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New year, old worries: what’s happening in the housing market? We’ve asked experts and collated forecasts, 15 in total. On the one...

Halifax is predicting an 8% decline in house prices next year. The lender’s housing market review has forecasted that higher energy bills...

Over the later part of 2022, we have experienced unprecedented economic and political turmoil, which will remain as we head into...

Property professionals heralded the end of the low interest era yesterday after the latest Bank of England base rate hike. The Bank...

If recent headlines are anything to go by, estate agents and the wider property industry are not just feeling the heavy...

The Bank of England increased interest rates to their highest level since the financial crisis yesterday, prompting fears of higher cost...

A leading firm has claimed that the number of properties advertised for sale in Scotland has almost halved over the last...

Connells Group - the largest agency group in the UK after its purchase of Countrywide - has today announced its financial results for...

The Bank of England has confirmed plans to withdraw the requirement for lenders to conduct interest rate stress tests on mortgage...

It is no longer significantly cheaper to rent compared with making monthly mortgage payments, Rightmove claims, but raising a deposit remains...

The Skipton Building Society, which owns Connells estate agency, says the house-selling arm helped it reach a record profit pre-tax profit...

The Chartered Institute of Housing, set to unveil its latest annual housing review next month, has indicated that to no one’s...

Only 6.8m homes in England now have mortgages, just 28 per cent of the overall market and about two per cent...

Demand will continue to outpace supply well into next year.  That’s the view of the Reallymoving House Price Forecast, based on an...

House prices rose by the most in almost 15 years in September ahead of the end of the stamp duty holiday.  The...

A government report suggests that house prices are rising at three times the national rate in some rural and coastal areas...

An unexpected claim was made over the weekend - that the long-running stamp duty holiday was not, after all, behind the...

Average house prices increased by 13.2 per cent over the year to June - the highest annual growth rate since November...

One of the leading housing market analysts says some of the extreme house price rises seen this year could unwind during...

Our long-awaited ‘Freedom Day’ approaches. From Monday all of the restrictions, introduced since the Covid-19 pandemic made an impact across the...

The Halifax is reporting a 0.5 per cent monthly drop in house prices, plus a fall in the annual rate from...

Right now it seems that another day means another house price record, an all-time high for transactions, and a conveyancing log-jam...

Increasing optimism at the success of the Coronavirus vaccine programme and the relaxation of restrictions have contributed to house prices rising...

A leading agent says that for every house he puts on the market, he has over 40 requests for viewings -...

For many, the funeral of HRH Prince Philip will be a solemn affair, while for some it will also be a...

First time buyers are now saving more than £800 a year in comparison with tenants, new analysis suggests.  The Halifax says the...

Rightmove says the excess of demand over supply right now is bigger than at any time over the past decade -...

Estate agents have kept up the pressure on the Westminster government to consider some kind of tapered ending to the stamp...

With a new President elected and the old one reluctant to move out, this is a good time to see how...

The National Association of Estate Agents wants the government to initiate a mortgage guarantee scheme to encourage more 95 per cent...

The only certainty at the moment is ongoing uncertainty. It’s something we’ve got used to in 2020, but it’s still not...

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

Many young people are stuck unable to purchase their first home even if house prices fall in the wake of the...

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

Restrictions introduced a decade ago after the financial crisis are holding back many first time buyers from purchasing a home. That’s the...

At the moment, it somehow seems like tempting fate to think too far into the future, especially in terms of the...

The peak of the 2020 sales market is likely to be September instead of the usual early summer - but that...

The coronavirus outbreak has highlighted once again how fragile and interconnected our societies have become. We don’t know yet how dangerous Covid-19...

In another positive sign for the housing market, every region of the UK has seen a price rise according to the...

Savills says the decisive General Election result appears to have suddenly turned the market around and gave “a strong close to...

It has been said time and time again that the uncertainty around Brexit is causing, well, uncertainty. As I write this, the...

Prospective property buyers have been provided with several reasons why they should stop delaying purchasing decisions due to Brexit uncertainty. Buying agency...

