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Home sellers are pricing tactically — here's how buyers can beat the asking price

Set your search price bracket wide and learn to read between the lines in today’s property market

Evening Standard

London first-time buyers paying £240 less a month on mortgages than this time last year

Mortgage payments had dropped even before today’s rates changes by the Bank of England

Evening Standard

Everybody needs good neighbours: 60% say avoiding disagreements ‘top priority’

Curtain twitching, noise and parking spot poachers are among people’s top annoyances, according to Rightmove’s research.

Evening Standard

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New mortgage affordability rules help UK housing market avoid summer lull

Record number of homes for sale has created ‘buyer’s market’ and kept price rises in check, Zoopla report says

The Guardian - UK

London rents reach new record as tenants pay £700 more per month than five years ago

London rents have risen by 35 per cent since the beginning of the pandemic, Rightmove’s data shows

Evening Standard

Record high rents as tenants pay £400 more per month than five years ago – index

Five years on from the start of the pandemic, the average monthly rent for a new tenant is £417 more than it would have been in 2020, Rightmove said.

Evening Standard

The cost of renting in Britain reaches record highs – but things might improve for tenants soon

The average monthly rent that a new tenant faces paying is more than £400 than it was five years ago

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Rightmove boosted by buoyant property market but sales growth set to slow

The property portal reported a 10% jump in first-half sales to £211.7 million, helping pre-tax profits rise 10.4% to £146.5 million.

Evening Standard

Average UK house asking price sees steepest monthly drop in 20 years

The average price has fallen by more than £4,500 in July

The Independent UK

The average UK house asking price drops more than usual

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The Independent UK

Average UK house asking price registers steepest monthly drop for 20 years

Rightmove blames the 1.2% fall in new sellers’ prices on the end of stamp duty discounts and more homes coming on to the market

The Guardian - UK

House prices see biggest July drop for 'at least 20 years'

Property experts have downgraded forecasts for house price and rental growth this year

Evening Standard

Biggest July dip in average asking price for a home ‘in at least 20 years’

Property experts have downgraded forecasts for house price and rental growth this year.

The Independent UK

Browsing Rightmove for a rural bolthole? Get ‘the best of the Highlands’ for £9m

Glen Buck estate in Aberchalder has a farmhouse, hydroelectric scheme, 8,900 acres of land and part of a loch

The Guardian - UK

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Evening Standard

Homes with a sea view ‘command average premium of more than £88,000’

Rightmove’s analysis indicates that coastal home buyers wanting to be able to see the sea face paying a price premium of nearly a third.

The Guardian - UK

First-time buyers turn from rural areas to Britain’s regional cities

Number looking to move to urban centres up 16% in first five months of 2025 compared with same period in 2015

The Guardian - UK

End to school rating system could play havoc with house prices, says Ofsted chief

Martyn Oliver says he knows of property values shooting up by £15,000 after schools were graded as outstanding

Evening Standard

Ofsted chief inspector apologises for short notice on school inspection reforms

Sir Martyn Oliver suggested that positive Ofsted ratings can raise local house prices by thousands of pounds because parents ‘value’ them.

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Evening Standard

The UK's most and least expensive seaside towns to buy a home

New data shows that Sandbanks in Dorset is the most expensive coastal town in which to buy a property

The Independent UK

Voices: Could Angela Rayner’s squeeze on landlords hurt the very people it’s supposed to help?

COMMENT : The deputy prime minister’s plans to reform the rental housing market are well intentioned – and built on ideas first mooted by Michael Gove – but, says James Moore, if they end up restricting supply, renters will suffer the consequences

Evening Standard

Revealed: the seven boroughs where the number of £1m+ homes has more than doubled in six years

Rightmove has recorded a ‘substantial’ surge in million-pound homes for sale across Britain

The Independent UK

Revealed: England’s million-pound property hotspots as house prices soar

More than 5 per cent of properties are now put on the market for at least £1m, according to Rightmove

The Independent UK

Voices: What do you have to do to sell your home in a property downturn?

COMMENT : As Rightmove reports that homeowners in London and the South East are slashing asking prices, James Moore suggests things you can do to secure a sale

The Guardian - UK

UK house prices fall in toughest sellers’ market in 10 years

Rightmove says prices dropping as more properties are available and after stamp duty increases in England

The Independent UK

Average UK house price drops by £1,277 in June after record highs

The average price of a home coming to market has fallen by 0.3 per cent month-on-month to £378,240

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