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![Savills makes drastic U-turn on housing market forecast for 2024](/upload/images/shutterstock_2371809077.jpg)
Savills has today upgraded its five-year UK mainstream house price forecast to reflect the stronger than expected start to the year...
07 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![MPs launch inquiry into home buying and selling process](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
MPs have launched an inquiry on improving the home buying and selling process in England. The Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (LUHC)...
27 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![‘Bank of Family’ to fund record number of property purchases claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/2_MortgageCalculated.png)
Record numbers of homebuyers are set to get on the property ladder with the help of the “Bank of Family” this...
30 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Belvoir trading update: Lettings income offsets sales slump](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/House-pounds_400x310.png)
Belvoir has reported revenue growth for the first half of 2023 despite “challenging market conditions,” with its lettings performance offsetting lower...
04 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![LSL warns of 'challenging market conditions'](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LearningAgents-400x310.png)
LSL has warned of a slowdown in sales and a rise in fall-throughs at the agency as it issued a “cautious...
25 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents still positive as Nationwide warns housing market has lost momentum](/upload/images/library/Nationwide-logo400x310.png)
House price growth slowed in August but remains in double digits, Nationwide figures have revealed. The lender’s August House Price Index shows...
02 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Plans for 50-year intergenerational mortgages get cautious welcome](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/BorisJohnson-3-400x310.png)
Long-term 50-year mortgages that can be passed on by parents to their children appear to be the latest idea from the...
04 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![LSL reveals record exchange pipeline but warns of slowing market](/upload/images/Logos/LSLPropertyServices-400x310.jpg)
LSL has reported a 16% drop in estate agency residential exchange income but says it is sales pipeline is at record...
27 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Upbeat results from agency group despite forecast of transactions slump](/upload/images/library/PropertyTransactionsConcept-400x310.jpg)
The LSL Property Services group - which is increasingly focussing activities in the mortgage and personal finance world - has issued...
16 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Government pledge for upfront sales info hailed as big advance](/upload/images/library/PropertyInformationKeys-400x310.jpg)
The government’s call for a pack of property information to be made available upfront during the sales process has been welcomed...
07 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![New-style Home Information Pack proposed by government](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/MichaelGove-400x310.jpg)
The government’s Levelling Up White Paper, released today, contains an unexpected and shock commitment - to create a new 'lite' version...
02 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![London still hogs property value despite ‘race for space’](/upload/images/Locations/London400x310.jpg)
The total value of all UK homes broke the £8 trillion barrier in 2021 according to Savills - and London is...
01 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![New Normal means fewer house sales and less lending](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/PropertyTransactionsConcept-400x310.jpg)
Mortgage lenders serving the housing market are set for a quieter 2022 after the unprecedented levels of activity seen in 2021,...
11 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![House price rises similar to those before 2007 crash - Nationwide](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/HousingMarket-400x310.png)
Annual house price growth hit 10.0 per cent last month - and is now tracking close to the level seen before...
02 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![This year's transactions set to be their highest for 14 years](/upload/images/library/PropertyTransaction-400x310.jpg)
The housing market is on track to record its strongest year since 2007 for transactions and house price inflation says Zoopla. The...
26 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Stamp Duty Holiday slammed for not helping “levelling up”](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/RishiSunak-400x310.jpg)
The Guardian has sharply criticised Chancellor Rishi Sunak for introducing and then extending the stamp duty holiday - because helping estate...
25 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Imagine there’s no stamp duty - It’s easy if you try…](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/StampDuty1-400x310.jpg)
A third of owners would consider moving more regularly if the stamp duty holiday on the first £500,000 of a purchase...
01 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Good news - there are more mortgages and many are cheaper](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s not just housing transactions that signal a red-hot market - the mortgage landscape is at its strongest for some time...
11 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![End of stamp duty holiday leads to drop in mortgage approvals](/img/default/eat.png)
Mortgage approvals declined slightly in January as the market braces itself for the end of the stamp duty holiday - currently...
02 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Boomin blasts Rightmove as bleak, broken and bloated](/img/default/eat.png)
An open letter from Boomin chief executive Michael Bruce shows how fierce the competition is going to be in the portal field...
26 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Brexit and Boris backer calls for stamp duty to be scrapped](/img/default/eat.png)
One of the chief figures behind Brexit and Boris Johnson’s role as London Mayor is now advising that stamp duty should be...
09 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![D-Day - will MPs back industry call for stamp duty holiday extension?](/img/default/eat.png)
Today’s the day when Parliament debates a possible extension to the stamp duty holiday beyond its March 31 cliff edge deadline...
01 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Failed Sales fear as Stamp Duty Holiday cliff edge approaches](/img/default/eat.png)
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...
27 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Stamp Duty Holiday: Did market need it? Have buyers really benefitted?](/img/default/eat.png)
A leading analyst is questioning whether buyers have benefitted from the stamp duty holiday because demand has purshed up prices far...
