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Rightmove is warning that the housing market is set for disruptions from the summer onwards, and suggests the brisk start to...

The average price of property coming to the market for sale rises by 1.5% (+£5,279) this month to £368,118, as the...

New reports suggest down valuations are increasing and properties are routinely selling for below asking price - both triggering possible opportunities...

Landlords selling up because of rising taxes and unaffordable regulations are being advised not to be over ambitious with asking prices.  Tim...

Landlords considering selling up have received guidance from Rightmove on when to do it and how. The portal claims February is the...

Average new seller asking prices rose 1.3 per cent between December and January - the biggest rise at this time of...

An analysis of homes that have returned to the market after failing to find a buyer in 2023 suggests that sellers...

Rightmove has revealed its forecast for 2024 - and has looked back on the past 12 months. This year, 2023, ends with...

A new analysis of discounts available to cash buyer suggests they can save tens of thousands of pounds on some property...

Rightmove has revealed its forecast for 2024 - but just as it has done this, it’s revealed asking prices have dropped...

House prices fell 1.2 per cent in the past year, according to a new Zoopla report out today, with average discounts...

It’s not just the weather that’s wet and dreary – the outlook looks bleak for landlords too as we head towards...

The asking price of homes coming to the market this month is down 1.7 per cent on October according to Rightmove.  The...

The best way to judge the UK housing market is to check on what’s happening in Parliament, not the price indices...

The average asking price across the UK based on the available stock is now £1,829 per month according to property consultancy...

The average new seller asking price has increased by just 0.5 per cent in the past month - the smallest increase...

It’s the number of homes changing hands rather than their price that’s bearing the brunt of the slowdown say research chiefs...

The housing market remains a buyers’ market, with 80 per cent more homes for sale than in September 2021 according to...

The latest data release by comparison site GetAgent shows the average sale price over the past six months has been 97.3...

A new study of over 600,000 available properties on Rightmove reveals that homes in need of renovation are the most in...

The continued attacks on the buy to let sector have resulted in a dramatic decline in investment plans by landlords. A new...

Landlords keen to bag a bargain will be interested to know that over a third of homes now on sale have...

Zoopla says a buy to let property sold off by a landlord is “typically priced 25 per cent lower than the...

An analysis conducted over the summer by Rightmove suggests it could take literally decades for the private rental sector to conform...

There’s bad news for landlords relying on capital appreciation or hoping to sell up in the near future. Rightmove reports that new...

Over recent years, as successive governments have tightened lettings legislation and increased the tax burden on landlords, some with investment properties...

A warning is going out today from the UK’s largest property auctioneer about the sensible pricing of property coming to the...

The average price of homes coming to the market have dipped slightly once again, according to Rightmove. The newly-marketed properties are some...

If you are a landlord looking for the silver lining in a dark cloud, June’s interest rate decision will have certainly...

The founder of a luxury holiday lets firm in one of the UK’s tourist hotspots says even wealthy landlords are now...

A prominent buying agent says nervous buyers are pre-emptively slashing asking prices before the housing market worsens. If true, this could present...

New data from Zoopla shows that 42 per cent of sellers are accepting offers over five per cent below the asking price...

If this was typical of the past 10 years we would be talking of a 0.6 per cent average house price...

Some 11 per cent of the homes on sale right now are owned by landlords quitting the private rental sector. That’s the...

Landlords relying on capital appreciation have good news this morning - there’s been a significant and unexpected leap in house asking...

Most landlords are no better off now, even after substantial rent increases over recent years.  Rightmove recently reported that national average asking...

Today’s latest market snapshot from Rightmove shows the average price of property coming to market rising by just 0.2 per cent...

The latest edition of a housing market measure has suggested that one borough of London has seen rent rises of 33...

A prominent estate agency says landlords and other property owners considering selling this spring must be realistic about asking prices. Savills -...

The average price of property coming to the market rises by 0.8 per cent this month to £365,357, reports Rightmove. This is...

In the last three months of 2022, mortgages agreed for the coming months were down by a third from the previous...

As many as one in 10 homes have a reduced asking price within a month of entering the market, a new...

New data about the Prime London housing market shows that the average discount to asking price has increased to 8.4 per...

Landlords expanding portfolios through cash purchases are securing discounts as high as £88,000 in cooling market conditions says a buying firm. House...

The asking-to-achieved price gap has widened to its largest for five years according to new data from Zoopla.  While sales volumes have...

The better-than-expected sales market has been a surprise to investors, owners, buyers and sellers alike, says Rightmove. In its latest monthly snapshot...

Landlords with funds to expand their portfolios may be in luck - a growing proportion of properties on sale have reduced...

A substantial majority of agents say sellers are being unrealistic about the asking prices of their homes This includes landlord sellers quitting...

After two months of falls, the average price of property coming to the market for sale rises again by 0.9 per...

New data from Rightmove reveals the areas which have seen the largest price jumps in the past year. It says that Eastwood...

Rightmove is predicting an average drop of just two per cent in asking prices next year - far less than many...

