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The number of people moving home increased by 10% in the first half of 2024, with detached properties the most popular,...

Mortgage rates are dropping faster than many expected, Rightmove claims. Nationwide unveiled a 3.99% five-year fix for home purchases this week –...

According to Landmark Information Group’s recent Insights Report, both sales and purchases have seen substantial increases in the time taken from...

LSL Estate Agency Franchising is home to one of the UK’s best-known estate agent brands - Your Move. There are several...

A lack of new investment rather than landlords selling-up is causing rental market supply issues, research suggests. The latest Hamptons Lettings Index...

A global payments issues that could have hit home sales has now been resolved, the Bank of England has confirmed. A statement...

Cash buyers accounted for the highest percentage of market activity seen in the past decade and, so far this year, they’ve...

Agents in the East of England could face the toughest task filling the void left by first-time buyer Stamp Duty relief...

Competition from Dubai and concerns about taxation under the new Labour Government have led the world’s super-rich to spend less and...

Demand for energy efficient new homes is on the rise, according to recent data from Knight Frank. A recent buyer sentiment survey...

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer will have the removal vans booked this morning after the General Election result. Sir Keir is set...

The UK housing market has returned to its pre-pandemic size, Savills claims. Research by the agency brand suggests the total value of...

Homebuyers are spending an average of £51,784 to move home in the current market, although this climbs as high as £86,000...

The share of new-build homes sold before they’re complete has dropped to a decade-low, research suggests. Hamptons’ annual off-plan sales index has...

More than one in seven (13%) buyers purchasing properties in the UK are using funds from overseas to fund all or...

The Buying Solution (TBS) has promoted Will Watson as the new head of the buying agency. TBS is the independent buying consultancy...

The number of properties purchased using a Help to Buy ISA-backed deposit fell to record lows last year, official data shows. Government...

For most of us, estate agents are key when it comes to the biggest sales and purchases of our lives. With the...

Just as the Nationwide showed the impact of rising mortgage costs on house prices, so another raft of lenders have made...

The proportion of buy to let properties purchased in Southern England fell to a record low last year, continuing a trend...

An expert says a change in Stamp Duty Land Tax, coming into effect on June 1, will alter how investors and...

Big demand for small properties has helped to drive growth in UK property prices in the early months of this year,...

The JLL Prime Central London Index saw signs of improvement in the first quarter of this year, with 4.5% more properties...

The share of homes purchased by first-time buyers so far this year has been pushed to record levels, but most are...

Borrowers are currently rolling off relatively favourable two-year fixed-rate deals agreed at the start of 2022, but the pain from higher...

If you want to hear of a tale for our industry’s times - featuring housing shortages, planning disputes, rampant  inflation and...

The UK Government should make better use of property taxes to deter foreign buyers, boost property supply and raise tax revenue,...

Today, I am reflecting on the Chancellor’s surprise Spring budget decision to abolish multiple dwellings relief for Stamp Duty Land Tax...

Conveyancers shouldn’t give buyers and sellers assurances about building safety remediations unless they are confident doing so, the Law Society has...

Conveyancing fees increased by around 6% last year, analysis suggests. Property Solvers’ annual research of legal practices in England and Wales has...

The number of mortgage approvals hit a six-month high in December as falling mortgage pricing and renewed buyer confidence “breathed new...

The number of first-time buyers fell by a fifth last year but this cohort still made up the largest proportion of...

Mortgage rates have continued to fall this morning, with Santander releasing a new market leading deal below 4%. The lender has unveiled...

London’s ultra-prime housing market for multi-millionaire and billionaire buyers rose by 10% in unit sales and 25% by value of property...

Home sales and house prices may have struggled in 2023 but more affluent buyers and sellers may not have noticed. Analysis by...

Average house prices fell annually for the second consecutive month during October, Land Registry figures show. The data may only reflect activity...

House prices increased for the second consecutive month in November, according to Halifax. The lender’s latest House Price Index recorded monthly growth...

It was actor Charlies Sheen who said: ‘I have one speed. I have one gear. Go!’ The same might not be said...

Builders are calling for Stamp Duty exemptions on more energy efficient properties to help tackle the housing crisis. A new 10-point plan...

Mortgage brokers have hailed a ‘watershed moment’ as Nationwide became the first lender in months to release a sub-5% home loan...

Fewer buyers are purchasing at auctions despite more sellers resorting to them. Quick buying firm House Buyer Bureau analysed auction stock that...

Prime London Residential, which describes itself as London’s largest single branch agency, has acquired 21 Grosvenor Gardens from Grosvenor, securing the...

UK consumers are feeling financially worse off than they were a year ago but this sentiment isn’t necessarily reflected when it...

The Government is facing calls to resurrect the Help to Buy Equity Loan scheme. The housing support scheme, which provided a Government-backed...

The Government’s First Homes Scheme is set to be the first state-backed initiative to use digital property logbooks. It comes after a...

Mortgage lending has dropped and buyers are no longer stretching their affordability limits, UK Finance claims. New data from the banking trade...

Record numbers of homebuyers are set to get on the property ladder with the help of the “Bank of Family” this...

UK homebuyers have expressed support for more digital tools to reduce the administrative burden of purchasing a property yet few have...

After months of negative messaging and anti-development sentiment, espoused both nationally by the Government, and locally during recent local election campaigning,...

