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With Brexit still unresolved, the domestic agenda has been pushed from the headlines by the seemingly overwhelming public and political discord...

There used to be a consolation for some estate agents at this time of year - while it was wintry and...

Properties worth a combined £8.1m have been surrendered to the National Crime Agency following a tax probe. The properties included 16 homes...

A sales and lettings agency in the Cotswolds has taken on a fleet of fully electric company cars. The Volkswagen eGolfs selected...

Agents have reacted angrily to General Election proposals by all three main political parties to hike stamp duty for foreign buyers. The...

Pressure is building on the Conservative party to honour its previous commitment to reform stamp duty for British buyers and sellers...

There was an increase in the number of first time buyers getting on the property ladder in September compared to the...

You don’t need to go far to find news about the UK lettings market. From the banning of tenant fees to...

The latest market snapshot of prime central London suggests that homes there are now 15.2 per cent cheaper than five years...

A stridently anti-Labour estate agent has launched a stinging attack on the Opposition’s policies and has issued a stark warning of...

Until now General Election pledges of stamp duty reforms were restricted to the Conservatives - but now a tax consultancy says...

The National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Letting Agents have issued their manifesto for next month’s General...

A survey undertaken for estate agency Jackson-Stops reveals that 55 per cent of people do not believe housing is a priority...

This week’s Natter is dedicated to three contrasting agencies doing things differently, from a recently established hybrid to a design-led, Insta-friendly...

A tax expert is urging owners of second homes, as well as property investors and existing landlords, to seek independent financial...

A former 10 Downing Street adviser says stamp duty on house sales should be scrapped or at least slashed in order...

Enhanced customer care strategies, relationship-building schemes, cost-cutting measures and new revenue streams can’t help the lettings industry if the fundamental underlying...

Knight Frank - which a year ago loudly announced a 14 per cent profits leap - has now reported an 11...

There has been a real wind of change in estate agency and over the last 18 months we have seen the...

There are fewer ‘accidental landlords’ - vendors who resort to letting out their homes because the sales market is difficult. That’s the...

Of all the UK properties for sale over the last year, 59% would have been exempt from any type of transaction...

We know that the tenant fee ban has cost letting agents dearly, with an estimated loss of £300 million paid to...

Purplebricks - which is at the centre of a string of controversies - has joined the growing campaign for stamp duty...

Stamp duty won’t take centre stage at the Conservative Party conference - that’ll be Brexit, quelle surprise. But if the government...

There's good news for the market in at least one sector - mortgages offered to first time buyers. Latest figures from the...

A blog for the British Property Federation has come up with three radically different proposals for stamp duty, providing food for...

Winkworth’s trading statement for the first half of 2019 show the company’s revenue and pre-tax profit both dipping slightly - but...

A business site says an agency’s administration has been extended as insolvency specialists try to find its former owner to claim...

I suspect that at some time we have all rented an Airbnb (I am sitting on the couch of one as...

A leading London estate agent has written to The Times dismissing MPs who have been squabbling over Brexit and a possible...

It’s been quite a week for news so you might have missed this story - there is yet another boost for...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Tony Strover. On my business card it says...

A well-respected agent who was president of the NAEA just five years ago has written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking...

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

Recently a number of politicians and charities have been calling for the introduction of rent controls or rent freezes in the...

The Liverpool Echo says housing minister Esther McVey, who was born in the city, is now ”reviled” there following comments about poor families. According...

A property company chief has been banned from being involved in any company for five years following a case involving over...

Advertising on Zoopla is a must-have for most sellers but for Susan Tate in Anglesey it meant she ended up in...

With the often negative portrayal of agents in the media and popular culture, you might ask yourself why anyone would want...

A new house price index that in June predicted big house price rises over the summer has now repeated its claim,...

A record £8.2 billion was paid in Capital Gains Tax in 2017/18 - over £1 billion more than the year before.  The...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been urged to go further with property tax reform and not just stop at reducing stamp...

A new analysis of stamp duty suggests that a cut of around a third in SDLT could produce a 40 per...

