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In this thought leadership article, Videosign CEO Steven Tallant looks at electronic signatures and conveyancing and whether the time is nigh for the...

Remarkably, just 11 per cent of property sales fell through in the third quarter of this year as buyers raced to beat...

OnTheMarket figures for the first half of this year show stronger revenue and improved profits. Agency numbers have increased modestly since January...

The existence of online agencies means some consumers believe real life estate agents are unnecessary in a deal - but the rest of...

House prices rose by the most in almost 15 years in September ahead of the end of the stamp duty holiday.  The...

I recently took part in a webinar hosted by ICG (The Innovation Collaboration Group) – titled ‘New estate agency revenue streams...

An interesting demand has been made of Chancellor Rishi Sunak - to consider reforming stamp duty with thresholds revised to reflect...

The right technology can reassure agents that transactions will complete on time - vital to retaining business following the end of the...

A leading market commentator is warning that transactions and prices will fall without the stimulus of the stamp duty holiday. Karen Noye,...

Rightmove has estimated how many people benefitted from the holiday and the estimated total saving in England. It says some one million...

House prices rose by just 0.1 per cent in September - but they are still increasing by 10 per cent a...

A video interview claims to spill the beans on how sales progression can be accelerated by three to four weeks. Estate agent...

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

The stamp duty holiday which finally ends later this week might have a lasting legacy - encouraging more agents to use...

A leading agency says the new normal likely to establish itself in the housing market after the end of the stamp...

The first agency to give its market forecast for 2022 and beyond has suggested an upbeat performance next year.  Hamptons says the...

The recent stamp duty holiday and the subsequent conveyancing logjam this triggered has acted as a wakeup call for the industry....

In this guest editorial, experienced property solicitor Lorraine Richardson argues that reservation agreements - designed to reduce the number of fall-throughs in...

Our story yesterday on whether agents should continue to dress formally post-pandemic seemed to relight the fire on a long-time debate...

The government has been warned that its much-talked about levelling up agenda is ‘doomed to fail’ without major reform of the...

Industry-wide adoption of Unique Property Reference Numbers could be one step closer after an announcement by a major trade body. The Conveyancing...

Being able to show proof of funds in a quick, transparent and simple way is more crucial than ever to keep fall-throughs...

What estate agency is going to look like in the post-pandemic world, and what the role of the physical branch will...

Blockchain network Coadjute has announced new partnerships with software firms. Coadjute launched in July and claims it will halve the time it...

An agency claims that across the UK there have been very nearly 400,000 property transactions down valued in the last year...

It may be the final day of August but Propertymark has first out of the blocks with advice for agents to...

House sales slumped nearly two thirds last month as the main deadline for the stamp duty holiday passed.  HM Revenue and Customs...

The Guardian has sharply criticised Chancellor Rishi Sunak for introducing and then extending the stamp duty holiday - because helping estate...

An unexpected claim was made over the weekend - that the long-running stamp duty holiday was not, after all, behind the...

I’m sorry to break this to you but in 10 days’ time it will be autumn - and we will have...

A housing expert says the psychology of a population coping with the pandemic lies behind the house moving frenzy of recent...

Average house prices increased by 13.2 per cent over the year to June - the highest annual growth rate since November...

A bulk quick buy company has surveyed purchasers who have been deterred from continuing their transactions to discover what the biggest...

My neighbour had been seeking to move home for some time. Suggestions that he wanted to get away from his neighbours...

House prices in Wales - where the equivalent of the stamp duty holiday has fully ended - rose to a new...

The estate agents’ trade body has set out three ways conveyancers can further help the sales process. Propertymark has made the suggestions...

Following a month in which the number of property transactions was the highest since records began, it might seem a little...

HM Revenue & Customs is reported to be targeting recent home buyers after a slump in income from property taxes during...

A report claims the flurry of transactions over recent months has been down mostly to families moving into larger homes and...

Transaction volumes in prime London fell in July according to data from LonRes. Transactions were down 22 per cent compared with July...

House prices in July rose after falling in June, according to the Halifax. They were 0.4 per cent higher than in June,...

There’s already plenty of talk about autumn - depressing huh? - with agents pondering how the housing market will respond to...

