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The proportion of buy to let properties purchased in Southern England fell to a record low last year, continuing a trend...

Single first-time buyers need to save for almost 6.5 years or 76 months to raise a 10% deposit and cover moving...

Zoopla is holding onto its predictions of a 2% average house price drop this year and said high- value regions in...

Agents and sellers are taking an average 5.5% discount on listings to secure a sale, new Zoopla data shows. The portal’s latest...

A former Hamptons agent has moved into staging after finding she was spending much of her time helping vendors in this...

Estate agents sold a record number of properties via auction between April and June, data from iamproperty suggests. The proptech firm’s latest...

Higher mortgage rates have meant that new buy-to-let purchases are increasingly being funded by cash rather than a mortgage, new research...

The north-south house price divide may be narrowing, eXp UK claims. Research by the self-employed agency brand has found that while the...

The proportion of take-home pay that first-time buyers are having to put towards mortgage repayments is returning to levels last seen...

Homeowners who purchased a property over the past 20 years and sold in 2022 typically made a gross profit of more...

Property demand has halved but the slowdown is focused on the previously popular rural and coastal areas, Zoopla has revealed. Higher mortgage...

Former Douglas & Gordon managing director Ivor Dickinson has passed away. He was known as one of London’s most high-profile and colourful...

A record share of buyers are leaving London to purchase their first home, research shows. Analysis by Hamptons found that a record...

Prime estate agent John D Wood & Co has moved its Chiswick office to a larger premises to boost its sales...

Accessibility to charging facilities is becoming an increasingly important factor for home buyers in affluent neighbourhoods where electric vehicle adoption is...

As debate rages over levelling up and a north/south property divide, in the first of a new monthly column, property expert...

The number of locations where average house prices still stand at below £150,000 has shrunk by 28 per cent in recent...

Rightmove has revealed the UK’s property hotspot of 2021 - where prices have risen 31 per cent in just a year. The...

Rightmove has identified the UK’s strongest sellers’ market - and it’s in Easton, Bristol. Four of the top 10 sellers’ markets are...

Hello again and with just two weeks to go before the festivities begin, there’s a definite ramping up of fund-raising for...

New figures from the Iamproperty group, parent of the Iamsold specialist in the Modern Method of Auction, show that the service...

The self-employed partnership known as The Agency UK - founded by three refugees from Purplebricks - has announced a major expansion. The...

There’s gathering momentum to do ‘something’ about the unfairness of council tax and stamp duty. This isn’t new in principle. Agents have...

New research from Zoopla appears to show that buyers typically move further away for larger homes rather than smaller or same-size...

Creating a New Homes division could be a good way of expanding an agency business according to the head of a...

Annual house price inflation is now at its strongest level in nearly seven years, says the Halifax House Price Index. The average...

The asking price of a typical home in the UK has hit a third of a million pounds for the first...

Savills has upgraded its house price and transaction forecasts following the Budget - and prime London, especially the centre, is tipped to...

The south of England is not the only region to benefit as city-dwellers search for more greenery and outdoor space, says...

An estate agency in the south of England has abandoned its online-only strategy and has decided to open a physical office...

Hello and at the start of another working week, welcome to our regular jobs slot announcing who’s moving where within the...

Independent agency Sawyer & Co has announced the opening of a new branch in the Preston Park area of Brighton -...

Logjams in the mortgage, conveyancing and removal stages of house moving mean sales are taking much longer than usual, according to...

In the week the Nationwide recorded the UK’s highest ever average house price, high-end agency Savills has forecast that prime markets...

Data from Rightmove shows that demand is up 61 per cent compared to the same period last year - and the...

The proportion of the asking price achieved on average in the past year is 95.8 per cent according to a new survey. Comparison...

An analysis of Countrywide branch data outside London has revealed that one in 10 applicants who registered to buy were from...

Rightmove has given a regional breakdown in where  buyer demand is strongest in the past two weeks. It’s perhaps no surprise that...

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

The total value of the UK’s housing stock hit £7.39 trillion in 2019, a new record high. The claim, in an analysis...

There’s been a long-term trend of growing numbers of Londoners quitting the capital to afford a home elsewhere - and typically...

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

Around one person in seven in England are living in unaffordable, insecure or unsuitable accommodation. The claim comes from the research produced...

No less than 56 per cent of properties across the UK are in areas that are affordable for first time buyers...

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

There’s more bad news for online estate agencies this morning as a survey reveals that they have only a seven per cent...

The summer market momentum building thanks to warmer weather and reduced Brexit uncertainty took a hit in June, according to new...

There’s a silver lining to another set of stodgy housing market figures - at least one sector, for those buying their...

