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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...

We are currently engaged in consultations with our members to help to find a practical solution to the concern of the...

You will notice that there is a new author for this regular column for Estate Agent Today. Last month I was...

Only 24 hours after the Land registry released data showing a 20 per cent slump in housing transactions, new figures from...

Foxtons share price hit a new low yesterday, dropping to only 46p early in the afternoon: it eventually closed narrowly up...

A new market snapshot shows how there’s now a two-tier market with homes in London taking substantially longer to sell than...

House prices in London are projected to fall in the short-term, down by two per cent by the end of 2018...

A PropTech company boss says evidence given to MPs confirms the need to improve anti-money laundering processes through greater automation and...

The Money Laundering Regulations 2017 require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation...

A ‘disruptor’ tech company claims that large numbers of people are dissastisfied with the conveyancing element of house moves, with many...

One of the UK’s leading group of economic experts has repeated its warning that housing market is not going to see...

By now we’ve all seen news about the long-term decline in property sales and competition from online alternatives leading to ‘more...

The Money Laundering Regulations 2017 require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation...

So here’s the thing. It’s summer - not much going on, school holidays about to start, industry publications filling out space...

Total mortgage approvals by the main High Street banks increased three per cent in May over the same month last year...

Transactions across Greater London have plummeted - they were down 7.9 per cent over the past three months and a whopping...

The Money Laundering Regulations 2017 require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation...

Prime London’s transactions are now the preserve of so-called ‘needs-based buyers’ and not investors according to high-end agency Knight Frank -...

The housing market “is clearly currently struggling to gain traction” and any real upturn ”will remain elusive over the coming months”...

Purplebricks is expanding its US activities by entering the markets of Las Vegas, Nevada and Phoenix, in the state of Arizona. A...

Whisper it quietly, but it may be that some bosses of online agencies used traditional High Street companies to sell their...

The proportion of homes sold in London was lower than any other part of England and Wales last year according to...

A magazine which earlier this year claimed that two big corporates pressured customers to use their preferred mortgage brokers has now...

One of the country’s leading experts on the housing market says first time buyers are still hampered from purchasing homes despite...

A PropTech startup which claims to revolutionise the speed at which property transactions can be processed has officially launched this week. When...

Average property prices fell in all but one English region during March, according to the latest official UK House Price Index. Overall,...

Despite numerous reports of a 'stagnant market' and predictions of a 'housing bust', conveyancers have 'bounced back after a disappointing end...

The chief executive of Winkworth says the upcoming Brexit is creating uncertainty and causing buyers and investors to delay purchasing plans. Dominic Agace,...

It went largely unreported when news broke last week but now the suggestion that home owners should pay a surcharge if...

One in five sellers suffer a fall-through costing them an average £2,700 - but many lose £5,000 or more. These are the...

Another high end estate agency is reporting difficulties in the London market with Knight Frank saying prices are down in both...

Estate Agent Today understands several major national agencies and some smaller operators are involved in a project to understand why transaction...

As the world becomes ever more digital and people increasingly look to technology to provide convenient solutions to sometimes complex problems,...

New data from a private bank shows a five per cent rise in the number of £1m-plus homes sold in 2017.  The...

I have sold hundreds of lettings businesses over the last twenty-five years. Based on this experience, these are the mistakes that you...

Research from the Nationwide suggests that the share of cash transactions has declined over the past 18 months, at least partly...

Figures from the Treasury suggest that the annual revenue from stamp duty for the year to the end of March is...

LSL Property Services has issued a warning that market conditions are softer than expected so far in 2018 and that transaction...

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

Maplin, Toys R Us, Carpetright, Warren Evans – what do they have in common? All are well-known high street chains that...

The sun has finally returned to ours skies and you’re on the lookout for a little bit of summer reading. As...

An umbrella body representing search organisations says searches “are very rarely the cause of delays” in transactions. The Council of Property Search...

The assessment by an investment consultancy that Purplebricks sells some 76 per cent of the homes it lists may have made...

A central London buying agent says she was once offered a bribe by an estate agent to try to persuade a...

A proposal by HMRC to speed up HMRC Capital Gains Tax payments for residential property sales could create a “compliance nightmare.” The...

The Conveyancing Association has backed the government’s calls for extensive reform of the buying and selling process, announced at the weekend. The...

The number of house sales falling through pre-completion during the first quarter of 2018 reached its highest level for this time...

Agents and representatives from other property sectors have reacted enthusiastically to proposals to professionalise the industry. As we reported yesterday, the government...

A technology company says that despite government attempts to eradicate money laundering in property transactions, agents and other industry professionals have been left...

