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A London council is considering a borough-wide ban on agents’ boards of all kinds. Labour-controlled Camden already has a ban for a...

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

The Property Ombudsman’s annual conference is to hear from the chair of the government’s ‘Property Agents Working Group’ - just days...

If former Chancellor George Osborne thought his 2014 stamp duty reform would produce more income for the government, it appears he...

When it comes to letting a property, it is important that landlords and renters have faith in their agent. The more...

Every day thousands of estate agency boards are erected across the UK. Even in the digital age the board remains one...

One of Britain’s foremost property consultancies has given a relatively upbeat prediction for the UK housing market over the next five...

A hybrid estate agency which uses freelance agents operating from a central hub is now expanding from London into the Home...

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

Hello and welcome to 2019. These are less predictions and more expectations - developments following on from what’s happened in the past...

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

Six directors have been banned from office after misleading over 300 people who bought new build homes in the north of...

A bid by online property platform TheHouseShop to raise £500,000 investment via crowdfunding appears to be flatlining. TheHouseShop - until 2015 known...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT - and while it may be just days to Christmas, there’s still plenty of...

When renting a property out, letting agents and landlords recognise that it is important to take a deposit from the tenant...

Maybe it’s the Brexit Blues but something is making the industry excel itself this year when it comes to celebrating Christmas....

Every other advert on the TV is featuring Santa Claus, snowmen or reindeer, the tinsel, trees and decorations are out in...

The Deposit Protection Service (The DPS) keeps deposit money safe for letting agents, landlords and renters during the course a tenancy....

A platform that allows individual private sellers and landlords to list their properties alongside those from professional agents says it’s not...

It’s Children In Need in just a few days’ time on Friday, November 16 - it’s one of the biggest fund-raising...

A first-time agent who has previously owned a retail franchise and some buy to let units, has bought the Century 21 franchise...

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

The head of a controversial property portal says agents can by-pass some GDPR marketing restrictions by using his service’s social network. Ben Davis,...

Savills has issued its forecast for the housing market for the next five years, and while it highlights some bright spots...

New figures from the Mortgage Advice Bureau give an insight into the changing demographics of home buyers and buy to let...

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

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

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

Figures from the mortgage lenders’ umbrella group, UK Finance, suggest the government desire to see more first time buyers and fewer...

We’re sorry to be starting the week with more evidence of the housing market in the doldrums, but Rightmove’s latest index...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an advertisement for a new development in London after complaints over claims about the yields...

Figures released by HMRC over the weekend show another huge rise in stamp duty going to the Treasury - and that’s...

Yieldit, an online agency that specialises in selling investment houses and apartments with tenants in situ, is claiming a strong quarter...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, your chance to catch up on the major moves in the agency industry over...

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

When Oakland A’s, a small-market team, stunned the baseball world 16 years ago by transforming itself into world-beaters on a shoestring-budget,...

There’s been another drop in mortgage arrears and possessions for owner occupiers - although an increase for some elements of the...

With all the recent change and upheaval in the rental sector it may be time to consider how letting agencies will...

Japanese Knotweed remains a major problem for a property sale - and that’s despite a recent study suggesting that the growth...

The Advertising Standards Authority has today issued a three-point guidance note for estate agents, including controversial interpretations of what constitutes a...

As any agent will know, the task of ordering, erecting and maintaining boards can be time- consuming and cumbersome. While ultimately working...

Auction House says the number of lots it sold in the first half of 2018 was some 3.8 per cent up...

Hello, and welcome to this week’s regular Monday summary of all the major jobs moves in our industry.  The industry is still...

Hello, and welcome to this week’s regular Monday summary of all the major jobs moves in our industry.  Despite summer and the...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Tom Cummuskey Sales & Marketing Manager … Fast approaching double...

The head of London’s largest estate agency brand has hit back at a council in the capital which wants enhanced powers...

A London council is seeking widespread powers to ban For Sale and To Let boards which it claims are seen by...

The For Sale board is one of the oldest marketing tools available to agents, but it is still considered one of...

Letting agents are being advised to think seriously about how they can recoup costs to help compensate for the introduction of...

