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Figures released this morning by data firm LonRes provide the latest evidence of a so-called Boris Bounce with the market improving...

In its latest State of the Property Nation report, which questions over 650 agents and 6,000 consumers, Zoopla says 55 per...

A new analysis from a financial services trade body shows that gross mortgage lending is expected to rise significantly in the...

Whisper it quietly but the housing market could be significantly stronger in 2020 than in recent years. Two key indicators in the...

Winkworth says it’s achieved a big jump in London sales market share despite “an uncertain and difficult year that was dominated...

Estate agents and others in the property industry have much more to do to deter money laundering. That’s the view of a security...

A survey of readers of Estate Agent Today suggest that the majority believe the Chancellor will fail to honour a pledge...

Yesterday (January 10 2020), the Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (5AMLD) became law. It forms part of ongoing international efforts to tackle...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Emily Hawthorne, mio Account Manager for the South West of...

After a year dogged by Brexit deadlock, political turmoil, and slow growth, estate agents’ confidence in the property market hit a...

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

A new year dawns - but will 2020 bring new change for the agency industry now that the market appears to...

The number of residential sales rose 1.9 per cent to 102,050  in November compared to the same month last year, the...

Prices in Prime Central London dipped again in November according to the property investment consultancy London Central Portfolio. Monthly average prices fell...

A website has slammed the idea that there is a surge of interest in buying homes on Boxing Day, describing the...

It’s one of the most crucial aspects of the homebuying and selling process but is too often bogged down by frustrating...

A law firm has spoken out about two possible problems in the government’s much-publicised idea of considering Reservation Agreements as a...

As part of its commitment to promoting and enforcing high standards, RICS has launched its Home Survey Standard, which will become...

House prices in England and Wales are set to fall over the next three months according to a price index produced...

Here’s the final part of our questioning of the three portals based on comments and queries from our readers - thanks...

The latest snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows that the UK housing market is still on hold, pending...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Emma Vigus, Managing Director of mio What is mio and what...

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

The Fifth Money Laundering Directive becomes law in the UK on January 10 2020, strengthening the responsibilities placed on private companies...

An online agency which is free to list for vendors says it wants prospective buyers to stay in the property they...

Another estate agency has provided evidence of the problems that continue to hurt the prime central London housing market. Strutt & Parker,...

The man who founded Zoopla is now a second hand car salesman - but with a digital difference. Alex Chesterman, who founded...

A new app is being launched which allows agents to gauge possible interest in a property before it is formally put...

The latest figures from investment consultancy London Central Portfolio suggests new build sales have plummeted in prime areas of the capital...

In just over two weeks, the UK population will head to the polls for the fourth general election since 2010. Of course,...

A PropTech company says the majority of transactions now involve chains and that the issue is becoming more problematic for agents...

The chief of an online auction service says the Conservatives’ controversial proposal for a three per cent stamp duty surcharge on...

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

Winkworth says the central London market has picked up from its lows of a year or more ago, but warns that...

Data from HM Revenue & Customs has revealed that residential property transactions have increased by 4.3 per cent year-on-year. In October 2019...

A PropTech firm has calculated the different delays that lead to transactions taking an average 120 days (and often much longer)...

There’s been a significant drop in the number of housing transactions dealt with by conveyancers in the first nine months of...

A new Home Survey Standard is being launched today in a bid to improve and speed up the house moving process. The...

A PropTech company that monitors search times for transactions says only just over two thirds of them are now completed in...

love2move, an online network which allows high street agents to offer a white-labelled hybrid service, has teamed up with the Mortgage...

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

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

Buyers and sellers changing their minds lie behind almost a third of fall-throughs - the single biggest reason why transactions collapse,...

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...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Milton Rodosthenous, Director of Equity and Capital & LetsBid Property.  What...

London Central Portfolio, the investment consultancy which  saw signs of an upturn in the prime market in the capital this autumn,...

Another estate agency has come out in favour of reservation agreements. High-end agency Chestertons says transactions currently fall through too frequently and the...

