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The government has launched a new equity loan scheme for the self-build market. The Help to Build scheme aims to help thousands...

Proptech firm iamproperty has overhauled its movebutler platform with more material information features and a Love Island theme. The end-to-end onboarding and...

A group of mortgage advisers has proposed a range of reforms to reduce barriers to home ownership for first time buyers. The...

The Bank of England raised interest rates for the fifth consecutive month yesterday. The cost of borrowing is now at a 13-year...

Agency trade body Propertymark has called for the government’s housing market reforms to go further and has even suggested targeted stamp...

Property professionals and MPs were left wanting more after Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s much-anticipated housing announcements yesterday. Johnson yesterday promised a review...

Mortgage down valuations are being driven-up by sellers trying their luck and ignoring their estate agent’s advice, a broker claims. Analysis by...

Boris Johnson has promised a review of the mortgage market and housing benefit rules to help more people to get on...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to unveil a flagship policy today to help more people onto the property ladder. It is...

In this article, Kristian Stott, Head of New Business at iamproperty, analyses the digital revolution in our lives and in property and why...

First-time buyers are now facing up to a nine-year wait to save enough of a deposit to get on the property...

The government is being urged to expand and make the Treasury’s mortgage guarantee scheme permanent and compulsory on home loans above...

Belvoir has reported that group revenue is up 14% in the first four months of the year, helped mainly by its...

Spicerhaart’s annual conference and awards ceremony returned earlier this month after a three-year hiatus caused by the pandemic. The company’s two day...

Agents have heralded the beginning of the house price slowdown. The latest Land Registry House Price Index yesterday showed values increased by...

A lack of mortgage knowledge could be holding buyers back, research claims. A survey of more than 1,000 consumers by Nottingham Building...

A property lender claims to have identified signs that the property market is slowing. Analysis of Bank of England mortgage approval data...

There are signs that properties are starting to take longer to sell. A lack of stock in recent months has meant agents...

Many people in recent years will have become familiar with challenger banks such as Monzo, Starling and Atom. Many will have...

The property market is bracing for the start of the slowdown in the rate of house price growth.  The Halifax House Price...

Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) has long been the bugbear of many property transactions. Even the very wealthy will lose interest...

Fundraising frolics by agents and property professionals this week include bike rides and triathlon challenges, plus the charity award season returns. Remember,...

The property market could be set for further upheaval when the Bank of England makes its latest interest rate decision today. The...

New research from Bluestone Mortgages has shown that 'non-vanilla' customers are being turned down for financial products and services. More than two...

A property expert has predicted that mortgage applicants are likely to find it 'much harder' to be approved for loans as...

The stamp duty holiday last year has caused a surge of borrowers taking on mortgages with terms of more than 35...

Mortgage search platform Twenty7Tec is predicting there could be one million searches for home loans this month. The technology company, which lets...

The pandemic may have helped first-time buyers get on the property ladder sooner but are they paying too high a price? Research...

One of the country’s leading estate agents has played down the significance of the latest house price index which at first...

A survey of 700 borrowers by a high net worth lender suggest almost four out of 10 have lost a mortgage...

A rule change has been introduced this week in a bid to make equity release customers reduce interest costs. The option to...

A rewards and recognition programme has been launched at an agency chain, with claims that it will enhance staff careers and...

It’s not an easy time for many renters (and homeowners). The cost of living is going up across the board for...

The latest government house price data has sparked a fear that the market may be heading towards an affordability crisis. The Office...

The Building Societies Association’s regular confidence tracker about the housing market shows rising pessimism over interest rates, the escalating cost of...

The Bank of England has confirmed that base rate is to rise again, for the third time in three months, to a...

The LSL Property Services group - which is increasingly focussing activities in the mortgage and personal finance world - has issued...

Storm clouds continue to gather over the UK economy with growing inflation, another likely interest rate rise, and a warning from...

The path from agent to developer is not easy, but it is a relatively straightforward one, if you are willing to...

The chief executive of Boomin says agents have asked him to do something about rival portals “pocketing income from mortgage referral...