Savills has reported a bounce back after the Covid-hit performance in 2020. The agency has substantial overseas and commercial property and consultancy...

The stamp duty holiday came and went with much fanfare. For many buyers it represented a rare opportunity to make some...

Annual house price growth remains above 10 per cent despite a small monthly dip in July according to the Nationwide. A 0.5...

An estate agency which at one time hoped to be operating nationwide this year has now revised its target. Hortons says it...

One of the leading housing market analysts says some of the extreme house price rises seen this year could unwind during...

The already-high fall-through rate for transactions is likely to be supercharged by the impending end of the tapered stamp duty holiday...

London’s super prime residential market has recorded its strongest half year in volume and value terms since the rush to beat...

There’s gathering momentum to do ‘something’ about the unfairness of council tax and stamp duty. This isn’t new in principle. Agents have...

Zoopla data has confirmed that buyer demand started to moderate in the months prior to the initial stamp duty holiday tapering...

Remember the early days of lockdown when there was a general panic? Perhaps the hot demand for toilet rolls was a sign...

Knight Frank’s network of residential sales offices in London had a record month in June as the end of the main...

HM Revenue & Customs has warned of what it calls the “negative impacts” of the pandemic on the latest property transactions...

A new online forum wants to unite estate agents and conveyancers, and ditch the traditional rivalry between the two professional disciplines. It’s...

OnTheMarket, which until now has lagged behind the leading two portals in terms of consumer-facing housing market information, has today launched...

Anyone working in residential property knows it is taking longer and longer to get from SSTC (sold subject to contract) to...

Coadjute, the long-awaited real-time network which uses Blockchain technology to sell a property, is launched today with its first property deal...

The Halifax is reporting a 0.5 per cent monthly drop in house prices, plus a fall in the annual rate from...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Jamie Cooke, Co-Founder and Managing Director of iamsold, part...

Several estate agencies have reported record months of business thanks to the rush of transactions ahead of the main stamp duty...

By any measure, the housing market has been unprecedently busy in recent months, fuelled not just by the stamp duty holiday...

Knight Frank claims that the number of UK property transactions in June is on track to be the highest on record.  Although...

A third of owners would consider moving more regularly if the stamp duty holiday on the first £500,000 of a purchase...

The leading reason for property sales falling through is gazumping, according to new research from Comparethemarket. Over the past year, nearly two-fifths of...

A new analysis claims Help To Buy has improved building volumes and has not been a drain on taxpayers. The scheme which...

The frenzy of activity in the housing market thanks to the stamp duty holiday shows the need for automated processes to...

The government has thrown its weight behind the concept of Unique Property Reference Numbers as a way of speeding up transactions. UPRNs...

London property is still a draw for the wealthiest in the world according to Knight Frank. Despite international travel restrictions, the number...

Over the last 15 months (basically since the ‘c’ word entered our daily vocabulary) agent websites has become more crucial than...

There may well have been times in recent weeks when any agent would have been forgiven for wanting a break -...

Around 18 months ago, just a few months before the pandemic hit, I did a Natter with the team at software...

Knight Frank says it will be September at the earliest before the current frenzy of housing market activity will stabilise. The agency’s...

Amro Partners, the Build to Rent and student accommodation operator, has launched a venture capital arm investing in PropTech and FinTech. Amro...

Right now it seems that another day means another house price record, an all-time high for transactions, and a conveyancing log-jam...

An industry supplier is urging agents to dust off old prospects to build their pipeline and keep the market boom going...

An app that promotes both on- and off-market homes to prospective buyers has linked up with a moving service PropTech platform.  Houso...

Over 500,000 homebuyers in England are set to benefit from the stamp duty holiday to the tune of £3.4 billion, according...

Despite the vast amount of publicity given to the concept of virtual viewing, a survey suggests relatively few properties on sale...

The Law Society has published new guidance for what it calls “under-pressure conveyancing solicitors” as the stamp duty deadline of June...

The editor of the legal publication the Law Gazette has taken an estate agent to task for daring to suggest that...

New data shows no let-up on the pressure on the conveyancing sector as the stamp duty holiday and the broader economic...

A new home buying platform being set up by a challenger portal has revealed details of its mortgage offer to users. OneDome...