22 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Cliff-edge end to Stamp Duty Holiday will not hurt market, says analyst](/img/default/eat.png)
One of the housing market’s senior analysts says the end of the stamp duty holiday on March 31 would not be...
15 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Brexit could be good for house prices predicts top market commentator](/img/default/eat.png)
Anthony Codling, the City analyst who made his name as a scourge of Purplebricks, says Brexit may be good news for the...
04 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![SDLT holiday could be tapered or restricted to first timers - top agent](/img/default/eat.png)
One of Britain’s most respected agents is suggesting Chancellor Rishi Sunak could ‘taper’ the stamp duty holiday to avoid a cliff-edge...
28 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Hundreds of thousands extra sales thanks to SDLT holiday - claim](/img/default/eat.png)
Savills has boosted its forecast for housing transactions this year because the stamp duty holiday has been such a success at...
01 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Bank of Mum and Dad still vital to house sales, figures show](/img/default/eat.png)
Recent speculation that the so-called Bank of Mum and Dad would be playing a reduced role in the housing market has...
02 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Transactions - there’s good news and there’s bad news…](/img/default/eat.png)
The scale of the market bounce back after lockdown is made clear in new figures from HM Revenue & Customs. It registers...
24 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agents remain calm in the light of latest house price dip](/img/default/eat.png)
Agents have remained calm in the light of Nationwide’s house price index which shows the first annual fall for eight years...
02 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks’ biggest critic warns over housing market uncertainty](/img/default/eat.png)
The chief executive of a property information platform says now is a “dangerous time” to buy or sell homes because of...
22 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Delay property tax change until market revives, experts tell government](/img/default/eat.png)
A taxation institute is urging the government to delay Capital Gains Tax changes relating to housing transactions until the virus crisis...
03 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Stamp Duty Holiday - Zoopla shows how it could help the housing market](/img/default/eat.png)
Zoopla’s head of research says a stamp duty holiday could encourage more home owners to move which in turn could help...
28 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Lockdown Losses - three attempts to quantify cost of crisis to agents](/img/default/eat.png)
Business consultancy TwentyCi is the latest to try to put a value on the potential losses to the property industry and...
29 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![Reapit's PropTech deal aims to accelerate completions and cut fall-throughs](/img/default/eat.png)
PropTech big names Reapit and ViewMyChain are joining up to try to accelerate transactions when the lockdown finally ends and the...
24 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![Government told to raise stamp duty threshold to trigger recovery](/img/default/eat.png)
The government has been told that raising the stamp duty threshold would both trigger more house moves, and bring the tax...
13 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![Is mortgage-provision a growth area for estate agents?](/img/default/eat.png)
A new analysis from a financial services trade body shows that gross mortgage lending is expected to rise significantly in the...
17 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![General election 2019: The housing crisis remains a top issue](/img/default/eat.png)
With Brexit still unresolved, the domestic agenda has been pushed from the headlines by the seemingly overwhelming public and political discord...
07 December 2019
From: Features
![Conveyancers report big drop in transactions as Brexit hits home](/img/default/eat.png)
There’s been a significant drop in the number of housing transactions dealt with by conveyancers in the first nine months of...
19 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Top Tory says scrap stamp duty on most homes, slash it on others](/img/default/eat.png)
A former 10 Downing Street adviser says stamp duty on house sales should be scrapped or at least slashed in order...
29 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Surge in high-end deals in recent years, despite wider market woe](/img/default/eat.png)
The number of prime residential housing transactions has increased rapidly in the past two decades and even in the past five...
28 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Named and shamed: local councils with the slowest searches](/img/default/eat.png)
A trade body has sharply criticised HM Land Registry for its slow progress on digitising local searches after a promising start...
17 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Planning rules relaxed ‘to avoid owners selling homes’](/img/default/eat.png)
Homeowners will be able to extend properties more easily instead of moving home. In a surprise announcement this morning - less than...
25 May 2019
From: Breaking News
![Older ‘Last Time Buyers’ now a growing part of the market, figures reveal](/img/default/eat.png)
As many as one transaction in three is now undertaken by a so-called Last Time Buyer - twice as many as...
09 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![PropTech is the way to safeguard High Street branches - Connells](/img/default/eat.png)
Connells Group says investment in PropTech will be the way to safeguard its almost-600 High Street branches - and it’s repeated...
28 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![We're off! First agency prediction for 2019 and it's (fairly) upbeat](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s November so forecasts for next year are beginning to emerge from high-end agencies with research departments - and the first one...
01 November 2018
From: Breaking News
!['Brexit smog' blamed for long-term slump in Foxtons' share price](/img/default/eat.png)
The investment bank Jefferies says Foxtons’ long-running share price slump is a reflection of Brexit uncertainty “until we find out what...
