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Downsizers became one of the most prominent buyer groups in 2023, but even they faced challenges.
In what’s forecast to be the start of a new house price cycle, we examine the five forces poised to shape t...
The mortgage guarantee scheme has been extended for another 18 months, but will first-time buyers notice?
Rents in Inner London have been rising at double-digit pace for 16 of the last 18 months. But how long can ...
Solar panels or heat pumps... What are the real key features of an A rated EPC home?
It’s not landlords selling up that’s causing stock issues and subsequently rent rises, but a lack of new in...
Homes nearest the top state schools in the country are becoming some of the most fought over this year, wit...
High prices and lower yields close to home are forcing London’s investors to look further afield.
The transition to higher interest rates has hit landlords. Investors are collectively paying £15.0bn in mor...
Encouraging economic news coupled with the traditional post-summer holiday bounce back, kicked off the Sept...
Those trading their larger home for a smaller one are making up a growing share of sales this year.
For the first time in over a decade, there were more first-timer buyers looking to purchase in London than ...
Second homeownership is coming under greater scrutiny and is subject to increasing regulation, especially i...
Our August lettings index reveals annual rental growth soared to 12.0%, the fastest pace we've seen since t...
House prices in Prime Central London have, for the most part, been treading water ever since 2016. But will...
Is the Bank of Mum & Dad running dry? Brothers and sisters account for a record 11% of donors to first-time...
Rising mortgage rates mean cash buyers account for the largest proportion of sales in over five years. The ...
With rents up 9.9% on the same time last year, our deep dive focusses on what's fuelling the fires under th...
A smoother transition to higher mortgage rates over the last year could have left the market in a better pl...
London leavers are set to save £357m in mortgage repayments this year. We reveal who’s leaving the capital...
What has been driving the resurgence of downsizers this year?
As affordability is squeezed smaller homes are becoming the new favourites.
In the face of rising rents more young adults are choosing to stay home, saving them £1.3bn in rent each year.
Our latest market metrics paint a picture of a slowing market with buyers taking time to consider their opt...
Longer mortgage terms, and higher interst rates make it likely the youngest homeowners will pay for their h...
The landscape of British homeownership has been steadily shifting, with the high homeownership rates of old...
Our latest market metrics paint a picture of a slowing market with buyers taking time to consider their opt...
As price growth slows, landlords won’t be surprised to see the capital gain on their investment drop back. ...
Fuelled by the stamp duty holiday, property flipping is making a comeback, with more homes sold twice in 12...
The rising cost of energy-intensive construction products has pushed up service charges by an average of 8....
For the first time on record the holiday let market has outshone traditional long-term lets...
Our latest metrics hint that sellers continue to set the tone of today's market.
While the housing market cools from last year's peak, transaction times appear to be speeding up.
Average rents outside London passed £1,000 for the first time.
Small houses are more likely to be sold off-plan than flats, as the proportion of new homes sold before com...
While many have decided to stay put as mortgage rates settle, one group has made a resurgence in the market.
Our March market metrics paint a picture of strength in the coming months.
With the average landlord turning 60, it’s predominantly older investors who are leaving the market. Our e...
We analyse the numbers to see how both landlords and tenants have reacted to the legislation.
As higher mortgage costs continue to shape the market, first-time buyers are adapting by buying smaller and...
Our analysis of housing markets along the HS2 line shows that since 2019, its construction has been a drag ...
Our latest monthly roundup shows signs of stabilisation across the market.
Does the shrinking gap between London and the coutry signal the end of another property cycle?
International interest is growing in the most sought after London postcodes
High mortgage rates have meant new buy-to-let purchases are increasingly cash funded, particularly down sou...
Cash buyers' had their biggest month in eight years this January. What prompted their return to the market?
90,370 tenants left the capital last year, with the numbers doubling since 2012
Our latest numbers on the housing market paint a more optimistic picture of what might happen in the months...
Who has been buying and selling all the lots at auctions?
