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Property owners who play it cool when it comes to marketing their home find their frustration soon becomes overheated. The constant we...

The Prime Central London pain throughout the pandemic can be seen by new figures just released by an investment consultancy, showing...

Mortgage lending has shown the biggest net increase on record according to the Bank of England.  Mortgage borrowing in March rose by...

Parts of the UK property market face a supply shortage with a quarter fewer properties listed for sale in England and...

A leading agency says the stamp duty holiday is not a big influence on the current housing market frenzy - and...

House prices are 7.1 per cent above their level a year ago as the boom continues. The latest house price index, from...

Local elections rarely set the pulse racing and this year’s poll on Thursday faces a similar problem. But this time, it’s a...

Propertymark is staging a webinar today tackling the challenging issue of conveyancing - just as the market is at its busiest...

A new petition has been launched asking the government to make the stamp duty holiday apply when contracts are exchanged, rather...

Rightmove and Zoopla have both made PropTech announcements as the scramble to retain and win agents continues. Rightmove’s draw-a-search tool has been...

If you’re worried the stamp duty holiday is denying the Treasury of much-needed income, think again. Stamp duty receipts soared to £1,196...

A consumer financial service suggests it’s already too late for most buyers to meet the latest stamp duty holiday deadline of June...

A major agency is reporting a “frenzy” with branches inundated with enquiries as soon as homes are listed. Nicky Stevenson, managing director of...

Some 80 per cent of the property market will remain free of stamp duty for first-time buyers, even after the current...

A leading agent says that for every house he puts on the market, he has over 40 requests for viewings -...

Zoopla today begins a new marketing drive - the latest move in the fierce battle between Rightmove, Zoopla, OnTheMarket and Boomin. Zoopla is...

Agents are being urged to push through their pipelines before the upcoming stamp duty deadlines. The plea comes from Simply Conveyancing, which...

Another week begins, another record tumbles - Rightmove this morning reports a monthly price surge of 2.1 per cent has propelled...

There’s been a surge in activity in London’s prime housing market according to LonRes. The property data company says that new instructions in March...

An analysis of the average time taken for properties from 10 leading estate agency brands to complete shows a significant increase...

The UK government has been told it should make the stamp duty cut permanent to encourage investment and make it easier...

We’re officially transitioning to summer – marked by the clocks going forward and warmer weather – just as restrictions start to...

One housing market index suggests that average house prices in England and Wales have risen by 9.8 per cent in the...

A leading agency claims the stamp duty holiday has actually had a minimal impact in the mainstream market, despite many suggestions...

One in three property sales in England and Wales fell through before completion in the first quarter of 2021. The 32 per...

The Chancellor’s decision to extend the stamp duty holiday has “put a spring in the step" of the housing market according...

A mortgage firm specialising in high net worth clients says the stamp duty holiday cliff edge will not impact the most expensive...

The shortage of supply compared to demand, which has characterised the housing market in recent months, could soon be a thing...

Data from agency Knight Frank suggests the number of UK exchanges last month was the highest in 10 years - well above...

A portal says it’s the most significant challenger to the Big Three of Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket. OneDome says it bases this on...

The property market has performed strongly in recent months  as the impact of the pandemic has encouraged more people to move...

One of the most outspoken campaigners against stamp duty has been fined for avoiding tens of thousands of pounds in … stamp...

The sizes and numbers of gardens in London are reducing because stamp duty is encouraging more extensions as an alternative to moving. That’s...

The MP leading a new parliamentary committee on the housing market says a radical reform of tax would help more people move...

First time buyers are now saving more than £800 a year in comparison with tenants, new analysis suggests.  The Halifax says the...

The stamp duty holiday has backfired and buyers almost everywhere are paying more for homes, rather than less. StripeHomes analysed house price...

The launch of Boomin has been and gone with, perhaps, something less than its expected fanfare of publicity. Of course there are...

We are just over one year on from the day our lives truly changed, when the UK went into its first...

Estate agents play a key role in identifying tax savings that can benefit all parties. If a purchaser can benefit from...

It’s 12 years since we opened our doors with the Fine and Country estate agency in Drayton on April 1 2009. The...

Annual house price growth remains strong but it has slowed significantly according to the Nationwide. Prices dropped 0.2 per cent on average...

