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Every year the media writes a lot about house price crashes, and often pose the question whether this is the year...

I’ve found myself in contemplative mode this week, looking forward to the future and remembering times past. In the immediate future –...

A group of mortgage advisers has proposed a range of reforms to reduce barriers to home ownership for first time buyers. The...

A rule change has been introduced this week in a bid to make equity release customers reduce interest costs. The option to...

The head of research at a leading agency is warning that although the housing market remains buoyant, there may be macro-economic...

The distribution of home ownership across different generations has been a cause of strife according to a think-tank. The Resolution Foundation’s latest...

A new paper from a think tank warns that many low income owner occupiers risk losing their homes when the mortgage...

The Financial Conduct Authority is reported to be considering offering homeowners up to 12 month’s mortgage holidays. Currently 1.2m mortgage payment holidays...

Over 1.2m mortgage payment holidays have been offered by lenders to customers impacted by the Coronavirus crisis - that’s equivalent to...

A record £8.2 billion was paid in Capital Gains Tax in 2017/18 - over £1 billion more than the year before.  The...

A 1.0 per cent interest rate rise would add £930 a year to the cost of servicing the average mortgage, according...

We recently witnessed the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) increase the base interest rate for the first time since...

The stock exchange seems to be on everyone’s lips at the moment. There’s Agents’ Mutual seeking to float on the Alternative Investment...

The rapid growth in popularity of buy-to-let in recent years, fuelled in part by the failings of the pensions industry, has...

2016 was quite a year – eventful, dramatic, shocking and impossible to predict. In no particular order, we saw Leicester winning...

The rental market has had to face a raft of changes over the past year, including the introduction of the 3% stamp...

I’m indebted to one of the most enthusiastic estate agents I’ve had the pleasure of meeting for suggesting the subject of...

Sales skills, and the ability to negotiate in particular, have always been a core ingredient for any estate agent – and...

We talk about the unstoppable rise of buy-to-let and forget that it was only as recently as the early 1970’s that...

New proposals to curtail mortgage borrowing in the buy to let sector have been branded as “a classic case of slamming...

A key Bank of England body has revealed its proposals for tougher borrowing standards to prevent buy to let lending overheating the wider...

With less than a month to go before the new rate of stamp duty kicks in for second property purchasers, we’re...

Another online petition has been launched against one of Chancellor George Osborne’s fiscal measures seen as an attack on the private...

In January readers of Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today were given the opportunity to give their views on proposed...

Credit rating service Moody’s is warning that restrictions on mortgage interest relief for buy-to-let landlords will slow house price growth in...

Consider the scene. It is July 8th and new Chancellor, Ed Balls, stands at the Dispatch Box giving his first Budget...

Wednesday’s budget proved a grim viewing for those who have worked in the rental sector for some time and watched the...

Agents have expressed their disappointment at the decision by the government to restrict mortgage interest relief for Buy To let investors...