The process from a Local Plan allocation to a digger on site typically stretches beyond the length of a five-year political...

The number of mortgage approvals edged up for a second month in a row during June but remains below 2022’s monthly...

Chestertons has announced its second acquisition in six weeks and third of the year. The London agent has acquired boutique Chelsea agency...

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

Fortune favours the brave, as the saying goes. So, when you consider how upfront material information can and does make the...

So much has changed in the world of property of late that it’s easy to be behind the times - and...

Connells group chief executive David Livesey has announced his intention to retire during 2024. Highly respected throughout the industry, Livesey joined Connells...

The rising cost of living and higher mortgage rates are forcing potential homebuyers to put their property plans on hold, research...

A man has been jailed for fraud after conning potential property buyers out of nearly £16,000. Jaspal Singh Juttla, 64 of Northwood...

They dropped like a stone - that’s the verdict on property sales from a leading business analyst. Sarah Coles of Hargreaves Lansdown...

The proportion of new homes sold off-plan across England & Wales has slipped to the lowest level since 2013, new data...

First-time buyers in the UK are paying almost a third more to get on the property ladder than they were five...

A company aiming to “disrupt the conventional homebuying space” has raised £8m in a Series A equity funding round. Wayhome offers a...

The level of mortgage approvals for home purchases bounced back in February, Bank of England figures show, but buyers are borrowing...

First-time buyers are persisting with Help to Buy purchases as cut-off-point approaches for the housing support scheme. To be eligible for an...

Higher mortgage rates have meant that new buy-to-let purchases are increasingly being funded by cash rather than a mortgage, new research...

As is generally the case, we didn’t start out with solutions, we started with questions…. two, actually. The first was, ‘Why does...

A high-profile charity is calling for a Stamp Duty overhaul, local buyer restrictions and extra charges on property purchases by landlords...

Over the last few years, the property industry has been focusing on the need to provide more information to buyers ‘up...

Agents may be regularly debating increasing their fees but property buyers and sellers are already used to paying more for conveyancing,...

A senior banking figure has called for Stamp Duty rebates on property purchases to help create greener homes as research shows...

January was a record month for mortgage searches but mainly for remortgaging rather than home purchase, data from an industry software...

Lenders approved the lowest number of mortgages since May 2020 in December. The latest Bank of England data shows mortgage approvals for...

Agents and property professionals are spreading plenty of charitable love ahead of Valentine's Day. See some of the inspirational examples below. Whatever the...

Challenger portal and homebuying support platform OneDome has acquired broker CMME Mortgage and Protection from the private equity-backed CMME Group. CMME Mortgage...

Usually, I enter January with a spring in my step - optimistic about what the future holds.  Two years ago, after the...

Estate agents have the challenging job of creating relationships and trust with their customers, who will make crucial life decisions such...

Rich Americans will dominate ultra-premium property purchases in 2023, Beauchamp Estates claims. The luxury agent suggests that the strength of the dollar...

The rush to complete property purchases continued throughout November but fewer sellers are now coming to market, a major estate agency...

Fewer buyers are leaving London to purchase property elsewhere, research suggests. Analysis by Hamptons has found that the share of Londoners purchasing...

Energy efficiency will become key considerations for buyers next year while those with cash will be preferred purchasers, Jackson-Stops has predicted. The...

A property tax consultant has hit back at suggestions of a housing market crash, suggesting that overseas investors will help sustain...

As we move closer to the end of the year, we invariably begin to think of what 2023 will bring, how...

Mortgage borrowers who paused home purchasing plans may be getting a respite from rising rates after new data shows average pricing...

A West Midlands estate agent has backed Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s plans to reverse cuts to Stamp Duty, claiming they should never...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has outlined plans to reduce Stamp Duty cuts outlined in his predecessor’s mini-Budget. In September, former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng...

An estate agent has kicked off a bid for Christmas number one with a World Cup-inspired song. Ealing-based estate agent Marco Helliwell,...

One of the UK’s largest building societies is urging the government to provide more homebuying support as research warns of a...

Propertmark is calling for a 12 month exemption on additional Stamp Duty rates to boost rental property supply. The issue will be...

Property buyers aiming to reduce their Stamp Duty bill with “mixed-use” purchases are being warned that HMRC is sniffing out those...

Let’s be completely honest - as challenges go, estate agents are up against it trying to persuade reluctant vendors to take...

The threshold for the Welsh version of stamp duty is set to rise, following on from the stamp duty cut for...

The stamp duty cut announced by the government in last week’s mini-Budget could save homebuyers across England more than £1 billion...

The confirmation of an immediate Stamp Duty cut last week may have meant delayed sales could complete, but there are concerns...

The much-rumoured Stamp Duty cut has been confirmed, increasing the thresholds before the property tax is paid. Delivering his mini-Budget this morning,...

An Estate Agent Today reader poll has revealed opposition to climate risks being outlined to buyers when purchasing a property. A poll...

First-time buyers are set to wait up to two years longer to get on the property ladder due to the cost...

House price growth slowed in August but remains in double digits, Nationwide figures have revealed. The lender’s August House Price Index shows...

Two senior estate agency figures have given their views on the prospects for the property market as commentators warn that longer-term...

Buyers are putting off property purchases by at least one year due to increasing living costs, research claims. Research by savings websites...

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