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You won’t need me to tell you, but transactions are taking a l-o-n-g time right now. Figures from a digital information service...

The slump in housing market transactions is beginning to translate into a fall in the number of conveyancing companies. A study by...

Vendors could boost the value of their property by around £13,000 on average by improving its energy efficiency, research suggests. Research by...

Savills has today upgraded its five-year UK mainstream house price forecast to reflect the stronger than expected start to the year...

MPs have launched an inquiry on improving the home buying and selling process in England. The Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (LUHC)...

Record numbers of homebuyers are set to get on the property ladder with the help of the “Bank of Family” this...

Belvoir has reported revenue growth for the first half of 2023 despite “challenging market conditions,” with its lettings performance offsetting lower...

LSL has warned of a slowdown in sales and a rise in fall-throughs at the agency as it issued a “cautious...

House price growth slowed in August but remains in double digits, Nationwide figures have revealed. The lender’s August House Price Index shows...

Long-term 50-year mortgages that can be passed on by parents to their children appear to be the latest idea from the...

LSL has reported a 16% drop in estate agency residential exchange income but says it is sales pipeline is at record...

The LSL Property Services group - which is increasingly focussing activities in the mortgage and personal finance world - has issued...

The government’s call for a pack of property information to be made available upfront during the sales process has been welcomed...

The government’s Levelling Up White Paper, released today, contains an unexpected and shock commitment - to create a new 'lite' version...

The total value of all UK homes broke the £8 trillion barrier in 2021 according to Savills - and London is...

Mortgage lenders serving the housing market are set for a quieter 2022 after the unprecedented levels of activity seen in 2021,...

Annual house price growth hit 10.0 per cent last month - and is now tracking close to the level seen before...

The housing market is on track to record its strongest year since 2007 for transactions and house price inflation says Zoopla.  The...

The Guardian has sharply criticised Chancellor Rishi Sunak for introducing and then extending the stamp duty holiday - because helping estate...

A third of owners would consider moving more regularly if the stamp duty holiday on the first £500,000 of a purchase...

It’s not just housing transactions that signal a red-hot market - the mortgage landscape is at its strongest for some time...

Mortgage approvals declined slightly in January as the market braces itself for the end of the stamp duty holiday - currently...

An open letter from Boomin chief executive Michael Bruce shows how fierce the competition is going to be in the portal field...

One of the chief figures behind Brexit and Boris Johnson’s role as London Mayor is now advising that stamp duty should be...

Today’s the day when Parliament debates a possible extension to the stamp duty holiday beyond its March 31 cliff edge deadline...

A large majority of estate agents fear a surge in 'failed sales’ as the stamp duty holiday cliff edge gets ever-closer. The latest National...

A leading analyst is questioning whether buyers have benefitted from the stamp duty holiday because demand has purshed up prices far...

One of the housing market’s senior analysts says the end of the stamp duty holiday on March 31 would not be...

Anthony Codling, the City analyst who made his name as a scourge of Purplebricks, says Brexit may be good news for the...

One of Britain’s most respected agents is suggesting Chancellor Rishi Sunak could ‘taper’ the stamp duty holiday to avoid a cliff-edge...

Savills has boosted its forecast for housing transactions this year because the stamp duty holiday has been such a success at...

Recent speculation that the so-called Bank of Mum and Dad would be playing a reduced role in the housing market has...

The scale of the market bounce back after lockdown is made clear in new figures from HM Revenue & Customs. It registers...

Agents have remained calm in the light of Nationwide’s house price index which shows the first annual fall for eight years...

The chief executive of a property information platform says now is a “dangerous time” to buy or sell homes because of...

A taxation institute is urging the government to delay Capital Gains Tax changes relating to housing transactions until the virus crisis...

Zoopla’s head of research says a stamp duty holiday could encourage more home owners to move which in turn could help...

Business consultancy TwentyCi is the latest to try to put a value on the potential losses to the property industry and...

PropTech big names Reapit and ViewMyChain are joining up to try to accelerate transactions when the lockdown finally ends and the...

The government has been told that raising the stamp duty threshold would both trigger more house moves, and bring the tax...

A new analysis from a financial services trade body shows that gross mortgage lending is expected to rise significantly in the...

With Brexit still unresolved, the domestic agenda has been pushed from the headlines by the seemingly overwhelming public and political discord...

There’s been a significant drop in the number of housing transactions dealt with by conveyancers in the first nine months of...

A former 10 Downing Street adviser says stamp duty on house sales should be scrapped or at least slashed in order...

The number of prime residential housing transactions has increased rapidly in the past two decades and even in the past five...

A trade body has sharply criticised HM Land Registry for its slow progress on digitising local searches after a promising start...

Homeowners will be able to extend properties more easily instead of moving home. In a surprise announcement this morning - less than...

As many as one transaction in three is now undertaken by a so-called Last Time Buyer - twice as many as...

Connells Group says investment in PropTech will be the way to safeguard its almost-600 High Street branches - and it’s repeated...

It’s November so forecasts for next year are beginning to emerge from high-end agencies with research departments - and the first one...

The investment bank Jefferies says Foxtons’ long-running share price slump is a reflection of Brexit uncertainty “until we find out what...

The chairman of LonRes says online estate agents have only a one per cent share of the market in prime central...

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

Only 24 hours after the Land registry released data showing a 20 per cent slump in housing transactions, new figures from...

House prices in London are projected to fall in the short-term, down by two per cent by the end of 2018...

Gross mortgage lending is set to reach its highest level since 2007 despite Brexit, says the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association. But its...

Conveyancing services firm My Home Move has launched a portal which it claims gives users complete transparency checking their conveyancing progress.  eWay, which is...

A law firm says the problems with housing transactions lie not with issues like fall-throughs but with “people’s general lack of...

What a year it’s been! Back in 2016 we had Brexit, a new prime minister, Donald Trump’s election, and so when...

UK house price inflation is now running at a modest 2.0 per cent but London's housing market has recorded its worst...

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

Whenever any research is released, part of me can’t help thinking of that old adage, ‘lies, damn lies and statistics’ especially...

Sources within Countrywide say the latest senior management figure to leave the company is Sam Tyrer, who under her title of...

Countrywide has revealed a massive plunge in its profits for the first six months of 2017.   Pre-tax profit for the six months...

Theresa May’s call for a snap general election on June 8 took many by surprise. But estate agents have been broadly...

Your Move’s latest house price index shows that the average house price in England and Wales is now £301,278 after a...

Looking ahead to the Spring Budget this week, the Chancellor Philip Hammond will be obliged to face up to the implications...

The flexibility of Foxtons’ business model - especially its ability to control headcount, including the number of agents it employs -...

Jefferies, a major City adviser, is downgrading its 2016 estimate for Countrywide’s performance over the rest of this year. In a statement...

The Bank of England says there has been a dip in the housing market activity after the Brexit referendum result -...

Conveyancing firm My Home Move has come up with an interesting view of how the housing market could look if -...

The government is staying tight-lipped about it for the moment but there may be a major shake-up in house buying on...

The price of a typical home increased by 0.8 per cent in March, while the annual rate of house price growth...

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

One of the best known figures in estate agency consultancy, Richard Rawlings, has written to OnTheMarket urging it to drop the...

Last month it was announced that the CHAPS payment system will be extended by one hour and forty minutes from summer...

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