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Average house prices and mortgage approvals hit new highs during the summer months, in a positive sign for the property market. Nationwide...

The predictions game can be tricky. Sometimes you just don’t know whether to stick or twist. As reported in Estate Agent Today...

The latest Greener Homes Attitudes Tracker from NatWest and S&P Global, reveals that younger homeowners are more in favour of policies...

Knight Frank has left the door open to revise its house price forecasts after the chancellor’s first Budget in October. Chancellor Rachel...

House price forecasts have improved in just one month and significantly from a year ago, analysis shows. The Treasury regularly compiles independent...

Average asking prices for new property listings had their usual summer drop this month but Rightmove is predicting a busy Autumn. The...

More than half of mortgaged first-time buyers received support from the Bank of Mum and Dad in 2023, the highest proportion...

LSL Estate Agency Franchising is home to one of the UK’s best-known estate agent brands - Your Move. There are several...

As we move into the second half of the year, the property market is looking buoyant. Demand and supply are most...

Institutional investors and "for-profit" registered providers are set to play an increasingly vital role in tackling the UK's affordable housing crisis,...

The recent dip in inflation to 2% for the first time in three years brings a glimmer of optimism in the...

The manifestos of all major parties tell us little about their true tax and public service plans, a respected financial think...

A new house price forecast by peer-to-peer real estate investment platform, easyMoney, reveals that recent optimism in the UK property market could...

Knight Frank has revised its house price forecasts for prime central London (PCL) and now expects values to fall this year. The...

The rate of inflation slowed to 2.3% in April, Office for National Statistics (ONS) data shows. It means the consumer price index...

Agents remain typically optimistic about the property market after interest rates were been held at their 16-year high of 5.25% by...

Savills has today upgraded its five-year UK mainstream house price forecast to reflect the stronger than expected start to the year...

Zoopla has kicked off an eight week marketing campaign to fend off the threat of OnTheMarket and to capitalise on the...

Prominent housing and mortgage experts are downplaying the chance of an interest rate cut following the Bank of England monetary policy...

The proportion of buy to let properties purchased in Southern England fell to a record low last year, continuing a trend...

Lloyds Bank has issued figures showing a 28% profits plunge for the first quarter of the year - but it nonetheless...

Strike remained in the red in the run up to its acquisition of Purplebricks last year and has new financial backing...

Lenders are predicting a busy quarter for supply and demand of mortgages. The Bank of England’s latest Credit Conditions Survey showed lenders...

Zoopla’s property announcement last week was welcome reading for many of us feeling a bit beleaguered by seller over-expectation, buyer lethargy...

Borrowers are currently rolling off relatively favourable two-year fixed-rate deals agreed at the start of 2022, but the pain from higher...

The best news for the property sector to come from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget statement came not from any fiscal...

A baby born today will need to earn £95,121 to get on the property ladder, research suggests. The analysis forecasts that the...

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

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has almost halved its house price forecasts after another relatively quiet fiscal update for the...

TwentyEA has unveiled a suite of new marketing solutions combining its data tools, giving estate agents greater flexibility over their prospecting...

On the 24th of January, Adam Walker wrote a very interesting piece about the consolidation of the lettings industry where he...

The times, they are indeed a-changin’. But what Dylan may not have appreciated, however, was how fast that change would be...

Average house prices will fall 3.6% in the first quarter of the year, according to forecasts by reallymoving.com. The research is based...

A new service has launched to provide buyers of prime and super-prime residential properties with an appraisal of the property’s suitability,...

The UK and Europe’s “house price correction” isn’t over yet but the market will perform better than expected, a ratings agency...

The negative effects of higher mortgage rates on affordability were overestimated throughout 2023, TwentyCi claims. The property data firm highlights that house...

The housing sector remains locked in a buyers’ market and prices are unlikely to rise nationally this year, Zoopla claims. While some...

Everyone’s a pundit these days, aren’t they? And January is pundit season – when a New Year starts, out come the...

Knight Frank has revised its house price forecasts and said it now expects average values to rise this year rather than...

Winkworth's network completed sales for the year fell by some 19% in 2023, the agency franchise brand has revealed but it...

The last thing you want as we rake through the dying embers of 2023 is a journalist’s prediction of what’s going...

Mortgage lenders are expecting a quieter year for home loans in 2024. Forecasts from banking trade body UK Finance suggest lending for...

Lower interest rates and real wage growth will halt price falls next year but sales will remain lower, Hamptons has predicted  Forecasts...

As 2023 trundles towards the buffers and we look forward to our Christmas break, it is something of a seasonal phenomenon...

The factor most likely to influence the housing market next year is entirely outside the industry’s control: the General Election. Knight Frank...

Rightmove is forecasting a Boxing Day bounce this festive period. Analysis by the portal suggests that the number of new properties coming...

Average asking prices in December have fallen more than usual for the seasonal slowdown, Rightmove claims. The portal’s latest House Price Index...

Rightmove is anticipating a 1% average drop in national asking prices by the end of next year. The latest forecasts from the...

The number of mortgage approvals for house purchase has hit a three-month high, Bank of England data shows. Figures from the Bank...

Rightmove is expecting more money from agents this year and is also looking to grab a slice of the mortgage market. A...