Tech is a fantastic enabler but should never be a complete replacement for the human interactions that add real value to...

Banking has gone through radical changes in the past few years, in step with technology and the sheer amount we can...

An agency says two thirds of its sales valuations in London in the first quarter of the year have been conducted...

The number of transactions is scheduled to reach 1.52 million this year - way above the norm of between 1.0 and...

One of the country’s leading estate agents claims some solicitors are charging exorbitant fees on transactions as they near the latest...

The head of one of the UK’s largest conveyancing legal practices is warning the property market could “fall off a cliff...

With property fraud on the rise and an ever-increasing number of transactions taking place in the lettings sector, having strict anti-money laundering...

London agency Benham and Reeves says a new analysis it’s conducted of the capital’s property market since last summer shows a...

An online platform claims each agency branch in the UK has benefited from the stamp duty holiday by over £120,000. WiggyWam says...

The controversial demands of Trading Standards for more “material information” to be provided upfront in property details have been criticised by...

Over the next few years, the property sector is set to change for the better – all thanks to PropTech. While the...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Christopher Keen and Company Director  What is ‘company name’ and what...

Thousands of sales are at risk because slow searches by councils may prevent deals completing by the next stamp duty deadline. With just under...

A new home buying platform set up by a challenger portal will donate £100 to charity for every transaction it fails...

It’s not just housing transactions that signal a red-hot market - the mortgage landscape is at its strongest for some time...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Ben Ridgway, Group Managing Director at iamproperty. What is iamproperty...

Even before the pandemic, the estate agency sector was evolving considerably as a younger generation started buying, selling and letting homes,...

The current crisis has led to many of us to re-evaluate our lives to ensure that we put ourselves in the...

The Prime Central London pain throughout the pandemic can be seen by new figures just released by an investment consultancy, showing...

The UK affiliated agency of Warren Buffett’s global real estate company has acquired a historic independent company operating in prime central...

Propertymark is staging a webinar today tackling the challenging issue of conveyancing - just as the market is at its busiest...

The private treaty process has been in need of modernisation for a long time. When we open an account with a...

With property transactions taking longer than ever and many people operating at capacity, it is easy to overlook the progress made,...

The biggest news story in town this last week – which has brought people who don’t usually like or watch football...

I was not surprised when I came across an industry article recently citing that over half of home buyers never visit...

Propertymark has shortlisted five of the 700 or so PropTech suppliers in the UK, as part of the trade body’s REACH...

The land and new homes division of Sequence has signed a deal to offer fully-funded part exchange and home buying services...

The average UK house price has risen 8.6 per cent - that’s typically £20,000 - in the past year. This is the...

As the property market continues to boom, competition between portals such as Zoopla, Rightmove, OnTheMarket and Boomin has been hotting up...

Research by an estate agency comparison service has revealed which type of road address produces the highest average price.  GetAgent has analysed...

National Trading Standards wants agents, portals and industry groups to come up with ways to provide basic essential material information ‘upfront’.  The National...

Agents are being urged to push through their pipelines before the upcoming stamp duty deadlines. The plea comes from Simply Conveyancing, which...

The UK government has been told it should make the stamp duty cut permanent to encourage investment and make it easier...

Rightmove’s new Modern Method of Auction service launches on Monday.  The service - which Rightmove calls Online Conditional Auctions - will involve...

We’re officially transitioning to summer – marked by the clocks going forward and warmer weather – just as restrictions start to...

A survey of 5,000 agents suggests the slow house selling and buying process is one of the biggest challenges facing the...

The founder of Zoopla has returned to the property market with a new proposal to disrupt how agents buy and sell homes. Alex...

A leading agency claims the stamp duty holiday has actually had a minimal impact in the mainstream market, despite many suggestions...

One in three property sales in England and Wales fell through before completion in the first quarter of 2021. The 32 per...

Data from agency Knight Frank suggests the number of UK exchanges last month was the highest in 10 years - well above...

The property market has performed strongly in recent months  as the impact of the pandemic has encouraged more people to move...

The UK property market is always evolving but never as quickly as it is now. Traditional estate agents are seriously questioning...

We are just over one year on from the day our lives truly changed, when the UK went into its first...

