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

A new homes portal says that in the past year it’s seen a rise of 82 per cent in website visitors and...

Unfortunately for consumers, buying and selling properties is rarely plain sailing. But fortunately for agents, this provides you with an opportunity to...

A rugby star has signed a deal to operate the easyProperty franchise in his home town area. Castleford Tigers prop forward Liam...

New build homes cost 19 per cent more than comparable pre-owned properties according to a new survey - and sometimes 50...

The tussle for New Build listings between Zoopla and OnTheMarket has swung in favour of the former this morning with the...

A digital platform claims its taken “a massive step” towards speeding up property sales with what it says is the first...

Hello and welcome to the first Property Jobs Today of 2020 - and we’ve plenty to report even with the New...

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

Here it is - the start of a new decade, a moment for resolutions and remembrance, and the last Bank Holiday...

Prices in Prime Central London dipped again in November according to the property investment consultancy London Central Portfolio. Monthly average prices fell...

There are reasons to be optimistic that a majority government will improve the housing market, simply by ending political and economic...

The government has given details of a scheme allowing 30 per cent reductions for what it calls ‘local first time buyers’...

An unknown website called EA League Tables has issued a list of agencies and agency-groups which it claims shows their order by...

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

[Estate Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise...

Another estate agency has provided evidence of the problems that continue to hurt the prime central London housing market. Strutt & Parker,...

A new portal has been launched aiming to take on Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket in the retirement property sector - and...

The latest figures from investment consultancy London Central Portfolio suggests new build sales have plummeted in prime areas of the capital...

A 10 point manifesto to drive forward leasehold reform has been published by prominent campaigner Louie Burns, of The Leasehold Solutions Group. The 10...

A new study by the London School of Economics suggests that a high profile ban on the sale of new homes...

A Labour proposal to dramatically improve energy efficiency in almost every British home would cost an estimated £60 billion. The upgrades would...

It’s on - although judging by the early lack of enthusiasm amongst the British public, you might be forgiven for thinking...

London Central Portfolio, the investment consultancy which  saw signs of an upturn in the prime market in the capital this autumn,...

Zoopla has unveiled new functionality that it claims will make searching for new homes easier for consumers - and resumes the...

Consumer demand for new build homes has dropped to a six-year low, according to the Federation of Master Builders (FMB). The organisation's House...

Savills, Knight Frank, Cushman & Wakefield and JLL are the main estate agencies now working with a review website allowing buyers...

A trading statement from OnTheMarket reveals that fewer agents than anticipated have so far converted from free or discounted deals to...

Around one person in seven in England are living in unaffordable, insecure or unsuitable accommodation. The claim comes from the research produced...

Hello and welcome to your regular Monday PJT, the essential guide to who’s moving where in our industry. Everyone mentioned here got...

Barratt Developments’ three consumer brands - Barratt Homes, David Wilson Homes and Barratt London - are the first developers to list...

Hello and welcome to the latest PJT, your weekly opportunity to catch up on key moves within the industry. Everyone mentioned here...

Knight Frank has expanded its residential London network with the addition of a new South Bank office. While many agencies have shut...

A housing market monitor that for some months has been pessimistic about London and the rest of the England and Wales...

The number of new homes registered to be built in the UK during July was nine per cent lower than a...

The National Association of Estate Agents has told the government that it wants one single Ombudsman to provide redress across all...

The Housing Secretary says he wants to make home ownership more affordable for first time buyers - which could mean discounts...

The Guardian has revealed that small investors lured into putting money into TV property guru Kevin McCloud’s eco-friendly housing projects -...

Innovate or Die. But What is Innovation? It Isn’t just PropTech A certain Mr Dick Whittington Esquire was once convinced that the...

A briefing note for MPs prepared from government statistics shows that housing starts and completions have increased from the lows observed...

A bid to ban the building of new homes for out-of-town buyers has backfired on a Cornish community - and now...

All new-build homes could soon be fitted with an electric car charging point. The government has issued a consultation on the move,...

The Nationwide building society is to go into house building. It has received planning permission to build 239 new homes for sale...

LSL Property Services’ Land & New Homes division says it’s set a record by selling 50 per cent of the units...

