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Interest rates were held for the fifth consecutive time after the latest Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting yesterday. The...

A variety of charities have received support from the property industry over the past week. If there are charitable endeavours you think...

Average house prices fell 1.4% during 2023, Land Registry data has revealed. The latest Land Registry House Price Index for December 2023...

The level of mortgage approvals hit a four-month high in November, Bank of England data reveals. There were 50,067 mortgage approvals in...

Average house prices fell annually for the second consecutive month during October, Land Registry figures show. The data may only reflect activity...

Agency brand Anthony Pepe has announced the acquisition of Chamberlains Estates in Enfield. The former owners of the Chamberlains business, Andrew Ryde...

Winkworth is expanding further in north London, with a new office opening in fashionable West Hampstead. The move by the agency franchise...

Propertymark says that sellers who strive to find a “middle ground” in today’s difficult market can still turn a healthy profit...

House prices are falling at their fastest rate in 12 years, dropping £7,500 on average over the past 12 months, according...

Sotheby’s Realty International is set to return to the small screen next week. Its agents will feature in Channel 4's prime residential property...

A new property platform aiming to help homeowners sell off-market properties has attracted 10,000 registered buyers in its first few months...

Estate agents have expressed hope that the latest interest rate rise is the last after the Bank of England increased the...

The ‘fizz’ has left the market, an industry veteran has claimed after the Nationwide House Price Index revealed a second consecutive...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will have a go at balancing the nation’s books today and the main thing agents seem to want...

Estate agents could face new transaction delays after the Land Registry and its Scottish equivalent were among Government departments and civil...

July was the most active month for home sales so far this year but agents acknowledge that a slowdown is coming. The...

Long-term 50-year mortgages that can be passed on by parents to their children appear to be the latest idea from the...

The Prime Minister has tonight won a confidence vote in his leadership and hung on to his premiership. After a dramatic day at...

Foxtons has announced the acquisition of two estate agents worth £10.55m. The listed agency giant has acquired IMM Properties Ltd, trading under...

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

Buyers are being urged to act now to secure decent mortgage pricing as interest rates hit a 13-year high yesterday. The Bank...

A leading figure in the Say No To Rightmove (STNR) campaign says the attempts to get agents to ditch Rightmove have...

The industry has reacted to the Spring Statement by breathing a sigh of relief that nothing was likely to cause damage...

House sales in February were around a fifth lower than the same month in 2021, according to HM Revenue and Customs...

As regular readers will know, I like to use this column to shout out about the independent agents who are the...

Franchise giant Belvoir has snapped up one of the earliest British estate agencies to adopt the model of using self-employed or...

The founder of fledgling portal Boomin says the latest Nationwide house price index findings demonstrate that there’s no sign yet of...

An estate agency says retrospective investigations into Russian ownership of London properties could lead to substantial amounts of wealth moving out...

The Mail Online website alleges that an after-hours party at an estate agency office involved staff apparently inhaling drugs from balloons. The...

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

The level of house price growth is at a 17 year high at 11.2 per cent according to the Nationwide. The annual...

The latest figures for mortgage approvals show demand as being relatively unchanged - a development welcomed by agents. House purchase mortgage approvals...

The surge in Omicron cases and possible future restrictions are set to hit the housing market in 2022 - and may...

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

The average price of a house in the UK has hit £250,000 for the first time as the  market shows no...

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

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

A new Rich List of the most expensive streets has been revealed by Zoopla.  Kensington Palace Gardens in London holds the title...

Mortgage approvals declined over the last month as the tapering stamp duty holiday deterred home purchases, according to data from the...

House sales slumped nearly two thirds last month as the main deadline for the stamp duty holiday passed.  HM Revenue and Customs...

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

Two prominent estate agencies are amongst those piloting a new financial product that allows aspiring buyers to purchase property with just...

House prices in July rose after falling in June, according to the Halifax. They were 0.4 per cent higher than in June,...

Annual house price growth remains above 10 per cent despite a small monthly dip in July according to the Nationwide. A 0.5...

