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Southwark, Barnet, Camden, Croydon and Newham are the top five London boroughs with the highest number of vacant properties amid a...

Next week may not be the best time for agents to chase conveyancers waiting for Land Registry information. The Public and Commercial...

There is a staggering £117 billion worth of property currently up for sale across the UK property market, according to new...

The number of areas where the average house sale price exceeded £500,000 has surpassed 15% of Great Britain for the first...

The Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners (ALEP) has become the latest body to welcome the decision by Countryside Properties to scrap the requirement to pay...

The Grenfell Tower disaster in June 2017 exposed the dangers of inflammable cladding on residential tower blocks, and what has come...

Labour’s new housing spokesperson is the experienced MP Lucy Powell, who until the weekend was shadow business and consumer affairs minister.  She replaces...

Hello and welcome to the first Agents Do Charity of 2021.  Somehow, this year is only eight days old yet already seems...

London and other urban areas dominate the league table of locations seeing the biggest house price rises of 2020. This is despite...

I was asked recently, how can an agent generate more landlord leads? Well that got me thinking, firstly, we have to...

Hello and welcome to another week. We’re more than aware that it’s a challenging time for our industry as for most...

As last Friday was the VE Day Anniversary bank holiday we have a bumper bundle of fund-raising activities to report on...

Government figures suggest that the number of second homes in the UK has dropped two per cent in the eight year...

Of all the UK properties for sale over the last year, 59% would have been exempt from any type of transaction...

Friday is Agents Do Charity day and as the country enjoys the delights of Wimbledon and rues the Lionesses' departure from...

A property platform that has chronicled the London sales market’s problems in recent years says the recovery will start in 2020...

Communities have missed out on more than 10,000 affordable homes in the past three years as a result of government rules...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity - another chance to hear about the remarkable fund-raising done by our...

Out and about recently, I got to thinking: how often do I actually have the call for cash anymore? Or, for...

Locations in the capital dominate a league table of locations where the largest numbers of so-called ‘high risk’ mortgages are taken...

The director of an estate agency has been ordered to pay more that £1,800 for failing to dispose of waste properly. Adebayo...

Hello - if it’s Monday, it must be Property Jobs Today, your chance to see a snapshot of the key moves...

Rightmove’s former lettings chief Sam Mitchell has taken over as chief executive of online agency HouseSimple, which recently won another £20m...

Arun Estates has launched what it describes as “a major new departure” - a fully-staffed High Street office but covering a...

Chris Philp, a Conservative MP and Parliamentary Private Secretary to Chancellor Phillip Hammond, says 50 per cent of new homes in...

As we hurtle towards the end of 2017, it’s time to reflect on the year that’s just been.   Even better, this property-based...

Former housing minister Gavin Barwell has been appointed as Theresa May's chief of staff. Barwell lost his Croydon Central seat – and...

In years to come, students of political history might come to look at the 2017 General Election campaign with some interest....

Yesterday’s decision by MPs to agree to Theresa May’s snap General Election on June 8 means that the current government -...

An estate agent will be sentenced next month after pleading guilty to 76 fraud offences.   The Get Surrey website reports that Ayodele...

The highest number of 'risky' mortgages issued during 2015 was in South West London, according to new analysis of the latest...

Housing minister Gavin Barwell has met campaigners to scrap anti-buy to let measures introduced by the Cameron government in the past...

It has been revealed that the new housing minister, Gavin Barwell, appears to be campaigning to oppose a new housing scheme...

Housing appears to have a disappointingly low priority in the new Theresa May-led Cabinet - at least judging from the time...

Zoopla is beefing up its TV and bus advertising this week to consolidate its claim to be the property portal with...

The service charges for new-build flats coming on to the market this year are on average 96 per cent higher than...

next2buy Property Retailers has scooped the September ESTAS Estate Agent of the Month title.   The Tyne & Wear based agency won...

Foxtons is preparing to open its Croydon office on Saturday - the 58th for the company across Middlesex, Surrey and London.  As...

London estate agency Foxtons is set to continue its expansion with the opening of two new branches next month. The new offices...

Three agents have been announced as winners of The ESTAS Agent of the Month competition - with Butters John Bee the...

The Society of Licensed Conveyancers and Bold Legal Group have announced details of this year’s spring road shows. The events in Leeds,...