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New year, old worries: what’s happening in the housing market? We’ve asked experts and collated forecasts, 15 in total. On the one...

House prices look likely to fall next year, a senior analyst claims while another warns the property market is moving from...

Hello - it’s that time of the week again when we celebrate the agency industry’s fantastic fund-raising. We were delighted that our...

The Swiss investment bank Credit Suisse has slashed its target share price for the company from 77p to only 17.2p.  The reason...

OnTheMarket has announced that industry software company Reapit is introducing a real time data feed for its clients to upload their properties...

Investec Asset Management has bought a 5.6 per cent share in Countrywide, having had no previous involvement in the troubled estate...

Countrywide’s share price hit another new low yesterday of around 115.5p - a fall of just over four per cent on...

There has been a sceptical reception from City analysts to Agents’ Mutual’s decision to restructure and float on the stock market...

Labour’s long-awaited Redfern Review, set up a year ago after the party’s defeat in the general election, finally reports tomorrow. Although it...

The bank Credit Suisse has launched a new monthly survey of online estate agents, using a simple eight-element questionnaire. The bank -...

The timing of Labour’s housing review, which has until now been closely associated with John Healey, appears uncertain following the shadow housing...

Two City consultancies have been quick to interpret the rebellion by OnTheMarket member agents as an indication of dire changes - or...

Some estate agents who received a letter from lawyers acting on behalf of Agents’ Mutual say they will still not upload...

A senior analyst at Credit Suisse has opened the debate about the possibility of unhappy agent members of OnTheMarket challenging their...

As we all know, Peter Redfern is critical to the future of the British housing market and.... What? Wait? You don’t know...

At least one City analyst has given a frosty response to a statement from OnTheMarket claiming that the new portal’s membership...

There has long been the assumption and contention in the industry that portals are expensive. This, however, is not the case. Along...