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30 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Value of property stock currently on the market soars to £117 billion, finds research](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/HousingMarket-400x310.png)
There is a staggering £117 billion worth of property currently up for sale across the UK property market, according to new...
09 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Russians own substantial number of homes outside London too](/upload/images/library/London400x310.jpg)
A new analysis has revealed those areas of England and Wales with the largest numbers of Russian-owned homes. Credas Technologies analysed Land...
03 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Do interest rates matter? Number of mortgaged homes falls](/upload/images/library/MortgageDepositImage-400x310.jpg)
Only 6.8m homes in England now have mortgages, just 28 per cent of the overall market and about two per cent...
18 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Housing market’s Gold medal performance in ex-Olympic locations](/img/default/eat.png)
As the Tokyo Olympics draws to a close this weekend, the Nationwide Building Society has analysed long-term capital appreciation in locations regenerated...
05 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Stamp Duty cliff-edge means price renegotiations underway](/img/default/eat.png)
Price renegotiations are underway between buyers and sellers in danger of missing Wednesday’s stamp duty holiday deadline, says Knight Frank. The agency...
28 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity - the final fund-raising of 2020](/img/default/eat.png)
Here we are, on the brink of a festive season like never before, and approaching the end of 2020. Although a dreadful...
18 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Housing Secretary Jenrick may be sacked shortly, says newspaper](/img/default/eat.png)
Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick - currently at the centre of a planning controversy - could be sacked in a September Cabinet reshuffle. The...
22 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Second politician named in Jenrick ‘cash for favours’ controversy](/img/default/eat.png)
Housing minister Chris Pincher has now been named in media investigations into allegations concerning his political boss, Robert Jenrick, and the...
15 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Jenrick fails to show for key question as ‘cash for favours’ row grows](/img/default/eat.png)
Beleaguered Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick is under growing pressure to explain his part in a planning decision - now deemed illegal...
12 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Police ‘assess’ Housing Secretary’s planning row as PM steers clear](/img/default/eat.png)
The Metropolitan Police says it’s “assessing” the controversial surrounding the Housing Secretary, Robert Jenrick, and a planning decision over which he...
04 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Housing Secretary Jenrick in hot water again as he admits bias](/img/default/eat.png)
Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick - accused by some of breaking the lockdown some weeks ago - is now in more hot...
28 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Revealed: where Help To Buy made the biggest impact on the market](/img/default/eat.png)
[Estate Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise...
06 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Will the current political landscape encourage Generation Rent to vote?](/img/default/eat.png)
In recent years, governments and local councils have sought to change the private rented sector (PRS) to make it more appealing...
28 September 2019
From: Features
![Is stamp duty to blame for a 20% drop in transactions in some areas?](/img/default/eat.png)
An estate agent is linking a drop in transactions of as much as 20 per cent with the stamp duty increases...
19 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Third of London vendors slash asking prices pre-Brexit, says agency](/img/default/eat.png)
The London market has “plummeted” because almost a third of vendors have cut their asking prices in anticipation of Brexit. Using data...
27 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Stop indulging councils over rental licensing and local schemes](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s time, surely, for government to crackdown not just on rogue agents and landlords but on rogue councils that confuse the...
09 March 2019
From: Features
![Scrap the bureaucracy and let’s have simple rental regulation](/img/default/eat.png)
That the private rental sector has become the government’s whipping boy for housing problems - landlords in particular, letting agents almost...
14 July 2017
From: Features
![New homes: where is the supply being concentrated?](/img/default/eat.png)
Since the seventies, housing starts and completions across England and Wales have been on a downward trajectory. The long run average...
12 May 2017
From: Features
![Highest number of second homes is in London, not tourist areas](/img/default/eat.png)
The highest number of second homes in UK local authority areas exist not in the south west, the Lake District or...
12 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![More bad news for central London's landmark new developments](/img/default/eat.png)
Square foot prices at one of central London’s most controversial new developments - Nine Elms - are down eight per cent...
17 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![If your fees are justified, you shouldn't be afraid to publicise them](/img/default/eat.png)
The old and eternal debate over whether or not tenant fees should be banned continues to rumble on. It’s a major concern...
10 June 2016
From: Features
![Time to stick it up: Agents still not complying with transparency law](/img/default/eat.png)
Running a business is not easy, but sometimes it becomes harder because we are expected to modify our behaviour due to...