With Boris Johnson winning the Conservative leadership election and becoming Prime Minister, he has spent his first few days in office...

Connells Group has repeated its claim, made in recent months in the light of trading figures, that it is now the...

Seemingly-endless uncertainty over Brexit and now speculation over whether there will be an easing of stamp duty on transactions is making...

When an industry disruptor enters a marketplace the impact on existing operators can be significant. It has been seen most notably...

In a trading statement this morning, Countrywide says it has “a new covenant package with lenders provides the financial flexibility to...

Connells Group has this morning announced a profits dip for the first six months of the year.  Its pre-tax profits were £26.2m...

Countrywide is now “beyond salvation” according to former chief executive Harry Hill. The industry veteran, who also founded Rightmove, made the remark...

Those who bought and sold the same property in 2018 made an average of £30,150 - but the number who do...

We now have a new Leader of the Conservative Party and, rather more importantly, a new Prime Minister. That individual is Boris...

Foxtons’ sales slumped another 10 per cent and its total revenue dropped another 3.5 per cent according to figures released this...

Sometimes having prior knowledge of a stressful event can be more stressful than the event itself, just look at Brexit for...

One of the country’s most respected agents has advised the agency industry to treat Boris Johnson’s pledges with real caution. Black Brick buying...

Our own industry’s upheaval over recent years has been no less dramatic than the turmoil at Westminster. The political earthquake has seen...

There’s more ammunition today for those agents who argue that equity release stops people moving and thus cuts the number of...

Online estate agency Yopa is warning of price falls ahead in London and south east England - although price rises elsewhere...

Conservative Party leadership contender Boris Johnson has expressed an interest in switching the stamp duty burden from buyers to sellers. Until now Johnson’s comments on...

Shareholders at today’s annual general meeting of OnTheMarket will hear the latest conversion figures showing how many agents on free or...

A leading agent has suggested that some parts of the UK would face “a property exodus” if Boris Johnson’s proposals for...

Conservative leadership frontrunner Boris Johnson's plans to reverse stamp duty changes could help to kickstart the prime property market, according to...

Theresa May arrived in Downing Street some three years ago - but her premiership has not been a smooth ride. As she...

With this summer marking forty years since Margaret Thatcher came to power, her legacy continues to invoke both celebration and consternation...

The latest report commissioned by the Labour party to resolve the UK’s housing problems would crash the housing market rather than...

The number of cash buyers in London has recently plummeted by very nearly a fifth - and every other part of...

Britain lives in fundamentalist black-and-white times - all the more surprising when the country's most divisive point of contention sits on...

Recent figures from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) have revealed a rather worrying landscape for small business owners across the...

An analyst on shares website Motley Fool says Purplebricks is not only in surprisingly strong financial health, but is actually outperforming...

All the most successful startups of recent years – from Airbnb and Uber to Just Eat and Deliveroo – have melded...

Figures released from OnTheMarket this morning suggest that its conversion programme for agents shifting from free deals to paid membership is...

The National Audit Office says many users of Help To Buy would have been able to purchase a home anyway, without...

Countrywide is declining to comment on speculation that it is making 36 of its sales progression staff redundant. Estate Agent Today, which...

In recent years, estate and letting agents have been faced with a series of tough challenges to absorb and react to. There...

Rumours continue to circulate about possible large-scale branch closures at Countrywide; its share price ended trading today at its lowest ever...

While media attention has been on Theresa May, Brexit and the Tories, chatter in the agency industry has been about what...

An outspoken building society chief has taken the unusual step of calling for stamp duty to be replaced by capital gains...

One of the capital’s most outspoken estate agents at the upper end of the market has given eye-watering statistics to show...

So far in our contribution to the campaign to replace leasehold with commonhold we have outlined the stories of some of...

The UK property market can be seen by criminals as an effective vehicle to conceal the proceeds of economic crime. Criminally...

With the Tenant Fee Ban obliterating a key income stream, letting agents should be looking at ways they can increase the...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Jake Gready Managing Director NEXA Bristol What services do you provide? buying - selling...

