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The latest RICS Residential Property Survey found the UK's residential property sector brightened slightly in July.  Average mortgage rates lowered slightly during...

Changes were made to Class MA commercial to residential permitted development rights in February which mean that there has never been...

Agents pocketed record amounts of fees from auction with iampropety during the second quarter, research suggests. It comes as iamproperty’s Online Auction...

Two years of rising interest rates, the withdrawal of first-time buyer support, planning delays and a string of broken promises has...

We’ve probably all had enough of people campaigning in recent weeks but I have to admit to one disappointment with the...

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

My Property Box – a North East-headquartered residential estate agency – has received a multi-million pound investment from BGF, one of...

Commercial property has historically been viewed as the more profitable asset class but more recently, residential property values have taken over....

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

OnTheMarket is starting to rival Rightmove when it comes to new-build stock, the portal has claimed. The CoStar-backed brand said it has...

Detached homes in Wales are the slowest property types to sell across the UK and take an average of 92 days...

Fall-throughs are costing home sellers an estimated £909m a year, according to new analysis. Upfront information provider Home Sale Pack has analysed...

Stress tests are a valuable tool for measuring resilience and the Scottish residential property market was put through a fairly gruelling...

The Spring Budget last Wednesday rounded out to be mostly a disappointment for the property industry, but it was also perhaps...

Last year was not one for the faint hearted. Now, at last, the market appears to be experiencing a gradual uptick. Recent...

The Residential Property Surveyors Association (RPSA) has announced an investigation to uncover the tensions between developers and surveyors on snagging. The trade...

Following the disappointment of his Autmn statement, many property professionals were hoping for a kick-start to property sales in Jeremy Hunt’s...

Now the dust has settled on what many described as an ‘underwhelming’ Budget, we take a look at what two business...

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has almost halved its house price forecasts after another relatively quiet fiscal update for the...

I was chatting to a genuine city gent the other day (someone who has enjoyed a career in suits, ties, shares...

A first-of-its-kind degree has launched that focuses on residential estate agency. The Swindon campus of the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) has launched...

Savills has kicked off 2024 with two key external hires and an internal move into its country house team. James Toogood has joined...

Estate agents sold a record-breaking number of properties via online auction in 2023, research suggests. The latest Online Auction Index from iamproperty...

While our own Government continues to tentatively encourage homeowners to carry out energy-efficient measures, they will no doubt be eagerly watching...

The negative effects of higher mortgage rates on affordability were overestimated throughout 2023, TwentyCi claims. The property data firm highlights that house...

Homebuyers are snubbing period properties, new analysis suggests. Research by Shawbrook suggests UK buyers are now prioritising sustainability and efficiency over style,...

Yulia Barnes is founder and managing partner of Barnes Law   2024 is set to be another significant year for the property...

Residential property auctioneer iamproperty is creating 18 new job opportunities for people to join the fast-growing world of auction, as consumer...

Paul Johnson, Head of Corporate Sales at Leaders Romans Group (LRG) Commercial property has historically been viewed as the more profitable asset...

Simon Jackson is Managing Director of SDL Surveying If we look at the latest data, it looks like there is something of...

The annual ESTAS Awards have seen 1,000 people from across the industry witness a string of winners, including new categories celebrating...

Chestertons, one of the UK’s oldest estate agencies, has been sold to a European real estate services and technology group. The buyer...

The first Women in Estate Agency Award winners were announced at the ESTAS last week. The ESTAS Awards marked its 20th anniversary last...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities are constantly developing, helping to improve efficiencies across all sectors and disciplines. Recent data* highlights that the...

The potential takeover of OnTheMarket (OTM) by US property giant CoStar Group could finally provide a viable challenger for Rightmove, it...

 Hilary Grayson is a Director at Sava focusing much of her time on the development of new qualifications to enhance skills...

Demand for residential property remains fragile despite a pause in interest rate rises, Knight Frank claims. While the number of new prospective...

Irwin Mitchell has expanded its property practice with an investment in Scotland-based law firm Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie (WJM). The two firms...

At a recent Women in Residential Property Group online coffee morning, I was given the opportunity to lead the session, gaining...

Agents are being urged to take extra care when dealing with sales on behalf of someone who lacks mental capacity. Kate Stockdale,...

Shares in Foxtons rose 3.42% yesterday off the back of its interim results. The London agent’s half-year update shows while lettings revenue...

A major auctioneering service is gearing up for its 10th anniversary and 75th in-room property sale later this week.   Auction House...

Increasing numbers of sellers are turning to auction rooms to combat the cooling housing market conditions, research suggests. Upfront information provider Moverly...

Sale stock levels have surged by 15% since the start of the year due to the ‘stagnant market,’ research claims. Quick-buy firm...

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

Property supply appears weighted toward couples and small families, an agent has claimed. Analysis by self-employed agency brand eXp UK analysed current...

Sotheby’s Realty International is set to return to the small screen next week. Its agents will feature in Channel 4's prime residential property...

At the recent Home Buying & Selling Group UFI Roadshow in London, it was gratifying to note that panel members and...

