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The Propertymark Trust has launched Prop X, its first-ever fundraising event, scheduled for Birmingham in September.  A statement from the trade body...

The latest Voice of the Agent industry survey is set for release on 15 April. Marketing firm We Are Unchained surveyed 841...

Much of the focus may have been on the Spring Budget this week but a variety of charities have received support from...

A variety of charities have received support from the property industry over the past week. If there are charitable endeavours you think...

A variety of charities have received support from the property industry over the past week. If there are charitable endeavours you think...

Welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity, our chance to salute those who do so much to help others. If your agency...

Welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity, our chance to salute those who do so much to help others. If your agency...

The Able Agent has added further modules to its Wellbeing in the Workplace course.  The training platform has collaborated with KILN Associates,...

The younger generation of workers can be more entitled and have a lower work ethic but much of this may come...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...

Like most parts of the UK, the one I live in has a bit of a beef about parking. More precisely,...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...

Olympic gold medallist Dame Kelly Holmes, has been announced as Propertymark’s final keynote speaker for its landmark conference next month. She will...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. Hamptons: Agency brand Hamptons has announced it...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. Thomas Morris Sales & Lettings: Last week...

More than a tenth of homeowners expect to delay buying or selling a home this year due to the cost of...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...

It has been a busy start to the year for job moves. If you want your jobs or appointments news to feature...

Agents are marking a record breaking 2022 for fundraising and are hoping to attract more funds for charitable causes during the...

Agents haven't let the festive season get in the way of supporting good causes, and there is a big focus on...

The property industry often gets a bad rep, despite all the work that agents and others in the sector do for...

We are dedicating today's round-up to two important cause that agents are being called on to get behind. Agents are being urged...

From bake sales to beach clean-ups, there have been plenty of ways that agents have been giving back for good causes...

Agents have been putting their hands in their pockets and getting active for plenty of good causes over the past week. If...

As the summer draws to a close, and we begin to move towards the final few months of the year, I’m...

From sky dives to golf days, here is how agents have been raising money for charity this week. If there are charitable...

We’re undergoing another heatwave at the moment, with the mercury rising above 30 degrees for five successive days before it breaks...

Earlier this year, we ran a story asking whether agency would ever embrace a four-day week. This came ahead of the...

For some time, LinkedIn was seen – fairly or unfairly – as stodgy, dull, corporate and formal. The uncool uncle to...

An estate agent is marking two years of running her own business through eXp and claims it has been better for...

People in prominent positions in the housing industry aren’t always perfect role models. After all, Chris Pincher was housing minister for...

Industry charity and mentoring group Agents Together is planning to help firms prioritise mental wellbeing. It has developed a checklist that agents...

With this week being Mental Health Awareness Week, Sam Hunter - COO at Homesearch and a keen mental health advocate -...

Fundraising efforts featuring bikes, boats and James Bond all feature in this week's edition of Agents Do Charity. Remember, if you have...

The property industry is fortunate in including many great people, doing great work across a range of businesses – from traditional agency...

In June, the biggest pilot scheme of a four-day working week anywhere in the world will begin in Britain, with more...

A high profile London estate agency has appointed two so-called Wellness Ambassadors to look after the mental health and wellbeing of...

A prominent trade body says the property industry must do more to recognise and support those with mental health issues. The Association...

No matter how dark the news, there’s light in our industry thanks to so many agents and suppliers doing good deeds....

Hello and if it’s Friday, it’s definitely the day for Agents Do Charity. We’re leading up to Valentine’s - a neat opportunity...

Hello and welcome to the latest Agents Do Charity, our weekly round-up of who’s-doing-what-good-deeds in our industry. Want to be involved? Well...

Barely three weeks into the new year and we’re already talking about plans to raise tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands of...

It’s often said that agency is a people business, and I can see no reason to disagree - agents dealing face-to-face...

A conveyancer has contacted Estate Agent Today suggesting that the Simplify Group IT data crisis could be the death knell for the company...

One of the founders and leading figures in the Agents Together industry charity says one silver lining of the pandemic has...

It really is beginning to look a lot like Christmas – just a week to go now. Presents all wrapped and...

A conveyancing company is asking clients to set their own fee - with some strings. Zen Move Solicitors is a year-old digital...

An agency has won one of the most prestigious ‘gongs’ of the season - it’s been named Employer of the Year...

A coroner says there is no explanation how an estate agent suffered a cut to his wrist, which led to his...

Well it’s about time isn’t it? We mean winter - it’s here at last, with white, wintry weather that gets us...

