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Shelter, the campaigning charity that has been hugely critical of private landlords and letting agents in recent years, has now launched...

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

Black Brick says its turnover in 2016 tripled to £3m with new business so far this year focussing increasingly on owner-occupier...

Stamp duty has become the latest weapon in the ongoing war of words between different wings of the Conservative party, as...

Savills has reported strong figures for the first half of 2017 across its worldwide activities, but its UK residential divisions have...

The ‘lower priced’ 80 per cent of homes in prime central London are seeing price rises again, giving hope they have...

A detailed analysis of the UK housing market by The Economist suggest many reasons lie behind the slump in property transactions...

Agents say the latest Nationwide index showing a surprise rise in house prices does not change the fact that it is...

The latest market snapshot by high-end agency Strutt & Parker reveals more bad news for London - despite the agency itself...

Countrywide has revealed a massive plunge in its profits for the first six months of 2017.   Pre-tax profit for the six months...

Foxtons has reported its half-year figures for the six months to the end of June and, as expected, they show how...

The number of transactions in the housing market has fallen for the third successive month - and for the first time...

With several agent partner programmes available across the country, estate agents can often increase business by offering sales by auction, with...

As discussed in our previous article, it’s all about the first impression. Once your team have handled that initial phone call...

PwC says the drop in the number of property transactions is the economic indicator where the uncertainty over Brexit is most...

Being a leading world-class city comes at a price – they are the most expensive for occupiers and the most lucrative...

For those of us working within the property sector, we’re in the very midst of what, for generations, has been one...

The latest market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows price growth dipping further, struggling transaction volumes and the...

First time buyers have finances stretched beyond their means, buy to let is attracting fewer investors because of taxes, and affordability...

A survey of just over 2,000 candidates and 1,000 employers across London’s residential property market suggests over half of them believe...

Gently rising house values in the mainstream market and problems facing the prime market in the capital mean that over half...

One of the industry’s leading analysts says Countrywide’s figures for the first half of 2017 are likely to be tough -...

The chief economist of Price Waterhouse Coopers says that although by some measures the London housing market looks ripe for a...

Sales in prime central London in the year to the end of March are a huge 41 per cent below the...

When it comes to provoking anger in property professionals, taxation takes some beating. Press releases are still arriving berating the December...

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

“Housing policy should be in independent hands.” That was the conclusion of a panel debate that Andrews held, not recently, but two...

Just 27% of property valuations in May were requested by prospective home sellers, according to the latest data from Connells Survey...

National average house price growth bounced back in April after a slow March, according to official figures. The latest UK House Price...

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

The introduction of a 3% stamp duty surcharge on the purchase of additional properties has 'shattered' the property market, according to...

As we approach Thursday's General Election, more property professionals have criticised stamp duty and called for the Government to make changes...

London Central Portfolio, a property investment consultancy, has set out a five point plan for the next government elected this week...

Theresa May’s call for a snap general election on June 8 took many by surprise. But estate agents have been broadly...

Scotland already has the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax instead of stamp duty - now Wales is following suit, with a...

Asking prices of homes coming to the market have now been rising for five consecutive months says Rightmove.  Asking prices rose 2.0...

News headlines talk more and more about a slowdown in the property market, a drop in house prices and the need...

A ‘disrupter’ estate agent says the English housing market operates in a way that is far less efficient than Scotland’s -...

A respected City analyst has pointedly dissed Purplebricks over its allegedly modest inventory of homes for sale and rent. Antony Codling of...

Home buyers borrowed £11.2 billion in March - down on the ‘stamp duty bonanza‘ period at the same time last year...

The boss of the UK's largest independent agency has called on the government to be 'radical' and consider a range of...

Transaction levels in Prime Central London (PCL) increased for the third consecutive quarter during Q1 2017, according to Strutt & Parker. However,...

The Guild of Property Professionals, which has over 800 agent members across the country, has this week launched a new website.  The...

The next few weeks leading to the General Election on June 8 are likely to have “a short term adverse impact...

Auctions are a great way to sell property competitively, with a wide range of homes often selling under the hammer, and...

The average cost of moving home in the UK was £9,472 in 2016 according to a survey by the Centre for...

Trevor Abrahmsohn, one of London’s best known estate agents and a founder of OnTheMarket, says stamp duty should be split between...

HMRC says there has been a five per cent drop on the number of transactions attracting stamp duty in the first...

The government should resist any further increase in stamp duty not only to help the property market but to help guarantee...

The HomeOwners' Alliance says it has identified what it describes as "the UK's best performing agent" based on how much it...

The snap General Election on June 8 adds to uncertainty but does not significantly worsen the market for prime properties in...

