.3 per cent drop across the UK as a whole, including 0.5 per cent...

Figures just released assessing February’s mortgage borrowing show that approvals are 1.25 per cent lower than in January, and are down...

Only one local authority in England and Wales has an average house price below £100,000 - while in every London borough...

For many estate agents seeking to become entrepreneurs, the idea of starting their own business is undoubtedly daunting, especially when going...

Have you noticed a new turf war going on on the fringes of the agency world? It’s not a high-profile battle like...

Rightmove’s latest assessment of the housing market suggests that Newport in Gwent is the fastest moving area in Britain for vendors. A...

The switchback of house price indices and other data on the state of the market has taken a turn for the...

The Ernst & Young ITEM Club - a group of economists highly regarded by politicians and some sectors of the property...

New research appears to show that Purplebricks, HouseSimple, Yopa and other prominent online agencies are most popular with vendors selling in...

An estate agent and former chairman of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says the government’s latest drive to build new...

House prices fell unexpectedly in February with the Nationwide Building Society reporting a drop of 0.3 per cent. This ended some analysts’...

Brexit uncertainty and weakening consumer demand are likely to hit house prices this year, according to a survey of 33 housing...

The death of traditional TV – where viewers sit down together to watch shows at defined times – has been much...

In the great swathe of housing market data which is delivered each month, conveyancers’ case volumes often get overlooked, however the...

Agents have welcomed more data suggesting the 2018 market is enjoying a robust start. Last week Rightmove reported a record number of...

Rightmove says it has enjoyed its highest ever monthly number of visitors - 141 million in January. They spent a total of...

Conveyancing volumes shrunk by 12 per cent last year, the first annual drop in workloads since 2011 - and the struggling...

The government has launched a surprise consultation on the creation of a new redress system for customers of agents and others...

At the start of February, Nationwide suggested that the housing market was picking up. Last week, RICS reported on its continued...

The number of first-time buyers has increased 16 per cent in the past month and 10 per cent year on year...

Despite a string of property pundits suggesting the market is slowing down, new figures from the Office for National Statistics show...

The latest data from Knight Frank suggests that average prices in prime central London dropped 0.7 per cent in the year...

House price falls have been recorded in London, the South East and the North East according to data from LSL Property Services,...

There has been a 40 per cent increase in new vendors registering their properties for sale according to an online estate...

A range of factors - including fierce competition under the supplied housing market, rising property prices and political uncertainty – have...

The housing market has started 2018 as it ended 2017 according to the RICS, with new buyer enquiries, instructions and sales...

Prices in the three months to the end of January were 2.2 per cent, indicating a further slowing from the previous...

This year is going to be “challenging” for the housing market according to the influential Ernst & Young ITEM Club, a...

Hello and welcome to our latest Property Jobs Today; if you missed the launch last week, each Monday we will provide...

Whisper it quietly, but there seems to be change in the air when it comes to agents recommending lawyers based on...

Annual house price growth is now 3.2 per cent according to Nationwide - an unexpected rise from the 2.6 per cent recorded at...

House price indices provided each month by Halifax and the Nationwide have been branded as “misguiding” and “out of date” and...

A new ‘quick buy’ property company claims it will make an offer on any home within 24 hours of the vendor...

Demand for homes fell by 20 per cent year-on-year in December. There were 268 prospective home-owners registered per NAEA member branch, down...

Homes for sale in some parts of inner London are seeing price discounts of up to 10 per cent says Hometrack...

The housing market has returned to stability with exchanges up one per cent year on year and the average house price...

If you were under any misconceptions about how pivotal a role HM Land Registry is going to play in the future...

A partner at Carter Jonas says that the next 12 months could see stagnation in the market and as a result...

Auction House says it has maintained its number one industry ranking, selling 3,485 lots last year – four per cent up...

The number of transactions last year dropped to 1.22m - a minor 0.8 per cent drop on the year before and...

London’s prime central market is turning around at last according to the chief executive of Belgravia estate agency Henry & James. James...

It is now an industry truism to say that Alison Platt has transformed Countrywide - but recent evidence, and now doubt...

One of the most influential select committees in parliament has told the government that it needs to do more - much...

A set of figures produced by Haart suggests the market has had a difficult past 12 months - but the firm...

Mortgage Advice Bureau has batted off the flat housing market by reporting good figures for 2017. Revenue for the year increased by...

Connells Group’s estate agency business increased its market share of new instructions in 2017 by almost four per cent, despite a...

  A new league table showing how long it takes homes to sell on average in different postcodes across England and Wales...

