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Nationwide says UK house prices fell by 0.2% month on month in August, after taking account of seasonal effects, but the...

Prime London demand climbed in Q2, reversing downward trend seen so far this year The latest Prime London Demand Index by lettings...

Estate agents’ body Propertymark has issued a report called ‘A Dickensian Legal Process’ exploring why it takes long and longer to...

Rightmove reports that the average price of property coming to the market for sale drops by £21 this month to £375,110...

Rightmove says there should be a review of mortgage affordability criteria undertaken by the next government. The portal’s mortgages expert Matt Smith...

Many buy to let landlords have made financial changes during the cost of living crisis to mitigate the rising costs of...

Property Circle, which calls itself “the growth platform for mortgage brokers, estate agents and letting agents” has appointed a PropTech high-flyer...

Purplebricks has launched Purplebricks Mortgages Limited - taking over from the old Strike Financial Services brand.  A year ago the Strike online...

Just Mortgages, one of the UK’s largest mortgage brokerages, is hosting its second broker academy of the year. The programme caters to...

Large gaps remain between Mortgage Approval Prices and Asking Prices - even though there is some evidence of vendors and agents...

The ESTAS awards event in October has a new principal partner. It’s Landmark Information Group, which includes Landmark Estate Agency Services, Searchflow,...

Lloyds Banking Group, Nationwide, NatWest - along with Rightmove - have announced a strategic investment in Coadjute, a prominent PropTech business. This...

Mortgage Advice Bureau has developed a new tool to assess a customer’s financial resilience based on their level of protection. The financial...

New data from Rightmove reveals that Thursday March 28 was the biggest day for the number of new sellers coming to...

New research shows that sellers in Wales are likely to be hit hardest by a down valuation, with the average home...

The latest housing market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows the number of buyers has risen for the...

The estate agents’ trade body has made the unexpected move of calling on banks to cut mortgage rates. Rates are typically decided...

Some 42 per cent of regulated firms are reporting a rise in financial crime attempts, while more than a quarter say...

The average price of property coming onto the market for sale rises by 1.3 per cent (equivalent to £4,571 for an...

A record number of sellers came to market on Boxing Day 2023 according to Rightmove. The 26 per cent increase in new...

Rightmove is launching its first broker product, which will allow customers to access mortgage advice through the property website.   The portal,...

Brokers are wanting that the recent Rightmove asking price index does not mean that sellers are necessarily in a position to...

Property portal OnTheMarket - the third major portal, behind clear market leaders Rightmove and Zoopla - has launched OnTheMarket Money, a...

New seller asking prices rise by just 0.2% (+£890) this month to £366,247, which is notably lower than the average increase...

Autumn 2023 will see the return of the Homebuyer Show Scotland in Glasgow, a dedicated show for Scottish homebuyers looking to...

Research from eXp UK, the network of personal estate agents, has revealed that in 22 UK cities, house prices are continuing to...

Technology firm, OneDome, has bought CMME Mortgage and Protection for an undisclosed sum. Describing itself as the world’s first eHomebuying platform, OneDome...

Estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk, recently analysed property market performance to reveal the time it takes for agents to secure buyers. The...

Research by Credas Technologies reveals that the average Anti-Money Laundering (AML) fine has increased by 63.7% in the estate agency sector.  Although the fine...

Estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk, has revealed the busiest areas for estate agents and cities home to the most competitive markets.  The number...

Estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk, has revealed which postcodes estate agents with the highest turnovers reside. Registered property transactions over 3 months, the...

Estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk, recently shared where the nation’s best-performing estate agents are currently located. Estate agents that receive the best values...

New Right to Rent rules were introduced at the beginning of October. Failure to comply with these changes could result in...

Sector data analysis and insight by Credas Technologies, the leading identity verification checks provider, shows that UK estate agents are contributing...

While the nation’s estate agents are demonstrating an appropriate level of time and care to fully showcase the home they are...

Estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk, recently analysed the postcodes that are currently ranking as the nation’s home selling hotspots. The research revealed a...

It’s no secret that rogue tenants lead to significant financial losses, and is felt in bulk by the landlord, yet research...

While digital continues to dominate the way we purchase properties, the latest property insight from YourBusinessNumber suggests that homebuyers still find...

Since the pandemic property market boom, recent research by YourBusinessNumber has disclosed that one in three property professionals have taken time...

This story originally appeared on Estate Agent Today, but has been reproduced here in full for the benefit of Introducer Today...

Businesses should be made aware that missing a phone call can cause a loss of revenue and can also damage the reputation...

While the number of members hit with expulsion has declined steadily each year since a peak in 2018, the most recent...

This article originally appeared on Estate Agent Today last week, but is reproduced here in full as is likely to be...

The most recent data released from the estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk, has revealed that the average home seller achieved an...

Property purchasing specialist, HBB Solutions, has discovered that the vast majority of UK homebuyers want to see the practice of gazumping made...

New data from the UK property website, Rightmove, has found that March is the strongest month of the year for prospective...

A study by estate agent comparison site GetAgent.co.uk has found that the average homeowner in England and Wales achieved 98% of asking...

Retirement non-profit company Cognatum Estates provides advice for those who are considering selling and buying in later life. It is unquestionably a difficult...

The latest Nationwide house price index, released yesterday morning, reveals that January has seen the strongest start to the year since...

Contemporary estate agent, Nested, recently carried out research about estate agent business expansion in 2022. The research involved a survey with 961 estate agents...

Estate agent, Nested has discovered that the majority of recent UK homebuyers rated their estate agent’s performance as middle of the...

