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17 August 2024
From: Features
Almost half of properties sold in prime central London (PCL) this year had a price reduction, research suggests. The latest data from...
18 June 2024
From: Breaking News
Prime London property sales are taking longer to go through once under offer, which is creating a vicious cycle of fall-throughs,...
16 May 2024
From: Breaking News
Local property market performances vary from 12% gains to price reductions of as much as 24% since the pandemic house price...
13 May 2024
From: Breaking News
Price reductions fell to an 18-month low in April as transactions recover faster than prices, new industry data reveals. Figures from Hamptons,...
10 May 2024
From: Breaking News
Choosing the right prospecting software can be the difference between finishing the year on a high or finishing it below target. Although...
03 May 2024
From: Breaking News
Many agents may perceive that the need to negotiate only comes into play at the point of offer if a property...
30 March 2024
From: Features
Lower mortgage rates gave the housing market a boost in February with supply and sales all moving higher, Zoopla claims. The portal’s...
29 February 2024
From: Breaking News
The housing market is "turning a page" with fewer price reductions and higher achieved prices, Hamptons claims. A January market activity update...
14 February 2024
From: Breaking News
Property supply and demand have rebounded since the start of the year amid falling mortgage rates but sellers are still making...
29 January 2024
From: Breaking News
A record 50% of homes sold in England & Wales last year were purchased following a price reduction, Hamptons analysis has revealed. The...
10 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Hundreds of properties are having their asking prices cut each day, new analysis reveals as agents and sellers continue to try...
07 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Rightmove is anticipating a 1% average drop in national asking prices by the end of next year. The latest forecasts from the...
04 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Agents are securing sales closer to asking price but properties are taking longer to sell, new data suggests. Analysis by Hamptons, using...
05 October 2023
From: Breaking News
Fewer sellers are willing to cut their asking prices, Chestertons claims. The agent said vendors in the capital have already priced in...
21 September 2023
From: Breaking News
30 August 2023
From: 60 Second Interview
Price reductions have reached their highest level in at least nine years according to estate agency Hamptons. Some 50 per cent of...
08 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Agents are facing challenges of rising price reductions but fewer listings are being withdrawn and the level of fall-throughs is dropping,...
12 July 2023
From: Breaking News
Agents have been urged to price realistically as Rightmove revealed data showing the impact of asking price reductions. Tim Bannister, director of...
28 June 2023
From: Breaking News
A high-profile agency brand has hit out at “cheerleader’ estate agents” who it claims encourage vendors to push up the asking...
13 June 2023
From: Breaking News
Hometrack has launched a property listings data product for agents to help analyse their local market. Powered by Zoopla data, the product...
04 May 2023
From: Breaking News
The number of listings that were reduced during January to March increased by an average of 102.5% compared with the same...
19 April 2023
From: Breaking News
Purplebricks was the top brand for new listings and sales agreed during March, new data shows. A new quarterly market report launched...
17 April 2023
From: Breaking News
Taking a proactive approach with viewing generation can increase foot flow through properties and generate more offers, and ultimately close more...
28 March 2023
From: Sponsored Content
Last month marked the slowest February to sell a home since 2013 but prices are improving, new analysis claims. Insight from agency...
08 March 2023
From: Breaking News
Record numbers of prime properties were reduced in price last month as the pandemic boom is officially over, LonRes claims. Analysis by...
16 February 2023
From: Breaking News
Vendors are cutting asking prices by as much as 20% on average to secure a sale, new research claims. Quick-buy firm House...
08 February 2023
From: Breaking News
Agents are seeing more stock coming to the market but Zoopla is warning about seller expectations. The latest Zoopla House Price Index...
30 January 2023
From: Breaking News
Independent estate agent DM & Co. Homes has launched a weekly update on the regional housing market presented by managing director...
20 January 2023
From: Breaking News
The estate agency sector is close to being hit by a fall-through per minute as an industry veteran warns that the...
05 December 2022
From: Breaking News
Industry veteran Harry Hill has become the latest to warn of a drastic decline in house prices. The Rightmove founder and former...
05 December 2022
From: Breaking News
One in 15 homes formerly sold by agents are returning to the market after the original sale collapsed, new data shows. Analysis...
28 November 2022
From: Breaking News
An estate agency firm is urging sellers to resist cutting asking prices. Tom Cranenburgh, of GetanOffer, which describes itself as a quick...
14 November 2022
From: Breaking News
Agency stock has hit the highest level so far this year but it seems to coincide with a decline in demand...
17 October 2022
From: Breaking News
Buyer demand has dropped by a fifth in the fortnight since the mini-Budget while supply has increased from worried homeowners, Zoopla...
14 October 2022
From: Breaking News
Property demand has dropped while price reductions have increased in recent weeks, data shows. Two separate pieces of industry data give new...
04 October 2022
From: Breaking News
Properties that are slow to sell are typically commanding a discount of up to 17% off England’s average house price, research...
12 September 2022
From: Breaking News
Agents are being urged to discuss pricing with vendors after research shows 52% of listings have been on the market for...
01 August 2022
From: Breaking News
Former Countrywide boss Bob Scarff has warned that estate agents have become too reliant on alerts, emails and text messages for...
07 July 2022
From: Breaking News
The property market is starting to get hit by price cuts and slower sales times. Research by Zoopla has highlighted that one...
30 May 2022
From: Breaking News
In this latest video interview zoning in on the current property market, and the stats, facts and data behind its present...
