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A building society is calling for stamp duty reforms to incentivise downsizing. A statement from the Suffolk Building Society says it believes...

We frequently read about how the traditional form of urban BTR has inspired the more recent model, suburban BTR. Our own...

A PropTech platform that links buyers with estate agents’ off-market listings has won £800,000 in new investment.   The platform is called...

With the exception of lockdown, new home registrations have bumped along consistently for the last 15 years. But things are changing...

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

The Register of Overseas Entities has hit the 30,000 registration milestone. The register, which is administered by Companies House, came into force...

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

Savills has appointed Mark Redfern to head its Notting Hill sales department. Having worked in the prime central London property market for...

Increasing numbers of homeowners are signing up to a property alert scheme to protect against fraudulent property transactions. New figures obtained from...

Higher interest rates have already softened UK prime regional markets but cities are proving resilient, Savills claims. Research by the agent shows...

Ever taken on a property where the sale has got tangled up in problems arising from the title register? It’s a...

Agents are being urged to ensure they are up to speed with anti-money laundering (AML) requirements as the market enters its...

The Connells Group has said it remains optimistic about the year ahead after reporting falling profits and a decline in exchanges...

Utility technology platform Muuvo has unveiled a range of new features as it celebrates its second birthday. The proptech firm provides a...

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

Staff at the Land Registry and its Scottish equivalent are among Government departments and civil servants who will take part in...

The number of anti-money laundering (AML) checks by agents declined in the third quarter but looks se to be up by...

Winkworth has predicted a sales demand rebound before the Christmas slowdown. A trading update from the agency franchise brand revealed that new...

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

Four estate agents have had their anti-money laundering (AML) registrations cancelled by HMRC so far this year. The taxman has published its...

Agents using Boomin have managed to convert more than 20% of SmartVal valuation requests into instructions. The challenger portal and lead generation...

Agency listings appear to be on the rise with major brands seeing a spike in valuations and instructions. Data from national agent Jackson-Stops...

In this piece, the team at Iceberg Digital look at whether the first cracks are appearing in the portals. For the last...

In this guest piece, the team at Lifesycle discuss a recent experiment they did with AI and estate agents' data and...

The Bruce brothers’ new portal Boomin has given its first statistics regarding usage following the launch of a new marketing campaign...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget did not ignore Capital Gains Tax after all.   For those selling UK residential property the deadline to file...

Chestertons, the London high-end estate agency chain, is reported to be looking for a buyer. Sky News says it’s hired Deloitte, the...

New data shows the strongest quarter for new build home registrations since 2007.  According to NHBC, the new home warranty and insurance...

A leading agency in the capital says it’s seen its strongest ever half year of trading. According to Chestertons’ latest market analysis,...

A leading agency says the stamp duty holiday is not a big influence on the current housing market frenzy - and...

Fundamental changes to the way in which agents can work were shown at the online launch of Lifesycle 2 by Iceberg...

Propertymark’s qualifications division says it’s seen a 30 per cent rise in apprenticeship registrations since the start of this year. In a...

Covid-19 has caused the number of new homes registered by UK house builders to fall 23 per cent in 2020. The NHBC...

The London sales market is slowing as Christmas nears but no significant impact has been caused by the second wave of...

Survivors and bereaved family members from the Grenfell Tower fire have joined forces with residents trapped in allegedly dangerous flats in...

Connells Group has announced its trading statement for the first half of 2020 - and its support for its staff is...

Buyer registrations and sales enquiries are reportedly back to pre-Covid levels. Completions, however, are lagging behind. This is probably down to...

The Covid-19 crisis has forced the UK property industry to rethink the way it operates. With little warning, the pandemic disrupted the...

New home registrations in the UK have risen over 80 per cent in the last decade, according to the NHBC. From 2010...

London-focussed high end agency Chestertons says it’s on the hunt for acquisitions after posting what it describes as a “record performance”...

Chancellors Estate Agents is next month opening its newest branch in Swindon - the first time the company has operated in...

Another estate agency has come out in favour of reservation agreements. High-end agency Chestertons says transactions currently fall through too frequently and the...

New figures released this morning by the National House Building Council show the number of new homes registered to be built...

The number of new homes registered to be built in the UK during July was nine per cent lower than a...

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

New free-to-list portals Residential People and Commercial People are aiming to secure one million property listings by Q4 2019. The portals -...

Data from NAEA Propertymark suggests there were 20 per cent fewer buyers in January this year than in the same month...

A new group called the Federation of Independent Agents has been set up as a network of like-minded independent agents who...

Winkworth has set up a dedicated land and new homes division. The franchise agency, which has most of its offices in and...

Conveyancing regularly adds unnecessary and costly delays to the home buying process and improvement could be far quicker than any efforts...

Latest figures on the central London market from franchise giant Winkworth show that viewings dropped 20 per cent in the third...

Clients of software provider Reapit can now integrate with leading sharing and online valuation service The ValPal Network. The objective is to help Reapit...

New data from Haart estate agency suggests that despite many homes sticking on the market, apparently would be buyers are locked...

The Haart agency group has given an upbeat picture of the housing market in its latest figures with instructions up 15...

Agents have welcomed more data suggesting the 2018 market is enjoying a robust start. Last week Rightmove reported a record number of...

As someone who spends his days peering into the PropTech world, one thing I’ve observed is the way in which certain tech prompts...

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

The on-off-on saga of the fledgling trade group for independent agents has taken another twist. The founder of the organisation suggests that...

First time buyer registrations in the past month have jumped nearly 20 per cent across the UK and almost 30 per...

The East Midlands, which consists of several areas including Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, and much of Lincolnshire, has an ancient...

There's bad news for the government in the form of house building targets on the eve of its long-awaited Housing White...

Housing minister Gavin Barwell says the government will provide “substantial investment” to ensure more transparency in leasehold tenure. “We are determined to...

The average number of house hunters registered at each branch of the National Association of Estate Agents rose to 333 from 287...

With the number of new homes being built across the UK still significantly below the level needed to meet demand, housebuilders...

A new website has launched with the aim of providing vendors, landlords, buyers and tenants with an easy way of registering...

A campaign has been launched to make Bristol the colour capital of the UK by ensuring that more homes are painted...

Mystery surrounds the fate of Fresh Chilli, a north of England-based hybrid estate agency that launched with a fanfare last autumn,...

An estate agency is claiming that the psychology of buying and selling has come to the fore following the EU referendum,...

The head of one of the country's largest estate agency chains has urged sellers to be more realistic with the asking...

An online petition against the privatisation of the Land Registry now has around 225,000 signatures with just over a week to...

The number of house hunters registered per agency branch in June was the highest recorded in 11 years according to the...

First time buyer registrations have plummeted over the past year and the average price of a home purchased by FTBs has...

Registrations for new private homes rose 17 per cent in the three months to the end of May when compared to...

A new portal aimed at investors looking to purchase buy-to-let property has reported that it has thousands of listings from agents...

Haart estate agency claims average UK property prices have risen 5.6 per cent annually and 0.9 per cent in March, to...