The stories that got you talking this week
One month on and Brexit is still top of the news agenda
News Archive
NEWS FLASH: LSL warns on profits in wake of EU referendum
Parent company of Your Move, Reeds Rains and Marsh & Parsons says profits will be ‘significantly’ below expectations
Countrywide in significant move to close, rebrand and merge branches
Countrywide’s London boss says that aim in the capital is to create bigger, better and busier offices, but picture unclear across rest of network
Estate agent hit with £7,500 bill by court in Consumer Protection Regulations case
Trading Standards prosecutes firm which advertised properties without saying they were holiday homes
Mortgage lending hits its highest since housing market crash
Housing market activity could soften over next six months, warning
Over 100,000 residential property transactions in referendum month
Figure jumps from month before but down on June last year
Gone missing – 300,000 first-time buyers a year
New string of English Housing Survey reports published
House sales hold up outside London post-Brexit, says Hometrack
Pre-Brexit headwinds for London market have intensified after Leave vote
Picture of the Week: And it’s eMoov Towers ‘for sale’
It’s a one-bedroom flat like no other
Picture of the Week: Our worthy runner up
Why agents should always check the text . . .
Crowdfunding prop tech firm lays off staff but says ambition is undimmed
Property Partner sheds staff but insists it remains passionate and confident of the future
Thirteen agents in just one borough warned they could be prosecuted
Out of 33 letting agents visited, Trading Standards in one town has issued ‘notices of intent’ to over a third for non-compliance
Last-time buyers having as many problems as first-time buyers
Older home owners stuck because of lack of suitable supply for their next move
Property company in bid to raise £300,000 to target growing house share market
Professional house sharers do not want tatty student homes says firm set to use crowdfunding
Millennial generation spending £44,000 more on rent than baby boomers
63% of baby boomers were home owners by 30 compared with 42% now
Apartment in Nine Elms up for ‘urgent sale’ after price cut
Sub-penthouse close to Battersea Power Station now on sale for less than asking price back in 2013
Landlord allowed to pay £50 weekly instalments could take 15 years to pay fine
Landlord of properties branded as appalling and inhumane back in court after failing to pay £40,000 bill
Almost half of all letting inquiries to London agent from mainland Europe
Many applicants seeking to relocate to London finance sector before Britain quits EU
No recession and no house price crash for UK, says PWC
But French bank warns some London homes could halve in value as result of Brexit
Average house prices continued to rise in pre-Leave vote month
Average UK house prices rising in month before Brexit poll