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Agency staff owed money from the collapse of Douglas & Gordon last year will be repaid, the brand’s administrator has said,...

The administration of collapsed agency brand Douglas & Gordon has been extended by a year. Douglas & Gordon called in Grant Thornton...

The liquidator of collapsed portal Boomin is investigating a sale of the portal's intellectual property to My Bespoke Room as its...

What will happen to house prices? Should I rent or buy? Will a Labour or Tory Government be better for homeowners....

More than half of agents have cited 2023 as a difficult financial year, research has revealed. Analysis by data firm Landmark Estate...

If you’ve paid even scant attention to Landlord Today or other trade titles, you’ll be familiar with the headlines about rogue...

On Halloween eve, Safestyle decided to give everyone a real fright and announced the company had gone into administration. This has...

Secured creditors of collapsed agency brand Douglas & Gordon are likely to receive most money owed to them but there is...

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has announced Post Partner as its latest affiliate member. Post Partner offers a range of document management tools...

Have you heard of the Pareto Principle…? Named after economist Vilfredo Pareto, it describes the imbalance of most work-related events -...

Russell Quirk may have already irked plenty of estate agents in his time as boss of collapsed online brand Emoov and...

Ever taken on a property where the sale has got tangled up in problems arising from the title register? It’s a...

A new survey suggests the overwhelming majority of the public are critical of the government’s apparent housing failures. A study of 1,323...

The election of Humza Yousaf as the new leader of the Scottish National Party yesterday was immediately met with concern from...

A former estate agent-turned-online auctioneer has launched a new service that aims to speed up and secure sales. Stuart Collar-Brown, co-founder and...

A home linked to Douglas & Gordon chief executive James Evans is currently listed for sale at £3.5m. The property has been...

Mystery surrounds the current position and owner of the Douglas & Gordon sales business as documents reveal the events that led...

In November, research conducted by The Housing Forum's Futures Network unearthed concern with the potential to meet the requirements set out...

Estate agency brand Douglas & Gordon was confirmed to have entered administration yesterday. There were rumours over the weekend that the well-known...

Residential estate agents are the lowest-paid professionals in the real estate industry, new research claims. Analysis of real estate salary data from...

Purplebricks’ share price hit a new low last week after it announced a strategic review that could lead to the sale...

Automated rental payment specialists PayProp recently held a high-profile event in London - PayProp Connect - which included a number of...

A variety of charities have received support from the property industry over the past week, from on land to under the...

Smoove has announced the full market rollout of its digital onboarding platform, Smoove Start. The conveyancing software provider’s latest tool provides a...

Record numbers of buyers have taken out fixed rate mortgages to lock-in lower priced home loans before rates rise further, analysis...

Keller Williams’ (KW) Warwick Market Centre has closed, prompting a blame game between its former owners and the franchise brand. KW Warwick has...

Historic agency brand Humberts is looking to have between 20 and 30 offices over the next five years as it marks...

In this article, Kristian Stott, Head of New Business at iamproperty, analyses the digital revolution in our lives and in property and why...

Sussex-based estate agent Mishon Mackay is celebrating 25 years of sevice each for three of its staff members. Sarah Fitzgerald, Sarah McCarthy,...

What a difference two months and some local elections make. Cast your minds back to March 9 and the annual report of...

You will hopefully have seen that the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act 2022 has now received its Royal Assent, meaning it...

It’s easy to overestimate the importance of something in one’s own industry or work, but there seems good reason for believing...

A former agency apprentice has worked her way up to a qualified accounts technician in under a decade. Carrie Howcroft joined Preston...

PayProp’s recent Rental Confidence Index survey polled property professionals about their biggest concerns for 2022. Unsurprisingly, new regulations were a top...

Technology developed for the estate agency industry has advanced and expanded seismically over the past decade as software vendors develop their...

haart, part of the Spicerhaart estate agency group, has accused rival agencies of copying its hybrid working model. Spicerhaart group managing director...

An Australian PropTech platform called PEXA aims to break into the UK property industry this year, claiming to improve transaction processes. PEXA...

Coadjute, the blockchain network for the UK property market that claims it can radically simplify home purchasing, has revealed that PropTech...

Historic estate agency group Humberts - which was at risk of disappearing entirely just over two years ago - has opened...

As this is the first Natter back since the Christmas break, I should like to first wish all our readers a...

The conveyancing technology firm Search Acumen has launched what it calls “an end-to-end solution” in a bid to abolish “antiquated” ways...

The past two years have been a whirlwind of change, challenges and chance. The main catalyst has clearly been the pandemic...

The last two years have been dramatic and decisive for many people and many businesses. Both have reassessed their work approaches...

Propertymark has come out in support of the Scottish government’s demand that buyers take lateral flow tests before viewings. The measure is...

It’s Remembrance weekend, and on Sunday at least we fall silent to honour those who gave so much for many generations. When...

PropTech is booming, and its rise was only accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, which forced the real estate industry – as...

With soaring property prices, supply continuing to be outstripped by demand and overworked and overtired industry professionals; we’re seeing the sector...

There is no denying that managing properties is labour intensive. As real estate agents you are responsible for administering and addressing...

Over the last three years there has been a quiet revolution in the tenant referencing market. Starting with the 2019 tenant...

