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It feels as though the UK housing market is waiting for something to happen. The prevailing mood is one of anticipation with...

Propertymark has batted away any possible market pessimism as a result of a downbeat price index result from the Halifax  Just before...

For first time buyers, renting is cheaper than buying in most of the UK according to new data from the Halifax.  London, the...

Knight Frank has revised its housing market forecasts for 2024, just two weeks into the new year. It’s done this on the...

Lower mortgage rates - still falling in the days since the end of the festive break - may be persuading some...

Almost two in five UK owners - landlords and homeowners - now consider improving the energy efficiency of their property an...

Almost a quarter of England and Wales will become less affordable to buyers by 2025, it’s been claimed. The findings - from...

Moneyfacts, the respected independent mortgage market monitor, is warning that lenders have been withdrawing buy to let fixed deals. Within the buy...

The cost of coastal homes in Britain more than doubled - rising 56 per cent - between 2012 and 2022 says...

Location, Location, Location star Phil Spencer says it’s time for agents to go for the ‘hard sell’ on Buy To Let,...

“Optimism has survived another difficult month” says business consultancy Hargreaves Lansdown in response to the latest house price index.  Indeed, the industry...

The chief executive of Propertymark is warning that interest rates are likely to rise at least one more time. The remarks by...

Interest rates may be on the way up right now following the latest Bank of England decision but there’s good news...

Agents have spent the weekend insisting that the latest house price fall is not indicative of a crash - and may...

House prices in York - where the local MP is leading an onslaught on the proliferation of short lets - have...

The Halifax has released a snapshot of the housing market as the year ends - with the cost of living crisis...

A financial expert says the latest house price index, showing the biggest monthly fall for over two years, is the “first...

Property consultancy Walker Singleton has snapped up the independent Daniel & Hirst agency in Yorkshire. The deal, which was for an undisclosed...

Increasing demand for homes in cities was the driving force behind the rapid house price inflation witnessed earlier this year, with...

A prominent research chief at a leading agency has repeated his claim that average UK house prices are set to drop...

The monthly costs for a first time buyer are some 13 per cent lower than that of a similar renter -...

Lloyds Banking Group - which this year announced its intention to become a private landlord through the acquisition of new build...

‘Generation rent’ was a term first coined in 2011 by the Halifax in a survey on the future of homeownership. It...

A PropTech firm says Open Banking could help to transform the lettings industry for the better if it is fully embraced.  And...

North of England agency Robert Watts is expanding into Halifax after completing the acquisition of independent firm Bennett Kaye for an...

Lloyds Bank says tenants will “within the next few weeks” move into the first of a series of new developments it...

It’s been reported that the Lloyds Banking Group is set to buy its first property as it seeks to become a...

The government’s pledge to introduce a lifetime deposits concept, theoretically making it easier and cheaper for tenants to move, has been...

The Yorkshire town immortalised in the long-running BBC comedy Last of the Summer Wine - Holmfirth - is the location of the latest...

A report in the Financial Times over the weekend suggests that Lloyds Bank is poised to become a major residential landlord,...

Staying on top of the numbers and figures in a constantly changing industry can be stressful. Changing property prices can be...

There’s growing concern across the lettings sector about the buy to let mortgage market seeing lenders pull product ranges, tighten lending...

Around 40 per cent of tenants currently in the private rental sector believe they will never be able to buy their...

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A former footballer's estate agency has completed the first stage of its expansion programme with an acquisition. Hamilton Bower, co-founded by ex-Bradford...

The gap between the cost of buying and renting is down 59 per cent to its lowest level in nine years...

Buy to let is still an attractive investment compared to other asset classes but to make the best of the opportunity...

Specialist buy to let lender LendInvest has looked at 105 postcodes across England and Wales to find the best (and worst)...

Lancashire town Blackburn has recorded the highest increase in average rental yield over the last year, according to LendInvest.  The online mortgage...

A young independent agency in Manchester is set to hit a £1.5m turnover target after just 18 months following the addition...

Data from the Halifax suggested that the average price of a flat has increased by £86,474 (£1,029 per month) since property prices...

The Halifax is the latest of many house price indices to show higher than expected house price growth - and yet...