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Downsizers across England and Wales could unlock an average £305,090 by moving from a four bed to a two-bed home, according...

The total value of all homes across the UK has dropped for the first time since 2012. Research by Savills shows the...

The Scottish housing market is at a serious crossroads, a major estate agency brand in the country has warned. Lomond Group-owned agent...

When it comes to housing policy, the Conservative MPs have given their party a choice between Tweedle Dum and Tweedle DumDum. Rishi...

Agents are preparing their businesses for the cost of living crunch, with considerations on fuel use, heating and window display lighting. Much...

By the time I next write this column, we’ll be just days before the next Budget and Autumn Statement. So I’ll...

A new survey shows that there’s just a 1.7 per cent house price premium on homes with EPC ratings A or...

At first sight it’s a tough ask to defend holiday homes when there’s evidence that many who want to buy can’t,...

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

There’s one key takeaway for agents from the weekend’s announcements on the next England-wide lockdown - the housing market is staying...

Another attempt is being made to introduce property logbooks to the selling and buying process, and agents are invited to play a...

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

A taxation institute is urging the government to delay Capital Gains Tax changes relating to housing transactions until the virus crisis...

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

The proportion of 25 to 34 year olds who own their own home in England has risen for the first time...

An online agency has struck out against the conventional wisdom that it’s tougher than ever before for first time buyers to...

The latest report commissioned by the Labour party to resolve the UK’s housing problems would crash the housing market rather than...

An ex-housing minister and ex-Brexit secretary says he wants to radically change taxes on buy to let capital appreciation to help...

Mortgage lenders are relaxing age limits so that house buyers can still be paying off their home loan well into their...

Conventional wisdom appears to have it that there are fewer owner-occupiers and more renters these days - but that’s not what...

One of London’s most prominent buying agencies says post-Brexit the interest in buying in the capital will return - whether there...

There’s little doubt that downsizing is less of a factor in the housing market than it used to be - so...

Boris Johnson is calling for a cut to Britain’s “absurdly high” stamp duty. Writing in this morning’s Daily Telegraph - the same newspaper...

There’s been another drop in mortgage arrears and possessions for owner occupiers - although an increase for some elements of the...

A service that tracks different types of mortgage demand reveals that remortgaging is on the rise while borrowing for new purchases...

House price growth in London has hit a seven year low according to Hometrack, with prices actually down across 42 per...

A 1.0 per cent interest rate rise would add £930 a year to the cost of servicing the average mortgage, according...

Black Brick says its turnover in 2016 tripled to £3m with new business so far this year focussing increasingly on owner-occupier...

With several agent partner programmes available across the country, estate agents can often increase business by offering sales by auction, with...

Just 27% of property valuations in May were requested by prospective home sellers, according to the latest data from Connells Survey...

Data from the Council for Mortgage Lenders show that loans taken out by buyers have hit a near two-year low.   Home buyers...

A London property investment firm says the government has enjoyed a tax take of £394m since introducing the Annual Tax for...

First-time buyers borrowed £5.1 billion from mortgage companies in December, far above the same month in 2015, and the highest December...

The number of properties taken into possession last year declined by almost 25 per cent and has hit the lowest level in 35...

Home ownership rates among 25-year-olds have plummeted by more than half in 20 years, council leaders have warned.  New analysis for the...

With a number of agent partner programmes available nationwide, estate agents can often increase business by offering sales by auction, especially...

Home-owners borrowed £8.1 billion for house purchases in April, which was four per cent down on the same month a year ago. There...

There has been a 58 per cent rise in the past year for mortgages for house purchase purposes, according to the...

The summer term – rounders, cricket and hayfever. It's also the last dash before the housing market supposedly closes down for...

Buy to let mortgage sales - one of the key indicators of buy to let property sales - fell drastically in...

We talk about the unstoppable rise of buy-to-let and forget that it was only as recently as the early 1970’s that...

The goverrnment says new figures show that after a year-after-year decline in the number of people owning their home, starting in...

Analysis of government data suggests there are 3,990 properties valued over £500,000 which are owner-occupied but purchased by so-called ‘corporate wrappers’...

There was a remarkable 52 per cent increase in valuations undertaken by Connells in January this year compared to the same...

I make no apologies for returning to Build To Rent, the institutional investment in building and managing blocks of flats to...

Around one million homes that were owner-occupied in 2005 have in the intervening decade been sold and switched to being privately...

Owner occupation in Britain will plummet from its current level of about 68 per cent of homes to around 60 per...

Typical estate agency fees have risen 61 per cent in the past decade although average house prices have increased by a...