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Property professionals have called for the Government to allocate its promised £3m towards improving the home buying and selling process to...

The Government’s latest attempt to bolster the property appears to be 1% deposit mortgages. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is reported to be considering...

The rate of inflation has fallen to the lowest level in two years, raising hopes of a boost for the property...

Buyers and sellers are still factoring energy efficiency into property valuations despite Prime Minister Rishi Sunak rolling back net-zero reforms. Analysis by...

Belvoir Group PLC has expanded its financial services network with the acquisition of MAB (South West) Ltd for £1m.   This follows...

Mortgage lenders are at last cutting their rates on some deals, confident that the Bank of England’s base rate may rise...

Homebuyers should get used to interest rates of 6% to 7% being the norm, a senior industry executive claims. Peter Brodnicki, chief...

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

Smoove has entered into a strategic agreement with Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) to provide conveyancing comparison and related home-buying support services. The...

A coalition of businesses from across the property industry have united to call on the Government to do more to speed-up...

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

Landlords are now quite accustomed to the challenges of operating in a market where they are often perceived as the antagonist...

Homeowners are being urged to check the Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rating of their property before they come to sell their home. It...

The winners of the 2022 allAgents Customer Experience Awards were announced last week. The agency customer feedback website held its second ever...

Purplebricks is working on ways to diversify its revenue stream to be less susceptible to the whims of the housing market,...

The Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has written off its investment in collapsed challenger portal Boomin. The broker entered a strategic relationship with,...

Mortgage lenders are warming to green mortgages, new research from Mortgage Advice Bureau suggests. Analysis by the broker has found that more...

The Mortgage Advice Bureau has partnered with property sales progression software provider ViewMyChain to give brokers more transparency during the transaction...

Rightmove insists the housing market is still moving as more lenders removed deals yesterday. Data from comparison website Moneyfacts shows there were...

Now that the industry has had the weekend to digest Kwasi Kwarteng’s short and dramatic mini-Budget, more reaction has been filtering...

In this latest Day in the Life of...Natter, I get an insight into one of the most vital cogs of the...

In this Guides & Tips piece, Brian Murphy, Head of Lending at Mortgage Advice Bureau, offers insight into what rate rises...

OneDome has launched a new platform for agents to monitor and manage referrals made and earned through the challenger portal. The platform,...

The Belvoir Group has announced the acquisition of mortgage broker TIME. The agency franchise and financial services brand has acquired the entire issued...

The chief executive of Boomin says agents have asked him to do something about rival portals “pocketing income from mortgage referral...

A former Purplebricks chief is the new CEO of rival online company Yopa. Verona Frankish has been involved in the property industry...

A hybrid agency that charges no fees to vendors but instead relies on referral fees for income has officially rolled out...

Around a quarter of mortgage lenders currently have ‘green’ products promoting improved EPCs - and the vast majority of the rest...

In a first for the Natter, this week's interview is a video affair, with me posing the questions to Stephen Brown,...

Tomorrow sees the Relocation Agent Network’s first in-person conference since 2019.   The event, at the Metropole Hilton in Birmingham, will focus...

The government’s plan to put Energy Performance Certificates at the heart of its bid to reach Net Zero has hit a stumbling...

The Relocation Agent Network has unveiled its speakers for its national conference and exhibition early next month. Called RAN Live! 2021 it...

Strike chief executive Sam Mitchell has hailed the online agent’s no-fee model after reaching £5 billion worth of sales. The agency, previously...

One of the country's largest independent regional agency groups has been formed through an acquisition announced today. Yorkshire estate agent, Manning Stainton,...

A new Home Buyer App has been launched by the Mortgage Advice Bureau in a bid to educate first time buyers...

Leaders Romans Group is to bolster its finance services with the expansion and rebranding of its mortgage arm. Leaders and Romans Mortgage Services...

Franchise agency giant Belvoir has acquired share capital in a small mortgage company. Nottingham Mortgage Services Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of...

Britain’s second largest estate agency has outlined radical new plans to shift direction, making financial services and not sales or rentals...

LSL Property Services is to set up a mortgage brokerage called Pivotal Growth. The new brokerage - set up with Pollen Street...

A broker has launched the UK’s longest-ever fixed rate mortgage, with no early repayment charge or exit fees - the first product...

Property portals remain an essential marketing tool for estate agents and their value is clearly appreciated by consumers. However, with a...

By any available metric, Belvoir had a good 2020. Already a well-known and well-established name, it was highly praised for its...

99Home, the agency that describes itself as the country’s fifth largest hybrid, has teamed up with the Mortgage Advice Bureau. MAB will...

The online agency Housesimple has rebranded to become 'Strike' with immediate effect. The news comes as a surprise given the apparent success...

The brothers who founded Purplebricks - Michael and Kenny Bruce - have returned to the agency industry for the first time...