In support of International Men’s Day - today - LSL will celebrate what it calls “the positive value men bring to...

We’re building up towards both Christmas and the Awards season right now, and that gives plenty of opportunities for fund raising,...

Some two thirds of agents and other property professionals who have worked alone have suffered an incident endangering their safety, according to...

A property company is offering its employees in the UK and overseas a day’s leave later this month to mark World...

The stamp duty holiday concluded at midnight, marking the end of the busiest period for the industry - all parts of...

We may be getting an extended summer but agents haven’t just been basking in the heatwave. There has been plenty of goodwill...

Almost a million tenants have built up rent arrears since March 2020, according to research by National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA)....

A London agency has launched a Wellbeing At Work initiative to help agents and other staff as they return to the...

The controversial proposal by a PropTech start up to charge potential viewers of properties to let or for sale has been...

Boy it’s been hot out there - yet even 30 degrees or more have failed to stifle the enthusiasm of our...

In the world of football – very topical at the moment, as we all enjoy the Euros – there is an...

Hello and welcome to another ADC, the weekly wrap of good work by the industry. You probably know the score by now...

A recent survey run by mio revealed that almost 50% of home movers selected their estate agent because they liked them....

The pandemic and lockdowns have made over a third of those aged 18 to 34 want to move house according to...

A trade union is demanding that the government ban emails from all employers outside office hours - and it wants emails...

Hello - it’s Friday already and that means more salutes to those in our industry raising money for good causes. If...

It’s now over a year since the property market officially reopened after an unprecedented two-month shutdown at the height of the...

The end of the week is always charity day here on EAT, and this week we have a typical cross section...

In this week’s In Conversation Today, I speak to someone who has made an excellent impression on the property industry in...

Propertymark is backing the current Mental Health Awareness Week - and says the market boom is a possible cause of additional...

Propertymark has chosen YoungMinds as its charity partner of the year.  YoungMinds is dedicated to ensuring every young person gets the mental...

Mental health – and the importance of good mental health – has become a vital thing for all of us in...

Normal life still seems far away so there hasn’t been the usual spotlight on a good-news-feeling that comes every year on...

Boomin co-founder Kenny Bruce says the UK economy should now be opening up thanks to the success of the Coronavirus vaccines. In...

From 4 May 2021, your agency could be blocked from charging late fees, compounding interest on missing rent and taking any...

Hello and welcome to the end of another week - and a step in the right direction towards the easing of...

The head of one of the industry’s foremost recruitment organisations says the pandemic has caused people to re-evaluate priorities and change...

A conveyancing organisation has launched an initiative called Be Kind We Care to promote kindness and wellbeing within the property industry. The...

It might be tempting during the pandemic to focus simply on the business, yet many agents have been turning their attention...

Hello, welcome to our latest charity roundup, and as the weather improves and the vaccine roll-out lifts the spirits, so we...

Industry supplier Kerfuffle and high-profile training service Marvellous have launched a competition for the children of agents and suppliers. The kids are...

We’re now in Lockdown 3.0 and most of us have become used to juggling home-working, home schooling and a million and...

Hello and welcome to Agents Do Charity, the regular round-up of industry good work. Whatever the cause, it’s great to publicise agents’...

A new working group on mental health in the agency industry is being set up following a poll revealing 62 per cent...

A firm calling itself the UK’s first 24/7 home-based agency says it wants to roll out nationally with a network of franchisees...

To kick off 2021, we have a Q&A with one of the most high-profile – and, it has to be said,...

One of the country’s most experienced estate agents has spoken out about mental illness in the industry and his own condition...

Here we are, on the brink of a festive season like never before, and approaching the end of 2020. Although a dreadful...

A survey conducted by charity Agents Together suggests a large majority of industry people would like to see more focus on...

Solicitors’ leaders say members of their industry are suffering mental health problems as a result of the workload to meet the...

A new report funded by high profile consumer champion Martin Lewis says the government must do more to help ‘mortgage prisoners’. These...

The ESTAS awards service and the Agents Together foundation are entering into a partnership. That means all ESTAS customer agents will be...

A health business is offering a free support package to estate agencies with between three and 100 employees, to help staff...

A self-employed agent has gone public to lavish praise on the mentoring scheme which is part of the Agents Together charity. Cameron Carter,...

You might be forgiven for thinking we’ve been cheated out of our Bank Holidays this year, as so many fell during...

In my last Natter, I explored the differences between estate agency in the UK and the US with the help of...