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Leading UK property auctioneer Bond Wolfe has broken through the £100 million barrier for sales to date in 2024, with its...

Having spent more than three decades working in the property sector, I’ve come to the conclusion I’ve pretty much seen it...

There’s been a broadly warm response from much of the property industry to Labour’s manifesto, but a call for more detail...

Hopes of an interest rate cut have been raised after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) suggested the UK economy is recovering faster...

Rightmove posted a bullish trading update and raised performance expectations for the year ahead on Friday but the markets seemed less...

Prime central London (PCL) property values flattened out during the first quarter of 2024 after six consecutive quarterly falls, figures suggest. Analysts...

Propertymark has joined growing calls for the Bank of England to cut interest rates. Interest rates have been held at 5.25% since...

A senior estate agent has described the Government’s pledge to compel councils to cut red tape in favour of development as...

As Conveyancers we operate in such a volatile market, where government economic policy can and has repeatedly made our professional lives...

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

The Bank of England is facing calls to hold off on raising interest rates this week. Its Monetary Policy Committee is set...

Changes to consumer behaviour usually arrive in waves. Most of the time these waves are small. They drive minimal impact, with...

A new report highlights levels of agency pay across the property sector. The figures, from Rayner Personnel’s latest Property Sector Salary Report,...

The publication of inflation figures by the government tomorrow will be a Do-Or-Die moment for the housing market, it’s been claimed. At...

The UK real estate industry faces a “particularly precarious” situation in the near to medium term, according to analysts at the...

The property market is braced for another interest rate rise today after the latest inflation data shows the cost of living...

This May, we saw almost twice as many properties listed for sale across the UK than there were in May 2022....

The UK is on its rear - fact. Whilst many were breathing a sigh of relief after surviving a global pandemic,...

Homes have decreased in size every decade since the 1950s, despite house prices rising exponentially, according to new data. Intriguingly the average...

A financial adviser has hit out at the Bank of England, claiming homeowners and business should be furious about its interest...

February marked the slowest month for residential transactions in almost a decade, HMRC data suggests. New HMRC transaction figures shows the taxman...

Lower mortgage rates than the end of last year and slowing inflation should sustain the housing market as it enters the...

House prices will still come under pressure despite a better-than-expected economic outlook, Knight Frank claims. New analysis from the property brand claims...

I’ve found myself in contemplative mode this week, looking forward to the future and remembering times past. In the immediate future –...

The property industry's self-destructive, point-scoring way of working just doesn’t cut it. When low stock means low cash flow low, agents and...

Half of first-time buyers say house prices would need to fall up to 20% for them to consider making a purchase,...

If early indications are to be believed. Yes! 2022 was the year that offered so much at the start and then hit...

The removal of housing targets risks a deeper recession and high house prices for generations to come, a planning expert has...

Agents will need to articulate their worth in the new challenging property market but shouldn’t rush to drop fees, industry trainer...

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

Only 16% of property listings are currently compliant with upfront information rules, it has been claimed. Agents are currently required to include...

Over the later part of 2022, we have experienced unprecedented economic and political turmoil, which will remain as we head into...

Is it really just a year ago that we were nervously wondering whether yet another Christmas would be Covid-affected? Little did we...

Industry veteran Harry Hill has become the latest to warn of a drastic decline in house prices. The Rightmove founder and former...

A report earlier this month warned that conveyancing firms should stress test their businesses for a sharp decline in work volumes. These businesses...

Agents have been warned against “panic selling” when seeking an exit amid the tougher economic conditions. Lucy Noonan, founder of property sector...

HMRC has fined estate agents over £500,000 for anti-money laundering (AML) breaches in the past two months. Yet despite property managers...

The property sector braced itself for the chill wind of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement this week. His pre-Budget comment that he...

House prices are set to fall by 9% over the next two years, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) claims. The OBR,...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will have a go at balancing the nation’s books today and the main thing agents seem to want...

Property professionals heralded the end of the low interest era yesterday after the latest Bank of England base rate hike. The Bank...

And…breathe. For a while back there, the only certainty for the housing market was uncertainty. That isn’t to say the election of Rishi...

With UK interest rates on the rise, following the mini-Budget announcement (now since almost entirely reversed), and several lenders pulling mortgage...

Many experts are predicting that house price growth will slow for the remainder of the year as the cost of living...

As the summer draws to a close, and we begin to move towards the final few months of the year, I’m...

Property professionals and commentators have begun pondering an official definition of a house price crash. It comes amid forecasts that house prices...

As uncertainty, apprehension and anxiety increasingly infiltrates every aspect of our professional and personal lives, to ‘keep calm and carry on’...

The housing market is in a better position to weather a downturn than in previous economic cycles, Zoopla claims. The portal argues...

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

A prominent analyst has suggested three ways Purplebricks could boost investor confidence and contend in a recessionary market. Davy Research released an...