The issue of ‘intergenerational fairness’ has been raised in recent weeks, some might say somewhat ironically by a House of Lords’...

A new and comprehensive analysis of the housing market shows a jaw-dropping collapse in stamp duty revenue going to the Treasury...

Countrywide has this morning revealed that group income is down yet again - it blames continuing Brexit-related problems. It says: “The ongoing...

Respected investment consultancy London Central Portfolio is warning that “sales go on falling and falling” across the capital, fuelled by Brexit...

New figures from HM Revenue and Customs suggest that stamp duty receipts have fallen by no less than £1 billion. The drop...

The leasehold scandal continues to generate plenty of column inches, with fresh stories emerging almost daily of people living in unsellable...

An ex-housing minister and ex-Brexit secretary says he wants to radically change taxes on buy to let capital appreciation to help...

It has been a long time coming, but the tenant fees ban, which forbids landlords and letting agents in England from...

HM Revenue & Customs is set to pocket £60m less from one of its property taxes than it forecast. An analysis of...

Hybrid estate agency has reported a modest pre-tax profit of some £400,000 as part of the 2018 results of its parent...

The leasehold scandal has received plenty of press coverage, with horror stories of people living in homes that are impossible to...

It’s a testing time for the property industry, amid Brexit fears, a slowing market and the looming tenant fees ban.  There’s no...

A new emission zone becomes effective in central London in 10 days time and could cost residents who use their car...

It’s being suggest that a recent tax tribunal verdict might just open the way to challenges to the three per cent...

Over the last few years, there have a number of changes to the stamp duty land tax (SDLT) regime, which have...

Estate agents have responded cynically to the small-fry property sector announcements made by Chancellor Phillip Hammond in yesterday’s spring statement mini-Budget. Overshadowed...

Estate agent anti-money laundering (AML) compliance is under scrutiny again following the publication of figures detailing the fines levied for AML...

The end of 2018 was a bit of a rocky time for online estate agents. Yet only a few years ago...

Competition for landlords will be fiercer than ever this year. Landlords are facing a raft of changes and will likely be...

OnTheMarket has stepped up its attack on Rightmove with a stridently-worded email to agents explaining how a drop in leads from...

HM Revenue & Customs has issued more details of its bid to encourage estate agents to combat money laundering in the...

Foxtons has ruled out further branch closures as it continues to struggle against what it calls “the continued weakness” of the...

Connells Group says investment in PropTech will be the way to safeguard its almost-600 High Street branches - and it’s repeated...

It’s been a theatrical week in Westminster with talk of defections and duplicity worthy of Shakespeare. Yet the estate agency world has...

After several days of gloomy market news, here's something more optimistic - there were 370,000 new first time buyer mortgages completed in...

A husband and wife pair of directors at a property valuation and surveying company have been ordered by the courts to...

The average prices of flats and maisonettes bucked the trend by falling very slightly in the year to December, according to...

He may not yet have had time to produce a Brexit plan but Boris Johnson has at least had a few...

Strutt & Parker says transaction levels in Prime Central London, already at a low ebb, plummeted a further nine per cent...

There was a huge 33 per cent collapse in transactions in central London in the final quarter of 2018 compared with...

High-end agency Savills says London’s super-rich are now buying and selling more actively than a year ago.  The agency says London’s so-called...

A statement this morning by franchise agency Winkworth says lettings and property management now accounts for 50 per cent of its turnover. The...

It’s safe to say that the majority of agents will be glad to see the end of the past two years....

As 2018 draws to a close, it is fair to say that stretched affordability and uncertainty over the Brexit negotiations has...

Developers have continued to sell thousands of new-build houses with leaseholds, despite a government pledge to ban the “unscrupulous” practice a...

Another year is nearly done – and what an eventful year it’s been. We’ve had more than our fair share of breaking...

The ‘new broom’ owners of Zoopla have revealed that Gary Bramall is to be the firm’s new chief marketing officer charged with...

Figures released by the government over the weekend show that 14,867 Help To Buy equity loans were taken out in the...

