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Every year the media writes a lot about house price crashes, and often pose the question whether this is the year...

If a week is a long time in politics, then I’d say it’s a lifetime for anyone working in the property...

Homeowners are largely unconcerned about cooling house prices, research suggests. Instead, they are more concerned about having their own home than sitting...

The National Association of Property Buyers’ Jonathan Rolande gives his take on another manic week for the property market. Like many working in the...

The past seven days have seen a string of stories across the media relating to the property sector.  Reports have revealed how...

The latest Halifax House Price Index gave estate agents renewed optimism last week amid the ongoing market crash debate after the...

Mortgage rate hikes have already halved landlord profits according to latest research, and a base rate rise to 2.5% will see...

House prices in some regions of the UK could continue increasing, despite concerns over the economic downturn and forecasts of house...

In tougher times – as is the case now, post-Covid, post-Brexit, cost-of-living crisis, war in Ukraine, etc – reputation and consumer...

As I watched Liz Truss take to the stage at this week’s Conservative Party conference, my eyes were drawn to the sign behind her. “Getting Britain...

An estate agent has looked to loo roll to explain why he thinks house prices won’t crash but the pace of...

Property professionals and commentators have begun pondering an official definition of a house price crash. It comes amid forecasts that house prices...

Russell Quirk has gone from online estate agency founder to PR guru and property commentator, but has now added national talk show...

Right now, one topic seems to be dominating talk in the industry. Everywhere I go people tend to quiz me about...

In this week’s Natter, I carry out a Q&A with Lisa Knight, who has taken the impressive journey from barmaid to...

Peta Milne, founder of Instagram growth and PR service Monimo, and a content writer at Choices Estate Agents, recently sat down...

A property finance expert is telling buyers to sit on their hands and not commit to purchases - as he believes...

Purplebricks' share price tumbled a remarkable 34 per cent this morning when trading opened on the London Stock Exchange. The price crashed...

The proportion of sales that fell through at the worst point of this year was 52 per cent it’s been claimed. However...

New figures released this morning give weight to calls for the complete scrapping of stamp duty.  The dats shows there have been...

Major UK cities have seen average house price rises of 54 per cent in the past decade - an increase of...

Online agency platform Love2move insists that its current bid to attract investors will not be damaged by the adverse publicity surrounding...

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

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

A city’s housing market that suffered badly because of the collapse in North Sea oil prices is now likely to rebound...

Bank of England governor Mark Carney says a no-deal Brexit exit could lead to a 35 per cent house price crash. The...

Property has been changing hands for centuries, but when did estate agents as we know them today – with their branches,...

One of the world’s leading financial institutions, UBS, says any sustained economic recession triggered by Britain’s departure from the EU could lead...

Life is getting pretty frustrating for estate agents, and not just because getting houses onto the market is such an uphill...

A body called the UK Housing Market Observatory - consisting of economists at Lancaster University Management School - is giving a...