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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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

Making an offer to purchase a property might sound like the most stressful thing to do just before Christmas, but this...

Residential popery prices in Manchester have increased significantly in recent years, with research showing that the city outperformed all other core...

A continued shortage in the number of rental properties on the market is placing upward pressure on rents across most parts...

Buy-to-let landlords wishing to achieve the highest rental returns need to look at a variety of factors, but one of the...

The price of small properties across many parts of the country has dropped largely because landlord purchases are down, offering fresh...

It is undoubtedly a buyer’s market in London at the moment, with those who are looking to buy property in the...

High house prices and years without real-terms wages growth have prompted a growing number of young people to abandon the idea...

Low levels of activity in the sluggish housing market are forcing many homeowners to accept offers well below asking price, making...

With house prices increasingly steady outside of London and the South East, the housing market across many parts of the country...

Rent prices will increase next year, according to the latest property market analysis. Shortages of suitable properties to let and greater demand...

Private landlords in the capital are starting to feel the pinch from weaker tenant demand, with some landlords being forced to...

Rent asking prices so far in 2017 have slowed to their lowest level since the final quarter of 2014, following a...

Activity levels at the higher end of the rental market defied the seasonal slowdown that normally occurs in the run-up to...

Enquiries from investors seeking to acquire buy-to-let properties have increased by 30% since May, following an initial dip in activity after the...

There was a fall in the level of rents achieved on new lets across more than half of Great Britain last...

Rental values in prime central London fell in the second quarter of the year as stock levels increased while demand from...

The Elizabeth Line may be the new purple Tube line with the royal seal of approval, but where are the buy-to-let...