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Local authority searches are taking up to 60 days in some parts of the country - holding up the sales process. Analysis...

A cross-industry collaboration aims to showcase how working horizontally across key stages of the home-buying and selling journey can positively impact...

There has been a dip in new energy performance certificates (EPCs), suggested falling home sales and property supply Government data shows 458,000...

A global payments issues that could have hit home sales has now been resolved, the Bank of England has confirmed. A statement...

The share of new-build homes sold before they’re complete has dropped to a decade-low, research suggests. Hamptons’ annual off-plan sales index has...

Estate agency regulation is needed to help improve the homebuying and selling process, MPs have been told. The first hearing of the...

A recent announcement by housing giants Persimmon has been heralded as a welcome boost to the property sector. In a trading update they...

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

The number of sales agreed is on the rise and the Somerset town of Chard has become a new hotspot, Rightmove...

The UK Government should make better use of property taxes to deter foreign buyers, boost property supply and raise tax revenue,...

Property market conditions in the new-build sector are likely to remain subdued this year. Persimmon has claimed. An outlook in the house...

Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) has become the latest member of the Open Property Data Association (OPDA), committing to help speed up...

Property supply and demand have rebounded since the start of the year amid falling mortgage rates but sellers are still making...

Home sales and house prices may have struggled in 2023 but more affluent buyers and sellers may not have noticed. Analysis by...

The number of Londoners leaving the capital to move elsewhere in Great Britain has fallen back this year but first-time buyers...

HMRC recorded the slowest October for property sales since 2021 last month. The latest property transaction figures from the taxman estimates that...

Homebuyer appetite has abruptly fallen across all regions this year, new data suggests. Property purchasing specialist the House Buyer Bureau measured transactions...

A former Hamptons agent has moved into staging after finding she was spending much of her time helping vendors in this...

The number of property sales recorded by HMRC is at its lowest level for almost a decade. New HMRC property transactions data...

Simon Jackson is Managing Director of SDL Surveying If we look at the latest data, it looks like there is something of...

Almost a third of homes sold across Britain have been purchased by a cash buyer, new research shows. Analysis of the latest...

Transactions for the first half of 2023 are at their lowest level since the financial crisis of 2007-09 as a result...

The majority of buyers would offer less for a property or even pull-out of a transaction if they discovered a nightmare...

HMRC has recorded the lowest level of UK property sales for the month of June since 2020. The latest property transaction data...

Rising mortgage rates and falling house prices don’t appear to be deterring the super-rich. A report from upmarket agency Beauchamp Estates suggests...

Semi-detached houses are currently the fastest-selling type of property in the UK, research suggests. Analysis of 101,126 house sale transactions by home...

House price growth may be slowing but Sottish agency brand DJ Alexander has revealed that it recorded its highest ever sales...

The number of home sales being agreed is now back to its pre-pandemic level for the first time since before the...

Mayfair, London’s most famous address, is in a state of radical metamorphosis, a local agency brand claims. A new report from Mayfair...

Agents may be regularly debating increasing their fees but property buyers and sellers are already used to paying more for conveyancing,...

Agents have expressed disappointment at the lack of support for homeowners and landlords to make their homes more energy efficient. It comes...

Knight Frank’s London New Homes team has ended the year on a record-breaking high, following a successful run of sales over the...

Property transactions dipped in October but remain above pre-pandemic levels, HMRC data shows. The latest property transactions report from the taxman -...

The end of the Help to Buy Equity Loan scheme coupled with rising mortgage rates and affordability requirements will mean fewer...

A West Sussex estate agency has unveiled expansion plans after achieving a record-breaking £112m of new home sales in the past...

Hamptons is anticipating an 12% drop in property transactions across Great Britain next year as interest rate rises and the cost of...

July was the most active month for home sales so far this year but agents acknowledge that a slowdown is coming. The...

A property expert has warned against bans on second home sales and has suggested giving local buyers first refusal instead. It comes after...

A survey among home movers has revealed support for making first-time buyers fully exempt from stamp duty and replacing the stamp...

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has informally resolved a complaint regarding claims made by Purplebricks about home sales. The advertising watchdog revealed...

A ‘quick buy’ service launched by veteran proptech innovator Giles Mackay is now looking to help fix broken chains. UPSTIX, which launched...

The estate agent known to his thousands of followers on Twitter as Mayfair Guru is predicting a ‘Roaring 2020s’ for the...

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

Data out today from Rightmove shows the predictable seasonal effect of around 0.7 per cent knocked off the typical asking price. The...

A long-standing estate agency with three major branches has shut after 27 years of trading - blaming online competition and ‘race...

The average time for home-movers to get through the conveyancing process has dropped by 27 days since the summer, according to Rightmove.  The...

British homebuyers take an average of 25 seconds to decide whether a house is right for them, according to Purplebricks. As a...

A leading agency says the new normal likely to establish itself in the housing market after the end of the stamp...

