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The mortgage price war appears to have eased and the shelf life on home loans has hit a six-month low, Moneyfacts...

UK housing market activity "remains weak" according to the Nationwide. Its latest house price index shows that prices declined 5.3 per cent...

Transactions for the first half of 2023 are at their lowest level since the financial crisis of 2007-09 as a result...

The share price of LSL Property Services dropped around 16 per cent at one point yesterday following a profits warning given...

Purplebricks ended its life on the stock market with a share price of 0.30p. It comes as the controversial online brand officially...

Zoopla founder Alex Chesterman has fallen out of the 2023 Sunday Times Rich List while Foxtons supremo Jon Hunt has seen...

Estate agent comparison site GetAgent has handed a lifeline to struggling Purplebricks sellers. It has announced that it will give home sellers...

Investors were licking their wounds yesterday after the Purplebricks’ share price plummeted by 60% off the back of warnings that it...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...

When Jeremy Hunt sat down in the Commons after delivering his first Spring Budget, I imagine there were many who felt...

Purplebricks’ share price has continued falling after it informed the markets that it is up for sale last week. The beleaguered agency’s...

Property demand has dropped while price reductions have increased in recent weeks, data shows. Two separate pieces of industry data give new...

The number of mortgages available to borrowers has hit the lowest level for more than a year, Moneyfacts has warned. Analysis by...

Unless you have been living under a rock since the end of last year, you won’t need to be told about...

For the record, this isn’t my last Industry Views for Estate Agent Today, although by the time you read this I'll be...

A high profile London estate agency has appointed two so-called Wellness Ambassadors to look after the mental health and wellbeing of...

Share prices of estate agencies and property companies plummeted yesterday as tensions continued to rise following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Purplebricks...

Purplebricks says there’s an uncertain period ahead following a sharp loss of revenue in the first half of its trading year. In...

There’s been yet another month of declining property listings according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors market snapshot. Those responding...

Purplebricks’ official statement on the departure of chief marketing officer Ben Carter merely says he’s leaving at the end of the...

Purplebricks chief marketing officer Ben Carter is quitting the company; he was appointed late last year. Carter tweeted this afternoon: “Some personal...

Propertymark has criticised the government over poor house building figures. New figures from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities show...

There’s been a dramatic 48.4 per cent fall in the number of property sales between September and October, reflecting the end...

We’ve probably all learned to be a little less cynical about politicians in recent weeks, given the tragic events. We perhaps...

Remarkably, just 11 per cent of property sales fell through in the third quarter of this year as buyers raced to beat...

A London agency has launched a Wellbeing At Work initiative to help agents and other staff as they return to the...

Agents are reporting fewer sales and fewer deals above the asking price, as summer and the tapering stamp duty holiday take...

The average size of homes in England has plummeted by over 10 per cent in the past four decades. Research from ElectricalDirect...

Yet another housing market snapshot is reporting the stock of property for sale plummeting further downwards.  Property website Home says that while...

The head of one of the UK’s largest conveyancing legal practices is warning the property market could “fall off a cliff...

Well, what a year it has been for everyone, including the property market. I don’t think there’s anyone out there who...

An estate agent in Liverpool has adopted the unusual technique of urging vendors to sell now “before prices crash.” Clearly unworried about...

Franchise network Hunters has recorded strong figures for the first half of 2020 but a trading statement reveals the measures it...

Franchise giant Winkworth has reported an 11 per cent drop in gross revenue and profit plummeting 20.2 per cent in the...

It was officially announced last week that the UK is in recession for the first time since 2009, and although this...

The stamp duty holiday running until March next year has triggered a surge in interest in UK property from Hong Kong...

The number of jobs advertised as available in the UK real estate sector plummeted from 14,000 at the end of the...

Many young people are stuck unable to purchase their first home even if house prices fall in the wake of the...

    Purplebricks says changes to its fees structure - possibly becoming less reliant on controversial upfront charges - has been delayed until...

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

There’s been a big rise in demand for new-builds since the lockdown according to figures from Knight Frank - but the...

The phrase ‘game-changer’ has been hugely overused. But when applied to how Covid-19 is changing the way estate agents will work...

An analysis of seven countries which underwent different forms of lockdown during the pandemic suggests the British and Italian housing markets...

London estate agency Benham & Reeves says there’s been a sharp fall-off in demand for ultra-expensive homes in prime suburbs of...

This month saw the introduction of the final stages of the Section 24 tax changes, first introduced in April 2017. Whereas buy-to-let...

A high number of agents across the country have been furloughed in recent weeks and are now at risk of losing...

One of the first analyses of portal listings since the start of the Coronavirus crisis shows that new listings have plummeted...