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

Is there really any true value to an estate agent in our current climate? Will there be a role for traditional agents...

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...

In an era when we are never far away from our phones, tablets or laptops, buying and selling property is benefitting...

Well last week was interesting. The column about my decision to put the property on with a letting agent went viral.  This was...

A service that tracks different types of mortgage demand reveals that remortgaging is on the rise while borrowing for new purchases...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today, our weekly feature on who’s moving where throughout our industry. And it’s...

The housing market may have seen some depressing figures of late but there’s good news about mortgage arrears - they’re at...

New online auction house BidX1 says it has raised £2,087,000 from its second UK auction, posting a 70 per cent success...

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

Leading housing analyst Kate Faulkner says the current low transaction level is “a little scary” because with so few sellers, buyers...

In recent months, there’s been a notable move in the rental market towards deposit replacement products in place of traditional security...

Property purchases for buyers requiring mortgages reached 50,000 in February, the highest level for the month since 2007.  The data, from mortgage...

  More details have emerged of the government’s proposals to enhance estate agency regulation, regulate referral fees, offer guides for buyers and...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today, our regular Monday look at key moves inside our industry. Everyone mentioned here...

Floor plans are an essential marketing tool, which play an important part in helping an estate agent sell a home.  A floor...

At any given moment it’s difficult to say which issue dominates our marketplace, but I think it’s fair to acknowledge during...

So here’s another week’s great work being done by colleagues in our industry - and we’re very pleased to salute them. Everybody...

The switchback of house price indices and other data on the state of the market has taken a turn for the...

New analysis by Hometrack shows that large regional cities like Edinburgh, Birmingham and Manchester look set for a 20 per cent...

A 1.0 per cent interest rate rise would add £930 a year to the cost of servicing the average mortgage, according...

One of the industry’s largest sign makers has been spelling out its environmental credentials on the back of increased concern about...

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

Welcome to the latest Agents Do Charity - your opportunity to let the rest of the industry know exactly what great...

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

The printing industry is in the midst of a decline as digital products and services displace printed materials, which is why...

We seem to be getting more and more contact from agents and others in the industry who are doing great work...

Foxtons has this morning given details of a sharp fall in both profits and revenue, wirth sales significantly falling away and...

There was an excellent article, published last week, based around an interview with Chandra Dhandapani, CBRE’s chief digital and technology officer.  The...

The operators of a new website which earlier today claimed to have 500,000 property listings appear to have now removed the...

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

Another new year is nearly upon us and, once we’ve got the season of mince pies, mulled wine, pigs in blankets,...

It’s been a trend developing in the past few months - estate agents increasingly flirting with the idea of selling homes...

A former Hamptons International and Savills agent is the first to join a ‘freelance agency’ set up in prime central London. In...

As Augmented Reality (AR) and Microsoft’s Hololens showcase the finest in modern architecture, it’s time for me to think again about...

Estate Agent Today understands that a high-profile online estate agency in the UK has approached Facebook with a view to operating...

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...

Belvoir has revealed that it has won the backing of a minority shareholder in The Property Franchise Group to resume merger...

A new website which completely by-passes all kinds of estate agents and allows vendors to upload details of their own properties...

An estate agent branded as "thoroughly dishonest" following a Gumtree scam has been jailed for 20 months, suspended for two years....

A new portal has been launched aimed at marketing ex-council properties for sale or to let through agencies.  Ex-Council.com says it is...

Savills has given a pessimistic outlook for the mainstream housing market for the next five years.  It says average house prices across...

As ours attentions turn from pumpkins to bonfires, a final thank you from all of us at Estate Agent Today for...

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

A former estate agent has teamed up with two interiors experts to offer a home staging rental service to dress properties...

The fact is that most house hunters simply do not have the time, let alone the inclination, to trawl around properties...

Thanks so much for sending in more photographs of your branches as they prepare for Halloween. We have some here but want...

A breakdown of data from over 4,100 agents has revealed that it takes on average 201 days to move home, from...

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

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

A company launching later this month, set up by an ex-Chestertons agent, wants to employ over 20 freelance associates who can...