There’s been a marked reduction in mortgage product availability for a second consecutive month.  Independent mortgage market monitor Moneyfacts says there are...

A new ‘quick buy’ service has been announced which would mean that sales could be completed in a week, providing a...

Peta Milne, founder of Instagram growth and PR service Monimo, and a content writer at Choices Estate Agents, recently sat down...

The findings of a new survey may make worrying reading for agents who have taken the self-employed route as agency business...

The Bank of England has issued a consultation on changing the affordability tests for large mortgages introduced in the wake of...

In the last two years digital Property Logbooks for our homes have moved from concept to reality with almost a quarter...

A lead generation platform that boasts Leaders, EweMove and Northwood amongst its clients says it’s expanding into mortgages. Rentround, now in its...

Only 6.8m homes in England now have mortgages, just 28 per cent of the overall market and about two per cent...

An Australian PropTech platform called PEXA aims to break into the UK property industry this year, claiming to improve transaction processes. PEXA...

The majority of homeowners and homebuyers believe Stamp Duty Land Tax is outdated and needs reform. The mortgage lender Butterfield commissioned an...

After a long period of improvement in the level of product choice for borrowers, February has seen mortgage availability fall for the...

Here’s the odd thing about interest rates - we all care about them, but they don’t directly affect that many people...

Boomin chief executive Michael Bruce wants government action to help save the housing market as the cost of living crisis grows.  Following...

With a Bank of England base rate rise expected as soon as tomorrow, new figures from the government add weight to...

The Bank of England has increased the base rate from 0.25 per cent to 0.5 per cent. This means a typical tracker...

A former Purplebricks chief is the new CEO of rival online company Yopa. Verona Frankish has been involved in the property industry...

OnTheMarket has signed a deal with Brickflow, a new comparison site for development finance.   The portal says the partnership will provide member...

House prices are up by as much as £100,000 on this time last year according to a mortgage company. Research by the...

If agents wonder why more older home owners don’t sell and downsize, it may be because they’re taking equity out of...

Boomin co-founder and chief executive Michael Bruce has returned to the attack on Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket with an open letter,...

Mortgage lenders serving the housing market are set for a quieter 2022 after the unprecedented levels of activity seen in 2021,...

At the risk of mixing my metaphors, any mention of energy has become something of a blue touch paper in the...

A new survey suggests two thirds of current or potential home owners would accept the idea of a mortgage interest rate...

Prime Central London’s attraction to multi-millionaire and billionaire buyers appears to have soared during the pandemic. High end agency Beauchamp Estates says...

With the business model for self-employed agents hotly debated within the industry, new data has suggested that most freelance professionals are...

As 2021 draws to a swift close, there is much speculation about what 2022 will have to offer. Despite the emergence of...

The Bank of England has raised interest rates for the first time in more than three years, in response to surging...

Around a quarter of mortgage lenders currently have ‘green’ products promoting improved EPCs - and the vast majority of the rest...

Lenders’ umbrella group UK Finance has given its housing and mortgage market forecasts for 2022 and 2023 together, plus a year-end report for 2021. It estimates...

An estate agency owner who is also a qualified independent mortgage adviser has hit out against the suggestion that lenders may...

The product choice for buyers wanting mortgages is now the highest it has been since 2008 according to the independent service...

Rightmove is to try to help potential buyers get their finances in order much earlier in the transaction process, to reduce...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I can’t remember the last time I had a business...

The investment arms of Savills and the Daily Mail General Trust have pumped more cash into online agency Yopa which has...

Figures from the Building Societies Association show continued momentum in the housing market, with gross lending by building societies up 22...

It’s been a busy and arguably fruitful year for the property market, with an eager consumer base pushing forwards with their...

TV property celebrity Amanda Lamb has revealed the winners of the 2021 allAgents customer experience awards. They were announced at the awards’...

The head of research at a leading agency is warning that although the housing market remains buoyant, there may be macro-economic...

The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee has defied expectations by keeping base rate at its historic low of 0.1 per...

Analysts suggest there is a 50:50 chance of a base rate rise being announced by the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy...

