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![UK agents earn lowest fees among largest property markets - research](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/MortgageCalculated.png)
UK estate agents receive the lowest sales commission across eight of the world’s biggest property markets, new research suggests. The analysis suggests...
13 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Major agency brand predicts 12% drop in home sales next year](/upload/images/library/HouseSold-400x310.jpg)
Hamptons is anticipating an 12% drop in property transactions across Great Britain next year as interest rate rises and the cost of...
02 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Gazundering returns as property market weakens – warning](/upload/images/library/HandsHouse-400x310.png)
Increasing numbers of buyers are gazundering or ‘price chipping’ on their offers to force property sellers and agents into last minute...
24 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Government must fix competitive disadvantage of leasehold reforms](/upload/images/Back-link-images/house%20and%20happer%20scale.jpg)
A parliamentary petition calling for ground rent charges to be extended to existing leases has reached the required number of signatures...
28 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents have nothing to fear from market slowdown - claim](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/House-Sky-Hands-400x310.jpg)
Agents have nothing to fear from a market slowdown, an industry executive claims. Nick Ball, head of sales and client services at...
27 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Buyers deterred from moving again as transaction times pass 150 days](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/HomeInHands-400x310.jpg)
Homebuyers are deterred from moving again and using the same estate agent due to the stress and increasing length of time...
26 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![First-time buyer asking prices and rents rise three times faster than pre-pandemic](/upload/images/Logos/RightmoveNewLogo2016-400x310.jpg)
Asking prices for typical first-time buyer homes and equivalent rents have risen three times faster compared with the pre-pandemic years, Rightmove...
25 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Property sales market slumps to slowest June for nine years - HMRC](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/PropertyChain-1-400x310.jpg)
House price indices may be reporting record rises but sales seem to be slowing. The latest HMRC property transactions data for June...
22 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Online agents ‘struggling to break into higher value markets’](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/london-property400x310.png)
The market share of hybrid and online agents has increased slightly but they are still struggling to break into the higher...
21 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents report property market 'returning to normal'](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/HousingMarket-400x310.jpg)
Agents have begun experience a ‘more traditional’ market with demand dropping and offers coming in slightly under asking price, research claims. The...
21 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Revealed! The regions where agents are achieving above asking price offers](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/PropertySold-400x310.jpg)
Agents are currently achieving 99.4% of the asking price on listings, research shows. The figure, calculated by agency comparison website GetAgent based...
21 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents urged to grasp ‘listings opportunities’ as UK values hit £10trillion](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/UKHouses2-400x310.png)
Agents have a “clear opportunity” to nudge high-value homeowners who are considering listing their properties for sale, Zoopla claims. It comes as...
20 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![OnTheMarket: SSTC listings in June surpassed stamp duty holiday rush](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/PropertySold-400x310.jpg)
More properties went under offer in June 2022 than during the same month of the stamp duty holiday rush of last year,...
18 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Sales collapsing as rising costs spook buyers and lenders - report](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/PropertyMarket-2-400x310.jpg)
The number of transactions progressing to completion is being hit by the cost of living crisis and rising interest rates, new...
15 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![RICS: Agents achieving above asking price sales despite cooling market](/upload/images/Logos/RICS-logo400x310.png)
New instructions and buyer demand have stumbled again but agents are still managing to sell existing stock above asking price, the...
14 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Sales falling through as mortgage underwriters toughen criteria - warning](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/UK-Houses-Row-2-400x310.jpg)
Almost a third of property sales that collapsed during the second quarter of this year were hit by lenders toughening their...
13 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Too late for agents and vendors to complete sales by Christmas - claim](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/PropertySold-400x310.jpg)
Auctioneers have a better chance than agents of getting homes sold by Christmas, an industry figure claims. Jeremy Prior, managing director of...
12 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Calls for agent support as social media post reveals conveyancing strains](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/HomeInHands-400x310.jpg)
Estate agents are being urged to be supportive after a LinkedIn post highlighted the current pressures that conveyancers are under to...
11 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rising interest rates must not mean rushed transactions -warning](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/HousingMarket-400x310.png)
Legal experts are warning that the rush to beat interest rate rises could lead to “ill conceived” and “rushed transactions.” The Bank...
05 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![House price growth returns to double digits 'but not for long'](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/HousingMarketStockImage-2-400x310.jpg)
Annual house price growth figures returned to double digits in April but there are warnings that this could be as good...
23 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Revealed: how digital innovation is transforming estate agency](/img/default/eat.png)
The growth of the internet and technology has transformed virtually every aspect of our lives, including how we approach the property...
05 June 2021
From: Features
![Fall throughs – the impact and the solutions revealed](/img/default/eat.png)
In the first of a series of articles, Emma Vigus, managing director of mio, the estate agent sales progression platform, explores the...