estate agents

Just one e-signature used despite Land Registry push

The Land Registry recorded the use of just one e-signature in the three months...

Scotland tipped to lead UK house price growth in 2026

Housing markets across Scotland and northern England are poised to deliver the strongest house...

London tops league for loss-making home sales

London has overtaken the North East as the region where homeowners are most likely...

Housing reforms set to reshape UK landscape in 2025

The UK housing market is entering one of its most reform-heavy periods in decades...

London exodus slows as leavers stay closer to the capital

The pandemic-era rush out of London is firmly in retreat with new figures showing...

Hamptons fundraising partnership with Mind reaches £150,000 milestone

Estate agency Hamptons has raised £150,000 for mental health charity Mind since the partnership...

Scotland and Yorkshire lead UK housing market activity in 2025

Scotland and Yorkshire have emerged as home to the UK’s most active housing markets...

Rising house prices ‘pay for Christmas’ for most homeowners

Most UK homeowners have seen their property rise in value by more than the...

Rents keep rising as house price growth eases towards year end

Average UK monthly private rents rose by 4.4% in the 12 months to November...

House prices edge higher in third quarter as buyer and seller expectations align

House prices continued to rise modestly in the third quarter, extending a run of...

Less Autumn Budget and more Autumn Bodgit

After months of fevered speculation before the Budget residential property transactions juddered to a...

Market set for Boxing Day rebound as prices tipped to rise in 2026

House prices ended 2025 lower than a year earlier after an unusually subdued second...

No acceleration in rental EPC improvements despite policy push

Rightmove’s 2025 Greener Homes Report indicates that the overall energy efficiency of UK homes...

Stamp duty receipts rise sharply as market shows signs of broad recovery

Stamp duty revenues increased substantially in the past financial year as activity returned to...
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COMMENT

Comment

Advisers should be brave enough to drown out the noise

If you thought the economic and mortgage market commentary had been particularly noisy recently, I suspect you haven't heard anything yet, because with the...

Expat buy-to-let: a smaller world, a bigger picture

There has been no shortage of gloomy commentary about buy-to-let of late, so you might wonder why anyone living overseas would want to invest...

Taking the anxiety out of finance

It’s an anxious time for mortgage borrowers. A recent study by Handelsbanken Wealth found that the proportion of UK adults apprehensive about making mortgage...

Cashback should put conveyancing into the advice conversation

One of the more interesting findings from our latest quarterly statistics was the position of Nationwide Building Society, which accounted for 25% of all...

Why ownership structure matters in buy-to-let

It's a scenario brokers encounter every day. Two landlord clients approach them about the same type of buy-to-let property, with similar levels of equity...

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Your First Home delays could stall first-time buyer market

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