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

A new service has been launched claiming to offer ‘a new supportive partnership opportunity’ for agents to earn referral fees. Cox &...

House prices rose by the most in almost 15 years in September ahead of the end of the stamp duty holiday.  The...

The first agency to give its market forecast for 2022 and beyond has suggested an upbeat performance next year.  Hamptons says the...

First-time buyers are shifting to online-only banks to help get a mortgage. A survey by personal finance website NerdWallet found that with...

The value of mortgage lending hit a record high in the final months of the stamp duty holiday. Figures from the Bank...

The property market is unlikely to enter a last-minute rush before the final stamp duty holiday ends in October, research claims. Analysis...

Welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity - another edition of good will and cheer generated by the industry’s fund-raising heroes. It’s...

Few political policies have such a ring of the past as rent controls - they were last seen in this country...

Many Britains are apparently under-estimating the impact of furlough on their ability to get a mortgage and buy a property. A new...

An agency claims that across the UK there have been very nearly 400,000 property transactions down valued in the last year...

A broker claims the high profile return of the 95 per cent mortgage has actually made little impact on the housing...

The very strong housing market seen throughout this year is set to extend into 2022 as a stock shortage is forecast...

A  mortgage expert says surveyors should improve their standard services to cover the threat of climate change.  This comes after a summer...

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

A company says it will fund first time buyers’ bids to get on the property ladder by matching them with property...

If you were hoping for a summer lull during August, think again. That’s the messages from Nicky Stevenson, managing director of Fine...

The stamp duty holiday came and went with much fanfare. For many buyers it represented a rare opportunity to make some...

Propertymark has welcomed the move by Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick to help make certain leasehold flats more attractive to would-be buyers...

LSL Property Services has told Estate Agent Today that the company did not agree to a potential sale of its mortgage arm at...

Zoopla data has confirmed that buyer demand started to moderate in the months prior to the initial stamp duty holiday tapering...

Regional hybrid agency Hortons says its repaid its £50,000 bounce back loan at the earliest opportunity - because the industry has...

A bank’s latest study suggests that self employed people are increasingly pessimistic about the chance of them being able to get on...

Our long-awaited ‘Freedom Day’ approaches. From Monday all of the restrictions, introduced since the Covid-19 pandemic made an impact across the...

The signs are that even with the stamp duty holiday tapering to a close at the end of the summer, the...

RVU - the ZPG-owned company that already owns Zoopla and independently-run price comparison and financial services - has acquired online mortgage broker Mojo...

The Halifax is reporting a 0.5 per cent monthly drop in house prices, plus a fall in the annual rate from...

Agents should prepare for a surge in fall throughs and collapsed sales thanks to the first stamp duty holiday period expiring...

There are an estimated 2.7 million landlords in the private rented sector (PRS) providing rental accommodation to multiple generations of tenant,...

There are now more mortgage products available than at any time since the start of the pandemic in March 2021. Data from...

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

Leaders Romans Group is to bolster its finance services with the expansion and rebranding of its mortgage arm. Leaders and Romans Mortgage Services...

Independent agents come in all shapes, sizes and looks, many with their own USPs and little quirks. It is this variety...

The Grenfell Tower disaster in June 2017 exposed the dangers of inflammable cladding on residential tower blocks, and what has come...

The growth of the internet and technology has transformed virtually every aspect of our lives, including how we approach the property...

A new home buying platform being set up by a challenger portal has revealed details of its mortgage offer to users. OneDome...

Nationwide Building Society is to become the largest mortgage provider to reintroduce 95 per cent Loan-to-Value home loans without government support.  These...

Thousands of sales are at risk because slow searches by councils may prevent deals completing by the next stamp duty deadline. With just under...

A relatively modest interest rate rise could trigger a crash in the housing market according to the housing analyst behind the...

It’s not just housing transactions that signal a red-hot market - the mortgage landscape is at its strongest for some time...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Ben Ridgway, Group Managing Director at iamproperty. What is iamproperty...

Mortgage lending has shown the biggest net increase on record according to the Bank of England.  Mortgage borrowing in March rose by...

