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The latest RICS Residential Property Survey found the UK's residential property sector brightened slightly in July.  Average mortgage rates lowered slightly during...

The UK sales and lettings markets are in a state of flux, but an upcoming webinar from Reapit, the leading technology...

Sentiment about sales volumes among surveyors and estate agents is at its most upbeat level for more than two years and...

Verona Frankish has hit back at critics who claim fixed-fee agents who charge upfront fees have no motivation to sell. Frankish, chief...

Prime London property sales are taking longer to go through once under offer, which is creating a vicious cycle of fall-throughs,...

Agency stock has hit a three-year high but sales expectations have dipped as hopes of an imminent interest rate cut fade,...

The number of sales agreed is on the rise and the Somerset town of Chard has become a new hotspot, Rightmove...

Average asking prices have increased at their highest rate for 10 months during March but the property market remains sensitive, Rightmove...

Estate agency stock has hit the highest level since February 2021, new figures from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)...

Homebuyer and seller activity has finally started to turn positive, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) suggests. The latest...

The Bank of England maintained interest rates at 5.25% yesterday, raising hope among agents that this would boost buyer confidence and...

Asking prices for newly listed homes dropped by the largest rate for November in five years, Rightmove has revealed. The portal’s latest...

Foxtons has regained its position as London’s number one agent in Guy Gittins’ first year as chief executive. Former Chestertons boss Gittins...

Property professionals remain negative about the prospects for the housing market over the coming months amid low buyer demand and fewer...

House prices fell for the sixth consecutive month in a row during September and dropped at the fastest rate since August...

The slower sales market has started hitting high-profile agency and property brands. Agency franchise brand Winkworth’s half year results yesterday showed network...

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

The latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors housing market snapshot shows the increasing damage being wrought by high interest rates. The RICS...

The level of sales agreed has fallen below its normal market trend for this time of year but the “right-priced” properties...

Property market activity has returned to levels last seen in the aftermath of last October’s mini Budget, data from the Royal...

A strong labour market, growing consumer confidence and an increasing acceptance of a higher mortgage rate environment will support the housing...

The prime London market appears to be lacking its usual spring buzz as buyers wait for prices to drop research suggests. Analysis...

High borrowing costs and an uncertain economic outlook remaining the main challenges for homebuyers, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)...

Sellers are becoming more realistic about pricing despite asking prices of typical first-time buyer properties hitting a new high, Rightmove claims. The...

The Property Franchise Group (TPFG) has described its sales business as ‘operationally challenging’ for last year despite posting a record financial...

Purplebricks was the top brand for new listings and sales agreed during March, new data shows. A new quarterly market report launched...

LSL Property Services’ share price dipped yesterday after posting an operating loss in its 2022 annual accounts. Its results showed a group...

The property market remains weak but there are long-term signs of stability, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) claims. The latest...

The number of home sales being agreed is now back to its pre-pandemic level for the first time since before the...

Property professionals have started the year in a relatively less despondent mood compared with the end of 2022 but the market...

The level of new listings coming to market is at its weakest since the end of the 2021 Stamp Duty holiday,...

Harding Green has welcomed its second franchisee. Benjamin Scrace, who joined the broker model estate agency Harding Green in July as a...

Buyer demand, new instructions and agreed sales all continued falling in November, according to a downbeat update from the Royal Institution...

LSL has warned of a slowdown in sales and a rise in fall-throughs at the agency as it issued a “cautious...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has warned of a further weakening of the property market as buyer caution increases. The...

Agency stock has hit the highest level so far this year but it seems to coincide with a decline in demand...

New research from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has highlighted further lost further momentum in the housing market during...

Market activity has shifted back from sales to lettings, Belvoir has reported. Half-year results from the agency franchise network show the “race...

Lettings has helped drive Foxtons revenue and profits for the first half of the year, a company update has revealed. The listed...

The housing market continues to defy expectations after the latest Land Registry figures show annual price growth in May hit its...

The limited amount of property stock continues to push up house prices despite cost of living concerns, surveyors claim. The latest RICS...

The supply shortage may be coming to an end. That is the view from the latest RICS Residential Market Survey. The research among...

There’s been yet another month of declining property listings according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors market snapshot. Those responding...

Mark Meyer, CEO, Meyers Estate Agents: “We’re on a mission to revolutionise the traditional concept of estate agency.   We don’t have...

The chief executive of Propertymark says the number of homes on sale has fallen to an average of just 21 per branch. “Figures from...

