As any estate agent will tell you, there is currently an unusually limited supply of property on the market.

There isn't an estate agent in the country that hasn’t been told by a member of the public at least once that home owners have no need of his or her profession. It might be a very temping thought, but the reality might just be very different indeed.

New Year, new house; new mortgage or re-mortgage? With newspapers bombarding us with conflicting advice and views on mortgages, Strutt & Parker gives you its view on what it all means.

2009 was a spectacular year for the Estates & Farm Agency Division. Starting with the purchase of the Dalham Hall Estate on the Suffolk/Cambridgeshire borders extending to 3495 acres purchased for a client in the region of £45million.

With 2009 ending on a far more buoyant note than expected and prices up a surprising 2.7% nationwide since the start of the year, what can we look forward to for 2010?

Since the credit crunch became part of our lives, the usual rules of the housing market have turned upside down.

Over 2,000 entries from young artists aged between 5 to 12 years old from schools located throughout England and Scotland submitted their interpretations of what Christmas is all about.

According to Nationwide UK, house prices were 2% higher this October compared to October last year.

The August figures for Strutt & Parker show evidence of an exceptionally buoyant market throughout the month and the partnership confirms some positive statistics moving forward into autumn.

In June of this year Strutt & Parker will say thank you to six long serving and highly respected partners as they step away from the partnership. The Partners, including Anthony Cane, Nigel Aslin, Si...

The latest figures from Strutt & Parker echo the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ report (issued yesterday) of a dramatic rise both in new buyer enquiries (growing at the fastest rate in ten years), and in number of sales.

falls in value of property over the last 12 months, due to lack of confidence in the market and the withdrawal of credit. However, April and May have shown changes to these market conditions.

A lot of noise is emanating from the housing market at the moment with insiders detecting the first signs of those much-vaunted "green shoots of recovery".

Education, education, education. This has always been a key driver for people in choosing where they want to live, but the emphasis has now changed. As a result of the current recession, getting access to the best state schools has become a major focus

Following the launch of the unprecedented £50 billion scheme to bail out Britain’s ailing banking system and help to ease the tightening mortgage market, the question on everybody’s lips is, “What will the rescue package mean for ordinary households?”

Every little helps, they say, and in the current uncertain market property owners need all the help they can get.

Improbable as it may sound, could the election of President Barack Obama eventually emerge as the turning point that the British property market currently so badly needs.

Residential property will become an attractive investment again, and it could be sooner rather than later. That’s the cautiously optimistic view of Michael Fiddes, who heads the National Estate Agency Department of property agents, Strutt & Parker.

The world’s banks may still be in the grip of the global credit crisis but, contrary to widespread public perception, there are still mortgage funds available for most house-buyers.

It is ironic that as the property market slows and the buyers’ position becomes stronger, those buyers are proving bashful when it comes to making an offer.

Opportunity is knocking amid all the teeth-gnashing surrounding the credit crunch and the prospects for the housing market. Not the opportunity for homeowners to make a tidy profit, for a change, but for local buyers finally to have a realistic chance of

Let’s begin with some good news. The highest quality houses – that includes a lot of beautifully presented period properties – are still selling, despite all the gloom we keep reading about in our morning newspapers.

More than ever, buyers are taking time to ‘shop around’ to find the best deal and compare products and prices, using the internet in particular to facilitate this need.

Buyers and sellers in search of a market overview in order to determine the value of a property should be circumspect when looking at some house-price statistics.

FACT: 13 million UK homeowners rely on mortgages to finance the purchase of their house.

Thinking of swapping the noise and bustle of city life for rural peace and quiet? If so, be realistic: the countryside is often not peaceful and hardly ever entirely quiet.

National property specialists Strutt & Parker welcomes the news that the Bank of England have announced a 0.25% reduction in interest rates today.

Do you know where your buyer comes from? Are you reaching the whole market? If your answer is no or you are not really sure then read on...

From 6th April all new build homes must have a Home Information Pack including an energy performance certificate and recommendation report (EPC) when physically complete (i.e. has a completion certificate from Building Control).

With the Bank of England announcing a cut in interest rates today of a quarter percent, this gives a welcome boost to confidence for the spring property market.

Country Life magazine recently asked its readers to nominate their favourite British icons, and the short list included the Mini...

Home Information Packs (HIPS) are being totally ignored by vast majority of house buyers and solicitors.

That’s the question, and it’s one to which the answer has been changing dramatically in recent years.