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Zoopla’s latest House Price index shows a housing market steadily recovering from the impacts of higher mortgage rates with prices rising...

The positive impact of this month’s Bank of England base rate cut, combined with other encouraging market data, has led Rightmove...

The Financial Conduct Authority has secured an order of £4m against an unauthorised mortgage broker and its associates who exploited vulnerable...

Speculation continues to mount about the likely decision by the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee when it debates base rate...

Mortgage approvals for house purchases fell slightly from 60,800 in April to 60,000 in May, says the Bank of England. Approvals for...

Buyers and sellers had to process a series of different numbers starting with five last week. The crucial number was 5.7%. That...

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

Analysis by an estate agency shows that since the 1980s, house prices have climbed by an average of 5.4% in the...

Rightmove is predicting some 1.1m residential transactions this year - but it says the glacial pace of house buying in the...

The latest RICS UK Residential Survey results shows the recent recovery in buyer demand has mellowed slightly, with the market impacted...

The number of new sellers coming to the market is up by 12% compared to this time a year ago, and...

MPs on the all-party Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Select Committee want to quiz representatives from across the house selling community about...

The majority of buyers and sellers in the prime housing market will not be deterred by the upcoming General Election, claims...

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

Fall throughs are costing sellers some £909m a year - and that’s even on recent muted sales figures. Home Sale Pack has...

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

Recent economic data was reassuringly predictable. We learned that core inflation fell by fractionally more than expected while services inflation proved slightly...

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

The average volume of UK properties listed for sale month-on-month rose by 58% in 2023 compared to a year previously, underscoring...

A buying agency says stamp duty is one of the biggest obstacles to a healthy housing market driven. Recoco Property Search says...

New data from Zoopla suggests that the housing market is becoming buoyant despite widespread uncertainty over the exact direction of mortgage...

Respected estate agency and property consultancy Savills is warning that house prices may dip in 2024. In the run-up to Christmas it...

London estate agency Foxtons says its latest survey shows a major uptick in the confidence of potential sellers.  While 38 per cent...

The negative effects of higher mortgage rates on affordability were overestimated throughout 2023 with house prices having dropped one one to...

Leading agency Knight Frank says demand for new homes is generally robust, dependent upon the location and pricing.  It says its regional...

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...

Two-year fixed rate mortgages have dipped below six per cent for the first time since June this year. Back in June there...

A growing appetite amongst buyers for family homes is helping to drive London’s high value prime market, an agency claims.  Benham and...

There’s been a 46 per cent increase in ‘for sale’ stock hitting the market as sellers look forward to a Boxing...

Knight Frank says a reduction in mortgage costs as early as February - or perhaps more likely in Q2 next year...

The share of homes sold by a landlord in Great Britain fell from 15.7 per cent in 2022 to 14.0 per...

Tomorrow’s King’s Speech, setting out the legislative agenda for the coming year, looks certain to include leasehold reform - and the...

The latest industry index on property fall throughs by quick-buy property firm House Buyer Bureau shows the problem accelerating across the...

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

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

It’s turning into a buyers’ market as sellers are accepting on average £14,000 or 4% less than their asking price, according...

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

There has been a a sharp increase in the number of property fall-throughs, according to House Buyer Bureau. Their latest industry index...

Newly released figures from MPowered Mortgages has revealed that two thirds (66%) of the housing market is cut off from homebuyers...

While Halloween may be the time of year when homeowners want to shout about their haunted house, the latest research by...

A recent survey by London lettings and estate agent, Benham and Reeves, reveals the current homebuyer and seller sentiment. Many participants revealed feelings that...

Property purchasing specialist, HBB Solutions, reveals that properties which are slow to sell by analysing all homes that have remained on the...

Property purchasing specialist, HBB Solutions, claim that buyers and sellers are having to negotiate an £8,000 reality gap due to down...

In the tough current economy, British homebuyers will cut their asking price expectations by as much as £150,000 to attract a...

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...

The pandemic property market boom is causing many homesellers to enter the market with a little too much enthusiasm when pricing...

Despite the London market trailing the rest of the UK where the pandemic house price boom is concerned, research from London...

Although the property market is excelling, sustained levels of buyer demand have caused pertinent delays at the back end of the...

As a first-time buyer looking for your first home can be quite a daunting prospect, especially when it comes to figuring...