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

The number of prime residential housing transactions has increased rapidly in the past two decades and even in the past five...

It has been said time and time again that the uncertainty around Brexit is causing, well, uncertainty. As I write this, the...

There’s been an encouraging increase in property transaction volumes according to new figures from HM Revenue & Customs. The total number of...

One month on from introducing sales progression and communication tool, mio, to her branch in Chippenham (Wiltshire), Michelle Hallas, Residential Sales...

First details have emerged of the information vendors may have to provide up-front In future transactions if government house buying reforms...

A trade body has sharply criticised HM Land Registry for its slow progress on digitising local searches after a promising start...

Stories with good news about the prime central London market seem few and far between but the latest figures from B2B...

An equity release specialist says the scrapping of stamp duty for so-called last time buyers would lead to more downsizing, freeing...

The latest figures from Halifax show annual house price growth has dipped to a six-year low. Average property price growth in...

The property market in prime central London showed some impressive signs of recovery during the summer months, according to Knight Frank. The...

Case study: Connells reaping the time-saving benefits of new sales and communication tool Since adopting mio in September 2018, Josh Lally, Senior...

There’s no doubt that we live in politically charged times and every day appears to bring something new to the ‘party’. For...

A new estate agency, which claims to only hire property experts, has announced a new investment as well as the recruitment...

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

Although property transactions have, unsurprisingly, recently seen a decline which is almost certainly in part due to the ‘B-word’, this doesn’t...

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

The annual number of property transactions edged down slightly according to the figures released applying to August. However, buyers and sellers email...

Robert Anderson, Branch Manager at William H Brown in Leicester shares how sales progression and communication tool, mio, has created a...

Hello and welcome to your regular Monday PJT, the essential guide to who’s moving where in our industry. Everyone mentioned here got...

An estate agent is linking a drop in transactions of as much as 20 per cent with the stamp duty increases...

Earlier this year, the Regulation of Property Agents (RoPA) working group announced the initial details of plans for mandatory qualifications and...

A report by the influential Public Accounts committee of MPs has been highly sceptical of the effectiveness of Help To Buy. It...

Continuing political uncertainty over Brexit and now a significant chance of an autumn or winter General Election makes the case for...

The Guild of Property Professionals has welcomed government steps to provide buyers and sellers with greater transparency in transactions - and...

A free-to-list portal says it’s an ideal way to capture potential leads so as to augment agents’ client databases that have...

Fox and Sons goes digital and improves their sales progression with mio Lucy Luxton, Branch Manager at Fox and Sons, Tiverton (Devon)...

Professional client account solutions for modern letting agents Letting agents will need to come up with new ways to manage client money...

Knight Frank has expanded its residential London network with the addition of a new South Bank office. While many agencies have shut...

A housing market monitor that for some months has been pessimistic about London and the rest of the England and Wales...

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

Pressure continued to mount on the government to clearly address the issue of stamp duty as a leading business consultancy suggested...

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

A company operating the controversial Modern Method of Auction says it is trying to improve the sector’s image after a series...

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

Since first meeting the mio team at The Negotiator Awards back in November 2018 – and being presented with no less...

They will be the doctors, lawyers, teachers, thinkers, leaders and captains of industry of the not too distant future, but is...

The former Countrywide chief executive Grenville Turner says it is an option for online estate agency Yopa to go to an...

The international estate agency Engel & Volkers is closing its single prime central London office - despite past claims that sales...

Residential property transactions totalled 86,630 in July, representing a monthly drop of 8.5 per cent and an annual fall of 12.4...

One of the country’s leading estate agents is leading the calls on Chancellor Sajid Javid to sort out the government’s stamp...

A sales progression tool is urging property professionals and consumers alike to do more to speed up typical transaction times, and...

Average house prices in the UK increased by a mere 0.9 per cent in the year to June - the lowest...

Prime Central London’s average prices remain 20 per cent below their 2014 peak according to high end estate agency Strutt &...

