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With Labour’s election victory, a new EPC target has been announced. In mid-July, the new Secretary of State for Energy Security and...

Rents have begun to stabilise, despite an exodus of landlords from the sector and resistance over rent reductions. The market is witnessing...

A lack of new investment rather than landlords selling-up is causing rental market supply issues, research suggests. The latest Hamptons Lettings Index...

The Single-Family Rental (SFR) sector is experiencing rapid growth in the UK, presenting a unique opportunity for local lettings and estate...

Who are you, and what does it say on your business card? I'm Ashley Day, the Director of Bristol Property Centre.   What is...

Hometrack has launched a property listings data product for agents to help analyse their local market. Powered by Zoopla data, the product...

New 2023 research from Open Property Group found that just 41% of homes in England meet the recommended Energy Performance Certificate...

Higher mortgage rates have meant that new buy-to-let purchases are increasingly being funded by cash rather than a mortgage, new research...

New year, old worries: what’s happening in the housing market? We’ve asked experts and collated forecasts, 15 in total. On the one...

Over the later part of 2022, we have experienced unprecedented economic and political turmoil, which will remain as we head into...

By David Boughtflower Business Analyst at Reapit, 14 years in Residential Sales and Lettings Having entered estate agency in the eye of the...

Downsizers could help drive the sales market as owners look to cut energy and maintenance costs, Winkworth claims. Dominic Agace, chief executive...

Mortgage rates look likely to fall after Rishi Sunak’s appointment as Prime Minister but analysts are still unsure how far the...

As inflation passes the 10% mark, it’s no surprise that many landlords are hurriedly reviewing the health of their buy-to-let portfolio. You...

It’s not an easy time for many renters (and homeowners). The cost of living is going up across the board for...

This year, Londoners purchased 112,780 homes outside the capital, the highest number since 2007. New data, from Connells-owned agency Hamptons, shows that...

Rising inflation triggered by the supply chain crisis following Brexit and the pandemic may undermine recent house price gains according to...

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

A global financial software and analytics firm says it’s launching a new PropTech tool which promises in the near future to...

The biggest news story in town this last week – which has brought people who don’t usually like or watch football...

In a video interview for Letting Agent Today, property professional Chris Buckler speaks to Mike Dawson, Group Head of Sales at...

The UK lettings market is no stranger to technology. But only a few of the early initiatives have remained, and landlords...

Independent agent uses innovative ‘feet up’ campaign to win business. An independent letting agency has invited landlords to put their ‘feet up’...

Putting fingers to keyboard to create blogs and articles isn’t always the easiest job for agents, particularly when meetings, viewings and...

Staying on top of the numbers and figures in a constantly changing industry can be stressful. Changing property prices can be...

The number of Hong Kong buyers looking at property in London has doubled in just five weeks according to an agency...

Two companies that persuaded property investors to pay as much as £25,000 for a parking space have been wound up in...

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

  Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Catherine Shinerock - ARO Account Manager What is your ‘company name’...

Over the past decade, the short-term rental industry, now eponymised by Airbnb, has experienced meteoric growth. This has been driven by the...

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

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

A rock bottom supply of homes on sale is helping to reinvigorate London sales according to a market monitor. The website Home...

The topic of introducing rent controls in London crops up time and time again in our industry. But it’s been hitting...

A property platform that has chronicled the London sales market’s problems in recent years says the recovery will start in 2020...

Savills’ residential business grew market share last year in the UK despite what it calls “challenging conditions.” In a trading statement to...

An open rental market, where neither landlord nor tenant is in a dominant position, enables rents to rise and fall, which...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an advertisement for a new development in London after complaints over claims about the yields...

A survey of owner-occupiers, landlords, property investors and insolvency practitioners has revealed that Brexit is the single biggest concern when it...

House price growth in London has hit a seven year low according to Hometrack, with prices actually down across 42 per...

The spread and sophistication of financial crime in the UK in recent years has been unprecedented.  Figures from UK Finance show that...

Ten out of 14 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News say Brexit and economic uncertainty are likely to stall London’s housing market...

Research from the Centre for Economics and Business Research has shown that the cost of the average rental deposit is expected...

Historically, short-term rentals have been an unattractive business for the majority of estate agents and property managers. Scarcity of demand from tenants...

Auctions are a great way to sell property competitively, with a wide range of homes often selling under the hammer, and...

The website Home, which monitors asking prices, says prices have rallied strongly in the last month but thanks to growing inflation...

The property market in northern England, supported in part by the Northern Powerhouse concept, has attracted a lot of media attention,...

With tax relief changes, a rise in Stamp Duty for second homes and strict mortgage affordability checks now in place, it...

Over the past two decades, investing in buy-to-let has been a relatively easy way to make money, which is why so...

Not many of us have a multi-million property portfolio, so the results of the MSCI / IPD UK property index for...

A data portal called REalyse and aimed at professional property investors is launching today after raising £500,000 in seed capital.  The site...

The rapid growth in popularity of buy-to-let in recent years, fuelled in part by the failings of the pensions industry, has...

Instant gratification is nothing new. It’s been around for millennia. It’s an in-built survival instinct for humans – that want, that...

The rental market has had to face a raft of changes over the past year, including the introduction of the 3% stamp...

If you provide a service, you expect to be paid for it. Sound fair? But with the forthcoming ban on tenant...

Following a strong start to 2016, particularly in the lower to middle range of the UK housing market, that lasted up...

The growing size and scale of the private rented sector is not new news. Headlines shout about the changing profile of...

As many northern cities struggled to recover from the 2008 global financial crisis, the north-south divide returned to plague the British...

Those working within the UK housing market would have felt considerable worry about the immediate impact of the vote to leave...

Given the uncertainty that shrouded the immediate build up to, and aftermath of, the EU referendum, the current lettings market in...

The huge rush to acquire buy-to-let property in the first quarter of the year ahead of the stamp duty change deadline...

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

In the capital, people will pay a premium to live near great transport links, and as we’ve seen from Crossrail and...

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

With a number of agent partner programmes available nationwide, estate agents can often increase business by offering sales by auction, especially...

A leading London buying agency is warning that some areas of prime central London could face a downturn following the Brexit...

Estate agency Cluttons has this month opened its first office in Barcelona, which it says has been prompted by strengthening residential...

There was a significant drop in interest in purchasing buy to let properties in March as the April 1 stamp duty surcharge...

Property has long been a safe investment. Before the downturn in 2008, sellers were able to gain a healthy capital return.  Post-economic...

As any marketer will tell you, the marketing mix in its most basic form is made up of 4 P’s: Price,...

Research from a residential investment consultancy throws light on the extraordinary large pipeline of new homes to be built in central London,...

Wednesday’s budget proved a grim viewing for those who have worked in the rental sector for some time and watched the...

There has been much debate in recent years about Britain’s desperate need for more housing stock. Demand has been outstripping supply...

With pension reform, council licensing changes and a General Election on the horizon, many are anticipating a boom in the buy-to-let...