Three of the highest profile industry suppliers and house moving services have given government a four-step plan to restart the housing...

Countrywide has added its weight to the campaign asking the government to allow agents to get back to work - and...

Almost eight in 10 sellers have instructed High Street agents in the past year - a significantly higher figure than 12...

When Wolverhampton estate agency Thomas Harvey opened its doors more than 50 years ago, mortgages weren’t really part of the equation...

For a very long time, it was one of the best ways – if not the best way – of generating...

A digital platform claims its taken “a massive step” towards speeding up property sales with what it says is the first...

love2move, which offers High Street agents a white-labelled digital platform that allows them to offer online services to vendors, has revealed...

love2move, an online network which allows high street agents to offer a white-labelled hybrid service, has teamed up with the Mortgage...

Belvoir has struck an innovative eight-year exclusivity agreement with Dacres, the 20 office estate agency network based in Yorkshire, to deliver...

Technology will drive the lettings and property management industry in the future. There is already a plethora of various software and other...

The fledgling independent agents’ trade group, the Federation of Independent Agents, has signed another partnership deal with a high-profile industry supplier...

The new portal OneDome is offering what it calls a “consumer-facing digital mortgage product” in a bid to cut fall-throughs. OneDome already...

Two 'challenger portals' have revealed major new services this morning as they fight to take on Rightmove and Zoopla. OneDome, the new...

As 2018 draws to a close, it is fair to say that stretched affordability and uncertainty over the Brexit negotiations has...

There’s nothing new about identifying 10 figures who have helped shape an industry over the past year, but that doesn’t mean...

Belvoir has this morning announced that it has acquired MAB Glos, part of the Mortgage Advice Bureau.  The £3.6m deal, done through...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity - it’s our weekly round-up of good work done by the industry. Everyone...

New figures from the Mortgage Advice Bureau give an insight into the changing demographics of home buyers and buy to let...

If it’s Monday it must be Property Jobs Today, your round up of the industry’s key moves. Are you changing jobs yourself?...

Hello and welcome to another Agents Do Charity - your opportunity to salute those in our industry working hard for great...

One of the country’s largest regional agencies is moving into the sale of homes overseas despite Brexit uncertainty and concern over...

Last time out I looked at the growing importance of content, social media and design – but these should only form...

Countrywide is not quite finished with online experimentation yet, for today sees the launch of an online mortgage service, backed by...

The Mortgage Advice Bureau says early evidence suggests typical first time buyers are now spending more following the effective scrapping of stamp...

Mortgage Advice Bureau has batted off the flat housing market by reporting good figures for 2017. Revenue for the year increased by...

What a year it’s been! Back in 2016 we had Brexit, a new prime minister, Donald Trump’s election, and so when...

New research has revealed that Britain's impending exit from the European Union is not a consideration for 71% of consumers. A study...

It’s that time of year again – peak conference/event season. And, while Brexit and a shock snap general election are dominating...

Connells Group’s mortgage services wing has recorded a 10 per cent increase in the number of mortgages in 2016 and has generated...

Provisional figures from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs show there were 109,630 residential property transactions in the UK during August.  The figure is...

This week, tech startup Habito claims to have launched the world's first artificially intelligent 'digital mortgage adviser'.  The robo-adviser takes into account...

The number of mortgage products available is now over 23,000 - a figure last seen during the heady days just before...

As promised, this week’s Natter is dedicated to a question and answer session with Peter Brodnicki, the man who has been...

The joke doing the rounds last week still seems to be just as relevant this week: “the only man with a...

A few of our Industry Views pieces this week focus on the upcoming EU referendum. I don’t think I can add...

On Tuesday we managed hail, snow, rain, sun and a chilly wind all in one day. Whatever you want to say...

Despite the many woes in the housing market, there has possibly never been a better time to get a competitive mortgage...

Consumer choice of mortgage products has reached a near-eight-year high with 17,132 products available on the market. This is the highest number...

The average deposit for a property has risen 15 per cent in the past year and now stands at over £80,000...

Chancellors has acquired a majority stake in the brokers Alexander James Mortgage Services. The deal means that the Bracknell-based firm – one...

New research from the mortgage advice section of the consumer group Which? reveals that one in three mortgage holders have no...

Coldwell Banker Real Estate, the US-based international agency expected to launch in the UK over the winter, has signed up with...

The average salary of buyers seeking a mortgage fell to a near-four year low in June according to the Mortgage Advice...

Shepherd Direct, the UK operator of Century 21 estate agency franchises, has bought a minority stake in Stonebridge Group, the mortgage...

The total number of mortgage products available reached a post-recession high of 13,539 in April.  The latest National Mortgage Index from Mortgage...

Under new pension freedom reforms, people aged 55 and over can access as much of their savings from their defined contributions...