Conveyancers should consider the provision of electric vehicle parking and charging in transactions according to a legal company. Law firm says that...

NAEA Propertymark says a record number of transactions are taking four months to move from offer to exchange. The organisation says this...

The Chancellor’s recent announcement that the stamp duty holiday would be extended for another three months was undoubtedly great news for...

Emoov’s new 'guaranteed offer' service means fall-thoughs and chain-related delays are effectively eliminated, the agency claims. Emoov - now owned by a firm...

Residential transactions totalled 147,050 last month according to HMRC - that’s 23 per cent higher than the previous month and an...

Zoopla has crunched the numbers for the continuing stamp duty holiday in England and Northern Ireland, calculating 500,000 buyers will have...

The Conservatives have promised that first time buyers would not pay tax when buying a home in Wales if the party wins...

Uncertain market means additional revenue streams are more important than ever The last year has been an uncertain period for many business...

Later this year, on October 22, the ESTAS 2021 will take place in London. The glittering ceremony will welcome property professionals...

The findings of the new ‘Thriving in a Pandemic’ report, recently published by tmgroup and mio, have highlighted that the market...

An industry group charged with trying to make house buying simpler and quicker says it’s made a breakthrough on ‘upfront’ information...

Agents have been warned they are likely to require PropTech assistance to cope with a surge in transactions expected this year. The...

Following the fluctuation of the property market during the UK’s first national lockdown, the industry was given a lifeline by the...

Last year saw a monumental shift in almost every aspect of our lives: not least the way we work, socialise and...

High end purchasers of homes in London paid 15 per cent of the stamp duty in 2020, yet the value of...

A PropTech firm says the public wants an easier way to buy and sell property.  A survey of 672 existing home owners...

The latest breakdown of the stamp duty holiday extension has given a first estimate of the total number of deals to...

The property sector is in the middle of a boom and demand is high. Last week’s announcement that the stamp duty...

Transactions and house price forecasts for the mainstream housing market are being revised upwards by Savills following the Budget. The new predictions follow an...

The latest house price index from the Halifax suggests the market has softened ahead of the original scheduled end of the stamp...

Varying decisions across the country means the dreaded stamp duty cliff-edge will hit the market at different times in different UK...

Rarely do Budgets produce positive sentiments from the agency industry but Chancellor Rishi Sunak appears to have won widespread support for...

The firm behind iamsold, the leading operator in the controversial Modern Method of Auction arena, is entering the private treaty sales...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak says the stamp duty holiday on properties up to £500,000 will be extended from March 31 to June 30; from...

The head of a PropTech platform wants financial penalties on conveyancers if transactions miss deadlines. “The only way to accelerate the current...

Mortgage approvals declined slightly in January as the market braces itself for the end of the stamp duty holiday - currently...

With one of the world’s most successful vaccine rollout programmes under way in the UK, the chances of a complete lockdown...

A radical way to end the current stamp duty holiday has been suggested by three different legal bodies. The Society of Licensed...

With just two days to go, it's fair to say the property industry is eagerly awaiting Chancellor Rishi Sunak's Budget statement...

A leading agent says the worst thing that could happen with Wednesday’s Budget is if the Chancellor does not deliver on...

Pre-pandemic, virtual and video viewings were a nice little add-on for some agents, but they were far from universally used and...

An open letter from Boomin chief executive Michael Bruce shows how fierce the competition is going to be in the portal field...

New research from Propertymark suggests a typical fall through costs an agent £4,123.  The association says that if the stamp duty holiday...

Much of the agency industry has reacted with delight at the extension of the stamp duty holiday deadline until June. Rightmove estimates...

A conveyancing trade publication wants those involved in residential transactions to be kind to each other - especially as the stamp duty...

Connells Group says it is the UK's largest estate agency group by market share - and that's before the Countrywide acquisition...

Transaction totals took a tumble last month for the first time since last summer as HMRC figures suggest the stamp duty...

Zoopla says it has so far delivered almost £80,000 in agent fees through its access to the Modern Method of Auction. MMA...

Conveyancing volumes rose 27 per cent in just one month as the sector attempts to cope with huge demand prompted by...

