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Some 36% of all homes which have had asking prices cut this year are now listed as sold subject to contract.  GetAgent...

Buyer demand has continued to climb during the first quarter (Q1) of the year, research suggests. Analysis by agency comparison website GetAgent...

Buyer demand shot up in February, helped by a surge in ‘realistically priced’ property supply, research suggests. Data from TwentyEA shows the...

Estate agents in Liverpool and Portsmouth have had the busiest start to the year, new analysis suggests. Self-employed agency brand eXp UK...

Buyer confidence remained flat – or consistent depending on your view of the property market in December – while seller sentiment...

Buyer demand across England crept up during the final months of 2023 but remains down annually, research has revealed. Analysis has revealed...

Hundreds of properties are having their asking prices cut each day, new analysis reveals as agents and sellers continue to try...

Simon Jackson is Managing Director of SDL Surveying If we look at the latest data, it looks like there is something of...

Fewer buyers are purchasing at auctions despite more sellers resorting to them. Quick buying firm House Buyer Bureau analysed auction stock that...

The usual post-summer uplift has failed to materialise for the property market, new figures suggest. Analysis by data company the Landmark Information...

The proportion of listings going under offer within 30 days has dropped from 53% last year to 37% in September 2023,...

Average asking prices have increased as usual between September and October but at the slowest rate since 2008, Rightmove has revealed. The...

Zoopla has added a new ‘Back to Market’ tag to listings that have fallen through. It will show listings that have had...

An index of prime London properties suggests buyers standing back as economic uncertainty reaches the upper levels of the market. The Prime...

Marketing expert Simon Leadbetter has recommended that Purplebricks absorb its owner’s brand to consolidate its market position.  Leadbetter, former group marketing director...

It’s a great time to be a homebuyer if purchasers can afford it, TwentyCi has claimed. It comes as the property data...

A new estate agency has benefited from a grant scheme run by multinational company Tata Steel. Lincolnshire estate agent Grahame Barratt-Needham has...

St. George in Bristol has been identified as the UK’s strongest sellers’ market. Analysis by Rightmove found eight in ten homes listed...

There is uncertainty in the market but it is still moving, TwentyCi claims. It comes as figures from the property data company...

Property supply is improving but fewer properties are going under offer, research suggests. Analysis of quarter two property market activity by data...

A park home specialist provider claims demand for that niche property increased significantly in the second quarter of this year. The Quickmove...

The most common time for a property sale to fall through is in the second week after the sale is agreed,...

Listings appear to be taking longer to sell but buyer and seller confidence remains, OnTheMarket (OTM) claims. The portal’s latest Property Sentiment...

Self-employed agency network eXp UK has been named as the fastest growing brand when it comes to new instructions and number...

There is a sense of “cautious optimism” in the market with sales agreed on the rise despite the number of overall...

Property supply has improved during the first quarter of 2023 following house price corrections and a settling of interest rates, according...

Agents are taking almost a month longer to sell homes than last year as the market adjusts to new pricing, seller...

The level of agency stock has almost doubled since last year but repricing is on the rise and sales are taking...

The South East of England continues to lead the way as TwentyCi revealed its latest statistics on property market activity. The property...

The number of properties listed as sold subject to contract (SSTC) has increased by 5% so far this year versus the...

Properties need to be listed for at least nine to 14 days to achieve their optimum selling price, new research claims. The...

The ‘race for space’ may not have been as significant a contest as first thought, new data suggests. Figures from property data...

The South East of England has been the dominant region across the board this month for instructions, sales agreed and exchanges...

The property market is still active for ‘realistic’ sellers and serious buyers, OnTheMarket (OTM’s) claims. Jason Tebb, chief executive of the portal,...

The level of new property listings and completions among agents were only slightly below 2019 activity during the fourth quarter but...

The pandemic-inspired property demand boom is well and truly over, GetAgent claims. It comes as the agent comparison website’s latest Hotspot Demand...

Agents are seeing more instructions as the year ends but fewer properties are selling, industry data shows. Figures from property data company...

Agents within The Guild of Property Professionals are the only grouping in the top five positions that has seen new instruction...

Confidence among sellers has dropped sharply amid a slowdown in the housing market, data suggests. OnTheMarket’s (OTM) latest Property Sentiment Index shows...

The estate agency sector is close to being hit by a fall-through per minute as an industry veteran warns that the...

The level of homes being snapped up within two weeks of being listed has fallen to 6.8% across the UK market...

A rush to secure low-rate mortgage offers helped properties sell faster last month, OnTheMarket (OTM) claims. Data from the portal shows 60%...

Agents should consider risk-scoring buyers and refocus on customer experience in the face of the more challenging housing market, a senior...

Property professionals heralded the end of the low interest era yesterday after the latest Bank of England base rate hike. The Bank...

Buyer demand is cooling but the property sector still remains in a sellers’ market for now, new analysis claims. The latest National...

Property demand has dropped while price reductions have increased in recent weeks, data shows. Two separate pieces of industry data give new...

Property sales are currently taking 15 weeks on average to complete, new research claims. Challenger portal and property platform OneDome has launched...