One one in five first time buyers have been able to get a mortgage on the first attempt over the past...

Britain’s second largest estate agency has outlined radical new plans to shift direction, making financial services and not sales or rentals...

With property transactions taking longer than ever and many people operating at capacity, it is easy to overlook the progress made,...

The Property Franchise Group and LSL Property Services are linking up mortgage and related activity. This agreement means that LSL will be...

A consumer financial service suggests it’s already too late for most buyers to meet the latest stamp duty holiday deadline of June...

The Nationwide Building Society has launched a product which, controversially, allows some first time buyers to borrow 5.5 times their income. From...

From today buyers will be able to purchase properties worth up to £600,000 with just a five per cent mortgage, under...

Another week begins, another record tumbles - Rightmove this morning reports a monthly price surge of 2.1 per cent has propelled...

This time out, I speak to one of the industry’s biggest-hitters. Adrian Gill may have retired from frontline agency, having had...

The latest Moneyfacts monitor of the mortgage market suggests a significant number of new 95 per cent products - even without the...

A mortgage firm specialising in high net worth clients says the stamp duty holiday cliff edge will not impact the most expensive...

First time buyers are now saving more than £800 a year in comparison with tenants, new analysis suggests.  The Halifax says the...

Bank of England figures reveal that in February there were 87,700 mortgage approvals - down from a peak of 103,700 in...

A new campaign to urge whistleblowers to come forward with evidence of wrongdoing has been launched by the Financial Conduct Authority. This...

Rightmove says the excess of demand over supply right now is bigger than at any time over the past decade -...

High end purchasers of homes in London paid 15 per cent of the stamp duty in 2020, yet the value of...

A broker has launched the UK’s longest-ever fixed rate mortgage, with no early repayment charge or exit fees - the first product...

Connells Group, which is of course acquiring Countrywide, has announced it's snapped up another agency - albeit a much smaller one. It...

Rarely do Budgets produce positive sentiments from the agency industry but Chancellor Rishi Sunak appears to have won widespread support for...

The firm behind iamsold, the leading operator in the controversial Modern Method of Auction arena, is entering the private treaty sales...

Labour has accused the government of promoting “sky high mortgages” instead of providing stable accommodation for younger households. A new mortgage guarantee...

It’s been revealed that some far reaching changes to property taxes may not be unveiled at Wednesday’s Budget and may wait...

A new mortgage guarantee scheme to help buyers with small deposits will be revealed on Wednesday at the Budget. Chancellor Rishi Sunak...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak will extend the stamp duty holiday deadline until the end of June - a three month extension. The lead...

The acquisition of Countrywide by Connells might just be the deal of the century in the British estate agency industry. That’s the...

We’re now well into the third national lockdown and as the nation’s thoughts start to focus on how and when we’ll...

First time buyers with just a 10 per cent deposit - for long almost excluded from the mortgage market - now...

High net worth individuals are struggling when it comes to successfully applying for a mortgage, according to a lender.  Research by Butterfield...

LSL, owner of Reeds Rains and Your Move, is boosting its financial services sector through a £2.4m acquisition. It’s snapped up Mortgage...

A leading bank says as many as one in three buyers pay too much for a property because they are afraid...

A mortgage has been launched targeting borrowers who believe they are unlikely to complete their purchase before the stamp duty holiday’s...

Mortgage approvals decreased slightly in December but remain well above pre-Covid levels thanks to the continuing incentive of the stamp duty...

A leading mortgage broker is warning that over half the lenders in a key segment of the market are already unable...

In a wide-ranging video interview for his Move iQ service, Phil Spencer speaks to buying agent and TV property pundit Henry...

By any available metric, Belvoir had a good 2020. Already a well-known and well-established name, it was highly praised for its...

Some 70 per cent of first time buyers in 2020 took out mortgages in excess of 25 years, says the Nationwide. A decade...

The Financial Conduct Authority is extending the ban on repossessions by two months until April 1, in light of the pandemic. The...

HSBC UK is re-introducing its 90 per cent Loan To Value mortgages from next week - a possible lifeline for first...

