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![London sees sharp uplift in first-time buyer activity](/upload/images/shutterstock_1197102829(3).jpg)
This year has seen a two-decade high of 181,000 first time buyers secure their first foot on London’s housing ladder, marking...
28 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Housing Market ‘back to the same size as before Covid’ - Savills](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/BTR%20and%20affordable%20housing%20-%20By%20Andy%20Jones%20Property%20Investor%20Today%20BuildToRent-400x310.png)
The UK housing market has returned to its pre-pandemic size, according to Savills analysis. Overall, the total value of the UK housing...
17 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Forget party policies - check interest rate movement](/upload/images/shutterstock_2355420851(1).jpg)
A prominent housing market analyst says people shouldn’t bother reading election literature but instead study interest rates if they want to...
30 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![RICS: Landlord instructions in short supply as market slows](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/LandlordNews-400x310.png)
The latest RICS UK Residential Survey results suggests that tenant demand continues to lose momentum. Alongside this, landlord instructions remain in short...
09 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Self-employed agency provides analysis of industry recruitment pattern](/upload/images/shutterstock_1182749707.jpg)
An estate agency that promotes the self-employed model claims that three areas of the country lead when it comes to industry...
09 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Get On With It! - agents say Bank should cut rates now](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/MPowered%20Mortgages%20cuts%20rates%20MortgageRatesdecrease_400x310.png)
Propertymark is telling the Bank of England that now is the perfect time to cut base rate and trigger wider interest...
21 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Government figures show another sharp rent rise](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/RisingRents-Small-InArticle.jpg)
Average UK private rents increased by 9.0% in the 12 months to February 2024 according to the Office for National Statistics. This...
21 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Union slams Bank decision as workers face high rents](/upload/images/shutterstock_651677062.jpg)
A trades union has slammed the Bank of England over its decision to keep base rate at 5.25 per cent, saying...
02 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Foxtons’ internal data shows ‘balanced market’ likely this year](/upload/images/shutterstock_200541344.jpg)
Foxtons’ internal lettings data shows that the 2024 lettings market in the capital is likely to be more balanced than in...
23 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Shock figures put interest rate cut on the back burner](/upload/images/shutterstock_2148997377.jpg)
There are growing fears that the hoped-for Bank of England base rate cut this spring - the first off possibly several...
18 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Prime London lettings stay strong as sales market slumps](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Help%20to%20buy%20equity%20loan.jpg)
Annual rental growth in July was 9.1 per cent across prime London according to LonRes. This figure took rents to 28.4 per...
18 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![OnTheMarket warns on downside of frantic lets market](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
OnTheMarket says the frantic lettings market of the past year or more is bad news for agents. In a trading statement to...
11 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agency’s shock figures over collapsing sales market](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HouseMarketConfusion-400x310.png)
A prominent lettings and sales agency says there’s been a dramatic 54 per cent slump in sales this year. Research from Barrows...
07 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Summer rents soar with 18% annual rises in places](/upload/images/shutterstock_1929426920.jpg)
Data from London-focussed agency Foxtons reveals that average weekly rental prices in May have surpassed the peak of 2022. The average weekly...
16 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents’ hopes rise for a soft landing for sales](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePrices_pound-400x310.png)
“Optimism has survived another difficult month” says business consultancy Hargreaves Lansdown in response to the latest house price index. Indeed, the industry...
08 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Lettings market continues to fly, says latest RICS survey](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Estate_Agents-400x310.png)
The headlines surrounding today’s new RICS market snapshot will concentrate on dramatic house price falls but the drop off in the...
08 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Latest 2023 agent house price forecast is less downbeat](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/RightToRent-400x310.png)
The latest high end agency to predict the mainstream market next year is Strutt & Parker - and it’s less downbeat...
08 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Areas furthest from London will fare least badly, predicts Savills](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Flags%20%26%20Locations/London1-400x310.png)
Savills, which at the end of last week released a gloomy forecast predicting a 10 per cent price drop for average...
07 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Savills adds to gloom with forecast of major price falls next year](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePrices_pound-400x310.png)
Savills is the latest agency to suggest significant house price falls next year - although in its long-range forecast it says...
04 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Mini-Budget leads to house prices falls in 2023 and maybe 2024 - claim](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Budget-Purse-400x310.jpg)
The Knight Frank lettings and estate agency is warning that it expects house prices to fall in 2023. Tom Bill, its head...
03 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Sales market now favours buyers - how will this affect rentals?](/upload/images/library/BuyorRent-400x310.jpg)
Zoopla is issuing a warning today that price cuts in the sales market are likely to hit pre-pandemic levels as affordability...
29 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Heatwave had no impact on even-hotter rental market - new analysis](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/SunsetImage-400x310.jpg)
Another analysis of the lettings market by PropTech firm Goodlord has shown that the intense heat is not confined to the...
21 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Buy To Let Bounces Back - new investment hotspots](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/house-prices-rise400x310.png)
New figures indicate the ongoing growth of buy to let. Analysing data on additional property purchases made in the financial year 2020/21,...
20 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Flats still popular purchases, despite bad press during pandemic](/upload/images/BTR%2C%20PBSA%2C%20Co-living/build-to-rent-2-400x310.png)
Flats, so long the favourite of buy to let investors, still constitute 15 per cent of all homes purchased according to...
11 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agencies cope with strong demand thanks to flexible PropTech - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
A PropTech supplier says rental market activity remains relatively robust through this third lockdown, with a 25 per cent drop in...
02 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Overseas investors dominate London’s high end market](/img/default/lat.png)
International investors dominate the high end London market says a new survey. Aston’s, a residency and citizenship consultancy, has analysed sold price records...
19 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![What will the lettings market look like after lockdown ends?](/img/default/lat.png)
An exercise by PropTech company Goodlord has given an insight into what the lettings market may look like in parts of...
13 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Them And Us Rental Market - the poshest areas are doing best](/img/default/lat.png)
Research by Hamptons International shows that since the end of the spring lockdown and the reopening of the rental market, affluent...
13 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Rents tumble in prime London - largest fall for 11 years](/img/default/lat.png)
Data from Knight Frank suggests that average rental values in prime central London fell one per cent last month, taking the...
14 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Market activity well-above-average claims sentiment tracker](/img/default/lat.png)
A complex ‘sentiment tracker’ suggests demand is still strong in the lettings market. PropTech supplier Yomdel publishes a weekly tracker index; it...
25 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Rental market rebounds after early lockdown disintegration](/img/default/lat.png)
The rental market effectively disintegrated in the early days of lockdown before showing signs of a rebound which are still active...
13 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Lockdown could mean higher rents, claims new research](/img/default/lat.png)
New research claims to show that the lockdown could end up with higher rents as demand in the lettings sector outstrips...
04 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Family and older person rental markets ‘present agents with opportunities’](/img/default/lat.png)
Utilities management service Tenant Shop says demographic changes leading to more families and older individuals renting privately represent an opportunity for...
12 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Lettings sector will return to growth - but maybe not until 2021...](/img/default/lat.png)
A new analysis of the buy to let market forecasts more bad news for agents, landlords and investors over the next...
21 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Lettings market picking up momentum after annual lull](/img/default/lat.png)
The UK lettings market has enjoyed a 'robust' start to 2018, according to the latest Agency Express Property Activity Index. The number...
20 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![Valuations chief snipes at government's anti-landlord policies](/img/default/lat.png)
Buy to let valuations fell to just seven per cent of the total valuations market activity in April as the sector...
18 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Lettings market activity on the rise according to board company](/img/default/lat.png)
The latest data from Agency Express suggests nationwide increases in both new listings and properties let during March. National figures for properties...