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Lower mortgage rates have slowed the exodus of first-time buyers from London ,research suggests. Analysis by Hamptons for the first half of...

Survey raises doubts over Government housebuilding targets Close to two thirds of Brits are not confident that the Government can meet its...

New research reveals nearly half a million homes could be built across London on land that currently lies derelict amid a...

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

Epsom and Ewell, Epping Forest and Dartford have been named as the top London leaver hotspots as buyers continue to move...

The average household in England and Wales who purchased in the past 20 years and sold last year achieved profits of...

The number of Londoners leaving the capital to move elsewhere in Great Britain has fallen back this year but first-time buyers...

Chestertons has launched a new initiative with its e-Bike partner Forest that it hopes will get 5,000 of its customers and...

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

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. Chestertons: London agent Chestertons has added two...

Higher mortgage rates have replaced the 'race for space' as the primary reason for buying outside of London this year, research...

More than a tenth of homeowners expect to delay buying or selling a home this year due to the cost of...

Plenty of inspirational examples of fundraising activities by agents and property professionals have been coming in from the end of 2022. Whatever...

Fewer buyers are leaving London to purchase property elsewhere, research suggests. Analysis by Hamptons has found that the share of Londoners purchasing...

A former adviser to Boris Johnson who is running to be the Tory candidate for London Mayor has promised to put...

The temperature may be cooling outside but there is plenty of charitable warmth being shown by estate agents. Whatever the cause you...

A record share of buyers are leaving London to purchase their first home, research shows. Analysis by Hamptons found that a record...

An estate agency says London’s sales market is now at its busiest since the Brexit referendum in mid-2016. Douglas & Gordon, sold by...

Stamp duty statistics show that the introduction of a two per cent surcharge on residential properties by overseas buyers, means HM...

Research suggests there are substantial numbers of older Londoners using too-large properties but unable to downsize because of a lack of...

This year, Londoners purchased 112,780 homes outside the capital, the highest number since 2007. New data, from Connells-owned agency Hamptons, shows that...

One of the country’s leading buying agents has set out what’s hot and what’s not in London’s housing market as it...

Since 2017, The DPS has used the data we collect to track the rental values of properties across all regions of...

Londoners purchased over 60,000 homes outside of the capital in the first half of 2021 - and many of those buyers...

An agency says sellers should improve the attractiveness of their properties for sellers - so it's linked with a florist to offer...

The new Mayor of London, to be decided in an election tomorrow, has just received a six point set of demands...

The London housing market is enjoying the end of the lull before the storm, according to a leading buying agent. Sara Ransom...

One year on from the UK’s first stay-at-home order, London has been overtaken as the most searched-for location on Rightmove, according...

London mayor Sadiq Khan is reported to be asking the Prime Minister to review the status of ‘essential retail’ which can...

London’s largest independent estate agency, Dexters, suggests that the stamp duty holiday ending in 12 weeks time will have relatively little...

High end agency Hamptons has quantified the trend of Londoners quitting the capital in the light of the pandemic. It says that...

A survey of people currently buying property suggests as many as a quarter may pull out if they know they’ll miss...

It’s Halloween time, and while this year’s festivities may be muted there’s plenty to celebrate as far as agents’ good deeds...

An analysis of Countrywide branch data outside London has revealed that one in 10 applicants who registered to buy were from...

A study by Rightmove suggests that 94 per cent of buyers and sellers currently in the market are determined to go...

A major consumer survey of existing home owners and potential movers has resulted in a plea to government to allow house...

There’s been national newspaper publicity and widespread social media criticism of the Dexters estate agency which asked its staff to report...

Agents are consistently being told that they need to get on board with change. And one could quite easily make the...

New research shows that 77 per cent of consumers use portals to conduct property searches - meaning, surprisingly, that almost a...

Hello and welcome to the end of the week, which always means a round-up of our industry’s good work for charity....

Is that a headline appropriate for Brexit Day? Surely not. No, instead it’s a description of the results of a survey...

There’s been a long-term trend of growing numbers of Londoners quitting the capital to afford a home elsewhere - and typically...

A mortgage firm claims that around a third of all those who have moved homes since 2016 have done so -...

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

The topic of introducing rent controls in London crops up time and time again in our industry. But it’s been hitting...

A think tank is suggesting that micro-homes could be the answer to London’s shortage of available homes for first time buyers. The...

As 2018 draws to a close, it is fair to say that stretched affordability and uncertainty over the Brexit negotiations has...

Londoners paid some £30 billion on homes elsewhere in the UK this year - the highest amount since 2007. A report from...

If your New Year’s resolution is to move to a four bedroom home in London or the south of England, you...

Agents have continued to express their shock and opposition to the announcement by the government that it wants a stamp duty...

London has been identified as one of a number of ‘bubble risk cities’ in a report by Swiss bank UBS. In a...

We’re well and truly back from summer with a flurry of fund-raising to report on this week: thanks to each and...

Foxtons is embarking on a rare advertising campaign, using a company owned by the largest independent creative agency in the world,...

The business editor of right wing political weekly The Spectator says “what’s bad for Foxtons is on the whole likely to...

The number of owners selling up and moving home is at its highest level since 2007 with one exception - London.  The...

In 2017 the average seller sold their home for £92,466 more than they paid for it, having owned the home for...

The London-focussed estate agency Cluttons says chains in central London are becoming increasingly fragile thanks to general uncertainty in the wider...

The head of marketing at Rightmove has been named as one of London’s most influential people - a sign of the...

As those of us in the industry know, there is a fine balance to strike between disruptive technology – and the...

The number of existing home owners moving house fell two per cent in the first six months of 2017 compared with...

Being a leading world-class city comes at a price – they are the most expensive for occupiers and the most lucrative...

The start of Wimbledon means we’re reaching peak summer - even if the weather suggests otherwise. But distractions like sporting events...

A group campaigning for the reform of money laundering and other accountability laws claims that billions of pounds worth of investment...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, a new survey suggests the proportion of London buyers who have lost out on a purchase because of gazumping...

The Treasury should review the impact of stamp duty on London's market given recent political and economic changes according to London...

Hamptons International says that in 2016 the number of Londoners buying a home outside the capital reached the highest level since...

Retired home owners have gained an average of £26,000 tax-free this year from their houses, new analysis from an over-55s financial...

A remarkable survey conducted by a crowdfunding platform suggests that young Londoners on an average annual salary of £34,320 may have to...

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

New data from Knight Frank shows that prime property prices have dipped by 0.1 per cent in the three months following...

The importance of overseas buyers in underpinning increasing elements of the capital’s housing market and won support from an unlikely quarter...

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

In the capital, people will pay a premium to live near great transport links, and as we’ve seen from Crossrail and...

No fewer than 174,000 people moved home in the first six months of 2016 - a rise of nine per cent...

Rightmove has released a series of online ‘portraits of how London might look after the completion of a series of development,...

The new mayor of London Sadiq Khan has pledged to do all in his power to help make London “better” after...

The race to replace London Mayor Boris Johnson has entered its final few days, and like never before, housing is the...

A suggestion that up to 50 per cent of new homes built in London should be affordable has come in for...

The number of Londoners moving out of the capital, buying homes in other parts of the country, surged in 2015. Research by...

Housing minister has Brandon Lewis has thrown his weight behind the right of foreign investors to purchase buy to let properties,...

Labour’s housing spokesperson on the London Assembly wants estate agents and mayor Boris Johnson to take money laundering in property more...

Gentrification is a divisive, provocative issue, but why are estate agents (especially Foxtons) appearing to bear the brunt of the public’s...