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The chief executive of online agency HouseSimple says “sellers need to be prepared and willing to lower their expectations” in the current...

The UK renting demographic is diversifying at a rapid pace. While the current market poses many challenges for traditional letting agents,...

Countrywide’s share price fell to its lowest-ever level yesterday - evidence that it’s not just online estate agencies that are having...

Savills has issued its forecast for the housing market for the next five years, and while it highlights some bright spots...

An insolvency firm is warning that the real estate sector of the economy is showing a growing number of businesses defined...

Data from HM Revenue & Customs shows some 98,400 homes were sold across the UK in September - that’s slightly lower...

Transactions across England and Wales in September dropped 7.6 per cent year on year while Prime Central London now sees fewer than...

Outspoken online estate agency chief Russell Quirk says the estate agency industry is “really p****d off” with Rightmove trying to ride...

The latest market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests the number of properties on estate agents’ books is now nearing...

From where I’m standing there’s a lot in common between the debate between online and traditional agents, and the argument over...

There’s more bad news for the long-troubled Prime Central London market. A new analysis shows that transaction volumes have plunged 11.6 per cent...

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

There’s been a huge vote of no-confidence in online reviews, often used for marketing by many online agencies and some traditional...

For too long the private rented sector has been complacent towards customer satisfaction. In the changing rental landscape, the smartest letting...

When Oakland A’s, a small-market team, stunned the baseball world 16 years ago by transforming itself into world-beaters on a shoestring-budget,...

One of London’s leading estate agents says Brexit has had at worst a neutral effect on the housing market and may...

Outspoken property commentator and buying agent Henry Pryor has made a scathing attack on some of the main house price indices. In...

Connells Group - which now says it’s the country’s largest estate agency by market share and numbers of homes sold -...

‘Up’ is the key word in Rightmove’s figures for the first half of 2018, released to the City and to shareholders...

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

The battered prime central London market is now suffering from the UK’s wider political volatility, the lack of stability of the...

Transactions across Greater London have plummeted - they were down 7.9 per cent over the past three months and a whopping...

Research by Zoopla suggests that homeowners' confidence in the property market is on the rise.  The property website's latest Housing Market Sentiment...

The latest data from Rightmove indicates that the average national asking price has reached another all-time high of £308,075 following a...

Strutt & Parker has repeated its warning that the market in prime central London could see a typical house price fall...

A new report by the residential property team of a legal firm has found widespread criticism of online agents’ over their...

Brexit uncertainty and weakening consumer demand are likely to hit house prices this year, according to a survey of 33 housing...

While there is a distinct market for flats held on particularly short leases, there is a middle ground where flat owners...

More price falls have been recorded across areas of prime London according to Savills.  The pattern is not uniform - the agency...

The housing market remains flat as it heads towards 2018 according to the latest snapshot survey by the Royal Institution of...

Savills has given a pessimistic outlook for the mainstream housing market for the next five years.  It says average house prices across...

Respected buying agency Black Brick says there is evidence that prices in prime central London may be stabilising and transactions volumes...

Confidence in buying property remains negative according to the quarterly sentiment measure undertaken by the Building Societies Association. Over a quarter of...

The housing market remains mixed across different parts of the UK but London and the south east remain the weakest areas...

The roadshow of presentations of Agents’ Mutual’s plans to float on the stock market have just passed the half-way mark. Remaining sessions...

Record low stock numbers, political uncertainty and the aftermath of tax changes are the obstacles hindering the housing market, according to...

Households appear to be more optimistic about the strength of the housing market despite Brexit and political and economic uncertainty, according to...

That the private rental sector has become the government’s whipping boy for housing problems - landlords in particular, letting agents almost...

Prime London house prices are now 5.3 per cent lower than at the time of the EU referendum admits Savills, following...

The housing industry has responded with shock, joy, and jitters, after Theresa May’s snap general election went catastrophically wrong, leaving her...

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

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

The first meeting of fledgling trade group CIELA has ended with a pledge to expose what it calls ‘fake agents’ which...

Contrary to some reports suggesting London’s housing market may be recovering, new data from Hometrack reveals the capital’s performance is still...

The rapid growth in popularity of buy-to-let in recent years, fuelled in part by the failings of the pensions industry, has...

The rental market has had to face a raft of changes over the past year, including the introduction of the 3% stamp...

There is no doubt that 2016 managed to catch the world by surprise on more than one occassion.  But will 2017 be...

