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A veteran PropTech figure with extensive experience of working at leading estate and sales agencies has told the government to act...

A conveyancing services proptech firm claims to have sped up transactions and reduced fall-throughs in just its first 18 months of...

Interesting news from Leaders Romans Group (LRG) this week when they revealed sales figures across the group for June. Nationally, sales figures...

Almost 400,000 borrowers on low-rate mortgage deals are in for a shock when their products expire this year, Equifax has warned. Analysis...

The Government is not taking any responsibility for the thousands of people that have had spray foam installed by Green Homes...

A claims management company (CMC) is in the process of helping with more than 500 claims from homeowners to get refunds...

Readers of a certain age may remember 1983. The Space Shuttle Challenger made its first flight, Neil Kinnock was elected Labour leader,...

The “great recalculation” of the property market will take at least six months to show, Knight Frank claims. Tom Bill, head of...

Over the later part of 2022, we have experienced unprecedented economic and political turmoil, which will remain as we head into...

New mortgage lending data from the Bank of England has indicated a slowdown in property market activity during October but agents...

A rush to secure low-rate mortgage offers helped properties sell faster last month, OnTheMarket (OTM) claims. Data from the portal shows 60%...

Auctioneers claim they are benefiting from a sales market slowdown as buyers rush to make use of mortgage offers and sellers...

House price growth slowed both annually and monthly during August, new figures show, as commentators warn a property market slowdown is coming. The...

Agency stock has hit the highest level so far this year but it seems to coincide with a decline in demand...

Leeds Building Society has pledged to honour any mortgage offers and support borrowers during this period of market uncertainty. It comes as...

It’s fair to say that ours is an industry which has a language of its own, and often revels in the...

Annual house price growth has dropped to its lowest level this year and is back to single digits, official data shows. The...

The current challenges facing the conveyancing sector have put the industry in the spotlight. Here, property expert Colum Smith, Chief Vision...

Issues with property titles and borrower affordability have been revealed among the main reasons why mortgage offers have been withdrawn. The results...

The Law Society has published new guidance for what it calls “under-pressure conveyancing solicitors” as the stamp duty deadline of June...

Following the fluctuation of the property market during the UK’s first national lockdown, the industry was given a lifeline by the...

A leading agent says the worst thing that could happen with Wednesday’s Budget is if the Chancellor does not deliver on...

The government may be stopping MPs debating an extension to the stamp duty holiday - despite a pledge they would do...

Solicitors’ leaders say members of their industry are suffering mental health problems as a result of the workload to meet the...

An alarming story has appeared in the mortgage trade press, highlighting an apparent pitfall in the house buying process that has...

Searches that are bound by the Search Code, protecting the seller, buyer and lender, are property and not client specific. As...

A law firm wants the government to agree that properties that have exchanged but not yet completed can definitely benefit from the...

The housing market boom looks set to continue for some months yet as mortgage approvals for home purchases hit their highest...

Emma Vigus, managing director of sales progression platform mio, in discussion with key suppliers in the residential property industry on operating...

The chief executive of a property information platform says now is a “dangerous time” to buy or sell homes because of...

Three of the highest profile industry suppliers and house moving services have given government a four-step plan to restart the housing...

Two financial trade bodies say most mortgage providers will give customers who have exchanged contracts the option to extend their mortgage...

The government has at last issued extensive advice on home moving and the activities of estate agents during the continuing Coronavirus crisis. This...

Figures released this morning show a surge in first time buyers securing mortgages in recent months, despite the market showing continued signs...

A property portal that describes itself as free-to-list has launched today, taking the industry by surprise - however, at least one...

Barclays is next week launching a so-called ‘green mortgage’ which links the loan to the Energy Performance Certificate rating of the...

A typical 50-day wait for a buyer to receive a mortgage offer “increases the risk that sales will collapse and puts...

A number of my member firms (Bold Legal Group) have reported that, compared to three years ago, the time to get...