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High mortgage rates continued to weigh on the housing market in June, leaving house price growth relatively flat. Nationwide’s latest House Price...

Average UK house prices are 8% overvalued but this figure could fall once mortgage rates hopefully drop, Zoopla claims. The portal’s latest...

The proportion of buy to let properties purchased in Southern England fell to a record low last year, continuing a trend...

Higher mortgage rates are a drag on house price growth says Zoopla - and it’s produced startling figures to prove it. The...

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

Zoopla is holding onto its predictions of a 2% average house price drop this year and said high- value regions in...

Average house prices ended 2023 down 1.8%, according to Nationwide. The lender’s December House Price Index, based on its own mortgage lending...

This year has seen an ongoing cost-of-living crisis, fluctuating mortgage rates, rising rents, and the threat of falling property prices. Although average...

By Kevin Shaw, National Sales, Managing Director, Leaders Romans Group This year has seen an ongoing cost-of-living crisis, fluctuating mortgage rates, rising...

As we enter the winter months and a traditionally quieter time for the property industry - agents are still contending with...

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

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...

Zoopla has sealed a new long-term contract with estate agent Andrews, which encompasses 44 branches across southern England.  Andrews has signed up...

The head of estate agency Nesbits’ sales team is marking 50 years with the independent brand. Robin Evans has looked back on...

It seems as if optimism is out of fashion right now: just look at the headlines to see what I mean....

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

John D Wood - the lettings and estate agency now part of the Connells empire - is celebrating its 150th birthday...

House prices in the UK have ended the year of yet another record high. The Nationwide says annual house price growth increased...

This year, Londoners purchased 112,780 homes outside the capital, the highest number since 2007. New data, from Connells-owned agency Hamptons, shows that...

High house prices relative to average earnings make raising a deposit a big barrier for first time buyers, a new study...

Strike chief executive Sam Mitchell has hailed the online agent’s no-fee model after reaching £5 billion worth of sales. The agency, previously...

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

Winkworth says Covid and its aftermath will not derail plans to open five offices a year.  In a trading statement to shareholders...

The Northern Research Group, which has the backing of over 50 Conservative MPs in the north of England, wants the Chancellor...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is considering an extension to the current stamp duty holiday according to media reports today - and the...

The mixture of the stamp duty holiday and generally fast-rising house prices has led to a resurgence of flipping. Data released this...

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...

There has been a huge surge in demand in some regions of the UK according to new data from Rightmove.  The portal...

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

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...

A survey conducted by Estate Agent Today suggests there is huge anger from agencies against Rightmove in particular for its fees. On...

A small online agency which in six months of trading has secured around 140 sales says it’s on course to be...

Data from an agency comparison website reveals that in the current market it takes well over a year for a home...

It may only be October 4, but temperatures have already started to drop this week as preparations for winter begin. As we...

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...

A retirement development specialist is warning buyers on such schemes to beware unexpected clauses or restrictions which they may not have...

Over a third of homes across Southern England are at risk of suffering price falls as the housing market slowdown extends...

A set of historic property details unearthed by a local resident have created a buzz on social media and in the...

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

The share of the market taken by online agencies in the final quarter of 2018 slipped from last summer’s high of...

As 2018 draws to a close, it is fair to say that stretched affordability and uncertainty over the Brexit negotiations has...

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

New analysis by Hometrack shows that large regional cities like Edinburgh, Birmingham and Manchester look set for a 20 per cent...

Lloyds Bank has revealed a league table of the cities which have seen the highest price growth over the past decade...

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

Countrywide has announced the death of Nick Hole-Jones, the director of Hamptons International’s prime and country house office, after what it describes...

Chancellors Group has signed a five year deal to list its sales and lettings properties with the OnTheMarket portal. The group has...

Analysis by the Nationwide suggests that the proportion of UK-wide stamp duty payments paid by purchasers in the south east of...

Twenty areas in Greater London have an average price in excess of £5,000 per square metre according to new research from...

New figures produced by estate agency Carter Jonas show that the long-term consequences of the credit crunch have exacerbated the historic...

With several agent partner programmes available across the country, estate agents can often increase business by offering sales by auction, with...

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

Humberts - until now known as an agency operating predominantly in market towns across southern England - is opening a Mayfair office in...

Contrary to some reports suggesting London’s housing market may be recovering, new data from Hometrack reveals the capital’s performance is still...

The East of England, which takes in areas from Hertfordshire to Norfolk, has recorded the biggest hike in property prices over...

The rental market has had to face a raft of changes over the past year, including the introduction of the 3% stamp...

Humberts, long established as a southern England agency specialising in rural and semi-rural areas, says it is now going to use...

The latest housing market confidence index measured by agency Knight Frank says householders in every region of the UK expect their...

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

Available stock levels across Greater London, the east of England, plus the south east and the south west are now 16...

Estate Agent Today has received a list of around 60 Countrywide Group estate agency offices expected to close in the next...

There has been a marked slowdown in house price growth in major UK cities in the past three months - led...

The managing director of an agency operating in prime central London and other high-value locations in southern England says the Open...

Stacks Property Search & Acquisition has become the first independent buying agency to become a member of the Royal Institute of...

Savills is the latest estate agency to consider a TV advertising campaign. The agency’s marketing director Alison Dean has told Estate Agent...

Hometrack claims that the number of sales over the past 12 months has fallen by two per cent on average across...

New research shows that the north-south divide over house prices is not only continuing but is getting significantly worse.  High-end agency Savills,...

John D Wood, one of Countrywide's two high-end brands operating in London and southern England, has produced a cinema commercial to be...

Lomond Capital has acquired John Shepherd Estate Agent in Birmingham as it continues to 'expand south.' The deal, which includes Marwood Homes...

Hometrack says its index of house price growth in major cities is already 9.4 per cent per annum and looks set...

News from the Halifax this week that the combined values of the residential properties in London amounts to £1.13 trillion, virtually...

Strutt & Parker is early off the marks with its forecast for 2016 and beyond, predicting the strongest market growth in...

Property portal Home says in some regions of the UK the number of properties coming to the market is 74 per...

Competition is hot among home buyers in my part of southern England to take ownership of properties that come onto the...

UK house prices have increased by an average of £11,500 over the last 12 months to May - but seven cities...

A new analysis of rising property values measured in price per square metre, suggests one location has risen 773 per cent...