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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A ‘disrupter’ estate agent says the English housing market operates in a way that is far less efficient than Scotland’s -...

Over 250,000 non-homeowners appear to have given up on the dream of owning their own property in the past year alone,...

The Conservatives have this morning announced a reform of the house buying process in the party’s manifesto for the June 8...

The Liberal Democrats have set a building target of 300,000 new homes a year, have pledged to scrap housing association Right...

Almost half the agents in London surveyed by LonRes say that 10 per cent or more of their vendor clients intend...

Home buyers borrowed £11.2 billion in March - down on the ‘stamp duty bonanza‘ period at the same time last year...

Official figures from the latest UK House Price Index show that average house prices fell by 0.6% between February and March. The...

The boss of the UK's largest independent agency has called on the government to be 'radical' and consider a range of...

Since the seventies, housing starts and completions across England and Wales have been on a downward trajectory. The long run average...

Is it the Brexit triggering of Article 50, the snap General Election or the cold weather we have had until recently?...

An attempt to raffle a property - like the much-publicised case of an owner in south east London, which reached some...

The tactic of reducing the asking price of a retirement apartment by £1,000 per week appears to have worked - the...

Cash is becoming an increasingly large proportion of the funding used to buy homes according to a new analysis of transactions...

There are more mortgage products available to buyers now than at any time since 2008 according to respected finance monitor service...

The next few weeks leading to the General Election on June 8 are likely to have “a short term adverse impact...

The director of a respected mortgage broker is warning that market sentiment is changing with more down-valuations from surveyors and some...

It’s that time of year again – peak conference/event season. And, while Brexit and a shock snap general election are dominating...

The Bank of England is warning that approvals of mortgages for property purchases in March were at a lower-than-expected 66,837, the weakest...

More than one in three first time buyers have missed out on potential home deals because their deposit was too small...

Trevor Abrahmsohn, one of London’s best known estate agents and a founder of OnTheMarket, says stamp duty should be split between...

Speculation has grown that the Conservatives may make a manifesto pledge to remove some family homes’ long-established exemption from Capital Gains...

HMRC says there has been a five per cent drop on the number of transactions attracting stamp duty in the first...

House prices recorded their second consecutive monthly fall in April, while the annual rate of growth slowed to 2.6 per cent,...

Not only did Theresa May stun everyone with her decision to call a ‘snap election’ but with the campaign now underway...

The number of properties available to buy on agents’ books decreased to 39 last month - the lowest amount recorded for...

House price inflation in London continues to slow and has now reached 4.9 per cent year-on-year according to Hometrack. London is now among...

A London estate agency’s analysis of the latest Land Registry data suggests transactions in the capital are the lowest ever recorded.  Land...

The snap General Election on June 8 adds to uncertainty but does not significantly worsen the market for prime properties in...

First time buyer registrations in the past month have jumped nearly 20 per cent across the UK and almost 30 per...

The price of property coming to the market has hit anoher record high, up 1.1 per cent over the past month...

Property transactions rose marginally in March this year, up 0.5 per cent on February’s total according to figures from HM Revenue...

I wrote last month about how the Government, in introducing a 3% stamp duty surcharge on second homes, had scored an...

The Financial Conduct Authority says it is to review lenders offering solely interest-only mortgages to home owners. In its business plan for...

Average UK house price growth will reach 2.2 per cent this year, a rise of £4,460 that will see the average...

A prominent housing expert says estate agents must not merely sell homes but should become “lifelong consumer property advisors.” Kate Faulkner -...

Estate agents have been broadly supportive of the decision by Prime Minister Theresa May to push for a snap General Election...

A survey from a financial organisation suggests that nearly half of the UK public says they would support a government incentive...

The industry has broadly welcomed the shock announcement of a June 8 General Election as a chance to end long term...

Your Move’s latest house price index shows that the average house price in England and Wales is now £301,278 after a...

One of the biggest stories post-Brexit is how the housing market has proven to be more resilient than anyone could have...

Hunters has told investors that its revenues rose 15 per cent to £13.8m in the year to the end of December,...

The website Home, which monitors asking prices, says prices have rallied strongly in the last month but thanks to growing inflation...

A building society claims that in the past three years alone no fewer than 1.2m buyers have given up on house...