Renting is now cheaper than buying across most of the country. View our interactive map to see whether buyi...
Our analysis shows that the growth in the number of privately rented households between 2011 and 2021 was l...
The average seller made a record amount this year, but which areas made the most?
How many Londoners left the capital this year? And how far did they go?
Why are landlords taking up a bigger share of the market despite fewer sales?
What's been happening in Britain's secret sales market?
Have buyers and sellers adjusted to the new normal? And what does this mean for the future of transactions?
The number of homes on the market has steadily crept up in recent months, following two straight years whic...
In his first Autumn Statement, Jeremy Hunt announced a package of spending cuts and tax rises. But what doe...
As of last month, rents in every region have surpassed their pre-Covid averages. With the average rent for ...
Which of Londons's travel zones is the most expensive? And where are the new neighbourhoods joining the £1m...
While interest rates are far from the highs of yester-year, soaring price growth and stagnant wages means t...
For years, buyers have enjoyed mortgage repayments that are historically low, but it’s likely over the medi...
The phrase “Cash is King” is likely to ring true as mortgage rates spiral. Here we look at who these new c...
We’ve been thinking about how recent events will begin to shape the market over the next few years and what...
The record number of landlords now holding properties in a company means incorporation is rapidly becoming ...
Several weeks of political and financial market turmoil have accelerated the housing market’s bump back dow...
Rising rates are rapidly pushing up costs. In some cases, this means that landlords may start to see their ...
With a flurry of policy announcements last week, we assess what impact this could have on the housing marke...
Strong rental growth has meant that tenants are having to trade-down and lose a bedroom in order to spend t...
It’s the modern-day space race: moving from London to the country for a bigger home. Yet the amount of spac...
Londoners bought 40,540 properties outside the capital during the first half of 2022, 19% above the 2015-20...
The pace of the market last year means year-on-year comparisons tend to be negative. But look back beyond w...
Tenants are set to pay £63.0bn by the end of 2022, a record high and the first big jump in five years.
Just as thousands of people have moved in the past couple of years in order to gain more living space, thou...
Another month, another rate increase from the Bank of England. At the end of June, it raised the base rate ...
In our latest analysis, we explore how market movements are changing the sums on whether it’s cheaper to re...
The start of the year saw a record 37,000 homes change hands off-market, the highest number in any quarter ...
When it was introduced, the Help to Buy equity loan was built up as ’the biggest government intervention in...
Prime Central London’s (PCL) housing market has often been the first to lead the charge after a downturn...
While in the past buyers would move up the housing ladder to gain extra bedrooms, they are now doing so to ...
London rents are rising at a record pace, with growth being driven by renters returning from outside the ca...
On the 5th of May, the Bank of England raised the base rate by 0.25 percentage points to 1%
Sellers are increasingly turning to the rental market as a stop-gap to secure their sale.
The outbreak of Covid-19 in 2020 has seen more people than ever head for the coast and country.
The current pace of the market has put buyers with a home to sell at the back of the queue.
For the first time since 2016, investors bought more properties than they sold.
Record low stock levels combined with high demand have created a perfect storm for bidding wars to break out.
Last year, 37% of new homes sold in England and Wales found a buyer before completion, up from 35% in 2020.
As strong rental growth and rising energy bills add to living costs, financial pressures are raining down o...
For the first time more £1m-plus homes sold outside the capital than inside.
As spring begins there are green shoots appearing in the capital’s property market.
Two years on from the first rumblings of a virus spreading across China, it’s increasingly looking like the...
The government’s proposal to ensure that all new rental properties have an EPC rating of at least a C by 20...
Towards the end of last year, the easing of restrictions brought about a return to the office, luring peop...
The Bank of England has just raised the base rate to 0.5%, marking the second hike in two months as it atte...
Privacy has become the market’s hottest property as increasing numbers of homes sell under the counter.
Over the last four years the number of landlords who have put their buy-to-let properties into a company, r...
