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![Agents ‘confident’ about housing market despite buyer caution - survey](/upload/images/shutterstock_194216909(2).jpg)
Around half of agents remain confident about the housing market’s prospects this year, research suggests. A survey of almost 600 estate agents,...
29 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Homebuyers postpone purchase plans after ‘disappointing’ Autumn Statement](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HouseForSale_400x310.png)
Around half of homebuyers will continue to postpone plans to purchase a property after the Autumn Statement failed to provide sufficient...
30 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - the best city for First Time Buyers today](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
A new analysis of the housing market has assessed 50 cities in the UK to establish which is best for first...
26 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Property market suffering from ‘prolonged stagnation’ - research](/upload/images/shutterstock_1563144256(1).jpg)
The usual post-summer uplift has failed to materialise for the property market, new figures suggest. Analysis by data company the Landmark Information...
20 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Savills: Realistic pricing ‘crucial’ to keeping the market moving](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HouseForSale_400x310.png)
Prime London property values are not falling as far as the rest of the market but realistic pricing will be crucial...
05 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![OnTheMarket: Sentiment remains strong despite slower market](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
Sentiment among movers is proving to be remarkably resilient despite the challenging news in recent months on mortgage rates, inflation, and...
19 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Property market 'remains muted' amid higher mortgage rates - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/House-pounds_400x310.png)
Only a fifth of agents have reported being busier than last year as higher mortgage rates and inflation weigh on the...
23 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![LSL shares slide as it posts a loss for 2022](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyStats-400x310.png)
LSL Property Services’ share price dipped yesterday after posting an operating loss in its 2022 annual accounts. Its results showed a group...
14 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Savills: Sellers remain resistant as price sensitive hits the property market](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousingMarket_400x310.png)
The gap between prime buyer and seller price expectations has widened, estate agents have warned, with the majority of buyers expecting...
03 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Number of homes under offer rises despite market uncertainty](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_1119041159.jpg)
The number of properties listed as sold subject to contract (SSTC) has increased by 5% so far this year versus the...
15 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Listings rise but movers are waiting for economic certainty - research](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HouseForSale_400x310.png)
The level of new property listings and completions among agents were only slightly below 2019 activity during the fourth quarter but...
17 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Persimmon: 'Too early to say when buyer demand will recover''](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/PropTech/PropertyFind-400x310.png)
Higher mortgage rates and the end of Help to Buy has had a “sharp impact” on sales rates, Persimmon has warned. A...
13 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Buyers advised to wait until 2024 to buy a home - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
In a statement likely to rile plenty of estate agents, a proptech firm is suggesting aspiring homebuyers should wait until 2024...
24 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rightmove: 'Some movers are pausing but others are rushing to complete'](/upload/images/Logos/RightmoveNewLogo2016-400x310.jpg)
Agency stock has hit the highest level so far this year but it seems to coincide with a decline in demand...
17 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents plan cutbacks amid housing market concerns - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/ManSavingMoney_400x310.png)
A significant number of estate agents are planning cutbacks in the coming months to cope with the cost of living crisis,...
17 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![6% mortgage rates are equivalent to 25% in 1980, lender claims](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/MortgageApplyNow_400x310.png)
Leeds Building Society has pledged to honour any mortgage offers and support borrowers during this period of market uncertainty. It comes as...
17 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Market uncertainty not putting buyers and sellers off, claims agency](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Housing_Market-400x310.png)
The majority of homebuyers and sellers remain ‘undeterred from their endeavours to tackle the housing market’, despite the turbulence of the...
11 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![High-end agency launches auctions to hedge bets in uncertain market](/img/default/eat.png)
Knight Frank has launched an auction business to give vendors a wider range of sale options as market uncertainty remains because...
10 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![New branch aims to recruit by year-end despite market uncertainty](/img/default/eat.png)
The latest branch of Fine & Country says it intends to expand both its premises and its workforce by the end...
23 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks’ biggest critic warns over housing market uncertainty](/img/default/eat.png)
The chief executive of a property information platform says now is a “dangerous time” to buy or sell homes because of...
22 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agents’ biggest challenges now are handling instructions in ‘new normal’](/img/default/eat.png)
A survey of estate agents conducted through trade publications has revealed that market uncertainty and the handling of transactions within government...
09 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Lockdown has turbo-charged buyer demand - but it won’t last](/img/default/eat.png)
Research from Zoopla suggests that demand from buyers across England surged 88 per cent shortly after the housing market reopened -...
27 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Website boss accuses agents of charging “vast” fees up to £7,000](/img/default/eat.png)
The head of a For Sale By Owner website claims that some agents are making “vast amounts” of up to £7,000...
01 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![The future's bright - here's how your agency can thrive in 2019](/img/default/eat.png)
Even with 2019 well underway, letting agents need to keep refining their long-term goals and business targets. For agencies with a...
12 January 2019
From: Features
![Down they go - nearly 40% of asking prices slashed by vendors](/img/default/eat.png)
Zoopla says 38 per cent of properties on sale have had their asking prices slashed. That’s a five per cent rise since...
25 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![Buying agency turnover triples as focus shifts to owner-occupiers](/img/default/eat.png)
Black Brick says its turnover in 2016 tripled to £3m with new business so far this year focussing increasingly on owner-occupier...
15 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Housing market good news: price growth over 10% by end-2020](/img/default/eat.png)
Average UK house price growth will reach 2.2 per cent this year, a rise of £4,460 that will see the average...
20 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Whither Countrywide](/img/default/eat.png)
Although Brexit, portal juggling and portal wars have stolen property industry headlines in recent months, there's been one story almost constantly...
05 November 2016
From: Features
![Going, going, gone through the roof – sky’s the limit at auction](/img/default/eat.png)
Auction rooms across the UK are filled with people looking to buy property, from bargain hunters to seasoned investors, ensuring that...
22 October 2016
From: Features
![More tough stock market trading for Purplebricks, Countrywide and Foxtons](/img/default/eat.png)
There has been more volatile stock market trading for some of the industry’s highest-profile agencies. Countrywide - whose chief executive Alison Platt...