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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...

New data from one of Britain’s largest mortgage lenders shows that nearly one in five first-time buyers are now aged 40...

There’s been broad support from within the agency and wider property sectors for Labour’s proposal to build on selected parts of...

Leaders has launched its upgraded sustainable office in Guildford, Surrey, with an event for local clients, media, local businesses and Leaders staff. The Leaders Romans...

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

As the Group HR Director of LRG – an organisation of over 3,000 employees – and perhaps more importantly, as a...

The Property Ombudsman (TPO) has questioned if allowing agents to choose their own redress scheme damages consumer trust. Speaking to the House...

A first-of-its-kind degree has launched that focuses on residential estate agency. The Swindon campus of the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) has launched...

Rightmove has recorded its busiest month since launching its mortgage in principle service in 2022 and predicts an interest rate hold...

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...

By Alan Siggins, indoor ventilation expert and Managing Director of Airflow. Whilst the UK’s focus on Net Zero and green efforts may...

Twenty-minute neighbourhoods, 15-minute cities, low traffic neighbourhoods, walkable neighbourhoods: these concepts are suddenly everywhere. They boil down to a simple idea:...

Introduced to Parliament in May, the Renters (Reform) Bill seeks to improve the private rental sector for both tenants and landlords....

Industry partner Jerry Lyons is launching a new network to support independent ethical estate agencies. The Ethical Agent Network (EAN) aims to...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Mark Bevan and I am the Sales...

The property transaction in England and Wales is a notoriously slow and fraught process, taking typically 150 days to complete, with...

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

By Dawson Scott, CTO of Reapit. As the Chief Technology Officer of Reapit, I have always held the view that the privacy,...

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

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

 In this latest article from the team at Iceberg Digital, they review the dynamics of the property market, and the current...

Parts B and C of Material Information guidance are on the horizon and expected to come into play this autumn. I caught...

CRMs can be superheroes for your business, but not all of them possess the necessary powers to save the day. As...

Two all-party groups of MPs and Peers have called on the government to act to turn empty buildings into good quality,...

Interesting news from Leaders Romans Group (LRG) this week when they revealed sales figures across the group for June. Nationally, sales figures...

OnTheMarket has launched a new financial services arm. The portal has unveiled OnTheMarket Money, an umbrella brand providing consumers with access to...

Asking prices have fallen on a monthly basis at this time of year for the first time since June 2017 as...

Keller Williams UK’s (KWUK) Gatwick market centre is rumoured to have closed but the self-employed agency network’s chief executive Ben Taylor...

Mortgage brokers are trying to get lenders to sign up to a 24-hour Product Withdrawal Pledge in efforts to keep the...

Mortgage brokers have expressed concern about products being removed with little or no notice. Hundreds of mortgages have been withdrawn from the...

The Guild of Property Professionals is launching a tiered membership offer which it says will allow agents to choose according to...

The most common time for a property sale to fall through is in the second week after the sale is agreed,...

One of the most valuable, most successful and most recognisable brands worldwide is Coca-Cola. And we have all wondered, at least...

Leaders’ Lettings Agents has launched its new sustainable office in Aylesbury as part of plans to make the whole brand carbon...

Proptech firm Finch has been named as the latest supplier accredited by the New Homes Quality Board (NHQB). It joins other brands...

Move with Us and Moving Made Easy have been awarded the New Homes Quality Board (NHQB) accreditation for their part-exchange and...

Portico Estate Agents is set to unveil a new sustainable office at its Fulham branch in London next week. It forms part...

You are aware of the business benefits of digital transformation. You understand the need for your estate agency to leverage technology to...

As economic signs increasingly point to a contraction in the property market, competition for new business will inevitably heat up. But...

Self-employed estate partnership brand The Agency UK (TAUK) is to host its first industry exhibition. Titled Grow your Agency in 23, the...

Measures to deliver new homes, regenerate left-behind communities and clean up rivers have been added to the Government’s flagship Levelling Up...

What’s the difference between Centralised Ledger Technology and Decentralised Ledger Technology? Repeat after me; centralised and decentralised ledgers and Distributed Ledger Technology...

With UK interest rates on the rise, following the mini-Budget announcement (now since almost entirely reversed), and several lenders pulling mortgage...

Despite all the recent speculation surrounding the housing market after the badly-received mini-Budget and regular talk of a possible slowdown, new...

OnTheMarket (OTM) is not currently aiming to overtake Rightmove or Zoopla but has succeeded in reducing listing fees for agents across...

One of the biggest frustrations people have with the home buying and selling process is the amount of time it takes...

Leaders Romans Group (LRG) has opened its first sustainable branch in Kemptown, Brighton City Centre. The Leaders-branded office has been completely refurbished...

Many first-time buyers and homeowners are becoming more cautious of the property market. The cost of living crisis, combined with rising...

It's been a busy period of fundraising and volunteering for agents and property professionals. Support has included getting one charity back on...

