The elephants in the room that could trample the Housing Minister’s ambition

A leading property industry firm has urged more landlords and home owners to sign up to its free alert service as property title fraud becomes increasingly sophisticated, with criminals impersonating their registered owners to steal properties worth millions of pounds – yet only 3% have signed up to the service. Olly Thornton-Berry, co-founder and CEO…

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Propertymark is advising estate agents to adjust their approach as buyers aged 50–59 become the fastest-growing segment of the UK housing market, according to its latest analysis of homemover data. The organisation says the shift should influence how agents plan services, market homes, and manage negotiations, as older movers become more influential within transaction chains….

Although we normally focus on property prices at a regional level, I have been reporting these for some time and so far, things are the pretty much the same – apart from what’s happening in London. The well reported North / South divide continues to be ‘flipped’ with the South hitting affordability buffers while the…

When we see reports on the housing market, we often just look at year-on-year property price comparisons. But when you think about it, that just doesn’t work for buyers and sellers and that’s because many people today stay in their homes for around 20 years. If we look back over the past two decades, property…

A landlord has been ordered to repay rent totalling £35,800 after a First-tier Tribunal found he had been running an unlicensed HMO in central London. The property, a basement flat at Flat 4a, Hyde Park Mansions, Transept Street, NW1 (main image), was let to four house sharers between 2022 and 2024 without the required licence…