Prime London subscription-based property platform LonRes has launched an off-market service for its subscribers. It says that as transactions across prime London...

A London council admits that it typically takes 50 working days for a search - which means a Local Land Charge...

Carl Hemming, Director from Ginger in Balsall Common explains how mio has quickly proven to be a cost-effective way to simplify...

House prices fell unexpectedly for the second month in a row in July according to the Halifax - but the mortgage...

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

Despite optimistic reports on prime London’s housing performance from some sources in recent weeks, figures from subscription service LonRes paint a...

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

Have you asked yourself why technology is so important in letting agency today? Just look around and you will know why. Almost...

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...

There may be signs that the gloomy housing market which has hit Prime Central London for some years may finally be...

Housing experts have expressed their concerns that speculation about a radical stamp duty reduction to be introduced by Boris Johnson’s government...

Matt Nicholson, Sales Progressor at Edwards & Co in Rhiwbina, Cardiff, explains how adopting sales progression and communication tool, mio, has...

Rightmove’s half year figures this morning continue to show strong growth in profits and revenue - but there are the first...

Some 115,000 house moves are delayed annually because of funds not being cleared on time or because sellers have not vacated...

Data from UK Finance, which represents most of the country’s lenders, shows that gross mortgage lending across the residential market in...

Transactions in the troubled prime London market have actually increased year on year according to Knight Frank’s latest market snapshot. The agency...

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...

London and South East England are to see house price falls this year and only “very modest” growth in 2020 -...

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

The industry press has given substantial space to recommendations from the Regulation of Property Agents, the government’s working party which has...

One of the country’s leading estate agents says shifting the burden of stamp duty away from the buyer - which is...

Improved communication and increased transparency throughout the buying process can manage vendors’ expectations, improve satisfaction scores and create long-term clients. That’s the...

There’s more bad news for online estate agencies this morning as a survey reveals that they have only a seven per cent...

The recent announcement of a clicktopurchase partnership demonstrates some much-needed progression from Rightmove. In doing so, however, it could be said it...

It’s now more than three years since the EU referendum result in June 2016, and we’re still no clearer on when...

Now could be the time to buy shares in Purplebricks and Foxtons if one stock market pundit turns out to be...

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 somewhere in the region of 1.2 million property sales transactions being completed each year, and 16,500 estate agents actively vying...

  Who are you and what does it say on your business card?             Becky Howes, mio Account Manager What...

The practices of competitive bidding and sealed bids have made a 'surprise return' to the Prime Central London (PCL) property market,...

Gazumping is alive and well in much of the country, despite the slowdown in the property market, according to new research...

Phil Spencer and his advice website IQ have endorsed the concept of legally binding reservation agreements and digital legal packs through...

The modern method of auction is proving to revolutionise the way properties are bought and sold across the UK.  By putting the...

New figures from the National Association of Estate Agents suggest that supply is at last creeping back up to seasonal norms...

London Central Portfolio, a respected property consultancy that has been pessimistic about the market in prime areas of the capital, says...

The number of residential property transactions in May was a thumping 11.3 per cent lower than the same month last year,...

Facebook is set to enter the cryptocurrency business with the big reveal of its formal plans scheduled for some point this...

Property developing is an incredibly diverse and exciting career choice, and something that many people aspire to do in the UK.  I...

It's becoming increasingly difficult to sell a property, especially in those regions undergoing a price correction. That’s the verdict from Home, a...

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

Knight Frank says Brexit-related uncertainty has curbed trading activity across all UK residential markets over the last 12 months - and...

A conveyancing body is calling on mortgage lenders to standardise their policies in respect of unexpired lease terms in order to...

Instant online valuation service The ValPal Network has revealed a conveyancing partner which it says will help agents boost referral fees.  The...

An analysis of transactions agreed this spring suggests there will be a surge in prices which will ultimately be reflected later...

A portal specialising in prime and super-prime London property has turned perceptions of the capital’s housing market on their head -...

