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The UK housing market is heating up, with buyers now agreeing to pay 96.8% of asking price, Zoopla claims. The figure is...

The nation heads to the polls today to help choose the next Government. Housing hasn’t been a main feature and most of...

The Conservatives appear to have abandoned plans to reverse Stamp Duty thresholds for first-time buyers if the party returns to power...

Property supply has hit its highest level for eight years, Zoopla data shows. The latest Zoopla House Price Index shows the average...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak yesterday confirmed a date for the General Election. Voters will go the polls on 4 July, meaning the...

UK house prices may be broadly static but sales volumes are up 12% year on year according to Zoopla data out...

Lower mortgage rates gave the housing market a boost in February with supply and sales all moving higher, Zoopla claims. The portal’s...

New Year momentum in the property market has carried into February and new listings are at a four-year high, Zoopla claims. The...

Building more homes is a better solution than mortgage schemes to support first-time buyers, a Zoopla executive has claimed. Richard Donnell, executive...

Property supply and demand have rebounded since the start of the year amid falling mortgage rates but sellers are still making...

The housing sector remains locked in a buyers’ market and prices are unlikely to rise nationally this year, Zoopla claims. While some...

The final weeks of 2023 have recorded above average levels of new sales with a 17% increase compared to the same...

Zoopla is warning that there will be further house price falls in 2024 on top of the 4.5 per cent drop...

The average discount to asking price has hit a four-year high as the market swings in favour of buyers, Zoopla says. The...

The Bank of England has held off on further interest rate rises for now but agents warn that there is still...

The property market is set for its quietest year for sales since 2012, Zoopla claims. The portal’s latest House Price Index estimates...

Agents and property professionals have expressed hopes that rates have peaked after latest rise Iin the cost of borrowing. The Bank of...

Cooling house prices are providing an opportunity for buyers even with higher borrowing costs, Propertymark claims. The agency trade body said it...

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

The level of sellers accepting an asking price discount of 5% or more has hit a three-year high. Zoopla’s latest House Price...

Zoopla has scheduled its latest quarterly market update for agents. Taking place on Wednesday 14 June, it will address how agents can...

The level of sales agreed has reached its highest point this year and is encouraging more sellers to the market, Zoopla...

100% mortgages are rumoured to be making a comeback. The products were blamed as a cause for the 2008 financial crash, with...

The worst of the pricing adjustment in response to higher mortgage rates appears to be behind us, Zoopla has claimed. The portal’s...

The level of agency stock has almost doubled since last year but repricing is on the rise and sales are taking...

Zoopla is set to host a 2023 market update later this month for agents. Hosted by Zoopla’s executive director of Research, Richard...

More than half of homebuyers have become more willing to compromise in the search for their next home, new research reveals. Analysis...

Sellers are cutting asking prices by an average 4.5% discount to achieve a sale, Zoopla claims. The figure is the highest for...

Agents are seeing more stock coming to the market but Zoopla is warning about seller expectations. The latest Zoopla House Price Index...

One million homes have lost all their pandemic gains amid the financial turmoil at the end of last year, Zoopla claims. Each...

New year, old worries: what’s happening in the housing market? We’ve asked experts and collated forecasts, 15 in total. On the one...

Two thirds of economists expect house prices to fall by more than 4% this year while others are expecting a more...

Property demand has halved but the slowdown is focused on the previously popular rural and coastal areas, Zoopla has revealed. Higher mortgage...

One in 15 homes formerly sold by agents are returning to the market after the original sale collapsed, new data shows. Analysis...

Increasing numbers of transactions have fallen-through and asking price cuts are increasing but the market is still on track for almost...

Mortgage rates look likely to fall after Rishi Sunak’s appointment as Prime Minister but analysts are still unsure how far the...

Agents are invited to a webinar with Zoopla next week to discuss the portal’s 2023 outlook. Hosted by Zoopla’s executive director of...

They say Christmas hits the shops earlier each year and the same may be said for the seasonal slowdown, Zoopla suggests. Its...

Buyer demand has dropped by a fifth in the fortnight since the mini-Budget while supply has increased from worried homeowners, Zoopla...

The level of price cutting on agency listings has started to hit new highs. Property Log, which is a Chrome extension that...

Zoopla-backed agency software provider Alto has announced the speaker line-up and agenda for its inaugural virtual event.  Altogether Live will take place...

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

From today buyers will be able to purchase properties worth up to £600,000 with just a five per cent mortgage, under...

A new forecast suggests 70,000 buyers will miss the March 31 stamp duty holiday deadline. Zoopla has undertaken a new analysis to...

Zoopla's latest figures suggest 70,000 transactions are likely to miss the stamp duty holiday deadline of March 31.  And the portal says: “The...

Zoopla’s research team is anticipating the first quarter of next year will see the current boom continue as 100,000 additional sales...

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

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

Zoopla says while there may be speculation about people fleeing London and big urban areas for the countryside, the evidence suggests...

