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The gap between what sellers want for their home and what buyers are actually paying has increased by a further 1.1%...

There’s a growing ­supply-demand imbalance in the sales market according to the prominent industry asking price index, Home.  It says despite greater...

The task of obtaining material information is more difficult than it appears for estate agents, Rightmove has warned. The portal revealed in...

Typical consumer spending on mortgages and rents increased 3.6% in April – the first increase in the rate of growth since...

The Government’s proposal to introduce a new 1% deposit mortgage scheme to help young people onto the property ladder is unworkable...

Dave Sayce, Founder and Managing Director of Compare My Move, reflects on the legal changes that will make leasehold purchase more...

Conveyancing fees increased by around 6% last year, analysis suggests. Property Solvers’ annual research of legal practices in England and Wales has...

As an Estate Agent it’s important to be able to interpret and understand the information that a Title Deed document presents...

A mortgage expert has expressed concern about the level of borrowers still taking out high loan-to-value government-backed home loans despite falling...

An estate agent is urging people selling their flats to have building safety documentation in place before putting the property on...

Whether you know them as sold-in-your-area campaigns, sold-on-your-road postcards or 20:20s, the practice of prospecting 20 doors up and 20 doors...

The Building Safety Act will cause further delays to the home moving process, a senior industry executive has warned. Rob Hailstone, chief...

In simple terms, as you are probably aware, ‘lenders’ are the organisations who loan you something, in this case money to...

Not every story about our industry makes me smile but I was delighted to read in the trade press about someone...

Trade and representative bodies representing the legal, surveying, estate agency and property management sectors have launched the fourth iteration of the...

The Home Buying and Selling Group (HBSG) has announced a new update to the Leasehold Property Enquiries (LPE1) form, which it...

The average discount to asking price on a sold property has almost doubled since last July as sellers are becoming ‘more...

Over the last few years, the property industry has been focusing on the need to provide more information to buyers ‘up...

Agents may be regularly debating increasing their fees but property buyers and sellers are already used to paying more for conveyancing,...

It has been a busy start to the year for job moves. If you want your jobs or appointments news to feature...

Trade and representative bodies covering the legal, surveying, estate agency and property management sectors, including the Conveyancing Association (CA), have launched...

In this guest feature, Ben Bailey, CCO at Even, a mortgage lender for first-time buyers launched this year, provides commentary on the end...

Buyers have until 31 October to reserve a new-build and apply for Government-backed finance before the government’s Help to Buy Equity...

A senior new-build property professional has warned that the Help to Buy scheme will be “sorely missed” by first-time buyers once...

Century 21 UK, the British arm of the US-based franchising agency, has opened its first offices in Northern Ireland. It comes after...

As Britain’s housing boom continues,  SDL Property Auctions has warned of ten ways new homeowners could be fined up to £5,000...

The new owner of Century 21 UK, the British arm of the US-based franchising agency, has set his sights on rivalling...

Century 21 UK, the British arm of the US-based franchising agency, has been sold. Nicholas Faulkner, the owner of leasehold property management...

The government is considering seizing British property owned by Russian oligarchs on the sanctions list without paying compensation. The Financial Times says Housing...

OnTheMarket agents are to have access to the prospecting tool SmartMail, produced by data firm Sprift. SmartMail is a canvassing and prospecting...

Leasehold, quite rightly, remains not just an emotive topic given what has happened over the past decade, but it’s very much...

Some 14 trade bodies in the estate agency, conveyancing, property management and surveying industries have jointly launched new upfront documents which...

Agents are being urged to be more open to new methods of stopping deals falling through. HBB Solutions - a part exchange...

We have been speaking with many agents over the past months and the story appears the same with them all. There...

Luke Thirkettle heads up the lettings division at Stratfords, a single-branch lettings and sales agency based in Milton Keynes. Here, he speaks to...

The recent stamp duty holiday and the subsequent conveyancing logjam this triggered has acted as a wakeup call for the industry....

Affordability has always been a hot topic when it comes to the property market, and this is doubly true for first-time...

It’s certainly the case that awareness of part exchange isn’t very high in the property and agency world, despite the potential...

Warwick Estates has revealed the most in-demand features for new-build buyers. The firm has analysed Rightmove data and found that those buying...

Propertymark, the overarching body aiming to bring five different associations (ARLA, NAEA, NAVA, ICBA and APIP) into a single brand, was...

A housing index says the market continues to defy Coronavirus and Brexit worries with asking prices up 4.9 per cent in...

Many agents, certainly those in London, will have faced the difficult task of selling a flat with a shorter lease. A...

NAEA Propertymark has thrown its weight behind a Competitions and Markets Authority investigation into whether consumer protection law has been broken...

An American realtor who once predicted his company would have 5,000 UK estate agents working under its banner is now saying...

A property law firm is calling on the government to backdate the stamp duty holiday to include those buyers who completed...

How businesses can list properties on Facebook Marketplace   What is Facebook Marketplace? Marketplace is a discovery and search experience on Facebook designed to...

Buyer demand for new-build property has bounced back 66 per cent in the six weeks since the resumption of the housing...

The devolved government in Wales - where the housing market is still officially closed - has urged agents to report rivals...

The only story that has come remotely close to pushing coronavirus – and its various knock-on effects – off the top...