The latest house price index shows very little happening in the market, with analysts expecting little significant movement until Brexit is...

It may well seem that the government is pre-occupied with one issue, and one issue alone. While preparations for Brexit take up a...

Traditional High Street estate agents have been given the thumbs up by sellers in a new survey of over 5,000 vendors...

Just 200 conveyancing firms control over 39 per cent of the market in England and Wales, wielding significant power over customers,...

New figures released to Estate Agent Today show that a net total of 284 agents’ offices closed down in 2018. This number -...

New data from respected property consultancy LonRes shows that prices in prime central London fell 9.7 per cent in the 12...

There’s been a mixed response to the government’s surprise announcement that it would make permanent the right of home owners to...

Homeowners will be able to extend properties more easily instead of moving home. In a surprise announcement this morning - less than...

In recent years click & collect has become a popular way for retailers, supermarkets and online shopping sites such as Amazon...

As we move closer to the halfway point of 2019, property market conditions for agents and their clients remain challenging. Brexit may...

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

A new sales progression tool that claims to have been hugely successful over an 18-month pilot is being rolled out across...

The number of residential property transactions across the UK fell very slightly last month according to new figures from HM Revenue...

Might the central London market gloom be broken by just a sliver of light? London Central Portfolio, an investment consultancy, has recently...

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

An online auction platform has launched a new instant property purchase feature as part of its expansion plans. Under The Hammer, a...

Two PropTech suppliers have this week announced new partnerships and products with the aim of helping estate agents.  Firstly, sales progression and...

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

Trading in OnTheMarket’s shares was subject to two so-called Price Monitoring Extensions - temporary freezing of transactions because of erratic movements. The...

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

There’s a silver lining to another set of stodgy housing market figures - at least one sector, for those buying their...

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

House prices in 20 UK cities analysed by Zoopla show an average 1.7 per cent increase over the 12 months to...

Residential property transactions rose 1.4 per cent in March, making them a healthy 6.8 per cent higher than in March 2018. Data...

It’s a new index but it tells an old story - how prime central London prices have dropped significantly since their...

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

By the time you read this article, I’ll be in Nigeria. My first ever visit to the continent of Africa. Sitting here...

As many as one transaction in three is now undertaken by a so-called Last Time Buyer - twice as many as...

The investment bank which on Friday put Purplebricks under the cosh has now given a boost to two High Street estate...

PropTech players behind a recent trial claim that use of Blockchain can cut a transaction time from a typical three months...

New figures from the Equity Release Council suggest more growth in this sector, alarming those agents who see this as a...

Knight Frank says the number of exchanges in Prime Central London in the year to the end of February slumped 14...

A mortgage firm claims that around a third of all those who have moved homes since 2016 have done so -...

Agents appear to be speaking with one voice in response to the latest house price index, saying that once Brexit is...

More than 800 property transactions fall through daily, which can have repercussions both practically and financially, as agents fail to get...

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

When it comes to major issues confronting housing, and in particular the direction that the government would like to take the...

There’s good news from the market - property transactions increased by 1.7 per cent between the start of this year and February,...

Thinking about the state of communication across residential property chains is enough to induce a severe migraine. We work in a world...

Zoopla says the number of its leads delivered to member agents in the period March 2018 to February 2019 was 36...

An industry provider of reservation agreements says its services can “entirely eliminate” fall throughs and reduce failed transactions “to almost zero.” PropTech...

I don’t believe it’s unfair to state that our government, indeed, the entire political establishment is in some turmoil at the...

Savills has this morning talked up its investment in onliner Yopa, which it claims is the sixth largest estate agency in...

An analysis of thousands of transactions shows that homes with ‘street’ in their address produce sale prices which are almost exactly...

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

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

The proliferation of big data is paving the way to improving our economy on almost every front as entrepreneurial digital companies...

Countrywide's report to shareholders this morning warns that the residential market is heading for a difficult 2019 which may hit the...