Soaring house price growth over the last 18 months has driven up the amount of money homeowners have made.
2021 is likely to mark the largest outmigration from London for at least a generation, but is this trend se...
Buying a first home is a big achievement and, in late November 2017, the government introduced permanent st...
In 2021 – with Brexit and Trump’s presidency behind us and in the midst of a global pandemic – house prices...
To find out how rents across the regions have fared since the start of the pandemic, have a read of Novembe...
Forget the latest gadget – fresh air and mud have become the hottest property these days. The pandemic-indu...
There has been a common story since the pandemic took hold: of buyers moving out of crowded urban areas int...
The desire for space has been the property trend of the pandemic. While smaller city properties have falle...
The re-opening of the London market in May saw activity return to every corner of the capital, from Barking...
Buried within the OBR’s costings of the 2021 budget were details of a rise in the stamp duty surcharge. Whi...
Is no news for the housing market good news?
As the nights draw in and the leaves begin to drop, the number of homes on the market has fallen to a recor...
2021 has generally been kind to housebuilders and here we set out our 10 key trends to watch in 2022. Despi...
Despite investors stamp duty bills falling by a third, there is little sign that the stamp duty holiday led...
Prime areas have fuelled the housing markets recovery since the pandemic began. But what does this unabated...
The North of England and the Midlands have dominated buy-to-let in England in recent years, but there are s...
The capital was hit hard by the pandemic – rents fell by up to 20% as tenants moved out and students stayed...
As the final curtain falls on the stamp duty holiday, there are tentative signs of more normal levels of ac...
The total amount of rent paid by tenants across Great Britain has fallen 8% from a peak of £62.4bn in 2018 ...
Covid-19 hit international travel hard. As Government’s across the world locked down borders and restrictio...
Despite the stamp duty holiday, the number of homes being flipped, properties bought, refurbished and sold ...
One of the most typical responses to the Coronavirus pandemic has been for movers to flee big cities, parti...
Unlike after previous stamp duty changes, a lack of stock has meant few buyers have been able to renegotiat...
As government regulation has changed over the years, eating into the profitability of the buy-to-let sector...
July marks the first month following the tapering of the stamp duty holiday. But it seems unlikely the mark...
Leaving the capital has been a rite of passage for Londoners across generations, but the amount of extra sp...
The pandemic-fuelled moves from town to country, a key housing trend last year, show no signs of easing.
With 27% fewer homes available to buy in July than the same time last year, sellers who have struggled to f...
The pandemic made it harder for people to buy their first home, while price growth has meant their choice o...
After last year's pandemic driven falls, yields in city centres are on the rise. This is particularly true...
Now that the first phase of the stamp duty holiday has ended, we can assess the impact on the pockets of bu...
While some city-dwellers are swapping the bright lights for the countryside, others are cashing in on the h...
The staycation boom is going from strength to strength, with our research showing that there was a signific...
It appears that late spring marked the bottom of the Inner London market. For the first time since April 20...
Due to the rush for space, growth has been concentrated in outer boroughs which means that the price gap be...
While prices are rising in most markets up and down the country, in rural areas price growth is running nea...
It's been just over a year since building sites started to re-open but the evidence since then points to fe...
Despite rents in Great Britain rising 7.1% over the last 12 months, strong house price growth coupled with ...
There have been multiple schemes from governments of all colours aimed at helping private renters become ho...
The recent rush of investors purchasing buy-to-let properties has begun to wane as the end of the stamp dut...
Since the onset of the pandemic, the number of people selling a flat to buy a house has jumped.
The frantic desire to move bought on by the pandemic has been felt in the rental market too as the time it ...
As time goes on, more and more evidence emerges showcasing the strength of the property market. But how l...
The start of the year saw a record 37,000 homes change hands off-market, the highest number in any quarter ...
The buying power of the over 55s should not be underestimated. Last year they accounted for 29% of propert...
We look at how pioneering homeowners who bought into regeneration schemes have fared and what it has meant ...
