News Archive

The government has not yet published a Justice Impact Test or New Burdens Assessment for the Renters’ Rights Bill

Report highlights the scale of the challenge faced by government and industry to increase supply and hit the housing targets set in the coming years

UK residential property sales are 27% higher year-to-date compared to pre-Covid years of 2017/18/19

About 22 people were thought to be living in the three-room flat where father-of-two Mizanur Rahman, 41, died from smoke inhalation

Catherine Mann had been seen as one of the leading MPC hawks on inflation, but shocked the markets by voting for a 0.5% reduction in rates last week

Matthew Pennycook wrote to the chair of the HM Land Registry Board, Neil Sachdev, focusing on the priorities for HMLR over the coming year

Industry body is urging letting agents to be vigilant and proactive in combating rental fraud to protect consumers and themselves

Propertymark, commends members of the House of Lords for listening to the concerns of letting agents and the wider sector

If we want lasting change, we need to support one another – men and women alike

Is this property haunted?

Through this collaboration, the estate agency will now offer the Modern Method of Auction

20% rise in complaints made about agents to the Property Redress scheme

The purchase will increase the estate agency’s footprint to 65 branches

Industry leaders call for action as new report shows there is still a good degree of male domination in the property sector

Snippets of industry news: Oliver Goodfellow joins Moveli; Savills adds new director to investment team; Mackrell.Solicitors appoints new head of residential property

Head of Foxtons, Guy Gittins, points to recent changes, supporting the estate agency’s transformation, including: a 25% increase in female managers over the last two years

The CLC issues fresh statement on the facts of the case as outlined in the published decision

New analysis shows that a typical monthly mortgage payment on a first-time buyer property is £350 more than five years ago

With April’s stamp duty changes now on the horizon, a higher proportion of sellers are also lowering their expectations at the key price points in the market

The government is being urged to address the shortage of homes for private rent as the only viable route for improving affordability in the sector