An online platform that allows the public to compare the services and fees of traditional estate agents in their areas has...

Agents’ Mutual’s flotation will definitely go ahead following a meeting of the High Court today, at which the appropriate processes behind...

Some good news is here for landlords and letting agents worried about the energy efficiency rating of their property – the...

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...

The Property Ombudsman has expelled a London lettings and estate agency for a year and is warning that the firm may...

An estate agency that has just launched in south Devon says it is giving its customers the advantages of a 24-hour...

Almost half of all property purchase valuations last month were conducted on behalf of first-time buyers according to Connells - well...

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

Are you protecting your data right? This may sound like the sort of direct warning you get from cold callers or...

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

Black Brick says its turnover in 2016 tripled to £3m with new business so far this year focussing increasingly on owner-occupier...

Humberts, a member of Agents’ Mutual, is today launching an online-only option and claims it can list online-only properties on OnTheMarket. Such...

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

As the mainstream mortgage market braces itself for yet another clampdown on buy-to-let lending, a growing number of property investors are...

That the private rental sector has become the government’s whipping boy for housing problems - landlords in particular, letting agents almost...

First time buyers have finances stretched beyond their means, buy to let is attracting fewer investors because of taxes, and affordability...

Former RICS residential chief Jeremy Leaf says he is not downcast by the latest Halifax house price index which shows prices...

Living next to inconsiderate neighbours can be a nightmare, but letting to bad tenants can prove costly, especially when issues, which...

One of the industry’s leading analysts says Countrywide’s figures for the first half of 2017 are likely to be tough -...

The Council of Mortgage Lenders’s buy to let forecast for 2017 and 2018 has been revised down from previous expectations at...

The managing director of lettings at Foxtons says Brexit and domestic political uncertainty have become ‘the new norm’ in the London...

The popularity of property auctions in the UK has increased enormously in recent years, supported by popular TV shows such as...

One of the biggest choices you can make in regards to the logistics of your estate agency can be picking a...

The Wallington branch of Andrews Property Group recently contacted a local resident – but not to book a valuation or organise...

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

Barclays Bank has given an optimistic view of the housing market over the next five years, with a prediction that across...

The banning of letting fees levied on tenants has dominated the industry headlines in recent months but this election campaign suggests...

Since we last spoke, the ESTAS – the biggest and best property awards ceremony in the UK – has been and...

Customers really dislike leaving voicemail messages. This may not be surprising, there may be many times when you have been faced...

The proportion of mortgage products available for investor buyers operating through limited companies has risen by over 50 per cent in...

Asking prices of homes coming to the market have now been rising for five consecutive months says Rightmove.  Asking prices rose 2.0...

The Liberal Democrats have set a building target of 300,000 new homes a year, have pledged to scrap housing association Right...

Given that around 95% of property searches now start online, it is more important than ever that an agent has an...

HMRC says there has been a five per cent drop on the number of transactions attracting stamp duty in the first...

Property transactions rose marginally in March this year, up 0.5 per cent on February’s total according to figures from HM Revenue...

The Financial Conduct Authority says it is to review lenders offering solely interest-only mortgages to home owners. In its business plan for...

There’s no sign yet that the snap General Election is distracting our industry from continuing its fine record of doing good...

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

Savills is warning that while low interest rates will probably keep house prices relatively static, transaction volumes are likely to remain...

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

A London council has issued 49 fines to estate and letting agents in the first two months of a crackdown that...

The average asking price rise for homes coming to the market in the last month has been a chunky 1.3 per...

Manchester-based sister firms Sequre Property Investment and Sequre International have extended their office space thanks rising demand for UK buy to...

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

Estate agents are angry that Chancellor Phillip Hammond made no attempt in his first Spring Budget to reform stamp duty -...

The rapid growth in popularity of buy-to-let in recent years, fuelled in part by the failings of the pensions industry, has...

Connells Group’s mortgage services wing has recorded a 10 per cent increase in the number of mortgages in 2016 and has generated...

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

Excuse the puntastic (or not) title, but as you’ve no doubt already deciphered I took a trip northwards a couple of...

