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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...

April 22nd marked ‘Earth Day’, yet it seemed to pass relatively unnoticed within the mortgage market. While the market was once abuzz...

More than a third of homes have declined in value over the past six months, Zoopla data shows. It comes despite the...

Shares in Winkworth rose close to their recent highs yesterday despite the agency franchise brand reporting a drop in revenues and...

One of the nice things about this time of year is that slowly, ever so slowly, we begin to emerge from...

Aside from all the news surrounding the Autumn Statement this week, which will have a significant bearing on the property market...

Average property values have decreased for the third time in the past four months as Halifax warns of the end for...

If you want to sex-up the Chancellor’s financial statement scheduled for lunchtime on Wednesday, you’d call it a Budget or a...

One of the country’s leading agencies says the recent and expected interest rate rises, and the surging inflation, will not blow...

2020 gave rise to an exodus from the city as work from home became the mandated norm for large swaths of...

The policy and campaigns team at Propertymark, headed by Mark Hayward, has been expanded after what it calls “a number of...

Public sentiment over the housing market remains stable despite the Coronavirus crisis and the possibility of a No Deal Brexit. That’s the conclusion...

A new analysis of searches and leads to agents by Rightmove suggests buyers in London are deserting central locations in favour of...

An investment manager who has a 7.8 per cent stake in Countrywide, is warning that the agency group may not survive...

Whisper it quietly but the housing market could be significantly stronger in 2020 than in recent years. Two key indicators in the...

Conservative leadership frontrunner Boris Johnson's plans to reverse stamp duty changes could help to kickstart the prime property market, according to...

It’s not often we can enjoy beautiful sunshine on bank holidays, but I suppose this one was a particularly blessed weekend,...

House prices have taken a spring leap in the north of England as the market improves - but it’s a different...

The share price of beleaguered hybrid agency Purplebricks has recovered some of the ground it lost earlier in the week after...

London Central Portfolio, a property investment consultancy, has set out a five point plan for the next government elected this week...

My apologies if this causes you to break your Easter egg with a little too much aggression, but I reckon the...

There is no doubt that 2016 managed to catch the world by surprise on more than one occassion.  But will 2017 be...

Chancellor Philip Hammond caught the lettings industry unaware with an incredulous Autumn Statement.  The buy-to-let sector took a bashing earlier in 2015...

Forecasts are a tricky business. And as I wrote in a recent Industry Views opinion piece, any prediction in the current...

The average house price in London is now £484,700 - over twice the national average - and property in the capital...

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

Buy to let investors and second home owners were behind three in five property purchases made in prime London during the...

Chancellor George Osborne remains convinced that his stamp duty reforms of a year ago benefit over 95 per cent of home...

Zoopla is back in business with its trading update to the City this morning revealing that it has a net growth...

It is to the credit of our political parties - and our own industry’s lobbying - that so many housing-related matters...