House prices will fall 7.6% 'peak to trough' by the end of 2024, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has claimed...

As sure as night follows day, so our industry sets out a wish list of tax changes which it hopes the...

The UK’s housing market is past ‘peak pain’ and looks set to bottom out in mid-2024, according to Savills. The agency giant’s...

It’s that time of year already: Halloween’s happened, Bonfire Night’s blown itself out, and there’s now a feast of festivities leading...

Paul Johnson, Head of Corporate Sales at Leaders Romans Group (LRG) Commercial property has historically been viewed as the more profitable asset...

Zoopla is warning that there will be further house price falls in 2024 on top of the 4.5 per cent drop...

The property market’s 18-month “white-knuckle ride” is coming to an end, Tom Bill claims. Speaking on the Guild of Property Professionals’ The...

Knight Frank has revised its house price forecasts and now expects a steeper market drop. The agent previously predicted a 5% fall...

Winkworth is calling for the Government to take immediate action to fix the property market.  On the eve of the Tory party...

It looks like more families are to be hit with inheritance tax in 2023/4 according to a new forecast.  Research from the...

House prices won’t fall by as much as the 1990s and 2008 financial crashes but it will take until 2025 for...

House prices have fallen at the steepest rate since 2009, Halifax data shows. The latest Halifax House Price Index for August suggests...

House prices fell at their fastest rate since July 2009 last month, according to Nationwide.  The lender’s latest House Price Index shows...

If, like me, you’re an ardent England rugby fan or indeed a fan of rugby in general, you’ll be counting down...

Record numbers of homebuyers are set to get on the property ladder with the help of the “Bank of Family” this...

Trading conditions in the housing market have worsened during this summer, Crest Nicholson has warned. A trading update from the housebuilder said...

It won’t come as a surprise that forecasts show mortgage approvals will fall this year. But a new analysis says the drop...

The share price of LSL Property Services dropped around 16 per cent at one point yesterday following a profits warning given...

Over recent years, as successive governments have tightened lettings legislation and increased the tax burden on landlords, some with investment properties...

Belvoir has reported revenue growth for the first half of 2023 despite “challenging market conditions,” with its lettings performance offsetting lower...

House prices dipped at their fastest rate since 2009 last month, new data shows. The latest Nationwide House Price Index revealed average...

MPs have cast doubt on the Government’s ability to achieve its target of 300,000 new homes per year by the mid-2020s...

OnTheMarket has admitted to shareholders that the cancellation of agent contracts has been “higher than expected”. In results from the company issued...

Interest rates could peak at 6.5%, an economist has warned, but it will take a while to hit the housing market. Azad...

Well as week’s come and go, this one’s been a bit of a downer but it is always worth remembering that...

There’s never a perfect time to set up in business, but many might think now is exactly the wrong time to...

The property market is braced for another interest rate rise today after the latest inflation data shows the cost of living...

Asking prices have fallen on a monthly basis at this time of year for the first time since June 2017 as...

From Google to Uber, convenience is embedded into contemporary culture. As a society, we’re propelled by on-demand living, with instant solutions for...

The Property Franchise Group (TPFG) has described its sales business as ‘operationally challenging’ for last year despite posting a record financial...

THE PROPERTY market continues to hold pretty firm - despite fears voiced by many that 2023 would herald a crash in...

The RICS Residential Survey Report for March caused a bit of a stir this week – despite the fact that it...

The start of spring has coincided with buoyant housing market forecasts. Reflecting on a first quarter of 2023 which saw buyer choice...

February marked the slowest month for residential transactions in almost a decade, HMRC data suggests. New HMRC transaction figures shows the taxman...

Lower mortgage rates than the end of last year and slowing inflation should sustain the housing market as it enters the...

House prices will still come under pressure despite a better-than-expected economic outlook, Knight Frank claims. New analysis from the property brand claims...

A more competitive mortgage market may actually dampen hopes of a downsizing boom, an agent has predicted. Many property professionals last year...

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has increased its expectations of a house price decline. The OBR, which keeps an eye on...

It was a busy 2022 for the so-called Bank of Mum and Dad and 2023 could be more manic for parents,...

House prices could drop by almost 25% ‘start-to-trough’ or by as much as 40% in severe circumstances, Lloyds Banking Group has...

The number of properties advertised for sale in Scotland has increased by 75% in some parts of the country as vendors...

The Government is being urged to help homeowners go green and reintroduce mortgage interest relief as a way of boosting rental...

If early indications are to be believed. Yes! 2022 was the year that offered so much at the start and then hit...

Happy New Year, to you all. Now that we’re all back in harness and Christmas feels like a long-distant memory, I...

Readers of a certain age may remember 1983. The Space Shuttle Challenger made its first flight, Neil Kinnock was elected Labour leader,...

Average house prices fell for the fifth month in a row during December, Halifax has revealed, as it warns of more...

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

Usually, I enter January with a spring in my step - optimistic about what the future holds.  Two years ago, after the...

House prices fell for the fourth consecutive month in December, the worst run since 2008, according to Nationwide. The lender’s final House...

The rush to complete property purchases continued throughout November but fewer sellers are now coming to market, a major estate agency...