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The property portal reports there are 11% more buyers in the market now than a year ago, while the number of agreed sales is up 15%.

Falling mortgage rates and higher demand boost property sales. What’s in store for the housing market for the rest of the year?

Bargain-hunting home buyers have caused a spike in “gazundering”, a tactic when a buyer makes a lower offer at the eleventh hour to force the seller to cut a property’s price.

From what the weather is going to be like tomorrow to how the housing market will perform next year, life is full of challenges that are difficult to predict.

Desperate London home sellers have been accepting average discounts of as much as £25k on asking prices as the property market has seized up.

Seventy areas are still experiencing rises, and three have seen the value of the average home go up by more than 10% in the last year.

The house price slump is being felt across the country, with 80 per cent of local areas registering annual falls, according to Zoopla.

The number of UK home sales taking place in July was 16% lower than in the same month a year earlier, according to HM Revenue & Customs figures on Thursday. Across the UK, 86,510 residential property...

House prices have fallen again but at a slightly slower pace as first-time buyers helped steady the market as they decided to search for smaller homes.

City playboys are following in the footsteps of Hollywood A-listers and music legends by snapping up stunning mansions in villages dotting the River Thames, in Berkshire.