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Property professionals have called for the Government to allocate its promised £3m towards improving the home buying and selling process to...

Higher mortgage rates and the end of Help to Buy has had a “sharp impact” on sales rates, Persimmon has warned. A...

Agents are invited to a webinar with Zoopla next week to discuss the portal’s 2023 outlook. Hosted by Zoopla’s executive director of...

A much higher than usual proportion of homes on sale in the current market have successfully found a buyer, according to...

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

House builder Taylor Wimpey says its reopening show homes and sales centres next week, but for pre-booked appointments only. In a message...

A relatively new company which signs up vendors and then effectively sub-contracts their sales to strongly-performing local estate agents says it...

The Essential Information Group reports that the number of auctions held in the UK in July was just 107. This was 21...

The head of a website that contrasts the performances of rival estate agents is urging buyers to ‘drill down’ and find...

The first online-only property auction held by a large provincial auction house resulted in a 100 per cent sale rate.  The residential...

A service which describes itself as an alternative to part exchange has been launched to facilitate sales to ‘corporate property buyers’. It’s...

New research appears to show that Purplebricks, HouseSimple, Yopa and other prominent online agencies are most popular with vendors selling in...

The operation of ‘online estate agencies’ has changed substantially in the relatively short few years of their existence: I have spotted...

Another agency has opened an office in the troubled Nine Elms scheme in central London - this time the new entrant...

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

The new mayor of London Sadiq Khan has pledged to do all in his power to help make London “better” after...