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Many agents may perceive that the need to negotiate only comes into play at the point of offer if a property...

Lower mortgage rates gave the housing market a boost in February with supply and sales all moving higher, Zoopla claims. The portal’s...

The housing market is "turning a page" with fewer price reductions and higher achieved prices, Hamptons claims. A January market activity update...

Property supply and demand have rebounded since the start of the year amid falling mortgage rates but sellers are still making...

A record 50% of homes sold in England & Wales last year were purchased following a price reduction, Hamptons analysis has revealed. The...

Hundreds of properties are having their asking prices cut each day, new analysis reveals as agents and sellers continue to try...

Rightmove is anticipating a 1% average drop in national asking prices by the end of next year. The latest forecasts from the...

Agents are securing sales closer to asking price but properties are taking longer to sell, new data suggests. Analysis by Hamptons, using...

Fewer sellers are willing to cut their asking prices, Chestertons claims. The agent said vendors in the capital have already priced in...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Mark Bevan and I am the Sales...

Price reductions have reached their highest level in at least nine years according to estate agency Hamptons.   Some 50 per cent of...

Agents are facing challenges of rising price reductions but fewer listings are being withdrawn and the level of fall-throughs is dropping,...

Agents have been urged to price realistically as Rightmove revealed data showing the impact of asking price reductions. Tim Bannister, director of...

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

Hometrack has launched a property listings data product for agents to help analyse their local market. Powered by Zoopla data, the product...

The number of listings that were reduced during January to March increased by an average of 102.5% compared with the same...

Purplebricks was the top brand for new listings and sales agreed during March, new data shows. A new quarterly market report launched...

Taking a proactive approach with viewing generation can increase foot flow through properties and generate more offers, and ultimately close more...

Last month marked the slowest February to sell a home since 2013 but prices are improving, new analysis claims. Insight from agency...

Record numbers of prime properties were reduced in price last month as the pandemic boom is officially over, LonRes claims. Analysis by...

Vendors are cutting asking prices by as much as 20% on average to secure a sale, new research claims. Quick-buy firm House...

Agents are seeing more stock coming to the market but Zoopla is warning about seller expectations. The latest Zoopla House Price Index...

Independent estate agent DM & Co. Homes has launched a weekly update on the regional housing market presented by managing director...

The estate agency sector is close to being hit by a fall-through per minute as an industry veteran warns that the...

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

One in 15 homes formerly sold by agents are returning to the market after the original sale collapsed, new data shows. Analysis...

An estate agency firm is urging sellers to resist cutting asking prices. Tom Cranenburgh, of GetanOffer, which describes itself as a quick...

Agency stock has hit the highest level so far this year but it seems to coincide with a decline in demand...

Buyer demand has dropped by a fifth in the fortnight since the mini-Budget while supply has increased from worried homeowners, Zoopla...

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

Properties that are slow to sell are typically commanding a discount of up to 17% off England’s average house price, research...

Agents are being urged to discuss pricing with vendors after research shows 52% of listings have been on the market for...

Former Countrywide boss Bob Scarff has warned that estate agents have become too reliant on alerts, emails and text messages for...

The property market is starting to get hit by price cuts and slower sales times. Research by Zoopla has highlighted that one...

In this latest video interview zoning in on the current property market, and the stats, facts and data behind its present...

A free to list portal has launched a tool which it claims will predict a seller’s propensity to switch agents.  Residential People...

The market may be soaring in most of the country but there are still locations where significant numbers of properties sell...

Newly instructed properties across the country dropped by 10 per cent in August compared to July’s numbers, according to Homesearch. The company,...

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

The London housing market is enjoying the end of the lull before the storm, according to a leading buying agent. Sara Ransom...

Recently I heard the stat that over 50% of property is sold with the second agent, which was backed up by...

Buyer feedback is a key resource for agents who want to keep on top of market changes and so handle vendors’...

Almost a third of property sellers (29%) say they won't accept a lower offer for their property, according to new research. Online...

An unusual property sales concept, which signs up vendors and then effectively sub-contracts their sales to strongly-performing local estate agents, has...

We recently asked readers for their questions to the portals - the questions they couldn’t really ask their local reps, but...

A London estate agency chain says It’s seen a 59 per cent surge in the number of its clients who have...

Cluttons has downgraded its forecasts for the housing markets in London and the rest of the UK for the remainder of...

There’s anger in the industry over an article in The Times which accused agents of overvaluing properties - although why this was happening...

Analysts at Berenberg Bank have sharply reduced their price target for Purplebricks by over 80 per cent from 470p to 80p, accusing...

An anonymous estate agent has renewed his attack on Purplebricks after an article in The Times at the weekend. Estate Agent Today...

An estate agent who operates an online blog has told The Times that Purplebricks has faked price reductions. Other tricks which the agent reveals about...

Homes that require major structural work have asking prices which are on average £40,000 below the market norm, according to research...

I am currently in the back of a taxi. The deadline for this piece is looming and I am desperate to...

Rightmove is reporting a mini-boom as the autumn market gets into gear, with a surge in buyers and a one-month rise...

A downbeat report from property investment specialist London Central Portfolio says “there are very few causes for optimism in the domestic...

Rightmove says the housing market is now into a ‘summer sale’ as newly-marketed property shows an average asking price fall of...

The London market continues to produce unexpected results with two high end agencies reporting contrasting fortunes.  Half year figures released by Chestertons...

An estate agency chain has produced strikingly successful sales figures for the first half of the year - evidence, it says,...

More stock and longer times on the market are combining to create a surge in asking price reductions according to a...

Property sellers in the South of England are having to accept asking reductions in order to achieve a sale.  Data from Hometrack...

That’s it. I’ve given up. The lull has continued and it’s becoming quite a bore.  The price drop hasn’t worked. The revamped...

Average prices dropped another 1.1 per cent in prime central London in the year to March according to new figures released...

Great Expectations was a fantastic novel-cum-social-history written by Charles Dickens, who once lived in my adopted home city of Portsmouth. But these...

The average number of prospective buyers registered in each branch in January was 425, a 10 per cent rise from December...

Another agency says price reductions of 10 per cent or more are often found in some prime central London areas such...

Prominent top end London estate agent Trevor Abrahmsohn says some homes in the higher levels of the market may now have...

Knight Frank says overseas buyers are not only benefitting from a significant drop in the effective price of central London properties...

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Figures from London data consultancy Lonres show that since the referendum the average price cut on homes across most of central...

A property website monitoring the housing market claims that the propertion of homes cutting their prices whilst on the market has...

Given the uncertainty that shrouded the immediate build up to, and aftermath of, the EU referendum, the current lettings market in...

The morning after the EU referendum, and Westminster, Britain, Europe and the world were left in shock at the news that...

Buying agent Johnny Turnbull claims that 83.2 per cent of the properties sold in prime central London in the second quarter...

Data company Propcision has quantified the scale of asking price reductions on some prime central London properties, with many dropping by...

Winkworth, the franchise giant with most offices concentrated in or close to London, says the high-end of the capital’s prime market...

Buyers are finding haggling over house prices increasingly difficult with the typical property currently reduced by just 6.05 per cent from...