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New figures from the Bank of England show that mortgage approvals rose 7.0 per cent in November to reach 105,000 -...
06 January 2021
From: Breaking News

The proportion of sales that fell through at the worst point of this year was 52 per cent it’s been claimed. However...
22 December 2020
From: Breaking News

The housing market in England and Wales is stabilising, according to analysis of web traffic from a property advice site. Valuation requests...
27 November 2020
From: Breaking News

Stamp duty breaks have historically done little to help the housing market - and it’s the same now. So says David Hannah,...
26 November 2020
From: Breaking News

Recent figures emanating from the mortgage and housing market suggest that – since lockdown was ended in mid-May – transaction levels...
31 October 2020
From: Features

The housing market boom looks set to continue for some months yet as mortgage approvals for home purchases hit their highest...
30 October 2020
From: Breaking News

There are 140,000 more buyers waiting to complete on their properties right now than there were this time last year. The claim, by...
28 October 2020
From: Breaking News

A Bank of England survey suggests it may be more difficult for prospective buyers to get a mortgage later this year. In...
16 October 2020
From: Breaking News

A security company says it is “disappointing” the estate agency industry is only around 55 per cent through preparations to cope...
09 October 2020
From: Breaking News

Mortgage approvals for house purchases have soared to a 13 year high according to Bank of England figures up to the...
30 September 2020
From: Breaking News

When it comes to the future of the property market in the wake of Covid-19, there are two main schools of...
19 September 2020
From: Features

A specialist property lender says transactions are being delayed by key staff being furloughed. Gareth Lewis, commercial director of property lender MT...
02 September 2020
From: Breaking News

There’s good news from the think-tank the Resolution Foundation, which says the threat of negative equity because of the Coronavirus crisis...
02 September 2020
From: Breaking News

With access to finance being such a hot topic at the moment, more and more estate agents are turning to commercial...
29 August 2020
From: Features

The networking organisation Women in Residential Property has grown to over 300 members - its highest ever total. Launched three years ago...
20 August 2020
From: Breaking News

One of the country’s highest-profile mortgage lenders, HSBC, is restricting loans on apartments from today. Only buyers of flats who have a...
17 August 2020
From: Breaking News

Mortgage approvals - a key indicator of short-term activity in the housing market - beat expectations in June according to Bank...
30 July 2020
From: Breaking News

What do General Electric, IBM, Microsoft, and WhatsApp have in common? Yes, they are American companies that boasted revenues of $50...
29 July 2020
From: Features

The outlook for the housing market is still taking shape, but here I take a look at three market indicators to...
30 May 2020
From: Features

Over the last few years, there have been a number of high-profile court cases in which renters took action against letting...
30 May 2020
From: Features

All my recent Natters have been focused on one particular topic, the coronavirus crisis, for obvious reasons. But there has been...
23 May 2020
From: Features

At the moment, it somehow seems like tempting fate to think too far into the future, especially in terms of the...
25 April 2020
From: Features

The market could take five years to recover from the Coronavirus crisis after possible double-digit percentage price falls and fast-increasing repossessions. That’s the...
21 April 2020
From: Breaking News

The head of a firm that has been creating digital property log books for well over a decade says the house-moving...
06 March 2020
From: Breaking News

Mortgage lenders approved the highest number of loans for house purchase in nearly four years in January, according to Bank of...
03 March 2020
From: Breaking News

Predictions that landlords are not buying properties to let out because of tougher rental taxes and regulations appear to be short...
19 February 2020
From: Breaking News

Rightmove and Zoopla have been working with key figures from government and the agency and conveyancing industries on how to reform...
29 January 2020
From: Breaking News

Reapit has joined a consortium attempting to make the long-anticipated end-to-end digital home buying process a reality. It’s joined the IPN Consortium,...
20 January 2020
From: Breaking News

Hello and welcome to a new week, and a new edition of PJT. If you’re on the move or your firm has...
20 January 2020
From: Breaking News

