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Plymouth has been named as the fasted location to sell a home in a new index. OnTheMarket has unveiled a new monthly...

NOBODY does pomp and ceremony like us Brits and, wow, it was on full display in Westminster last week. Despite the prestige...

So it’s a Labour landslide but it’s not like 1997. I remember the last time as if it were yesterday. May 1st, 1997....

New research has revealed the areas where sellers have the best chance of finding a cash buyer. Analysis by My Home Conveyancing...

The most expensive streets to buy a home in the UK has been revealed. Unsurprisingly, it is in London on Buckingham Gate...

Artificial intelligence-powered property search app Jitty has gone live across central London as it accelerates its expansion across the UK. The app,...

The Guild of Property Professionals honoured its top agents last week. The network held its annual conference and awards at the QEII...

Property professionals have called for the Government to allocate its promised £3m towards improving the home buying and selling process to...

TV presenter and property expert Laura Hamilton is set to host this year’s Guild Awards. The presentation will take place at the...

Our latest research has revealed London’s six best performing boroughs when it comes to positive property price growth. But a wider trend...

The Guild of Property Professionals has set a date for its Annual Conference and Awards Ceremony on 22 March 2024. It will...

Five years ago, Lettings expert, Tim Lawler, wrote an article for Estate Agent Today charting his early experiences of setting up...

So Christmas is coming – soon. Traditionally a time for reflection on what’s past and prediction on what’s to come. Last week...

A proposed cut in stamp duty by the Westminster government would be a welcome boost to homebuyers and would need to...

Off-market property platform Invisible Homes has added three more boroughs to its tool. Originally launched in 2018 by former prime London estate...

The EA Directors Club dinner, hosted by the Baldock Brothers returns on September 21st after its summer break. The event, which is...

The managing editor of The Good Schools Guide has outlined the measures that some families take to secure a place at...

Like most parts of the UK, the one I live in has a bit of a beef about parking. More precisely,...

The National Association of Property Buyers’ Jonathan Rolande gives his take on a manic week for the property market. This is the week when...

The time it’s taking to sell a home across England and Wales has fallen by an average of 44 days, new...

The issue of conditional selling in estate agency has hit Westminster. There have been several reports in recent months about agents requiring...

New research has uncovered the most densely populated areas for estate agency branches. Agency comparison website GetAgent’s internal data tracks the number...

As we get ever closer to 2023, this final Natter of the year is dedicated to the five biggest property moments of...

Harding Green has welcomed its second franchisee. Benjamin Scrace, who joined the broker model estate agency Harding Green in July as a...

Propertmark is calling for a 12 month exemption on additional Stamp Duty rates to boost rental property supply. The issue will be...

New research from GetAgent has outlined where the UK’s best-performing estate agents are currently located when it comes to the price secured...

Property sales are currently taking 15 weeks on average to complete, new research claims. Challenger portal and property platform OneDome has launched...

There has been an understandable focus on things other than Government since the death of Queen Elizabeth was announced, but Prime...

New Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng is expected to unveil the Government’s so-called “plan for growth” today during a mini-Budget. The property market is...

Late last week, Leeds Building Society announced that it would no longer lend on second homes to concentrate on first-time buyers...

Off-market property platform Invisible Homes has accelerated its expansion by moving into three London boroughs earlier than expected. Originally launched in 2018...

Marcus Jones has been appointed as housing minister. The appointment came late last night after a tumultuous day in Westminster that saw...

The Prime Minister has tonight won a confidence vote in his leadership and hung on to his premiership. After a dramatic day at...

Agents and property professionals are travelling far and wide to raise money for charity, plus there is a new way to...

London accounted for almost half of million-pound plus property sales over the past 12 months but the most active borough at...

A lack of support to help people onto the property ladder has been highlighted as one factor for the Tory party’s...

Off-market property platform Invisible Homes is planning to expand throughout London over the next year and to cover the whole of...

PayProp’s recent Rental Confidence Index survey polled property professionals about their biggest concerns for 2022. Unsurprisingly, new regulations were a top...

Typical stamp duty paid by property purchasers now is actually 84 per cent more than before the pandemic and the SDLT...

As regular readers will know, I like to use this column to shout out about the independent agents who are the...

A leading London agency has launched an urgent appeal for goods and equipment to be handed in to its offices today...

Almost exactly a decade ago I wrote a blog on the back of a spate on mainstream news stories about prime...

A new analysis has revealed those areas of England and Wales with the largest numbers of Russian-owned homes. Credas Technologies analysed Land...

It appears that new controls on property ownership may feature in future sanctions against Russia in response to its aggression in Ukraine. Prime...

Savills has welcomed its first intake of residential apprentices with seven individuals hired by the business to study and work within...

With a Bank of England base rate rise expected as soon as tomorrow, new figures from the government add weight to...

The average home sale in England and Wales in 2021 achieved 98 per cent of the asking price - slightly improved...

The total value of all UK homes broke the £8 trillion barrier in 2021 according to Savills - and London is...