First time buyer registrations in the past month have jumped nearly 20 per cent across the UK and almost 30 per...

Property transactions rose marginally in March this year, up 0.5 per cent on February’s total according to figures from HM Revenue...

I wrote last month about how the Government, in introducing a 3% stamp duty surcharge on second homes, had scored an...

Anyone hoping that the General Election could herald an immediate change of heart by the Conservatives on high levels of stamp...

A well-informed industry article on the possible sale of Strutt & Parker to French bank BNP Paribas suggests that the deal,...

Average UK house price growth will reach 2.2 per cent this year, a rise of £4,460 that will see the average...

My apologies if this causes you to break your Easter egg with a little too much aggression, but I reckon the...

A series of strong sales performances at recent auctions has led one firm to claim the sector is leading the residential industry’s...

More than three quarters of developers want to see the government go into reverse on its stamp duty and mortgage interest...

A building society claims that in the past three years alone no fewer than 1.2m buyers have given up on house...

Land Registry data shows that homes across the UK have risen in price by an average 5.8 per cent in the...

In recent years the mortgage industry has gone through some testing times. Recession and regulation have led to more stringent lending...

Purplebricks has stepped up its attack on what it calls “Britain's antiquated method of buying and selling homes” by describing it as...

Winkworth’s annual figures for 2016 reveal a franchise turnover drop of six per cent and a pre-tax profit fall of 25.6...

The triggering of Article 50 may have been regarded as a historic event but it appears to have left the housing...

The consumer group HomeOwners Alliance claims new research indicates that more than a million UK adults have shelved plans to purchase...

A year ago, we were days away from the introduction of a 3% stamp duty surcharge on second homes – a...

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

Savills has revealed relatively strong figures for 2016 in its report to the City this morning, with group revenue up 13...

After a year of turbulence thanks to Brexit and the consequences of stamp duty changes, prime central London’s housing market appears...

Foxtons has received lavish praise from investment consultancy Jefferies despite long-term share price worries reflecting its mixed performance in the troubled...

The average asking price rise for homes coming to the market in the last month has been a chunky 1.3 per...

We’re almost nine months on from the EU Referendum and yet the issue remains the big divide across the nation: an...

Property Vision, one of the country’s oldest and most respected buying agencies, has added its voice to those saying that stamp...

The government has admitted that the three per cent stamp duty surcharge has raked in twice as much as expected. In November...

Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his first Budget this week pledging extra funding for the NHS, transport in the Midlands and the...

There was nothing doing in the Budget - no stamp duty reform, no second look at mortgage interest tax relief changes,...

Estate agents are angry that Chancellor Phillip Hammond made no attempt in his first Spring Budget to reform stamp duty -...

Chancellor Phillip Hammond has introduced no new property taxes in his Spring Budget - but a clampdown on those setting up...

Foxtons' figures released to the City this morning confirm a huge slump in sales in 2016 - and even lettings revenue...

Jeremy Leaf, the London estate agent and former RICS residential chairman, is the latest industry figure to call for the government...

Looking ahead to the Spring Budget this week, the Chancellor Philip Hammond will be obliged to face up to the implications...

With tax relief changes, a rise in Stamp Duty for second homes and strict mortgage affordability checks now in place, it...

An estate agent and a building society have both advocated radical moves to reform stamp duty - and want Chancellor Phillip...

Over the past two decades, investing in buy-to-let has been a relatively easy way to make money, which is why so...

The buy-to-let market has gone through significant change in the last year and with the Budget just around the corner, what...

A London property investment firm says the government has enjoyed a tax take of £394m since introducing the Annual Tax for...

Rightmove secured over 131m visits last month, an all-time high for January. The 131m total was some three per cent above January...

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

Connells Group’s mortgage services wing has recorded a 10 per cent increase in the number of mortgages in 2016 and has generated...

One of Britain’s biggest mortgage companies has come up with a new way to try to boost buying across the housing...

The East Midlands, which consists of several areas including Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, and much of Lincolnshire, has an ancient...

The government’s attitude of “Nanny knows best” has “squandered another opportunity” to make a real difference to the housing crisis, according...

High-end estate agency Knight Frank says prime central London prices are down as much as 14.0 per cent in the year to...

There's bad news for the government in the form of house building targets on the eve of its long-awaited Housing White...

An analysis by Savills shows that so-called ‘additional homes’ - that is, those carrying a three per cent stamp duty surcharge...

Sales in Prime Central London were down 21 per cent in the year to December according to investment consultancy London Central...

The stock market appears to be continuing its love affair with Purplebricks, as the hybrid agency share price rose once again...

The latest HM Revenue and Customs figures show that there were 1.23 million property transactions in 2016, the highest figure recorded...