A new service launched over the weekend, proposing to charge buyers £30 for a “guaranteed” viewing, has split opinions amongst estate...

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

A north London new homes agency is to rebrand as Connells-owned Hamptons. Lanes New Homes has been owned by Hamptons for some...

Price renegotiations are underway between buyers and sellers in danger of missing Wednesday’s stamp duty holiday deadline, says Knight Frank. The agency...

Average house prices in the year to the end of April increased by 8.9 per cent according to the government’s Office...

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...

An anonymous conveyancer has admitted increasing fees to deter buyers and sellers in the frenzied housing market during the stamp duty...

One of the country’s leading estate agents claims some solicitors are charging exorbitant fees on transactions as they near the latest...

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

House prices are 7.1 per cent above their level a year ago as the boom continues. The latest house price index, from...

Hello and welcome to another working week, and the latest on jobs and staff movement across our industry. You can be part...

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

In this week’s In Conversation Today, I speak with Anthony Payne, Managing Director and co-founder of LonRes, a data and network...

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

Mortgage approvals declined slightly in January as the market braces itself for the end of the stamp duty holiday - currently...

It’s pretty cold out there, making a difficult time that much worse - except for fans of sledging of course. But many...

House prices surged in December to post their fastest growth in six years, according to the Nationwide.  Prices rose 7.3 per cent...

London and other urban areas dominate the league table of locations seeing the biggest house price rises of 2020. This is despite...

Another day, another house price record as the bull market continues. The latest Halifax index shows prices surging 7.6 per cent to...

Annual house price inflation is now running at 6.5 per cent according to the latest Nationwide index after a 0.9 per...

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

Free-to-list portal group OneDome claims 425 estate agency branches joined its listing services last month,  OneDome Group operates two portals, OneDome and...

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

A leading market analyst says the widespread belief that we are ‘safe’ in our homes may indirectly lead to the recent...

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

One of Britain’s most respected agents is suggesting Chancellor Rishi Sunak could ‘taper’ the stamp duty holiday to avoid a cliff-edge...

Hello and welcome to the start of a new week and a new edition of Property Jobs Today, your chance to...

Two independent agencies in London have joined forces to form a 'full circle' service for developers, promising to transform the property...

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

A specialist property lender says transactions are being delayed by key staff being furloughed. Gareth Lewis, commercial director of property lender MT...

The Nationwide says annual house price growth has recovered to 1.5 per cent. Its July house price index says the fall in...

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

A London estate agent has broken ranks with much of the industry and instead of welcoming the stamp duty holiday has...

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

Agents have remained calm in the light of Nationwide’s house price index which shows the first annual fall for eight years...

The Covid-19 crisis hasn’t caused the revolution it has been reported to have. Despite the challenges it has brought, fundamentally, the...

** This Bank Holiday Monday both Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today look at how agencies have modified offices and...

House sales edged down only slightly in March compared with February according to HM revenue & Customs, despite the lockdown in...

An estate agency that runs its own TV shows via YouTube has launched a second season featuring local companies, amenities and...

Working from home is something of a leveller right now, applying to people in the capital and in the sticks, but...

One of Britain’s leading agents says online viewing and interest in videos for homes on sale continues to be relatively strong...

The Bank of England has announced an emergency cut in the base interest rate to shore up the economy during the Coronavirus...

There’s been a significant rise in the number of transactions recorded in January - another sign of an improving housing market...

In another positive sign for the housing market, every region of the UK has seen a price rise according to the...

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

Annual house price growth increased to 4.1 per cent in January, up slightly from the end of 2019, according to Halifax...

Hello and welcome to the last day of January, Brexit Day and - perhaps most importantly - the latest edition of...

The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee meets today for its monthly decision on whether the move base rate - and...

The number of residential transactions rose by 6.2 per cent in December - an unseasonal increase - according to data from...

House prices rose 4.0 per cent in 2019 according to Britain’s biggest mortgage lender Halifax, as a December bounce - some...

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

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

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

The number of residential sales rose 1.9 per cent to 102,050  in November compared to the same month last year, the...

A former residential chairman of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has posed key questions for the government to answer over...