A prominent London agency says today’s new two per cent stamp duty surcharge imposed on most overseas buyers will not dampen...

With March marking one year since the beginning of the first national lockdown across all four nations of Britain in response...

Earlier this month, Fixflo held a webinar with David Cox, legal and compliance director of Rightmove, to discuss key government policies...

NAEA Propertymark says a record number of transactions are taking four months to move from offer to exchange. The organisation says this...

Bank of England figures reveal that in February there were 87,700 mortgage approvals - down from a peak of 103,700 in...

As an indication of the frenzied property market, this may take some beating - an agent has had 18 viewings on...

With just days before the launch of new portal Boomin, Rightmove says it’s hit a record 9.1m visits in a 24...

It’s costing taxpayers £750,000 just for the government to update its IT systems to handle the stamp duty holiday.  In a document...

The Chancellor’s recent announcement that the stamp duty holiday would be extended for another three months was undoubtedly great news for...

The stamp duty holiday frenzy has reduced the gap between asking and sale prices according to new research. Before the start of...

Data from Rightmove suggests a sharp increase in the number of chain-free properties on the market because sellers are increasingly willing...

The original stamp duty freeze, which started in July 2020, has already helped push house prices to a record high and...

Residential transactions totalled 147,050 last month according to HMRC - that’s 23 per cent higher than the previous month and an...

The government’s highly-anticipated Tax Day was just a damp squib.  That’s the view of leading analyst Anthony Codling, who says the almost complete...

The Building Societies Association says there’s been a surge in consumer confidence in the housing market following the Budget. Some 37 per...

Some 30 tax documents have been released by HM Treasury this afternoon - a mix of responses to past consultations, proposals...

Zoopla has crunched the numbers for the continuing stamp duty holiday in England and Northern Ireland, calculating 500,000 buyers will have...

The Conservatives have promised that first time buyers would not pay tax when buying a home in Wales if the party wins...

Stamp Duty receipts for the year to the end of February fell just six per cent despite the high profile SDLT...

One year on from the UK’s first stay-at-home order, London has been overtaken as the most searched-for location on Rightmove, according...

Purplebricks is now part of the mainstream landscape of British estate agency. There - I said it. An agency whose whispered name...

There is growing speculation that a raft of tax proposals to be unveiled next week will include reform of Capital Gains...

London’s residential market appears to be showing renewed signs of life thanks to the rollout of the government roadmap and vaccine...

Uncertain market means additional revenue streams are more important than ever The last year has been an uncertain period for many business...

A quarter of agents say they intend to recruit new staff in the next 12 months, following on from the surge...

Later this year, on October 22, the ESTAS 2021 will take place in London. The glittering ceremony will welcome property professionals...

The findings of the new ‘Thriving in a Pandemic’ report, recently published by tmgroup and mio, have highlighted that the market...

There’s a warning this morning that possible tax reforms to be unveiled next Monday could wreak huge damage on the property...

One of the companies at the heart of the campaign to provide more upfront information to prospective buyers has struck a...

It now takes 43 days longer to sell a home than it did a year ago. Comparison site GetAgent, which makes the...

Agents have been warned they are likely to require PropTech assistance to cope with a surge in transactions expected this year. The...

The UK is only the eighth most popular country for Asian investment buyers, and accounts for just three per cent of...

Another leading research team in a major agency has revised upwards its forecast for the 2021 market. Savills revised its predictions recently...

Following the fluctuation of the property market during the UK’s first national lockdown, the industry was given a lifeline by the...

High end purchasers of homes in London paid 15 per cent of the stamp duty in 2020, yet the value of...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says the market should prepare itself for a glut of new supply thanks to the...

The latest breakdown of the stamp duty holiday extension has given a first estimate of the total number of deals to...

The property sector is in the middle of a boom and demand is high. Last week’s announcement that the stamp duty...

Transactions and house price forecasts for the mainstream housing market are being revised upwards by Savills following the Budget. The new predictions follow an...

Boomin has revealed its launch date after months of high-profile publicity. It’s to be three and a half weeks from now on...

The latest house price index from the Halifax suggests the market has softened ahead of the original scheduled end of the stamp...

Agents in England are told that sellers should market their homes by March 23 - only 18 days from now - if...

