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Right now it seems that another day means another house price record, an all-time high for transactions, and a conveyancing log-jam...

The number of transactions is scheduled to reach 1.52 million this year - way above the norm of between 1.0 and...

Another leading research team in a major agency has revised upwards its forecast for the 2021 market. Savills revised its predictions recently...

Transactions and house price forecasts for the mainstream housing market are being revised upwards by Savills following the Budget. The new predictions follow an...

This time out, I’m in conversation with one of the big three established portals. Since it was founded in 2007, Zoopla...

As part of our third PayProp Special Report on COVID-19 rental arrears in the UK, we surveyed over 600 agents, tenants...

Property commentator Phil Spencer says lockdown - which we know will now last for another six weeks at least, and possibly...

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

The speed and success of the Coronavirus vaccine programme holds the key to the housing market rebounding in the second half...

The secure Conservative victory in the 2019 General Election meant the property market in the sunlit uplands was set for a...

The announcement of the Renters’ Reform Bill in the Queen’s speech last December caused a collective groan across the country from...

The latest Rightmove asking price index shows the extraordinary market and amazing times we are living through. The average price of property coming...

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

For a number of years now, predictions have been made that one of the major tech giants will eventually enter the...

Life as we know it has changed – for everybody – and what tenants want, need and expect in this post-pandemic...

The fallout from Covid-19 has hit everyone hard. With breaking news today that agents are able to look at how to...

Let me start by wishing everyone well in these uncertain and precarious times. I truly hope you, your families, friends and...

Over the last two weeks we’ve seen the country come to a standstill and the property market effectively put on ice...

The property franchise company Belvoir Lettings has laid off 15 workers from its Grantham headquarters - and warns there may be...

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

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

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

“There won’t be a single home but millions of different homes”, is one quote.  “There will be an end to gadgets”, is...

It’s only five weeks to the New Year and new decade and the first agents have started making predictions for the...

A new house price index that in June predicted big house price rises over the summer has now repeated its claim,...

London and South East England are to see house price falls this year and only “very modest” growth in 2020 -...

Our own industry’s upheaval over recent years has been no less dramatic than the turmoil at Westminster. The political earthquake has seen...

The estate agency industry is at a crossroads. A turbulent market, unstable political situation and a chronic lack of public confidence has...

The latest house price index shows very little happening in the market, with analysts expecting little significant movement until Brexit is...

Consumer habits have changed massively over the past few years, and regardless of which market you operate in, being able to...

The end of 2018 was a bit of a rocky time for online estate agents. Yet only a few years ago...

The latest analysis of new listings in the two weeks to last Friday show that online estate agencies continue to have...

The former chief executive of Emoov says online estate agencies charge too little, so risk appearing cheap and ineffective to potential...

Hello and welcome to 2019. These are less predictions and more expectations - developments following on from what’s happened in the past...

As 2018 draws to a close, it is fair to say that stretched affordability and uncertainty over the Brexit negotiations has...

It’s that time of year when we gaze to the future, when we ponder what the coming year will bring, and...

It’s that time of year again where we start saying goodbye to 12 months of hard work and start looking forward...

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...

Despite numerous reports of a 'stagnant market' and predictions of a 'housing bust', conveyancers have 'bounced back after a disappointing end...

A new year means new predictions for what’s to come in the letting industry. Sometimes things come to fruition as expected....

It’s probably unwise to write too much about politics these days. The most fanciful predictions turn out to be less wild...

Q. How did you get in to the property industry? My career in the property industry actually started out as a holiday...

In last week’s column, I asked 14 industry leaders to give their predictions for the year ahead. Well, it seems a handful of...

Well, I don’t know about you but after the holidays I've got an imprint just below my navel where my belt...

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

The last of the leading agency analysts and business consultancies have now given their predictions for the UK housing market in...

It’s traditional before Christmas to either review the year past or anticipate the one ahead - but I’m intrigued about what...

As we hurtle towards the end of 2017, it’s time to reflect on the year that’s just been.   Even better, this property-based...

Currell is defying any gloomy predictions about the capital's housing market by opening a new office at Hackney Wick Fish Island. Currell...

The first of the major estate agency research teams to offer a forecast for the 2018 market has kicked off the...

In this week’s Natter I’m going to get all political. Don’t worry, I won’t be giving my opinions on Brexit, Trump...

I hate to be the guy to say ‘I told you so’…but I told you so! It seems that my predictions...

You saw it, right? This article from Monday’s Guardian? It says that one in five estate agents are at risk of...

We’re already more than halfway through 2017 and, against all the odds, it’s pushing 2016 close in terms of eventfulness and...

There is no doubt that 2016 managed to catch the world by surprise on more than one occassion.  But will 2017 be...

There’s been a fall in the typical asking price of a home on sale of 2.1 per cent according to Rightmove...

What a mad, bonkers year it’s been. We’ve had, in no particular order: Trump, Brexit, Leicester winning the Premier League, a...

I hate to be a party-pooper, but one of the agency industry’s coming-up-to-Christmas traditions is going to be particularly hard to undertake...

The housing market has not fallen over in the wake of the Brexit vote, contrary to come predictions, “but there are...

Those working within the UK housing market would have felt considerable worry about the immediate impact of the vote to leave...

Plans for the Northern Powerhouse scheme, designed to rival London and the South East as the main driver of economic growth...

One of the country’s leading property experts says she expects buyers to hold off over the summer as a result of...

The sense of gathering momentum for the Leave campaign ahead of the upcoming EU referendum is causing high levels of uncertainty...

Significant national events such as elections and, in this case, referendums bring with them a level of uncertainty.   No-one can predict...

Later today chancellor George Osborne will make his latest budget speech. The announcement is expected to confirm the details of the 3%...

The amount of column inches taken up by ‘property’ is at an all-time high.  In my mind there are two major contributing...

There’s been plenty of forecasting in recent weeks - banks, consultancies and high-end estate agents have predicted house prices in the...

The scores are in: here are the top 10 high-end agencies and property analysts' predictions for what 2016 has in store...

Knight Frank has issued housing market predictions for 2016 roughly in line with all those issued by rival high end agents...

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

At first sight the decision by the Bank of England not to raise base rate appears good news for the industry...

OnTheMarket has achieved 5.2m visits in July – an increase of 18 per cent on the previous month and ahead of...

In the latest exchange in the long-running war of words between Zoopla and OnTheMarket, ZPG claims that the new portal is...

I write this article on the day of the General Election so you’ll forgive the political analogies. In particular, how any...

Traditional estate agents are not actually needed to sell a home but merely serve as “reputational insurance” to reassure a buyer...

With another hung parliament looking increasingly likely, the so-called ‘challenger parties’ look set to have a major say in who forms...