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Energy efficiency and “transaction niggles” are predicted to be key themes of 2024 for agents, buyers and sellers. Buying agent Stacks Property...

Homeowners are increasingly looking to properties that can either boost income or to offer a better work/life balance – without the...

Vendors are increasingly shifting the goalposts on a sale at the final moment, a buying agent has warned. The strong sellers’ market...

A buyers’ market, and a more challenging time for buyers and sellers, could be on the cards as a result of...

During the summer holidays, your home is left susceptible to opportunistic thieves. Despite this rise in threat, data found that only...

Buying agency Stacks Property Search is reporting g rising buyer demand for wrecks requiring significant levels of renovation. The agency says that...

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

Dog facilities - even separate rooms for them - are now a major factor on the ‘want list’ for growing numbers...

One of the country’s leading buying agents has set out what’s hot and what’s not in London’s housing market as it...

Guided by our philosophy of being open and connected, at MRI we are constantly evolving and developing relationships and partnerships with...

You could make about 65 more cold calls, or hold 13 more viewings, or you could take a power-nap every day...

A leading buying agent says the phenomenon of ‘buying unseen’ is the most dramatic property trend to have emerged from the...

The London housing market is enjoying the end of the lull before the storm, according to a leading buying agent. Sara Ransom...

The industry seems almost back to normal. Not the ‘new normal’ we spoke so much of a few weeks and months ago,...

Hello and welcome to your regular Friday charity round-up from the industry - appropriately enough on the day of the latest...

Estate agents are increasingly using low-key ‘grey’ marketing to avoid too many prospective buyers swamping them when homes go on sale. That’s...

A leading buying agency is warning sellers and buyers not to jump the gun and abandon London in the belief that...

Agents have spoken out angrily against any uncertainty in the market caused by government leaks about future stamp duty changes. In recent...

You know the old saying - a dog is an agent’s best friend?  Well that’s clearly true for this trio of agencies...

There’s a sense that we really are on the verge of a huge change in the industry. It’s too early to be...

Late last year a buying agent at Stacks Property Search and Acquisition set up a village Good Neighbour Scheme with her...

The Atlantic Ocean is a vast space – some 4,000 miles eastwards across from the USA until land is met again....

Buying agents are making waves about the hit on asking prices suffered by properties that have been flooded or are at...

Prospective property buyers have been provided with several reasons why they should stop delaying purchasing decisions due to Brexit uncertainty. Buying agency...

A London estate agency says one of its buyers wants to delay completion until November 1 “just in case stamp duty...

A buying agent has revealed how she advises potential clients to use portals when looking for a property to buy -...

The British Property Federation has made an outspoken intervention into the Brexit debate, telling politicians that No Deal is the worst...

One of the country’s top buying agents says he expects 2019 to be a much better year than 2018 as Brexit...

As the Easter sales weekend kicks off, the head of a prominent buying agency says estate agents confuse the true valuation...

The housing industry has set out a list of demands in advance of the government’s hotly anticipated Autumn Budget on Wednesday.  Despite...

“When an industry is new, still finding its feet, finding its purpose, the tendency is for those few people within it...

One of the country’s leading buying agents says over six million people are living in the wrong property because they are...

The sealed bids process - where purchasers submit their final offer by a specific time and date - should be more transparent,...

Estate Agents may say they are different. They may even believe they are different. But, the perception of many vendors is that...

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

A significant number of properties are coming to market as a result of separations which don't involve divorce, according to a...

The major property portals are “way behind the market”, don’t carry all homes that are for sale, and have such varied...

Stacks Property Search, one of Britain’s largest buying agencies, has entered the debates over portals and the use of DIY house...

One of the UK’s best-known buying agencies has launched a recruitment drive to boost its London operation.  Stacks Property Search, the UK’s...