Property developing is an incredibly diverse and exciting career choice, and something that many people aspire to do in the UK.  I...

The National Audit Office says many users of Help To Buy would have been able to purchase a home anyway, without...

A volume house builder is launching a TV advertising campaign claiming its properties are a “premium alternative” to second hand homes...

A recently-launched free-to-list portal says it’s uniquely positioned to attract overseas buyers and investors interested in purchasing in major UK cities. Residential...

Respected investment consultancy London Central Portfolio is warning that “sales go on falling and falling” across the capital, fuelled by Brexit...

You know the problem with new builds - they’re a bit Marmite aren’t they? Contemporary design is all well and good but…how...

First time buyers purchasing new homes using the government’s Help to Buy equity loan scheme paid on average 12 per cent...

The government has revealed that it’s to ‘test’ the workings of the New Homes Ombudsman before the scheme formally launches. Housing Secretary...

A survey of owners has revealed that recent leasehold scandals have deterred many would-be buyers from considering new build homes.  The survey,...

A survey by the Centre for Ageing Better recently showed that 72% of people want to see every new home built...

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...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, your weekly chance to catch up on major moves in our industry. Everyone here has...

The demand for rural properties is high, and with 20.7% of England’s population in countryside areas, estate agents have a large...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, your regular catch-up on key appointments news in our industry. It’s been a difficult seven...

A review website has launched that describes itself as “a new and powerful research and marketing tool in the residential property...

Winkworth has set up a dedicated land and new homes division. The franchise agency, which has most of its offices in and...

The National Trading Standards Estate Agency team has issued new guidance for those seeking redress over leasehold disputes.  This guidance contains a...

A respected property investment consultancy is warning that the current premium put on the prices of new-build homes - around 15...

  The National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Lettings Agents have thrown their weight behind the government’s latest...

The government has this morning set out wide-ranging changes to redress systems for agents, the sales and lettings sectors, and other...

A firm which recently joined the ‘hub club’ of agencies using centralised services offices says its won a major new build...

While even agents of the calibre of Savills struggle in today’s market - see the agency’s figures here - it’s a...

One of Britain’s foremost property consultancies has given a relatively upbeat prediction for the UK housing market over the next five...

A leading buying agent says 2019 is likely to see the continuation of last year’s trend where distressed sellers accept discounts...

Are you a real Doctor? Not in the conventional sense no, sorry to disappoint! I’m Tom Durrant and I’m the Creative Director...

The government says it will be releasing details of its ideas to revamp redress systems concerning agents and new homes “in...

With one year to go, the 2010s will see housebuilding figures in England come in below any decade since the Second...

Six directors have been banned from office after misleading over 300 people who bought new build homes in the north of...

Developers have continued to sell thousands of new-build houses with leaseholds, despite a government pledge to ban the “unscrupulous” practice a...

Vesta, which describes itself as “the new online marketplace for buying and selling rental property” has launched a bid to raise...

Property analysts say ‘flippers’ - those who buy new homes and sell them quickly, hopefully for a profit - are losing...

Figures released by the government over the weekend show that 14,867 Help To Buy equity loans were taken out in the...

The closure of Foxtons’ Park Lane office and five other branches in the capital are merely the start of things to come...

Every cloud has a silver lining, and a high end prime central London estate agent appears to have found one from...

New build property values are rising at a much greater rate than existing property values according to a study by DJ Alexander. The...

London estate agency JOHNS&CO, which specialises in new homes, has opened its seventh office in the capital - the announcement came...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? It just says “Agent” for, at the end of the...

It’s Budget day and the government is once again on the receiving end of a blast from one of the country’s...

Perhaps it’s been our pre-occupation with Brexit, or on the other hand maybe we’re bored with politics, but this year’s Budget...

The cost of new-build leasehold properties has surged 16 times faster than freeholds according to research from property investment platform. The revelation...

Is Help To Buy going to remain in existence for much longer? Question marks over the scheme’s future are being raised through...

The National Association of Estate Agents has welcomed the government’s move to ensure most future new-build houses are sold as freehold...

The vast majority of new-build houses are to be sold as freehold with ground rents for new leases capped at £10...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an advertisement for a new development in London after complaints over claims about the yields...