OneDome says it’s seen a surge in consumer activity in 2021, culminating in its two websites growing to a combined visitor...

Being a letting agent today means keeping up to date with the long list of rules and regulations governing how a...

We’re now well into the third national lockdown and as the nation’s thoughts start to focus on how and when we’ll...

The Law Society for England and Wales says it wants action now to prevent tens of thousands of  transactions collapsing at...

London still dominated the league table of locations with the highest volumes of sales by value in 2020, despite the apparent...

The Chancellor’s rumoured six week extension to the stamp duty holiday has been backed by Rightmove. Over last weekend the Daily Telegraph,...

A huge number of additional transactions completing in the next few weeks due to the stamp duty holiday provides estate agents...

A new forecast suggests 70,000 buyers will miss the March 31 stamp duty holiday deadline. Zoopla has undertaken a new analysis to...

The Chancellor is considering extending the stamp duty holiday for a short period according to a newspaper report this morning. The Daily...

You can always tell when Budget day is approaching. There’s lots of comment from every imaginable quarter about what the Chancellor of...

Agents should put as much emphasis on ensuring a house move actually happens as on winning the instruction to begin with,...

One of the chief figures behind Brexit and Boris Johnson’s role as London Mayor is now advising that stamp duty should be...

House price growth is running out of steam ahead of the stamp duty holiday cliff-edge. That’s the suggestion from the Halifax; its latest...

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

This time out, I’m in conversation with one of the big three established portals. Since it was founded in 2007, Zoopla...

Agents can win more instructions by using text messages to prospective sellers as part of a short term ‘nurture’ campaign, according...

New government figures show that stamp duty transactions in the final quarter of last year were 43 per cent higher than in...

We are now over four weeks in to our third national lockdown in the UK. Although the property market remains open,...

Estate agents have kept up the pressure on the Westminster government to consider some kind of tapered ending to the stamp...

Labour and Conservative MPs have expressed a unanimous view on their desire to see an extension of the stamp duty holiday...

Today’s the day when Parliament debates a possible extension to the stamp duty holiday beyond its March 31 cliff edge deadline...

Property portals remain an essential marketing tool for estate agents and their value is clearly appreciated by consumers. However, with a...

Technology has advanced in leaps and bounds in recent years, undoubtedly improving many parts of the moving process for both estate...

The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has changed the way we evaluate our lives and, looking more specifically at the property market, it...

Boomin has denied that it will ever allow direct property sales, cutting out estate agents. Founder Michael Bruce says the new service...

Properties are currently taking 29 per cent longer than average to sell once under offer, according to research by a home...

A large majority of estate agents fear a surge in 'failed sales’ as the stamp duty holiday cliff edge gets ever-closer. The latest National...

Zoopla's latest figures suggest 70,000 transactions are likely to miss the stamp duty holiday deadline of March 31.  And the portal says: “The...

A PropTech supplier says the conveyancing process is “antiquated” and buyers and sellers would be better served if they were ’shadowed’...

Well, what a start to 2021! None of us thought things would change as the clock struck midnight on New Year’s...

A leading analyst is questioning whether buyers have benefitted from the stamp duty holiday because demand has purshed up prices far...

The property market became somewhat fractious during 2020. After receiving a much-needed boost with the promise of stamp duty relief, things...

The government may be stopping MPs debating an extension to the stamp duty holiday - despite a pledge they would do...

An estate agent has shut both branches of his business for safety reasons and wants tighter Coronavirus restrictions on the industry.  ITV...

London buyers have been by far the biggest winners from the stamp duty holiday according to new research. The Keller Williams UK...

A PropTech company has won a grant for a project to improve ID verification in the buying and selling process, via...

The latest Rightmove analysis shows it now takes 126 days from the time an offer is accepted until legal completion -...

A PropTech firm claims its new interactive property reports are “the most comprehensive on any UK property” and reduce the need...

One of the housing market’s senior analysts says the end of the stamp duty holiday on March 31 would not be...

Hello and welcome to the end of a busy, busy week for agency news.  It’s easy to assume the agency business is...

A national newspaper is today launching a campaign for the stamp duty holiday to be extended. The Daily Telegraph says its campaign...

