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It appears activity in the housing market in 2017 will be around 15% down on 2016. The number of housing transactions...

I’ve written before about the impact of headlines on the property industry. Interest rate speculation.   Market booms and busts. Demand...

Government figures suggest house prices are still rising by 5.1 per cent a year, with the average property value in the...

Many industries in the UK are currently facing a tumultuous time as the great unknown of Brexit looms on the horizon...

With party conference season around the corner and the next Budget just a couple of months away, more industry players are...

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

Stock levels for estate agents at the height of summer were their lowest for at least 15 years according to the...

The average price of a home in the UK is now £211,6712 - up slightly on last month but with growth...

Now we hate to spoil a long weekend but for much of the UK this is the final Bank Holiday before......

The typical asking price of a home coming on sale has fallen by 0.9 per cent, equivalent to £2,758 - precisely...

The price of houses in the UK will remain high because a “structural decline” means fewer homes are being sold and...

Record low stock numbers, political uncertainty and the aftermath of tax changes are the obstacles hindering the housing market, according to...

Last week the Nationwide reported house prices rising unexpectedly in July - now the Halifax has done the same, reporting a...

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

The latest figures from NAEA Propertymark suggest that the market is bouncing back after its hiatus during the General Election and...

The Competition and Markets Authority has released the full wording on its decision to give the go-ahead to ZPG’s acquisition of Expert...

Given the shift change in the estate agent world at the moment, with online models becoming more prevalent (think easyProperty’s £60...

The housing market is approaching something of a standstill as the summer holiday season begins according to a downbeat report from...

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

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

Facebook has finally released more details about its previously announced plans to build 1,500 homes, 30 miles south of San Francisco,...

The National Association of Estate Agents says the General Election led to a drop in the number of registered house hunters...

A research report compiled by Strutt & Parker in partnership with Octopus Healthcare has revealed what the baby boomer generation expects...

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

As the nation waits with bated breath to see if Theresa May can form either a minority or coalition government after...

Average house prices in the three months to May were 3.3% higher than in the same period of 2016, according to...

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

In years to come, students of political history might come to look at the 2017 General Election campaign with some interest....

The number of house hunters registered per estate agency branch fell last month to 381 - well down on its figure...

The latest measure of house price rises in key UK cities by the property consultancy Hometrack shows house price in many...

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

Since the seventies, housing starts and completions across England and Wales have been on a downward trajectory. The long run average...

Is it the Brexit triggering of Article 50, the snap General Election or the cold weather we have had until recently?...

Local media in Scotland suggest an agency in Motherwell is continuing as normal despite the owner of the business having been...

Research from Legal & General and the Centre for Economic Business and Research says parents are to spend 23 per cent...

The number of properties available to buy on agents’ books decreased to 39 last month - the lowest amount recorded for...

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

The website Home, which monitors asking prices, says prices have rallied strongly in the last month but thanks to growing inflation...

A substantial new research body is to be launched this summer with a remit of looking at six overlapping aspects of...

Average house prices across the UK in the three months to March were only 0.1 per cent higher than in the...

The number of new homes built in London will reach record levels in 2017, according to high-end agency Savills - but...

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

The Centre for Economic and Business Research has surprised some in the industry by stating that the average house price across...

More than one in three house sales across England and Wales fell through before completion in the first quarter of 2017,...

Peter Robinson, CEO of AIPP – Association of International Property Professionals – shines a light onto the international property market. Some UK...

The National Association of Estate Agents says the number of sales agreed rose to a 10 year high in February. The NAEA...

The property market in northern England, supported in part by the Northern Powerhouse concept, has attracted a lot of media attention,...

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

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

An assessment of new stock on sale through agents in February suggests a monthly rise in supply of 13.3 per cent...

It has been a busy week for investment in PropTech businesses and no doubt you have already got reading fatigue about...

The latest house price index from Halifax reports that annual house price growth dipped during February. The bank recorded annual house price...

With almost every pundit predicting house prices to moderate in 2017 - perhaps even fall - it comes as some surprise...

The average number of prospective buyers registered in each branch in January was 425, a 10 per cent rise from December...

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

A data portal called REalyse and aimed at professional property investors is launching today after raising £500,000 in seed capital.  The site...

