The James Caan-backed estate agency launch of Ivy Gate is being led by three former Your Move senior figures – and is going on a staff-poaching spree...

Winkworth has launched into India. It has signed up a master franchisee, Narayanan Soundararajan, and opened in Bangalore. Two more offices, in Chennai and Delhi, are planned for later this year, with the aim of creating a network of franchises across India based on the Winkworth UK model...

The Guild of Professional Estate Agents has launched a de-cluttering service with a difference. Sellers using member firms can have their surplus furniture and belongings shipped off site and stored free for four weeks...

Over 92% of Team agents are on the first page of Google – generally in first or second place – when using the most common search criteria...

There is something about world travel that gets up the noses of estate agents and surveyors in this country. So, when a picture appeared on the RICS’s Facebook page of a load of delegates on what MPs used to call ‘a fact finding tour’ which took them to Washington, it did not take long for members to express their ire...

Time is continuing to run out for households living in flood-prone areas. However, while there is no new agreement in sight, the Association of British Insurers has agreed that its members will continue to offer flood insurance for an extra month beyond the end of the current agreement with the Government...

Mortgage lending rose by 4% last month, and by 21% on April last year. But the Council of Mortgage Lenders warned that “meaningful comparisons” with last April are difficult...

New records have been set in sellers’ asking prices, Rightmove said this morning. The average asking price of a property new on the market is touching £250,000 for the first time, while in London it has soared past the half a million pound mark for the first time...