The share of new-build homes sold before they’re complete has dropped to a decade-low, research suggests. Hamptons’ annual off-plan sales index has...
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![EPC targets come back, all is forgiven](/upload/images/3%20--%20Proofed%20--%20EPC%20targets%20Simon%20Jackson.png)
April 22nd marked ‘Earth Day’, yet it seemed to pass relatively unnoticed within the mortgage market. While the market was once abuzz...
04 May 2024
From: Features
![Zoopla: House prices aren’t dropping everywhere](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePrices_pound-400x310.png)
More than a third of homes have declined in value over the past six months, Zoopla data shows. It comes despite the...
06 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Winkworth shares rise despite lower profits](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyStats-400x310.png)
Shares in Winkworth rose close to their recent highs yesterday despite the agency franchise brand reporting a drop in revenues and...
20 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter - When the going gets tough, agents get growing](/upload/images/Site%20logos/PropertyNatter-2019-400x310.png)
One of the nice things about this time of year is that slowly, ever so slowly, we begin to emerge from...
28 January 2023
From: Features
![Property Natter – is this the end for fixed-fee online estate agency?](/upload/images/Site%20logos/PropertyNatter-2019-400x310.png)
Aside from all the news surrounding the Autumn Statement this week, which will have a significant bearing on the property market...
19 November 2022
From: Features
![House prices decline after mini-Budget shock - Halifax](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePriceDrop-400x310.png)
Average property values have decreased for the third time in the past four months as Halifax warns of the end for...
08 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![The Coming ‘Budget’ - What’s In Store For Agents?](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/RishiSunak-400x310.jpg)
If you want to sex-up the Chancellor’s financial statement scheduled for lunchtime on Wednesday, you’d call it a Budget or a...
19 March 2022
From: Features
![Interest rates and inflation won’t blow housing market off course - claim](/upload/images/library/interest-rate-warning-24715.png)
One of the country’s leading agencies says the recent and expected interest rate rises, and the surging inflation, will not blow...
22 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![City exodus: will the return to the office see a reversal of activity?](/upload/images/Locations/London-WestEnd-400x310.jpg)
2020 gave rise to an exodus from the city as work from home became the mandated norm for large swaths of...
11 September 2021
From: Features
![Propertymark beefs up policy and campaigns team](/img/default/eat.png)
The policy and campaigns team at Propertymark, headed by Mark Hayward, has been expanded after what it calls “a number of...
15 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Brexit and Coronavirus? Housing market sentiment strong despite crises](/img/default/eat.png)
Public sentiment over the housing market remains stable despite the Coronavirus crisis and the possibility of a No Deal Brexit. That’s the conclusion...
01 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![London buyers flee centre for outer areas, reports Rightmove](/img/default/eat.png)
A new analysis of searches and leads to agents by Rightmove suggests buyers in London are deserting central locations in favour of...
22 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Countrywide “may not survive” warns one of its biggest investors](/img/default/eat.png)
An investment manager who has a 7.8 per cent stake in Countrywide, is warning that the agency group may not survive...
12 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Boris Bounce: two more signs of an improving market at last](/img/default/eat.png)
Whisper it quietly but the housing market could be significantly stronger in 2020 than in recent years. Two key indicators in the...
16 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Boris Johnson's stamp duty plans could revive prime property market](/img/default/eat.png)
Conservative leadership frontrunner Boris Johnson's plans to reverse stamp duty changes could help to kickstart the prime property market, according to...
09 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![PropTech Today: Do’s & Don’ts of transformation - Countrywide, Foxtons](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s not often we can enjoy beautiful sunshine on bank holidays, but I suppose this one was a particularly blessed weekend,...
24 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![It's a north-south market divide - but it's the north that's the strongest](/img/default/eat.png)
House prices have taken a spring leap in the north of England as the market improves - but it’s a different...
19 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks' shares stabilise as NAEA stays distinctly non-committal](/img/default/eat.png)
The share price of beleaguered hybrid agency Purplebricks has recovered some of the ground it lost earlier in the week after...
04 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Investor consultancy wants new government to lay off property](/img/default/eat.png)
London Central Portfolio, a property investment consultancy, has set out a five point plan for the next government elected this week...
05 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Two more years of government pain for the industry](/img/default/eat.png)
My apologies if this causes you to break your Easter egg with a little too much aggression, but I reckon the...
15 April 2017
From: Features
![Farewell to 2016 and a cautious welcome to 2017](/img/default/eat.png)
There is no doubt that 2016 managed to catch the world by surprise on more than one occassion. But will 2017 be...
14 January 2017
From: Features
![Autumn Statement: reaction and what’s next for us?](/img/default/eat.png)
Chancellor Philip Hammond caught the lettings industry unaware with an incredulous Autumn Statement. The buy-to-let sector took a bashing earlier in 2015...
26 November 2016
From: Features
![Five guesses about the Autumn Statement](/img/default/eat.png)
Forecasts are a tricky business. And as I wrote in a recent Industry Views opinion piece, any prediction in the current...
19 November 2016
From: Features
![Agency says London homes under £120,000 on verge of extinction](/img/default/eat.png)
The average house price in London is now £484,700 - over twice the national average - and property in the capital...
18 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Land Registry: anti-privatisation campaign gathers momentum](/img/default/eat.png)
An online petition against the privatisation of the Land Registry now has around 225,000 signatures with just over a week to...
17 May 2016
From: Breaking News
![Cash is now king in prime London market says agency chief](/img/default/eat.png)
Buy to let investors and second home owners were behind three in five property purchases made in prime London during the...
27 April 2016
From: Breaking News
![High end agents demand Chancellor reverses stamp duty reform](/img/default/eat.png)
Chancellor George Osborne remains convinced that his stamp duty reforms of a year ago benefit over 95 per cent of home...
23 November 2015
From: Breaking News
![Zoopla reports rise in estate agency membership and listings](/img/default/eat.png)
Zoopla is back in business with its trading update to the City this morning revealing that it has a net growth...