Despite much of the media focusing on property prices, from a buyer’s/seller’s perspective, for the industry and indeed for the economy, what’s more important is the data we receive on transactions. To find out why, read Kate Faulkner's latest property price and market report here.

Mark Chick, Director of The Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners (ALEP) explains what Section 5 Notices are and outlines how leaseholders and freeholders should approach the Right of First Refusal. Read ALEP's 'Section 5 Notices and the Right of First Refusal' article here.

During the pandemic, the buying and selling market had the biggest shortage of supply and demand and experienced double digit growth (well for houses anyway), now however, for the first time I can remember, supply and demand is tighter in the rental market and with wage growth up, rents are rising more and for longer than they have before. To find out more, read my latest private rented sector report. 

It’s very tricky to predict what happens to property prices, especially in the short term. This is because the market going up or down is heavily influenced by consumer confidence of what is going to happen, but this can be changed ‘overnight’. Read more to find out what Kate Faulkner thinks about price and rental forecasts.

According to Zoopla's latest research, Liverpool is currently the fastest moving property market in the UK. Zoopla also say that several other major cities are now among some of the fastest moving markets in the UK, as the trend for rural and coastal areas comes to an end. Despite all the doom and gloom about the property market since the mini budget last September, it's clear from this data, which covers the timings October to December 2022, that some areas are seeing properties selling faster than they did in the previous year.