New figures from the Bank of England show that mortgage approvals rose 7.0 per cent in November to reach 105,000 -...

A house price index that is routinely one of the most pessimistic about the market claims the New Year will see...

The Bank of England is to review the affordability tests imposed on  borrowers, opening the door to a possible relaxation of...

Pressure is building on the government to agree a tapered end to the stamp duty holiday, even if a full-blown extension now...

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

It’s that time of year again. Black Friday has been and gone and the run-up to Christmas is well and truly...

The housing market may be slowing as we enter December but the latest snapshot suggests there’s still momentum with mortgage approvals...

A mortgage technology platform has released figures suggesting the housing market remains strong, with high numbers of searches by buyers for...

The founder of OneDome says a likely housing market slowdown is the perfect time for agents to optimise revenue by investing in PropTech. Babek Ismayil believes...

The government has revealed new regional price caps for its revamped Help To Buy Equity Loan scheme, set to operate between...

Just when you thought the housing market was beginning to calm down... along comes a likely vaccine for Coronavirus. One of the country’s...

Property is considered to be a safe investment. The buy-to-let market is booming, fuelled by a generation unable to get on...

A new report funded by high profile consumer champion Martin Lewis says the government must do more to help ‘mortgage prisoners’. These...

A leading board member of NAEA Propertymark warns a small number of rogue agents continue to flout anti-money laundering regulations - and...

The national lockdown beginning on Thursday makes the case for an extension to the stamp duty holiday, according to a tax...

Recent figures emanating from the mortgage and housing market suggest that – since lockdown was ended in mid-May – transaction levels...

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

There are 140,000 more buyers waiting to complete on their properties right now than there were this time last year. The claim, by...

A developer operating in prime central London is offering buyers a deferred-payment scheme. K10 Group says it’s doing this because of the...

The property market, and therefore, estate agents have been accused of being the 'weak link' in the UK’s money laundering defences. This...

A new survey reveals the uphill struggle first time buyers appear to be having in securing a mortgage. A study of 1,000...

Delays across the house buying sector mean those wanting to benefit from the stamp duty holiday need to begin the buying...

The National Association of Estate Agents wants the government to initiate a mortgage guarantee scheme to encourage more 95 per cent...

A Bank of England survey suggests it may be more difficult for prospective buyers to get a mortgage later this year. In...

A new paper from a think tank warns that many low income owner occupiers risk losing their homes when the mortgage...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he wants to create a ‘Generation Buy’ to help young people purchase homes with low-deposit mortgages. In...

A new online platform claims to be the first of its kind to speed up the private treaty sales process for...

Almost half of the country’s first time buyers say their plans have been delayed - or worse - thanks to Coronavirus,...

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

One of the country’s major regional agencies has unveiled a ‘super hub’ structure which began life as a lockdown measure but...

The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, better known as the furlough scheme, was introduced by the chancellor Rishi Sunak in March to...

Two agencies have entered the debate on whether the current frenzied housing market is seeing delays in completions. Yesterday EAT reported that...

I’m sure I speak for most in the property industry when I say that back in March and April I had...

The scale of the problems facing many prospective buyers has been set out in a survey showing as many as one-third...

If you’re in any way connected to estate agency all it takes is a quick glance at Facebook or LinkedIn to...

A south coast estate agency which has been operating since the 1980s has opened its seventh office.  Jacobs Steel’s latest branch is...

There’s good news from the think-tank the Resolution Foundation, which says the threat of negative equity because of the Coronavirus crisis...

Recent speculation that the so-called Bank of Mum and Dad would be playing a reduced role in the housing market has...

With access to finance being such a hot topic at the moment, more and more estate agents are turning to commercial...

One of Countrywide’s biggest shareholders has written a second letter to the company to demand bold action to save the agency...

One of the country’s highest-profile mortgage lenders, HSBC, is restricting loans on apartments from today. Only buyers of flats who have a...

HM Land Registry customers - including agents and conveyancers - can now manage all of their applications and correspondence including notices,...

It’s probably not a surprise but new research has revealed where people want to move to - as well as where...