New build house prices rose 5.1 per cent in the year to the end of August - substantially more than the...

The government, which only recently said there would be one Ombudsman covering the entire housing sector, has announced that there is...

Agents have continued to express their shock and opposition to the announcement by the government that it wants a stamp duty...

There’s more bad news for the long-troubled Prime Central London market. A new analysis shows that transaction volumes have plunged 11.6 per cent...

A housing academic claims that while popular belief has it that homes are getting smaller, the typical living space in England...

The Property Ombudsman has urged the government to bring the new homes build sector under consumer redress. New builds are not currently...

Almost all buyers of new build houses who purchased a leasehold regret doing so, and the vast majority say they definitely wouldn't...

In a surprise weekend announcement the government has almost doubled funding for the National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team - the...

Prices and transaction volumes have both fallen again in Prime Central London according to the index produced by Central London Portfolio,...

A report in the Financial Times lays bare the scale of the housing market downturn in central London - it suggests...

Hello and welcome to this week’s hat-tip towards those in our industry doing so much to help others in need. Summer fund-raising...

Part of the South Hams area, a popular tourist hotspot in south Devon, has voted overwhelmingly in favour of a ban...

Transactions across Greater London have plummeted - they were down 7.9 per cent over the past three months and a whopping...

High-end housebuilder Berkeley Homes says “macro and political uncertainty, including Brexit” is leading to some developers previously building in London to...

There’s been a landslide vote to ban new-build second homes in another tourist hotspot. Some 90 per cent of those who voted...

The retirement housing sector has increased its market share considerably in the last two years, creating a 'perfect storm' for estate...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today, our weekly feature on who’s moving where throughout our industry. And it’s...

One of the three official redress bodies serving the estate and lettings agency industry has conducted a survey of complaints across...

James Brokenshire - yesterday appointed Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government - joins the rank of senior politicians...

The battle to become the single ombudsman service after the government rationalises the redress system across housing has taken an unexpected...

Hybrid agency Emoov is now offering a tailored sales package aimed at attracting developers listing and selling new homes. Rather than paying...

The proportion of first time buyers in the market is still 11 per cent below the level seen before the 2008...

  More details have emerged of the government’s proposals to enhance estate agency regulation, regulate referral fees, offer guides for buyers and...

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

At any given moment it’s difficult to say which issue dominates our marketplace, but I think it’s fair to acknowledge during...

Have you noticed a new turf war going on on the fringes of the agency world? It’s not a high-profile battle like...

Estate agency Jackson-Stops says it has discovered precisely how many existing home owners understand the difficulties facing first time buyers in...

Investment consultancy London Central Portfolio has launched a new index which it claims uses “the most comprehensive data available” to assess...

An estate agent and former chairman of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says the government’s latest drive to build new...

When it comes to property, ‘Japanese knotweed’ are the two words most homeowners and prospective buyers do not want to hear.  With...

When it comes to growing your business sustainably, maintaining a brand that is eye-catching and identifiable with your audience is vital...

London estate agency chain Dexters is expanding its brand once again thanks to a new partnership with Stirling Ackroyd New Homes.  Dexters...

Land and investment deals achieved by Connells Group in 2017 will add a further 2,750 units to its new homes pipeline,...

The government has launched a surprise consultation on the creation of a new redress system for customers of agents and others...

Readers of a certain age may remember the spoon-bending eccentric Uri Geller, self-proclaimed friend of Michael Jackson and an almost permanent...

The number of transactions last year dropped to 1.22m - a minor 0.8 per cent drop on the year before and...

A new national housing agency – Homes England – has been launched by the newly-rebadged Ministry of Housing Communities and Local...

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

A specialist leasehold enfranchisement firm has branded government leasehold reforms as "incredibly weak". In an announcement lost in the noise following Damian Green’s sacking,...

Chris Philp, a Conservative MP and Parliamentary Private Secretary to Chancellor Phillip Hammond, says 50 per cent of new homes in...

The consumer group HomeOnwers’ Alliance says buyers of new build homes should be able to retain 2.5 per cent of the...

Another Budget, another pledge of new house building: it appears from statements made over the weekend by Chancellor Phillip Hammond that...

New figures out this morning show that house builders registered nearly 38,000 new homes in the UK during the third quarter...

