Finance
Receipts from Stamp Duty slide as sales dwindle – and as 69,000 first-timers benefit from exemption
HMRC registers falling Stamp Duty transactions in the first quarter
News
Finance
Home buyers expected to pay close to ten times their salary to get on the property ladder
ONS reveals best and worst places for housing affordability in England and Wales
Agency
Agency moves in with Google as it opens third London office
Kay & Co looks to serve Google employees and those moving and renting in the capital
Finance
Huge drop in house mortgage approvals rings loud alarm bells
Lender data shows a 20% drop in mortgage approvals for house purchase during March
People
All change at Strutt & Parker as chairman steps down after three decades
Andrew Rettie, who joined Strutt & Parker in 1987, will retire at the end of April
Agency
OnTheMarket outlines plans over next two years to close traffic and inventory gaps
Battle resumes: OnTheMarket reveals aggressive new push to win more agents with fremium deals
Agency
Online agent defends fixed upfront fee model, saying it works best for vendors
Online agent that offers no sale, no fee, says it still prefers payment up-front
Politics
London housing shortage a ticking time bomb for businesses in growing struggle to recruit and keep staff
Employers despair as housing costs in London drive staff out of jobs
Lettings
Tech-savvy generation of renters pose greatest threat to future of ‘blinkered’ high street agents, claim
Tech-driven millennials 'could be death of letting agents'
People
Major industry figure Suzie Pattison steps down after 28 years at Ravensworth
Ravensworth managing director Suzie Pattison quitting after almost three decades
Finance
Rentals and lettings agent reviews firm launches £800,000 crowdfunding campaign saying it is worth almost £4m
Movebubble has turned to the public to fund its growth
Lettings
Average rents fall across the UK for first time in six years, suggesting this is more than a correction
Deposit Protection Service says average rents across the UK are down for the first time since 2009
Lettings
Landlords trying to make up for their tax losses with rent hikes, says ARLA
Lettings agents say proportion of tenants seeing rent increases is at a six-month high
Politics
OPINION: Will voluntary reservations work if they are not given teeth?
Duncan Samuel, managing director of Gazeal, welcomes the Government's recent paper into reforming the housing market but wonders if it goes far enough
Agency
Husband and wife agency relocate from Keller Williams to arch rival RE/MAX
Firm departs the Keller Williams network for franchise rival
Finance
EYE NEWSFLASH! Pain goes on for Countrywide as it reveals revenue trailing away by millions
Revenue plunges £17m in first quarter of this year, reveals Countrywide
Compliance
Organisers of prize draw for home rapped by watchdog after raffle never took place because not enough tickets sold
Organisers of home raffle told that cash prize offered instead of home was not 'reasonable equivalent'
Lettings
Mayor Andy Burnham will ‘buy out rental properties’ in amnesty for bad landlords
Andy Burnham pledges to isolate those that give lettings sector a bad name
Compliance
Battle of the Ombudsmen round two: Property Redress Scheme lures NALS agents
Let battle commence: Redress schemes bid to lure agents from outgoing(ish) Ombudsman Services: Property
Compliance
Have some London estate agents slipped up on their anti-money laundering checks?
Warnings that agents may have been slack with their anti-money laundering after London homes sold to 'mafia' members