A new snapshot of market share claims that online agents accounted for 7.0 per cent of all exchanges in the first...

Gloomy statements from some industry organisations have suggested the market is in trouble thanks to Brexit uncertainty but Rightmove says visits...

There may be a cloud over the economy right now but growth of 2.7 per cent in house prices last year...

Hamptons International - at one time tipped to be sold off or even shut during the recent problems afflicting parent company...

Keller Williams, which yesterday revealed two new market centres in the south of England, says up to 25 agents in the...

Estate Agent Today can reveal that US-owned franchise agency Keller Williams has ‘soft-opened’ two new market centres in the south of...

House price inflation across the UK has slowed to a six-year low of 2.6 per cent thanks to falls in London...

More than 75 per cent of first time buyers have benefited from the changes to stamp duty thresholds for introduced a...

If your New Year’s resolution is to move to a four bedroom home in London or the south of England, you...

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

It’s November so forecasts for next year are beginning to emerge from high-end agencies with research departments - and the first one...

OnTheMarket plc, the company which operates the OTM portal, gives its first formal stock market figures tomorrow morning, for the six...

Andrews, which has over 50 branches across the south of England, is the latest major chain to sign up to OnTheMarket. In...

House prices grew two per cent year on year for September according to new figures - and a senior agency chief...

Some 31 per cent of first time buyers residing in London ended up moving away from the capital to purchase a...

The former head of Humberts’ country house department, who has spent 30 years selling homes, has switched to buying. Jeremy Campbell-Harris was...

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

Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today - our regular Monday look at who’s moving where within our industry. You...

A 15-branch agency group operating in parts of London and the Home Counties has joined OnTheMarket according to a statement from...

ZPG, which operates Zoopla and PrimeLocation as well as owning the Property Software Group, has signed more long-term marketing deals with a...

A senior figure in another regional estate agency group has expressed scepticism about the popularity of online choices for vendors. Last week...

The notion of a North-South divide in the UK has been around for as long as I can remember – certainly...

UK house price inflation is now running at a modest 2.0 per cent but London's housing market has recorded its worst...

Analysis by the Nationwide suggests that the proportion of UK-wide stamp duty payments paid by purchasers in the south east of...

An analysis of data from HM Revenue and Customs reveals that inheritance tax paid by UK families has topped £5 billion...

New figures produced by estate agency Carter Jonas show that the long-term consequences of the credit crunch have exacerbated the historic...

The latest figures from business consultancy Hometrack shows that house price inflation in the UK’s major cities is likely to reach...

Lomond Capital has secured up to £37.5m for new acquisitions of sales and lettings agencies across the south of England -...

Humberts - until now known as an agency operating predominantly in market towns across southern England - is opening a Mayfair office in...

At the end of a week dominated by grim news, it is worth remembering our capacity for good far outweighs rare...

Humberts is launching a dedicated nationwide Waterfront and Coastal department.  The agency, which is now franchising in a bid to expand outside...

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

Hamptons International says that in 2016 the number of Londoners buying a home outside the capital reached the highest level since...

There’s been a bumper mailbag sent to press@estateagenttoday.co.uk this week to mark what must be the height of the fund-raising season...

Countrywide says it is unable to comment on speculation that some Bairstow Eves offices in the south of England have been...

Agency review website RaterAgent has listed its top 50 agents for 2016 based on customer reviews posted in the year to...

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

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

Several estate agencies have announced expansions and new offices - and once again a former Countrywide management figure is revealed to...

Auction house Clive Emson has launched a digital service through which vendors can sell land and property via an online auction. Clive...

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

The Bank of England has kept its base rate to 0.50 per cent despite many analysts expecting it would be cut...

Beleaguered challenger portal OnTheMarket has recruited the 25-branch south of England agency Goadsby and says this takes its total of sales...

Average house prices will rise by 20.1 per cent by the end of 2019 with a typical home then costing £236,691...

The average house price in the UK is set to increase by over 20% to £236,691 by the end of 2019,...

Birthdays aren’t just something for family and friends to celebrate.   Businesses too can justifiably use these milestones to remember their roots and...

South of England agency chain Andrews has launched a new app and website as part of its brand-refreshing programme for 2016.  The...

The number of Londoners moving out of the capital, buying homes in other parts of the country, surged in 2015. Research by...

The possibility of agents having to keep offices open until 7pm from next summer to accommodate late key releases has put...

Repossession levels in the north and south of England have closed by 80 per cent since the end of the recession,...

An analysis of homes on sale six months after the scrapping of the ‘slab’ system of stamp duty has revealed a...

Wednesday’s budget proved a grim viewing for those who have worked in the rental sector for some time and watched the...