Industry Blogs
Property indices have been friend and foe to estate agents over the years, but the recent turbulent market has created sharp contradictions which have caused me on many occasions to question their reliability and accuracy...
Data for the fourth quarter of 2011 tell us that the UK economy fell back once again into negative growth territory, recording a -0...
Goodbye NAEA and ARLA – will you miss me? Yes, the day has dawned! With a 300% increase in the cost of the accounting report required to stay on as a member, CPD requirements which mean members have to pay to attend events to get their hours – even though they may be doing stacks of things which could be logged as CPD – I have resigned from both Associations...
The Year of the Dragon has now begun, so what can agents expect from the mortgage market and mortgage lenders? While the Dragon in Chinese culture stands for prosperity for the year, and indeed for anybody born in that year, I do not see any likelihood of a Chinese influence in the UK market, I’m afraid...
Christopher Hamer looks back on five years as the Property Ombudsman How did you come to take up the role of Property Ombudsman? My career prior to taking up the role included many years in ombudsman schemes...
Estate agency comparison site Meet My Agent answers our questions in today’s blog. Liya Fateh, 24, and former agent Ashley Alexander, 26, are both directors of the business...
My belief is that we should now see the market continue to build. 2011 is now behind us and although for the wider economy the news has in general been somewhat downbeat, it was a year for the mortgage market where further stability returned and a significantly greater degree of confidence was re-established, particularly within the intermediary sector...
Why have prices remained almost static whilst sales have dropped to a trickle? The answer has to be price, price, price...
The Money Laundering Regulations have been in place for four years now. But research indicates that only a very small minority of estate agents and surveyors have taken the issue seriously enough to have properly investigated what is necessary to avoid a financial penalty – or worse the loss of the business, and in extreme circumstances even a term sewing mailbags at Her Majesty’s pleasure...
With the results for November released by HM Land Registry, we can now begin to assess just how 2011 was for the housing market...
This week has seen the publication of the much anticipated Mortgage Market Review, with the FSA setting out its proposals on changes it wants to bring about in the mortgage arena...
Estate Agent Today would like to congratulate Rosalind Renshaw, our editor, on winning the The Sunday Times Outstanding Contribution To Estate Agency Award 2011...
This week, the monthly charade that is the RICS’s ‘sentiment survey’ was published with the collective views of about 250 chartered surveyors and what their gut instincts say has happened to house prices in the past four weeks...
The last few weeks have again been a rollercoaster ride on the world stock and bond markets with the occasional positive day being outweighed by the sheer number of negative ones due to the ongoing crisis gripping the Eurozone...
More bad news has emerged for consumers in the last few days. Headline consumer price inflation has now climbed above the 5% level...
So this last week has been quite eventful with the amazing news of the merger between the Digital property group and Zoopla...
Same day exchanges causing nightmare move days? That was one of the stories that EAT carried last week...
The latest revised economic growth figures paint a continuing picture of an economy struggling to move forward...
Another month has passed with no change to the Bank of England base rate following the monthly Monetary Policy Committee meeting earlier in September...
The buy-to-let market has recently been the focus of a lot of column inches in both trade and consumer press...
We live in a funny old world. The press tell us that we are heading for a double-dip recession and the stock market collapses...
To date the recent turbulence engulfing the world’s stock and debt markets has not had any direct impact on the UK mortgage market...
Life is full of surprises! An excellent trip to Preston, and Arsenal fail to beat Red Bulls, wiping out my Betfair account...
Estate agents have always been proud of being able to move with the times and, due to the fluctuating nature of the housing market, a degree of flexibility has always been central to what we do...
What a week! I spent two days out and about in Hertfordshire, seeing a variety of agents introducing our mortgage proposition for estate agents, followed by presentations in Bromley, Brixton, Ilford and North London, and finishing up with a pro-am golf tournament to finish the week at a fantastic course...
Last week the BOE monetary policy committee surprised no-one by once again holding the bank base rate for the 28th consecutive month...
Forewarned is forearmed We live in a world of raised consumer awareness, where everything is questioned and challenged...
What is the state of the UK housing market? Is the glass half full, and if so, is it a glass of Retsina? Publication of the latest report from HM Land Registry on Tuesday brought the final data to provide a summary of the health of the housing market for the first chunk of this year, and with it some pretty important numbers...
Obligo - yes, strange name I know, pronounced "ob-lee-go" it’s a very different name for a mortgage broker, but then we are a very different mortgage broker, and we serve the independent sector in a very different way...
The current debt crisis taking place in Greece we may think is of little interest or consequence to the UK...
Last Friday the whole EAT and LAT team descended on Ascot for a wet but thoroughly enjoyable day...
Is it me or is it just the industry that bitches about touting? I read with interest the Property Ombudsman’s latest foray into the murky world of ethics in his catchily entitled ‘Canvassing for New Business’...
Will interest rates increase soon? I have read a number of comments in recent days where various economic forecasters are providing their insight on where they think interest rates will be in the coming months...
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