With reports continuing to focus on a slowing property market and an understanding that not enough properties are being marketed for...

Gross mortgage lending is set to reach its highest level since 2007 despite Brexit, says the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association. But its...

A US TV company is considering making a news programme about Russian involvement in property transactions in the UK and particularly London. The...

Three weeks has flown by (I missed an early deadline last week - apologies) and I find myself writing the next...

HM Revenue and Customs has won a key ruling concerning a tax avoidance scheme promoter which claimed to be able to...

The Haart agency group has given an upbeat picture of the housing market in its latest figures with instructions up 15...

House prices started 2018 with a modest 0.3 per cent drop across the UK as a whole, including 0.5 per cent...

A Manchester-based property investment firm is claiming to be the first company in Britain to record an online exchange of a...

Conveyancing services firm My Home Move has launched a portal which it claims gives users complete transparency checking their conveyancing progress.  eWay, which is...

The Ernst & Young ITEM Club - a group of economists highly regarded by politicians and some sectors of the property...

New research appears to show that Purplebricks, HouseSimple, Yopa and other prominent online agencies are most popular with vendors selling in...

In an exclusive and candid interview with Estate Agent Today, Countrywide chairman Peter Long has admitted that the company had been...

House prices in the UK have suffered their first quarterly fall in almost a year - but strong transaction totals suggest...

Coming into force on May 25, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - which replaces the Data Protection Act 1998 -...

Your buy-to-let investment is an extremely valuable asset and you need to know the income generated from it will be safely...

One of the country’s leading PropTech entrepreneurs has responded to recent criticism of online estate agencies and their allegedly-poor record of...

London estate agency chain Dexters is expanding its brand once again thanks to a new partnership with Stirling Ackroyd New Homes.  Dexters...

Coming into force on May 25, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - which replaces the Data Protection Act 1998 -...

A former president of the National Association of Estate Agents has attacked “irresponsible agents” for over-valuing asking prices in London in...

In the great swathe of housing market data which is delivered each month, conveyancers’ case volumes often get overlooked, however the...

The UK property sector has been a hotbed for financial crime in recent years, with many criminals seeing it as an...

An online agency says it knows exactly when a home should be marketed in order to sell in the optimum timeframe.  And...

Estate Agent Today can reveal that one of London’s best known agency chains has acquired one of the capital’s leading independent...

The well-respected buying agency Black Brick has revealed the scale of discounts it secures on prime properties being sold for different...

Agents have welcomed more data suggesting the 2018 market is enjoying a robust start. Last week Rightmove reported a record number of...

Coming into force on May 25, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - which replaces the Data Protection Act 1998 -...

Conveyancing volumes shrunk by 12 per cent last year, the first annual drop in workloads since 2011 - and the struggling...

“Are we there yet?” In the same way that these words can drive you to distraction (any parent who has endured the...

At the start of February, Nationwide suggested that the housing market was picking up. Last week, RICS reported on its continued...

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

Hello and welcome to Property Jobs Today; this is the latest of our weekly round-ups of key job moves within estate...

Between October and December 2017, some £822 million worth of UK residential property was sold at auction, according to the Essential...

A law firm says the problems with housing transactions lie not with issues like fall-throughs but with “people’s general lack of...

This year is going to be “challenging” for the housing market according to the influential Ernst & Young ITEM Club, a...

Whisper it quietly, but there seems to be change in the air when it comes to agents recommending lawyers based on...

Q. How did you get in to the property industry? My career in the property industry actually started out as a holiday...

Homes for sale in some parts of inner London are seeing price discounts of up to 10 per cent says Hometrack...

The government has given its support to Land Registry proposals to increase the digitalisation of its services, with changes coming into...

If you were under any misconceptions about how pivotal a role HM Land Registry is going to play in the future...

A partner at Carter Jonas says that the next 12 months could see stagnation in the market and as a result...

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

The number of transactions last year dropped to 1.22m - a minor 0.8 per cent drop on the year before and...

A set of figures produced by Haart suggests the market has had a difficult past 12 months - but the firm...

Japanese knotweed, the invasive plant brought over to Britain in the Victorian era, threatens millions of pounds worth of property transactions...

Connells Group’s estate agency business increased its market share of new instructions in 2017 by almost four per cent, despite a...

New research from the National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Letting Agents reveals that no fewer than...

  A new league table showing how long it takes homes to sell on average in different postcodes across England and Wales...

An overwhelming 86 per cent of RICS members questioned in a survey claim they have seen no increase in interest from...

A poll of over 2,500 first time buyers suggests that on average they pay £5,300 less than the asking price -...