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

A former residential chairman of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has posed key questions for the government to answer over...
20 December 2019
From: Breaking News

It’s a substantial Tory government for the next five years: what does this mean for estate agents, property and the market? We have...
13 December 2019
From: Breaking News

It’s been revealed that Countrywide is involved in a pilot exercise to help the creation of a so-called ‘affordability hub’ for...
10 December 2019
From: Breaking News

Recent Zoopla reports stating that first-time buyers are deciding against purchasing one-bedroom flats came as no surprise to me, or I’m...
23 November 2019
From: Features

It’s easier than you might think. For any agent the challenge of making a business successful is hard work with the focus...
20 November 2019
From: Features

A small online agency which in six months of trading has secured around 140 sales says it’s on course to be...
29 October 2019
From: Breaking News

The number of new mortgages approved by banks fell to a six-month low in September - but the annual figure shows...
25 October 2019
From: Breaking News

First details have emerged of the information vendors may have to provide up-front In future transactions if government house buying reforms...
21 October 2019
From: Breaking News

One of the country’s leading estate agents is leading the calls on Chancellor Sajid Javid to sort out the government’s stamp...
21 August 2019
From: Breaking News

A report by Santander says stamp duty cuts should be used as incentives for older home owners to downsize and allow...
02 August 2019
From: Breaking News

The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee - which meets monthly to set the base rate on which the costs of...
02 August 2019
From: Breaking News

Data from UK Finance, which represents most of the country’s lenders, shows that gross mortgage lending across the residential market in...
25 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Online estate agency Yopa is warning of price falls ahead in London and south east England - although price rises elsewhere...
17 July 2019
From: Breaking News

The latest report commissioned by the Labour party to resolve the UK’s housing problems would crash the housing market rather than...
28 June 2019
From: Breaking News

Homes in central parts of London sold for a typical 11.5 per cent below asking price in the first three months...
21 June 2019
From: Breaking News

In recent years, estate and letting agents have been faced with a series of tough challenges to absorb and react to. There...
01 June 2019
From: Features

The number of mortgages approved by High Street banks increased 5.4 per cent to 44,000 in April. Data from trade body UK...
29 May 2019
From: Breaking News

While media attention has been on Theresa May, Brexit and the Tories, chatter in the agency industry has been about what...
25 May 2019
From: Features

Retired homeowners are increasingly using property wealth to clear unsecured debts and mortgages to strengthen their later life finances, a new...
24 May 2019
From: Breaking News

So far in our contribution to the campaign to replace leasehold with commonhold we have outlined the stories of some of...
18 May 2019
From: Features

Agents have reacted gloomily to the release of figures showing that the number of new mortgages offered to both movers and...
17 May 2019
From: Breaking News

Labour is proposing two methods of controlling house price rises should it win the next General Election - and the ideas...
11 April 2019
From: Breaking News

New figures from the Equity Release Council suggest more growth in this sector, alarming those agents who see this as a...
03 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Mortgage prisoners - borrowers unable to switch lenders despite being up-to-date with payments - may have an escape route in sight...
27 March 2019
From: Breaking News

I don’t believe it’s unfair to state that our government, indeed, the entire political establishment is in some turmoil at the...
16 March 2019
From: Features

Figures released this morning show a surge in first time buyers securing mortgages in recent months, despite the market showing continued signs...
12 March 2019
From: Breaking News

After several days of gloomy market news, here's something more optimistic - there were 370,000 new first time buyer mortgages completed in...
20 February 2019
From: Breaking News

There’s been more growth in the equity release sector, suggesting that fewer older owners are downsizing and are instead using their...
13 February 2019
From: Breaking News

At the end of January the Asian PropTech company PropertyGuru announced the imminent launch of beta-phase testing of its cutting-edge new product, PropertyGuru Lens. This...
06 February 2019
From: Breaking News

The 100 per cent mortgage for first time buyers, which many people thought had disappeared for good, is now back in...
29 January 2019
From: Breaking News

The new management at Emoov says that following its acquisition out of administration it will relaunch as an online estate agency later...
16 January 2019
From: Breaking News

