Housing market reform needed, says major estate agency boss

February is the best month of the year to list a property, narrowly outperforming the traditional spring peak, according to Rightmove’s property expert Colleen Babcock (pictured). The portal examined millions of homes listed over a ten-year period between 2014 and 2024, excluding the Pandemic-affected 2020. In a tightly contested result, 68.9% of homes listed in…

Homebuyers need to stop looking at properties on their phones and ensure they go and actually view potential new homes. That’s the message from property search firm Stacks, which says house hunting is not an activity that can be undertaken from the sofa. Obsession “House buyers’ obsession with online property portals is undermining their chances…

Following on from his previous position as Sales Director at Gibbs Gillespie, Dan Collis has stepped up to Managing Director, Sales, for the LRG brand, as well as Chancellors and Portico. He brings two decades of experience within LRG. He began his career as a Sales Negotiator at Romans in 2005 and has since played…

The conflict in the Gulf pushed up UK inflation to 3.3% in March, according to the Office for National Statistics and CPIH, which includes owner-occupiers’ housing costs, which rose to 3.4%. Transport was the main driver of the increase, with prices rising by 4.7%, the highest since late 2022, as the blockade of the Strait…

More than two million homes have gone “missing” from the rental market after the stamp duty surcharge was introduced a decade ago, it has been revealed. Research by Hamptons claimed there would be 2.2 million more homes available to rent had the surcharge not be introduced and the market had been able to continue to…

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