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Propertymark has released details of a panel featuring several industry heavyweights at its much anticipated conference in June. Founder of emoov-turned-property-pundit and...

Property expert Kate Faulkner has been announced as the host of this year’s Society of Licensed Conveyancers’ annual conference. The event is...

There’s been some cynicism amongst the industry in response to new homes promises made by Chancellor Rishi Sunak in yesterday’s Budget. Sunak...

Logjams in the mortgage, conveyancing and removal stages of house moving mean sales are taking much longer than usual, according to...

Rightmove is warning of a conveyancing log-jam that may delay sales, despite the ongoing frenzy of activity and faster transactions for...

The Say No To Rightmove campaign has given a thumbs up to the new Boomin listings service created by the brothers...

Data from Rightmove shows that demand is up 61 per cent compared to the same period last year - and the...

Rightmove is reporting a mini-boom that was existing even before the stamp duty holiday - enough to propel average asking prices...

Britain’s second largest lender is to offer 90 per cent loan to value mortgages once again from next Monday - a...

In the latest of a recent flurry of consumer-facing research exercises by Rightmove, a league table of the most popular seaside...

Rightmove has enjoyed over six million visits to its portal in one day, for the first time ever. Three days ago -...

Rightmove says it enjoyed 5.3m visits on Tuesday of this week - up four per cent on the comparable day of...

The number of full property details viewed on Rightmove - a key indicator of market health - is already stronger than...

Rightmove has suggested there may be massive changes underway in buyers’ priorities as the housing market resumes and the country begins...

Rightmove says it’s to launch its biggest ever national marketing campaign in a bid to kick-start the market once lockdown eases. The...

A study by Rightmove suggests that 94 per cent of buyers and sellers currently in the market are determined to go...

Rightmove and Knight Frank are today both calling for a series of government incentives to kick-start the market after the Coronavirus...

Hello - we hope you had as good an Easter as possible in these unusual circumstances, and welcome back to work. Now...

Rightmove has hit back at critics saying it’s no longer the force it used to be by reporting record traffic for...

Rightmove may continue to be a target for criticism from some agents and rival portals but it has just enjoyed it...

There’s been an average asking price rise of 2.3 per cent in the past four weeks - the biggest ever increase...

After a year dogged by Brexit deadlock, political turmoil, and slow growth, estate agents’ confidence in the property market hit a...

The scores are in….and it looks like house prices are going to rise gently in 2020 according to forecasts from almost...

Rightmove predicts that the price of property coming to market in Britain will rise by two per cent next year. The portal...

There’s bad news peak-time TV shows this evening like DIY SOS and Coronation Street - it looks likely that viewers will...

In a new video interview, Steve Carroll, director of industry relations at Real Estate Group, tells industry commentator Christopher Watkin why...

Rightmove is this morning reporting a huge fall in the number of new sellers coming to the market - a drop...

The latest Rightmove asking price index indicates a smaller than usual autumn bounce - that’s a sign, the portal says, of...

A pessimistic set of figures on asking prices, transaction volumes and stock levels culminates in Rightmove urging vendors to be willing...

Rightmove says the number of homes stuck in what it calls “the legal log jam” is at its highest for over...

The price of property coming to market fell by 0.2 per cent or an average of £656 in the past month...

The latest asking prices data from Rightmove suggests that the national housing market is being dragged down by poor performance in...

Rightmove’s latest house price statistics reveal that asking prices for newly-marketed property are on average 0.9 per cent higher than a...

There’s been a spring bounce with prices of new-to-the market properties increasing an average of 1.1 per cent in the past...

Both major portals have this morning revealed more evidence of a gently slowing housing market. The average time to sell a property...

The latest Rightmove price index suggests that homes are at their most affordable level for some years thanks to wage growth...

Gloomy statements from some industry organisations have suggested the market is in trouble thanks to Brexit uncertainty but Rightmove says visits...

Rightmove has revealed which day was its busiest in 2018 in terms of page views. It says February 19 was the date,...

Asking prices of homes coming to the market have fallen for the second month in a row - and Rightmove says...

The chief executive of online agency HouseSimple says “sellers need to be prepared and willing to lower their expectations” in the current...

Rightmove is this morning reporting that the asking price of property coming to market has fallen 1.7 per cent in the...

We’re sorry to be starting the week with more evidence of the housing market in the doldrums, but Rightmove’s latest index...

Rightmove is reporting a mini-boom as the autumn market gets into gear, with a surge in buyers and a one-month rise...

