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With the Treasury and the Bank of England stepping in to try and calm the markets, talk of an emergency interest...

A property analyst has warned against comparing the number of branches on Boomin to Rightmove. Challenger portal Boomin revealed its first batch...

Purplebricks ended the trading day yesterday without being able to formally welcome its new chief executive but the markets appeared to...

Housing market analyst and PropTech entrepreneur Anthony Codling says that the next few weeks will determine whether Boomin is the portal...

Low fee agents such as Purplebricks and some other online operators are generally not trusted by the public when selling their...

PropTech firm CoreLogic UK has acquired the property search and marketing platform Rummage4. Rummage4 was founded in 2015 by agent Robert May...

The latest figures for mortgage approvals show demand as being relatively unchanged - a development welcomed by agents. House purchase mortgage approvals...

A torrid period for Purplebricks' share value means it opens stock market trading today with a price of just 33p.  This is less...

The Halifax is reporting a 0.5 per cent monthly drop in house prices, plus a fall in the annual rate from...

Mortgage lending has shown the biggest net increase on record according to the Bank of England.  Mortgage borrowing in March rose by...

The government’s highly-anticipated Tax Day was just a damp squib.  That’s the view of leading analyst Anthony Codling, who says the almost complete...

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

A leading market commentator says the acquisition of London agency Douglas & Gordon represents “a strategic step change” for Foxtons -...

A housing market analyst says stamp duty, for all its unpopularity within the property industry, may not be so bad after...

A leading analyst is questioning whether buyers have benefitted from the stamp duty holiday because demand has purshed up prices far...

One of the housing market’s senior analysts says the end of the stamp duty holiday on March 31 would not be...

New figures from the Bank of England show that mortgage approvals rose 7.0 per cent in November to reach 105,000 -...

Anthony Codling, the City analyst who made his name as a scourge of Purplebricks, says Brexit may be good news for the...

House prices surged in December to post their fastest growth in six years, according to the Nationwide.  Prices rose 7.3 per cent...

Mystery still surrounds the number of homes actually sold by Purplebricks, despite upbeat statements regarding the number of instructions it wins. The...

It may make little difference to agents but a leading analyst suggests thousands of buyers have effectively lost money on their purchase...

One of the industry’s leading commentators says an unintended consequence of a possible Capital Gains Tax increase could be a bonus...

A leading market analyst says the widespread belief that we are ‘safe’ in our homes may indirectly lead to the recent...

House prices rose again in August to reach a record high level according to Halifax, which is part of the Lloyds...

The scale of the market bounce back after lockdown is made clear in new figures from HM Revenue & Customs. It registers...

An industry analyst is challenging the long-established agents’ view that reducing or temporarily scrapping stamp duty would help the market. On the...

Agents have remained calm in the light of Nationwide’s house price index which shows the first annual fall for eight years...

"New property website launches. Not immediately sure what it does differently, what its USP is or who will use it, but...

A former City analyst best known for his scathing criticisms of Purplebricks has launched a PropTech platform that he describes as...

The chief executive of a property information platform says now is a “dangerous time” to buy or sell homes because of...

A PropTech start-up led by a prominent commentator has become the latest part of the industry to take a pop at...