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With Brexit still unresolved, the domestic agenda has been pushed from the headlines by the seemingly overwhelming public and political discord...

There’s been a significant drop in the number of housing transactions dealt with by conveyancers in the first nine months of...

A former 10 Downing Street adviser says stamp duty on house sales should be scrapped or at least slashed in order...

The number of prime residential housing transactions has increased rapidly in the past two decades and even in the past five...

A trade body has sharply criticised HM Land Registry for its slow progress on digitising local searches after a promising start...

Homeowners will be able to extend properties more easily instead of moving home. In a surprise announcement this morning - less than...

As many as one transaction in three is now undertaken by a so-called Last Time Buyer - twice as many as...

Connells Group says investment in PropTech will be the way to safeguard its almost-600 High Street branches - and it’s repeated...

It’s November so forecasts for next year are beginning to emerge from high-end agencies with research departments - and the first one...

The investment bank Jefferies says Foxtons’ long-running share price slump is a reflection of Brexit uncertainty “until we find out what...

The chairman of LonRes says online estate agents have only a one per cent share of the market in prime central...

The Swiss investment bank Credit Suisse has slashed its target share price for the company from 77p to only 17.2p.  The reason...

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

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

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

Conveyancing services firm My Home Move has launched a portal which it claims gives users complete transparency checking their conveyancing progress.  eWay, which is...

A law firm says the problems with housing transactions lie not with issues like fall-throughs but with “people’s general lack of...

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

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

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

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

Sources within Countrywide say the latest senior management figure to leave the company is Sam Tyrer, who under her title of...

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

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

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

Looking ahead to the Spring Budget this week, the Chancellor Philip Hammond will be obliged to face up to the implications...

The flexibility of Foxtons’ business model - especially its ability to control headcount, including the number of agents it employs -...

Jefferies, a major City adviser, is downgrading its 2016 estimate for Countrywide’s performance over the rest of this year. In a statement...

The Bank of England says there has been a dip in the housing market activity after the Brexit referendum result -...

Conveyancing firm My Home Move has come up with an interesting view of how the housing market could look if -...

The government is staying tight-lipped about it for the moment but there may be a major shake-up in house buying on...

The price of a typical home increased by 0.8 per cent in March, while the annual rate of house price growth...

In many respects 2015 has been a good year. Despite global challenges, we have seen a marked improvement in the UK...

One of the best known figures in estate agency consultancy, Richard Rawlings, has written to OnTheMarket urging it to drop the...

Last month it was announced that the CHAPS payment system will be extended by one hour and forty minutes from summer...

Lending for house buying is still down compared to this time last year but there are signs that the market is...