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

Cybersecurity and cryptocurrencies have been identified among the main risks facing conveyancers. The latest Risk Agenda report from the Council for Licensed...

The other day I read a story here on Estate Agent Today, which was both depressing and inspiring. It reported a study...

Winkworth Shepherd’s Bush has passed to new owners in the latest example of succession planning at the franchise agency network. Its former owner,...

It’s often fashionable to criticise trade bodies and official groups, but right now I think that’s absolutely inappropriate. In well over 20...

The Bank of England’s continued rise in interest rates – the latest being a shift up to 1.25% - is, in...

There have been many articles about ‘digitising upfront information’, following the publication of DLUHC’s Levelling-Up white paper and National Trading Standards...

A best-selling author and ex-military wellness culture revolutionary have been named as headliners for this year’s NAEA Propertymark conference. Dr Andy Cope...

Proptech firm Gazeal is working on buyer-focused product that can be used to show a seller they are serious about a...

There are signs that properties are starting to take longer to sell. A lack of stock in recent months has meant agents...

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

April looks set to go down as the busiest month for house sales of the year.  And with record numbers of properties predicted...

You’re probably up to your neck at the start of a busy spring market but I’d hope there’s one thing most...

Those aficionados of the Sound of Music will recognise the tag line above. It came to my mind when thinking about...

Welcome to the latest edition of Property Jobs Today, your chance to catch up with who’s going where and why in...

Momentum is building up in support of the government’s probe into whether the London homes of oligarchs on the sanctions list...

HM Revenue & Customs has been warned by financial experts that its latest crackdown on stamp duty abuse could make the...

Reapit Elements is an open-source, cross-platform design system that gives designers and developers a framework to quickly create responsive, device-agnostic, and...

A consultation exercise on government proposals for its business rates review is totally “underwhelming” according to property agency Colliers. The consultation ends...

The government is threatening to deny planning consent to developers who refuse to pay towards the removal of unsafe cladding on...

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...

Rightmove is to try to help potential buyers get their finances in order much earlier in the transaction process, to reduce...

Let’s begin with total transparency from this author: I believe there’s a place for Build To Rent in the wider portfolio...

A prominent law expert is claiming that a high profile case of property fraud, reported earlier this week, involved a “devastating...

There has been criticism of the new Residential Development Tax, levied to fund remedial work on dangerous cladding on high rise blocks. The tax...

Agents trade body Propertymark has given its verdict on yesterday’s Budget with this statement - “Some good news but it leaves...

Disclaimer: This article is intended for information only and does not constitute legal advice. As part of its 2020 budget, the UK...

2021 redefined what it meant to offer exceptional customer experiences for consumers across multiple industries, but particularly for the residential property...

What estate agency is going to look like in the post-pandemic world, and what the role of the physical branch will...

Since the announcement of the Regulation of Property Agents (RoPA), an increasing amount of Principle, Partners and Directors (PPD) from the...

Every so often it comes around – the argument that stamp duty should be reformed/removed/replaced (delete as appropriate). But why? Where’s the...

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

NAEA Propertymark says there’s no appetite that it can see amongst its representatives across the UK for charging people £30 for...

The controversial ViewRabbit service, which proposes to charge prospective buyers and tenants for viewing properties, may seek international investment. The site has...

There’s gathering momentum to do ‘something’ about the unfairness of council tax and stamp duty. This isn’t new in principle. Agents have...

A traditional problem for agents has been ‘tyre kickers’ who come to view a home out of curiosity with little or...

The current housing market frenzy would be easier to deal with if upfront buyers’ packs were available, improving transparency and cutting...

The growth of the internet and technology has transformed virtually every aspect of our lives, including how we approach the property...

A new home buying platform being set up by a challenger portal has revealed details of its mortgage offer to users. OneDome...

Local elections rarely set the pulse racing and this year’s poll on Thursday faces a similar problem. But this time, it’s a...

We have more regulations controlling the sector than ever before and we have more ‘regulators’ involved in controlling the sector than...

A leading buying agent says the phenomenon of ‘buying unseen’ is the most dramatic property trend to have emerged from the...

One of the most outspoken campaigners against stamp duty has been fined for avoiding tens of thousands of pounds in … stamp...

As a property agent, fancy marketing terminology such as ‘omnichannel’ might not hold too much interest for you right now. We’re in...

No fewer than 79 per cent of people want the stamp duty holiday extended according to a survey conducted by an...

The acquisition of Countrywide by Connells might just be the deal of the century in the British estate agency industry. That’s the...

Another group of independent estate agents have launched a portal - a rival to a similar project launched by other agencies...

A new estate agency listing historic houses is to have “a select group of creatives and thinkers” that will assist in the...

We’re sure agents have been working hard to urge vendors to take it easy on the dodgy decorations if there are...

There’s been a shock one per cent increase in the Welsh equivalent of stamp duty on second homes, coming into effect...