Countrywide and Foxtons have thrown their weight behind an idea to identify every single UK residential property with a unique number. The...

The average UK house price is now a record £253,374 according to the Halifax - but the rate of growth is...

Just a week ago, I thought it was all over. Christmas and New Year had gone, as had the passionate calls...

The UK outlet of Warren Buffett's estate agency empire is launching its first TV advert in this country.  Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Kay &...

There’s growing optimism that an extension to the stamp duty holiday - thought to be off the agenda just days ago...

London’s largest independent estate agency, Dexters, suggests that the stamp duty holiday ending in 12 weeks time will have relatively little...

A trade body has called on House Secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene over the growing problem of delays in councils providing...

Anthony Codling, the City analyst who made his name as a scourge of Purplebricks, says Brexit may be good news for the...

Following a turbulent 2020 in which the property market and the professionals working within it excelled in the face of unprecedented...

There’s been a shock one per cent increase in the Welsh equivalent of stamp duty on second homes, coming into effect...

Pressure is building on the government to agree a tapered end to the stamp duty holiday, even if a full-blown extension now...

Figures from Zoopla suggest there’s a Christmas present being unwrapped by agents across the country - a far busier housing market tha this...

Agents and property experts have reacted angrily to the government's refusal to extend the stamp duty holiday. The government has told campaigners that...

Fall throughs which could be avoided by Reservation Agreements have cost agency branches an average £10,000 per month. That’s the claim from digital...

NAEA Propertymark has written to the Scottish Government demanding it extend the current Land and Buildings Transaction Tax holiday - the...

It is the end of my column for another year, my 4th if I am not mistaken.  This year has seen a...

The Property Ombudsman says there have been more complaints lodged about agents so far in 2020 than in 2019. This is despite...

A cyber-attack on a London council has caused some transactions to fall through and others to be significantly delayed. The attack occurred...

If you fear the market will slow after Christmas, think again - Rightmove is expecting several months of frenzied transactions to...

Solicitors’ leaders say members of their industry are suffering mental health problems as a result of the workload to meet the...

A leading property consultancy is suggesting that a possible increase in Capital Gains Tax could end up losing money for the...

MPs lobbied by agents to extend the stamp duty holiday are staying firmly on the fence with standard answers and no...

A petition has been launched demanding a stamp duty holiday extension. The online petition is the idea of Jonathan Steel - a layperson...

As we approach the most unusual of festive periods, many property professionals will already be thinking about the January market and...

Delays with the return of property searches is one key factor for sales taking longer to complete. As conveyancers start to warn...

‘Many are in complete denial about the time it takes and still think it’s eight to 10 weeks.’ I won’t tell you...

Recent debate about urgent need for reform and better collaboration within the property industry, has once again come under the spotlight...

A digital resource hub for estate agents launches a new product today, claiming to shorten transaction times.  Sort Move, which has been...

It now takes an average 12 days longer to complete a sale in Britain compared to a year ago - but...

Countrywide has this morning rejected an £80m offer made for it by Connells Group. On November 23 Connells announced that its due...

Annual house price inflation is now running at 6.5 per cent according to the latest Nationwide index after a 0.9 per...

We are on the threshold in December with the pandemic still dominating but we’re delighted there is still positive jobs news...

Property sales take a seriously long time to complete. There are a number of reasons for this, although often delays are...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Vicky Quinn-Campbell – Sales and Marketing Director What is ‘company name’...

The housing market in England and Wales is stabilising, according to analysis of web traffic from a property advice site.  Valuation requests...

Online network love2move - which gives partner High Street agents an option to offer vendors an online sales service - is...

So, we’re back to where we were in the spring, more or less. England is in a national lockdown again to...

You probably don’t have to listen closely to hear estate agents across the country starting to cheer. It’s been a big...

The Guild of Property Professionals is urging the industry - all agents, not just its own members - to lobby MPs...

Two prominent suppliers have teamed up to offer customers instant visibility of chain lengths, details of agents connected to properties being...

A survey of completion times for house sales over the past four years suggests that the worst performing local authority area...

The mixture of the stamp duty holiday and generally fast-rising house prices has led to a resurgence of flipping. Data released this...