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

Propertymark has appointed an insider to the key role of policy adviser - effectively the position vacated last month by industry...

An estate agency has revealed which London boroughs have been the busiest in terms of the number of homes sold as...

The housing market boom of 2021 has given rise to an increasing number of £1m-plus deals.  Government statistics analysed by mortgage firm...

Areas with the biggest house price growth of 2021 have seen the value of homes rise by three times the national...

Halifax has revealed the UK’s most expensive streets in 2021 - and it’s no surprise that the very dearest examples are...

Knight Frank has appointed David Lewis as head of rural sales for Devon and West Somerset. Lewis’s career in residential property began...

Just as city centre traffic is reminiscent of life before the pandemic, the rental market in central zones of UK’s largest...

The total value of homes in Britain has risen 20 per cent - that’s £1.6 trillion – in the past five...

It’s been a dramatic week in the world of politics – and this has led to another new Housing Secretary, in...

First-time buyers are £25,000 worse off thanks to the stamp duty holiday, according to estate agent comparison site GetAgent. The website revealed...

There’s already plenty of talk about autumn - depressing huh? - with agents pondering how the housing market will respond to...

The Crown Prosecution Service has joined in the criticism of unemployed estate agent Lewis Hughes, who last week admitted a count...

A much higher than usual proportion of homes on sale in the current market have successfully found a buyer, according to...

The industry’s two leading trade bodies have spoken out about the incident in which an agent accosted England’s chief medical officer,...

The estate agent who accosted England's chief medical officer, Professor Chris Whitty, has been charged with common assault. Lewis Hughes, 23 and...

Propertymark has thrown its weight behind the government’s First Homes initiative, describing it as “creative” and saying it’s a sign of...

The number of transactions is scheduled to reach 1.52 million this year - way above the norm of between 1.0 and...

In an industry which is faced with constant changes in day-to-day practices and even more so given the Covid terrain which agents...

The Prime Central London pain throughout the pandemic can be seen by new figures just released by an investment consultancy, showing...

Local elections rarely set the pulse racing and this year’s poll on Thursday faces a similar problem. But this time, it’s a...

Liverpool - where commissioners have been ordered by Whitehall to run part of the council following corruption allegations - is the...

Boomin co-founder Kenny Bruce says the UK economy should now be opening up thanks to the success of the Coronavirus vaccines. In...

Hello and welcome to this edition of Property Jobs Today, a chance to catch up with who’s moving where in the...

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

Propertymark - still reeling over two senior resignations in less than a week - says its lobbying sessions with politicians are...

London still dominated the league table of locations with the highest volumes of sales by value in 2020, despite the apparent...

Estate agents have kept up the pressure on the Westminster government to consider some kind of tapered ending to the stamp...

It's been announced that MPs will after all debate the Stamp Duty Holiday extension following a hugely popular online petition. The 90-minute...

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

The MP who presides over online petitions such as the one calling for an extension of the stamp duty holiday says...

The government may be stopping MPs debating an extension to the stamp duty holiday - despite a pledge they would do...

The sudden end of the stamp duty holiday at the end of March could throw away the market gains achieved in...

The government is considering stricter tier structures for the coming weeks as the number of Coronavirus infections continues to rise. There is...

Zoopla has revealed precisely how much house prices have risen over the course of 2020. Across the UK as a whole prices...

The Westminster government has published extensive guidance on the operation of the new Tier 4 Coronavirus restrictions in England. This includes a...

The housing market is to stay open across the UK, including in the new Tier 4 areas of England. An announcement from Housing Secretary...

Here we are, on the brink of a festive season like never before, and approaching the end of 2020. Although a dreadful...

Back in September, Westminster Council launched a new strategy to help 'protect tenants' and 'ensure they live in good-quality and well-managed...

New research attempts for the first time to identify the most lucrative property markets in the country - with surprising results...

The announcement of the Renters’ Reform Bill in the Queen’s speech last December caused a collective groan across the country from...

Sales of £1m-plus homes have surged since lockdown as affluent buyers seek more space and lifestyle changes.  An average of 868 £1m-plus...

A league table drawn up by a quick buy property firm claims that some estate agents' average commission has hit 2.32 per...

The irrationality of Britain’s council tax system has been laid bare in a new league table drawn up by estate agency...

With the UK officially in what has been described as the single worst national recession in the world, one agency has...

The proportion of the asking price achieved on average in the past year is 95.8 per cent according to a new survey. Comparison...

A major agency is warning that the current stamp duty holiday could leave the housing market in a state of lethargy...

Government figures show the 218,975 properties within Greater London have Chinese owners - and two agents say there will be more...

It may be that by the time you read this it’s all over for Robert Jenrick, the Secretary of State for...

HM Land Registry is making it easier to verify individuals’ ID from today. In addition to conveyancers and chartered legal executives, verification...

Hello, this is the final Conquering Corona for the week as we continue to help agents with advice and guidance through...

Sellers in the past 12 months accepted an average of 96 per cent of their asking price according to new research. Comparison...