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The average price of a property arriving on the market has dropped by 0.2 per cent this month, according to market data from Rightmove. This small dip comes at a time that normally sees the first signs of an Autumn recovery and is the first price fall recorded in September since 2010.
Estate agents have been encouraged to routinely disclose air pollution figures to home buyers.
Propertymark has pledged its support for Gas Safety Week, taking place 16 -22 September 2019, and will be raising awareness about the importance of gas safety to its members and the public.
Propertymark has joined forces with BHSF Connect to bring Propertymark members even bigger benefits at the touch of a button with a new app, bringing membership resources and benefits directly to your phone.
Angharad Trueman, Propertymark Representative for the Gloucestershire, Bristol, Bath and North Somerset and a Propertymark member since her twenties, highlights the benefits of membership and why being a member is something younger agents should work towards.
Propertymark is holding a giant charity sleepout on 21 November with aim of raising £25K for Centrepoint, a charity to support homeless young people. In 2017/18 more than 103,000 young people asked their local council for help because they were homeless or at risk of homelessness.
Recent government research found that a third of businesses reported having cyber security breaches or attacks in the last 12 months. As the Propertymark industry supplier for insurance, Gallagher want to raise awareness of some of the most common types of online fraud, what to look out for, and to reduce the risk to your business.
The number of prospective buyers increased in July, the latest NAEA Propertymark Housing Market Reports shows, with demand also up year-on-year.
The Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has announced plans to help thousands of lower earners step onto the housing ladder. Changes to Help To Buy, that would make it easier for people to take out a mortgage, are also proposed.
Empty Homes Week 2019 will take place from 23- 29 September. Every year local authorities, housing providers, community-led organisations and others see the Week as an opportunity to organise events and put out information so that people know about their work to tackle empty homes.
Research from Legal & General and Cebr has revealed that the Bank of Mum and Dad (BoMaD) is now the equivalent of a top 10 UK mortgage lender, gifting a total of £6.3bn in 2019. This year, the average BoMaD contribution has risen by more than £6,000, to £24,100.
NAEA Propertymark has responded to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s consultation into Redress for purchasers of new build homes and the New Homes Ombudsman.
New research into ‘traditional’ leasehold retirement housing shows that recently built properties, on average, increase their value upon resale.
Chancellor Sajid Javid has announced new investment of over £600 million for infrastructure projects to support the building of 50,000 new homes.
House prices in Northern Ireland are showing a continued annual growth of 3.5% compared to the same period last year as according to the recent report released by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency.
House prices have fallen across all three regions of the South of England for the first time since 2009, the latest report from the Office of National Statistics shows.
Recent articles released worldwide, and GDPR legislation throughout Europe, have highlighted the fact that today’s printers should be treated no differently than any other IT peripheral.
Proving your identity online is often time consuming and repetitive. A Government consultation is asking for your views on developing a secure and reusable digital identification service, to make processes such as reference checking easier and more reliable.
Intermediaries say interest only mortgages comprised 20 per cent of new business introduced in the second quarter of 2019, down from a 2007 peak of 28 percent, but significantly higher than five years ago. Repayment mortgages made up almost all the remaining proportion of new business in that time.
An annual HomeOwners’ Alliance consumer survey on housing concerns suggests that estate agent fees place low on the list behind house prices, housing availability and mortgage availability.
Despite a marginal drop in prospective buyers in June, and a house price plummet in London, the housing market shows signs of resilience.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) has secured an Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO) on a Northern Irish woman with suspected links to serious organised crime.
Fewer than a third of landlords would add to their buy-to-let portfolio over the next 12 months, research claims.
We're one year in and complaints to the regulators are nearing 200,000 and reported breaches are over 85,000. Are we all still being successful in protecting the data of your applicants and vendors?
New figures show that Australia is top of the table when it comes to owning property in Scotland.
Following a recent tribunal where an agency was not signed up to a redress scheme for its property management work, only its letting agency work, all estate and letting agents are being urged to check they are signed up with an approved redress scheme that covers the full remit of their work.
The May house price index has again shown the average house price in Scotland has increased compared to the same month last year and has also increased each month since May 2016.
Today, Thursday 18 July 2019, the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) released a report on the recommendations of the Regulation of Property Agents Working Group (RoPA) proposing a new regulatory framework to cover estate agents across the UK and letting and managing agents in England only.
A Task and Finish Group, which included participation from NAEA Propertymark, has released its report on Residential Leasehold Reform.
Nominations are in full swing for the 2019 awards and Propertymark spoke to last year’s winners to hear what they’ve achieved since receiving their much-coveted award.