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From today buyers will be able to purchase properties worth up to £600,000 with just a five per cent mortgage, under...

A new forecast suggests 70,000 buyers will miss the March 31 stamp duty holiday deadline. Zoopla has undertaken a new analysis to...

Zoopla's latest figures suggest 70,000 transactions are likely to miss the stamp duty holiday deadline of March 31.  And the portal says: “The...

Zoopla’s research team is anticipating the first quarter of next year will see the current boom continue as 100,000 additional sales...

There are 140,000 more buyers waiting to complete on their properties right now than there were this time last year. The claim, by...

Figures from Zoopla quantify how Coronavirus is changing the market, with houses selling significantly faster than flats. The latest market report from...

Zoopla says while there may be speculation about people fleeing London and big urban areas for the countryside, the evidence suggests...

Zoopla's Research and Insight Director Richard Donnell writes: Just over a fortnight on since the Chancellor announced the Stamp Duty holiday and...

One of the possible stamp duty options floated by Chancellor Rishi Sunak could mean 89 per cent of sales would be...

Zoopla predicts that the price strength that has been seen since the reopening of the housing market is likely to continue...

There’s been a strong rebound in demand for homes and an “unprecedented” bounce in new sales agreed according to Zoopla. The portal...

Research from Zoopla suggests that demand from buyers across England surged 88 per cent shortly after the housing market reopened -...

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

The impact of the Coronavirus crisis is going to reduce agents' revenue into the third quarter finishing in late September warns a leading...

The stamp duty surcharge for non-resident investment buyers announced in yesterday’s Budget is dwarfed by discounts they receive thanks to the...

The Bank of England has announced an emergency cut in the base interest rate to shore up the economy during the Coronavirus...

Hello and welcome to the latest PJT - your regular Monday fix of who’s moving where in our industry. As ever, a...

One of the country’s leading housing market research experts has been poached from Knight Frank to join Zoopla. Gráinne Gilmore - a...

Zoopla’s Hometrack data research arm says the start of 2020 has seen buyer demand up 26 per cent compared to the...

After a year dogged by Brexit deadlock, political turmoil, and slow growth, estate agents’ confidence in the property market hit a...

The scores are in….and it looks like house prices are going to rise gently in 2020 according to forecasts from almost...

Major UK cities have seen average house price rises of 54 per cent in the past decade - an increase of...

The latest market snapshot from the National Association of Estate Agents continues to show how political uncertainty is dampening sentiment and...

The controversial former Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, is to be the keynote speaker at a property industry...

Cash buyers have fallen in 90 per cent of major UK cities over the past three years according to a Zoopla...

The annual rate of growth of UK house prices has slowed to its lowest level since September 2012. Official government data from...

First time buyers will constitute the largest single group of purchasers in 2019, despite the apparent difficulties of deposits and securing...

New figures produced by Zoopla’s research team shows for the first time the huge scale of regional variations in terms of...

The average house price growth across southern cities is running at the lowest level recorded since January 2012, according to Zoopla.  Prices...

The income required for first time buyers to purchase in the three most expensive UK cities has fallen slightly according to...

The gap between average asking prices and average selling prices has increased in recent months according to Zoopla. Its latest study of...

House prices in 20 UK cities analysed by Zoopla show an average 1.7 per cent increase over the 12 months to...

Zoopla’s Hometrack index of 20 major UK cities shows that London property prices are starting to stabilise after a three year...

Both major portals have this morning revealed more evidence of a gently slowing housing market. The average time to sell a property...

The first set of figures for the year from HMRC show that there were 0.8 per cent more residential property transactions...

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House prices in a quarter of the UK’s largest cities are struggling to recover to the level they were at during...

The latest transaction figures from HM Revenue and Customs make depressing reading - a three per cent drop between May and...

Hometrack says other cities are now closing the gap on London in terms of house prices and market value. The latest Hometrack UK...

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

New figures from Hometrack show that a typical home in Greater London now takes 17 weeks to find a buyer -...

House price growth in London has hit a seven year low according to Hometrack, with prices actually down across 42 per...

Homes for sale in some parts of inner London are seeing price discounts of up to 10 per cent says Hometrack...

The property consultancy Hometrack says London is facing “a drawn-out period during which there will be a slow re-alignment of house...

Data from Hometrack shows that the gap between average earnings and house prices has reached an all-time high in London.  The price...

London house prices are stuck in neutral according to the latest figures from property consultancy Hometrack, which says values in the...

Property consultancy Hometrack says London’s 12 month market slowdown has bottomed out with the annual growth rate rising to 2.8 per...

The steep drop in price growth for homes across London is beginning to bottom out according to Hometrack, which says values...

The latest measure of house price rises in key UK cities by the property consultancy Hometrack shows house price in many...

House price inflation in London continues to slow and has now reached 4.9 per cent year-on-year according to Hometrack. London is now among...

The property market in northern England, supported in part by the Northern Powerhouse concept, has attracted a lot of media attention,...

Hometrack data suggests that annual house price inflation in London has fallen to 6.4 per cent, the lowest level since June...

Zoopla Property Group’s £120m purchase of Hometrack, announced yesterday evening, is part of its aim to create “the UK’s most valuable...

The latest assessment of major UK cities’ housing markets by property consultancy Hometrack shows more locations overhauling London in terms of...

Following a strong start to 2016, particularly in the lower to middle range of the UK housing market, that lasted up...

House prices in London are now rising at 7.6 per cent per year - the lowest figure for 39 months according...

Housing data consultancy Hometrack says the disparity between average earnings and house prices is reaching record levels in certain parts of...

As many northern cities struggled to recover from the 2008 global financial crisis, the north-south divide returned to plague the British...

Annual house price growth in 20 UK cities dipped to 8.2% last month, according to the latest figures from Hometrack. The research...

Sheffield in South Yorkshire, which was once one of the leading industrial cities in Britain and is still recognised for its...

London’s rising supply of homes on sale and relatively low level of transactions are “pointing to slower house price growth in...

Hometrack is the latest property organisation to forecast that the referendum result will impact turnover far more than house prices in...

Agents have been giving their reaction to the shock Brexit referendum result - and their comments have ranged from the gloomy...

Hometrack claims that the number of sales over the past 12 months has fallen by two per cent on average across...

Hometrack says its index of house price growth in major cities is already 9.4 per cent per annum and looks set...

Richard Donnell, one of Britain’s foremost housing market analysts, says there are signs that the underlying rate of growth in house...

UK house prices increased by 4.3% in the three months to July 2015, the highest quarterly growth for eleven years, according...

The reluctance of existing mortgaged homeowners to move house is starving the market of a source of new supply and risking...