The race to complete home sales before the stamp duty holiday came to an end on June 30 has created what...

The finance arm of a leading estate agency has taken the unusual step of warning about delays in the conveyancing process. “The...

Another house price index shows a super-charged housing market with prices rising 7.5 per cent in the year to January according...

Properties are currently taking 29 per cent longer than average to sell once under offer, according to research by a home...

Countrywide and Foxtons have thrown their weight behind an idea to identify every single UK residential property with a unique number. The...

Watching the government’s surprise press conference a couple of weekends ago the message was clear; we were heading into a gruelling...

The new thresholds for the Scottish equivalent of stamp duty come into effect today - a week after the SDLT holiday...

A former chief executive of Countrywide has issued a string of extravagant claims about the lockdown success of the online agency...

There’s been a strong rebound in demand for homes and an “unprecedented” bounce in new sales agreed according to Zoopla. The portal...

The coming week’s stories in the mainstream media - inevitably focused on Coronavirus - will be dominated by two things. Firstly there...

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

The average time it took a home to sell last year - measured from its first day listed on a portal...

The number of residential sales rose 1.9 per cent to 102,050  in November compared to the same month last year, the...

In the firmest sign yet that PropTech has entered the mainstream, Housing Minister Esther McVey recently launched an expert advisory council...

As we know, the world’s moving very fast and how we communicate now is drastically different to even 10 years ago....

Two very different views on Brexit have come forward in the past 24 hours from different players in the industry. First off,...

New research has identified those local housing market potentially worst hit by the planned changes to Help To Buy in 2021,...

It’s unlikely to bring out the violins but the number of properties sold for £1m or more in Britain rose only...

New research by comparison website GoCompare suggests almost a million house sales have been lost because of Brexit.  The study claims that...

A portal specialising in prime and super-prime London property has turned perceptions of the capital’s housing market on their head -...

Data produced by the government showed that some 211,000 homes have been bought using the Help to Buy: Equity Loan. The scheme...

Property analysts say ‘flippers’ - those who buy new homes and sell them quickly, hopefully for a profit - are losing...

A business rates tax break which benefits holiday home owners is to be reviewed by ministers, who have now launched a formal...

Estate agents say the continuing gentle slowdown reflected in the latest government house price figures will be the story of the...

A recent holiday in the US gave me an opportunity to catch up with property news over there - and surprisingly,...

House prices in the three months to the end of April were 2.2 per cent higher than in the same period...

New data from a private bank shows a five per cent rise in the number of £1m-plus homes sold in 2017.  The...

The latest house price index figures from the Halifax gives just the spur the market may need as the spring sales...

Holiday home sales in one of the country’s most popular tourist destinations are holding up, despite stamp duty and the age...

London estate agency chain Dexters is expanding its brand once again thanks to a new partnership with Stirling Ackroyd New Homes.  Dexters...

Why I won’t buy Purplebricks shares and why if I had any, I’d sell fast… In its latest adverts, Purplebricks attempts to...

Jackson-Stops & Staff, a critic of the stamp duty system since its reform in 2014, now says the government should slash...

The price of houses in the UK will remain high because a “structural decline” means fewer homes are being sold and...

An organisation that calls itself the Cornish Republican Army - and which has claimed responsibility for starting a fire in one...

Residents in two parts of Cornwall will vote tomorrow on whether to join the holiday resort of St Ives in banning...

Savills has revealed relatively strong figures for 2016 in its report to the City this morning, with group revenue up 13...

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

It may still be too early to start compiling a Christmas wish list, but it is the right time to provide...

A debate discussing how online and traditional estate agency would develop in the future, organised by City investment consultancy Jefferies, has...

Despite dire warnings from some estate agents that stamp duty receipts for the government would plummet in London, it now appears...

A firm called Proper Local has launched, insisting it is offering “a new model” for estate agency, somewhere between a traditional...

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

With the new Formula One season now well underway, we delve into the fast lane to take you on a whirlwind...

There has been an 11 per cent increase in sales in Scotland over the past year - and one major agency...

The first new ‘official’ UK House Price Index, released this morning, shows an annual price increase of 8.2 per cent which takes...

Property sales slowed dramatically in April as the market readjusted following the frenzy of buying before the stamp duty surcharge deadline...

Property sales in Scotland for first-time buyers and home movers are increasing three times faster than the rest of the UK...

In many respects 2015 has been a good year. Despite global challenges, we have seen a marked improvement in the UK...

UK house prices are growing annually by 9.7 per cent according to the Halifax, which says "improving economic conditions" lie behind...

Last month was the strongest September since 2007 for home sales, with a distinct north-south divide when it comes to transactions...

Average house prices across England and Wales jumped £1,900 in August – the fastest rise seen for past 12 months according...

Harry Hill, the former Countrywide chief executive, has described his old company as “going backwards” following the publication of its half-year...