Investment buyers will snap up a higher proportion of homes in 2022 than they did in 2021, the Hamptons agency forecasts.   So...

If you were to believe recent headlines, holiday homes and short lets make everyone’s lives miserable - yet the happiest place...

Zoopla says a “widespread repricing” is underway in the sales market, but with no sign of cooling yet in the lettings...

Zoopla has now joined Knight Frank and Lloyds Bank in forecasting a price drop in 2023. The property website’s executive director, Richard...

New build homes are often at the forefront of market downturns and new data suggests new builds are already seeing price...

Landlords may be alarmed at Rightmove’s latest asking price market snapshot which shows an average 1.3 per cent fall this month. But...

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee has announced that base rate is rising from 1.25 to 1.75 per cent. The rate is now...

Rightmove is warning landlords and other sellers that properties with poor levels of energy efficiency may have to sell with a discount.  The...

New analysis from Rightmove reveals that first-time buyer asking prices and equivalent asking rents have risen three times faster compared with...

The latest Rightmove asking price market snapshot represents more good news for landlords relying on capital appreciation. The average price of property...

Rightmove is warning of likely price falls in the second half of 2022. Its latest monthly market snapshot actually shows yet another...

A tourism chief has likened new anti-holiday let regulations to those of a Stalinist dictatorship. Ashford Price, secretary of the Welsh Association...

A new survey by Zoopla suggests the average property price has hit £250,200 for the first time - but a slowdown...

Analysis by Rightmove suggests that capital appreciation remains strong for landlords and owner occupiers alike, despite the recent flurry of interest...

The government is widely expected to announce that Section 21 eviction powers will be scrapped in new legislation coming to Parliament...

Average UK rents have increased for the sixth consecutive quarter - but some tenants are paying above the going rate to...

It looks as if landlords have enjoyed further capital appreciation with the latest housing market index showing still-rising asking prices for...

Prime central London may not seem to most obvious part of the UK for buy to let investors but a leading...

Buy to let landlords are increasingly looking to the highest yielding areas of the country as a way to maximise their...

Landlords with large budgets and who are seeking a surprising discount, even in today’s market, could be tempted by research which...

A business analyst is warning owners of older properties that the value of their assets may be cut if energy efficiency...

The end of the stamp duty holiday means landlords will have to pay more for almost all properties from today. They have...

Landlords wanting to break into London buy to let have been provided with a guide to boroughs with the most discounted...

The chief finance officer of a PropTech company says the effects of the stamp duty holiday on house prices must not...

High end lettings agency Carter Jonas has offered landlords a series of tips to renting out their properties quickly and successfully. They...

The spring market in Florida is white-hot at the moment, rivalling the increasing temperatures across the state as people begin their...

One in eight properties sold for more than the original asking price in August as housing demand peaked following the chancellor’s...

The number of residential property sales agreed have surged in the month since the chancellor announced a stamp duty holiday, with...

Since the housing market reopened in May there has been a significant increase in demand for homes with a garden as...

Rightmove yesterday recorded a sharp rise in searches for property on its website as it was forced to deal with pent...

Half of renters currently in the market say lockdown has impacted what they are looking for in their next home.   A...

Four in five deals underway when the Covid-19 pandemic struck are still progressing, but transaction numbers in the week ending 2...

Online searches for properties in remote or coastal locations has increased sharply, according to Rightmove.  The property website analysed the areas people...

These are difficult times in the property market, with a constantly changing situation creating a great deal of uncertainty. The world...

Despite the growing concern amid the coronavirus pandemic, international property investors are expected to increase their presence in the UK buy-to-let...

The property market had enjoyed a boost thanks to the outcome of the general election in December, but now the market faces...

Prices of new property coming onto the market rose by 1% between 9 February and 7 March to push the national...

Residential property prices in London continued to grow up until a week ago, as the market recovered following Boris Johnson’s election...

There are growing signs of stability returning to the residential property market, new research shows.  Sentiment towards the housing market looks positive...

The decisive result of last month’s general election has sparked a surge in housing market activity, placing upward pressure on house...

Residential property prices, much like the economy, are likely to grow faster than initially anticipated next year thanks to the greater...

A buy-to-let landlord in south London has been blasted for offering a corridor as a flat.  The flat in Brixton was listed...

It is a potentially good time for buy-to-let landlords to add to their portfolio, the latest housing market snapshot suggests.  With buy-to-let...

Residential property price growth remains subdued owed largely to the ongoing uncertainty created by the Brexit shenanigans in Parliament.  The data from...

Landlords currently looking for the UK’s best buy-to-let areas should head north to places like Liverpool and Scotland, with new research...

Asking prices in the UK have dropped as Brexit uncertainty takes its toll, new figures show.  According to fresh data from Rightmove, the...

Rental values in London’s super prime rental market dropped by 0.5% in the year to July on the back of a...

Activity in London’s the super prime rental market has hit a five-year high as more people opt to rent rather than...

The slump in the UK home ownership rate from 73% a decade ago to just 63% today reflects the fact that...