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

Agents are hoping for further support for the housing market north of the border as the Scottish Government prepares to set...

The Autumn Statement ended up being silent on Stamp Duty reforms and direct housing market stimulus but there were some nuggets...

The Government is facing calls to resurrect the Help to Buy Equity Loan scheme. The housing support scheme, which provided a Government-backed...

Now that the industry has had the weekend to digest Kwasi Kwarteng’s short and dramatic mini-Budget, more reaction has been filtering...

Peta Milne, founder of Instagram growth and PR service Monimo, and a content writer at Choices Estate Agents, recently sat down...

I recently took part in a webinar hosted by ICG (The Innovation Collaboration Group) – titled ‘New estate agency revenue streams...

A leading market commentator is warning that transactions and prices will fall without the stimulus of the stamp duty holiday. Karen Noye,...

The lifestyle changes triggered by the pandemic are likely to have a lasting effect on the housing market, pushing property prices permanently...

An unexpected claim was made over the weekend - that the long-running stamp duty holiday was not, after all, behind the...

House prices in Wales - where the equivalent of the stamp duty holiday has fully ended - rose to a new...

The stamp duty holiday came and went with much fanfare. For many buyers it represented a rare opportunity to make some...

Right now it seems that another day means another house price record, an all-time high for transactions, and a conveyancing log-jam...

A relatively modest interest rate rise could trigger a crash in the housing market according to the housing analyst behind the...

Annual house price growth remains strong but it has slowed significantly according to the Nationwide. Prices dropped 0.2 per cent on average...

The latest house price index from the Halifax suggests the market has softened ahead of the original scheduled end of the stamp...

A radical way to end the current stamp duty holiday has been suggested by three different legal bodies. The Society of Licensed...

Honesty is a concept that journalists will tell their readers is non-existent for estate agents. Yeah, right! But as the end...

The Chancellor’s rumoured six week extension to the stamp duty holiday has been backed by Rightmove. Over last weekend the Daily Telegraph,...

I remember so clearly in my Foxtons days, working as a lettings manager in Putney, that lettings, though less sexy than...

You have to feel for Rishi Sunak - well, at least a little. Leave to one side that he carries more presentational...

Three of the highest profile industry suppliers and house moving services have given government a four-step plan to restart the housing...

A property law firm is the latest to back a call for a stamp duty holiday to help kick-start the housing...

The coronavirus outbreak has highlighted once again how fragile and interconnected our societies have become. We don’t know yet how dangerous Covid-19...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been urged to go further with property tax reform and not just stop at reducing stamp...

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

A partner at Carter Jonas says that the next 12 months could see stagnation in the market and as a result...

The Halifax reports that house prices in the last three months, that’s between September and November, were 2.4 per cent higher...

An estate agent and a building society have both advocated radical moves to reform stamp duty - and want Chancellor Phillip...

One of the key factors associated with an active private rental market in the UK, as detailed in the Dataloft PRS...

It may still be too early to start compiling a Christmas wish list, but it is the right time to provide...

Fears raised over the UK housing market in the wake of the Brexit vote have so far proved to be ‘wide...

The industry publication Property Week says it has exclusively discovered that the government is preparing a housing market stimulus package to...

An estate agency analyst has queried whether the £2 billion spent on the equity loan Help To Buy scheme in England...