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The team at Property Industry Eye would like wish you all the very best for the festive season. Thank you to all our readers for your invaluable support over the past 12 months. We really could not…

A cross-party group of MPs, Peers and housing organisations has written to the housing minister to call for urgent action to bring over a quarter of a million long term empty homes back into use. There are 265,000 homes in…

The comparison site for home movers, reallymoving, has revealed 10 statistics that tell us what happened in the housing market during 2024, including where people moved to, how far they went and what it all cost. + The busiest day…

Simon Whale The recent Relocation Agent Network (RAN) Park Plaza Riverbank in London marked the 30th anniversary since the organisation was set-up. Someone who could never have been accused of being a shrinking violet, Simon Whale opened the event by…

New research has revealed where the nation’s estate agents are on course to have sold the most homes in 2024, with Scotland, the South East and North West proving the most active regions of the UK property market. GetAgent analysed…

Online agents’ market share fell in 2024 to 5.2% which is 7% lower than 2023 and 32% lower than 2019.   This group also lost share in all price brackets below £1m, with the largest decline seen in…

The average number of enquiries sent to agents about each available property they have to rent, is still nearly double the level it was in pre-pandemic 2019, new figures show. Each available rental property receives an average of 11 enquiries,…

Almost one million property price reductions have been recorded throughout 2024 – the largest number on record, data from analytics company TwentyEA has revealed.  This number is 8.1% higher than 2023 and 17.6% higher than 2019 and…

In this week’s ‘UK Property Market Stats Show’ for week ending Sunday, 15th December 2024, myself and this week’s special guest, Toby Phillips (Boss of Martin & Co and the experience brands), discuss the property market headlines for Week 50…

Matthew Pennycook Councils will be able to seize land more easily and pay owners less under reforms to compulsory purchase powers designed to boost housebuilding. The government announced new planning changes yesterday, designed to boost new investment for town centres…