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The Bank of England increased interest rates from 3% to 3.5% yesterday, potentially pushing up costs for those looking to purchase property...

The EWS1 bottleneck familiar to the new-build market has started spilling into the secondhand homes market, an agent claims. New-build homeowners have...

Annual house price growth hit an 18-month low during October and fell on a monthly basis for the first time since...

The majority of homebuyers and sellers remain ‘undeterred from their endeavours to tackle the housing market’, despite the turbulence of the...

In tougher times – as is the case now, post-Covid, post-Brexit, cost-of-living crisis, war in Ukraine, etc – reputation and consumer...

The lack of agency stock for sale has pushed the gap between asking and sold prices to record lows, research claims. Research...

Prime property purchasers are typically paying a 122% premium to be in the top 10% of buyers, research suggests. London agent Benham...

Agents have pledged to keep a close eye on planning reforms amid a proposed overhaul announced in the Queen’s Speech yesterday. Prince...

Government data shows the average UK house price increasing by 10 per cent on an annual basis in November. On a monthly...

The Budget has proven more generous than many expected - and with most property taxation left unchanged. Chancellor Rishi Sunak has made...

Our story yesterday on whether agents should continue to dress formally post-pandemic seemed to relight the fire on a long-time debate...

Average house prices increased by 13.2 per cent over the year to June - the highest annual growth rate since November...

A new service launched over the weekend, proposing to charge buyers £30 for a “guaranteed” viewing, has split opinions amongst estate...

Annual house price growth remains strong but it has slowed significantly according to the Nationwide. Prices dropped 0.2 per cent on average...

There is growing speculation that a raft of tax proposals to be unveiled next week will include reform of Capital Gains...

Agents are up in arms at a Rightmove restriction temporarily preventing access to parts of its listing back-end.  Agents received an email...

Much of the agency industry has reacted with delight at the extension of the stamp duty holiday deadline until June. Rightmove estimates...

Estate agents have kept up the pressure on the Westminster government to consider some kind of tapered ending to the stamp...

A prominent London agency says cash buyers are securing substantial discounts in prime areas of the capital. The biggest cash discount currently...

New figures released this morning give weight to calls for the complete scrapping of stamp duty.  The dats shows there have been...

Mortgage approvals for house purchases have soared to a 13 year high according to Bank of England figures up to the...

With the UK officially in what has been described as the single worst national recession in the world, one agency has...

An estate agency is warning that the likely rush of transactions when the new stamp duty holiday ends next spring will...

Mortgage enquiries in June surged to double the rate of the previous month according to the latest halifax house price index. Although...

Agents have remained calm in the light of Nationwide’s house price index which shows the first annual fall for eight years...

Leading estate agents are warning that the sharp fall in house prices reported by the Nationwide may be just the first...

London estate agency Benham & Reeves says there’s been a sharp fall-off in demand for ultra-expensive homes in prime suburbs of...

Although all bets are off as to what the housing market will be like after the Coronavirus subsides, there is now...

The agency behind a poll showing one in six buyers putting plans on hold because of Coronavirus is warning that if...

Mortgage lenders approved the highest number of loans for house purchase in nearly four years in January, according to Bank of...

Annual house price growth increased to 4.1 per cent in January, up slightly from the end of 2019, according to Halifax...

House prices rose 4.0 per cent in 2019 according to Britain’s biggest mortgage lender Halifax, as a December bounce - some...

Agents have welcomed the surprise news from the Halifax that house prices last month saw their largest rise since the start...

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

One of London’s leading estate and lettings agents has criticised the government over what he calls its “pitiful” record on affordable...

Agents have interpreted the latest house price figures as evidence that the market is in limbo waiting for the Brexit -...

Agents have expressed quiet optimism that the market may be over the worst as it continues to show resilience in the...

An estate agent is linking a drop in transactions of as much as 20 per cent with the stamp duty increases...

There's good news for the market in at least one sector - mortgages offered to first time buyers. Latest figures from the...

Another house price index has suggested the housing market continuing to show great resilience despite the continuing economic and political uncertainty. The...

A leading London estate agent has written to The Times dismissing MPs who have been squabbling over Brexit and a possible...

A senior estate agency director is warning that house price growth could continue to stall “with Boris loose at the wheel”. Benham...

There has been a sceptical response by agents and others in the property industry to the government’s latest headline-grabbing tweaks to...

Residential property transactions totalled 86,630 in July, representing a monthly drop of 8.5 per cent and an annual fall of 12.4...

Average house prices in the UK increased by a mere 0.9 per cent in the year to June - the lowest...

One of the country’s most respected agents has advised the agency industry to treat Boris Johnson’s pledges with real caution. Black Brick buying...

London and South East England are to see house price falls this year and only “very modest” growth in 2020 -...

Trade bodies and property firms have strongly welcomed the recommendations for root and branch reform of the agency industry - and...

Agents have put a brave face on official government figures which have shown a shock fall in London house prices and...

Theresa May arrived in Downing Street some three years ago - but her premiership has not been a smooth ride. As she...

Estate agents have responded cynically to the small-fry property sector announcements made by Chancellor Phillip Hammond in yesterday’s spring statement mini-Budget. Overshadowed...

When a tenant failed to pay any rent after the first month his tenancy last year, the landlord did not expect...