Varying decisions across the country means the dreaded stamp duty cliff-edge will hit the market at different times in different UK...

Labour says Chancellor Rishi Sunak “will give away half a billion pounds to second homeowners and landlords through the stamp duty...

Another week and another frenzy of news, culminating in the Budget and the extension of the stamp duty holiday. A cliff edge...

Rarely do Budgets produce positive sentiments from the agency industry but Chancellor Rishi Sunak appears to have won widespread support for...

The government has issued an official note to detail the announcement made yesterday by Chancellor Rishi Sunak regarding stamp duty holiday...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak says the stamp duty holiday on properties up to £500,000 will be extended from March 31 to June 30; from...

The head of a PropTech platform wants financial penalties on conveyancers if transactions miss deadlines. “The only way to accelerate the current...

Today’s Budget is the most eagerly-anticipated for many years, as it juggles to shore up the economy with the longer-term issue...

A surge in demand from buyers, even those unlikely to benefit from the stamp duty holiday, offers hope for the market...

No fewer than 79 per cent of people want the stamp duty holiday extended according to a survey conducted by an...

Mortgage approvals declined slightly in January as the market braces itself for the end of the stamp duty holiday - currently...

A radical way to end the current stamp duty holiday has been suggested by three different legal bodies. The Society of Licensed...

It’s been revealed that some far reaching changes to property taxes may not be unveiled at Wednesday’s Budget and may wait...

With just two days to go, it's fair to say the property industry is eagerly awaiting Chancellor Rishi Sunak's Budget statement...

A leading agent says the worst thing that could happen with Wednesday’s Budget is if the Chancellor does not deliver on...

Honesty is a concept that journalists will tell their readers is non-existent for estate agents. Yeah, right! But as the end...

Rightmove has revealed its figures for the full year 2020 - down in terms of profit and revenue because of the impact...

An open letter from Boomin chief executive Michael Bruce shows how fierce the competition is going to be in the portal field...

New research from Propertymark suggests a typical fall through costs an agent £4,123.  The association says that if the stamp duty holiday...

A prominent conveyancer has hit out at the extension to the stamp duty holiday, which is now ending in late June and...

Much of the agency industry has reacted with delight at the extension of the stamp duty holiday deadline until June. Rightmove estimates...

A conveyancing trade publication wants those involved in residential transactions to be kind to each other - especially as the stamp duty...

Older homeowners gifted an average of £42,500 to younger relatives to help them buy in the past year, according to new...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak will extend the stamp duty holiday deadline until the end of June - a three month extension. The lead...

Transaction totals took a tumble last month for the first time since last summer as HMRC figures suggest the stamp duty...

Zoopla says it has so far delivered almost £80,000 in agent fees through its access to the Modern Method of Auction. MMA...

A new study suggests that the end of the stamp duty holiday should not significantly dent the purchasing pattens of buy...

Conveyancing volumes rose 27 per cent in just one month as the sector attempts to cope with huge demand prompted by...

The online petition which prompted a debate by MPs has now won the support of around 150,000 signatures. Typically public support for...

Propertymark - still reeling over two senior resignations in less than a week - says its lobbying sessions with politicians are...

Some 12 per cent of buyers will pull out of their transaction if it does not complete in time for their stamp...

A study by estate agency Coulters has revealed which areas of the country make the biggest savings courtesy of the stamp...

We’re now well into the third national lockdown and as the nation’s thoughts start to focus on how and when we’ll...

The Law Society for England and Wales says it wants action now to prevent tens of thousands of  transactions collapsing at...

First time buyers with just a 10 per cent deposit - for long almost excluded from the mortgage market - now...

The Chancellor’s rumoured six week extension to the stamp duty holiday has been backed by Rightmove. Over last weekend the Daily Telegraph,...

A huge number of additional transactions completing in the next few weeks due to the stamp duty holiday provides estate agents...

A new forecast suggests 70,000 buyers will miss the March 31 stamp duty holiday deadline. Zoopla has undertaken a new analysis to...

The deadline to complete the purchase of a home under the current Help to Buy scheme in England has been extended...

Agents and conveyancers are expressing doubt over whether a possible six week extension to the stamp duty holiday will be enough...

