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

When I first started working as an estate agent there was one thing I never saw coming… and that was having...

Annual house price growth remained at 2.7% ahead of the general election in June and was up just 0.5% on a...

Two years of rising interest rates, the withdrawal of first-time buyer support, planning delays and a string of broken promises has...

Having spent more than three decades working in the property sector, I’ve come to the conclusion I’ve pretty much seen it...

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

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

Zoopla is holding onto its predictions of a 2% average house price drop this year and said high- value regions in...

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

Negative outlooks appear to be reducing amid property professionals as falling mortgage rates filter through to the housing market, according to...

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

We’re now just 2 days away from the end of 2023 and what a year it’s been for the property industry....

Energy efficiency and “transaction niggles” are predicted to be key themes of 2024 for agents, buyers and sellers. Buying agent Stacks Property...

In assessing the outlook for property auctions in 2024, it's crucial to look beyond interest rates. The real driving force behind...

The private rental landscape has been undergoing a profound transformation, with technology playing a pivotal role in shaping the way tenancies...

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...

I’ve always been a half glass full kind of person.  But I’ve got to confess I struggled to get too excited by...

After a steady increase in mortgage rates, concerns about house prices have been rising too. The Financial Times reported in mid...

London and the Home Counties have topped the list of ‘hotspots’ for potential house sales, according to a new Pre Mover...

Annual house price growth has returned to its lowest level since the pandemic, Land Registry data shows. The latest figures from the...

The artificial intelligence (AI) platform, Bard, correctly guessed what the UK’s average house price would be in the Land Registry’s monthly...

As Summer makes way for Autumn, many in the sector are bracing themselves for storm-clouds. But should they be?  Here, in his...

Despite a 15-year peak in interest rates, one of Glasgow’s leading estate agents, Corum, has reported a 10% surge in viewings...

The latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors housing market snapshot shows the increasing damage being wrought by high interest rates. The RICS...

Lloyds Banking Group has issued a slightly more positive house price outlook despite warning of increased pressure on mortgage affordability from...

‘Schools out for Summer’ as the Alice Cooper song goes and the kids are not the only ones looking forward to...

The National Association of Property Buyers’ Jonathan Rolande gives his take on another manic week for the property market. Like many working in the...

Prime London homeowners are turning to off-market sales to protect the value of their property, an industry executive claims. Property consultancy Tyburn,...

The property market appears to have stalled in April and May, with official data showing a dip in house prices and...

Sellers and their agents have become more confident about pricing but there are still some signs of “over-optimism” for higher priced...

As Tennyson once observed…’.In the Spring, a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of love…’.but not really. At the moment the...

Agents working with auctioneer iamproperty recorded record sales under the hammer during the first quarter of 2023, new research claims. A new...

Property Academy is hosting a free webinar today where behavioural economist Roger Martin-Fagg will share his predictions for the property market...

  It's not often that I have sympathy for our glorious leaders – those who set the rules by which we all...

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

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...

Talk of a housing market crash is overstated, Zoopla’s chief executive Charlie Bryant has claimed. Speaking in an exclusive video interview with Estate...

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

Is it really just a year ago that we were nervously wondering whether yet another Christmas would be Covid-affected? Little did we...

Aside from all the news surrounding the Autumn Statement this week, which will have a significant bearing on the property market...

Making predictions for the year ahead is notoriously difficult and leaves me open to having egg on my face, but I’m...

Most agents are falling foul of anti-money laundering (AML) rules by accident but the sector could face more compliance-related fines by...

The housing market is set to turn “sluggish” rather than experiencing a major slump, new predictions claim. Agency and property consultancy brand...

With UK interest rates on the rise, following the mini-Budget announcement (now since almost entirely reversed), and several lenders pulling mortgage...

New research from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has highlighted further lost further momentum in the housing market during...

For the third year running, mio, tmgroup and Conveyancing Data Services (CDS) are inviting property professionals to share their successes and...

The average monthly mortgage payment for a household buying a first-time buyer home would increase to £1,302 if the average mortgage...

An estate agent has looked to loo roll to explain why he thinks house prices won’t crash but the pace of...

In this guest piece, Kevin Shaw, National Sales Managing Director at Leaders Romans Group, looks at whether house prices will start to cool...

A few weeks ago, we saw widespread disruption due to record breaking 40°C heat in the UK. The extreme temperatures caused...

The housing market appears almost as stubborn as now caretaker Prime Minister Boris Johnson as it continues to defy predictions of...

