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The cities of Liverpool, Nottingham and Manchester have enjoyed the biggest house price rises since pre-Covid. Despite interest rates at a 13-year...

Do you have lots of hipsters on your books looking for a home? New analysis aims to identify the hotspots for hipster...

A French billionaire who made his money from estate agency is promising to transform the UK property industry with his unique...

Properties selling without a chain not only sell more quickly, as one might expect, but also appear to attract a substantial...

Buyers typically pay 10.8 per cent extra for chain-free properties than for similar homes with chains, according to new research. Website GetAgent...

Foxtons shareholders will today give their verdict on the company’s plans to ‘go national’, revealed at the start of the weekend. On...

It’s been reported that Foxtons is to create ‘virtual branches’ in as many as 15 UK cities outside London, plus commuter...

Covid-19 has caused the number of new homes registered by UK house builders to fall 23 per cent in 2020. The NHBC...

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

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

A growing free-to-list property portal says there's never been a better time for estate agents to target foreign investors. Residential People, which,...

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

Last week we covered a story, broken by The Times, about a new website allowing users to discover the air quality...

A PropTech start-up says its service allows investors from anywhere in the world to buy property in the UK which can...

Recently a number of politicians and charities have been calling for the introduction of rent controls or rent freezes in the...

Have you asked yourself why technology is so important in letting agency today? Just look around and you will know why. Almost...

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

A review website set up by a former estate agent says £1m of new funding will allow it to roll out...

A recently-launched free-to-list portal says it’s uniquely positioned to attract overseas buyers and investors interested in purchasing in major UK cities. Residential...

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...

It’s time to think about planning the 2019 events calendar. This year, there are more PropTech conferences scheduled than ever before,...

A leading property consultancy has called out Manchester as the location which has seen the highest urban price growth of anywhere...

An insurer claims there is a huge gulf between the cost of rebuilding a house and its market value because around...

By now we’ve all seen news about the long-term decline in property sales and competition from online alternatives leading to ‘more...

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...

A study of house price affordability has revealed that train drivers can afford a greater proportion of homes in the UK's...

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

The UK property sector has been a hotbed for financial crime in recent years, with many criminals seeing it as an...

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...

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...

Peter Robinson, CEO of AIPP – Association of International Property Professionals – shines a light onto the international property market. Some UK...

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...

No longer just a domain for investors, developers and property traders, the auction room is now the preferred option of buying...

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...

The latest Hometrack cities index suggests that London house prices in the last quarter recorded the lowest growth for 20 months...

Annual house price growth in 20 UK cities dipped to 8.2% last month, according to the latest figures from Hometrack. The research...

A campaign has been launched to make Bristol the colour capital of the UK by ensuring that more homes are painted...

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

Plans for the Northern Powerhouse scheme, designed to rival London and the South East as the main driver of economic growth...

Sheffield in South Yorkshire, which was once one of the leading industrial cities in Britain and is still recognised for its...

London’s rising supply of homes on sale and relatively low level of transactions are “pointing to slower house price growth in...

Richard Donnell, one of Britain’s foremost housing market analysts, says there are signs that the underlying rate of growth in house...

The gap between house prices in London and other major regional cities is at its widest for 20 years, according to...

The number of buyers being gazumped has fallen by 40% since October 2014, according to online estate agent eMoov. The agency surveyed...

UK house prices increased by 4.3% in the three months to July 2015, the highest quarterly growth for eleven years, according...