Rightmove has joined growing calls for Stamp Duty reform ahead of the Spring Budget next week. The property portal has outlined three...
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Land is our greatest resource: one that has considerable potential to address society’s challenges. So, determining how land is used is...
10 February 2024
From: Features
Forget the King’s Speech, Zoopla is hoping for a Christmas Day boost with the launch of its new marketing campaign. The portal...
15 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Over-valuations and too much reliance on national asking price data is skewing seller expectations, agents claim. The latest Agents MVMT podcast tackles...
29 September 2023
From: Breaking News
Twenty-minute neighbourhoods, 15-minute cities, low traffic neighbourhoods, walkable neighbourhoods: these concepts are suddenly everywhere. They boil down to a simple idea:...
16 September 2023
From: Features
Prices will fall during this year, but the outlook differs depending on location, according to Cluttons. A first quarter update from the...
13 February 2023
From: Breaking News
Winkworth agents ranked second when it came to property exchanges in London last year, the franchise agency brand claims. A trading update...
12 January 2023
From: Breaking News
New year, old worries: what’s happening in the housing market? We’ve asked experts and collated forecasts, 15 in total. On the one...
07 January 2023
From: Features
Energy efficiency will become key considerations for buyers next year while those with cash will be preferred purchasers, Jackson-Stops has predicted. The...
28 December 2022
From: Breaking News
Zoopla is set to unwrap a major new nine-week marketing campaign on Christmas Day in an effort to boost agent leads...
20 December 2022
From: Breaking News
Agents and property professionals have backed the creation of Investment Zones to help boost housebuilding but have called for more clarity...
26 September 2022
From: Breaking News
One of the UK’s leading property companies has appointed marketing firm alan. agency to launch a crucial annual report. Knight Frank...
09 August 2022
From: Breaking News
Propertymark is urging restraint on the part of the Welsh Government as it moves to tackle what it sees as the...
29 March 2022
From: Breaking News
A new housing market snapshot from Zoopla suggests that in the supply of homes coming to the market has triggered a...
04 March 2022
From: Breaking News
The government should reset planning policy and scrap proposals for thousands of new homes in high-risk flood areas. The think-tank Localis, in...
22 November 2021
From: Breaking News
Just as city centre traffic is reminiscent of life before the pandemic, the rental market in central zones of UK’s largest...
20 November 2021
From: Features
Local elections rarely set the pulse racing and this year’s poll on Thursday faces a similar problem. But this time, it’s a...
01 May 2021
From: Features
A leading analyst has told Knight Frank that the end of furlough this autumn is unlikely to kill off the housing...
20 April 2021
From: Breaking News
We’re officially transitioning to summer – marked by the clocks going forward and warmer weather – just as restrictions start to...
15 April 2021
From: Sponsored Content
As we move towards the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the first lockdown, it is a good time to reflect...
13 February 2021
From: Features
Newspapers are pushed through the door, whereas websites have to pull in visitors - it’s a simple but fundamental difference with vast implications...
21 November 2020
From: Features
It’s been an unexpected year for the property market, shaped by the effects of the pandemic. We didn’t quite anticipate the...
27 October 2020
From: Sponsored Content
A survey of over 2,300 home owners across the UK suggests market sentiment is mixed, with most doubting house prices have risen. The...
22 September 2020
From: Breaking News
Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Stewart McRae, Sales Director at CoreLogic UK What is ‘company name’...
01 September 2020
From: 60 Second Interview
Zoopla's Research and Insight Director Richard Donnell writes: Just over a fortnight on since the Chancellor announced the Stamp Duty holiday and...
23 July 2020
From: Breaking News
The return of non-essential businesses to lockdown in Leicester as a result of a localised spike in Coronavirus cases is a...
01 July 2020
From: Breaking News
To most people, purchasing a home is the single most significant financial commitment made across a lifetime. Given the impact and...
13 June 2020
From: Features
The only story that has come remotely close to pushing coronavirus – and its various knock-on effects – off the top...
06 June 2020
From: Features
The Atlantic Ocean is a vast space – some 4,000 miles eastwards across from the USA until land is met again....
29 February 2020
From: Features
The government has dismissed a request from the NAEA and ARLA Propertymark to review business rates for agency offices on High...
18 February 2020
From: Breaking News
Not for the first time, a government policy on housing ends up begging more questions than it provides answers - but...
08 February 2020
From: Features
The Australian agent is a very different beast to his or her British counterpart - and it’s not just because we...
06 December 2019
From: Features
Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Mark Hinkins and I’m a Sales Consultant...
02 December 2019
From: 60 Second Interview
The Australian agent is a very different beast to his or her British counterpart - no surprises there. And it’s not...
29 October 2019
From: Sponsored Content
There has been a real wind of change in estate agency and over the last 18 months we have seen the...
16 October 2019
From: Features
A free-to-list property portal says that contrary to opinion within parts of the agency industry, the more portals there are the...
15 August 2019
From: Breaking News
Over a third of homes across Southern England are at risk of suffering price falls as the housing market slowdown extends...
18 June 2019
From: Breaking News
A former senior management figure at Rightmove and online estate agency Doorsteps is going it alone for a new holiday property...
14 March 2019
From: Breaking News
If you want an engaging page-turner novel for cold winter evenings, my recommendation is Our House by Louise Candlish, a bestseller...
26 January 2019
From: Features
The industry has long been critical of reports claiming house price movements are in some way uniform across the country, but...
22 January 2019
From: Breaking News
The estate agent who is refusing to abide by a decision of the Advertising Standards Authority is now demanding details of...
16 August 2018
From: Breaking News
There’s a new twist in the row between a Cornish agent and the Advertising Standards Authority. The row revolves around a tweet...
16 July 2018
From: Breaking News
The online agency shake-out and consolidation continues apace. Former YOPA director Russell Humphrey has been named as the managing director of estate...
05 June 2018
From: Breaking News
The sun has finally returned to ours skies and you’re on the lookout for a little bit of summer reading. As...
21 April 2018
From: Features
In the modern marketplace – where people live their lives on their smartphones and tablets, social media has a bigger influence...
06 April 2018
From: Sponsored Content
Fall-through rates have long been a problem for the UK residential property market, the issue is nothing new. Today, however, the...
17 January 2018
From: Breaking News
It’s traditional before Christmas to either review the year past or anticipate the one ahead - but I’m intrigued about what...
16 December 2017
From: Features
Employers and government should introduce auto-enrolment of monthly salaries to allow people aged 18 to 40 to save for deposits on...
17 October 2017
From: Breaking News
There are more first-time buyers (FTBs) finding a way on to the property ladder than at any time since the Financial...
01 April 2017
From: Features
With the number of new homes being built across the UK still significantly below the level needed to meet demand, housebuilders...
16 September 2016
From: Features
Mystery surrounds the fate of Fresh Chilli, a north of England-based hybrid estate agency that launched with a fanfare last autumn,...
19 August 2016
From: Breaking News
The Registers of Scotland is the latest barometer to suggest the market has performed well in the second quarter of the...
28 July 2016
From: Breaking News
Richard Donnell, one of Britain’s foremost housing market analysts, says there are signs that the underlying rate of growth in house...
26 October 2015
From: Breaking News
Public relations is big business these days. Whole companies are set up purely to provide this service. Major corporations have in-house...
21 August 2015
From: Features
In the latest twist in the story of Foxtons’ attempt to turn a pub into an agency office, squatters have moved...
22 June 2015
From: Breaking News
When do we really start to worry about rising rents and house prices? Despite an apparent slowdown in house price inflation...