Searches that are bound by the Search Code, protecting the seller, buyer and lender, are property and not client specific. As...

The director of a conveyancing technology company has hit out at what he calls “an over-reliance on outdated processes” and “age-old...

Transactions appear to be edging higher than in 2019 for the first time this year - despite lockdowns and concerns caused...

One of the country’s top buying agents is advising purchasers and vendors to avoid online agencies and 'bucketshop' conveyancers. Edward Heaton - founder...

Estate agents can stand out from the crowd and help consumers through lockdown by providing a more secure sales process, a...

Just when you thought the housing market was beginning to calm down... along comes a likely vaccine for Coronavirus. One of the country’s...

A prominent PropTech supplier wants agents to hand over much more information to conveyancers to allow them to make faster progress on...

Asking prices are down for the first time in many months. It’s a small drop - an average of 0.5 per cent...

A law firm wants the government to agree that properties that have exchanged but not yet completed can definitely benefit from the...

One of the industry’s leading commentators says an unintended consequence of a possible Capital Gains Tax increase could be a bonus...

A PropTech platform that says it halves the time taken for transactions has just completed a multi-million pound investment round. Coadjute - which...

A relaunched home buying service says it wants to partner with agents to unlock sales if the housing market deteriorates. The service...

A leading firm of conveyancers will this week tell new clients that their property purchases are likely to miss the stamp...

A London property investment consultancy says 22 per cent of properties it’s advised overseas purchasers on this year have been bought sight-unseen. London...

The national lockdown beginning on Thursday makes the case for an extension to the stamp duty holiday, according to a tax...

We can all agree that the recovery of the property market since May has been outstanding. The latest data from Zoopla...

Figures just released from HM Revenue & Customs show just how much stamp duty buyers pay, at least before the current holiday...

Recent figures emanating from the mortgage and housing market suggest that – since lockdown was ended in mid-May – transaction levels...

The housing market boom looks set to continue for some months yet as mortgage approvals for home purchases hit their highest...

A trading statement from Foxtons this morning provides a rare piece of good news for the troubled London agency. It says business...

A conveyancing firm is blaming councils for delays in transactions. Conveyancers have themselves been sharply criticised in recent weeks as the sharp...

There are 140,000 more buyers waiting to complete on their properties right now than there were this time last year. The claim, by...

One of Britain’s most respected agents is suggesting Chancellor Rishi Sunak could ‘taper’ the stamp duty holiday to avoid a cliff-edge...

Staying on top of the numbers and figures in a constantly changing industry can be stressful. Changing property prices can be...

The outgoing chief executive of the National Association of Estate Agents is warning that the sales system continues to struggle with...

The Stamp Duty Land Tax holiday has been a hot topic of conversation for many in the residential property industry –...

The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the way every industry operates and the property sector is no exception. Following an enforced seven-week...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is taking credit for saving thousands of agency jobs through increased transactions prompted by the stamp duty holiday. A...

Savills says the shape and size of the housing market in the coming months will be determined by the capacity of conveyancers...

Integration, collaboration and connected platforms – some great buzzwords, but what do they actually mean and do they really help agents? One...

Boomin, the still-to-launch portal created by the founders of Purplebricks, has named another 10 founding member agencies. Like the initial 10 they...

I had a wry smile when I read the article on Monday from the conveyancers complaining about people getting off their...

The country producing the largest number of buyers of prime London properties is not China, nor from north America or the...

Conveyancers are sending a blunt message to estate agents: transactions will take longer than usual and don’t chase us with queries and...

When letting agents are preparing to migrate from one piece of client accounting software to another, it can sometimes seem like...

2020 has definitely been a year of change. With little warning, the pandemic disrupted the day-to-day operations of almost every industry...

The government has issued new guidance to estate and lettings agencies on their obligations regarding money laundering issues - and online...

A prominent housing market analyst is warning that in 14 years of studying prices and transactions he has never seen the...

With many transactions now delayed by up to three weeks by slow searches, a body representing local search providers is urging...

A platform which signs up vendors and allocates their sale to a high-performing local agent says it sells property two months...

A PropTech platform wants to find out agents’ views on a range of industry issues - and that includes whether they...

The latest review by the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team into referral fees places the outdated practice of...