It’s the word on everyone’s lips: after two and a half years of debate, and months before that leading up to...
11 January 2019
From: Breaking News

As 2018 draws to a close, it is fair to say that stretched affordability and uncertainty over the Brexit negotiations has...
29 December 2018
From: Features

Asking prices of homes coming to the market have fallen for the second month in a row - and Rightmove says...
17 December 2018
From: Breaking News

The global chief executive of Purplebricks, Michael Bruce, has warned mortgage lenders against offering so-called ‘super-sized’ home loans to borrowers. Bruce is...
28 November 2018
From: Breaking News

Mainstream bank lending for house purchases grew by 3.6 per cent in October compared to the same month last year. However the...
27 November 2018
From: Breaking News

An open rental market, where neither landlord nor tenant is in a dominant position, enables rents to rise and fall, which...
27 October 2018
From: Features

Mortgage approvals fell again in September - this means that every month of 2018 so far has seen a drop against...
25 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Figures from the mortgage lenders’ umbrella group, UK Finance, suggest the government desire to see more first time buyers and fewer...
17 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Hello and welcome to our weekly catch-up on the major moves within our industry. Remember, you can let the rest of the...
01 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Landlords and letting agents might feel they’ve taken a bit of a battering from the government in recent years – and...
22 September 2018
From: Features

A new ‘robo-adviser’ mortgage service which is backed by LSL Property Services has won another £3.8m in funding from investors. Robo-advisers provide...
18 September 2018
From: Breaking News

A warning to people selling their homes to beware of internet-based scams offering cut-price surveys has been sounded by a leading...
30 August 2018
From: Breaking News

There’s little doubt that downsizing is less of a factor in the housing market than it used to be - so...
25 August 2018
From: Features

Dare we mention it but this is the final Bank Holiday weekend of the year before Christmas - so what a...
24 August 2018
From: Breaking News

Independent review website allAgents says its ultimate ambition is to be a serious rival to existing portals like OnTheMarket. Unveiling a new...
21 August 2018
From: Breaking News

Rightmove says the housing market is now into a ‘summer sale’ as newly-marketed property shows an average asking price fall of...
20 August 2018
From: Breaking News

When you are starting up a new business, it is unlikely that you will already have enough capital to invest. Taking...
10 August 2018
From: Sponsored Content

Most estate agents have tried to dismiss the impact of the Bank of England’s base rate rise, which came following a...
03 August 2018
From: Breaking News

Countrywide, the troubled estate agency group thought by some to be near collapse, has delayed issuing its interim figures which were...
24 July 2018
From: Breaking News

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

Locations in the capital dominate a league table of locations where the largest numbers of so-called ‘high risk’ mortgages are taken...
11 July 2018
From: Breaking News

A survey of owner-occupiers, landlords, property investors and insolvency practitioners has revealed that Brexit is the single biggest concern when it...
19 June 2018
From: Breaking News

One of the country’s leading experts on the housing market says first time buyers are still hampered from purchasing homes despite...
01 June 2018
From: Breaking News

Fewer mortgages were approved for home buyers last month than in the same month a year ago according to figures from...
27 April 2018
From: Breaking News

Property purchases for buyers requiring mortgages reached 50,000 in February, the highest level for the month since 2007. The data, from mortgage...
18 April 2018
From: Breaking News

The number of house sales falling through pre-completion during the first quarter of 2018 reached its highest level for this time...
10 April 2018
From: Breaking News

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

The switchback of house price indices and other data on the state of the market has taken a turn for the...
15 March 2018
From: Breaking News

A critic of the conveyancing process has accused a law firm’s charge of £95 for “exchange and completion within five working...
13 March 2018
From: Breaking News

Jefferies - the City consultancy which has in the past worked with Countrywide - has cuts its forecasts for the troubled...
09 March 2018
From: Breaking News

An estate agent and former chairman of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says the government’s latest drive to build new...
06 March 2018
From: Breaking News