As the £1m-plus housing market continues to struggle in most parts of the country, so the use of stunts and gimmicks...

Fall-through rates have long been a problem for the UK residential property market, the issue is nothing new. Today, however, the...

Figures from the Office for National Statistics show that in the year to November average house prices in the UK increased...

The number of owners selling up and moving home is at its highest level since 2007 with one exception - London.  The...

New figures from Your Move suggest that average house prices across England and Wales barely moved in 2017, increasing just 0.2...

Rightmove says its visits so far in January are running over nine per cent higher than the same period a year...

The latest house prices as indicated by the most recent index offer confirmation of “a slowing rather than collapsing market” according...

Estate agents are facing the biggest industry changes seen in decades. The rise of online and hybrid agents alongside more traditional...

Figures out this morning from the Nationwide show the first annual fall in London-wide house prices for eight years - and...

More price falls have been recorded across areas of prime London according to Savills.  The pattern is not uniform - the agency...

What a year it’s been! Back in 2016 we had Brexit, a new prime minister, Donald Trump’s election, and so when...

The last of the leading agency analysts and business consultancies have now given their predictions for the UK housing market in...

In 2017 the average seller sold their home for £92,466 more than they paid for it, having owned the home for...

Grosvenor Crescent, located in the heart of London’s Belgravia between Hyde Park Corner and Belgravia Square, is the most expensive residential...

No fewer than 85 per cent of properties sold for less than the asking price in November, the highest seen since...

This week, news broke of the ‘first bitcoin homes’ being sold in the UK by Go Move, an estate agency in...

Asking prices are being cut more heavily than at any time in the past six years says Zoopla.  It says just over...

It’s traditional before Christmas to either review the year past or anticipate the one ahead - but I’m intrigued about what...

The housing market remains flat as it heads towards 2018 according to the latest snapshot survey by the Royal Institution of...

The UK’s largest property franchise group, Belvoir, says it is reaping rewards from its acquisition of Brook Financial Services and its...

The investment service arm of international ratings agency Moody's is warning that affordability issues are likely to lead to a slowdown...

Rightmove is warning that the asking price of property coming to market has fallen by 2.6 per cent in the past...

Financial analysts over the weekend have been giving their view on Purplebricks, which later this week issues its figures for the...

The Halifax reports that house prices in the last three months, that’s between September and November, were 2.4 per cent higher...

One of the last major estate agencies to give its forecast for 2018 says London prices will drop another 0.5 per...

A survey of the housing market in 2017 from the National Association of Estate Agents suggests much of the busiest activity...

The average home in England and Wales now sells for very nearly four per cent under its original asking price - a...

Here we are again: another much anticipated Budget has been and gone and, yet, still nothing much has changed! Yes, of course,...

Foxtons says it takes just eight minutes for a purchaser to know whether they will go ahead with buying a home.  The...

House price growth appears to have stabilised at 2.5 per cent per year according to the latest index to appear, that...

The government says it is going to look at “bold options” to improve consumer redress across all aspects of housing -...

The latest market snapshot from the National Association of Estate Agents suggests that the proportion of sales made to first time...

LSL Property Services - which includes Your Move, Reeds Rains and other high street estate agencies - batted away any housing...

Countrywide chief executive Alison Platt says she welcomes the government’s scrapping of stamp duty for first time buyers purchasing homes under...

Earlier this week, Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered the Autumn Budget with a strong focus on housing.  The decision to cut stamp duty...

Housing may have taken centre stage in the Budget but most of the industry appears to remain sceptical of whether the...

The fast-growing Leaders Romans Group now looks set to grow its new homes business. Alison Guyton, currently Leaders’ head of marketing with...

A housing market expert says agents should be more pro-active and explain to the public that contrary to popular belief, some...

Another Budget, another pledge of new house building: it appears from statements made over the weekend by Chancellor Phillip Hammond that...

The housing industry has set out a list of demands in advance of the government’s hotly anticipated Autumn Budget on Wednesday.  Despite...

The average UK property takes 96 days to sell, according to a new report. The survey, by Post Office Money and the...

Jackson-Stops predicts that average UK house prices will remain flat in 2018, with stamp duty, Brexit and political uncertainties taking their...

Nicky Morgan, a former Cabinet minister and now chair of the highly respected Commons' Treasury Select Committee, is the most senior...

House price growth has been strongest in the north west of England according to the latest government figures from the Office...

Currell is defying any gloomy predictions about the capital's housing market by opening a new office at Hackney Wick Fish Island. Currell...