Are you experiencing Estate Agent burnout? As The Stamp Duty Holiday has begun to tail off, it didn’t bring the relaxation in...

A recent news story will have set alarm bells ringing for agencies up and down the country, when it was revealed...

No fewer than seven estate and lettings agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme today. Most of them are now...

Around 18 months ago, just a few months before the pandemic hit, I did a Natter with the team at software...

One of the country’s leading politicians says a yet-to-be-revealed way of taxing property sales could be one way of helping homes...

Propertymark has thrown its weight behind the government’s First Homes initiative, describing it as “creative” and saying it’s a sign of...

One of the men behind the defunct Emoov online estate agency has re-emerged as the head of a marketing service. The service...

One of the earliest London agencies to adopt a hub-style operation with self-employed agents working on a high commission basis, has...

The private treaty process has been in need of modernisation for a long time. When we open an account with a...

A controversial property crowdfunding platform, criticised in the past on TV's Dragon’s Den, has gone into administration.  The House Crowd was launched...

There’s a warning this morning that possible tax reforms to be unveiled next Monday could wreak huge damage on the property...

A prominent estate agent has warned buyers and sellers about the perils of the controversial Modern Method of Auction. MMA is now...

In this tips article, the experts at GoodMove provide expert insight into the remortgage process. Remortgaging is the process of changing your...

Propertymark - still reeling over two senior resignations in less than a week - says its lobbying sessions with politicians are...

This week’s In Conversation Today interviewee needs no introduction. One of the property industry’s most recognisable names, she has been a...

Countrywide shareholders have overwhelmingly backed the offer by Connells to buy the company. At a special virtual AGM today 99.58 per cent...

In this week's Natter, I focus on the inspiring story of Clare Hughes, who has bounced back in the last 12 months...

High profile agency owner Sean Newman is offering his entire self-employed team of 100 agents and mortgage advisors a chance for...

The Chancellor has announced new measures to help businesses in the light of the lockdown announced in the past 24 hours. The...

Connells has revealed that it’s to keep the existing Countrywide branch structure and staff headcount when the acquisition process is completed...

NAEA Propertymark has written to the Scottish Government demanding it extend the current Land and Buildings Transaction Tax holiday - the...

A scathing document produced by MPs slams the government for its “deplorable” housing policies which are "invented, abandoned and reinvented" -...

Connells has this morning made a dramatic improvement in its bid to takeover Countrywide. It has increased its cash offer from 250p...

One of the hybrid agency sector’s leading agents says there are key lessons our industry can learn from the collapse of...

Rezi’s integration with Zapier has transformed the way in which estate agents can now save time, money and resource. Agents are...

A regional wing of Fine & Country has reported a record month - and puts it down to the self-employed ‘associate’ business model...

The Competitions and Markets Authority is to probe the proposed merger of two crowdfunding sites used by numerous property industry companies. Crowdcube...

Countrywide shares soared yesterday, rising 47 per cent on the previous close at one point as investors relished the prospect of...

Connells has issued a counter statement to this morning’s announcement by Countrywide that a possible takeover is underway. At 7am Countrywide revealed...

The announcement of the Renters’ Reform Bill in the Queen’s speech last December caused a collective groan across the country from...

One of the industry's senior agency leaders says it would be a mistake for agents to be stopped from working in...

Most agents' branches in Wales are expected to close for just over two weeks from 6pm this Friday, October 23 - moving...

It’s no surprise the mainstream news remains dominated by coronavirus - not so much the actual effect of it right now,...

Estate agents’ offices have been explicitly mentioned by the Scottish Government as locations where face masks must now be worn by...

The chairman of LSL Property Services - Simon Embley - says he is “increasingly optimistic” about the outlook for the market,...

The Andrew Grant regional estate agency brand is “very much alive” despite the firm which bore the name losing 54 jobs...

There are various reports of estate agencies closing branches - or not reopening them after lockdown - as they reduce the...

A former City analyst best known for his scathing criticisms of Purplebricks has launched a PropTech platform that he describes as...

Over 50 jobs have been lost as a result of a Midlands regional estate agency falling into administration. The Shropshire Star reports...

The latest branch of Fine & Country says it intends to expand both its premises and its workforce by the end...

It’s been confirmed by the Scottish Government that the housing market north of the border resumes for business - and house...

One of the leading ‘new breed’ of hybrids relying on self-employed agents is opening a share offer to investors in a...

The devolved government in Wales - where the housing market is still officially closed - has urged agents to report rivals...

The new YOUhome Property Gurus agency has announced another key hire to strengthen its central London activities.  The agency, set up by...

Rightmove, Zoopla and even OnTheMarket could make money even if they did not charge agents anything at all to list properties....

Much like PropTech, Open Banking has been used as a buzzword in recent years. However, when it comes to the rental...

The Competitions and Markets Authority has started court proceedings seeking the disqualification of two estate agency directors over a price fixing...

Purplebricks is anticipating “a prolonged period of low activity” during the Coronavirus crisis with 25 instructions a day according to a...

The property franchise company Belvoir Lettings has laid off 15 workers from its Grantham headquarters - and warns there may be...

The lightbulb moment for LonRes was born out of sheer frustration. I’d just missed out on a deal and the postman...

We live in uncertain times. That I do not need to say to anybody. I am writing this piece aboard my...