A high-end estate agency selling some of the country’s most expensive homes says the possible currency falls resulting from Brexit chaos...

The holiday home market may still be struggling in the wake of the three per cent additional homes stamp duty surcharge...

A no-deal Brexit The biggest impact of a no-deal Brexit in relation to housing is a potential fall in house prices -...

A leading buying agent says the first quarter of 2019 may be crucial in determining the future of the current stamp...

Given that online property portals, dominated by a handful of websites, are by far the most popular home search method, it...

The market is now over-supplied with homes to sell while at the same time demand is dipping and there are widespread...

A business rates tax break which benefits holiday home owners is to be reviewed by ministers, who have now launched a formal...

On the face of it, this year’s Budget was not what you could describe as ‘housing heavy’ in terms of the...

I am currently in the back of a taxi. The deadline for this piece is looming and I am desperate to...

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

Stamp duty relief for first time buyers of full-priced houses and apartments is to be extended to first time buyers of...

It’s Budget day and the government is once again on the receiving end of a blast from one of the country’s...

Perhaps it’s been our pre-occupation with Brexit, or on the other hand maybe we’re bored with politics, but this year’s Budget...

It’s now almost a month since the government introduced new rules on Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO), as part of its...

An open rental market, where neither landlord nor tenant is in a dominant position, enables rents to rise and fall, which...

It is a sobering thought that 40 years have slipped by since I first ran a tape measure across the inside...

One of London’s most prominent buying agencies says post-Brexit the interest in buying in the capital will return - whether there...

Transactions across England and Wales in September dropped 7.6 per cent year on year while Prime Central London now sees fewer than...

Few things anger the industry more than the effect of stamp duty and other costs on property transactions (well, maybe Purplebricks...

A leading London estate agency is reporting a surge in overseas buyers sealing deals ahead of the government’s new stamp duty...

A new estate agency has come up with a novel way of taking prospective purchasers around its patch - by using...

It’s time to sort the wheat from the chaff when it comes to overseas buyers of property. If you listen to Theresa...

I’ve spoken many times before of my desire to see government take property more seriously. For more than just lip service...

Savills is warning that heightened uncertainty around Brexit negotiations will delay recovery in the prime central London housing market for up...

Knight Frank appears to have shrugged off the problems hitting the high end of the housing market, reporting a 14 per...

“Do we really need another tax?” - that’s the question from a new buying agency, querying why the government wants to...

Several agents have asked me whether they should consider ditching their high street offices and move to an out of town...

The head of a leading Chinese property portal has taken the unusual step of commenting on a British tax policy -...

An accountancy trade body has revealed that last year it briefed MPs - including the Prime Minister and Housing Minister of...

Transactions in prime central London have dropped nine per cent in the year to the end of August according to Knight...

One of London’s highest profile and most outspoken estate agent chiefs has scolded ‘Maybot’ Theresa May on the day she is to...

Agents have continued to express their shock and opposition to the announcement by the government that it wants a stamp duty...

The government has used this week’s Conservative party conference to announce a new stamp duty tax of one per cent to three...

There’s more bad news for the long-troubled Prime Central London market. A new analysis shows that transaction volumes have plunged 11.6 per cent...

Emoov’s founder Russell Quirk has outlined how he would help Britain get out of its current housing crisis to a Labour...

Sales of holiday homes could be hit as a result of a new £560m tax proposal put forward by Labour.  Under the...

Landlords and letting agents might feel they’ve taken a bit of a battering from the government in recent years – and...

Tili does all the work to deliver a smooth home move for customers and income for agents. An innovative and easy to...

The estate agent behind the troubled high end Sanderson Young company is reported to be appearing in court this week as...

Any day now we’ll hear the date for the Autumn Budget: it may be delayed to wait for a Brexit deal...

Almost all buyers of new build houses who purchased a leasehold regret doing so, and the vast majority say they definitely wouldn't...

Over a fifth of pensioners say they would be encouraged to downsize if there was a stamp duty incentive - particularly...

A downbeat report from property investment specialist London Central Portfolio says “there are very few causes for optimism in the domestic...

