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We welcome the thrust of the Deputy Prime Minister’s announcement this week on planning reform.  In particular, we support the return of...

A recent appeal decision which allowed housing development on the Hertfordshire Green Belt highlights the need for greater flexibility on locational...

Propertymark, the leading membership body for property agents has written to London Mayor candidates highlighting proposals to tackle the unique housing...

Thousands of people will be invited to take part in new research to help provide information on why one particularly badly...

There’s been broad support from within the agency and wider property sectors for Labour’s proposal to build on selected parts of...

Keir Starmer set out Labour’s policy for housebuilding this week and targeted ‘ugly’ parts of the Green Belt. It will be a...

Housebuilders have indicated that they would prefer a Labour government is formed after the next General Election. The latest Land Index and...

The Government recently consulted upon a revised approach to local plans. Throughout the consultation document, frequent use is made of the...

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is seeking feedback on two ‘working papers’ that detail its assessment on the use of...

MPs have cast doubt on the Government’s ability to achieve its target of 300,000 new homes per year by the mid-2020s...

As a property market expert, I have been closely monitoring the challenges faced by the housing market, particularly the issue of...

The Scottish housing market is at a serious crossroads, a major estate agency brand in the country has warned. Lomond Group-owned agent...

Agents should use their market position to advise town halls about local housing needs, a senior MP has suggested. Labour and Co-op...

There has been an understandable focus on things other than Government since the death of Queen Elizabeth was announced, but Prime...

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

There’s talk of 50-year mortgages being introduced, loans that, along with the property they finance, could be passed to the next...

Agents have pledged to keep a close eye on planning reforms amid a proposed overhaul announced in the Queen’s Speech yesterday. Prince...

Timothy Douglas, Head of Policy and Campaigns at Propertymark, analyses the impact that the lack of available data is having on...

Figures from the Building Societies Association show continued momentum in the housing market, with gross lending by building societies up 22...

The average asking price, as recorded by Rightmove, has fallen for the first time this year. In another sign that the market...

The asking price of a typical home in the UK has hit a third of a million pounds for the first...

The total value of the UK’s housing stock has hit a record £7.56 trillion despite the pandemic. The calculation - by Savills,...

A surge in demand from buyers, even those unlikely to benefit from the stamp duty holiday, offers hope for the market...

The Nationwide has pulled no punches with Chancellor Rishi Sunak - it’s made it clear that if the stamp duty holiday...

The latest Rightmove analysis shows it now takes 126 days from the time an offer is accepted until legal completion -...

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

House prices surged in December to post their fastest growth in six years, according to the Nationwide.  Prices rose 7.3 per cent...

One of the industry's senior agency leaders says it would be a mistake for agents to be stopped from working in...

Agents have universally welcomed new Nationwide data showing annual price growth picked up to 5.0 per cent last month - the highest rate...

Record house prices recorded this week by the Nationwide index are set to go higher still according to a leading agent. Nationwide...

Data from Rightmove shows that demand is up 61 per cent compared to the same period last year - and the...

The Nationwide says annual house price growth has recovered to 1.5 per cent. Its July house price index says the fall in...

Another west country tourist hotspot looks set to ban any future new-build home being sold as a holiday or additional property. Bigbury...

I am writing this as I reflect on a recent trip to Nigeria. I was asked to speak at the country’s...

Hello and welcome to yet another Agents Do Charity - our tribute to the great work done by our industry in...

At the start of February, Nationwide suggested that the housing market was picking up. Last week, RICS reported on its continued...

Here we are again: another much anticipated Budget has been and gone and, yet, still nothing much has changed! Yes, of course,...

Nicky Morgan, a former Cabinet minister and now chair of the highly respected Commons' Treasury Select Committee, is the most senior...

And so concludes another party conference season.  We’ve followed the great and the good (both terms are debatable) around Torbay, Bournemouth,...

New research gives an insight into the difficulties that older home owners have coping with their properties - and highlights the...

We’re almost nine months on from the EU Referendum and yet the issue remains the big divide across the nation: an...

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

London’s Labour mayor Sadiq Khan says some 270,000 homes in London have been granted planning permission but have not yet been...

This week, 25 years ago the world's first website went live to those of us who were around then.  Amazingly, despite the...

On Wednesday 21st October future and reality will collide. Back to the Future’s Marty McFly will arrive in the DeLorean to...