Although property transactions have, unsurprisingly, recently seen a decline which is almost certainly in part due to the ‘B-word’, this doesn’t...

The property website Home has identified the four regions of the UK where it says the current market slowdown is at...

The number of owners' properties being repossessed jumped 15 per cent year on year in the second quarter of 2019. There were...

House prices fell unexpectedly for the second month in a row in July according to the Halifax - but the mortgage...

The price of property coming to market fell by 0.2 per cent or an average of £656 in the past month...

Agents have reacted gloomily to the release of figures showing that the number of new mortgages offered to both movers and...

Government figures show the UK’s annual house price growth now being down to 2.5 per cent - the lowest rate since...

While even agents of the calibre of Savills struggle in today’s market - see the agency’s figures here - it’s a...

The buy-to-let sector, which has been under sustained pressure for a number of years now thanks to tax changes designed to...

The latest transaction figures from HM Revenue and Customs make depressing reading - a three per cent drop between May and...

The housing market “is clearly currently struggling to gain traction” and any real upturn ”will remain elusive over the coming months”...

Coutts bank has issued a starkly pessimistic snapshot of prime London’s housing landscape, reporting price falls, valuation mark-downs and slower sales...

New figures from UK Finance, the umbrella body for finance houses, show gross mortgage lending in September rose to £21.4 billion...

Winkworth says solid performances from its lettings and property management services, plus new franchise deals, have compensated for a challenging sales...

Customer service is a definitive priority for prospective borrowers when choosing a mortgage lender.  This is according to a study of over...

As the mainstream mortgage market braces itself for yet another clampdown on buy-to-let lending, a growing number of property investors are...

The housing market is approaching something of a standstill as the summer holiday season begins according to a downbeat report from...

One of the biggest stories post-Brexit is how the housing market has proven to be more resilient than anyone could have...

Savills is warning that while low interest rates will probably keep house prices relatively static, transaction volumes are likely to remain...

Ten years ago this month (April 2007) tenancy deposit schemes were first introduced in England and Wales.  You need to go a...

There are more first-time buyers (FTBs) finding a way on to the property ladder than at any time since the Financial...

The number of home buyers in London dropped to a four-year low in 2016 while the number of loans taken out...

The highest number of 'risky' mortgages issued during 2015 was in South West London, according to new analysis of the latest...

There is no doubt that 2016 managed to catch the world by surprise on more than one occassion.  But will 2017 be...

The Nationwide is the latest major industry forecaster to predict a sluggish average house price rise of two per cent in...

Graham Norwood recently wrote that it’s going to be harder than ever to predict the shape of the property market in...

Savills is the latest estate agency to warn that economic uncertainty following the Brexit vote will trigger two years of low...

It is a tedious fact, but the housing market is underpinned by economic fundamentals. This won’t be a surprise.  However, at a...

The huge rush to acquire buy-to-let property in the first quarter of the year ahead of the stamp duty change deadline...

Confidence in the UK housing market has slumped according to an annual survey conducted by economic consultancy ING.  The survey, called Homes...

One of the first major pieces of research to come from an estate agency following the EU referendum suggests the short-term...

With the new Formula One season now well underway, we delve into the fast lane to take you on a whirlwind...

Worsening affordability caused by a sustained period of higher-than-earnings house price growth, should curb demand and result in a slowdown in...

Last time out I spoke about the beginnings of a PropTech revolution, with two major London-based events in the offing over...

House prices dipped by 0.8 per cent in April, the first month of the stamp duty surcharge and the period when...

House prices in the three months to March were 10.1 per cent higher than in the same quarter a year earlier...

The credit agency Standard & Poor’s has taken the radical line of accusing the Bank of England’s low interest-rate regime of...

Property sales in Scotland for first-time buyers and home movers are increasing three times faster than the rest of the UK...

Britain’s biggest mortgage lender, the Halifax, says the housing market will slow next year with average price rises of four to...

The latest blow to the prime central London market has come from Knight Frank, the high end agency, which has slashed...

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

The director of housebuilder Taylor Wimpey says “a 15 year property boom, with no bust, is more than a distinct possibility”...