The number of properties taken into possession last year declined by almost 25 per cent and has hit the lowest level in 35...

Fund-raising is vitally important to so many organisations as one of our agency contributors this week shows - but as other...

The government has set out 29 key points in its Housing White Paper.   Introducing it in the Commons this afternoon, Communities Secretery Sajid...

An analysis by Savills shows that so-called ‘additional homes’ - that is, those carrying a three per cent stamp duty surcharge...

Hybrid agency EweMove is rapidly expanding its network footprint this year and will be a “challenger brand” deliberately designed to be...

A controversial scheme in a London borough, limiting the size and duration of letting and estate agents’ boards on display, comes...

The south’s seaside resorts are stealing the headlines for all the wrong reasons and at the heart of the troublesome issue...

A number of local authorities are now serving £100 or £120 fixed penalty notices on estate agents who display For Sale...

The story of the week has been the first steps of a trade body to represent independent estate agents - as...

A new report from the NatWest Bank nips in the bud any speculation that rising inflation may end the current cheap...

Rightmove’s web traffic between Boxing Day and the end of last week is up five per cent on the same period...

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...

Peter Rollings, the well-known former managing director of Foxtons, has taken a stake in Viewber, the recently-launched outsourced viewing service.  Viewber allows...

If you provide a service, you expect to be paid for it. Sound fair? But with the forthcoming ban on tenant...

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

Data from HM Revenue & Customs shows that the sale of residential properties rose a marginal 0.8 per cent last month...

As the Christmas break begins to loom larger, there’s no let-up with pics from your offices - and those amazing Christmas...

New figures from the Council for Mortgage Lenders add weight to the argument that the housing market is gently slowing.  Home-owners borrowed £10.5...

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

They’re still coming thick and fast, so many thanks for sharing your office decorations with our readers. Remember, we’re also happy...

A housebuilder that has in the past profited from its concentration on high-end London schemes says demand for its units is...

Let me set out my stall from the beginning. Firstly with two buy to lets managed by an agency, I understand and...

It’s December - and as agents near the end of an exhausting and unpredictable year, there’s no excuse not to let...

Many thanks to the good people at Templeton Robinson and Miles & Barr, the latest agencies to let us know about...

A ban on For Sale and To Let boards in central areas of Bath has been extended - for no less...

It’s been a difficult week for agents, with a ban on some fees and gloomy market forecasts abounding, so it’s a...

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...

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...

What does it say on your business card? Rajeev Nayyar, Managing Director of Fixflo We’re here to talk about your new product,...

A business publication says figures from a PropTech peer-to-peer lending firm which markets its products through Zoopla show a 95 per cent...

Estate agents are already setting out their stalls ahead of Chancellor Phillip Hammond’s November 23 Autumn Statement with one simple message...

Agents don’t need reminding that Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today are invaluable sources of daily industry news - but...

The Conveyancing Association says new Chancellor Phillip Hammond should use next month’s Autumn Statement as the opportunity to reverse controversial buy...

Speculation was rife over the weekend that the government would today announce major changes to housing policy - possibly shifting the...

This week we have the Head Shepherd of EweMove, Glenn Ackroyd, in the hotseat. He’s been co-owner of EweMove Sales and Lettings,...

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

When marketing a property for sale, there are a number of attributes that buyers and sellers today expect ‘as standard’, but...

Housing minister Gavin Barwell has met campaigners to scrap anti-buy to let measures introduced by the Cameron government in the past...

Fergus and Judith Wilson, at one time considered to be Britain’s biggest private landlords, have sold off an estimated 400 of...

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

A firm called Proper Local has launched, insisting it is offering “a new model” for estate agency, somewhere between a traditional...

A campaign has been launched to make Bristol the colour capital of the UK by ensuring that more homes are painted...

The Daily Telegraph appears to have exposed the government’s much-vaunted Buy To Let ISA scheme - billed as helping first time...

Mystery surrounds the fate of Fresh Chilli, a north of England-based hybrid estate agency that launched with a fanfare last autumn,...

By Iain C. White, Agency Mentors One of the best pieces of advice I have been given over the years is to...