The residential research associate director of Cushman & Wakefield says there is now evidence that the Help to Buy equity loan...

A minister has floated the idea that stamp duty could be reduced on homes where sellers have improved energy efficiency. Climate Change...

Respected buying agency Black Brick says there is evidence that prices in prime central London may be stabilising and transactions volumes...

England faces a growing gulf between new build completions and new households being added to the population according to a new...

Labour’s shadow housing minister John Healey is reported to be one of a number of prominent front bench opposition spokespeople being...

Long-established central London estate agency Kay & Co is opening what it calls “a stylish new boutique office” on the ground...

Countrywide Surveying Services has been appointed by Virgin Money as its partner to support borrowers for new build, custom build and...

The government says the number of new build homes that have started to be built has surged to the highest level...

Shelter, the campaigning charity that has been hugely critical of private landlords and letting agents in recent years, has now launched...

Savills has reported strong figures for the first half of 2017 across its worldwide activities, but its UK residential divisions have...

The government has poured cold water over industry speculation that Help To Buy could be phased out or significantly modified between...

The government is thought to be reviewing Help To Buy which, it is claimed, could end with the scheme being scrapped...

Without wishing to blow our own trumpet at this time, we did say at the start of the year that 2017...

There has been general support from the industry for the government’s apparent intention to ban new homes in England being sold...

The government says it wants to ban “unfair” leasehold charges imposed on buyers of new-build homes in England.  Under the measure, subject to...

The government has published the findings of research which suggest that very few local opponents to new homes will be bought...

Purplebricks has landed a deal to sell new-build homes, an activity previously done usually directly by developers or traditional high street estate...

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

A leasehold enfranchisement expert wants government action over what he calls the "forgotten casualties" of the recent ground rent scandal.    Louie Burns,...

Government schemes like Help To Buy, supposedly assisting more people get on the ladder, have little impact on improving social mobility...

LonRes has launched a new product which it says helps developers and agents ensure maximum exposure to previously untapped buyers. A new...

A cluster of conveyancing and legal experts, known as the Legal Sector Group, has published a raft of proposals on leasehold...

London Central Portfolio, a property investment consultancy, has set out a five point plan for the next government elected this week...

Theresa May’s call for a snap general election on June 8 took many by surprise. But estate agents have been broadly...

It has been announced that Uber, the taxi company, has teamed up with build to rent firm, Moda Living, to ‘revolutionise renting’.    This...

Given that around 95% of property searches now start online, it is more important than ever that an agent has an...

Since the seventies, housing starts and completions across England and Wales have been on a downward trajectory. The long run average...

There has been widespread praise for the Nationwide building society's crackdown on criteria for mortgages for leasehold new build homes.   From May...

Residents in two parts of Cornwall will vote tomorrow on whether to join the holiday resort of St Ives in banning...

Not only did Theresa May stun everyone with her decision to call a ‘snap election’ but with the campaign now underway...

More than three quarters of developers want to see the government go into reverse on its stamp duty and mortgage interest...

The number of new homes built in London will reach record levels in 2017, according to high-end agency Savills - but...

“I predict that within a few years, folks advertising properties for rent or to buy will start to show if their property is a...

The results of a survey conducted by the Home Builders Federation has been attacked by consumer group, the HomeOwners Alliance. For over...

Peter Robinson, CEO of AIPP – Association of International Property Professionals – shines a light onto the international property market. Some UK...

The property market in northern England, supported in part by the Northern Powerhouse concept, has attracted a lot of media attention,...

The Competition and Markets Authority is to review the operation of new home structural warranties issued by the National House Building...

Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his first Budget this week pledging extra funding for the NHS, transport in the Midlands and the...

Former Conservative minister Michael Portillo has made an outspoken attack on his former party over its switch of housing policy emphasis from...

Looking ahead to the Spring Budget this week, the Chancellor Philip Hammond will be obliged to face up to the implications...

A house builder has set aside £7m to spend on repairs to its own new properties after a series of complaints...

What would Norwich’s own Alan Partridge say? An estate agency in the city is offering residents a one-off opportunity - the...

The chronic shortage of housing supply in the UK relative to demand has been a national issue for decades. The Government...

