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Average house prices and mortgage approvals hit new highs during the summer months, in a positive sign for the property market. Nationwide...

Of all the stories I read over the past week, there was one which really stopped me in my tracks.   It revealed...

Countrywide Land & New Homes has been appointed by Harcourt to market Tobacco Warehouse, a major redevelopment of the world’s largest...

The predictions game can be tricky. Sometimes you just don’t know whether to stick or twist. As reported in Estate Agent Today...

Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered property search app Jitty has launched a new feature that lets buyers find their dream home by simply...

Welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity, our chance to salute those who do so much to help others. If your agency...

Parents are willing pay 25% extra to live in the right catchment area for a top state primary school, research suggests. New...

Savills has strengthened its senior team with the appointment of Tommy Newbigging to lead its new homes department across Essex and parts...

Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) ratings may become a bigger factor for homebuyers in the Autumn market, Rightmove suggests. It comes as energy...

The 90-minute commute continues to flourish for family homes, it has been claimed. Speaking on the Winkworth’s latest Property Exchange podcast, the...

The new Labour government has committed to building 370,000 homes per year, but is it realistic? The housing crisis in the UK...

HSBC UK has joined forces with the Open Property Data Association (OPDA) to help improve the homebuying process through the sharing...

Spicerhaart is reigniting its acquisition strategy with a multi-million pound investment in its estate agency and lettings businesses after posting a...

The National Leasehold Campaign’s (NLC) heroic journey to get reform of the controversial tenure type on the statute book has hit...

EVER since Rishi Sunak stood in the rain and effectively announced he’d soon be moving house, Labour have been saying the...

Savills has expanded its residential sales team with two new appointments in South Buckinghamshire. Adam Harris and Sophie Male have joined the...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has pledged £90,000 to the Chartered Surveyors Student Bursary Programme to support new entrants...

The expected dip in mortgage rates following the Bank of England’s base rate cut continued this week with NatWest’s lowest price...

One key point of difference in the parties’ housing policies during the recent general election campaign was that the Conservative Party...

The smart home movement has been gathering pace for some time and connected living should be top of the agenda for...

The ‘UK Seniors Housing Market Update Q2 2024’ from Knight Frank brings positive news that the supply of new seniors housing...

I have been an agent for 25 years and have represented a large corporate agency and Anderson Rose (my own independent...

The new Labour government has pledged to prioritise a ‘brownfield first’ approach to urban planning, as part of its promise to...

Overvaluations are making properties taking longer to go under offer but sales are at least finally completing faster, research suggests. Analysis by...

Welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity, our chance to salute those who do so much to help others. If your agency...

Bloor Homes, the UK’s largest non-listed housebuilder has signed a 12-month contract Zoopla.  All Bloor Homes' 80 developments across all nine regions...

An exciting new collaboration between TVPN, EstateApps and Paul Long is set to transform the way you advertise your property listings...

Annual house price growth remained at 2.7% ahead of the general election in June and was up just 0.5% on a...

A cross-industry collaboration aims to showcase how working horizontally across key stages of the home-buying and selling journey can positively impact...

A new analysis of buyers’ actions during viewings suggests many effectively ignore the truly important features, and are instead distracted by...

The latest prime London market snapshot from Knight Frank suggests muted activity so far this summer and warns of possible hesitancy...

Rents have begun to stabilise, despite an exodus of landlords from the sector and resistance over rent reductions. The market is witnessing...

IT was the day the world malfunctioned.  From airport lounges to the reception areas of GP surgeries, the CrowdStrike IT Outage caused...

UK Finance’s latest data shows the percentage of mortgaged properties taken into possession has risen, but the trade body insists this...

The latest RICS Residential Property Survey found the UK's residential property sector brightened slightly in July.  Average mortgage rates lowered slightly during...

Moving further away from family, friends and familiar places to get onto the property ladder is becoming more common for first-time...

Six out of the UK’s top 10 conveyancers are now aboard a new transactions platform that aims to speed up property...

The share price of Rightmove dropped some 6% yesterday on the back of an announcement that it was terminating the listings...

Most households in England today are ‘under-occupying’ their homes, according to the think tank the Resolution Foundation. And it says there doesn’t...

An agency that’s been part of a community for 55 years has been snapped up by a rival firm. Reed Evans &...

Home buyers, movers, and existing owners making energy-saving improvements to their properties can now get up to £2,000 cashback from a...

Research from Zoopla shows that two-bed terraced homes are the fastest-selling property type in England and Wales, with a sale agreed...

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

Throughout the general election campaign, the Green Belt was central to the debate about the housing crisis. The new Labour government...

Changes were made to Class MA commercial to residential permitted development rights in February which mean that there has never been...

Fine & Country is holding a recruitment open evening in its flagship office on Park Lane in Mayfair, London next month.  The...

Small and medium-sized housebuilders are the key to delivering more new homes, according to Winkworth. Adam Stackhouse, head of developments and commercial investments...

MPs have begun the process of electing the next chairperson of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee in the new Parliament. The chairman...

The number of people moving home increased by 10% in the first half of 2024, with detached properties the most popular,...