Our March 2021 lettings index shows that last year the average landlord sold their buy-to-let for £82k more...
Our latest analysis looks at how the buy-to-lets bought last year are achieving higher yields than those wh...
What does the launch of the new Mortgage Guarantee Scheme really mean for buyers hoping to purchase their f...
Our April lettings index reveals that 250,000 fewer homes have been bought by landlords in the last five ye...
Record low stock levels combined with high demand have created a perfect storm for bidding wars to break out.
With the number of homes on the market at a five-year low, a record share have sold before they got listed ...
It's becoming clear that The Chancellor is putting the housing market near the top of his agenda to aid the...
April marks the introduction of price caps alongside the reinstatement of the mortgage guarantee element. B...
We take a look at how the housing market has changed between the 2011 and 2021 census.
Despite the rapid pace of the vaccine rollout, the pandemic induced desire for space shows no sign of abati...
The Government recently announced changes to the current scheme which will see a new Help to Buy: Equity Lo...
As housing associations up their development pipeline across the capital, London saw more shared ownership ...
While the coronavirus pandemic has undoubtedly hit younger households more than other workers, perhaps surp...
While history shows the market slows towards the end of most stamp duty holidays, the lockdown induced desi...
Rental growth outside London hit the highest figure on record since the index began in 2012.
The pandemic-induced lifestyle shift combined with a stamp duty holiday has sparked a boom in demand for se...
January 2021 lettings index - Nationally the rate of rental growth picked up for the sixth month running. ...
The removal of tax relief on mortgage interest payments has led to a record number of new buy-to-let limite...
Covid-19 may have halted global travel last year, but that didn't dampen interest from international buyers...
January 2021 lettings index - the stamp duty holiday has accelerated the fall in cash landlord purchases, w...
Homes in London and some of the more expensive areas of the South were among the first regions to break thr...
From late spring onwards there has been a 20% jump in the average distance buyers have moved, an increase o...
So far this month sellers have achieved the highest proportion of the asking price in any January since our...
With the end of the stamp duty holiday looming, landlords made up 15% of buyers in Great Britain in Novembe...
The highest level in four years as households move further than ever before.
With the Help to Buy scheme changing in the first quarter of next year, we take a look at how it's become a...
Despite investors enjoying stamp duty holiday savings, fewer of them than ever before are coming up against...
December 2020 Lettings Index - Last year there were a total of 41,700 buy-to-let incorporations, an increas...
December 2020 Lettings Index - December marked the first time since the onset of the pandemic that prospect...
The share of homes exchanging within 3 months has fallen as activity in the housing market rises and stretc...
Following six month's of stagnation, rents in Great Britain rose for the first time since the Coronavirus p...
The proportion of homes flipped (properties bought and sold within a 12 month period) across England and Wa...
Since the market re-opened in May, investors purchasing flats have been achieving record yields.
With a severe shortage of properties for sale, sellers are increasingly choosing chain-free buyers over tho...
The UK may have fallen into the deepest recession on record, yet the housing market is booming. But our res...
Between the housing market re-opening for busines in May and the end of September, the total number of home...
The late spring of 2020 will undoubtedly go down in the history books as one of the most tumultuous in Brit...
We all want more space. It's been widely reported that owner-occupiers have, since lockdown restrictions we...
The average time it takes to sell a home in Great Britain has shifted from a record high to record low in j...
The introduction of the stamp duty holiday has given a further boost to the housing market which was alread...
People are choosing to move home more quickly and it seems that it's a combination of lockdown and a stamp ...
Short lets drive up London rental market stock as rents continue to fall.
In his Summer Statement the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, outlined a range of measures designed to retain jobs, ...
The June lettings index provides us with the first opportunity to report on how the economic damage caused ...
Our first Off-Plan Sales Index shows that 33% of new home completions in England and Wales last year were s...
Lockdown has meant that we've all been moving less. Our latest lettings index shows that the average time ...
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