Rightmove is the latest portal to forge a link with the controversial Modern Method of Auction service being offered to agents. A...

The Chancellor is considering extending the stamp duty holiday for a short period according to a newspaper report this morning. The Daily...

You can always tell when Budget day is approaching. There’s lots of comment from every imaginable quarter about what the Chancellor of...

An MP demanding a root and branch reform of property taxation, including scrapping stamp duty, says the chance of fundamental reform is...

Agents will soon have a chance to hear a US motivational speaker described as one of the world’s most influential sales...

A leading bank says as many as one in three buyers pay too much for a property because they are afraid...

A leading agency chief suggests there will have to be substantial bargaining between buyers and sellers as the stamp duty holiday cliff...

One of the chief figures behind Brexit and Boris Johnson’s role as London Mayor is now advising that stamp duty should be...

A housing market analyst says stamp duty, for all its unpopularity within the property industry, may not be so bad after...

There’s been a huge focus on both the stamp duty holiday and Help To Buy deadlines at the end of March...

House price growth is running out of steam ahead of the stamp duty holiday cliff-edge. That’s the suggestion from the Halifax; its latest...

Experts are warning that buyers rushing to complete before the March 31 cliff edge for the stamp duty holiday may miss...

There is no scientific formula, no list of must-have elements in a successful campaign. That’s especially the case for a campaign involving...

Pressure is building for widespread property tax reform beyond short term issues regarding stamp duty. Many MPs in this week’s 65-minute special...

A mortgage has been launched targeting borrowers who believe they are unlikely to complete their purchase before the stamp duty holiday’s...

An estate agency says 10 per cent of its sellers have already dropped their asking prices to keep buyers on board,...

After high levels of publicity for Zoopla and Boomin in recent weeks, Rightmove has struck back with figures suggesting it’s enjoyed...

A 10-point ’must have’ list of demands for Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget on March 3 has been issued by NAEA Propertymark. It’s...

Agents can win more instructions by using text messages to prospective sellers as part of a short term ‘nurture’ campaign, according...

New government figures show that stamp duty transactions in the final quarter of last year were 43 per cent higher than in...

We are now over four weeks in to our third national lockdown in the UK. Although the property market remains open,...

Estate agents have kept up the pressure on the Westminster government to consider some kind of tapered ending to the stamp...

The government needs to step in to rescue two valuable property incentives before they expire at the end of March, a...

The Nationwide has pulled no punches with Chancellor Rishi Sunak - it’s made it clear that if the stamp duty holiday...

The government is keeping everyone guessing about the stamp duty holiday but one comment by a senior minister suggests movement towards a...

Mortgage approvals decreased slightly in December but remain well above pre-Covid levels thanks to the continuing incentive of the stamp duty...

Labour and Conservative MPs have expressed a unanimous view on their desire to see an extension of the stamp duty holiday...

You can watch the Parliamentary debate on a possible Stamp Duty Holiday extension here, using the streaming link at the bottom of...

Today’s the day when Parliament debates a possible extension to the stamp duty holiday beyond its March 31 cliff edge deadline...

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

Technology has advanced in leaps and bounds in recent years, undoubtedly improving many parts of the moving process for both estate...

As we now find ourselves in the UK’s third national lockdown in 10 months, what tenants want, and need from their...

A leading mortgage broker is warning that over half the lenders in a key segment of the market are already unable...

Properties are currently taking 29 per cent longer than average to sell once under offer, according to research by a home...

Covid-19 has caused the number of new homes registered by UK house builders to fall 23 per cent in 2020. The NHBC...

Property commentator Phil Spencer says lockdown - which we know will now last for another six weeks at least, and possibly...

Homeowners staying at home during another lockdown are doing more than sharing memes of groundhog day or doing family quizzes on...

A large majority of estate agents fear a surge in 'failed sales’ as the stamp duty holiday cliff edge gets ever-closer. The latest National...

Zoopla's latest figures suggest 70,000 transactions are likely to miss the stamp duty holiday deadline of March 31.  And the portal says: “The...

It's been announced that MPs will after all debate the Stamp Duty Holiday extension following a hugely popular online petition. The 90-minute...

The stamp duty holiday should be extended to include properties that have exchanged but have yet to complete, a leading accountancy...

