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Yopa’s latest accounts for 2022 have revealed a “material uncertainty” that the business could continue ahead of a restructure in 2023. The...

It is just over one year since former Prime Minister Liz Truss and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s ill-fated mini-Budget and homeowners and...

Funny how time flies faster as you get older and I’m reminded that next week, (23rd September, to be precise) it...

In his latest column, property commentator Jonathan Rolande, provides his take on the biggest stories from the past seven days.  For a long...

  It's not often that I have sympathy for our glorious leaders – those who set the rules by which we all...

When Jeremy Hunt sat down in the Commons after delivering his first Spring Budget, I imagine there were many who felt...

The motivation of ‘needs-based buyers’ shouldn’t be underestimated despite the current negative market data, Knight Frank claims. Official data in recent weeks...

Mortgage approvals for home purchase hit their lowest level since June 2020 during November, the latest Bank of England data has...

The “great recalculation” of the property market will take at least six months to show, Knight Frank claims. Tom Bill, head of...

A report earlier this month warned that conveyancing firms should stress test their businesses for a sharp decline in work volumes. These businesses...

Mortgage borrowers who paused home purchasing plans may be getting a respite from rising rates after new data shows average pricing...

A West Midlands estate agent has backed Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s plans to reverse cuts to Stamp Duty, claiming they should never...

The property sector braced itself for the chill wind of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement this week. His pre-Budget comment that he...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has outlined plans to reduce Stamp Duty cuts outlined in his predecessor’s mini-Budget. In September, former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will have a go at balancing the nation’s books today and the main thing agents seem to want...

Mortgage rates look likely to fall after Rishi Sunak’s appointment as Prime Minister but analysts are still unsure how far the...

Conveyancing is an integral part of the house buying and selling process. But it is a slow process, with the length...

A Bill to bring the Government’s Stamp Duty reductions into legislation reached its second reading in the Houses of Parliament this...

Property professionals are hoping for calmer markets after Rishi Sunak was confirmed as the new UK Prime Minister yesterday. Sunak won the...

I can’t really write about anything else this week, can I? Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you will have...

Liz Truss became the shortest serving UK Prime Minister yesterday, resigning after just 45 days and prompting a new Conservative Party...

One of the stranger stories emerging from the fallout of Kwasi Kwarteng’s sacking last Friday has been news that someone in...

The latest research from property consultancy Knight Frank has set out which areas of the UK have the largest proportion of...

The Government’s mini budget on September 23 was anything but ‘mini’ with several major announcements one of the most significant of...

The new Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has reversed almost all of the tax cuts set out in Kwasi Kwarteng's disastrous mini-Budget three...

New Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has been described as a safe pair of hands who could limit the extent of a housing...

In a dramatic, fast-moving day, the Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng was sacked ahead of a press conference by Liz Truss which reversed the...

Buyer demand has dropped by a fifth in the fortnight since the mini-Budget while supply has increased from worried homeowners, Zoopla...

Agency franchise brand Winkworth is sticking to its market expectations for this year as it claims the mini-Budget is yet to...

Knight Frank expects prices to fall by 3% next year in Prime Central London (PCL) before rising modestly in the years...

House prices fell marginally (down by 0.1%) in September as the market displayed further signs of slowdown. That was according to Halifax’s...

Estate agents need to concentrate on quality marketing more than ever before as mortgage interest rates rise and lenders become ever...

Property demand has dropped while price reductions have increased in recent weeks, data shows. Two separate pieces of industry data give new...

House prices look likely to fall next year, a senior analyst claims while another warns the property market is moving from...

The choice of mortgage products for borrowers dropped by almost half during September, new figures show. Thousands of mortgages were withdrawn and...

Who would be in the shoes of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng? I don’t mean who would like their power, pay and...

With the Treasury and the Bank of England stepping in to try and calm the markets, talk of an emergency interest...

The fallout from Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget, which has spooked the markets and caused the pound to fall to record lows,...

Now that the industry has had the weekend to digest Kwasi Kwarteng’s short and dramatic mini-Budget, more reaction has been filtering...

The stamp duty cut announced by the government in last week’s mini-Budget could save homebuyers across England more than £1 billion...

The confirmation of an immediate Stamp Duty cut last week may have meant delayed sales could complete, but there are concerns...

Agents and property professionals have backed the creation of Investment Zones to help boost housebuilding but have called for more clarity...

The much-rumoured Stamp Duty cut has been confirmed, increasing the thresholds before the property tax is paid. Delivering his mini-Budget this morning,...

New Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng is expected to unveil the Government’s so-called “plan for growth” today during a mini-Budget. The property market is...

Agents and other property professionals have, perhaps unsurprisingly, reacted positively to rumours of a Stamp Duty cut. Prime Minister Liz Truss and...

The UK government appears to have given sanctioned Russian property owners a get-out-of-jail card valid for six months.  It’s been confirmed that...

The government is considering seizing British property owned by Russian oligarchs on the sanctions list without paying compensation. The Financial Times says Housing...