Recent research from the estate agent comparison site,GetAgent, has analysed how a house price boom has affected the cost of selling...

New data from the property website, Rightmove, has revealed the number of homes listed for sale across Great Britain with an...

New research by MoveStreets, the property portal made for the mobile generation, has revealed how a picture can do more than...

Market estate agency comparison website GetAgent.co.uk recently revealed how the stamp duty holiday has made house prices difficult for the first-time...

As the first stage of the stamp duty holiday (SDLT) draws to a near close on June 30 2021, many homebuyers...

Anti-money laundering specialist SmartSearch has warned property agents are in serious danger of non-compliance with new regulations, unless they ditch documents...

According to new research from estate agents Purplebricks, 43% of today’s first-time buyers (FTBs) have fully funded their own deposit. While...

Some 74% of people do not trust property documentation to be carried out safely and securely online, research from anti-money laundering...

Regulatory technology firm TruNarrative has expanded its product line-up with Know Your Customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) solution TruPortal. Established in...

Mortgages have not typically been viewed as a high-risk service when it comes to money laundering, but as the practice becomes...

Advise Wise Mortgage Club has launched a specialist solicitor panel for its members to refer to regarding their case completion. The firm...

Equity release referral business Key Partnerships has released a new report – ‘Introducing the Introducers’ – to celebrate its brand refresh. The...

Who are you? I’m the Director of Sales for both the well-known industry leading Today publications and The ValPal Network. Leading publications: Estate Agent Today,...

The proportion of sales made to first-time buyers rose by five percentage points to 29% in June, the highest figure recorded...

The Mortgage Hut has added new partners including Century 21, Taylor Hill & Bond, Aspire Estate Agents, Property Bee, Home Agency...

The UK’s first digital mortgage brokerage service for UK buy-to-let landlords has been launched. Property Master, which claims to allow the...

The number of properties available to buy through estate agents in March was the lowest level recorded for the third month...

As the supply/demand imbalance continues there is an average of 11 prospective buyers chasing every property for sale, according to NAEA...

Mortgage affordability is increasing for first-time buyers, home movers and remortgagors, according to the latest index from Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB). The...

The UK House Price Index for November 2016 revealed an annual price rise of 6.7%, taking the overall average property value...

Who are you? Edward Trustworth, 23 What does it say on your business card? Founder, MyTenantedProperty.com What does the business do and what are you...

Average house prices dipped by 0.4% between April and May, according to the latest figures from estate agents Your Move and...

This month the Legal & General Mortgage Club has announced the winners of its annual awards. The awards – which recognise excellence...

Buy-to-let investors have started selling off properties as Chancellor George Osborne's tax crackdown begins to bite. Demand is also likely to fall...

First-time buyer sales soar last month as landlords abandoned the market following the introduction of the new stamp duty surcharge on 1...

The housing market could suffer from construction skills deficit and plunging rental demand if the UK votes to leave the EU...

The price of the average home in London broke through the £600,000 price barrier in April for the first time, Home values in...

The supply of rental properties plunged in the run-up to the new stamp duty surcharge on 1 April and further falls are...

The number of properties for sale jumped by more than half in March as buy-to-let investors exited the market. Demand fell at the...

Buy-to-let landlords have announced a new summit as part of their crowdfunding campaign to abolish the Chancellor George Osborne's tax grab. The...

Buy-to-let investors were racing to beat the new 3% duty surcharge right up to midnight on 31 March as a frantic first quarter drew...

The number of people buying their first home has grown almost 7% over the past year despite growing concerns over affordability. The...

Buy-to-let investors are said to be "storming the housing market" as estate agents report an increase in the numbers trying to...

Chancellor George Osborne's forthcoming stamp duty surcharge will push up buy-to-let rental costs and trigger a decline in the supply of...

Chancellor George Osborne surprised many in the property industry by confirming that larger buy-to-let investors must pay the new 3% stamp duty...

The supply of available housing has plunged to a new low while demand from buyers has surged in recent weeks. Housing supply...

The supply of rental properties has fallen to its lowest level for a year and experts warn the Chancellor's tax crackdown...

The mortgage market has started 2016 "with a bang" as gross mortgage lending rose 21% year-on-year. Lending hit £17.9 billion in January,...

Britain is becoming a nation of "forever renters" as the lifetime cost of renting exceeds £50,000, driving home ownership out of reach...

Fears of an affordability crisis are likely to grow as new figures show property prices increasing at twice the pace of...

Buy-to-let property insurance specialists Rentguard has launched a new insurance partnership with Legal & General. This allows Rentguard to increase its range...

The supply of available housing has almost halved in 10 years while the number of buyers has steadily risen. This growing imbalance between...

First-time buyer numbers fell nearly 5% in December as the traditional winter cooling hit the UK property market. Some 26,600 buyers took...

The housing market is facing a buy-to-let "storm" as investors rush to buy property before the stamp duty surcharge comes into...

Chancellor George Osborne's looming stamp duty surcharge is driving housing demand as buy-to-let investors rush to beat the tax hike. The latest RICS UK Residential...

House prices in England and Wales have risen by nearly £18,000 in the last year, an average rise of nearly £1,500...

Estate agents report a surge in investors looking to buy property before the new buy-to-let stamp duty surcharge comes into force. The...

Continuing property growth will push prices beyond the reach of low to middle earners next year. 2016 will prove a growing struggle...

Letting agents are feeling increasingly pessimistic about the future for the buy-to-let market after the stamp duty surcharge comes into force...