There’s little doubt that downsizing is less of a factor in the housing market than it used to be - so...

Out and about recently, I got to thinking: how often do I actually have the call for cash anymore? Or, for...

Data from the buying agency Black Brick reveals just how big an impact has been made by the additional homes stamp...

Were it not for climate change, I would be very close to predicting that the summer is close to being over,...

Home ownership among the young has fallen across all income groups according to a large scale research project looking at adults...

The buy-to-let sector, which has been under sustained pressure for a number of years now thanks to tax changes designed to...

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

One of London’s leading estate agents says Brexit has had at worst a neutral effect on the housing market and may...

The former Chancellor George Osborne - architect of drastic stamp duty reform - has come out fighting to defend the tax...

Connells Group - which now says it’s the country’s largest estate agency by market share and numbers of homes sold -...

The parent company of Your Move, Reeds Rains and other agency brands has succeeded where Foxtons yesterday did not - in...

Labour says stamp duty receipts and other tax income from properties in the capital should go to the Mayor, Sadiq Kahn,...

Foxtons has suffered a massive 23 per cent drop in sales income and a nine per cent drop in overall company...

Press speculation suggests that Countrywide’s much-anticipated rights issue will this coming week aim to raise £125m - not just the £100m...

Does your company apply adequate customer due diligence measures when carrying out estate agency work?  Does it establish and maintain appropriate policies...

With the continued indecision surrounding Brexit and the final divorce settlement still months away, it seems property buyers are choosing to...

Councils across England will have new powers to charge dramatically more council tax on homes left empty for many years following...

Carter Jonas has doubled the footprint of its UK headquarters in prime central London. It’s added a further 6,760 square feet of...

One of the top PropTech analysts in the world, Mike DelPrete, says Purplebricks deserves more credit for its performance in the...

House prices in London are projected to fall in the short-term, down by two per cent by the end of 2018...

A property software guru says he wants PropTech firms to join with him in an ‘open platform’ which would allow smaller...

The battered prime central London market is now suffering from the UK’s wider political volatility, the lack of stability of the...

The stock market and at least one City analyst have shrugged their shoulders at the claim by Purplebricks that it is...

  Purplebricks says it enjoyed an 81 per cent growth in revenue in the UK the year to the end of April and...

The Money Laundering Regulations 2017 require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation...

Transactions across Greater London have plummeted - they were down 7.9 per cent over the past three months and a whopping...

High-end housebuilder Berkeley Homes says “macro and political uncertainty, including Brexit” is leading to some developers previously building in London to...

The Money editor of The Mirror newspaper has finally sold a home he first put on the market in late 2016...

Prime London’s transactions are now the preserve of so-called ‘needs-based buyers’ and not investors according to high-end agency Knight Frank -...

A survey of owner-occupiers, landlords, property investors and insolvency practitioners has revealed that Brexit is the single biggest concern when it...

Major online agencies appear to be unaffected by yesterday’s Supreme Court decision over workers' rights in the so-called 'gig economy'.  Yesterday’s case concerned...

A poll of housing market experts suggests London house prices are likely to fall this year as a result of Brexit...

One of the country’s leading experts on the housing market says first time buyers are still hampered from purchasing homes despite...

A new online platform claims agents can now offer people a chance to buy a property with, literally, just one click...

National estate agency Jackson-Stops claims that the 3% stamp duty surcharge on additional homes is still confusing buyers, despite being in...

100 years ago, 90% of the UK population rented a home. Today, that figure has flipped, and over two thirds are...

The introduction of the Land Transaction Tax (LTT) to replace stamp duty in Wales has had a significant impact on house...

A new report suggests Capital Gains Tax changes coming into effect next year are worrying a large majority of wealthy overseas...

It went largely unreported when news broke last week but now the suggestion that home owners should pay a surcharge if...

The rise and fall - and perhaps rise again - of Countrywide has been of enduring interest to the agency industry...

Recent void statistics have had me wondering how agents can juggle client and consumer demands in the face of the impending...

