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Borrowers are currently rolling off relatively favourable two-year fixed-rate deals agreed at the start of 2022, but the pain from higher...

Estate agency has changed. No longer is it required to sit in a high street office working the old way. Provide a...

The term mixed-tenure development usually refers to residential developments where different residential tenures are provided on the same site. Typically, tenure was...

Success with your chosen CRM solution should not be a one-and-done package. Once you team up with a stellar CRM provider,...

CRMs can be superheroes for your business, but not all of them possess the necessary powers to save the day. As...

By adopting a top-notch Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution, you're not only opening doors to acquiring new customers and nurturing existing...

Black mould associated with condensation is becoming an increasing problem for homes in the UK and following the tragic death of...

Lies, damned lies, and statistics this week. I don’t know about you, but sometimes I feel as though I’m being bombarded...

The self-employed model, after years of not really catching on fully, was given a major boost by the pandemic and the...

With the Government announcement this week of another national lockdown across England amid the surging coronavirus infections, it once again puts...

Recent debate about urgent need for reform and better collaboration within the property industry, has once again come under the spotlight...

Hello and welcome to yet another Agents Do Charity, the weekly forum for the industry to share its good news on...

It’s been an unexpected year for the property market, shaped by the effects of the pandemic. We didn’t quite anticipate the...

You will notice that there is a new author for this regular column for Estate Agent Today. Last month I was...

It appears activity in the housing market in 2017 will be around 15% down on 2016. The number of housing transactions...

The Competition and Markets Authority has released the full wording on its decision to give the go-ahead to ZPG’s acquisition of Expert...

The Council of Mortgage Lenders’s buy to let forecast for 2017 and 2018 has been revised down from previous expectations at...

A prominent agent admits to being “disappointed” at what appears to be slowing mortgage figures at a time of year when...

Home buyers borrowed £11.2 billion in March - down on the ‘stamp duty bonanza‘ period at the same time last year...

A building society claims that in the past three years alone no fewer than 1.2m buyers have given up on house...

In recent years the mortgage industry has gone through some testing times. Recession and regulation have led to more stringent lending...

It seems prop-tech is exploding at a scary rate, and the latest brands are all trying to grab our attention by...

Data from the Council for Mortgage Lenders show that loans taken out by buyers have hit a near two-year low.   Home buyers...

Over the past two decades, investing in buy-to-let has been a relatively easy way to make money, which is why so...

The number of home buyers in London dropped to a four-year low in 2016 while the number of loans taken out...

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

First-time buyers borrowed £5.1 billion from mortgage companies in December, far above the same month in 2015, and the highest December...

The number of properties taken into possession last year declined by almost 25 per cent and has hit the lowest level in 35...

Annoying isn’t it. You take on a stunning property, agree a compelling asking price and your Vendor is desperate to get the...

Gross mortgage lending reached a remarkable £246 billion in 2016 - that’s 12 per cent higher than the previous year and...

Brexit and wider economic uncertainties worsened by changes to property taxation have forced the Council of Mortgage Lenders to cut its...

New figures from the Council for Mortgage Lenders add weight to the argument that the housing market is gently slowing.  Home-owners borrowed £10.5...

There’s good news for London’s troubled market - a report from the CML shows that buyers in the capital took out 12...

It may still be too early to start compiling a Christmas wish list, but it is the right time to provide...

The huge consequences of the EU referendum, and the impending Brexit negotiations, have drawn into sharp light the consequences for a...

The Conveyancing Association says new Chancellor Phillip Hammond should use next month’s Autumn Statement as the opportunity to reverse controversial buy...

Fears raised over the UK housing market in the wake of the Brexit vote have so far proved to be ‘wide...

Those working within the UK housing market would have felt considerable worry about the immediate impact of the vote to leave...

The British Banking Association’s latest mortgage lending figures suggest early signs of fall-out from the surprise vote for the UK to...

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The number of mortgages in arrears is now at its lowest level since records began more than 20 years ago.  Data from...

The morning after the EU referendum, and Westminster, Britain, Europe and the world were left in shock at the news that...

The Council of Mortgage Lenders says the Brexit vote will hit transactions as buyers and sellers wait for the dust to...

Home-owners borrowed £8.1 billion for house purchases in April, which was four per cent down on the same month a year ago. There...

The Council of Mortgage Lenders estimates that gross mortgage lending reached £18.5 billion last month - the highest April figure since...

There has been a 58 per cent rise in the past year for mortgages for house purchase purposes, according to the...

The Council of Mortgage Lenders says the number of repossessions in the first quarter of 2016 was 2,100 - the lowest...

Data from the Council of Mortgage Lenders shows that gross mortgage lending reached £17.6 billion last month - that's the highest...

There has been a warm welcome given to figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders showing that lending to first time...

Mortgage lending for home buyers dipped by nine per cent in November according to new data - but it is up...

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In many respects 2015 has been a good year. Despite global challenges, we have seen a marked improvement in the UK...

We have reached an interesting point in what has been a most unusual year for the property sector.  The latest figures from...

Figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders show that lending to first time buyers bounced back in the second quarter of...

THE UK housing market is reported to be picking up according to figures this month from the Council of Mortgage Lenders...

Lending for house buying is still down compared to this time last year but there are signs that the market is...