Stamp duty should be abolished for first-time buyers, according to sales and lettings agency SW19.

House prices fell by 0.4 per cent in November, Nationwide has revealed.

The National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) is calling for the government and lenders to show some bravery to boost the residential property market.

Would-be-sellers are flooding the rental market with properties they have not been able to sell, causing rent prices to drop, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) lettings survey claims.

A new survey has revealed that 16 per cent of tenants do not have a good relationship with their landlords, the Deposit Protection Service (DPS) says.

The host of accidental landlords who let out properties they could not sell are returning to the sales market, it has emerged.

The Land Registry's goal of creating a comprehensive register has moved a step closer with two new triggers, it has announced.

The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) says that expectations of a recovery in the property market over the next three months have increased.

Lenders can sell the homes of families that are two months behind on their mortgage without the need for a court order, the High Court has ruled.

Mortgage fraudsters are more likely to target unoccupied property as they don’t have an owner living at the residence and will therefore often not have a mortgage attached to the property.