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

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

Thousands of people will be invited to take part in new research to help provide information on why one particularly badly...

It’s taking an average of 17.61 weeks to sell a property across Greater London, with some parts taking up to 147 days on...

Momentum within London’s £5m-plus residential market slowed in 2023, according to Savills, but sales remain well above the pre-pandemic average. Research across...

Demand for residential property remains fragile despite a pause in interest rate rises, Knight Frank claims. While the number of new prospective...

The ValPal Network (TVPN) has launched a new automated direct mail service to ensure agents don’t miss out on ‘bonus leads.' It...

House prices near to the higher ranked schools in the capital are getting a welcome boost, according to research from London...

Properties in West London are currently selling quicker than anywhere else in the UK, new research suggests. Analysis by lead generation technology...

From Million Dollar Listing to Selling Sunset, we’re used to seeing real estate reality TV in full force on Netflix. Whilst...

Independent estate agent DM & Co. Homes has launched a weekly update on the regional housing market presented by managing director...

New research has uncovered the most densely populated areas for estate agency branches. Agency comparison website GetAgent’s internal data tracks the number...

Winkworth agents ranked second when it came to property exchanges in London last year, the franchise agency brand claims. A trading update...

The directors of London agent Churchill and Mathesons have taken on a Fine & Country license to cater for the upper...

Agents have been showing there is more to being charitable than just donating money. This weeks charitable exploits have a big focus...

New research from GetAgent has outlined where the UK’s best-performing estate agents are currently located when it comes to the price secured...

Winkworth has claimed to have sold more properties than any other agent during the first half of the year. The bold claim...

There is a staggering £117 billion worth of property currently up for sale across the UK property market, according to new...

Savills has released a revised five-year forecast for the UK’s prime housing markets, to reflect the strong levels of activity in...

Estate agents in Scotland are bucking the sales slowdown trend, Homesearch claims. The property data and prospecting platform, which recently launched north...

Agents are currently achieving 99.4% of the asking price on listings, research shows.  The figure, calculated by agency comparison website GetAgent based...

We are all acutely aware of the surge in demand for rental properties in and around the capital in the months...

The average home sale in England and Wales in 2021 achieved 98 per cent of the asking price - slightly improved...

Savills has set out its annual house price forecast for prime London - and after years of price falls, the prediction...

Forget en-suites and garden rooms, could you boost viewings with the postcode of a property? Research by comparison website Money.co.uk has identified...

A new survey of online and hybrid agents claims that they are now taking a 13 per cent share of the...

An estate agency has calculated precisely how much residential property has been sold so far this year, fuelled by the stamp...

Fine & Country has a new prime London licensee covering Notting Hill and Chelsea - but there will be no High...

Savills has upgraded its house price and transaction forecasts following the Budget - and prime London, especially the centre, is tipped to...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  Dan Muir, Area Sales Manager, LetsBid Property What is LetsBid and...

An agency says it now sells more prime London properties than any of its rivals. Chestertons makes the claim based on figures...

An international property and residency consultancy claims the sold prices of homes in some prime London locations have collapsed by up to 40...

A prominent London agency says cash buyers are securing substantial discounts in prime areas of the capital. The biggest cash discount currently...

Leadhub, a prospecting tool created by estate agency trainer Richard Rawlings, has been acquired in what he calls “a classic case...

Hunters has launched two additional franchise branches in Tower Bridge, London and Middleton, North Manchester, taking the company total to over...

With confirmation that Section 21 will be scrapped, how can agents get ready for life after no-fault evictions? The short answer is...

We all use postcodes in our daily life but we rarely pay attention to them. It has become a regular part...

Forget the Boris Bounce - this might be the Rightmove Retreat. A new tool produced by the portal measures price per...

  Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Catherine Shinerock - ARO Account Manager What is your ‘company name’...

An online agency’s claim that it sells homes “for free” has been disputed by a High Street rival - but the...

Yes, believe it or not, we’ve nearly reached the end of a whole decade. And what an eventful decade it’s been. We’ve...