There’s been a very significant increase in the number of listings carrying virtual viewings, accelerating during the period of the Coronavirus crisis and...

Guidance issued by the government explicitly advises agents, buyers and sellers that more activity should be done online if possible. “The process...

Hello and welcome to this week’s list of good work - yes, despite the virus lockdown.  Earlier this week we featured many...

The government has given details of a scheme allowing 30 per cent reductions for what it calls ‘local first time buyers’...

The price premium paid by purchasers for a freehold property rather than a leasehold is at its highest for eight years. An...

One of the earliest property websites, nethouseprices.com, has been acquired by fledgling property portal OneDome.  Nethouseprices was set up in 2004 and...

Stories of a slow property market due to an ongoing lack of supply and Brexit woes have been well-documented in recent...

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a complaint made against a listing on property website Houser.co.uk. In January, the complainant notified...

The National Audit Office says many users of Help To Buy would have been able to purchase a home anyway, without...

The Competition and Markets Authority has formally launched an investigation into the sale of leasehold properties - including possible mis-selling. This follows...

So far in our contribution to the campaign to replace leasehold with commonhold we have outlined the stories of some of...

The National Association of Estate Agents has welcomed the commitment by the Competition and Markets Authority to investigate the mis-selling of...

The average time on the market for a property is soaring across the UK thanks to Brexit uncertainty, according to the...

A new housing market survey paints a bleaker picture than that from Rightmove earlier this week - and instead speaks of...

A survey of owners has revealed that recent leasehold scandals have deterred many would-be buyers from considering new build homes.  The survey,...

The leasehold system has created many unsellable and unmortgageable homes and should change, MPs say. The all-party Housing, Communities and Local Government...

The proliferation of big data is paving the way to improving our economy on almost every front as entrepreneurial digital companies...

The National Trading Standards Estate Agency team has issued new guidance for those seeking redress over leasehold disputes.  This guidance contains a...

There’s been a dramatic improvement in the speed of searches being completed and returned by local authorities, the government claims. Housing minister...

The head of a property management company says conveyancers must do more to ensure buyers of leasehold properties fully understand the...

The world may be going crazy outside but we’re delighted to tell you that in the estate agency industry it’s still...

New build property values are rising at a much greater rate than existing property values according to a study by DJ Alexander. The...

A house in Mayfair that was sold for £19.175m in 2014 and put on the market this year at £25m has...

A series of leasehold roadshows beginning next month in Manchester aims to throw a spotlight on problems associated with the tenure,...

The Property Ombudsman has urged the government to bring the new homes build sector under consumer redress. New builds are not currently...

Almost all buyers of new build houses who purchased a leasehold regret doing so, and the vast majority say they definitely wouldn't...

In our previous blog, we looked at the definitions outlined by the CPRs. In our next blog we’ll look at the...

The parent company of Your Move, Reeds Rains and other agency brands has succeeded where Foxtons yesterday did not - in...

The government says its funding schemes such as Help To Buy will no longer be applied to what it calls “unjustified...

Consumer body Which? is warning that those who used the Help To Buy equity loan to purchase their homes could face...

At any given moment it’s difficult to say which issue dominates our marketplace, but I think it’s fair to acknowledge during...

The magazine Property Week is reporting that Countrywide’s former chief executive Alison Platt, who quit her post this morning, will receive...

Cotswold property and land agency Butler Sherborn has changed its business status to become a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP). The agency currently...

Labour MP Justin Madders is working on a Private Members' Bill creating leasehold reform in a bid to help leaseholders who, he...

Even so close to the event, I don’t think anyone will be deeming 2017 as the ‘summer of love’.  The summer of...

A cluster of conveyancing and legal experts, known as the Legal Sector Group, has published a raft of proposals on leasehold...

The Advertising Standards Authority says it has “partly upheld” a complaint regarding a claim that a leasehold property was Sold STC. Greenslade...

A website now marketing 380,000 homes from 900 agents across the world has struck a deal with an international property referral...

What does it say on your business card? Peter Mansfield, Group Chairman, The World Property Network, www.twpn.com  and TheWorldPropertyNetwork.com                                  What is The World Property Network...

Agents should remember to target overseas buyers and tenants according to the head of a business management system aimed at maximising international...

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has this week published a consumer guide on leasehold property.  The document, released yesterday, has a specific focus...

The World Property Network, a global property portal, has launched a show on Sky Property TV - the first portal in...

A sales progression tool claims to have reduced the average transaction time for a property from around 94 days to around...

Housing minister Gavin Barwell says the government will put forward proposals in the new year to stop abuses of the leasehold...

A firm is warning of “a wave of litigation from home owners who were given inadequate advice from their solicitors or...

Available stock levels across Greater London, the east of England, plus the south east and the south west are now 16...

A technology business adviser who has surveyed property portals across the world has praised Rightmove for its determination to become the...

The Conveyancing Association has set out recommendations to end what it claims are significant delays and overcharging taking place within the...

Nearly three quarters of people who have sold or bought a property deem it more stressful than having a child or...

An executive director at hybrid estate agency EweMove has hit out at the government’s apparent support for innovation in the house...

I recently read an article in City A.M. titled: ‘Five ways we will be buying property in 2025’ – it makes...