New sales agreed have already plummeted by 15 per cent and over the next three months there’s going to be a...

Foxtons has this morning announced that chairman Garry Watts is to retire from his position on March 1. He is also quitting...

Foxtons's trading statement this morning reveals another huge slump in sales - but no new announcement about future branch closures after a spate...

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

Home owners on Corbyn Road in a Midlands town are seeking a name change because they fear house prices will plummet. The...

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

The listings website Home, which conducts a monthly survey of asking prices and wider market monitors, is reporting a show 10...

Until now General Election pledges of stamp duty reforms were restricted to the Conservatives - but now a tax consultancy says...

It may only be October 4, but temperatures have already started to drop this week as preparations for winter begin. As we...

It’s been revealed this morning that the organisation behind a new clean-air website is encouraging buyers to seek reductions of as...

A new analysis of privately owned homes with mortgages outstanding shows repossessions have risen in London - but they’re down in...

The London market has “plummeted” because almost a third of vendors have cut their asking prices in anticipation of Brexit. Using data...

If you’d asked me at the start of the year how I thought the political landscape might look now, I wouldn’t...

Those who bought and sold the same property in 2018 made an average of £30,150 - but the number who do...

Data from UK Finance, which represents most of the country’s lenders, shows that gross mortgage lending across the residential market in...

The number of cash buyers in London has recently plummeted by very nearly a fifth - and every other part of...

The number of residential property transactions in May was a thumping 11.3 per cent lower than the same month last year,...

In the first Q&A Natter for a while, I catch up with Angelica Donati - CEO of Donati Immobiliare Group, PropTech...

Countrywide’s shares took another battering yesterday as they plummeted below the psychologically-painful 5p mark - reflecting a 95 per cent loss of...

While media attention has been on Theresa May, Brexit and the Tories, chatter in the agency industry has been about what...

Home movers from the European Union have become less interested in moving to the UK, according to new research. Analysis of over...

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

New figures from HM Revenue and Customs suggest that stamp duty receipts have fallen by no less than £1 billion. The drop...

It’s a new index but it tells an old story - how prime central London prices have dropped significantly since their...

HM Revenue & Customs is set to pocket £60m less from one of its property taxes than it forecast. An analysis of...

Latest data from property platform Home suggests that instruction numbers across the UK as a whole are down four per cent...

Foxtons has ruled out further branch closures as it continues to struggle against what it calls “the continued weakness” of the...

Strutt & Parker says transaction levels in Prime Central London, already at a low ebb, plummeted a further nine per cent...

The former chief executive of Emoov says he has the answer to Foxtons’ current downbeat performance - it should exploit its...

An annual study of transaction charges shows that house moving costs are now at a record average high of almost £10,000...

Foxtons has reported further small slides in both revenue and profits for 2018 - but sales income plummeted from £43m to...

New figures show that online agencies’ share of listings of homes for sale has plummeted to 4.6 per cent. This is well...

However mild the weather may have been for most of us, it’s a cold autumn for the online estate agency market...

Savills has issued its forecast for the housing market for the next five years, and while it highlights some bright spots...

Transactions across England and Wales in September dropped 7.6 per cent year on year while Prime Central London now sees fewer than...

Cash used to be king in the housing market but new figures released today show that in the first half of...

Sales of properties to first time buyers have hit their lowest level for three years according to data from the National...

New data reveals that new property listings have fallen for three successive months - and that includes a huge 17.1 per...

Data from the buying agency Black Brick reveals just how big an impact has been made by the additional homes stamp...

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

An analysis of HMRC stamp duty statistics for the second quarter of this year suggest that receipts are down 13.8 per...

Countrywide's share price has dropped sharply following the announcement of the company's rescue plan - but the firm itself says this...

There have been two stories dominating the PropTech headlines over this past week. As WeWork places a gentle arm around the...

Estate Agent Today is 10 years old this weekend. We hope you’ll agree that’s a cause for celebration and a great...

Senior management at Countrywide came in for a pasting on Twitter yesterday as TV market commentator and buying agent Henry Pryor...

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

Countrywide’s share price has taken a massive hit this morning - down well over 20 per cent - following a surprise...

The housing market may have seen some depressing figures of late but there’s good news about mortgage arrears - they’re at...

The share price of OnTheMarket slipped again on Friday - down around five per cent on the day and ending at...

The Countrywide chief executive, Alison Platt, is said to have warned staff that the reaction from the markets and shareholders to...

According to The Branding Journal, a brand is “a name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one seller's...

Bitcoin has smashed into the headlines again recently with major news outlets describing the ever increasing worth of this wildly volatile...

Annual house price inflation is 1.3 per cent according to Your Move - even though prices dipped 0.1 per cent in...