The government’s attitude of “Nanny knows best” has “squandered another opportunity” to make a real difference to the housing crisis, according...

The government has set out 29 key points in its Housing White Paper.   Introducing it in the Commons this afternoon, Communities Secretery Sajid...

There's bad news for the government in the form of house building targets on the eve of its long-awaited Housing White...

Lots of people buy new-build due to the perceived lack of hassle with maintenance, as they are built to the latest...

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

The East of England, which takes in areas from Hertfordshire to Norfolk, has recorded the biggest hike in property prices over...

The end of 2016 saw the launch of 30,000 new build-to-rent (BTR) projects in London alone. With market growth projected to...

The government appears to have slipped back on two deadlines concerning measures key to the property industry. Firstly the consultation on the...

After years of surveys suggesting the UK’s new-build homes were getting smaller, and may even be the smallest in much of...

The chief executive of one of Britain’s top house builders is warning that the industry must do more to prevent an...

The Halifax says house prices across the UK will rise between 1.0 and 4.0 per cent in the next 12 months...

2017 is set to be the first year since 2008 that the UK constructs 200,000 new homes, suggests Redrow, one of...

The Adam Smith Institute, a right-wing think-tank, has blasted the campaigning charity Shelter over its allegations of land-banking by house builders in...

Following a strong start to 2016, particularly in the lower to middle range of the UK housing market, that lasted up...

Humberts says it is throwing its weight behind a fledgling organisation set up to bring estate agencies and new-build developers together...

House prices will stall in 2017 and there won’t by any significant improvement in affordability for many hard-pressed buyers - but...

A housebuilder that has in the past profited from its concentration on high-end London schemes says demand for its units is...

A firm is warning of “a wave of litigation from home owners who were given inadequate advice from their solicitors or...

In case you missed it yesterday, here’s a summary of everything relating to property that was in Chancellor Phillip Hammond’s Autumn...

A solicitor has asked how the ban on the sale of new-build apartments and houses to holiday home buyers in a...

Barratt Homes, the UK’s largest housebuilder, is slashing the asking prices of some of its most expensive London homes by 10 per cent. In...

Some sectors of the industry have been giving their initial reactions to the shock Donald Trump victory in the US presidential election.  Camilla...

There are now around 715,000 homes classed as ‘retirement housing’ which is equivalent to about 2.6 per cent of total housing stock. The...

Another agency has opened an office in the troubled Nine Elms scheme in central London - this time the new entrant...

As many northern cities struggled to recover from the 2008 global financial crisis, the north-south divide returned to plague the British...

A campaign group says it wants to state the case for more new homes in a county which until now has...

Countryside Properties and Telford Homes are the latest housebuilders to report good trading conditions following the result of the EU referendum. Countryside,...

A key decision that may have far-reaching implications for the sale of holiday homes has been delayed by a High Court...

The government has signalled that it is going to publish a housing White Paper later this year with “significant measures” to...

The government says its latest release of figures from its various Help to Buy schemes show that over 185,000 people have...

Some of London’s ailing new homes schemes may have been thrown a lifeline by the decision of technology giant Apple to occupy...

Next week sees a court case which will decide whether there will have to be a re-run of the ‘second homes...

The government's most publicised measure of housebuilding excludes around a fifth of all new build completions each year, according to a...

With the number of new homes being built across the UK still significantly below the level needed to meet demand, housebuilders...

Barratt Homes is the latest housebuilder to report strong figures - for the period up to the EU referendum - with...

The government’s housing policy, while helpful outside London, has had a negative effect on the capital according to one of the...

The importance of overseas buyers in underpinning increasing elements of the capital’s housing market and won support from an unlikely quarter...

In the capital, people will pay a premium to live near great transport links, and as we’ve seen from Crossrail and...

The see-saw of conflcting post-Brexit indicators is continuing with figures from house builder Persimmon suggesting a strong housing market - contradicting...

The industry publication Property Week says it has exclusively discovered that the government is preparing a housing market stimulus package to...

Rentplus, a business providing Rent To Buy homes, has announced that it has new funding of £20m - on top of...

Square foot prices at one of central London’s most controversial new developments - Nine Elms - are down eight per cent...