Property supply has improved during the first quarter of 2023 following house price corrections and a settling of interest rates, according...

A claims management company has criticised a long-awaited document released by the Property Care Association (PCA) on the use of the...

I was delighted to read recently about the creation of the first ever ‘register of logbooks’ in the UK, which offers...

Average house prices have declined by their largest level on a monthly basis since the end of the 2021 Stamp Duty...

UK residential property market intelligence brand Dataloft has signalled plans to expand internationally after it was acquired by PriceHubble. As part of...

Companies that own UK residential properties have under a month to revalue and tell HMRC if any are worth more than...

Award-winning sales progression platform mio has uncovered the home moving experiences of nearly 200 movers and evaluated what this means for...

A claims management company (CMC) is in the process of helping with more than 500 claims from homeowners to get refunds...

The auction market has changed drastically with many business owners accepting that face to face auctions are in some cases, no...

Happy New Year, to you all. Now that we’re all back in harness and Christmas feels like a long-distant memory, I...

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

Property consultancy Walker Singleton has acquired Brighouse-based estate agency Daniel & Hirst as the firm further expands its residential property operations...

In this guest feature, Dillon Darbar, counter fraud manager at Network Homes, sets out why estate agents need to be aware...

The housing market isn’t definitely facing a 2008-style cliff-edge moment, Knight Frank claims. New commentary from the agent has asked if October’s weak...

A surveyors’ trade body has retracted guidance that previously claimed homes with spray foam loft insulation could be impossible to sell. The Residential Property...

Daniel Cobb Estate Agents has been awarded the Ministry of Defence prestigious Silver award as part of the Armed Forces Defence...

The ESTAS Customer Service Awards – which are often described as estate agency’s version of the Oscars – took place last...

Legal claims over Japanese knotweed are on the rise, agents are being warned. Invasive plant consultancy Environet UK estimates that around 900,000...

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

The property jobs market hasn't taken a summer holiday this month. Here are some of the latest moves that took place during...

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

The latest White Paper from the Institute of Residential Property Management (now part of The Property Institute) has called for customers...

It was announced back in February this year that PEXA, the Australian FinTech/PropTech that enabled the world’s first fully digitised property settlement...

Hidden amongst the annual results released by Purplebricks on Tuesday – which saw revenue and profits down, as well as a...

Automation is the direction the industry is moving in and it’s gathering pace every day. Forward-thinking agents are using automation and...

A network for women working in the residential property industry has signed up a trio of high-profile sponsors. Residential property industry suppliers...

There’s talk of 50-year mortgages being introduced, loans that, along with the property they finance, could be passed to the next...

Proptech firm iamproperty has formed its own committee of agents to discuss issues facing the property market. The auctioneer and sales progression...

There have been many articles about ‘digitising upfront information’, following the publication of DLUHC’s Levelling-Up white paper and National Trading Standards...

The remaining amount of agency stock still for sale remains at the same level as last year, TwentyCi claims. The property data...

New homeowners are being warned about cold calls from scammers advising them to make speculated stamp duty refund claims. The warning comes...

Estate agents use property technology each and every day for residential property transactions, but is there more they can do with...

Belvoir has reported that group revenue is up 14% in the first four months of the year, helped mainly by its...

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

The issue of agency qualifications has finally been mentioned in the Houses of Parliament, almost three years since the landmark Regulation...

Millions of people use online property portals every year to conduct their property search, whether it be for sales or for...

Momentum is building up in support of the government’s probe into whether the London homes of oligarchs on the sanctions list...

Yesterday we reported on how the Chartered Institute of Taxation was warning of problems with new HMRC stamp duty rules to...

HM Revenue & Customs has been warned by financial experts that its latest crackdown on stamp duty abuse could make the...

One of the UK’s leading economic experts is to be the speaker at a Rightmove seminar this week, considering whether events...

In the last two years digital Property Logbooks for our homes have moved from concept to reality with almost a quarter...

Share prices of estate agencies and property companies plummeted yesterday as tensions continued to rise following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Purplebricks...

A leading property lawyer says some agents will struggle to meet the demand for more ‘material information’ put forward by Trading...

It may be blowing a gale outside but we’re safe and warm here reading about our industry’s great work for good...

With the new year in full swing, agents around the UK are likely to be making changes to the way they...

Savills has welcomed its first intake of residential apprentices with seven individuals hired by the business to study and work within...

The estate agent known to his thousands of followers on Twitter as Mayfair Guru is predicting a ‘Roaring 2020s’ for the...

Some regional property markets are perilously close to running out of any stock to sell. That’s the news from property data...

Bowmark Capital is selling its Leaders Romans Group, one of the UK’s largest property services groups, to another private equity operator, Platinum...

This is our first Property Jobs Today column of 2022 and it’s testimony to how busy our industry is right now...

The market share of hybrid and online agents has fallen again, this time to 6.7 per cent. That figure - taken at...

An online auction company executive has been appointed to the National Association of Valuers and Auctioneers committee for Propertymark. Stuart Collar-Brown, co-founder...