The number of home buyers in London dropped to a four-year low in 2016 while the number of loans taken out...

The property website Home is warning that while prices may show an early spring uplift there’s a long-term slowing of the market underway...

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

If you work in lettings, I’ll already have a pretty good idea on how you feel about the current Conservative Government.  The...

The chronic shortage of housing supply in the UK relative to demand has been a national issue for decades. The Government...

Housing minister Gavin Barwell has told the NAEA conference that there is no quick fix for the country’s housing shortage -...

Lots of people buy new-build due to the perceived lack of hassle with maintenance, as they are built to the latest...

The East of England, which takes in areas from Hertfordshire to Norfolk, has recorded the biggest hike in property prices over...

There were an estimated 354,000 homemovers in 2016, a fall of 4% compared to the 367,000 recorded the previous year. Analysis by...

The housing market ended 2016 on a positive note, according to the latest report from the National Association of Estate Agents...

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

The seasonal slowdown in property supply was much sharper than usual in December, claims an online agency which monitors property listings...

The government’s blizzard of New Year announcements about new homes has received a distinctly frosty welcome from many within the property...

After years of surveys suggesting the UK’s new-build homes were getting smaller, and may even be the smallest in much of...

2017 is set to be the first year since 2008 that the UK constructs 200,000 new homes, suggests Redrow, one of...

No fewer than 84 per cent of homes sold for less than their asking prices last month - the highest number...

The Adam Smith Institute, a right-wing think-tank, has blasted the campaigning charity Shelter over its allegations of land-banking by house builders in...

Following a strong start to 2016, particularly in the lower to middle range of the UK housing market, that lasted up...

Next year is likely to be a challenging time for letting agents, following a raft of changes introduced by the government...

Just a couple of weeks ago, we waited with anticipation to see what the new Chancellor, Philip Hammond, would say in...

House prices will stall in 2017 and there won’t by any significant improvement in affordability for many hard-pressed buyers - but...

Housing data consultancy Hometrack says the disparity between average earnings and house prices is reaching record levels in certain parts of...

In case you missed it yesterday, here’s a summary of everything relating to property that was in Chancellor Phillip Hammond’s Autumn...

Phillip Hammond has delivered his first Autumn Statement, tackling amongst other things, what he called “the housing challenge.” The speech made no...

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

Forecasts are a tricky business. And as I wrote in a recent Industry Views opinion piece, any prediction in the current...

We are now only days away from one of the most-anticipated events in UK politics; one which has a considerable impact...

The long-awaited Redfern Review has recommended that improved access to mortgage finance and improved income levels for first time buyers are...

Labour’s long-awaited Redfern Review, set up a year ago after the party’s defeat in the general election, finally reports tomorrow. Although it...

There are now around 715,000 homes classed as ‘retirement housing’ which is equivalent to about 2.6 per cent of total housing stock. The...

As many northern cities struggled to recover from the 2008 global financial crisis, the north-south divide returned to plague the British...

The average number of house hunters registered at each branch of the National Association of Estate Agents rose to 333 from 287...

Auction rooms across the UK are filled with people looking to buy property, from bargain hunters to seasoned investors, ensuring that...

The huge consequences of the EU referendum, and the impending Brexit negotiations, have drawn into sharp light the consequences for a...

The latest Hometrack cities index suggests that London house prices in the last quarter recorded the lowest growth for 20 months...

Data just released from the Land Registry shows that the average price of a property in the UK is now £218,964...

Buy-to-let landlords may have failed in their recent legal battle against planned government tax relief changes for buy-to-let homes set to...

It is a tedious fact, but the housing market is underpinned by economic fundamentals. This won’t be a surprise.  However, at a...

A property website monitoring the housing market claims that the propertion of homes cutting their prices whilst on the market has...

An online agent monitoring the market claims there was a 10.4 per cent rise in new properties listed in September up,...

The pace of annual house price growth slowed to 5.3 per cent in September from 5.6 per cent in August according...

Fears raised over the UK housing market in the wake of the Brexit vote have so far proved to be ‘wide...

The Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority has confirmed that tighter regulations will apply to lenders providing mortgages for buy to...

Three quarters of properties sold by National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) member branches in August were for less than the...