When it comes to property, ‘Japanese knotweed’ are the two words most homeowners and prospective buyers do not want to hear. With...
03 March 2018
From: Features

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

The Bank of England has raised the base rate from 0.25 per cent to 0.5 per cent. The Bank’s monetary policy committee was...
02 November 2017
From: Breaking News

New figures from UK Finance, the umbrella body for finance houses, show gross mortgage lending in September rose to £21.4 billion...
26 October 2017
From: Breaking News

The UK PropTech Association and specialist property lending platform LendInvest have joined forces in the search for the PropTech world’s most...
13 October 2017
From: Breaking News

The UK is home to four million leasehold properties in private ownership, according to government figures. The majority of which require...
30 September 2017
From: Features

Mortgage lending reached £24.2 billion in August according to latest estimates by UK Finance. There were some 41,807 house purchase approvals, with...
27 September 2017
From: Breaking News

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

Government figures suggest house prices are still rising by 5.1 per cent a year, with the average property value in the...
13 September 2017
From: Breaking News

New data from UK Finance - previously the Council of Mortgage Lenders - paints a relatively optimistic assessment of the UK-wide...
24 August 2017
From: Breaking News

As the mainstream mortgage market braces itself for yet another clampdown on buy-to-let lending, a growing number of property investors are...
04 August 2017
From: Features

The equity release sector is claiming a record quarter between April and June with the number of new customers and total...
28 July 2017
From: Breaking News

High end estate agency Savills says the credit crunch - roughly 10 years old next month - is still having an...
27 July 2017
From: Breaking News

Gross mortgage lending reached £22.1 billion in June - that’s nine per cent higher than in May and three per cent...
21 July 2017
From: Breaking News

The Council of Mortgage Lenders’s buy to let forecast for 2017 and 2018 has been revised down from previous expectations at...
23 June 2017
From: Breaking News

A prominent agent admits to being “disappointed” at what appears to be slowing mortgage figures at a time of year when...
26 May 2017
From: Breaking News

Cash is becoming an increasingly large proportion of the funding used to buy homes according to a new analysis of transactions...
11 May 2017
From: Breaking News

The Bank of England is warning that approvals of mortgages for property purchases in March were at a lower-than-expected 66,837, the weakest...
05 May 2017
From: Breaking News

Mortgage rates continue to fall with the average new lending rate at a record low of 2.2 per cent: as a...
27 April 2017
From: Breaking News

One of the biggest stories post-Brexit is how the housing market has proven to be more resilient than anyone could have...
15 April 2017
From: Features

In recent years the mortgage industry has gone through some testing times. Recession and regulation have led to more stringent lending...
08 April 2017
From: Features

Mortgage brokers say they are encountering fewer difficulties sourcing products now than at any time for three years. Research from the Intermediary...
04 April 2017
From: Breaking News

The triggering of Article 50 may have been regarded as a historic event but it appears to have left the housing...
30 March 2017
From: Breaking News

The average asking price rise for homes coming to the market in the last month has been a chunky 1.3 per...
20 March 2017
From: Breaking News

The Conveyancing Association wants the creation of a ‘log book’ and ‘Home Reports’ for each home on sale - reminiscent in...
15 March 2017
From: Breaking News

Recent stats from the Council of Mortgage Lenders show that last year 360,000 people moved homes, meaning the number has stayed...
11 March 2017
From: Features

An estate agent and a building society have both advocated radical moves to reform stamp duty - and want Chancellor Phillip...
03 March 2017
From: Breaking News

Over the past two decades, investing in buy-to-let has been a relatively easy way to make money, which is why so...
25 February 2017
From: Features

So, Property Week has announced its Property Awards shortlist for 2017. Looking at the entries for PropTech Company of the Year, I'm surprised...
22 February 2017
From: Breaking News

Rightmove secured over 131m visits last month, an all-time high for January. The 131m total was some three per cent above January...
20 February 2017
From: Breaking News

