Rents rose 3.7% in the year to July 2026, reaching an average of £1,393 per month, according to ONS data. Landlord advocates claim rising mortgage costs, insurance premiums, maintenance expenditure an
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Conveyancing distributor conveybuddy now routes 85–90% of instructed cases through firms with direct API integration, up from approximately 80% in July. The platform has completed its eighth full conn
Sales-agreed timelines have compressed 23 per cent since January, falling from 81 to 62 days by June according to Rightmove data. The acceleration creates operational pressure on conveyancers whose ti
iamproperty's membership of the Open Property Data Association marks a commercial inflection point for UK property data standards. With the platform's 7,000 agent users joining a consortium that alrea
The government has opened an 18-month funding window for cladding remediation in residential buildings under 11 metres, subject to a PAS 9980:2022 fire risk appraisal identifying "serious life critica
Defra is funding three startups through the Geovation Accelerator Programme with £20,000 equity-free grants each, marking the first time the department has joined the scheme run by Ordnance Survey and
More than one in four people lack confidence navigating the home-buying process, with conveyancing and legal procedure cited as the single biggest area of uncertainty. New research from Barclays Prope
Wales lost 532 registered rental properties and 290 landlords in May 2026, despite 1,680 new registrations—a net exit ratio of four to one. Single-property landlords now make up 69.6% of all Welsh lan
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