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

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

The Scottish housing market is proving remarkably stable according to figures from the Edinburgh Solicitors Property Centre. The average selling price of...

In the first quarter of the year, the UK real estate investment market demonstrated resilience and active participation. Despite ongoing uncertainties,...

HAVING spent decades closely following the UK and American property markets, I’ve seen and read many reports comparing the two.  But...

Property taxes in Scotland exceeded £623m over the last twelve months according to analysis of the latest statistics by a leading...

Southwark, Barnet, Camden, Croydon and Newham are the top five London boroughs with the highest number of vacant properties amid a...

I'll start with a confession. I am not an estate agent - I'm a marketer. But since I joined the industry...

Over recent years, as successive governments have tightened lettings legislation and increased the tax burden on landlords, some with investment properties...

Social media has moved on from being a “nice to have” to a necessity for most businesses, but how do you...

The Property Redress Scheme (PRS) has formed a new member panel that will be chaired by senior industry figure Eric Walker. The...

The property industry often gets a bad rep, despite all the work that agents and others in the sector do for...

Property professionals are hoping for calmer markets after Rishi Sunak was confirmed as the new UK Prime Minister yesterday. Sunak won the...

The National Association of Professional Sourcing Agents (NAPSA) has partnered with The Property Ombudsman (TPO) to boost compliance and working practices in...

Fewer than 20% of Scots homeowners paid more than 83% of all house purchase tax north of the border, according to...

Renewed calls are being made for an “urgent review” of stamp duty as research shows rising house prices mean first-time buyers...

Property events and functions are now back in full swing, with 2022 likely to be the first ‘normal’ year for this...

It’s been revealed that HM Revenue & Customs scours the listings on both Rightmove and Zoopla to assess whether property investors...

Few political policies have such a ring of the past as rent controls - they were last seen in this country...

A company says it will fund first time buyers’ bids to get on the property ladder by matching them with property...

Today sees the government’s Spending Review, with Chancellor Rishi Sunak taking centre stage as he presents a 12 month spending plan to...

Just when you thought the housing market was beginning to calm down... along comes a likely vaccine for Coronavirus. One of the country’s...

A London property investment consultancy says 22 per cent of properties it’s advised overseas purchasers on this year have been bought sight-unseen. London...

The property market has bounced back with all of the expected resilience and flexibility that is its hallmark since it reopened...

Tenant enquiries and property viewings unsurprisingly slowed this spring, due to the necessary government restrictions brought in to manage the pandemic....

With no clear end in sight and conflicting Government advice as to whether we should work from home or go to...

When it comes to the future of the property market in the wake of Covid-19, there are two main schools of...

A new portal launches today with 100,000 listings and a pledge to target buyers largely ignored by established websites - investors. It’s...

As expected within the property industry, the Chancellor announced a stamp duty holiday in his Summer Statement. This now means that...

Large scale increases in and changes to the Capital Gains Tax regime could seriously hurt the housing market, a senior figure...

Two companies that persuaded property investors to pay as much as £25,000 for a parking space have been wound up in...

A tax and legal specialist says there’s been a huge rise in stamp duty refund cases between March and June -...

We are still living in highly extraordinary times, perhaps evidenced best by the fact that the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, was...

After a challenging period for the UK property market, recovery is very much on the cards and the end to uncertainty...

Insolvency firm Begbies Traynor says the estate agency and property industry sector of the UK economy has seen a big rise...

In just over two weeks, the UK population will head to the polls for the fourth general election since 2010. Of course,...

A tax expert is urging owners of second homes, as well as property investors and existing landlords, to seek independent financial...

We know that the tenant fee ban has cost letting agents dearly, with an estimated loss of £300 million paid to...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Tony Strover. On my business card it says...

A leading agent has suggested that some parts of the UK would face “a property exodus” if Boris Johnson’s proposals for...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Jake Gready Managing Director NEXA Bristol What services do you provide? buying - selling...

The leasehold scandal has received plenty of press coverage, with horror stories of people living in homes that are impossible to...

An accountancy trade body has revealed that last year it briefed MPs - including the Prime Minister and Housing Minister of...

If you’re an estate agent and have a property that is difficult to sell or the homeowner simply needs a fast...

A survey of owner-occupiers, landlords, property investors and insolvency practitioners has revealed that Brexit is the single biggest concern when it...

London estate agency Kay & Co says it is targeting Chinese buyers following research data produced by a portal. The China property...

A Cotswolds-based agency has expanded to a second office and says it has plans to develop further in the region. Move was...

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

Historically, short-term rentals have been an unattractive business for the majority of estate agents and property managers. Scarcity of demand from tenants...

Peter Robinson, CEO of AIPP – Association of International Property Professionals – shines a light onto the international property market. Some UK...

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

Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his first Budget this week pledging extra funding for the NHS, transport in the Midlands and the...

Residential property has performed far better than any other property-type in terms of appreciation over the last year, according to new...

Not many of us have a multi-million property portfolio, so the results of the MSCI / IPD UK property index for...

A data portal called REalyse and aimed at professional property investors is launching today after raising £500,000 in seed capital.  The site...

The rapid growth in popularity of buy-to-let in recent years, fuelled in part by the failings of the pensions industry, has...

No longer just a domain for investors, developers and property traders, the auction room is now the preferred option of buying...

The rental market has had to face a raft of changes over the past year, including the introduction of the 3% stamp...

If you provide a service, you expect to be paid for it. Sound fair? But with the forthcoming ban on tenant...

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

Fears raised over the UK housing market in the wake of the Brexit vote have so far proved to be ‘wide...

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

Marsh & Parsons is the latest agency to show a price drop in prime central London - homes there were down...

Plans for the Northern Powerhouse scheme, designed to rival London and the South East as the main driver of economic growth...

With a number of agent partner programmes available nationwide, estate agents can often increase business by offering sales by auction, especially...

In today's budget, the Chancellor, George Osborne, has announced a number of measures which will impact the property industry.  The Chancellor confirmed...

There has been a surge of new crowdfunding platforms aimed at people who either cannot afford to purchase their own buy...

The controversial UK property portal Houser is shortly launching an internet site marketing homes for sale across the United Arab Emirates,...

A web portal which radically changes the way investors search for their next investment property has signed up 5,000 agents, less...

Public relations is big business these days. Whole companies are set up purely to provide this service. Major corporations have in-house...

A new website has been launched to fight back against the attack George Osborne made in the Summer Budget on the...

Housing minister has Brandon Lewis has thrown his weight behind the right of foreign investors to purchase buy to let properties,...

A new campaign says it’s not just the buy to let sector that will be penalised by changes to landlord tax...

Introduce your properties to over 500,000 investors, increase sales and management stock... WHAT IS PRING Pring.co.uk is the largest investment property portal...

When Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, recently announced that interest rates would have to start to rise sooner...

With pension reform, council licensing changes and a General Election on the horizon, many are anticipating a boom in the buy-to-let...

The Independent Network of Estate Agents says it is worried that the so-called ‘pension freedom’ created by relaxations in over-55s accessing...