A property expert has warned that the Bank of England’s gloomy economic forecasts and last week’s rise in interest rates could...

The auction industry could end up taking advantage of the upcoming downturn in the property market, because it provides the quickest...

Housing Secretary Greg Clark, who is also the Levelling Up Secretary, has been caught up in the storm surrounding Rishi Sunak...

Double-think, for those who have not read George Orwell, is when people are expected to accept two conflicting beliefs as truth,...

Recent months have seen interest rates rise from historic lows back closer to pre-financial crisis levels as the Bank of England...

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

Stanley Michael Brecker, an iconic and revered figure on the London commercial property scene for more than 60 years has died...

Estate agents are in a unique position – we handle the meeting of people’s aspirations probably more than any other profession....

Buyers and sellers should focus on the Bank of England’s actions rather than words when it comes to the housing market,...

The Covid-19 crisis has been marked by so-called high-wealth households amassing savings and benefitting from rising house prices far more than...

The biggest news story in town this last week – which has brought people who don’t usually like or watch football...

An insolvency specialist is warning that the real estate sector of the UK is seeing more firms in financial distress despite...

A leading analyst has told Knight Frank that the end of furlough this autumn is unlikely to kill off the housing...

It’s 12 years since we opened our doors with the Fine and Country estate agency in Drayton on April 1 2009. The...

Transactions and house price forecasts for the mainstream housing market are being revised upwards by Savills following the Budget. The new predictions follow an...

At the back-end of last year and the start of this, the biggest news stories in town – besides debates over...

By any available metric, Belvoir had a good 2020. Already a well-known and well-established name, it was highly praised for its...

A housing index says the market continues to defy Coronavirus and Brexit worries with asking prices up 4.9 per cent in...

New figures from the Bank of England show that mortgage approvals rose 7.0 per cent in November to reach 105,000 -...

It’s that time of year again. Black Friday has been and gone and the run-up to Christmas is well and truly...

What are the best ways for a letting agency to generate additional revenue and stay ahead of the competition? Management fees are...

Recent figures emanating from the mortgage and housing market suggest that – since lockdown was ended in mid-May – transaction levels...

There are 140,000 more buyers waiting to complete on their properties right now than there were this time last year. The claim, by...

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

There is no doubting that 2020 has been a challenging year for all industries, with the lettings market being no exception. Following...

How to stay on top of arrears during a global pandemic Many have speculated, though much of it is anecdotal – how...

An estate agent in Liverpool has adopted the unusual technique of urging vendors to sell now “before prices crash.” Clearly unworried about...

The letting industry has come a long way over the past few years, embracing regulation and taking pride in doing good...

There’s good news from the think-tank the Resolution Foundation, which says the threat of negative equity because of the Coronavirus crisis...

With access to finance being such a hot topic at the moment, more and more estate agents are turning to commercial...

A new study reveals that two thirds of property professionals expect a pay rise in the next 12 months, despite Coronavirus and the recession. Of 1,100 professionals questioned...

Figures from Zoopla quantify how Coronavirus is changing the market, with houses selling significantly faster than flats. The latest market report from...

With the UK officially in what has been described as the single worst national recession in the world, one agency has...

It was officially announced last week that the UK is in recession for the first time since 2009, and although this...

The number of jobs advertised as available in the UK real estate sector plummeted from 14,000 at the end of the...

Many young people are stuck unable to purchase their first home even if house prices fall in the wake of the...

If a week is a long time in politics (an old phrase, for younger readers), then a year is a very long...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I'm Darren Loftus and it says Commercial Director on...

OnTheMarket says it still aims to be the number one portal, but the acting chief executive has revealed a far more...

There’s no doubt we’re in a less-than-rosy phase of the property cycle. This, however, is not another doom and gloom piece:...

A survey of sellers by a high-end agency suggests that around a third expect price falls of six per cent or...

Zoopla’s head of research says a stamp duty holiday could encourage more home owners to move which in turn could help...

Rightmove has taken the unusual step this weekend of issuing its usual monthly asking price index on a Saturday instead of...

The market could take five years to recover from the Coronavirus crisis after possible double-digit percentage price falls and fast-increasing repossessions.  That’s the...

As the impact of coronavirus unfolds, we are in constant conversations with customers to understand the challenges they’re facing and to...

Over the last two weeks we’ve seen the country come to a standstill and the property market effectively put on ice...

Where else to start? Since my last Natter two weeks ago, all our lives have changed more than we could ever...

There’s been a huge change in the way estate agencies operate in recent years, with far more focus on marketing properties...

The coronavirus outbreak has highlighted once again how fragile and interconnected our societies have become. We don’t know yet how dangerous Covid-19...

Some buying agents have batted away the many signs of an improving housing market but one says the Boris Bounce is...