Rightmove says the housing market is now into a ‘summer sale’ as newly-marketed property shows an average asking price fall of...

Asking prices are at a virtual standstill as the summer lull kicks in, according to the latest Rightmove index. New seller asking...

The average asking price of newly marketed property continues to rise according to Rightmove - and this is despite a dip...

The latest data from Rightmove indicates that the average national asking price has reached another all-time high of £308,075 following a...

Prices of new-to-the-market property rose by a modest 0.4 per cent over the past month says Rightmove - but that’s enough...

Rightmove says it has enjoyed its highest ever monthly number of visitors - 141 million in January. They spent a total of...

Fall-through rates have long been a problem for the UK residential property market, the issue is nothing new. Today, however, the...

Rightmove says its visits so far in January are running over nine per cent higher than the same period a year...

Sellers have launched "their own sale" in response to the stagnating market by slashing asking prices according to Rightmove - but...

Asking prices have risen by an average of 1.1 per cent or £3,432 in the past month according to Rightmove.  This is...

Rightmove’s monthly price index says the average asking price of homes coming to the market has fallen 1.2 per cent in...

The typical asking price of a home coming on sale has fallen by 0.9 per cent, equivalent to £2,758 - precisely...

The housing market is approaching something of a standstill as the summer holiday season begins according to a downbeat report from...

The latest Rightmove figures show that the number of sales agreed by agents over the last month is up 7% when...

Asking prices of homes coming to the market have now been rising for five consecutive months says Rightmove.  Asking prices rose 2.0...

The price of property coming to the market has hit anoher record high, up 1.1 per cent over the past month...

The average asking price rise for homes coming to the market in the last month has been a chunky 1.3 per...

Rightmove secured over 131m visits last month, an all-time high for January. The 131m total was some three per cent above January...

Rightmove is teaming up with the National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Letting Agents to offer what...

The National Association of Estate Agents has lured housing minister Gavin Barwell to speak at its conference next month.  Barwell will outline...

Rightmove’s web traffic between Boxing Day and the end of last week is up five per cent on the same period...

There’s been a fall in the typical asking price of a home on sale of 2.1 per cent according to Rightmove...

Rightmove’s commercial director Miles Shipside, who makes relatively few appearances at industry events, is to be a speaker at the NAEA...

The asking price of properties newly launched on the market has dipped by 1.1 per cent in the past month says...

Available stock levels across Greater London, the east of England, plus the south east and the south west are now 16...

The average asking price of a property coming to market has started to recover from the dip that followed June's Brexit...

A campaign has been launched to make Bristol the colour capital of the UK by ensuring that more homes are painted...

The typical price of property coming to the market in the last four weeks is 1.2 per cent lower than in...

The morning after the EU referendum, and Westminster, Britain, Europe and the world were left in shock at the news that...

Rightmove’s latest house price index, covering two weeks either side of the EU referendum at the end of June, suggests average...

Rightmove says fewer new sellers are coming to market, with this month’s total some 5.3 per cent below the monthly average...

It’s nearly June – June! – already. Seriously, where has this year gone? This means summer is nearly upon us, with a...

The main debate at this year’s FUTURE: PropTech conference - the industry’s leading technology forum, held yesterday in London - saw...

A modest 0.4 per cent rise in average asking prices over the past month conceals a nasty surprise for first time...

On Tuesday we managed hail, snow, rain, sun and a chilly wind all in one day. Whatever you want to say...

Rightmove’s commercial director, Miles Shipside, is to make a rare intervention in the debate on the future of estate agency by...

An OnTheMarket director says his portal can still challenge Rightmove - despite record figures from Rightmove itself. As we reported yesterday, Rightmove says...

Rightmove says the seasonal 1.1 per cent dip in average asking prices coming to market in the past month is the...

Rightmove has used its latest monthly house price index to launch its bid to push up its visits to record levels...

Rightmove says the average asking price of a home coming to the market has reached an all-time high of £296,549 despite...

Rightmove says the price of property coming to market this month has hit a new national record, up 0.9 per cent...

The unexpected outcome of the general election has given a shot in the arm to sellers and agents leading to a...

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With some agents squabbling about whether there has been or will be a post-election bounce, Rightmove has come down firmly insisting...

The heads of Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket have been invited to take part in a ‘Portal Leaders Debate’ to discuss the...

Rightmove is reporting its highest ever average asking price as a result of a slump in the number of homes being...