The typical price of property coming to the market in the last four weeks is 1.2 per cent lower than in...

An investment report from credit ratings agency Moody’s suggests it is concerned about the effects of Brexit on the housing market,...

If you want an indicator that the United Kingdom isn’t so united any more, have a look at Right To Buy. The...

The number of mortgages in arrears is now at its lowest level since records began more than 20 years ago.  Data from...

A leading estate agent in a town where the local council wants to dramatically extend a ban on For Sale and...

Foxtons is reviewing its programme of branch openings in London because of the slowdown in the capital's housing market. In figures released...

A ban on agents' For Sale and To Let boards is being widened out across a city six years after a...

London house prices rose by 251 and 209 per cent respectively during Thatcher’s and Blair’s time at Number 10 - but...

The high-profit property crowdfunding site Property Partner has laid off 13 of its employees - equivalent to around 29 per cent...

House prices in Scotland rose 0.9 per cent in May, taking the average value to £172,119 - still down on a...

The pace of property valuations conducted last month grew on both an annual basis and since the previous month, despite jitters...

An online petition to scrap Energy Performance Certificates has received only modest support so far. The petition has been put forward by eMoov...

CRM software provider Reapit, has teamed up with Agency Mentors to provide training programmes for agents.  Reapit says its agent customers who...

Hometrack is the latest property organisation to forecast that the referendum result will impact turnover far more than house prices in...

An estate agency has amended its website after being contacted by the Advertising Standards Authority following a complaint from a member...

The latest figures from the HMRC show the scale of sales market drop-off following the surge in purchases by buy to...

The Conservatives on the council in Brighton and Hove have called for a ban on estate agents’ boards to be extended...

With more house-hunters than ever now starting their search for a new home by typically looking online on one of the major...

Berkeley Group, which has given a trading report to the City, says reservations for its new homes are down 20 per...

The old and eternal debate over whether or not tenant fees should be banned continues to rumble on. It’s a major concern...

As we have just passed the 6 month half way point of 2016 we thought it would be a good idea...

Home loans activity has fallen to a 12 month low as market torpor sets in ahead of the EU referendum.  According to...

eMoov has announced that it has secured a loan of £500,000 to help it expand into lettings, international transactions and license...

There has been a 58 per cent rise in the past year for mortgages for house purchase purposes, according to the...

A modest 0.4 per cent rise in average asking prices over the past month conceals a nasty surprise for first time...

The Council of Mortgage Lenders says the number of repossessions in the first quarter of 2016 was 2,100 - the lowest...

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

Buy to let investors and second home owners were behind three in five property purchases made in prime London during the...

The National Association of Estate Agents says there is light at the end of the tunnel for first time buyers seemingly...

A digital marketing agency says it has identified ‘top key phrases’ used by would-be buyers when they begin their property searches...

By accident or design, the PR machine at OnTheMarket was beefed up last week.  Just as well. With the portal still reeling...

A consumer group which champions home owners claims twice as many members of the public support the stamp duty surcharge as...

Buy to let mortgage sales - one of the key indicators of buy to let property sales - fell drastically in...

A former head of Savills’ buying arm says well-heeled overseas buyers are unphased by the recently-increased stamp duty on high value...

Agents in a London borough have been warned that the local council now has new powers to fine the firms behind...

There has been a broad welcome for what would appear to be a government U-turn over the imposition of the stamp...

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

Connells Survey and Valuation says the total number of valuations conducted in March showed a 21 per cent increase over the...

House prices in the three months to March were 10.1 per cent higher than in the same quarter a year earlier...

The numbers of households purchasing their first home has grown by almost seven per cent annually, despite the surge in buy...

New proposals to curtail mortgage borrowing in the buy to let sector have been branded as “a classic case of slamming...

The National Association of Estate Agents has quantified what the industry has known for some weeks - there has been a...

The Property Franchise Group - including the brands Martin & Co, Whitegates, CJ Hole, Parkers and Ellis & Co - has...

A key Bank of England body has revealed its proposals for tougher borrowing standards to prevent buy to let lending overheating the wider...