Agents pocketed record amounts of fees from auction with iampropety during the second quarter, research suggests. It comes as iamproperty’s Online Auction...

There is no doubt that the residential market in the UK slumped last year. Transactions were at around 1 million, whereas...

Views are sought from all heritage destinations with listed buildings across the UK to find out how much they pay on...

IT’s very difficult to predict anything in the property sector. But one thing I can predict with total certainty is we will...

Welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity, our chance to salute those who do so much to help others. If your agency...

Higher mortgage rates will push more people than expected into poverty, research warns. Analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) highlights...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Paul Halliwell and my VMC business card says “Executive...

Eluned Morgan is set to be named First Minister of Wales in a move backed by estate agency trade body Propertymark. Morgan...

Best buy mortgage rates have fallen below 4% for the first time since the start of the year. Nationwide is the first...

According to Landmark Information Group’s recent Insights Report, both sales and purchases have seen substantial increases in the time taken from...

Zoopla has invested in new online content and personalised emails using artificial intelligence to drive demand for estate agents. The portal said...

NOBODY does pomp and ceremony like us Brits and, wow, it was on full display in Westminster last week. Despite the prestige...

Lead instruction generation tool Spectre has added social media marketing capabilities to its platform. It is being delivered through an exclusive partnership...

It’s so good to see housing at the top of the government’s agenda for change. Finally! The housing crisis has been met...

Two years of rising interest rates, the withdrawal of first-time buyer support, planning delays and a string of broken promises has...

The Chancellor’s plans to ‘get Britain building again’ are very significant for the property sector and property investment, specifically.  The plans...

Complete guidance on Material Information parts A, B and C has been live in the property industry since last November. While...

We all know what defines a successful community: not just a range of homes to address a range of requirements, but...

Welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity, our chance to salute those who do so much to help others. If your agency...

An anti-money laundering (AML) expert has highlighted an overlooked part of this week’s King’s Speech that could boost the property market. While...

Competition from Dubai and concerns about taxation under the new Labour Government have led the world’s super-rich to spend less and...

Propertymark and RICS are among industry bodies that have backed an open letter to the new Housing Secretary calling for the...

West Sussex agent Hawkins & Smith has joined the region’s leading estate agency group, Henry Adams. Directors of Hawkins & Smith, Chris...

The Single-Family Rental (SFR) sector is experiencing rapid growth in the UK, presenting a unique opportunity for local lettings and estate...

While housing is a devolved matter, ESPC hopes that the promises made by Labour in the recent general election might help...

The Law Society has launched a consultation for conveyancers and legal groups on how its latest TA6 property information form should...

Attention is turning to acquisitions and growth among LSL’s newly-franchised brands. It has been a year since LSL Property Services announced that...

Under the strain of a housing crisis, the UK faces a severe shortage of affordable homes. This is further emphasised by...

The Government has dropped the previous Tory Party’s levelling up slogan. Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary Angela Rayner confirmed the move...

Fintech firm CLSQ has launched a tool to give mortgage lenders access to real-time Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) data. The product, called...

Former senior Savills director Trevor Kearney has unveiled his own luxury agency venture called The Private Office: Real Estate, aiming to...

My Property Box – a North East-headquartered residential estate agency – has received a multi-million pound investment from BGF, one of...

So it’s a Labour landslide but it’s not like 1997. I remember the last time as if it were yesterday. May 1st, 1997....

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

With a historic majority for Keir Starmer and the Labour Party, there can be no doubt over which party will be...

Heidi Shackell, chief executive officer at The Lettings Hub said: “The General Election, called in May, halted progress of the Renters'...

Proptech firm iamproperty has launched a CRM for estate agents. A dedicated data migration and onboarding team is in place to make...

Homebuyers plan to make their homes more energy efficient in the hope of securing more favourable mortgage deals and boosting their...

Welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity, our chance to salute those who do so much to help others. If your agency...

Agents are being urged to prepare for a surge in enquiries following the General Election this week Many agents have reported that...

Bradford has maintained its position as the leading hotspot in the country for the second consecutive quarter, according to OnTheMarket data. The...

Industry commentator Charlie Lamdin has launched a 50-hour live stream to help voters concerned about housing decide how to vote in...

Sprift is to continue as one of the principal sponsors for the 2024 ESTAS Awards. The data firm will present the prestigious...

We frequently read about how the traditional form of urban BTR has inspired the more recent model, suburban BTR. Our own...

A variety of charities have received support from the property industry this week. If there are charitable endeavours you think the rest...

Affordability concerns are prompting many first-time buyers to consider moving more than 30 miles on average from their preferred location to...

The recent dip in inflation to 2% for the first time in three years brings a glimmer of optimism in the...

The winners of the 2024 allAgents customer experience People Awards have been announced. These awards reflect customer reviews from 1 May 2023...

Letting agents are more confident in technology than ever before and a large majority believe that investing in automation is more...

The manifestos of all major parties tell us little about their true tax and public service plans, a respected financial think...

London agency chain Dexters has reported a huge 23% rise in revenue to £181m in a statement released this morning. Profit soared...