25 May 2022
From: Features
A free to list portal has launched a tool which it claims will predict a seller’s propensity to switch agents. Residential People...
31 January 2022
From: Breaking News
The market may be soaring in most of the country but there are still locations where significant numbers of properties sell...
12 November 2021
From: Breaking News
Newly instructed properties across the country dropped by 10 per cent in August compared to July’s numbers, according to Homesearch. The company,...
07 September 2021
From: Breaking News
Price renegotiations are underway between buyers and sellers in danger of missing Wednesday’s stamp duty holiday deadline, says Knight Frank. The agency...
28 June 2021
From: Breaking News
The London housing market is enjoying the end of the lull before the storm, according to a leading buying agent. Sara Ransom...
24 March 2021
From: Breaking News
Recently I heard the stat that over 50% of property is sold with the second agent, which was backed up by...
10 March 2021
From: Features
Buyer feedback is a key resource for agents who want to keep on top of market changes and so handle vendors’...
09 December 2020
From: Breaking News
Almost a third of property sellers (29%) say they won't accept a lower offer for their property, according to new research. Online...
18 September 2020
From: Breaking News
An unusual property sales concept, which signs up vendors and then effectively sub-contracts their sales to strongly-performing local estate agents, has...
18 August 2020
From: Breaking News
We recently asked readers for their questions to the portals - the questions they couldn’t really ask their local reps, but...
09 December 2019
From: Breaking News
A London estate agency chain says It’s seen a 59 per cent surge in the number of its clients who have...
21 October 2019
From: Breaking News
Cluttons has downgraded its forecasts for the housing markets in London and the rest of the UK for the remainder of...
12 September 2019
From: Breaking News
There’s anger in the industry over an article in The Times which accused agents of overvaluing properties - although why this was happening...
08 April 2019
From: Breaking News
Analysts at Berenberg Bank have sharply reduced their price target for Purplebricks by over 80 per cent from 470p to 80p, accusing...
05 April 2019
From: Breaking News
An anonymous estate agent has renewed his attack on Purplebricks after an article in The Times at the weekend. Estate Agent Today...
01 April 2019
From: Breaking News
An estate agent who operates an online blog has told The Times that Purplebricks has faked price reductions. Other tricks which the agent reveals about...
30 March 2019
From: Breaking News
Homes that require major structural work have asking prices which are on average £40,000 below the market norm, according to research...
09 November 2018
From: Breaking News
I am currently in the back of a taxi. The deadline for this piece is looming and I am desperate to...
31 October 2018
From: Breaking News
Rightmove is reporting a mini-boom as the autumn market gets into gear, with a surge in buyers and a one-month rise...
17 September 2018
From: Breaking News
A downbeat report from property investment specialist London Central Portfolio says “there are very few causes for optimism in the domestic...
29 August 2018
From: Breaking News
Rightmove says the housing market is now into a ‘summer sale’ as newly-marketed property shows an average asking price fall of...
20 August 2018
From: Breaking News
The London market continues to produce unexpected results with two high end agencies reporting contrasting fortunes. Half year figures released by Chestertons...
07 August 2018
From: Breaking News
An estate agency chain has produced strikingly successful sales figures for the first half of the year - evidence, it says,...
05 July 2018
From: Breaking News
More stock and longer times on the market are combining to create a surge in asking price reductions according to a...
13 June 2018
From: Breaking News
Property sellers in the South of England are having to accept asking reductions in order to achieve a sale. Data from Hometrack...
30 May 2018
From: Breaking News
That’s it. I’ve given up. The lull has continued and it’s becoming quite a bore. The price drop hasn’t worked. The revamped...
16 May 2018
From: Breaking News
Average prices dropped another 1.1 per cent in prime central London in the year to March according to new figures released...
06 April 2018
From: Breaking News
Great Expectations was a fantastic novel-cum-social-history written by Charles Dickens, who once lived in my adopted home city of Portsmouth. But these...
17 June 2017
From: Features
The average number of prospective buyers registered in each branch in January was 425, a 10 per cent rise from December...
28 February 2017
From: Breaking News
Another agency says price reductions of 10 per cent or more are often found in some prime central London areas such...
27 January 2017
From: Breaking News
Prominent top end London estate agent Trevor Abrahmsohn says some homes in the higher levels of the market may now have...
07 December 2016
From: Breaking News
Knight Frank says overseas buyers are not only benefitting from a significant drop in the effective price of central London properties...
14 November 2016
From: Breaking News
Mid West Displays has established a reputation as a leading manufacturer of window & interior display solutions and products. The LEDMAG...
02 November 2016
From: Sponsored Content
Figures from London data consultancy Lonres show that since the referendum the average price cut on homes across most of central...
26 October 2016
From: Breaking News
A property website monitoring the housing market claims that the propertion of homes cutting their prices whilst on the market has...
13 October 2016
From: Breaking News
Given the uncertainty that shrouded the immediate build up to, and aftermath of, the EU referendum, the current lettings market in...
16 September 2016
From: Features
The morning after the EU referendum, and Westminster, Britain, Europe and the world were left in shock at the news that...
05 August 2016
From: Features
Buying agent Johnny Turnbull claims that 83.2 per cent of the properties sold in prime central London in the second quarter...
13 July 2016
From: Breaking News
Data company Propcision has quantified the scale of asking price reductions on some prime central London properties, with many dropping by...
20 May 2016
From: Breaking News
Winkworth, the franchise giant with most offices concentrated in or close to London, says the high-end of the capital’s prime market...