Agency stock has reached its highest level for 12 months, OnTheMarket claims. The portal’s latest Property Sentiment Index revealed that there has...

More than a third of England’s regions have seen buyer demand fall over the previous quarter, research claims in the latest...

More properties went under offer in June 2022 than during the same month of the stamp duty holiday rush of last year,...

The number of transactions progressing to completion is being hit by the cost of living crisis and rising interest rates, new...

Industry veteran Bryan Mansell has questioned why the property sector has allowed transaction times to slow to record levels. It comes as...

The ongoing debate about how to boost agent and conveyancer relations, and improve the homebuying system for all, continues to rage,...

More than 500,000 homes are currently sold subject to contract, creating a conveyancing logjam, Rightmove claims. Data from the portal suggests the...

There was an article in Estate Agent Today recently that suggested only four per cent of properties on Rightmove and Zoopla...

Adoption of virtual tours among estate agents remain low but new data suggests they could boost sales. Industry analysis shows just 4%...

Average asking prices have hit new highs but there are signs of the market easing, Rightmove claims. The portal’s latest listings data...

There are signs that properties are starting to take longer to sell. A lack of stock in recent months has meant agents...

In this guest piece, Colum Smith, a property expert at law firm Taylor Rose MW, sets out why speedier transactions could...

Properties are selling faster than ever either at or above asking price, Rightmove claims. It comes as the portal revealed that the...

Agency stock is shifting faster and buyers who hesitated last year are now finding it harder to afford similar priced properties,...

All regions of the UK remain in a seller’s market as the traditional spring selling season begins for agents. Housing market consultancy...

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has said it may consider complaints about ‘misleading SSTC listings’ on portals but suggests it may...

Trading Standards has advised agents to update listings once they reach the "sold subject to contract" (SSTC) stage. It comes after legal...

Agents will be able to grill Rightmove’s legal and compliance director David Cox this morning as part of the portal’s webinar...

Despite a backdrop of the Ukraine crisis, soaring fuel bills, rising interest rates and high inflation, buyer sentiment remains strong according...

Agents have 21 per cent fewer homes on their books now than a year ago according to a quick buy company. In...

A PropTech platform claims its “unique” features will help its subscribers get a 1,500 per cent return on investment by the...

OnTheMarket says buyer and seller confidence has not been adversely affected by the first base rate rise in more than three...

OnTheMarket chief executive Jason Tebb is warning that we might be near the top of the market. His portal’s latest sentiment index...

Rightmove has identified the UK’s strongest sellers’ market - and it’s in Easton, Bristol. Four of the top 10 sellers’ markets are...

Data out today from Rightmove shows the predictable seasonal effect of around 0.7 per cent knocked off the typical asking price. The...

Boomin has launched a new tool - Chainmaker - which it claims cuts fall throughs and introduces agents to ‘hot buyers’. The software...

OnTheMarket says it delivered a record number of instant valuation enquiries last month, beating its previous best period in June of...

Rightmove has revealed the strongest markets for sellers and buyers this autumn.  Grays in Essex has topped the list of the strongest...

Another market snapshot has identified low supply as the chief characteristic of the sales landscape this autumn. Landmark Information Group’s latest Property...

The latest market snapshot of prime London by estate agency Benham and Reeves shows demand up 5.8 per cent annually for...

Warwick Estates has revealed the most in-demand features for new-build buyers. The firm has analysed Rightmove data and found that those buying...

Parts of Britain are so short of homes for sale they have only half the number of listings to be expected...

A much higher than usual proportion of homes on sale in the current market have successfully found a buyer, according to...

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

There are over 700,000 homes marked Sold Subject to Contract and going through conveyancing right now, according to a new Rightmove...

An analysis of the average time taken for properties from 10 leading estate agency brands to complete shows a significant increase...

While lengthy lockdowns have caused many to re-evaluate their homes, the apartment lifestyle remains an ambition for many. That’s the view of...

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

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

An appeal has gone out to agents wanting to jump from being employees to running their own businesses - and there are...

A high-profile publicity campaign has culminated in the launch of a new CRM which calls itself as “a transformative new technology, empowering...

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

As the review of the recommendations of the Regulation of Property Agents Working Group continues, Emily Hawthorne, mio Account Manager and...

Property sellers are twice as likely to find a buyer for their property if the original asking price does not change,...

Independent agents are busier than they have ever been thanks to the post-lockdown surge but larger corporates are actually losing market...

There’s been a strong rebound in demand for homes and an “unprecedented” bounce in new sales agreed according to Zoopla. The portal...

The combined market share of agencies in the Guild of Property Professionals is now higher even than it was at the...

Bristol is the location outside London most searched for on Rightmove this year, by both buyers and renters. The average asking price...

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

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

The tech publication WIRED has conducted an in-depth analysis of Purplebricks’ reviews on the Trustpilot site and suggests the agency may...

Rightmove says the number of homes stuck in what it calls “the legal log jam” is at its highest for over...

A survey suggests there’s no firm correlation between a traditional agency’s opening hours and its performance in selling property - and...