This year is a leap year – the 29th February only occurs every four years – which is about as frequently as many people used to move house during the heady days of property speculation that sparked the boom market. Nowadays most buyers…

As we approach Valentine’s Day it would seem that there’s a fair bit of love involved in estate agency! An estate agent is, if anything, a matchmaker after all. And just as people fall in love with the right person, so buyers also need to fall in love with a…

The new property portal, named On The Market (OTM), seems to have launched with a whimper, despite its TV advertising campaign since its launch in early 2015. The service sought to compete with the likes of Rightmove and Zoopla yet traffic to OTMs site has been anything but impressive. According…

The Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced a 3% hike in Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) on buy-to-let properties and second homes in his Autumn Statement. This was met with “outrage” from various quarters, such as the Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) and others who describe it as…

So here we are at the beginning of a new year and one of the most impressive stats that we look back on goes back not just to 2015 but over the past 20 years. A report just out by PPRM suggests that property has outperformed every other…