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A consumer group and a removals firm claims to have identified the busiest day of the year for house moves -...

Conveyancing fees are rising but remain below highs of pandemic during the Stamp Duty holiday, research suggests. Comparison website reallymoving’s latest Conveyancing...

The proportion of mortgaged homebuyers has hit its highest level for four years, research suggests. Analysis based on conveyancing quote requests on...

Single first-time buyers need to save for almost 6.5 years or 76 months to raise a 10% deposit and cover moving...

Average house prices will fall 3.6% in the first quarter of the year, according to forecasts by reallymoving.com. The research is based...

Buyers and sellers, along with their agents, appear to have started the new year with renewed confidence as Rightmove data shows...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will deliver his Autumn Statement this afternoon amid rumours of Stamp Duty reforms and support for first-time buyers. The...

Falling Stamp Duty and survey fees have pushed down the cost of moving. Comparison website reallymoving analyses the cost of moving home...

A house removal specialist and a consumer property group reckon they’ve discovered the busiest day of the year for moving. It’s Friday...

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

Record energy bills and the cost-of-living crisis has prompted a surge in downsizing activity over the past 12 months, new research...

Estate agents are charging movers fees of 1.4% on average to sell their homes, new research claims. An article by consumer watchdog...

The mainstream UK housing market is overvalued by up to 20 per cent and the London market overvalued by as much...

A housing market forecast based on conveyancing instructions says average prices will dip this month. Average prices will fall by 1.1 per...

Demand will continue to outpace supply well into next year.  That’s the view of the Reallymoving House Price Forecast, based on an...

The average cost of buying and selling a home in England this year has soared from £6,877 before the end of...

The property market is unlikely to enter a last-minute rush before the final stamp duty holiday ends in October, research claims. Analysis...

A report claims the flurry of transactions over recent months has been down mostly to families moving into larger homes and...

The post-lockdown housing market boom is showing signs of a significant slowdown according to a new forecast. The prediction, from the quote...

An unusual price forecast based on conveyancing quotes suggests the housing market is to continue busy over the summer with more...

A house price index that is routinely one of the most pessimistic about the market claims the New Year will see...

Staying on top of the numbers and figures in a constantly changing industry can be stressful. Changing property prices can be...

Consumer group Which? says the stamp duty holiday has cut more than £4,000 from the average cost of moving home -...

Typical house prices in England and Wales are set to fall over the rest of summer according to home moving service...

New research of the buying habits of first-time buyers in the UK we’ve undertaken here at reallymoving.com shows that Shared Ownership...

Now we’re well into the second month of the year, we have reached a crucial point in the ongoing plans to...

The typical house move in 2019 turned out to be just nine miles - and large numbers of buyers moved within...

House prices in England and Wales are set to fall over the next three months according to a price index produced...

Election time means setting out your stall and getting support - so how about a vote of confidence for those agents,...

House prices are forecast to dip as the year ends and stagnate at the start of 2020 according to the latest...

Buyers and sellers changing their minds lie behind almost a third of fall-throughs - the single biggest reason why transactions collapse,...

A new league table of High Street agents’ charges published over the weekend reveals the locations where agents charge an average...

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

This is the busiest week of the year for house moves, with the single busiest day being Friday according to a...

A new house price index that in June predicted big house price rises over the summer has now repeated its claim,...

Some 115,000 house moves are delayed annually because of funds not being cleared on time or because sellers have not vacated...

An analysis of transactions agreed this spring suggests there will be a surge in prices which will ultimately be reflected later...

Home movers from the European Union have become less interested in moving to the UK, according to new research. Analysis of over...

First time buyers purchasing new homes using the government’s Help to Buy equity loan scheme paid on average 12 per cent...

An annual study of transaction charges shows that house moving costs are now at a record average high of almost £10,000...

More than 75 per cent of first time buyers have benefited from the changes to stamp duty thresholds for introduced a...

A property comparison website has made a defence of the controversial Help To Buy initiative, claiming it “acts as an important...

Is Help To Buy going to remain in existence for much longer? Question marks over the scheme’s future are being raised through...

As the property market gears up for a busy autumn period, agents and property firms have been equally busy bolstering their...

A study of house price affordability has revealed that train drivers can afford a greater proportion of homes in the UK's...

Given the level of resource and energy being put behind upping the number of first-time buyers in the UK, you might...

A new study reveals precisely how little first time buyers apparently understand about the buying process.  In a survey of 500 people...

The comparison site Reallymoving, which allows users to get online quotes for conveyancers, surveyors and removal firms, has acquired the property...

Oh we do love a busy Agents Do Charity page, and this week’s is busy indeed - thanks to everyone for...

A survey released this morning shows that estate agents’ fees have risen only four per cent in real terms since 2007...

Are you protecting your data right? This may sound like the sort of direct warning you get from cold callers or...