There has been another indicator that the Brexit effect on the UK housing market has been less severe than some anticipated. Bovis...

Councils have started replacing just one sixth of the number of homes sold under Right To Buy in England in the...

There is likely to be an October court date set for a judicial review into a ban on new-build houses and...

Savills residential fee income rose 10 per cent in the first six months of 2016 but the firm warns that it’s...

Jackson-Stops & Staff has opened a new branch in in Blandford, Dorset, expanding the agency’s west country presence to nine offices.   Simon...

Sheffield in South Yorkshire, which was once one of the leading industrial cities in Britain and is still recognised for its...

It has been revealed that the new housing minister, Gavin Barwell, appears to be campaigning to oppose a new housing scheme...

With the new Formula One season now well underway, we delve into the fast lane to take you on a whirlwind...

nu-move online estate agents -The Future of Property Nu-move is an online venture that has been created to meet the demand...

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

Berkeley Group, which has given a trading report to the City, says reservations for its new homes are down 20 per...

Property consultancy Arcadis, which monitors construction and development around the world, wants Chancellor George Osborne to offer temporary stamp duty relief...

The government is launching the new official UK House Price Index - to be known in short-form as the UK HPI...

Dear Sales Doctor, I'm aware I sound robotic when qualifying an applicant and don't know how to change it; any ideas? When an...

The Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners says more leaseholders are complaining of inflated service charges for maintenance, upkeep and communal areas.  The...

Countrywide has taken another step into the residential development mortgage market by acquiring Mortgage Bureau, which works with national house builders as...

The service charges for new-build flats coming on to the market this year are on average 96 per cent higher than...

Research from a residential investment consultancy throws light on the extraordinary large pipeline of new homes to be built in central London,...

Morgan Stanley says fears over a possible UK exit from the EU and other global economic uncertainty could lead to “a...

JLL says the stamp duty surcharge on buy to let properties and second homes has obliged it to downgrade its forecast...

As we know, the property market in London is notorious for sitting a long way outside the conventions of the wider UK...

A detailed analysis by Hometrack reveals that new-build transactions - running at roughly 10 per cent of all house sales for...

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

The government claims 43 per cent of new homes built since the introduction of the Help to Buy equity loan scheme...

A newspaper article claims that Rightmove and Zoopla are “awash” with what it calls “the unofficial resales of flats in developments...

With a little over two months to go until changes to Stamp Duty are introduced that will impact purchasers of second...

Online estate agency easyProperty is marking the start of 2016 by launching a Land and New Homes division. “It’s obviously one of...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an advertisement from a property company selling new homes in East London, after it was...

In many respects 2015 has been a good year. Despite global challenges, we have seen a marked improvement in the UK...

More than half of the new homes being built today are not big enough to meet the needs of the people...

The Bow Group - a think-tank that was previously a solid backer of the Tories but has recently flirted with UKIP...

It’s been revealed that the National Home Building Council has been helping the National Association of Estate Agents with a toolkit...

The agency marketing expert Doctor Photo has launched what he calls a ‘digital surgery’ to provide agents and developers with images...

High-end property business Savills has launched a new service called Retirement Living, aimed at securing business from retirement scheme developers. The team...

Property journalists, and more than a few estate agents, are beginning their annual autumn ritual – forecasting what’s going to happen...

On Wednesday 21st October future and reality will collide. Back to the Future’s Marty McFly will arrive in the DeLorean to...

The government has launched a £26m fund for house builders and developers to demonstrate the range of high quality homes appropriate...

The Royal Institution for Chartered Surveyors says it supports a call by housing minister Brandon Lewis for personnel retiring from the...

Registrations for new private homes rose 17 per cent in the three months to the end of May when compared to...

In my recent article, ‘Is Gazeal for Real?’ I reported on the imminent launch of this new product that claimed it...

A developer is proposing to launch 345 new-build flats at Canary Wharf with a policy of selling to UK buyers before...

Over 28,000 people visited websites connected with the first ever online-only auction for new build properties, according to the event’s organisers,...

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

Working with a well-connected local estate agent should be a priority for British house-hunters looking for property overseas, according to an...

Auction house Allsop is launching the country’s first ever online-only auction for new build homes - and claims it's a first. The...