Mortgage approvals - a key indicator of short-term activity in the housing market - beat expectations in June according to Bank...

What do General Electric, IBM, Microsoft, and WhatsApp have in common? Yes, they are American companies that boasted revenues of $50...

A new website that describes itself as an estate agency says it wants to “empower people to sell their own home”...

HM Land Registry is now accepting witnessed electronic signatures on documents for the  transfer of ownership of property, the creation of...

As expected within the property industry, the Chancellor announced a stamp duty holiday in his Summer Statement. This now means that...

The mortgage arm of a regional property portal has launched pre-approval software which it claims will significantly speed up the initial...

Tuesday of this week was the busiest day of the year so far for searches for mortgages - widely seen as...

With stamp duty cuts and 90% mortgages on their way back, anyone could think the housing market was about to go...

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

You have to feel for Rishi Sunak - well, at least a little. Leave to one side that he carries more presentational...

Evidence is pouring in that the stamp duty holiday introduced 48 hours ago has already produced huge levels of interest from...

There’s been another increase in the number of mortgage products available to buyers and landlords - a sign of all aspects...

An industry analyst is challenging the long-established agents’ view that reducing or temporarily scrapping stamp duty would help the market. On the...

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

The property market has been reopen for almost eight weeks now and during that time demand from prospective buyers has soared. Rightmove...

We recently issued our Zoopla House Price Index, which analyses the latest real-time trends from the sales market. In our analysis, we...

A survey of 2,000 prospective movers by Zoopla shows the vast majority still intent on buying - but younger purchasers’ plans...

A prominent tax specialist has suggested that stamp duty cuts would not help improve the housing market, despite many agents suggesting...

Zoopla predicts that the price strength that has been seen since the reopening of the housing market is likely to continue...

One in six home owners with a mortgage across the UK are now on some form of payment holiday with lenders...

“Let’s Zoom later”, “are we Zooming in the morning or afternoon?” “Yeah, I zoomed the client earlier” – variations on these...

Online sector veterans Russell Quirk and Kenny Bruce have used social media to call for a temporary scrapping of all stamp...

Today is one month since the government lifted restrictions on agents and the housing market - and since that time the...

The only story that has come remotely close to pushing coronavirus – and its various knock-on effects – off the top...

Restrictions introduced a decade ago after the financial crisis are holding back many first time buyers from purchasing a home. That’s the...

The outlook for the housing market is still taking shape, but here I take a look at three market indicators to...

All my recent Natters have been focused on one particular topic, the coronavirus crisis, for obvious reasons. But there has been...

The Bank of Ireland UK is the latest mortgage lender to resume physical valuations of properties in England, subject of course...

A daily monitor of mortgage market activity has reported “significant volumes” of business across the sector, even over the weekend. Mortgage technology...

A free to list portal has blasted Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket for using agents' data to boost their profits.  Christopher May, chief...

The Financial Conduct Authority is reported to be considering offering homeowners up to 12 month’s mortgage holidays. Currently 1.2m mortgage payment holidays...

The demand for mortgages in April was scarcely a quarter of what it was in March - but the figures show...

The housing market is likely to rebound relatively strongly after the Coronavirus lockdown eases, according to the Nationwide. House prices grew at...

Countrywide’s senior staff earning over £45,000 per year have had their pay cut by a fifth while some 78 per cent...

A major consumer survey of existing home owners and potential movers has resulted in a plea to government to allow house...

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

Over 1.2m mortgage payment holidays have been offered by lenders to customers impacted by the Coronavirus crisis - that’s equivalent to...

The impact of the Coronavirus crisis is going to reduce agents' revenue into the third quarter finishing in late September warns a leading...

Two agents have quit Rightmove and taken to social media to give their reasons. One is the 12-branch Andrew Craig agency which...

Hello and here’s the latest daily update to help the industry through these unprecedented times.  If you have any appropriate advice you...

It seems an eternity ago but the housing market in February - that’s only last month - was in rude health...

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

Where else to start? Since my last Natter two weeks ago, all our lives have changed more than we could ever...

