A new working group on mental health in the agency industry is being set up following a poll revealing 62 per cent of individual agents reporting problems. The charity Agents Together – set up last year…
Despite the booming housing market the whole property sector – a key indicator of the economy’s performance – has seen 11,000 additional businesses enter significant distress in the past three months. In total there are…
A leading analyst is questioning whether buyers have benefitted from the stamp duty holiday because demand has purshed up prices far beyond the savings possible. Anthony Codling – the former Jefferies analyst who now leads PropTech…
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors last night announced a dramatic U-turn in the controversy over a report by an independent accountancy firm.For weeks the institution has been the subject of allegations, chiefly in the…
Plans are afoot for millions of leaseholders in England to be given the right to extend their leases by 990 years while paying £0 ground rent, the Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has announced in a…
One in seven London tenants are in arrears. Now pressure is growing for the Government to do more than delay evictions. The Government is coming under increasing pressure to step in to assist London’s renters…
Massive monetary stimulus from central banks and governments stepping in with fiscal support have driven house prices higher around the world. Covid-19 has pushed the global economy into the worst downturn since the Great Depression,…
One of the housing market’s senior analysts says the end of the stamp duty holiday on March 31 would not be the chaotic cliff-edge that some suggest. Anthony Codling, founder of PropTech platform Twindig and…
The online petition calling for an extension to the stamp duty holiday is set to pass 100,000 signatures today. This means the government will be obliged to consider holding a debate on the subject of…
The speed and success of the Coronavirus vaccine programme holds the key to the housing market rebounding in the second half of the year. That view – from Savills – comes as surveyors’ data suggests…
