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16/11/2009: Just what do people think of estate agents?
You wait for a report into Estate Agents from The Office of Fair Trading and then four come along at once! Today they have published reports as part of their study into home buying and selling process...
23/10/2009: Estate Agents are no longer the most hated!
I had to check the date when I saw the list of the top three most reviled professions. It must be April 1st because although as expected there were the trendy hate figures in the form of bankers along with the expected traffic wardens, no where could I see estate agents...
24/09/2009: In the eye of the market storm?
I'm credited with being one of the first to call the top of the market in an interview for the Today program in January 2007. Since then regular readers will know that I am not an optimist...
15/09/2009: If you can't buy a house, blame the banks and builders
More than a million people are registered with estate agents wanting to move. Rightmove.co.uk had 22.6 million page views on 10th August - a record...
25/08/2009: House prices - for dummies!
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06/08/2009: House prices to rise by the end of the year?
The RiCS has stoked the housing market by spraying petrol onto it providing a prediction that prices may end the year up on where they were in January...
20/07/2009: Your questions answered
Henry takes your comments and questions from his previous features and selects the most interesting and currently germane to answer...
11/06/2009: The devil's in the detail
11/06/2009: 'Interest in property up again' is the headline announcing the latest monthly survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors....21/05/2009: Prices down half from Summer '07
We're all used to sensational headlines, it's what grabs the readers' attention and encourages you to read on...7/05/2009: Licensing the letting agents
The launch of 'licensing' for lettings agents by ARLA, the Association of Residential Letting Agents is all well and good...30/04/2009: The Budget and property - too little, too late
The Budget clearly failed to provide the housing market with the cardiac massage it so desperately needs...03/04/2009: Are the property waters safe again?
Like the mayor of Amity in the 1976 Oscar winning film Jaws, estate agent pin up Peter Rollings, managing director of london agent Marsh & Parsons, is desperate to persuade us that the property skies are blue again...13/03/2009: Could housing market 'quantitative easing' help?
A London estate agent has put up a petition on the Downing Street Web site calling for the Government to suspend Stamp Duty in an effort to kick start the housing market...16/02/2009: Time to abolish stamp duty?
I was reading in the Guardian in early January about the amount of Stamp Duty revenue that the Government will lose in the downturn...05/02/2009: How much does the asking price matter?
One of the biggest problems when selling in a falling market is trying to decide where to pitch your guide price. Too high and you can easily be mistaken for someone who has been on Mars for the past year...23/01/2009: New year, no houses
By now you'd have to be living on Mars to be unaware that the number of houses selling has fallen to record lows...7/01/2009: The January property sale
It was easy to make a mistake last year and many people did when it came to quoting a sensible and realistic guide price...3/01/2009: The number of homes sold in November falls and the outlook for 2009 is pretty bleak
The latest statistics have been produced for sales that completed in November. Not surprisingly, the number of properties sold in the month has fallen to a new low...16/12/2009: Bankers are turkeys voting for Christmas
The head of Barclays bank is reported today as saying that he thinks we are only half way through the slump with house prices likely to fall a total of 30%10/12/2008: Prices 'down 45%' for some!
There are a number of house buyers who are already much, much happier about the housing market and who are pulling on their buying boots...21/11/2008: Sales in September were down 50%
Once again I have the latest data from the Land Registry, this time it's the sales in September...7/11/2008: Sales plummet 50% in September
Once again I have the latest data from the Land Registry, this time it's the sales in September. This is the most up to date snap-shot of the the housing market...