A PropTech supplier says the conveyancing process is “antiquated” and buyers and sellers would be better served if they were ’shadowed’...

An international property and residency consultancy claims the sold prices of homes in some prime London locations have collapsed by up to 40...

In a wide-ranging video interview for his Move iQ service, Phil Spencer speaks to buying agent and TV property pundit Henry...

The last few months have seen property agents work hard to continue delivering quality client communications and maintain an increasingly digital...

Well, what a start to 2021! None of us thought things would change as the clock struck midnight on New Year’s...

A leading analyst is questioning whether buyers have benefitted from the stamp duty holiday because demand has purshed up prices far...

The BBC says some buyers are taking advantage of lockdown rules to travel hundreds of miles to view homes. The story suggests...

The MP who presides over online petitions such as the one calling for an extension of the stamp duty holiday says...

The property market became somewhat fractious during 2020. After receiving a much-needed boost with the promise of stamp duty relief, things...

The government may be stopping MPs debating an extension to the stamp duty holiday - despite a pledge they would do...

A property platform claims the current pipeline stock is so large that the average UK agency branch is waiting on £105,000...

London buyers have been by far the biggest winners from the stamp duty holiday according to new research. The Keller Williams UK...

The Northern Research Group, which has the backing of over 50 Conservative MPs in the north of England, wants the Chancellor...

The latest Rightmove analysis shows it now takes 126 days from the time an offer is accepted until legal completion -...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is considering an extension to the current stamp duty holiday according to media reports today - and the...

While the property industry has suffered far less than other sectors during the past year, it would be short of the...

One of the housing market’s senior analysts says the end of the stamp duty holiday on March 31 would not be...

The online petition calling for an extension to the stamp duty holiday is set to pass 100,000 signatures today. This means the...

The speed and success of the Coronavirus vaccine programme holds the key to the housing market rebounding in the second half...

Hello and welcome to the end of a busy, busy week for agency news.  It’s easy to assume the agency business is...

A housing index says the market continues to defy Coronavirus and Brexit worries with asking prices up 4.9 per cent in...

Two of the most outspoken agents in the industry have criticised those calling for an extension to the stamp duty holiday...

One of the most respected figures in the industry, trainer and consultant Richard Rawlings, is suggesting that stamp duty should be...

Even the prospect of a stamp duty holiday is not enough to persuade many buyers and sellers to enter the market...

A national newspaper is today launching a campaign for the stamp duty holiday to be extended. The Daily Telegraph says its campaign...

Sir Kier Starmer has told the government it should look again at whether estate agents’ viewings of properties for sale and...

Property expert Phil Spencer is warning that “chaos” and “mayhem” looms in the housing market if the stamp duty holiday is...

The average UK house price is now a record £253,374 according to the Halifax - but the rate of growth is...

Just a week ago, I thought it was all over. Christmas and New Year had gone, as had the passionate calls...

There’s no doubt that the property market underwent a tumultuous year in 2020, where efficiency was required more than ever. Since the...

With the Government announcement this week of another national lockdown across England amid the surging coronavirus infections, it once again puts...

Rightmove says it’s recorded the busiest ever start to a New Year in its two decade history with visits to the...

There’s growing optimism that an extension to the stamp duty holiday - thought to be off the agenda just days ago...

Agents have been outlining how they have beefed up their measures to combat the risk of Coronavirus, especially during property viewings. “We...

A mortgage lender says it will now accept ‘no-search indemnity insurance’ for residential purchases in a bid to speed up the...

New figures from the Bank of England show that mortgage approvals rose 7.0 per cent in November to reach 105,000 -...

The sudden end of the stamp duty holiday at the end of March could throw away the market gains achieved in...

London’s largest independent estate agency, Dexters, suggests that the stamp duty holiday ending in 12 weeks time will have relatively little...

A trade body has called on House Secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene over the growing problem of delays in councils providing...

A young estate agent - who by the age of 20 has already had a year working with Purplebricks - has...

Anthony Codling, the City analyst who made his name as a scourge of Purplebricks, says Brexit may be good news for the...

Following a turbulent 2020 in which the property market and the professionals working within it excelled in the face of unprecedented...

Here’s hoping you managed to have as good a Christmas and New Year as Covid rules allowed. Journalism in early January is...

