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

Mortgage lenders are expecting a quieter year for home loans in 2024. Forecasts from banking trade body UK Finance suggest lending for...

There is rarely a quiet year in the property market. And 2023 has felt like the usual rollercoaster at times. On...

Mortgage arrears and claims for repossession are on the rise as official data shows how much homeowners are still struggling in...

There’s been a sharp rise in mortgage arrears as high interest rates have hit the housing market - and now there’s...

The National Association of Property Buyers’ Jonathan Rolande gives his take on another manic week for the property market. Like many working in the...

The long-awaited Renters Reform Bill was finally introduced in Parliament in May, but is it really good news for tenants? Several...

The National Association of Property Buyers’ Jonathan Rolande gives his take on a manic week for the property market. This is the week when...

The National Association of Property Buyers’ Jonathan Rolande gives his take on a manic week for the property market. I dearly hope I...

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

ANY REPOSSESSION is a tragedy for the person involved, and latest figures indicate the number of victims falling victim is currently...

The cost of living crisis and rising interest rates will lead to a decline in property transactions and mortgage lending next...

Is it really just a year ago that we were nervously wondering whether yet another Christmas would be Covid-affected? Little did we...

Increasing numbers of property buyers are now taking out mortgages with terms of more than 30 years, new figures show. The latest...

Home repossessions have begun to rise but remain below pre-Covid levels, Government figures show. The number of mortgage possession claims increased by...

The share of homeowners struggling to repay their mortgages could hit the same peak levels of the 2008 financial crisis by...

Empty nesters may be considering downsizing their home this September as their children set off to university, whilst other downsizers are...

Property professionals and commentators have begun pondering an official definition of a house price crash. It comes amid forecasts that house prices...

Agents and property professionals haven't let the summer holidays slow down their fundraising efforts. If there are charitable endeavours you think the...

A County Down-based estate agent has acquired a local rival and launched a new “stop-gap” accommodation service for buyers and sellers...

The Mayor of London is demanding ministers take sanctioning Russian oligarchs seriously by moving immediately to seize assets that can then...

A poll of Conservative voters shows strong majorities for higher taxes on second homes and empty properties, and tougher demands on...

Mortgage lenders have announced a voluntary moratorium on possessions from today, December 13, until Tuesday January 4.  A statement from the umbrella...

Rising inflation triggered by the supply chain crisis following Brexit and the pandemic may undermine recent house price gains according to...

Taking photographs or video footage during a routine property inspection can be a contentious subject. While landlords have every right to...

Auction House has announced its highest-ever monthly sales total, with its sales in May just topping £70m.  The firm sold 397 properties...

Property commentator Phil Spencer says lockdown - which we know will now last for another six weeks at least, and possibly...

The Financial Conduct Authority is extending the ban on repossessions by two months until April 1, in light of the pandemic. The...

It’s that time of year again. Black Friday has been and gone and the run-up to Christmas is well and truly...

Property is considered to be a safe investment. The buy-to-let market is booming, fuelled by a generation unable to get on...

What are the best ways for a letting agency to generate additional revenue and stay ahead of the competition? Management fees are...

There’s one key takeaway for agents from the weekend’s announcements on the next England-wide lockdown - the housing market is staying...

Recent figures emanating from the mortgage and housing market suggest that – since lockdown was ended in mid-May – transaction levels...

The announcement of the Renters’ Reform Bill in the Queen’s speech last December caused a collective groan across the country from...

The Financial Conduct Authority has published new draft guidance for lenders which will set out options available to their customers in the extended...

The market could take five years to recover from the Coronavirus crisis after possible double-digit percentage price falls and fast-increasing repossessions.  That’s the...

One of London’s most experienced estate agents says there has been a very significant surge in foreclosure sales in part of...

The typical estate agency fee paid by a seller has actually fallen one per cent in the past year according to...

A new analysis of privately owned homes with mortgages outstanding shows repossessions have risen in London - but they’re down in...

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

With Boris Johnson winning the Conservative leadership election and becoming Prime Minister, he has spent his first few days in office...

A recent study has revealed what the biggest moving home fails are in the UK, including damaged furniture, scratched walls and...

A lawyer appears to be suggesting that ‘clean and tidy’ clauses be inserted into house purchase deals, allowing buyers to retain...

Spicerhaart claims that it achieved an average of 104.29 per cent against the market value on properties that were taken into...

The Money Laundering Regulations require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation to...

A couple of weeks ago, SoftBank’s Vision Fund led a whopping $200 million investment injection into Clutter, the US-based on-demand storage...

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

There’s been another drop in mortgage arrears and possessions for owner occupiers - although an increase for some elements of the...

A disciplinary investigation by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has blown the lid on the infamous fee-fixing cartel scandal involving estate...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today - a slim edition given how quiet the industry is at the...

The housing market may have seen some depressing figures of late but there’s good news about mortgage arrears - they’re at...

Here’s how the LetsBid Property team is helping them do it. A new property platform called LetsBid has launched in the...

When a tenant failed to pay any rent after the first month his tenancy last year, the landlord did not expect...

This week, the obvious thing to write about would be easyProperty's merger with GPEA. It's such a huge and potentially influential...

The number of properties taken into possession last year declined by almost 25 per cent and has hit the lowest level in 35...

The number of mortgages in arrears is now at its lowest level since records began more than 20 years ago.  Data from...

The Council of Mortgage Lenders says the number of repossessions in the first quarter of 2016 was 2,100 - the lowest...

A mortgage servicing company is forecasting that the number of UK houses repossessed this year will represent only 0.09 per cent...

Repossession levels in the north and south of England have closed by 80 per cent since the end of the recession,...

More than half of the new homes being built today are not big enough to meet the needs of the people...

Negativity. There’s a lot of it about in the lettings industry right now. Where you might see barriers, hurdles and more...

We have reached an interesting point in what has been a most unusual year for the property sector.  The latest figures from...

The latest data released by the agents’ favourite house price source, the Land Registry, shows that prices in England and Wales...

The repossession rate has fallen again in the second quarter of 2015, and is at the lowest rate since records began. The...

Every estate agent will know those nightmare clients, the ones with a nice property that they’ve just crammed full of every...