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Happy New Year and welcome to what’s looking like a busy - perhaps even hectic - 2024! I thought it worth running...

Extra tax and rising costs drove agency acquisitions last year and more are expected in 2024. Agency broker Atomic Consultancy has said...

The factor most likely to influence the housing market next year is entirely outside the industry’s control: the General Election. Knight Frank...

As sure as night follows day, so our industry sets out a wish list of tax changes which it hopes the...

Winkworth is calling for the Government to take immediate action to fix the property market.  On the eve of the Tory party...

The hit to the economy from soaring mortgage rates will be equivalent to a 2p income tax hike, new analysis by...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt warned tough times were coming ahead of his Autumn Statement yesterday and agents were left with plenty to...

Propertmark is calling for a 12 month exemption on additional Stamp Duty rates to boost rental property supply. The issue will be...

Figures just released by HM Revenue & Customs show the Treasury enjoying a bumper year for stamp duty, with record receipts...

With the drastic changes enacted on the industry over the past two years thanks to the pandemic and political events such...

A leading accountant is warning of a possible stamp duty change affecting residential property this year. HMRC is currently consulting on a...

High-value properties were the top-performers in the country house market in 2021, according to an agency that majors in this sector.  In...

In the Autumn Budget on Wednesday 27 October, very few impending tax hikes were revealed by the Chancellor Rishi Sunak –...

As we move into the autumn of 2021, what the coming year has in store for estate agents is something we...

Lost in the noise of yesterday’s social care announcements, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has named October 27 as his next Budget Day...

In this week’s In Conversation Today, we have one of the most familiar names in agency on board for a Q&A....

The Stamp Duty holiday has been very beneficial for hundreds of thousands of buyers looking to take advantage of savings, even...

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

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

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

Tax experts suggest the widely expected reform of Capital Gains Tax is unlikely to be announced in tomorrow’s Budget - at...

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

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

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

Mortgage approvals - a key indicator of short-term activity in the housing market - beat expectations in June according to Bank...

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

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

A taxation institute is urging the government to delay Capital Gains Tax changes relating to housing transactions until the virus crisis...

This month saw the introduction of the final stages of the Section 24 tax changes, first introduced in April 2017. Whereas buy-to-let...

There are fears that the so-called Boris Bounce which saw a surge in activity after the General Election may be hitting...

Some buying agents have batted away the many signs of an improving housing market but one says the Boris Bounce is...

The scores are in….and it looks like house prices are going to rise gently in 2020 according to forecasts from almost...

Major UK cities have seen average house price rises of 54 per cent in the past decade - an increase of...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In this Natter we have an exclusive interview with David Cox, CEO of ARLA Propertymark and one of the best-known figures...

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

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

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

There is no doubt that 2016 managed to catch the world by surprise on more than one occassion.  But will 2017 be...

This is the final Estate Agent Today until Tuesday January 3 2017, so everyone at Angels Media sends all good wishes for...

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...

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

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

Although Brexit, portal juggling and portal wars have stolen property industry headlines in recent months, there's been one story almost constantly...

The almost non-stop series of tax changes affecting all aspects of the housing market in recent years looks set to continue...

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...

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

Annual house price growth in 20 UK cities dipped to 8.2% last month, according to the latest figures from Hometrack. The research...

The huge rush to acquire buy-to-let property in the first quarter of the year ahead of the stamp duty change deadline...

The morning after the EU referendum, and Westminster, Britain, Europe and the world were left in shock at the news that...

With a number of agent partner programmes available nationwide, estate agents can often increase business by offering sales by auction, especially...

Sales skills, and the ability to negotiate in particular, have always been a core ingredient for any estate agent – and...

A City investment consultancy says one leading private agency chain has slashed its fees to 0.5 per cent in order to...

There was a significant drop in interest in purchasing buy to let properties in March as the April 1 stamp duty surcharge...

Who are you? Chris Coates What does it say on your business card? Chris Coates As a small team we don’t have a hang up...

Prime Minister David Cameron has dismissed out of hand appeals and comments from Estate Agent Today readers to reconsider the recent...

In January readers of Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today were given the opportunity to give their views on proposed...

The housing market will slow in the next three years as affordability problems and buy to let taxes combine to offset...

Rightmove is reporting this morning that there has been a 6.6 per cent increase in the number ot homes with two...

Today is the last chance for Estate Agent Today readers to have their concerns about proposed stamp duty increases and recent...

Estate Agent Today readers are being given the rare opportunity to have their concerns about proposed stamp duty increases and recent...

The director of two major agencies says George Osborne’s stamp duty surcharge and stock at an “historically low level” will force...

Reports suggest foreign buyers may be losing interest in directly owning property in London and are in some cases increasingly attracted...

A new website has been launched to fight back against the attack George Osborne made in the Summer Budget on the...

Credit rating service Moody’s is warning that restrictions on mortgage interest relief for buy-to-let landlords will slow house price growth in...

Consider the scene. It is July 8th and new Chancellor, Ed Balls, stands at the Dispatch Box giving his first Budget...

This week the Chancellor, George Osborne, delivered the first Conservative Budget for almost 20 years. While Mr Osborne claimed that it marked...