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The UK’s biggest estate agent, Countrywide, has developed a formally recognised estate agency qualification...
House prices nudged up just 0.2% in March, the Halifax has said. The lender puts house prices for the first quarter of this year 1...
He is the man who invented the internet for estate agents when he and his brother came up with Propertyfinder...
One of the central tenets of good marketing, whatever your product or service, is to remember that customers come in many shapes and sizes...
Snow and bitterly cold weather nipped what looked to have been a promising spring upturn for the housing market firmly in the bud...
Winchester has been named as the least affordable place in the UK to live, based on local salary levels and the cost of buying...
A new service has been set up to help residential property investors looking for repossessed properties...
Over a fifth of home buyers who did not have a survey would never have bought their property if they had been aware of its true condition, according to new research by the RICS...
A former executive at the US state-backed lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has warned of the dangers of the forthcoming 95% mortgage Help to Buy scheme – while a UK pundit has said it could prompt a ‘bloodbath’ in the housing market...
Like so many agents, Denise Barnes built up a profitable and highly successful local business, complete with her name above the door...
A new property is only ‘new’ for a very brief period of time, and you will be paying a premium of as much as 25% for its newness, much as you do when you drive a new car out of a showroom...
The Land Registry has put the average house price in England and Wales during February at £162,606, up just 0...
Mortgage lending fell for a second successive month in February, the Bank of England has confirmed...
Three estate agents have admitted a property survey fraud. After pleading guilty at Carlisle Crown Court, the trio – Donald Smith and his wife Lynne, both of Windermere, and their former business partner, Simon Hindle, of Gloucestershire – were warned they could face jail...
Have you caught the latest Rightmove TV advert yet – and what do you make of it? It was due to start airing on Easter Monday and EAT must confess to being totally bemused by our preview of it...
The Government’s 95% mortgage scheme, due to kick in next January in the second phase of the Help to Buy programme, will send house prices soaring...
A new wave of buyers could be interested for the first time in buying a new-build home, prompted by the Help to Buy scheme...
Neil Cassin has opened the latest office of No Letting Go serving the Guildford lettings market. Neil will be bringing his expertise and wealth of experience to letting agents and landlords around the Guildford areas...
Angels Media, publisher of Letting Agent Today and Estate Agent Today, has set up a new social media wing...
Mortgage approvals for house purchase dropped in February for a second consecutive month. New data from the British Bankers Association ties in with a similar report from the Council of Mortgage Lenders relating to a drop in mortgage advances during February which was issued on Budget day last week...