If you want to know whether buy to let, landlords and letting agents will be in the firing line for more...

Given the level of resource and energy being put behind upping the number of first-time buyers in the UK, you might...

Figures from the Treasury suggest that the annual revenue from stamp duty for the year to the end of March is...

Coutts bank has issued a starkly pessimistic snapshot of prime London’s housing landscape, reporting price falls, valuation mark-downs and slower sales...

Coming into force on May 25, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - which replaces the Data Protection Act 1998 -...

The announcement that MPs will set up a Select Committee to probe the scale of money laundering in the UK property...

A proposal by HMRC to speed up HMRC Capital Gains Tax payments for residential property sales could create a “compliance nightmare.” The...

The Property Franchise Group has this morning reported strong figures for 2017 with news that its hybrid brand EweMove traded profitably...

Foxtons says its long-term branch expansion programme is now “largely complete” and it is shifting its attention to using technology to...

Statistics published for the Annual Tax for Enveloped Dwellings show that the government appears to be succeeding in its  bid to...

Holiday home sales in one of the country’s most popular tourist destinations are holding up, despite stamp duty and the age...

House price growth in London has hit a seven year low according to Hometrack, with prices actually down across 42 per...

HM Revenue and Customs has won a key ruling concerning a tax avoidance scheme promoter which claimed to be able to...

Countrywide’s 132-page annual report, released today, has given details of the management and restructuring costs incurred by the company during its...

Jefferies - the City consultancy which has in the past worked with Countrywide - has cuts its forecasts for the troubled...

Your buy-to-let investment is an extremely valuable asset and you need to know the income generated from it will be safely...

Foxtons has reported its 2017 figures to shareholders and the City this morning and as expected they show sharp falls in...

Coming into force on May 25, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - which replaces the Data Protection Act 1998 -...

In the great swathe of housing market data which is delivered each month, conveyancers’ case volumes often get overlooked, however the...

The UK property sector has been a hotbed for financial crime in recent years, with many criminals seeing it as an...

A forecast suggests HM Revenue & Customs will rake in no less than £8.8 billion in Capital Gains Tax in 2018...

In its first release of performance figures under the ownership of BNP Paribas, the UK agency Strutt & Parker says it...

Scotland is considering giving first time buyers relief or exemption from Land and Buildings Transaction Tax - the replacement for stamp...

At the start of February, Nationwide suggested that the housing market was picking up. Last week, RICS reported on its continued...

City broker Jefferies is warning that Countrywide’s earnings as calculated through the EBITDA measure could drop to as little as £50m -...

Why I won’t buy Purplebricks shares and why if I had any, I’d sell fast… In its latest adverts, Purplebricks attempts to...

A range of factors - including fierce competition under the supplied housing market, rising property prices and political uncertainty – have...

Between October and December 2017, some £822 million worth of UK residential property was sold at auction, according to the Essential...

What do you need to know if you are considering selling your sales or lettings business?  Here’s ten top tips to think...

Estate agents have been hit with six- and seven-figure fines under new anti-money laundering and anti-tax evasion regulations according to the...

Last week’s news that the lettings fee ban is unlikely to materialise before next spring was perhaps to be expected. Ever since...

Franchise giant Winkworth has told its shareholders that its revenues for 2017 are likely to be less than five per cent...

Labour MP Chris Williamson, regarded as an ally of party leader Jeremy Corbyn, is suggesting that high-value homes in England should...

Well, I don’t know about you but after the holidays I've got an imprint just below my navel where my belt...

What a year it’s been! Back in 2016 we had Brexit, a new prime minister, Donald Trump’s election, and so when...

House price growth will come to a halt next year as the number of transactions reduces, according to the RICS forecast...

London-focussed high-end agency Chestertons has won the award as ‘Best Promotional Partnership – Small Employer’ at the 2017 National Payroll Giving Awards. The award is a...

The Welsh Government has revealed the bands and rates for its new Land Transaction Tax, which replaces stamp duty in the...

It’s traditional before Christmas to either review the year past or anticipate the one ahead - but I’m intrigued about what...