It’s been reported that the government is talking with banks and building societies about putting the housing market ‘on ice’ during the...

It’s far too early for authoritative figures on how devastating the Coronavirus lockdown has been on estate agents but there is...

The coronavirus outbreak has highlighted once again how fragile and interconnected our societies have become. We don’t know yet how dangerous Covid-19...

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

In the last few Natters I’ve focused on the slow death of local newspaper advertising, and how many agents are now...

When Wolverhampton estate agency Thomas Harvey opened its doors more than 50 years ago, mortgages weren’t really part of the equation...

A new study suggests cash buyers secure lower sale prices than mortgaged purchasers - but is that really the case? The survey by...

Predictions that landlords are not buying properties to let out because of tougher rental taxes and regulations appear to be short...

The Financial Conduct Authority has issued a shock warning that mortgage borrowers who purchased properties through the Help To Buy scheme...

The 2010s were a good decade for disrupters. Early on, Airbnb and Uber shook up the holiday lettings/hospitality and traditional black...

The mystery of why Countrywide’s crucial sale of its commercial arm has failed to go through as scheduled deepened over the...

Agents now have only seven days to complete a referral fees survey, announced late on Friday by Trading Standards and The...

An estate agency is setting up a call centre employing some 100 people in a bid to become “a one stop...

“Give me 100 leads and I will make five-times more good appointments than any AI you put me up against,” stated...

Hello and welcome to a new week, and a new edition of PJT. If you’re on the move or your firm has...

Following on from the second half of the last decade, the first few weeks of 2020 have been a bit mad...

A new analysis from a financial services trade body shows that gross mortgage lending is expected to rise significantly in the...

The  number of mortgage approvals rose 1.9 per cent in the final month of last year according to e.surv’s mortgage data...

The Property Franchise Group - which operates five High Street agency brands and the EweMove hybrid - has set up a...

House price growth in the past decade was at its weakest for 30 years - and despite that it remains though...

Multi-national financial institution UBS says there could be a cut in the Bank of England base rate as early as May...

Annual UK house price growth exceeded one per cent for the first time in 12 months in December according to the...

Analysts are putting a surprise surge in mortgage approvals from banks down to a spike in applications ahead of the General...

It’s one of the most crucial aspects of the homebuying and selling process but is too often bogged down by frustrating...

Yes, believe it or not, we’ve nearly reached the end of a whole decade. And what an eventful decade it’s been. We’ve...

It’s a substantial Tory government for the next five years: what does this mean for estate agents, property and the market? We have...

A new tie-up between Coadjute, a network for decentralised workflow and data sharing within the property industry, and banks including NatWest...

Online estate agency Housesimple is extending its offer to sell homes for free to some postcodes in the Midlands.  The offer is...

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

Countrywide says it is constantly keeping its current branch structure under review, saying any responsible agency would have to consider the...

In just over two weeks, the UK population will head to the polls for the fourth general election since 2010. Of course,...

Recent Zoopla reports stating that first-time buyers are deciding against purchasing one-bedroom flats came as no surprise to me, or I’m...

It’s easier than you might think. For any agent the challenge of making a business successful is hard work with the focus...

There was an increase in the number of first time buyers getting on the property ladder in September compared to the...

The National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Letting Agents have issued their manifesto for next month’s General...

Foxtons' latest trading statement shows another fall in sales revenue - but this time lettings income is down too. In an announcement...

The former chief of an online estate agency says the top three surviving firms in the sector must merge if they...

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

Troubled online agency Yopa has launched an in-house subsidiary to sell mortgages and other financial services - and not just to Yopa...

The number of prime residential housing transactions has increased rapidly in the past two decades and even in the past five...

It has been said time and time again that the uncertainty around Brexit is causing, well, uncertainty. As I write this, the...

The number of new mortgages approved by banks fell to a six-month low in September - but the annual figure shows...

An estate agency based in Cumbria has rebranded to Hunters following a management buyout. Cumberland Estate Agents has been purchased by its...

The latest figures from Halifax show annual house price growth has dipped to a six-year low. Average property price growth in...