The rapid growth in popularity of buy-to-let in recent years, fuelled in part by the failings of the pensions industry, has...
17 February 2017
From: Features

Connells Group’s mortgage services wing has recorded a 10 per cent increase in the number of mortgages in 2016 and has generated...
16 February 2017
From: Breaking News

The Independent Press Standards Organisation has ruled that a Daily Express newspaper story - “EU Exit Boosts House Prices” - was...
06 February 2017
From: Breaking News

Gross mortgage lending reached a remarkable £246 billion in 2016 - that’s 12 per cent higher than the previous year and...
27 January 2017
From: Breaking News

The highest number of 'risky' mortgages issued during 2015 was in South West London, according to new analysis of the latest...
24 January 2017
From: Breaking News

The rental market has had to face a raft of changes over the past year, including the introduction of the 3% stamp...
14 January 2017
From: Features

There is no doubt that 2016 managed to catch the world by surprise on more than one occassion. But will 2017 be...
14 January 2017
From: Features

Around six in 10 estate agents say their experience shows that mortgage lending restrictions targeting customers aged 55 or over are...
10 January 2017
From: Breaking News

The head of a new ‘disruptive’ online mortgage service says 2017 will see more major estate agency and other property businesses...
30 December 2016
From: Breaking News

This is the final Estate Agent Today until Tuesday January 3 2017, so everyone at Angels Media sends all good wishes for...
30 December 2016
From: Breaking News

Data from HM Revenue & Customs shows that the sale of residential properties rose a marginal 0.8 per cent last month...
22 December 2016
From: Breaking News

Brexit and wider economic uncertainties worsened by changes to property taxation have forced the Council of Mortgage Lenders to cut its...
20 December 2016
From: Breaking News

Forecasts are so last year: who anticipated Bowie, Brexit or Balls for example? Quotes, on the other hand, really ARE last year...
17 December 2016
From: Features

New figures from the Council for Mortgage Lenders add weight to the argument that the housing market is gently slowing. Home-owners borrowed £10.5...
15 December 2016
From: Breaking News

Next year is likely to be a challenging time for letting agents, following a raft of changes introduced by the government...
09 December 2016
From: Features

What a mad, bonkers year it’s been. We’ve had, in no particular order: Trump, Brexit, Leicester winning the Premier League, a...
03 December 2016
From: Features

Rightmove’s commercial director Miles Shipside, who makes relatively few appearances at industry events, is to be a speaker at the NAEA...
30 November 2016
From: Breaking News

It may still be too early to start compiling a Christmas wish list, but it is the right time to provide...
19 November 2016
From: Features

We are now only days away from one of the most-anticipated events in UK politics; one which has a considerable impact...
19 November 2016
From: Features

Estate agents and market analysts have spent 24 hours expressing their nervousness over the repercussions of Donald Trump's victory in the...
10 November 2016
From: Breaking News

It’s all been kicking off in recent weeks, hasn’t it? Marmite wars, the endless Trump v Clinton debate, Samsung phones blowing...
28 October 2016
From: Features

A business publication says figures from a PropTech peer-to-peer lending firm which markets its products through Zoopla show a 95 per cent...
20 October 2016
From: Breaking News

Buy-to-let landlords may have failed in their recent legal battle against planned government tax relief changes for buy-to-let homes set to...
14 October 2016
From: Features

Fears raised over the UK housing market in the wake of the Brexit vote have so far proved to be ‘wide...
30 September 2016
From: Features

The Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority has confirmed that tighter regulations will apply to lenders providing mortgages for buy to...
30 September 2016
From: Breaking News

Those working within the UK housing market would have felt considerable worry about the immediate impact of the vote to leave...
23 September 2016
From: Features

As the PropTech industry continues to expand, with dedicated events and more innovative startups entering the world of UK property, online...
14 September 2016
From: Breaking News

The huge rush to acquire buy-to-let property in the first quarter of the year ahead of the stamp duty change deadline...
09 September 2016
From: Features

The British Banking Association’s latest mortgage lending figures suggest early signs of fall-out from the surprise vote for the UK to...
25 August 2016
From: Breaking News