Unlikely as it seems, the Treasury has tipped-off the 909 individuals and organisations that responded to formal consultation over the stamp...

There is widespread misunderstanding within agency concerning money laundering obligations.  The first thing to note is that contrary to popular belief the...

An estate agent is suing his former employer for £500,000 after he believes he was unfairly dismissed. Abdul Samad is taking legal...

When it comes to Budgets and Property, you have to hope that the old adage that ‘things happen in threes’ turns...

A prominent Conservative activist is calling for a strict clampdown on estate agents’ boards which she describes as “a form of...

If you’re considering using a telephone answering service, what are the types of questions you need to ask, before you commit...

There has been a surge of new crowdfunding platforms aimed at people who either cannot afford to purchase their own buy...

The Nationwide is warning that the busy start to 2016 in the housing market is driven at least partly by the...

Morgan Stanley says fears over a possible UK exit from the EU and other global economic uncertainty could lead to “a...

JLL says the stamp duty surcharge on buy to let properties and second homes has obliged it to downgrade its forecast...

An estate agent has spoken out about the threat of ‘abandoned sales’ if a completion bottleneck prevents purchases of properties going...

Agents have reacted cautiously to a surprisingly-high 2.5 per cent increase in house prices - in just one month - announced...

The chief executive of Countrywide says there’s “no change of course” after a 37 per cent slump in operating profits were...

Banks have approved the highest number of mortgages for almost two years as the rush to purchase buy to let properties...

The Chartered Institute of Taxation has called on government to introduce an exemption from the stamp duty surcharge for parents buying...

Haart says a shortage of conveyancers and lawyers is leading to delays in transactions, made worse by the high volume of...

Another online petition has been launched against one of Chancellor George Osborne’s fiscal measures seen as an attack on the private...

There has been a warm welcome given to figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders showing that lending to first time...

Countrywide is going to announce “in the very near future” that it is taking a stake in two tech start-up companies...

Don’t be shy - a production company making a new documentary series for Channel 4 is on the look out for...

There was a remarkable 52 per cent increase in valuations undertaken by Connells in January this year compared to the same...

Scotland’s Land & Building Transaction Tax - its more radical replacement for stamp duty which still applies throughout the rest of...

Increased competition amongst mortgage lenders and the rush to buy investment properties before the April 1 stamp duty surcharge deadline have...

A consumer group which supports the principle of a stamp duty surcharge on second homes and buy to let properties has...

There is less than a week to go before formal consultation ends on the introduction of the so-called stamp duty surcharge...

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...

Landlords trying to beat Chancellor George Osborne’s stamp duty surcharge deadline are behind the latest upbeat assessment of the housing market...

The UK’s largest estate agency group has upgraded its profits forecast to the City - just over 10 weeks after issuing...

One of the UK's largest property franchises has reported strong figures in an interim trading statement to the City - with group...

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...

My suspicion in my December Industry Views column that the Chancellor, George Osborne, holds certain types of property owners in contempt...

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...

There is just four weeks left for the official consultation period set by the government over its controversial proposal to levy...

There’s been plenty of forecasting in recent weeks - banks, consultancies and high-end estate agents have predicted house prices in the...

The government chose Christmas Bank Holiday Monday to launch its formal consultation on the ‘additional properties’ stamp duty surcharge, first announced...

It’s time to take a pause, to reflect and put into context—and what a year it has been for our industry...

What is the biggest change you’ve seen in the agency industry during your time at TPO?  For me, the biggest change has...

The Scottish finance minister John Swinney is to introduce a three per cent surcharge on the full purchase price above £40,000...

Newspapers and other journalists’ outlets are reporting that rooms in care homes are being offered to purchase as buy to let...

The traditional festive spirit of estate agency does not extend simply to decorating offices - it’s about doing good work, too. This...

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

Estate agency Keller Williams has set up a specialist team to help military personnel with mortgages and property investment.   "The needs of...

The Treasury has admitted that stamp duty ‘take’ is expected to soar from £11.2 billion this year to £17.8 billion in...

Once you go beyond the industry’s anger about the Chancellor’s three per cent stamp duty surcharge – and that’s an anger...