An estate agency has used the experiences of Cambridge, Oxford and other cities to forecast that pockets of central London's housing...

Sellers have launched "their own sale" in response to the stagnating market by slashing asking prices according to Rightmove - but...

The supply of homes coming to the market has slumped again according to a monthly survey conducted by online agency HouseSimple. September...

Despite growing concern about the health of the housing market, a string of estate agencies have made appointments this week. Connells Residential...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has issued a downbeat snapshot of the current housing market with "subdued sales trends" across...

Mortgage approvals are well above last year's levels despite concerns about the health of the housing market.  There were 66,185 mortgage applications...

The head of a major Oxford estate and lettings agency has written an open letter to Chancellor Phillip Hammond urging him...

Strutt & Parker is warning that Prime Central London prices could drop as much as five per cent in 2018 -...

It’s something of an understatement to say it’s been a busy fortnight for the industry in terms of announcements, consultations and...

The notion of a North-South divide in the UK has been around for as long as I can remember – certainly...

Savills has given a pessimistic outlook for the mainstream housing market for the next five years.  It says average house prices across...

The Bank of England has raised the base rate from 0.25 per cent to 0.5 per cent. The Bank’s monetary policy committee was...

Experts suggest that a possible interest rate rise this morning - if it is backed by a majority of members of...

Central London’s housing market is showing a recovery from price falls which followed stamp duty changes in 2014 and 2016 according...

Stamp duty on property sales is gumming up the housing market, stopping people from moving to the jobs they need, and...

A survey conducted by the National Association of Estate Agents reveals that 79 per cent of agents regard the current home-buying...

As the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee consider whether to increase base rate later this week, new figures from the...

New figures out this morning show that house builders registered nearly 38,000 new homes in the UK during the third quarter...

New Zealand’s new Labour prime minister elect has banned non-resident foreigners from buying existing homes anywhere in the country in a...

New figures from UK Finance, the umbrella body for finance houses, show gross mortgage lending in September rose to £21.4 billion...

Hunters has another new office in its network, this time in the west Yorkshire town of Cleckheaton. The franchise group, which is...

Ten jobs have been lost with the closure of a long-standing north of England estate agency - with the downward pressure...

An industry analyst says some agents may find it tough to survive in 2018 if they’re hit by a double whammy...

Another week, yet more consultations - the agency industry can’t complain about not being asked for its views recently. The latest were on...

With the Budget just over a month away, the steady stream of ‘leaks’ continues to grow as journalists and the industry...

A man dubbed as Theresa May’s ‘brain’ when he worked in Downing Street has been invited to speak at the annual...

It has been revealed that the beleaguered government of Theresa May is to hold a summit at 10 Downing Street tomorrow...

Asking prices have risen by an average of 1.1 per cent or £3,432 in the past month according to Rightmove.  This is...

Annual house price inflation is 1.3 per cent according to Your Move - even though prices dipped 0.1 per cent in...

The latest RICS market survey shows that buyer enquiries and transactions slipped back last month with expectations pointing to “a subdued...

Auction House says it has enjoyed a rise in its volume of lots sold this year, despite what it admits is...

The housing market may appear sluggish at best in many areas but data from Rightmove suggests it’s now quicker to sell...

An upbeat survey by online website HouseSimple claims there has been a 20 per cent increase in the number of homes...

Carter Jonas has made three key appointments to beef up its London team. Simon Scott has joined as an associate partner in...

Respected buying agency Black Brick says there is evidence that prices in prime central London may be stabilising and transactions volumes...

More than one in four house sales across England and Wales fell through before completion in the third quarter of 2017...

The Conservative party, in a press statement released to clarify comments made by Theresa May, says the government’s proposed extra £2...

The Welsh Government has set out the new levels of stamp duty for the country from next year onwards - and...

England faces a growing gulf between new build completions and new households being added to the population according to a new...

If the government slashed stamp duty for the country’s most expensive properties the entire housing market would benefit, an estate agency...

UK house price inflation is now running at a modest 2.0 per cent but London's housing market has recorded its worst...

UBS says London's housing market still faces the risk of becoming a bubble - although that risk has marginally eased over...

Confidence in buying property remains negative according to the quarterly sentiment measure undertaken by the Building Societies Association. Over a quarter of...

Online petitions appear to be the flavour of the week - the latest is calling for the government’s Help to Buy...

Savills has revised its forecasts for the housing market and says that uncertainty over the impact of Brexit points to two...

Mortgage lending reached £24.2 billion in August according to latest estimates by UK Finance. There were some 41,807 house purchase approvals, with...

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...