The number of mortgage products available is now over 23,000 - a figure last seen during the heady days just before...
22 August 2016
From: Breaking News

The latest figures on mortgage lending suggest that higher house prices led to greater lending in June this year than 12...
27 July 2016
From: Breaking News

As promised, this week’s Natter is dedicated to a question and answer session with Peter Brodnicki, the man who has been...
22 July 2016
From: Features

What a month it has been. By the time you read this, we'll have a new Prime Minister, a new Cabinet,...
15 July 2016
From: Features

One of the first major pieces of research to come from an estate agency following the EU referendum suggests the short-term...
14 July 2016
From: Breaking News

As I sit and write this piece, even with the FTSE 100 back up and sterling having recovered some of its...
08 July 2016
From: Features

The Bank of England’s governor is warning future mortgage borrowers who buy homes that “conditions will be difficult” as a result...
06 July 2016
From: Breaking News

The Council of Mortgage Lenders says the Brexit vote will hit transactions as buyers and sellers wait for the dust to...
28 June 2016
From: Breaking News

A few of our Industry Views pieces this week focus on the upcoming EU referendum. I don’t think I can add...
17 June 2016
From: Features

So we now have a new 'official' index of house prices, and much good may it do us. For the chattering classes...
17 June 2016
From: Features

Home-owners borrowed £8.1 billion for house purchases in April, which was four per cent down on the same month a year ago. There...
16 June 2016
From: Breaking News

Home loans activity has fallen to a 12 month low as market torpor sets in ahead of the EU referendum. According to...
09 June 2016
From: Breaking News

While buy-to-let lenders brace themselves for further interventions as part of proposals currently being drawn up by the Prudential Regulation Authority...
01 June 2016
From: Features

The Council of Mortgage Lenders estimates that gross mortgage lending reached £18.5 billion last month - the highest April figure since...
20 May 2016
From: Breaking News

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

The Financial Conduct Authority is to encourage lenders to give would-be buyers more choice in the mortgages available. In the Responsible Lending...
17 May 2016
From: Breaking News

Last time out I spoke about the beginnings of a PropTech revolution, with two major London-based events in the offing over...
13 May 2016
From: Features

We’re all talking about second home stamp duty, changes to tax relief and the Prudential Regulation Authority’s suggestion that banks should...
15 April 2016
From: Features

Home lending in 2016 saw its best opening quarter for nine years according to the figures from chartered surveying firm e.surv. An...
15 April 2016
From: Breaking News

A key Bank of England body has revealed its proposals for tougher borrowing standards to prevent buy to let lending overheating the wider...
29 March 2016
From: Breaking News

Despite being round the block quite a few times in the property world, it was only in 2008 that the importance...
25 March 2016
From: Features

More storm clouds appeared over central London’s housing market at the weekend. The Bank of Ireland has announced that it is capping...
21 March 2016
From: Breaking News

With less than a month to go before the new rate of stamp duty kicks in for second property purchasers, we’re...
18 March 2016
From: Features

Data from the Council of Mortgage Lenders shows that gross mortgage lending reached £17.6 billion last month - that's the highest...
18 March 2016
From: Breaking News

There has been a surge of new crowdfunding platforms aimed at people who either cannot afford to purchase their own buy...
07 March 2016
From: Breaking News

Alex Bailes, until recently spearheading the Countrywide’s activities in the digital world, has now reappeared as Connells Group Head of Digital. Alongside...
29 February 2016
From: Breaking News

Banks have approved the highest number of mortgages for almost two years as the rush to purchase buy to let properties...
25 February 2016
From: Breaking News

There has been a warm welcome given to figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders showing that lending to first time...
19 February 2016
From: Breaking News

Increased competition amongst mortgage lenders and the rush to buy investment properties before the April 1 stamp duty surcharge deadline have...
02 February 2016
From: Breaking News

