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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...

The number of property sales registered with HMRC rose in July but remains below pre-pandemic levels, official data shows. HMRC property transactions...

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

A local pub has been named as the most important lifestyle amenity when buying a home. Jackson-Stops’ latest Property Pulse Survey of...

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...

Uncertainty triggered by the new Labour Government and taxation concerns that await the 30th October Autumn Budget, have made many wealthy...

The real estate industry is one of the industries hardest hit by falling numbers of self-employed, having seen the third-largest decline...

Shortly after the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act was granted Royal Assent in May, we surveyed members of the Association of...

The latest Greener Homes Attitudes Tracker from NatWest and S&P Global, reveals that younger homeowners are more in favour of policies...

The Government may be silent so far on support schemes for first-time buyers but the UK’s largest lender now appears to...

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

Property taxes in Scotland raised almost £640m over the past twelve months, according to analysis of the latest statistics by agency...

In today's rapidly evolving property market, the focus on reducing transaction times for individual properties is at an all-time high. Various...

Rightmove is launching a new national marketing campaign to coincide with what is hoped to be a busy autumn selling season. The...

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

Self-employed agency brand eXp UK has surpassed the 600 member agent threshold. It comes after recruiting a further 100 agents since the...

Political and economic stability is encouraging more movement in the housing market, according to new figures released by online valuation specialists...

TV presenter and property expert Martin Roberts has been named as host of the 2024 Variety North West Property Awards. Known for...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has warned this October’s Budget will be “painful.” Speaking as MPs return to Parliament next Monday, he warned...

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

Knight Frank has left the door open to revise its house price forecasts after the chancellor’s first Budget in October. Chancellor Rachel...

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

With Labour’s election victory, a new EPC target has been announced. In mid-July, the new Secretary of State for Energy Security and...

Estate agents working with international individuals can face a significant risk of encountering money laundering activities. The complex nature of cross-border...

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

The construction and property industry has the second highest tenure in the UK, with employees remaining with a company for 4.4...

The Housing Scotland Bill must be changed to reflect reality. Following a recent report by the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA) which...

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...

Chestertons Global has agreed a strategic collaboration with Romanian real estate agency Top Estate Team.  Established in 2018, Top Estate Team has...

House price forecasts have improved in just one month and significantly from a year ago, analysis shows. The Treasury regularly compiles independent...

Fewer than 50,000 mortgages have been completed with the support of the Mortgage Guarantee Scheme, official figures show. The scheme was launched...

Estate agency acquisitions expert Lucy Noonan has revealed the misogyny she has faced in the sector. Speaking on the latest episode of...

In the current rental market, where legislative changes and tax reforms loom large, many landlords are expressing doubt about the viability...

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

Northern Ireland portal PropertyPal has announced a strategic merger with Propertynews, uniting two of the country’s leading property websites.  Both brands will...

Humberts, one of the UK’s oldest agency brands, has announced plans for its first international expansion with the opening of a...

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

Super prime agency The Private Office: Real Estate is looking to score with sports stars and celebrities. It has appointed Elisha Warburton...

Estate agency CRM Alto has been given a mobile upgrade. Alto on mobile already lets agents view their calendar, manage their diary...

Average asking prices for new property listings had their usual summer drop this month but Rightmove is predicting a busy Autumn. The...

More than 20 property organisations and professionals have been named as finalists in the upcoming 2024 Variety North West PROPs awards. The...

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...

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

Demand for new-build homes in London eased in the run up to and just after the General Election but more recent...

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...

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

Leaders Romans Group (LRG) has unveiled redesigned estate agency boards to promote its carbon-neutral status. In collaboration with supplier Kremer Signs, the boards...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has appointed Victor Olowe as the chair of its new Valuation Assurance Committee (VAC).  Olowe...

Homeowners of five-bedroom properties without a mortgage could unlock almost £500,000 by downsizing, research suggests. Analysis by Rightmove highlights the cash-equity release...

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

Fine & Country has been recognised as the most recommended national estate agency brand for the second consecutive year.  YouGov research among more...

Homeowners need greater protection from poor quality housing amid the Government’s plans for 1.5m new homes, an industry body claims. That’s the...

Councils are warning agents to abide by the rules following complaints from residents and businesses about the positions of For Sale...

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

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

The director of a London estate agency claims a buyer needs an income of £100,000 a year to purchase a home...

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

Now that a new government has been elected and interest rates appear to be on their way down, many buyers who...

Google estimates that 70% of a customer’s buying decision is made online before they contact you for the first time. And who...

The three months of May-July provide welcome news for both active buyers and sellers, and those thinking of buying or selling...

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...

One of the most popular recent additions to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show has been the Balcony and Container Gardens category....

The most predictable event of the year is underway. After months of talking about how taxes won’t rise for working people,...

A prominent westcountry agent has joined Moveli, which operates the self-employed broker model. Jonathan Mowday, previously of Stags in Devon, has joined...

The Competition and Markets Authority has raised an unusual issue concerning Barratt’s £2.5 billion deal to buy rival house builder Redrow...

Savills has produced a strong ‘half year report’ to shareholders - but with an interesting take on how it’s operating in...

Price premiums on waterside properties are at their lowest in five years, according to Jackson-Stops’ annual Waterside Review.  While waterside homes in...

A prominent financial analyst is warning that the hopes for a housing market resurgence over the autumn could be derailed by...

A new study by Barclays Bank suggests that despite most Brits either owning a home or aspiring to be future homeowners,...

The UK’s largest multi-brand property franchise business, TPFG, says a brace of acquisitions in the past six months have been “transformational”. Since...

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

Software platform Alto Marketplace says it now has no fewer than 16 integrations across 13 categories including anti-money laundering, buyer onboarding...

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

The wife of a jailed banker has agreed to forfeit a house in Knightsbridge worth approximately £14m and a golf club...

A little known family-run agency - Griffin Property Co - says it is finally relaunching as Emoov. The purchase of the Emoov...

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...

A building society is calling for stamp duty reforms to incentivise downsizing. A statement from the Suffolk Building Society says it believes...

Some 74% of developers believe that the government setting targets for councils would be the key to unlocking planning issues faced...

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

Hamptons has announced a new international partnership that will launch the brand ‘in association with Hamptons’. The deal is with Italian agency...

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

A poll of surveyors shows strong support for the idea of pre-sale surveys. When asked whether the new Government should introduce mandatory...

New figures from Connells suggest the company remains Britain’s biggest estate agent, handling one in 10 transactions. And in its latest report...

Estate agents are being asked to do too much when it comes to material information rules but there appears to be...

Knight Frank has launched a strategic partnership with a legal technology firm that aims to transform the way properties are sold. The...

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

One of Spicerhaart’s top performers has been rewarded with promotion to the estate agency director role covering Essex. Dan Augustin had previously...

At last! Well, they say small is beautiful and, if you’re in the property sector right now, you’d better believe it! The...

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

SINCE the new Labour government was elected in early July, one phrase has been circulating more than any – grey belt....