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I sometimes wonder just how far our national obsession with buying our own homes will stretch. First-time buyers are prepared to save...

Forget the Bank of Mum & Dad, now even siblings are chipping in to help brothers and sisters onto the property...

Connells group chief executive David Livesey has announced his intention to retire during 2024. Highly respected throughout the industry, Livesey joined Connells...

Spicerhaart’s non-executive chairman John Spence has received a special achievement award after announcing his retirement from the board after more than...

In simple terms, as you are probably aware, ‘lenders’ are the organisations who loan you something, in this case money to...

Skipton Building Society has unveiled details of the first 100% loan-to-value mortgage launched since the 2008 financial crisis. Aimed at renters, the...

100% mortgages are rumoured to be making a comeback. The products were blamed as a cause for the 2008 financial crash, with...

Connells Group chairman Stephen Shipperley is set to retire at the end of 2022. It comes as he marked his 45th anniversary...

In the third part of this exclusive series with Homesearch’s chief operating officer, Sam Hunter, Angels Media’s Lee Dahill questions him...

First-time buyers have admitted to feeling overwhelmed or scared to talk to estate agents about the homebuying process. A study of 2,000...

The Skipton Building Society, which owns Connells estate agency, says the house-selling arm helped it reach a record profit pre-tax profit...

The man who engineered the takeover of Countrywide by Connells is leaving the agency’s parent company, the Skipton Building Society. David Cutter...

Connells Group says it is the UK's largest estate agency group by market share - and that's before the Countrywide acquisition...

The acquisition of Countrywide by Connells might just be the deal of the century in the British estate agency industry. That’s the...

At the back-end of last year and the start of this, the biggest news stories in town – besides debates over...

Connells, which already has the explicit support of a majority of Countrywide shareholders for its takeover of the company, has now...

Countrywide shareholders will next month have the opportunity to vote on the Connells bid to purchase the troubled estate agency group. The...

In a dramatic New Year’s Eve statement on the London Stock Exchange, Countrywide has agreed the terms of a recommended offer...

All my recent Natters have been focused on one particular topic, the coronavirus crisis, for obvious reasons. But there has been...

Purplebricks and Countrywide have each recently claimed to be the biggest agency group in the UK but now Connells says that...