Mortgage lending has risen 12.5 per cent in the past year, despite a small dip at the end of 2015. Chartered surveying...
21 January 2016
From: Breaking News

Mortgage lending for home buyers dipped by nine per cent in November according to new data - but it is up...
15 January 2016
From: Breaking News

More than one in four sales across the UK fell through last year, claims a quick-sale company. Quick Move Now claims a...
07 January 2016
From: Breaking News

The scores are in: Estate Agent Today has collated forecasts from 10 of the leading estate agency corporates and major business...
31 December 2015
From: Breaking News

House prices will soar by 50 per cent in the next 10 years according to research commissioned by the NAEA and conducted...
17 December 2015
From: Breaking News

Prime Central London’s residential values have risen 4.3 per cent over the past 12 months and now average £2.3m per property...
16 December 2015
From: Breaking News

The scores are in: here are the top 10 high-end agencies and property analysts' predictions for what 2016 has in store...
16 December 2015
From: Breaking News

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

You might recall a collective sigh of relief emitted by stakeholders in the housing market and private rental sector back in...
04 December 2015
From: Features

Gross mortgage borrowing in October was £12.9 billion - a startling 26 per cent higher than a year ago and the...
26 November 2015
From: Breaking News

An interesting story caught my eye a few weeks ago. A man from Lytham St Annes in Lancashire attempted to sell...
20 November 2015
From: Features

We have reached an interesting point in what has been a most unusual year for the property sector. The latest figures from...
23 October 2015
From: Features

The number of house purchase mortgage approvals has risen by 19.8 per cent over the last 12 months. Data from eSurv suggests...
09 October 2015
From: Breaking News

In a new sign that the housing market is strengthening, mortgage lending increased in August by the largest amount since 2008. Data...
30 September 2015
From: Breaking News

Campaigning charity Shelter claims the government's flagship housing incentive, Help To Buy, has added £8,250 to the price of a home...
22 September 2015
From: Breaking News

August saw 69,220 house purchase approvals, up 9.3 per cent on the same month last year and an 18 month high. On...
10 September 2015
From: Breaking News

The Financial Conduct Authority is remaining tight-lipped as to whether its newly-announced assessment of MMR will lead to easier access to...
08 September 2015
From: Breaking News

The Financial Conduct Authority says it is to hold a review of the mortgage market after last year’s controversial MMR to...
07 September 2015
From: Breaking News

UK house prices increased by 4.3% in the three months to July 2015, the highest quarterly growth for eleven years, according...
21 August 2015
From: Breaking News

Figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders show that lending to first time buyers bounced back in the second quarter of...
12 August 2015
From: Breaking News

When Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, recently announced that interest rates would have to start to rise sooner...
24 July 2015
From: Features

Consider the scene. It is July 8th and new Chancellor, Ed Balls, stands at the Dispatch Box giving his first Budget...
17 July 2015
From: Features

Lending for house buying is still down compared to this time last year but there are signs that the market is...
15 July 2015
From: Breaking News

In case we didn’t learn the lesson last time around, we appear to be on the brink of a refresher course...
10 July 2015
From: Features

More than one in three house sales in the second quarter of this year failed to reach completion, according to data...
10 July 2015
From: Breaking News

Although the housing market is showing few signs of igniting following the election slowdown, there is at least some good news...
07 July 2015
From: Breaking News

There was a whopping 15.1 per cent fall in house purchase mortgage approvals in May, taking the total to the lowest...
11 June 2015
From: Breaking News

The demand for homes in the capital remained robust during Q1 2015, according to Chestertons’ London Prime Residential Report for spring...
27 May 2015
From: Breaking News

The total number of mortgage products available reached a post-recession high of 13,539 in April. The latest National Mortgage Index from Mortgage...
27 May 2015
From: Breaking News

The Aston Mead estate agency says “unnecessarily restrictive mortgage criteria" have caused the number of home loans to drop sharply in...
07 May 2015
From: Breaking News

The number of mortgage loans approved by banks fell year-on-year for the ninth consecutive month in March. Data from the British Bankers’...