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

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...

Nobody likes change. It makes people feel threatened, undermines their confidence, and makes them worry about the future. But regardless of...

Another estate agency has closed one of its prime London offices as the capital’s most exclusive areas continue to be hit...

The UK’s two leading conveyancing groups have merged to form what they call a “powerhouse” to be called Simplify. My Home Move...

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

Latest figures show that the top 10 online estate agencies have once again failed to exceed five per cent market share,...

The first set of figures for the year from HMRC show that there were 0.8 per cent more residential property transactions...

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

The number of movers has declined by around 50 per cent since the halcyon days of 2006, before the global financial...

A 36 per cent collapse in sales between November and January has created an “unprecedented” five year low in the number...

Hello and welcome to this half-term week’s PJT, your regular Monday opportunity to catch up with the key personnel changes in...

Property consultancy JLL has launched a specialised Help to Buy team in response to what it calls “the increasing demand for...

One of the country’s leading conveyancing chiefs has given his support to reforms to the house buying process. But Rob Hailstone -...

New data from LonRes shows that prices of homes in three key prime areas of London tumbled 5.7 per cent last...

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

To a sales-focused agency, having a lettings department can sometimes feel like losing control of the business. Recent cases of property management...

Customer experience (CX) will largely determine the future of estate agency in the UK. This is now a key battleground for...

An annual study of transaction charges shows that house moving costs are now at a record average high of almost £10,000...

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

Kit Malthouse has been making headlines this week, but – in keeping with his tenure as Housing Minister so far -...

The head of a For Sale By Owner website claims that some agents are making “vast amounts” of up to £7,000...

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

With far-reaching reforms of conveyancing and other aspects of house buying high on the government’s agenda, a trade body has revealed...

A respected property investment consultancy is warning that the current premium put on the prices of new-build homes - around 15...

Alongside hundreds of agents and suppliers, I recently attended the Guild of Property Professionals’ annual conference. As ever, it was a great...

A review of the housing market at present, particularly when it comes to purchase transactions, might not necessarily feel overly positive.  The...

Politicians and officials are studying a ‘model’ two page reservation agreement drawn up by a law firm as a possible way...

There were 102,330 residential property transactions in December - that’s up 3.6 per cent on the same month last year on...

The industry has long been critical of reports claiming house price movements are in some way uniform across the country, but...

Chestertons says its profitability in 2018 doubled compared to the previous year, but appears to have relied heavily on lettings for...

The civil servant leading work to reform the house buying has revealed key areas of government thinking - with a ban on...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says the housing market outlook over the next three months is the worst for 20...

The government has moved to crack down on money laundering in the UK with a new campaign focusing on the accountancy,...

Savills’ residential business grew market share last year in the UK despite what it calls “challenging conditions.” In a trading statement to...

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

With the speed of property sales continuing to slow and no end to the sluggishness in sight, it’s time to take...

Purplebricks has revealed that it’s given its new global chief operating officer 700,000 shares - valued at around £165p each that...

A new analysis claims transaction numbers fell in 241 of 374 local authority areas of the UK last year. Analysis of Land...

A new portal called YourMoov and describing itself as “the UK’s first decentralised property listing database” is to launch shortly. In an...

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

Having built over 1900 websites for estate and lettings agents in the last 16 years, we know a thing or two...

It is something of an understatement to say that we are in challenging times. BREXIT is unresolved and we wait with...

Has the bell finally tolled for online agencies? Emoov’s collapse and an investor revolt over crowdfunding have left a large question...

The number of active conveyancing firms handling property transactions in England and Wales has fallen to an eight year low.  A market...

One of the country’s top buying agents says he expects 2019 to be a much better year than 2018 as Brexit...

When was the last time you looked at your business and really thought about what you could do to improve? Yesterday? Last...

The closure of Foxtons’ Park Lane office and five other branches in the capital are merely the start of things to come...

The chief executive of Haart, Paul Smith, is warning that a No Deal exit from the EU could leave Britain with...