Online estate agency Housesimple is extending its offer to sell homes for free to some postcodes in the Midlands.  The offer is...

Knight Frank has expanded its residential London network with the addition of a new South Bank office. While many agencies have shut...

Online estate agency Housesimple has appointed a company to handle its public relations and social media as it rolls it its...

Sellers across England and Wales achieve an average 95.94 per cent of their asking price according to research from estate agency...

Some estate agents are charging as much as 2.9 per cent commission according to a survey by comparison website GetAgent. While the...

Online agency Housesimple has become the first in the UK to sell houses for free. It says that based on the average...

House prices in 20 UK cities analysed by Zoopla show an average 1.7 per cent increase over the 12 months to...

Foxtons has revealed that its six branch closures announced towards the end of last year will save the company £3m in...

Zoopla’s Hometrack index of 20 major UK cities shows that London property prices are starting to stabilise after a three year...

Foxtons has ruled out further branch closures as it continues to struggle against what it calls “the continued weakness” of the...

Orchards of London is abandoning its current branch network and instead opening a single Hub from the middle of next month. Orchards,...

Two former High Street agents say their new hybrid agency has enjoyed an impressive launch gathering 40 instructions in just four...

An early sign of a possible recovery in the London housing market may be appearing, according to data consultancy Hometrack.  It’s just...

LonRes says transactions in prime locations in London dropped another six per cent when the second quarter of 2018 is compared...

The creators of a website using market data to define postcodes as hosting a seller’s market or a buyer’s market have...

The battered prime central London market is now suffering from the UK’s wider political volatility, the lack of stability of the...

Locations in the capital dominate a league table of locations where the largest numbers of so-called ‘high risk’ mortgages are taken...

House price growth in London has hit a seven year low according to Hometrack, with prices actually down across 42 per...

A major revamp of Northern Ireland’s Propertynews portal has been unveiled with one of the targets being to enhance the visability...

Yopa, the online agency with financial backing from Savills and LSL Property Services, is the latest online firm to launch a...

  A new league table showing how long it takes homes to sell on average in different postcodes across England and Wales...

PropTech start up OneDome, which supplies online booking and mapping tools, has teamed up with live chat service provider Yomdel in...

After a roller-coaster day on the Stock Exchange yesterday, Purplebricks has sought to defend itself against further possible share price losses...

The Advertising Standards Authority has upheld a complaint over a Purplebricks website statement featuring testimonials from clients; the complaint was made...

Prime London house prices are now 5.3 per cent lower than at the time of the EU referendum admits Savills, following...

The property market in northern England, supported in part by the Northern Powerhouse concept, has attracted a lot of media attention,...

The trading standards team of a county council has taken the unusual step of challenging the sales claim of an estate...

Following a strong start to 2016, particularly in the lower to middle range of the UK housing market, that lasted up...

The award-winning online agency HouseSimple has had one of its advertisements banned by the Advertising Standards Authority. The advert was a poster for...

Figures from London data consultancy Lonres show that since the referendum the average price cut on homes across most of central...

The Advertising Standards Authority has intervened in the case of an estate agency using information from Rightmove that was more than...

An online search engine claims it will allow estate agents to “make significant cost savings in advertising portal fees” with the...

For the second time this month, the Advertising Standards Authority has had to intervene over the wording of an ad from...

Regional estate agency Matthews of Chester says data provided by Rightmove led to an apparently-misleading advertisement which had to be altered...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an ad by online agency emoov after a complaint disputing the duration of a fee...

Recent debate about a London market slowdown has clouded the fact that the areas seeing price falls are almost entirely in...

An analysis of homes on sale in every borough of London shows up to a third of properties in some areas...

Some 51 per cent of postcodes within Greater London now have average property prices of £500,000 or more according to one...

Telephone calls taken for estate and letting agents increased dramatically in a number of high-end London postcodes since the general election...

As the nation finally gets to cast its vote at the polling booths, telephone answering specialist, Moneypenny has reported a dramatic...