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2023 was the highest year on record for ‘rental scam’ searches in the UK, with an increase of 11% from 2022...

Homeowners are largely unconcerned about cooling house prices, research suggests. Instead, they are more concerned about having their own home than sitting...

A Labour council has revealed that it’s bought 15 open market homes, beefed up  their energy efficiency and will use them...

The Government is facing calls to resurrect the Help to Buy Equity Loan scheme. The housing support scheme, which provided a Government-backed...

It was a genuine pleasure to read this week about Yorkshire estate agent Ian Bradbury who clocked up 40 years selling...

Agents and sellers are being warned against putting unsuitable properties up for auction. Stuart Collar- Brown, chief executive of online auctioneer platform...

The number of property sales in England and Wales has dropped by more than 50% so far this year, research suggests. Analysis...

Every year, those thinking about investing in property for the first time and even current landlords ask themselves whether it’s the...

Agents have highlighted the main horrors they have come across when listing homes. A Halloween-themed survey of 500 agents by industry media...

Britain’s secret property market witnessed nearly £30.9 billion worth of property transactions last year, the highest yearly market value in well...

Homeowners and prospective buyers considering a move before Christmas should act quickly to increase their chances of a smooth relocation, as...

Property buyers should be warned of the climate risks when purchasing a home, a leading lawyer has claimed. Stephen Tromans QC, the...

Quick buy firm UPSTIX is planning to rollout its chain break service across the market after a successful trial with estate...

Former Evolve staff are being offered £2,000 ex-gratia payments by the easyGroup after its ownership of easyProperty ended. Jason Bull, national sales...

There is a staggering £117 billion worth of property currently up for sale across the UK property market, according to new...

A property purchasing specialist has revealed how the UK’s home sellers are now paying £793 more in estate agent commission when...

Despite the cost-of-living crisis causing many to tighten their belts and the beginnings of a slowdown of the property market, the...

New rules on leasehold homes came in this week, banning ground rents on new leases but a property expert warns this...

Former Hamptons and Countrywide executive Phil Tennant has joined US-style fast buy firm UPSTIX. Tennant has been recruited as chief operating officer...

A ‘quick buy’ service launched by veteran proptech innovator Giles Mackay is now looking to help fix broken chains. UPSTIX, which launched...

Momentum is building up in support of the government’s probe into whether the London homes of oligarchs on the sanctions list...

A new analysis has revealed those areas of England and Wales with the largest numbers of Russian-owned homes. Credas Technologies analysed Land...

A comparison website dealing with estate agency charges says commission varies hugely across 20 major cities of the UK.  GetAgent looked at...

The Halifax claims that homes with the highest energy ratings are worth up to £40,000 more on average compared to less...

Data from Rightmove shows that no less than 37 per cent of homes early this year sold for the asking price...

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

Scams are rife in the quick house buying sector with many companies seeking to take advantage of sellers in desperate situations. That’s...

It is the end of my column for another year, my 4th if I am not mistaken.  This year has seen a...

A relaunched home buying service says it wants to partner with agents to unlock sales if the housing market deteriorates. The service...

A quick buy firm boasting it has ‘sold’ a home within six days also says it now takes 140 days on...

For a number of years now, predictions have been made that one of the major tech giants will eventually enter the...

Estate agents are increasingly using low-key ‘grey’ marketing to avoid too many prospective buyers swamping them when homes go on sale. That’s...

The Sequence Group is to be the sole selling agent for RoyaleLife, the country’s largest builder of bungalows, exclusively aimed at...

Lets Bid works in partnership with a variety of Estate Agents across the Uk from big franchise brands like Winkworth /...

There's widespread expectation that Foxtons’ senior management will face sharp criticism at the company’s Annual General Meeting today. The hottest issue at...

There’s a warning today that the housing market could face a wave of legal disputes if buyers of off-plan new builds...

New research of the buying habits of first-time buyers in the UK we’ve undertaken here at reallymoving.com shows that Shared Ownership...

Both Countrywide and LSL Property Services have submitted early online paperwork to The Panel on Takeovers and Mergers, an independent body...

Not for the first time, a government policy on housing ends up begging more questions than it provides answers - but...

A BBC Radio probe into quick-sale firms claims some of them can lose sellers many thousands of pounds. It says Trading Standards...

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

The Purplebricks share price dropped by 1% to 108p yesterday as investors prepare for today's Annual General Meeting. The hybrid agency's market...

Stamp duty won’t take centre stage at the Conservative Party conference - that’ll be Brexit, quelle surprise. But if the government...

