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Despite the recent effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, there is still much opportunity in the market for letting agents to grow...

With the high street open again, and the Chancellor’s temporary stamp duty holiday helping to stimulate the market, estate and letting...

I’m sure I speak for most in the property industry when I say that back in March and April I had...

Almost two fifths of property buyers don't know what conveyancers and solicitors do, according to new research. My Home Move Conveyancing's survey...

A tax expert says that there is 'zero likelihood' of the government changing its mind on stamp duty changes for overseas...

The scale of the problems facing many prospective buyers has been set out in a survey showing as many as one-third...

A sentiment survey conducted amongst 585 estate agents by the OnTheMarket portal suggests fewer than half have witnessed price rises since...

Rightmove is warning of a conveyancing log-jam that may delay sales, despite the ongoing frenzy of activity and faster transactions for...

Record house prices recorded this week by the Nationwide index are set to go higher still according to a leading agent. Nationwide...

A specialist property lender says transactions are being delayed by key staff being furloughed. Gareth Lewis, commercial director of property lender MT...

Hefty increases in taxes on the purchase and sale of holiday homes and buy to let properties are expected in the...

With access to finance being such a hot topic at the moment, more and more estate agents are turning to commercial...

If yet more proof were needed of the housing boom this summer, NAEA Propertymark says its sales agreed data suggests a...

OneDome, which operates two free-to-list property listing sites, says it’s had a record month as it strives to build an alternative...

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

The scale of the market bounce back after lockdown is made clear in new figures from HM Revenue & Customs. It registers...

It was officially announced last week that the UK is in recession for the first time since 2009, and although this...

A prominent industry figure says the current stamp duty holiday could effectively be a trap to lure in buyers who will...

The stamp duty holiday running until March next year has triggered a surge in interest in UK property from Hong Kong...

The share of owners putting their homes on the market within five years of buying is rising again according to an...

Knight Frank says the stamp duty holiday for properties at £500,000 and below should be made permanent. The holiday is due to...

Agents have been understandably delighted at the latest Halifax index which shows house prices posting their biggest gain of the year...

The Zoopla Rental Market Report, published this week, mentioned a two-speed rental market, but what does that mean? We are seeing two...

Zoopla has revealed details of its biggest ever marketing campaign in a bid to cash in on agents’ growing dissatisfaction with...

Following the easing of lockdown restrictions on England’s property market in May, NAEA Propertymark reported a sharp increase in business for...

Strutt & Parker is warning that in a worst-case scenario house prices in some locations could drop 10 per cent this...

The Guild of Property Professionals is relaunching its online auction brand - Guild Auctions - even though it has already successfully...

A BBC presenter has used her local newspaper column to mock an estate agency for suggesting fridge magnets be removed to improve...

The Nationwide says annual house price growth has recovered to 1.5 per cent. Its July house price index says the fall in...

One of the main points I’ve had reinforced to me from agent after agent over the last year of hosting a...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s stamp duty holiday means prime property in the UK now enjoys lower tax rates than most European countries. Buyers...

Zoopla says while there may be speculation about people fleeing London and big urban areas for the countryside, the evidence suggests...

Zoopla says its sale and vendor leads have reached a 2020 high, beating volumes delivered even during the strong start to the...

As expected within the property industry, the Chancellor announced a stamp duty holiday in his Summer Statement. This now means that...

Zoopla's Research and Insight Director Richard Donnell writes: Just over a fortnight on since the Chancellor announced the Stamp Duty holiday and...

Agents have almost unanimously been reporting a big surge in business since the reopening of the housing market, but new figures...

Speculation is mounting that Capital Gains Tax could for the first time be applied to gains made when owners sell first...

Rightmove is reporting a mini-boom that was existing even before the stamp duty holiday - enough to propel average asking prices...

Emma Vigus, managing director of sales progression platform mio, in discussion with key suppliers in the residential property industry on operating...

Tuesday of this week was the busiest day of the year so far for searches for mortgages - widely seen as...

The latest monthly index suggests that the average asking price in England and Wales has jumped 1.5 per cent in the...

A think tank says the stamp duty holiday introduced a week ago is understandable and may be helpful to the housing...

A London estate agent has broken ranks with much of the industry and instead of welcoming the stamp duty holiday has...

The new thresholds for the Scottish equivalent of stamp duty come into effect today - a week after the SDLT holiday...

A major agency is warning that the current stamp duty holiday could leave the housing market in a state of lethargy...

Britain’s second largest lender is to offer 90 per cent loan to value mortgages once again from next Monday - a...

A property law firm is calling on the government to backdate the stamp duty holiday to include those buyers who completed...

The threshold at which Scotland’s Land and Buildings Transaction Tax is paid by purchasers is to be raised from £145,000 to...

You have to feel for Rishi Sunak - well, at least a little. Leave to one side that he carries more presentational...

Evidence is pouring in that the stamp duty holiday introduced 48 hours ago has already produced huge levels of interest from...

Savills has revised its market forecast for the enclaves of prime central London and now says prices will fall by 2.0...

There are high hopes that the new stamp duty holiday will make an already busy market even busier - but not...

An estate agency is warning that the likely rush of transactions when the new stamp duty holiday ends next spring will...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak - and the agency industry - will no doubt be delighted to know that visits to Rightmove soared...

It looks like the stamp duty holiday for England and Northern Ireland, already in effect following yesterday’s announcement, is unlikely to...

Agents have spoken out angrily against any uncertainty in the market caused by government leaks about future stamp duty changes. In recent...

One of the possible stamp duty options floated by Chancellor Rishi Sunak could mean 89 per cent of sales would be...

Unnamed government sources quoted in many newspapers today suggest stamp duty reforms may be announced later this year. Chancellor Rishi Sunak is to...

Zoopla’s head of research says a stamp duty holiday could encourage more home owners to move which in turn could help...

A large majority of property professionals polled by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors say a stamp duty holiday would be...

There has been much speculation about when agents will be allowed back to work, and what the new office working environment...

Housing minister Chris Pincher is drawing up guidelines which could allow agents to return to something like normal working in the near...

The coming week’s stories in the mainstream media - inevitably focused on Coronavirus - will be dominated by two things. Firstly there...

NAEA Propertymark has today launched a campaign for the government to introduce what it calls a Property Sector Support Package. This would...

A major consumer survey of existing home owners and potential movers has resulted in a plea to government to allow house...

A property law firm is the latest to back a call for a stamp duty holiday to help kick-start the housing...

The government is being urged to allow estate and lettings agents to return to work as soon as possible when the...

Rightmove and Knight Frank are today both calling for a series of government incentives to kick-start the market after the Coronavirus...

Another body is calling for a stamp duty holiday to help resuscitate the housing market following the Coronavirus standstill. The Royal Institute...

The government has been called upon by one of the industry’s most respected bodies to announce a stamp duty holiday to...

There are reasons to be optimistic that a majority government will improve the housing market, simply by ending political and economic...

In the run up to his appointment as Prime Minister, Boris Johnson suggested that he might cut Stamp Duty Land Tax...

The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...

Research by Estate Agent Today reveals that there have been 12 different stamp duty regimes in the UK since the Millennium. What’s...

As we hurtle towards the end of 2017, it’s time to reflect on the year that’s just been.   Even better, this property-based...

Whenever any research is released, part of me can’t help thinking of that old adage, ‘lies, damn lies and statistics’ especially...

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

It may still be too early to start compiling a Christmas wish list, but it is the right time to provide...