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Zoopla’s property announcement last week was welcome reading for many of us feeling a bit beleaguered by seller over-expectation, buyer lethargy...

Average house prices ended 2023 down 1.8%, according to Nationwide. The lender’s December House Price Index, based on its own mortgage lending...

A third of Jackson-Stops agents are expecting a “modest decrease” in house prices next year with some offices expecting drops of...

House prices are set to fall further next year, two major lenders claim. The house prices indices of Halifax and Nationwide have...

The Bank of England has held off on further interest rate rises for now but agents warn that there is still...

If, like me, you’re an ardent England rugby fan or indeed a fan of rugby in general, you’ll be counting down...

The Halifax is warning that house price falls will continue into 2024. It cautions that price drops will be “gradual, rather than...

Cooling house prices are providing an opportunity for buyers even with higher borrowing costs, Propertymark claims. The agency trade body said it...

A high-profile agency brand has hit out at “cheerleader’ estate agents” who it claims encourage vendors to push up the asking...

Two sets of housing data have suggested a declining property market, with further price drops on the horizon. Halifax has recorded the...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Heather Staff and it says Co-Founder of Street Group...

The prime London market appears to be lacking its usual spring buzz as buyers wait for prices to drop research suggests. Analysis...

The number of properties advertised for sale in Scotland has increased by 75% in some parts of the country as vendors...

Industry leaders have hit out at the media for “stifling sentiment” as they urge agents to help vendors make an informed...

New Land Registry data is set to kick-off the debate about whether house prices have started to fall. Plenty of commentators are...

Happy New Year, to you all. Now that we’re all back in harness and Christmas feels like a long-distant memory, I...

Industry veteran Harry Hill has become the latest to warn of a drastic decline in house prices. The Rightmove founder and former...

I can’t really write about anything else this week, can I? Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you will have...

The right investment can help agents to thrive even during the current cost-of-living crisis. That’s according to cloud-based CRM solution Openview,...

A relaunched home buying service says it wants to partner with agents to unlock sales if the housing market deteriorates. The service...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I'm Darren Loftus and it says Commercial Director on...

A survey of sellers by a high-end agency suggests that around a third expect price falls of six per cent or...

When is a property really off-market? There may be many answers to that question but it’s likely that few would consider...

Two very different views on Brexit have come forward in the past 24 hours from different players in the industry. First off,...

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

Purplebricks, which recently admitted that it had been over-ambitious in its overseas expansion, says it will give “a further update” on...

At the end of a week consisting of largely depressing market reports, new data from Knight Frank suggests that the bad...

It’s the word on everyone’s lips: after two and a half years of debate, and months before that leading up to...

Purplebricks chief executive in Australia, Ryan Dinsdale, is quitting the firm after two and a half years. The influential Australian Financial Review...

The LonRes data consultancy that monitors transactions right across prime central London says Brexit is the single biggest factor impacting the...

A leading London estate agency is reporting a surge in overseas buyers sealing deals ahead of the government’s new stamp duty...

We’re sorry to be starting the week with more evidence of the housing market in the doldrums, but Rightmove’s latest index...

The income first-time buyers need to purchase a home in the UK’s largest cities has shot up by 18 per cent...

Figures from Savills suggest that there’s currently an average 1.14 price adjustments per sale across the prime regional markets of the...

Foxtons share price hit a new low yesterday, dropping to only 46p early in the afternoon: it eventually closed narrowly up...

The director of a respected mortgage broker is warning that market sentiment is changing with more down-valuations from surveyors and some...

New data from LSL Property Services suggest that the image of London as one large housing market encountering difficulties at the...

Transaction volumes across all of London are 48 per cent lower than they were a year ago, claims an estate agency...

The typical price of property coming to the market in the last four weeks is 1.2 per cent lower than in...

The National Association of Estate Agents says it is unlikely that there will be price drops for homes in the very...

Recent debate about a London market slowdown has clouded the fact that the areas seeing price falls are almost entirely in...