As we approach the end of the year, there is no doubt that it has been a turbulent 12 months for...

House prices surged in December to post their fastest growth in six years, according to the Nationwide.  Prices rose 7.3 per cent...

An auction house that's made a transition from ballroom operations to online streaming is to publish all fees for all lots -...

Many agents will be closed on New Year’s Day - the last Bank Holiday for some months and at the start...

A house price index that is routinely one of the most pessimistic about the market claims the New Year will see...

He’s gone from Downing Street but the legacy of Dominic Cummings lives on in Rightmove’s top searches of 2020. Barnard Castle -...

Zoopla saw a record 70.5 per cent increase in traffic on Boxing Day as signs suggest the pre-Christmas boom is set...

The largest company involved in the controversial Modern Method of Auction says it’s producing a “disruptive digital market campaign to address...

The shock and almost immediate increase in stamp duty on additional homes in Wales has prompted one question in the industry...

The proportion of sales that fell through at the worst point of this year was 52 per cent it’s been claimed. However...

Entrants for the 2021 ESTAS Customer Service Awards have only until December 31 to sign up. Founder Simon Brown says: “The bounce...

There’s been a shock one per cent increase in the Welsh equivalent of stamp duty on second homes, coming into effect...

Pressure is building on the government to agree a tapered end to the stamp duty holiday, even if a full-blown extension now...

Figures from Zoopla suggest there’s a Christmas present being unwrapped by agents across the country - a far busier housing market tha this...

Well, what a year it has been for everyone, including the property market. I don’t think there’s anyone out there who...

The next Budget will be held on March 3 next year - in time for Chancellor Rishi Sunak to change his...

Agents and property experts have reacted angrily to the government's refusal to extend the stamp duty holiday. The government has told campaigners that...

Fall throughs which could be avoided by Reservation Agreements have cost agency branches an average £10,000 per month. That’s the claim from digital...

Another day, another index, another record - house prices rose 5.4 per cent annually in October according to official figures from the Office...

NAEA Propertymark has written to the Scottish Government demanding it extend the current Land and Buildings Transaction Tax holiday - the...

Described on this site as a ‘powerful disruptor’ in March 2020, few would deny that the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted on...

Mystery still surrounds the number of homes actually sold by Purplebricks, despite upbeat statements regarding the number of instructions it wins. The...

Down valuations could leave some surveyors liable to professional negligence claims, a law firm says. Nelsons law firm says down valuations have...

A cyber-attack on a London council has caused some transactions to fall through and others to be significantly delayed. The attack occurred...

If you fear the market will slow after Christmas, think again - Rightmove is expecting several months of frenzied transactions to...

Solicitors’ leaders say members of their industry are suffering mental health problems as a result of the workload to meet the...

Revenues have slumped by 18 per cent at LSL Property Services, the corporate which boasts Your Move and Reeds Rains and...

The industry seems almost back to normal. Not the ‘new normal’ we spoke so much of a few weeks and months ago,...

In the six months to November there’s been a 79 per cent increase in sales of homes priced £5m to £10m says Knight...

A leading property consultancy is suggesting that a possible increase in Capital Gains Tax could end up losing money for the...

The sales market is currently strong but the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has issued a warning about a slowdown next...

The UK has topped the rankings for the highest property taxes as a percentage of overall taxation in the developed world...

Another day, another house price record as the bull market continues. The latest Halifax index shows prices surging 7.6 per cent to...

MPs lobbied by agents to extend the stamp duty holiday are staying firmly on the fence with standard answers and no...

A petition has been launched demanding a stamp duty holiday extension. The online petition is the idea of Jonathan Steel - a layperson...

As we approach the most unusual of festive periods, many property professionals will already be thinking about the January market and...

Delays with the return of property searches is one key factor for sales taking longer to complete. As conveyancers start to warn...

‘Many are in complete denial about the time it takes and still think it’s eight to 10 weeks.’ I won’t tell you...

If this year has taught us anything, it's that estate agents need their software provider and specifically their CRM, to help...

Recent debate about urgent need for reform and better collaboration within the property industry, has once again come under the spotlight...

A leading conveyancing sector spokesmen says some mortgage lenders are making the current delays in the house buying process worse. Rob Hailstone,...