There’s been no let up with your generous sharing of your Christmas decorations - thanks for sending so many in. With under...

The London-focussed estate agency Cluttons says chains in central London are becoming increasingly fragile thanks to general uncertainty in the wider...

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...

Earlier this week, Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered the Autumn Budget with a strong focus on housing.  The decision to cut stamp duty...

Housing may have taken centre stage in the Budget but most of the industry appears to remain sceptical of whether the...

The housing industry has set out a list of demands in advance of the government’s hotly anticipated Autumn Budget on Wednesday.  Despite...

British politics is extraordinarily volatile right now and the ongoing battle between austerity and anti-austerity, Leave and Remain, and Conservative and...

Jackson-Stops predicts that average UK house prices will remain flat in 2018, with stamp duty, Brexit and political uncertainties taking their...

Nicky Morgan, a former Cabinet minister and now chair of the highly respected Commons' Treasury Select Committee, is the most senior...

Former National Association of Estate Agents president Simon Gerrard is renewing his campaign for the government to adopt two innovative reforms...

The largest mutual life pension and insurance company in the UK has added its voice to growing calls for stamp duty...

The owner of a penthouse flat in London says he is willing to accept the cryptocurrency Bitcoin - providing the buyer...

The head of a major Oxford estate and lettings agency has written an open letter to Chancellor Phillip Hammond urging him...

Central London’s housing market is showing a recovery from price falls which followed stamp duty changes in 2014 and 2016 according...

Stamp duty on property sales is gumming up the housing market, stopping people from moving to the jobs they need, and...

Another week, yet more consultations - the agency industry can’t complain about not being asked for its views recently. The latest were on...

Pressure is continuing to build on the government to reform stamp duty in next month’s Budget. Firstly a group of senior financial...

It has been revealed that the beleaguered government of Theresa May is to hold a summit at 10 Downing Street tomorrow...

Like many of Labour’s recent policy proposals, its call for rent controls leaves more questions than answers.  There has been widespread criticism...

The research director of an investment firm which has advised Purplebricks says the “odd detractor” who doesn’t sell their home does...

The Welsh Government has set out the new levels of stamp duty for the country from next year onwards - and...

A Conservative council in London says it is to be the first local authority in the UK to levy a voluntary...

If the government slashed stamp duty for the country’s most expensive properties the entire housing market would benefit, an estate agency...

Investment website The Motley Fool says comparisons between forecast and actual profits reported by Purplebricks suggest the company’s position isn’t -...

As those of us in the industry know, there is a fine balance to strike between disruptive technology – and the...

Having launched 13 years ago, PayProp, part of Humanstate Group, an international private technology services group, has grown into a leading...

One of the most thorough analyses of property portals ever undertaken shows that Rightmove is the world’s most profitable portal company...

What does your role involve? As team manager for the property team, I make sure PAs and clients are happy and...

Simon Gerrard, a past president of the National Association of Estate Agents, has called on the government to switch the burden...

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

I’ve been in France for the past few days and depending on your viewpoint, I made a spectacularly good or singularly...

Parliament is sitting again and the entire lettings industry is waiting with bated breath for more detail on the government’s proposal...

Hunters’ figures for the six months to the end of June show small rises in income and turnover but a substantial...

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...

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

When a tenant failed to pay any rent after the first month his tenancy last year, the landlord did not expect...

It’s not just the evenings drawing in that marks the approach of autumn - it’s also the return to work of...

Ten out of 14 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News say Brexit and economic uncertainty are likely to stall London’s housing market...

A think tank says the penalties now levied against second home owners - such as the stamp duty surcharge and phasing...

Not so long ago, new UK car sales were racing ahead, fuelled by confidence in the economic recovery, but car production...

Research from the Centre for Economics and Business Research has shown that the cost of the average rental deposit is expected...

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...

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

A Hampshire property investor who failed to declare Capital Gains Tax from the sale of properties evading £157,725, has been jailed...

The two main political parties have squared up to each other over the issue of increasing council tax on second homes...