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There are often very grim snapshots of the current property crisis.  But one of the most shocking I’ve read in a long...

The Government’s First Homes Scheme is set to be the first state-backed initiative to use digital property logbooks. It comes after a...

Some people will say: What problem? But they are getting fewer as the detrimental effect of increasing numbers of short lets on...

What a difference two months and some local elections make. Cast your minds back to March 9 and the annual report of...

The stamp duty holiday concluded at midnight, marking the end of the busiest period for the industry - all parts of...

A surprise statement from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says the stamp duty holiday, which goes on until the end...

Agents have given their backing to the government’s First Homes initiative, offering discounted houses for local people and key workers and...

Propertymark has thrown its weight behind the government’s First Homes initiative, describing it as “creative” and saying it’s a sign of...

A 10-point ’must have’ list of demands for Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget on March 3 has been issued by NAEA Propertymark. It’s...

London mayor Sadiq Khan is reported to be asking the Prime Minister to review the status of ‘essential retail’ which can...

The industry seems almost back to normal. Not the ‘new normal’ we spoke so much of a few weeks and months ago,...

Recent figures emanating from the mortgage and housing market suggest that – since lockdown was ended in mid-May – transaction levels...

The National Association of Estate Agents wants the government to initiate a mortgage guarantee scheme to encourage more 95 per cent...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has confirmed that the First Homes scheme will provide newly built homes at a 30 per cent...

Since my last column in April, one could argue that very little has changed for agents in terms of the market...

The Mail Online is running a story on estate agents allegedly breaking the lockdown by conducting physical viewings in recent weeks...

Hello - yes it’s Friday in case you lost track, and that means it’s Agents Do Charity day: and once again...

We are still living in highly extraordinary times, perhaps evidenced best by the fact that the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, was...

The Police and Crime Commissioner for an area with thousands of holiday homes wants their owners to make them available to...

An online agency has offered to sell the homes of NHS frontline staff for free. Doorsteps, set up by high profile young...

Where else to start? Since my last Natter two weeks ago, all our lives have changed more than we could ever...

A senior figure in the industry has spoken out against the shock sackings and branch closures announced by Spicerhaart. Jon Cooke, chief...

There are reasons to be optimistic that a majority government will improve the housing market, simply by ending political and economic...

The government has given details of a scheme allowing 30 per cent reductions for what it calls ‘local first time buyers’...

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

It’s been six years since the Help to Buy scheme was launched, with the honourable intentions of helping more people onto...

Recently a number of politicians and charities have been calling for the introduction of rent controls or rent freezes in the...

Just a couple of weeks ago, we waited with anticipation to see what the new Chancellor, Philip Hammond, would say in...

The National Association of Estate Agents has given a cautious welcome to new government plans to expand shared ownership.  David Cameron has...