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On balance, a stable new government with a large majority is good news for the sales market. Labour’s costed spending plans,...

TV property guru, Move iQ founder and Estate Agent Today columnist Phil Spencer to be a keynote speakers at Propertymark One...

The UK timeframe for selling a property has been branded as “embarrassing.” New research shows the UK ranks as the slowest country...

While our own Government continues to tentatively encourage homeowners to carry out energy-efficient measures, they will no doubt be eagerly watching...

Higher interest rates have already softened UK prime regional markets but cities are proving resilient, Savills claims. Research by the agent shows...

Higher utility and staffing costs pushed profits down in Savills’ UK residential business last year. The property and agency brand revealed in...

Lenders approved the lowest number of mortgages since May 2020 in December. The latest Bank of England data shows mortgage approvals for...

Property professionals heralded the end of the low interest era yesterday after the latest Bank of England base rate hike. The Bank...

Knight Frank expects prices to fall by 3% next year in Prime Central London (PCL) before rising modestly in the years...

Some people will say: What problem? But they are getting fewer as the detrimental effect of increasing numbers of short lets on...

Jacob Rees-Mogg is reportedly being lined up as Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities should Liz Truss win...

Savills has released a revised five-year forecast for the UK’s prime housing markets, to reflect the strong levels of activity in...

It has been six years since the UK voted to leave the European Union (EU). Political and economic debate continues to rumble...

A scheme to help people to get on the housing ladder in one of the UK’s most expensive local housing markets...

An estate agency has revealed which London boroughs have been the busiest in terms of the number of homes sold as...

It’s a truism that most property enquiries from buyers these days come through portals but there are several reasons why agents...

Connells-owned Hamptons says it’s calculated that no fewer the 117,500 sellers this year have chosen to rent before buying their next home.  The...

Zoopla has crunched the numbers for the continuing stamp duty holiday in England and Northern Ireland, calculating 500,000 buyers will have...

Savills has upgraded its house price and transaction forecasts following the Budget - and prime London, especially the centre, is tipped to...

There’s been a flurry of recent activity involving agencies quoted on the London Stock Exchange: Hunters, The Property Franchise Group and...

New research attempts for the first time to identify the most lucrative property markets in the country - with surprising results...

Zoopla says while there may be speculation about people fleeing London and big urban areas for the countryside, the evidence suggests...

An analysis of seven countries which underwent different forms of lockdown during the pandemic suggests the British and Italian housing markets...

An international comparison of how major portals have discounted their charges to agents show Rightmove and Zoopla making “deeper and longer...

Suddenly Brexit Day is nearly here. It may have taken three and a half years from the Referendum but the UK will,...

The latest housing market snapshot from the listings website Home suggests more regional markets are heading for price corrections. Home says that...

Stamp duty won’t take centre stage at the Conservative Party conference - that’ll be Brexit, quelle surprise. But if the government...

Cluttons has downgraded its forecasts for the housing markets in London and the rest of the UK for the remainder of...

First time buyers will constitute the largest single group of purchasers in 2019, despite the apparent difficulties of deposits and securing...

New research has identified those local housing market potentially worst hit by the planned changes to Help To Buy in 2021,...

Sellers across England and Wales achieve an average 95.94 per cent of their asking price according to research from estate agency...

While media attention has been on Theresa May, Brexit and the Tories, chatter in the agency industry has been about what...

House prices have remained roughly stagnant according to the latest figures produced by the Office for National Statistics and HM Land...

At the end of a week consisting of largely depressing market reports, new data from Knight Frank suggests that the bad...

Hometrack says other cities are now closing the gap on London in terms of house prices and market value. The latest Hometrack UK...

Ever wondered what it’s like to be on the frontline of property journalism? Well, wonder no more, as our very own...

The Henley Business School is often identified with cutting edge forecasts - but now it has revealed the history of what...

Rightmove’s latest assessment of the housing market suggests that Newport in Gwent is the fastest moving area in Britain for vendors. A...

An estate agency has used the experiences of Cambridge, Oxford and other cities to forecast that pockets of central London's housing...

Strutt & Parker is warning that Prime Central London prices could drop as much as five per cent in 2018 -...

A man dubbed as Theresa May’s ‘brain’ when he worked in Downing Street has been invited to speak at the annual...

An analysis of homes listed for sale on Rightmove has identified what one estate agency claims to be the slowest-moving local...

The latest assessment of major UK cities’ housing markets by property consultancy Hometrack shows more locations overhauling London in terms of...

The average UK property takes 91 days to sell - and that’s down to greedy sellers according to the mortgage arm...

A campaign has been launched to make Bristol the colour capital of the UK by ensuring that more homes are painted...

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

It’s official; the estate agency business is tougher than ever. Contrary to perceptions that may exist amongst observers and even clients, the...

Knight Frank says the prices of so-called ‘prime’ country houses are still on average 13.6 per cent below their peak, despite...

As we know, the property market in London is notorious for sitting a long way outside the conventions of the wider UK...

The housing market will slow in the next three years as affordability problems and buy to let taxes combine to offset...

First time buyer registrations have plummeted over the past year and the average price of a home purchased by FTBs has...

A pressure group says cities across England and Wales - including mid-size cities as well as the big urban conurbations -...