A new survey of prime London property shows 21 per cent of homes on sale have had their asking prices cut...

Over 100 Zoopla member branches have signed up to the Modern Method of Auction system offered via the portal. Over the summer Zoopla...

Annual house price inflation is now running at 6.5 per cent according to the latest Nationwide index after a 0.9 per...

The housing market may be slowing as we enter December but the latest snapshot suggests there’s still momentum with mortgage approvals...

Public sentiment over the housing market remains stable despite the Coronavirus crisis and the possibility of a No Deal Brexit. That’s the conclusion...

HM Revenue and Customs and the Advertising Standards Authority are working together to cut out misleading marketing by promoters of stamp...

NAEA Propertymark has renewed its warning that a cliff-edge threatens housing market stability as the stamp duty holiday ends. The organisation’s outgoing chief...

Property tax rises and falling house prices look as if they are on the way according to the small print accompanying...

Stamp duty breaks have historically done little to help the housing market - and it’s the same now. So says David Hannah,...

So, we’re back to where we were in the spring, more or less. England is in a national lockdown again to...

You probably don’t have to listen closely to hear estate agents across the country starting to cheer. It’s been a big...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has resisted changing any property taxes in the short term, but has used his Spending Review statement to...

The Guild of Property Professionals is urging the industry - all agents, not just its own members - to lobby MPs...

Zoopla’s research team is anticipating the first quarter of next year will see the current boom continue as 100,000 additional sales...

Today sees the government’s Spending Review, with Chancellor Rishi Sunak taking centre stage as he presents a 12 month spending plan to...

Two prominent suppliers have teamed up to offer customers instant visibility of chain lengths, details of agents connected to properties being...

A survey of completion times for house sales over the past four years suggests that the worst performing local authority area...

The mixture of the stamp duty holiday and generally fast-rising house prices has led to a resurgence of flipping. Data released this...

It may make little difference to agents but a leading analyst suggests thousands of buyers have effectively lost money on their purchase...

A mortgage technology platform has released figures suggesting the housing market remains strong, with high numbers of searches by buyers for...

As regular readers will know, the Natter kickstarted a series last time out zoning in on local independent agents – the...

Searches that are bound by the Search Code, protecting the seller, buyer and lender, are property and not client specific. As...

Tenants, landlords, agents, and house buyers all breathed a sigh of relief on Halloween when the government announced that home moves...

The director of a conveyancing technology company has hit out at what he calls “an over-reliance on outdated processes” and “age-old...

Transactions appear to be edging higher than in 2019 for the first time this year - despite lockdowns and concerns caused...

The founder of OneDome says a likely housing market slowdown is the perfect time for agents to optimise revenue by investing in PropTech. Babek Ismayil believes...

New research attempts for the first time to identify the most lucrative property markets in the country - with surprising results...

The customer service performance of conveyancers has improved in recent months according to the ESTAS review platform.  The long-standing and sometimes-heated debate...

Estate agents can stand out from the crowd and help consumers through lockdown by providing a more secure sales process, a...

The soon-to-launch portal Boomin - set up by the people who founded Purplebricks- has signed another 10 independent agents. They are all...

Just when you thought the housing market was beginning to calm down... along comes a likely vaccine for Coronavirus. One of the country’s...

A prominent PropTech supplier wants agents to hand over much more information to conveyancers to allow them to make faster progress on...

Asking prices are down for the first time in many months. It’s a small drop - an average of 0.5 per cent...

Watching the government’s surprise press conference a couple of weekends ago the message was clear; we were heading into a gruelling...

A law firm wants the government to agree that properties that have exchanged but not yet completed can definitely benefit from the...

One of the industry’s leading commentators says an unintended consequence of a possible Capital Gains Tax increase could be a bonus...

As we embark on another nationwide lockdown, the team at SDL Auctions are keen to help agents ride the storm, beat...

The first monthly market monitor to show activity in the housing market tailing off has appeared - and it says momentum...

As you may have seen over the weekend, the long-running Property Natter column – penned by Angels Media chief executive, Nat...

A survey of people currently buying property suggests as many as a quarter may pull out if they know they’ll miss...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says its new Home Survey Standard will be implemented from March and will represent a...

A leading firm of conveyancers will this week tell new clients that their property purchases are likely to miss the stamp...