Every cloud has a silver lining, and a high end prime central London estate agent appears to have found one from...

How will things be done in the future? There’s no knowing, of course, given the many variables at play, but it’s...

Conveyancing regularly adds unnecessary and costly delays to the home buying process and improvement could be far quicker than any efforts...

New research shows 35 per cent of deals fall through within three weeks of a seller receiving an offer and a...

Conveyancers’ use of data and technology to speed through sales is on the cusp of a ‘big bang’ moment according to...

Coutts Private Bank is the latest institution to express its concern over London’s housing market. The latest Courts London Prime Property Index...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? It just says “Agent” for, at the end of the...

We’re used to recent stories about transaction dips and price stagnation as Brexit uncertainty and stamp duty take their toll on...

The LonRes data consultancy that monitors transactions right across prime central London says Brexit is the single biggest factor impacting the...

New data from Barclays Mortgages suggests Britons are now likely to stay in their homes for almost 19 years between house...

Latest figures on the central London market from franchise giant Winkworth show that viewings dropped 20 per cent in the third...

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

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

It’s November so forecasts for next year are beginning to emerge from high-end agencies with research departments - and the first one...

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

Mortgage approvals fell again in September - this means that every month of 2018 so far has seen a drop against...

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

No, I haven’t lost the plot. Such a thing exists – and if you’re familiar with North London, there is a...

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

When Professor Andrew Baum’s PropTech 3.0 report was first published, a small event was held to celebrate the very first academic...

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

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

Increasingly cash-strapped traditional estate agencies should consider abandoning their High Street offices and work from serviced offices or similar lower-profile and...

Some conveyancers must publish some price and service information on their websites and in other media from December 6, according to...

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...

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

The old cliche about statistics may be cruel but the government has perhaps left itself open to its use after announcing...

EweMove is the country’s fifth largest online agency group based on transactions, and continues to make a profit according to its owner,...

Fresh data from a PropTech firm suggests that 'conveyancer absenteeism' is causing severe delays to property transactions. When You Move reports that...

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

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

Reapit has teamed up with a new tool called mio, which is promising “a smarter way to manage the home buying...

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

The number of property transactions in July fell 3.2 per cent on the same month last year according to seasonally adjusted...

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

House prices are rising at their slowest rate for nearly five years as London suffers its largest decline in prices since...

The investment bank Jefferies says Foxtons’ long-running share price slump is a reflection of Brexit uncertainty “until we find out what...

The chairman of LonRes says online estate agents have only a one per cent share of the market in prime central...

LonRes says transactions in prime locations in London dropped another six per cent when the second quarter of 2018 is compared...

The Swiss investment bank Credit Suisse has slashed its target share price for the company from 77p to only 17.2p.  The reason...

High-end agency and international property consultancy Savills has reported strong half-year figures for its UK business - but warns that Brexit...

The EY ITEM Club, regarded as one of the most influential groups of economists in the UK, says it’s still “dubious”...

The number of properties withdrawn from the market in the second quarter of this year was greater than the number of...

Outspoken property commentator and buying agent Henry Pryor has made a scathing attack on some of the main house price indices. In...

Making my way to our London office on a busy commuter train, my mind got busy thinking about the new do-it-yourself...

An analysis of HMRC stamp duty statistics for the second quarter of this year suggest that receipts are down 13.8 per...

A leading estate agent is warning that an interest rate increase today ould hurt the delicate balance of the housing market. The...

Prices and transaction volumes have both fallen again in Prime Central London according to the index produced by Central London Portfolio,...

The latest market snapshot released by the National Association of Estate Agents’ shows the challenges faced by the industry right now. The...

The price per square foot for homes in central London is currently £1,194 - that’s 16.9 per cent below its 2014...

A leading legal firm has given broad approval to proposals from the Law Commission aimed at improving the conveyancing process and...

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

The latest transaction figures from HM Revenue and Customs make depressing reading - a three per cent drop between May and...