The average price of a house in the UK has hit £250,000 for the first time as the  market shows no...

One of the leading figures in trade body Propertymark wants stamp duty to be reformed, and claims that the success of...

A surprise statement from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says the stamp duty holiday, which goes on until the end...

The market slowdown continues with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors reporting that new buyer enquiries have reduced for the first...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak will extend the stamp duty holiday deadline until the end of June - a three month extension. The lead...

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

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

Revenues have slumped by 18 per cent at LSL Property Services, the corporate which boasts Your Move and Reeds Rains and...

The sales market is currently strong but the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has issued a warning about a slowdown next...

Another day, another house price record as the bull market continues. The latest Halifax index shows prices surging 7.6 per cent to...

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

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

A leading agent says the government’s new Coronavirus clampdown from Monday will push more home owners to sell. Caspar Harvard-Wills, a partner at...

A PropTech platform that claims to halve the time a transaction takes has received a huge cash injection from investors for...

The latest market snapshot by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors warns the current boom may not continue as government support measures...

A property developer has set up an estate agency that charges no commission to sellers but instead levies a non-refundable reservation...

There’s more confirmation this morning that the housing market is enjoying a short-term bounce - and that’s before the effect of...

The latest branch of Fine & Country says it intends to expand both its premises and its workforce by the end...

Rightmove has given a regional breakdown in where  buyer demand is strongest in the past two weeks. It’s perhaps no surprise that...

Data released this morning by Rightmove suggests that agents in England have agreed no fewer than 40,000 sales since the market...

The latest sentiment snapshot produced by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors confirms the trend that the market is still improving...

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

The impact of the Coronavirus crisis is going to reduce agents' revenue into the third quarter finishing in late September warns a leading...

The government has been called upon by one of the industry’s most respected bodies to announce a stamp duty holiday to...

Over the last two weeks we’ve seen the country come to a standstill and the property market effectively put on ice...

New sales agreed have already plummeted by 15 per cent and over the next three months there’s going to be a...

Countrywide’s share price has dived over 50 per cent during the course of the day, following news of LSL pulling out...

For several years the regular monthly RICS market snapshot has made depressing reading - now, for there second month in a...

Whisper it quietly but the housing market could be significantly stronger in 2020 than in recent years. Two key indicators in the...

After a year dogged by Brexit deadlock, political turmoil, and slow growth, estate agents’ confidence in the property market hit a...

The latest snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows that the UK housing market is still on hold, pending...

This morning’s new market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors confirms the worst - that the market is in...

The latest survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests that last month’s optimistic assessment of the housing market has...

An analysis of transactions agreed this spring suggests there will be a surge in prices which will ultimately be reflected later...

A quick-buy firm that buys homes at around 85 per cent of market value claims the industry is concealing how slow...

The latest RICS survey has one key message - 77 per cent of surveyors participating in the study say Brexit uncertainty...

Countrywide's report to shareholders this morning warns that the residential market is heading for a difficult 2019 which may hit the...

A trading statement this morning from beleaguered agency group Countrywide reveals that its revenue is down again - but it insists...

Another agency has teamed up with an auction company to allow it to offer vendors the choice of both in-room and...

In a surprise announcement, house prices picked up in July with the annual rate of growth rising from 1.8 per cent...

The London market continues to produce unexpected results with two high end agencies reporting contrasting fortunes.  Half year figures released by Chestertons...

Countrywide, the troubled estate agency group thought by some to be near collapse, has delayed issuing its interim figures which were...

The latest data from Rightmove indicates that the average national asking price has reached another all-time high of £308,075 following a...

The housing market has started 2018 as it ended 2017 according to the RICS, with new buyer enquiries, instructions and sales...

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

The fact is that most house hunters simply do not have the time, let alone the inclination, to trawl around properties...

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

The housing market remains mixed across different parts of the UK but London and the south east remain the weakest areas...

The latest market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows price growth dipping further, struggling transaction volumes and the...

Even some of the most successful professionals from other professions fail to grasp the most important point when it comes to...

A dispute between two agents over a claim that “95 per cent agreed sales proceed to completion” has been resolved informally...

Zoopla remains unbowed by its loss of 23 per cent of its UK agents and says it has new statistics proving...

Connells says the early 2015 business has picked up from the winter lull but “couldn’t match the beginning of last year”...

House sales and buyer enquiries flat lined in March, while the number of properties coming onto the market fell for the...