The extension of Inheritance Tax from April is likely to hinder the recovery of the battered prime central London market according...

2016 has undoubtedly shone a spotlight on the reviews industry and drawn into question the legitimacy of online customer reviews.  Amazon, amongst...

The latest housing market confidence index measured by agency Knight Frank says householders in every region of the UK expect their...

Confidence in the UK housing market has fallen to its lowest point in three years, according to the latest Halifax ‘confidence...

There is really only one topic of debate and forensic analysis at the moment and that’s the ascendency of Donald Trump...

Savills is the latest estate agency to warn that economic uncertainty following the Brexit vote will trigger two years of low...

Most householders taking part in a sentiment survey by estate agency Knight Frank say they believe the value of their home...

I hate to be a party-pooper, but one of the agency industry’s coming-up-to-Christmas traditions is going to be particularly hard to undertake...

Confidence amongst ‘second steppers’ - those aiming to sell up to move to larger homes - is improving according to a...

It is a tedious fact, but the housing market is underpinned by economic fundamentals. This won’t be a surprise.  However, at a...

Knight Frank has reported a four per cent rise in annual revenues to £461m but a five per cent drop in...

Fears raised over the UK housing market in the wake of the Brexit vote have so far proved to be ‘wide...

Those working within the UK housing market would have felt considerable worry about the immediate impact of the vote to leave...

The huge rush to acquire buy-to-let property in the first quarter of the year ahead of the stamp duty change deadline...

The bank Credit Suisse has launched a new monthly survey of online estate agents, using a simple eight-element questionnaire. The bank -...

The investment advice company UBS Wealth Management says it is likely that UK house prices will flatline by the end of...

An estate agency is claiming that the psychology of buying and selling has come to the fore following the EU referendum,...

No fewer than 174,000 people moved home in the first six months of 2016 - a rise of nine per cent...

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

There has been a gloomy response to the latest Knight Frank measure of house price sentiment - the first of its...

It has been revealed that the new housing minister, Gavin Barwell, appears to be campaigning to oppose a new housing scheme...

Rightmove’s latest house price index, covering two weeks either side of the EU referendum at the end of June, suggests average...

One of the first major pieces of research to come from an estate agency following the EU referendum suggests the short-term...

With the new Formula One season now well underway, we delve into the fast lane to take you on a whirlwind...

Housebuilder St Modwen has been forced to write down the value of the landmark Nine Elms regeneration scheme because “recent transactional...

Referendum uncertainty - even before the shock Brexit vote itself - led prime central London prices to drop 1.4 per cent...

The Council of Mortgage Lenders says the Brexit vote will hit transactions as buyers and sellers wait for the dust to...

Fraudsters attacking the conveyancing sector, successfully stealing large sums of money from homebuyers, are making national headlines at a depressing rate....

An increasing number of UK households say they plan to buy a property in the next 12 months.  Knight Frank's latest house...

House prices dipped by 0.8 per cent in April, the first month of the stamp duty surcharge and the period when...

Another agency has warned of the likely market slowdown caused by the June 23 EU referendum and political uncertainty over the...

House prices in the three months to March were 10.1 per cent higher than in the same quarter a year earlier...

There has been a significant acceleration in house prices in Britain’s big cities with lower-priced locations such as Portsmouth, Nottingham and...

With the scale of devastation from flooding witnessed recently, anxiety about purchasing a property in a flood risk area is heightened....

Cluttons is warning that the prime central London market may stagnate for at least the early part of this year thanks...

The latest government house price index from the Office for National Statistics shows that house prices across the UK rose by...

House prices ended the year with strong growth of 0.8 per cent in the month of December according to the building...

The Nationwide says house prices will rise three to six per cent in 2016, despite the prospect of interest rate rises during...

OnTheMartket (OTM) recently wrote to its membership saying how well its doing, how membership has increased beyond expectations and how it...

Economic and housing market commentators have interpreted the latest raft of Bank of England data as indicating that interest rates may...

There has been a mixed response from the agency world to David Cameron's pledge to reform planning, promise that 200,000 new...

Knight Frank has become the latest high-end agency to admit that the prime central London market is in the doldrums, with...

Rightmove says the price of property coming to market this month has hit a new national record, up 0.9 per cent...

Households in all UK regions perceived that house prices increased this month, according to Knight Frank’s latest House Price Sentiment Index. This...

The unexpected outcome of the general election has given a shot in the arm to sellers and agents leading to a...