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Savills has appointed Ashley Conaghan as head of client services. Ashley has over 10-years experience in the property industry and has managed multiple client services departments during this time. Ashley [...]

Bristol: Business Money Promotions Ltd has issued the following news release: The Lending Standards Board (LSB) has chosen its next chair as it continues its vital work driving fair outcomes [...]

Byline: Sophie Vening Thanks to the likes of Help to Buy, the stamp duty holiday and Shared Ownership, London's property market has picked up pace since lockdown restrictions began to [...]

The gap between country and city house prices has started to close. In the years after the 2008 financial crisis, urban homes were in far higher demand, while country property […]

Foxtons name new chair after shareholder revolt Estate agency Foxtons Group has announced the appointment of Nigel Rich as its new chair. The move comes after the group's previous chair, [...]

Rents in central London have registered their first monthly price increase since the start of the pandemic, according to estate agent Hamptons International. Prices jumped 4.3pc in June compared to […]

An acute shortage of properties is prompting desperate homebuyers to gazump, panic buy and bid 20pc over the asking price in a market that agents describe as 'cut-throat'. The share […]

Byline: Arabella Youens The gap between country and city house prices has started to close. In the years after the 2008 financial crisis, urban homes were in far higher demand, [...]

Landlords have long been squeezed by tax changes and increasing regulation, as well as falling yields. Recently they have been battered by the pandemic and some city-centre property owners have […]

London landlords and flat owners have been hit by massive falls in property values as plummeting rents and a shift towards larger properties have pushed mortgage lenders to re-evaluate prices. […]

For many landlords, 2020 has been an annus horribilis of lost rents and painful limbo. For James Grey, 57, an accidental landlord in Hertfordshire, the situation is on a knife […]

The pandemic has dramatically accelerated the decline of the buy-to-let sector. Lost rental income and the protracted eviction ban have compounded the problems of punitive legislation and shrinking margins that […]

Byline: Joanna Partridge The proportion of homes in England and Wales that have been bought, renovated and sold again within a short period has hit a 12-year high, with Burnley [...]

Rents in central London fell by as much as 15 per cent in the past year while those in rural areas across the country increased, as more people sought a [...]

Byline: Julia Kollewe Countrywide, the estate agency group that owns Hamptons International and Gascoigne-Pees, has received a £82m takeover approach from rival Connells. Countrywide, the UK's largest listed estate agent [...]

Byline: Anna White F OR the first time in five years, the number of young buyers getting on the property ladder in inner London is higher than the number purchasing [...]

A typical response to the pandemic has been to swap cities for the country side. But coronavirus has also brought a wave of 'reverse movers' who are ditching the sticks […]

THE housing market has gone bonkers in London. Sealed bids, quick-fire sales and record prices are back. After a prolonged period of Brexit stagnation and the shock of lockdown, the [...]

Byline: By, Ellie McKinnell The London property market is notoriously expensive, and sadly £500,000 won't get you a lot compared to other areas of the UK. According to government data, [...]

BUYERS who once wouldn't have dreamed of leaving central London are eyeing up Zone 3 in this post-lockdown, work-from-home world. It's the happy medium, where they are far more likely [...]

Landlords escaping the struggling rental market sold more than 150,000 residential properties last year, with most facing an average PS22,000 tax bill. Estate agent Hamptons International found that 84pc of […]

Byline: Anna White THE urgent delivery of affordable homes is key to the capital's recovery after Covid-19, but house price falls alone will not make homeownership more accessible for young [...]

Byline: Melissa Lawford An acute shortage of properties is prompting desperate homebuyers to gazump, panic buy and bid 20pc over the asking price in a market that agents describe as [...]

Dubai-based developer Nakheel has announced the appointment of Naaman Atallah as its chief executive. Nakheel has both Palm Jumeirah and The World Islands in its portfolio, along with a growing [...]

Byline: Melissa Lawford The pandemic has reversed the fortunes of landlords in the countryside, where rents jumped 5.5pc year-on-year in October, while city rents plunged. The growth rate of rural [...]

Byline: Melissa Lawford The post-lockdown exodus of Londoners to the countryside has dominated the headlines. But with every new trend comes a counter culture. The pandemic has also brought a [...]

Byline: Sam Benstead The collapse of the short-term letting market -- once fuelled by tourists using online lettings website Airbnb -- is leading to a glut of new long-term rental [...]

Byline: PROPERTY Joanna Bourke SHARES IN embattled Countrywide today tumbled 5% on news that it is in all-share merger talks with smaller rival LSL Property Services to create the UK's [...]

Byline: Julia Kollewe Two of Britain's biggest estate agency groups are in talks over a possible £470m merger that will bring together well-known brands such as Hamptons International and Your [...]

Byline: Ruth Bloomfield NO MATTER staggering property prices, economic and political instabilities and wage stagnation, somehow you just can't keep a determined first-time buyer down. The number of people taking [...]