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In this week’s UK Property Market Stats Update for week ending Sunday, 10th November 2024 (week 45), the main headlines are as follow: Listings (new properties coming on to the market)  – 29.5k UK listings this week (week 45), an…

Mortgage rates continue to increase despite the Bank of England’s decision to cut interest rates last week. Yesterday, the final sub-4% fixed rates on offer from major banks and building societies were withdrawn from the market. So far this week,…

A former estate agency manager from Sale has admitted to posting a racist comment on social media following the Euro 2020 final. Andrew Bone, 41, who worked for Savills, was sacked by the company in September 2021 after posting a racist…

Landlords are moving fast to force out tenants as the government’s ban on Section 21 evictions looms, campaigners have warned, with government figures revealing a spike in evictions by bailiffs. Labour has pledged to abolish Section 21 evictions, with the…

Housing market activity has picked up pace in the two weeks since the Autumn Budget, with 84,000 more homes listed for sale today – an increase of 11.4%, new research shows. Yopa analysed current for sale stock listings across Britain,…

LSL Estate Agency Franchising is hoping to attract self-employed agents after announcing the launch of its new associate model. LSL claims that the proposition provides a unique opportunity for self-employed agents to run their own businesses while…

The housing market continues to strengthen, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) UK residential market survey for October 2024. The latest data reveals that house prices overall also continued to rise (+16% net balance). All regions…

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that a Pegasus Home’s advert for retirement properties was misleading and featured terms and conditions that were hard to understand. This ruling forms part of a wider piece of work on promotional offers…

Thousands of agents are still failing to comply with material information, new research suggests. More than 133,000 homes on the housing market have been listed without providing complete material information, despite the requirements from the National Trading Standards and the…

ASAP appoints Matt Goddard as chief technology officer Matt Goddard Matt Goddard, who worked at Foxtons for almost 10 years, before joining Repait has been appointed as chief technology officer (CTO) at ASAP, the sales progression specialist. With more than…