14 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Online agents have under 1% share in prime central London - LonRes](/img/default/eat.png)
The chairman of LonRes says online estate agents have only a one per cent share of the market in prime central...
13 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![More trouble for Countrywide as bank slashes key 'target price'](/img/default/eat.png)
The Swiss investment bank Credit Suisse has slashed its target share price for the company from 77p to only 17.2p. The reason...
09 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Is this why transactions have slumped? Equity Release hits a new high...](/img/default/eat.png)
Only 24 hours after the Land registry released data showing a 20 per cent slump in housing transactions, new figures from...
20 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![London house prices set to fall next year as well as this - PwC](/img/default/eat.png)
House prices in London are projected to fall in the short-term, down by two per cent by the end of 2018...
17 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![Trouble ahead thanks to older home owners, lenders warn](/img/default/eat.png)
Gross mortgage lending is set to reach its highest level since 2007 despite Brexit, says the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association. But its...
29 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![New online tool promises real-time updates on conveyancing cases](/img/default/eat.png)
Conveyancing services firm My Home Move has launched a portal which it claims gives users complete transparency checking their conveyancing progress. eWay, which is...
14 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Conveyancer says transaction problems down to others and not solicitors](/img/default/eat.png)
A law firm says the problems with housing transactions lie not with issues like fall-throughs but with “people’s general lack of...
07 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![What next for property in 2018?](/img/default/eat.png)
What a year it’s been! Back in 2016 we had Brexit, a new prime minister, Donald Trump’s election, and so when...
30 December 2017
From: Features
![More London house price woe but UK market is stable - Nationwide](/img/default/eat.png)
UK house price inflation is now running at a modest 2.0 per cent but London's housing market has recorded its worst...
02 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![The market’s missing homemovers](/img/default/eat.png)
It appears activity in the housing market in 2017 will be around 15% down on 2016. The number of housing transactions...
16 September 2017
From: Features
![Three reasons why we need stamp duty reform](/img/default/eat.png)
Whenever any research is released, part of me can’t help thinking of that old adage, ‘lies, damn lies and statistics’ especially...
02 September 2017
From: Features
![Countrywide: architect of 'online option' is latest to leave](/img/default/eat.png)
Sources within Countrywide say the latest senior management figure to leave the company is Sam Tyrer, who under her title of...
17 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Profits plunge at Countrywide as CEO admits tough year so far](/img/default/eat.png)
Countrywide has revealed a massive plunge in its profits for the first six months of 2017. Pre-tax profit for the six months...
27 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![General election 2017: Facing the UK’s housing crisis](/img/default/eat.png)
Theresa May’s call for a snap general election on June 8 took many by surprise. But estate agents have been broadly...
03 June 2017
From: Features
![Annual house prices up just 3.3% in England and Wales says agency](/img/default/eat.png)
Your Move’s latest house price index shows that the average house price in England and Wales is now £301,278 after a...
18 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Budget 2017 wishlist: Expectations from the property sector](/img/default/eat.png)
Looking ahead to the Spring Budget this week, the Chancellor Philip Hammond will be obliged to face up to the implications...
04 March 2017
From: Features
![Ability to cut staffing is critical to Foxtons future, says analyst](/img/default/eat.png)
The flexibility of Foxtons’ business model - especially its ability to control headcount, including the number of agents it employs -...
12 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![Countrywide downgraded by City investment consultancy](/img/default/eat.png)
Jefferies, a major City adviser, is downgrading its 2016 estimate for Countrywide’s performance over the rest of this year. In a statement...
25 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Bank of England says housing transactions 'resilient' despite Brexit](/img/default/eat.png)
The Bank of England says there has been a dip in the housing market activity after the Brexit referendum result -...
21 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![20% rise in transactions by 2020 - if only things hadn't changed...](/img/default/eat.png)
Conveyancing firm My Home Move has come up with an interesting view of how the housing market could look if -...
19 May 2016
From: Breaking News
![All change? Industry to be asked how to shake-up house buying](/img/default/eat.png)
The government is staying tight-lipped about it for the moment but there may be a major shake-up in house buying on...
11 May 2016
From: Breaking News
![Prices may stay buoyant despite stamp duty deadline passing, says analyst](/img/default/eat.png)
The price of a typical home increased by 0.8 per cent in March, while the annual rate of house price growth...
04 April 2016
From: Breaking News
![2016 will need some thought](/img/default/eat.png)
In many respects 2015 has been a good year. Despite global challenges, we have seen a marked improvement in the UK...
11 December 2015
From: Features
![Senior industry figure says 'one other portal' rule has led to transaction decline](/img/default/eat.png)
One of the best known figures in estate agency consultancy, Richard Rawlings, has written to OnTheMarket urging it to drop the...
30 October 2015
From: Breaking News
![C’mon, CHAPS, let’s have the truth](/img/default/eat.png)
Last month it was announced that the CHAPS payment system will be extended by one hour and forty minutes from summer...