While it seems like sold prices across England and Wales have slipped by -1.1% in the last year when compared to...

Giraffe 360, a leading estate agent media provider has shown that homes marketed via the use of virtual tours boast a...

The pandemic property market boom and resulting market backlog continue to impact the property transaction timeline, with the average time to...

Limited housing stock is seeing one in 10 homes (11%) get snapped up within 14 days of entering the market –...

Despite being the quicker method of selling a home, property auctions are one of the least preferred methods for home sellers...

The number of property sale fall-throughs, which crested during the pandemic, is predicted to fall by 12.2% in 2022, according to...

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...

A recent survey carried out by property purchasing specialist, HBB Solutions, has estimated that almost half of pandemic property purchases across...

Over half of those working within the property sector are experiencing higher levels of fatigue or stress due to an increase...

Stipendum, the platform that aims to simplify life’s complex events, has released a number of top tips to help the nation’s...

Estate and lettings agent, Barrows and Forrester, has revealed the five biggest homebuyer turn-offs and how much money each of them...

As the average property price is up 9.6% in 2022, many buyers want to get the best deal for their new...

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

Carpet retailer, Tapi, surveyed Brits to reveal what home features buyers find attractive and features they detest when viewing a home. Sellers...

Data from lettings and estate agent, Benham and Reeves, has found which front door colours the nation find the most appealing...

A study by Barrows and Forrester has uncovered how much UK homebuyers could save by buying a property at auction, as...

Knowledge about which features of the home are the most desirable can help sellers attract buyers. By analysing online search volumes of Google...

A study by GetAgent.co.uk has shown how the nation’s property sellers could be left with a particularly sweet taste in their...

This week’s mortgage roundup is all about simplifying the homebuying journey, with a new partnership formed to streamline the buying process and...

Property purchasing expert, HBB Solutions, revealed that the gap between the asking price expectations of the nation’s sellers and what buyers...

Estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk has recently released its analysis of the time it’s taking to sell a home, with the...

A study by MoveStreets, the property portal designed for the mobile generation, has found that garden offices, garage conversions and kitchen...

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

Research from the property platform, Boomin, has discovered that living on a Valentine’s related road name could provide a substantial boost...

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...

A study by specialist mortgage broker, Henry Dannell, has discovered that homes surrounding London’s royal parks command an average house price...

Data from property platform, Boomin, has uncovered that 73% of UK homeowners admit to having filled at least half of their...

Property website, Rightmove released their housing report and said 2021’s housing market was ‘defined by people’s sustained desire to move coupled...

A study from London lettings and estate agent Benham and Reeves uncovered which London boroughs have been the busiest in the past...

2021 proved to be one of the most hectic years to buy and sell a home. We witnessed prices soaring to...

A study by MoveStreets, the property portal designed for the mobile generation, has uncovered how much current home sellers are likely...

Research from estate agent Nested has found how decking the halls could impact the sale of your property this festive season as...

A study by GetAgent.co.uk has found the cost of buying a property across one of the nation’s festive road names, with a...

A new study by Birmingham estate and lettings agent, Barrows and Forrester, has uncovered how much properties could make in the current...

Recent property market analysis by London lettings and estate agent, Benham and Reeves have found that staging your home during the...

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

A new study by MoveStreets, a property portal designed for the mobile generation, has found which home improvements are most likely...

British house sellers are overpricing by as much as 41% when it comes to the price at which they list their...

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

Research conducted by the estate agent comparison site, GetAgent, has uncovered which of the nation’s Halloween-themed street names garners the highest average...

The threat of Covid remains a worry for the majority of home sellers when it comes to allowing prospective buyers into...

New research carried out by virtual property viewings platform, U-See Homes, suggests that a bad impression during the viewings process can...

London lettings and estate agent Benham and Reeves recently publicised which London boroughs homebuyers can purchase a property at a reduced...

Ahead of the Queen’s Birthday this weekend, estate and lettings agent, Barrows and Forrester researched the sold prices of properties with...

Research from an all-in-one property platform suggests homebuyers do not sufficiently understand the processes which can contribute to a fast and...

The UK housing market has boomed over the past year, with buyers and sellers benefitting from recent initiatives. But how have...

Property buyers in certain cities could enjoy a hat-trick of savings via the stamp duty holiday, a reduced mortgage deposit requirement and...

Almost one in three UK adults intended to buy a home in 2020, but only a third managed to progress their...