The number of owners selling up and moving home is at its highest level since 2007 with one exception - London.  The...

December saw the fewest number of people put their homes on the market than in any month in 2017, according to...

The death has been announced of Jim Horsley, a former chairman of Yorkshire agency chain Dacre Son & Hartley - and...

Mystery surrounds a claim made by Prime Minister Theresa May that the stamp duty changes for first time buyers made in...

The Society of Licensed Conveyancers says it is worried that HM Land Registry’s decision to publish details of apparent errors in...

HM Land Registry says it’s consulting with the legal industry on a proposal to publish a league table of conveyancers who...

An online intermediary platform called OpenMoov has been set up which instructs agents on behalf of sellers and tenants - and...

What a year it’s been! Back in 2016 we had Brexit, a new prime minister, Donald Trump’s election, and so when...

The last of the leading agency analysts and business consultancies have now given their predictions for the UK housing market in...

House price growth will come to a halt next year as the number of transactions reduces, according to the RICS forecast...

HM Land Registry has revealed how major house price indices are compiled - showing the huge variation in transactions behind the headline figures. The critique,...

A conveyancers’ trade body has told the government that it wants the house buying process to be modernised by having estate...

Bitcoin has smashed into the headlines again recently with major news outlets describing the ever increasing worth of this wildly volatile...

Some 62 per cent of current home owners feel that moving house has become more difficult over the past 10 years...

The HM Land Registry has revealed more details of long-term plans to improve and speed up conveyancing processes in a five...

The first residential transaction has taken place under the so-called Conveyancer’s Code for Completion - a new procedure in which the...

LSL Property Services - which includes Your Move, Reeds Rains and other high street estate agencies - batted away any housing...

The London-focussed estate agency Cluttons says chains in central London are becoming increasingly fragile thanks to general uncertainty in the wider...

Countrywide chief executive Alison Platt says she welcomes the government’s scrapping of stamp duty for first time buyers purchasing homes under...

A housing market expert says agents should be more pro-active and explain to the public that contrary to popular belief, some...

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...

The London residential market is at last improving - but faces a make or break situation with next week’s Budget according...

Auction House says it sold more properties in October than during any other month in the company’s 10 year history. The firm...

A conveyancing body says it wants the government to allocate “a small fund” in next week’s Budget to promote research into...

Jackson-Stops predicts that average UK house prices will remain flat in 2018, with stamp duty, Brexit and political uncertainties taking their...

Your Move and Reeds Rains, both part of LSL Property Services, are the latest agencies to admit a slowdown in house...

A new EU crackdown on money laundering requires estate agency businesses to adopt a collaborative approach if they are to avoid...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has issued a downbeat snapshot of the current housing market with "subdued sales trends" across...

The government's call for evidence from agents and others in a bid to improve the house buying process has pushed some...

The owner of a penthouse flat in London says he is willing to accept the cryptocurrency Bitcoin - providing the buyer...

The spread and sophistication of financial crime in the UK in recent years has been unprecedented.  Figures from UK Finance show that...

Some 12 per cent of transactions in England and Wales so far this year have been subject to gazumping, being sold...

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

The first of the major estate agency research teams to offer a forecast for the 2018 market has kicked off the...

An influential consumer group has responded to the government’s commitment to reform the house buying process by advocating legally-binding reservation agreements...

The industry appears to be embracing this year’s Halloween celebrations like never before - tomorrow’s the big day but we’ve got...

Sajid Javid, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, has launched a consultation on proposals to reform the house buying...

An industry analyst says some agents may find it tough to survive in 2018 if they’re hit by a double whammy...

The Conveyancing Association says some of its members are piloting HIPs-style Digital Home Reports in a bid to reduce fall-throughs and...

With the Budget just over a month away, the steady stream of ‘leaks’ continues to grow as journalists and the industry...

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

Estate agency James Pendleton says the sales of flats across London have collapsed 47 per cent in only a year -...

Annual house price inflation is 1.3 per cent according to Your Move - even though prices dipped 0.1 per cent in...

The latest RICS market survey shows that buyer enquiries and transactions slipped back last month with expectations pointing to “a subdued...

Respected buying agency Black Brick says there is evidence that prices in prime central London may be stabilising and transactions volumes...

In his PropTech 3.0 report, Andrew Baum dedicated an entire section to blockchain; it was titled: ‘Blockchain is coming – get...

If the government slashed stamp duty for the country’s most expensive properties the entire housing market would benefit, an estate agency...

UK house price inflation is now running at a modest 2.0 per cent but London's housing market has recorded its worst...

There is growing concern that online agents who do not chase-up on behalf of clients are leading to delays and fall-throughs...