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Increasing numbers of homebuyers are taking out bridging loans to prevent a chain from collapsing. The latest Bridging Trends industry report shows...

Financial crime within the property sector is on the rise and the stats are alarming. According to data from Apex Bridging,...

Compared with a decade ago, today's first-time buyers are older, more likely to buy with a partner and more likely to...

UK property professionals should look to Norway when assessing how to improve the home buying process, a housing minister has claimed. Speaking...

Compared with a decade ago, today's first-time buyers are older, more likely to buy with a partner and more likely to...

In simple terms, as you are probably aware, ‘lenders’ are the organisations who loan you something, in this case money to...

As an estate agent, you know that securing the sale is just step one of a successful journey. But with issues...

What’s the difference between Centralised Ledger Technology and Decentralised Ledger Technology? Repeat after me; centralised and decentralised ledgers and Distributed Ledger Technology...

The path from agent to developer is not easy, but it is a relatively straightforward one, if you are willing to...

Results of a study of 2,000 adults suggest that almost one in five of them want to buy or invest in...

There are plenty in the estate agency and lettings world who don’t like the concept of Airbnb and similar enterprises. But they...

Purplebricks recently launched a meditation service to help buyers and sellers manage stress. You might disagree with the idea, but moving...

The scale of the problems facing many prospective buyers has been set out in a survey showing as many as one-third...

I want to talk to you about new ways to sell homes. Let's not encourage people to sell but just swap...

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

With Christmas less than four weeks away (yes, really) the countdown to the festive season begins tomorrow when December begins. Charity...

Breakdowns within property chains are the most common cause of fall throughs, according to a new study. Over the last ten years,...

Hands up if you’ve read all of the property reports that have been published in the past week or so? Forever...

In this week’s Natter I’m going to get all political. Don’t worry, I won’t be giving my opinions on Brexit, Trump...

As the mainstream mortgage market braces itself for yet another clampdown on buy-to-let lending, a growing number of property investors are...

The rapid growth in popularity of buy-to-let in recent years, fuelled in part by the failings of the pensions industry, has...

An analysis by Savills shows that so-called ‘additional homes’ - that is, those carrying a three per cent stamp duty surcharge...

The government’s blizzard of New Year announcements about new homes has received a distinctly frosty welcome from many within the property...

As with finance broking, there can be many frustrations that come with being an estate agent – I perhaps don’t need...

A firm says it wants to help agents and sellers frustrated by a stagnating housing market to short-let homes using controversial...

While buy-to-let lenders brace themselves for further interventions as part of proposals currently being drawn up by the Prudential Regulation Authority...

A top consultancy firm is warning that the stamp duty surcharge coming into effect at the end of this week may lead...

A group of leading tax experts claims the stamp duty surcharge coming into effect one week from today will hurt the...

There’s bad news today for Labour members living in homes valued at £1m or more - one of their own MPs...

Repossession levels in the north and south of England have closed by 80 per cent since the end of the recession,...