The modern method of auction is proving to revolutionise the way properties are bought and sold across the UK.  By putting the...

MyBid4It is an online auction platform which has been developed to partner with Estate Agents and revolutionise the way properties are...

An analyst on shares website Motley Fool says Purplebricks is not only in surprisingly strong financial health, but is actually outperforming...

Spicerhaart claims that it achieved an average of 104.29 per cent against the market value on properties that were taken into...

The leasehold scandal has received plenty of press coverage, with horror stories of people living in homes that are impossible to...

A quick-buy firm that buys homes at around 85 per cent of market value claims the industry is concealing how slow...

A portal powered by Artificial Intelligence claims it is offering investors a much-needed and superior alternative to Rightmove and Zoopla. One &...

Rightmove has launched a share buy-back programme to run until late next month, February. Companies buy back their own shares to keep up...

An insurer claims there is a huge gulf between the cost of rebuilding a house and its market value because around...

A competitive pricing analysis undertaken for hybrid estate agency Emoov claims that it sells for an average £6,000 more than rival...

Hunters and Fisher German are the latest agencies to offer online auctions to vendors. An announcement from PropTech property auction company Bamboo...

The brief but troubled history of individuals and companies attempting to raffle homes as prizes has received another blow as a...

A regional pilot has been launched for what is called the Voluntary Right to Buy - a scheme giving housing association...

House prices are rising at their slowest rate for nearly five years as London suffers its largest decline in prices since...

The debate over alleged ‘down-valuing’ by mortgage lenders has flared again with one leading agent claiming that surveyors are just “covering...

If you’re an estate agent and have a property that is difficult to sell or the homeowner simply needs a fast...

Hometrack says other cities are now closing the gap on London in terms of house prices and market value. The latest Hometrack UK...

I have sold hundreds of lettings businesses over the last twenty-five years. Based on this experience, these are the mistakes that you...

While there is a distinct market for flats held on particularly short leases, there is a middle ground where flat owners...

What a year it’s been! Back in 2016 we had Brexit, a new prime minister, Donald Trump’s election, and so when...

The raffle-a-home gimmick appears to be gaining strength with the arrival of a new website - Rafflemyhouse.com - which will also...

A new online property competition platform has launched that gives entrants the opportunity to win a home for £2 - but...

The latest departure from troubled estate agency group Countrywide is non-executive director Richard Adam, who was chair of the audit and...

The popularity of property auctions in the UK has increased enormously in recent years, supported by popular TV shows such as...

To give you a nice distraction from the post-election madness, here’s an interview with Charlie Wright, founder of CIELA (or The...

The tactic of reducing the asking price of a retirement apartment by £1,000 per week appears to have worked - the...

The vendor of a retirement apartment in the West Midlands says he is going to reduce the asking price by £1,000...

A new London-based online estate agency called Nested says it has had a “superb start” to trading, using its unusual business...

The Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in following a complaint about a TV ad for a Quick Sale company, National Homebuyers.  The...

Over 168,000 new homes were completed in the year to March 2016, according to data released by the government, over 15,500...

The government’s blizzard of New Year announcements about new homes has received a distinctly frosty welcome from many within the property...

The company that owns Heathrow airport is reported to have said that it will buy 750 homes on the site of...

Humberts is introducing what it calls a ‘personal assistant’ for retirees in a bid to woo the growing market of elderly...

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has decided not to uphold a complaint made against a quick property sale firm's radio advert.  The...

It's a high quality RICS approved report, carried out by one of our RICS accredited local surveyors. The RICS HomeBuyer Survey is...

Discounted starter homes could be out of reach for the majority of families in need of an affordable home in many...

It is no secret that Prime Central London lettings offerings vary from the exquisite to the plain and ugly.  The exquisite boasting...

With one eye on this month's Halloween celebrations and another eye on getting publicity, online estate agency House Network has launched a...

There is still no word on when a police investigation will report on alleged irregularities said to involve the buy to...

The residential director at Mullucks Wells in West Essex and East Hertfordshire, William Wells, has contacted Estate Agent Today to highlight...

The National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team has prepared a draft of revised guidelines on property sales, to replace the old...

The government says it will publish an action plan this week to explain how it is going to implement some of...

The National Association of Estate Agents says HMRC have been making unscheduled visits to individual agency offices to check on their...

Some agents have recently suggested that the prime central London market is sluggish in the extreme - but now one agency...

Agency sales figures and data from the Registers of Scotland show a surge in the value of property sold north of...

Former Conservative housing minister Kris Hopkins warned two years ago that allowing housing associations to sell their stock was a policy...