Only 4% of people who buy a property take advice. Despite only participating in the market on average once every 7 years the average home buyer sets out to make what is usually the biggest single purchase of their lives armed with a conveyancing lawyer and a British assumption of fair play. Their knowledge of ...

Ten days ago the OFT offered advice to ‘consumers’ about avoiding internet scams on Valentines Day. Today they have published their investigation into estate agents and the report looks similarly impotent. Since their last report four years ago a much higher proportion of those that use estate agents (who are not letting agents of course) ...

Psst, it looks like you’ve already missed the bottom of the housing market. There are reports that in the rarefied Central London market house prices in some pockets are up 50% on this time last year. Estate agents John D Wood have been quietly keeping track of the prices actually paid in the capital and ...

Imagine if just ten houses sold across the country in a month and three of them were in London. Would the average selling price reported by lenders or the Land Registry be distorted by the sales of multi-million pound homes in Prime Central London? We know that the market in London and the South East ...