The Bank of England’s continued rise in interest rates – the latest being a shift up to 1.25% - is, in...

Buyers and sellers should focus on the Bank of England’s actions rather than words when it comes to the housing market,...

Peta Milne, founder of Instagram growth and PR service Monimo, and a content writer at Choices Estate Agents, recently sat down...

An analyst is warning that the latest buoyant house price figures could be the last hurrah before a significant depression. The Nationwide’s...

Until a few years ago, you would have been forgiven for not knowing who or what Coadjute was. But the company, founded...

The chief executive of Belvoir says his agency has had 25 years of significant financial and business success - and much...

The lettings sector looks set to steam ahead in 2022 after a record-breaking 2021, despite the financial and mobility challenges of...

With the drastic changes enacted on the industry over the past two years thanks to the pandemic and political events such...

As this is the first Natter back since the Christmas break, I should like to first wish all our readers a...

Mortgage lenders serving the housing market are set for a quieter 2022 after the unprecedented levels of activity seen in 2021,...

The last 18 months have been full of ups and downs, but the property market has coped remarkably well during the...

Strutt & Parker has revealed where it believes the housing market will see the largest demand in 2022, outside of London. The...

Agent wages have been in the news this week, with boastful claims from a number of self-employed businesses about the sums...

A leading market commentator is warning that transactions and prices will fall without the stimulus of the stamp duty holiday. Karen Noye,...

As we move into the autumn of 2021, what the coming year has in store for estate agents is something we...

Estate agents are being urged to future-proof and diversify by linking with retirement developers via part-exchange services. Property investment service HBB Solutions...

Estate agents have gone on the record to say the flow of purchasers from London to country and market town locations...

Right now it seems that another day means another house price record, an all-time high for transactions, and a conveyancing log-jam...

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

Another leading research team in a major agency has revised upwards its forecast for the 2021 market. Savills revised its predictions recently...

Transactions and house price forecasts for the mainstream housing market are being revised upwards by Savills following the Budget. The new predictions follow an...

This time out, I’m in conversation with one of the big three established portals. Since it was founded in 2007, Zoopla...

As part of our third PayProp Special Report on COVID-19 rental arrears in the UK, we surveyed over 600 agents, tenants...

Property commentator Phil Spencer says lockdown - which we know will now last for another six weeks at least, and possibly...

In a wide-ranging video interview for his Move iQ service, Phil Spencer speaks to buying agent and TV property pundit Henry...

The speed and success of the Coronavirus vaccine programme holds the key to the housing market rebounding in the second half...

The secure Conservative victory in the 2019 General Election meant the property market in the sunlit uplands was set for a...

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

The latest Rightmove asking price index shows the extraordinary market and amazing times we are living through. The average price of property coming...

The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, better known as the furlough scheme, was introduced by the chancellor Rishi Sunak in March to...

For a number of years now, predictions have been made that one of the major tech giants will eventually enter the...

Life as we know it has changed – for everybody – and what tenants want, need and expect in this post-pandemic...

The fallout from Covid-19 has hit everyone hard. With breaking news today that agents are able to look at how to...

Let me start by wishing everyone well in these uncertain and precarious times. I truly hope you, your families, friends and...

Over the last two weeks we’ve seen the country come to a standstill and the property market effectively put on ice...

The property franchise company Belvoir Lettings has laid off 15 workers from its Grantham headquarters - and warns there may be...

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

Predictions that landlords are not buying properties to let out because of tougher rental taxes and regulations appear to be short...

Following on from the second half of the last decade, the first few weeks of 2020 have been a bit mad...

“There won’t be a single home but millions of different homes”, is one quote.  “There will be an end to gadgets”, is...

It’s only five weeks to the New Year and new decade and the first agents have started making predictions for the...

A new house price index that in June predicted big house price rises over the summer has now repeated its claim,...

London and South East England are to see house price falls this year and only “very modest” growth in 2020 -...

Our own industry’s upheaval over recent years has been no less dramatic than the turmoil at Westminster. The political earthquake has seen...

The estate agency industry is at a crossroads. A turbulent market, unstable political situation and a chronic lack of public confidence has...

The latest house price index shows very little happening in the market, with analysts expecting little significant movement until Brexit is...

Consumer habits have changed massively over the past few years, and regardless of which market you operate in, being able to...

The end of 2018 was a bit of a rocky time for online estate agents. Yet only a few years ago...