Zoopla's Research and Insight Director Richard Donnell writes: Just over a fortnight on since the Chancellor announced the Stamp Duty holiday and...

One of the possible stamp duty options floated by Chancellor Rishi Sunak could mean 89 per cent of sales would be...

Zoopla predicts that the price strength that has been seen since the reopening of the housing market is likely to continue...

There’s been a strong rebound in demand for homes and an “unprecedented” bounce in new sales agreed according to Zoopla. The portal...

Research from Zoopla suggests that demand from buyers across England surged 88 per cent shortly after the housing market reopened -...

A high number of agents across the country have been furloughed in recent weeks and are now at risk of losing...

The impact of the Coronavirus crisis is going to reduce agents' revenue into the third quarter finishing in late September warns a leading...

The stamp duty surcharge for non-resident investment buyers announced in yesterday’s Budget is dwarfed by discounts they receive thanks to the...

The Bank of England has announced an emergency cut in the base interest rate to shore up the economy during the Coronavirus...

Hello and welcome to the latest PJT - your regular Monday fix of who’s moving where in our industry. As ever, a...

One of the country’s leading housing market research experts has been poached from Knight Frank to join Zoopla. Gráinne Gilmore - a...

Zoopla’s Hometrack data research arm says the start of 2020 has seen buyer demand up 26 per cent compared to the...

After a year dogged by Brexit deadlock, political turmoil, and slow growth, estate agents’ confidence in the property market hit a...

The scores are in….and it looks like house prices are going to rise gently in 2020 according to forecasts from almost...

Major UK cities have seen average house price rises of 54 per cent in the past decade - an increase of...

The latest market snapshot from the National Association of Estate Agents continues to show how political uncertainty is dampening sentiment and...

The controversial former Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, is to be the keynote speaker at a property industry...

Cash buyers have fallen in 90 per cent of major UK cities over the past three years according to a Zoopla...

The annual rate of growth of UK house prices has slowed to its lowest level since September 2012. Official government data from...

First time buyers will constitute the largest single group of purchasers in 2019, despite the apparent difficulties of deposits and securing...

New figures produced by Zoopla’s research team shows for the first time the huge scale of regional variations in terms of...

The average house price growth across southern cities is running at the lowest level recorded since January 2012, according to Zoopla.  Prices...

The income required for first time buyers to purchase in the three most expensive UK cities has fallen slightly according to...

The gap between average asking prices and average selling prices has increased in recent months according to Zoopla. Its latest study of...

House prices in 20 UK cities analysed by Zoopla show an average 1.7 per cent increase over the 12 months to...

Zoopla’s Hometrack index of 20 major UK cities shows that London property prices are starting to stabilise after a three year...

Both major portals have this morning revealed more evidence of a gently slowing housing market. The average time to sell a property...

The first set of figures for the year from HMRC show that there were 0.8 per cent more residential property transactions...

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House prices in a quarter of the UK’s largest cities are struggling to recover to the level they were at during...

The latest transaction figures from HM Revenue and Customs make depressing reading - a three per cent drop between May and...

Hometrack says other cities are now closing the gap on London in terms of house prices and market value. The latest Hometrack UK...

Property sellers in the South of England are having to accept asking reductions in order to achieve a sale.  Data from Hometrack...

New figures from Hometrack show that a typical home in Greater London now takes 17 weeks to find a buyer -...

House price growth in London has hit a seven year low according to Hometrack, with prices actually down across 42 per...

Homes for sale in some parts of inner London are seeing price discounts of up to 10 per cent says Hometrack...

The property consultancy Hometrack says London is facing “a drawn-out period during which there will be a slow re-alignment of house...

Data from Hometrack shows that the gap between average earnings and house prices has reached an all-time high in London.  The price...

London house prices are stuck in neutral according to the latest figures from property consultancy Hometrack, which says values in the...

Property consultancy Hometrack says London’s 12 month market slowdown has bottomed out with the annual growth rate rising to 2.8 per...

The steep drop in price growth for homes across London is beginning to bottom out according to Hometrack, which says values...

The latest measure of house price rises in key UK cities by the property consultancy Hometrack shows house price in many...

House price inflation in London continues to slow and has now reached 4.9 per cent year-on-year according to Hometrack. London is now among...

The property market in northern England, supported in part by the Northern Powerhouse concept, has attracted a lot of media attention,...

Hometrack data suggests that annual house price inflation in London has fallen to 6.4 per cent, the lowest level since June...

Zoopla Property Group’s £120m purchase of Hometrack, announced yesterday evening, is part of its aim to create “the UK’s most valuable...

The latest assessment of major UK cities’ housing markets by property consultancy Hometrack shows more locations overhauling London in terms of...

Following a strong start to 2016, particularly in the lower to middle range of the UK housing market, that lasted up...

House prices in London are now rising at 7.6 per cent per year - the lowest figure for 39 months according...

Housing data consultancy Hometrack says the disparity between average earnings and house prices is reaching record levels in certain parts of...

As many northern cities struggled to recover from the 2008 global financial crisis, the north-south divide returned to plague the British...