Making tax digital: Is your agency prepared for the regulatory changes?
Robert Bolwell, senior partner at Dutton Gregory, will focus on the regulatory change and look to answer agents’ most pressing questions during a free webinar tomorrow morning.
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Buyers interested in ‘realistically priced’ properties, says Savills
Recent market conditions illustrate the importance of pricing well to attract bidders.
TV property presenter diagnosed with terminal cancer and given ‘six months to live’
The property commentator wants to inspire those with “life-limiting prospects to make the most of every day”.
UK property slumps to its worst quarter since 2009
A sharp rise in borrowing costs has weighed heavily on the property industry.
Vendors told to ignore estate agency calling for a 10% cut to asking prices
Sellers need to be “realistic” in a cooling property market, estate agency warned last week, as economic uncertainty takes its toll on the housing market.
Shareholders approve £1.3bn merger
The approved deal sees the company grow in to one of the largest in the UK property sector.
Government issues statement ahead of new housing law being introduced
The major shake-up of housing law will see significant changes for letting agents, landlords and tenants to the way homes are rented, managed, and lived in.
What impact will this week’s Autumn Statement have on the housing market?
The housing market has taken a knock in recent weeks, and so what next?
House prices fall as ‘era of historically low interest rates and the buying frenzy’ ends
Vendors are pricing more competitively to try to find a buyer, research shows.
Propertymark slams changes to notice periods in the private rented sector
The trade body is concerned that the strengthening of tenants’ rights will have an adverse impact on the confidence of landlords.
Property auctioneers ‘seeing a more cautious approach from investors’
Auctions have traditionally acted as a barometer for the property market.
Another major housebuilder reports a sharp drop in sales rate
The announcement follows bleak recent warnings from some of the UK's largest housebuilders, amid economic uncertainty.
Mayor of London plans to hold an emergency summit on private rented sector
Sadiq Khan has called on the government to hand him extra powers so he can cap rents in the capital.
Average rents pass £1,200 a month for the first time
Strong rental growth has pushed average rents into another £100 price bracket for the third time in just over two years.
Fast-expanding agency secures another brace of acquisitions
Acquisitions at the double for agency as its increases local market share.
Home buyers ‘are getting used to the new normal’
Despite higher borrowing costs, the housing market is experiencing a period of relative stability ahead of the autumn statement on 17 November, says high-profile estate agency.
Hamptons serves up new deal to boost its short-term letting offer
Hamptons has completed the acquisition of a well-established letting agency.
HMRC is targeting BTL landlords with nudge letters, warns tax advisors
The nudge campaign comes in advance of Jeremy Hunt’s first Autumn Statement and rumours of a further attack on BTL landlords with higher rates of capital gains tax on property disposals.
Buyers face hesitant sellers and new shortage of homes, says Chestertons
Whilst buyers in London appear highly motivated, many would-be sellers seem to be waiting for more economic and political certainty before putting their properties on the market.
Home buyers undeterred by economic uncertainty, says estate agency
Estate agency says that it agreed sales on more than 100 residential properties in October.