Lettings
Is your tenant a Bubble Gazer or a Homing Pigeon?
Research aims to identify ten tenant tribes
News
Lettings
Meeting of Fair Fees Working Group to go ahead today despite ban
Office for Budget Responsibility warns ban could lead to steeper rents and feed into higher inflation
Agency
Speculation over job losses at Countrywide as shares get second day of clobbering
Countrywide refuses to be drawn on speculation of new round of redundancies – and agents see more stock market pain
Agency
Have agents played a part in the ban on fees by putting profits before reputations?
Professional bodies did not do enough, says ex-ARLA spokesperson, in this opinion piece
Events
Celebrity Martin Kemp to take centre stage at EA LIVE a week today
Film star, actor and writer Martin Kemp gets set to answer your questions
Finance
Stamp Duty is a ‘war on London’ says agent as sales tumble
The £9.5m black hole in Stamp Duty receipts that Hammond did not address
Finance
House price to earnings ratio hits record levels – Hometrack
London buyers facing price to earnings ratio of 14x
Finance
Banks report only ‘modest increase’ in mortgage activity since rate cut
Mortgage approvals down 10% year-on-year but slightly up on a monthly basis
Lettings
Town identified as buy-to-let hotspot for rental yields and growth
Is your area in the top ten?
Agency
NEWSFLASH: Countrywide forecasts ‘significant’ drop in sales both this year and next
Belvoir also reports to City saying its profits will be hit by ban on letting fees
Agency
Why was no one asked before bombshell? Consultation on fees ban to be launched in New Year
ARLA slams lack of any industry engagement before Chancellor announced ban
Lettings
Picture of the Week: Is this the kind of rent rise we can see after the ban on fees?
Wow – this is an expensive property but at least future tenants will be spared letting agent fees
Agency
Agent Provocateur: Appetite for opening new offices is on the wane
Are LEAPERs a leap in the right, wrong or 'too soon' direction?
Finance
Autumn Statement: Chancellor commits £3bn fund for housing
Support for almost 230,000 new homes in next five years
Agency
Estate agency share prices hit after fees ban announced
Foxtons sees millions wiped off its value after fee ban announced
Lettings
Will lettings fee ban prompt rental inflation? How the Scottish market reacted
Tenant fees have been banned in Scotland since 2012 – but have rents risen as a result?
Finance
First-time buyer home loans hit record levels in Scotland
Highest amount borrowed by first-time buyers since 2007
Compliance
Letting agent fined £30,000 after HMO tenants ran electricity leads into bathrooms
Agency hit with huge bill after shared property was found to be unsafe
Lettings
STOP PRESS: Chancellor confirms lettings fee ban in housing focused Autumn Statement
Autumn Statement focuses on housing