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Conveyancers have backed a call by the Conservatives for reform of the house buying process - and says more up-front information...

Scotland already has the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax instead of stamp duty - now Wales is following suit, with a...

A prominent agent admits to being “disappointed” at what appears to be slowing mortgage figures at a time of year when...

The UK Independence Party’s housing policy for the General Election hinges around a huge expansion in modular factory-built housing - but...

As we end an especially tragic week, it is heart-warming to remember how our industry - along with so many other...

The founder of the trade group seeking to represent independent agencies says he hopes the National Association of Estate Agents considers...

A conveyancing expert is calling for sellers to complete and return their property information questionnaire to their conveyancer before there have...

Graham Norwood, who edits Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today, has won the title of Social Media Influencer of the...

Franchise agency Hunters has launched another London office. Hunters has already opened six new branches across the country this year, and acquired...

The overall mortgage market has grown in the past month according to e.surv - bringing to an end months of decline...

ZPG has published its half-year figures this morning showing a six per cent rise in the number of agents and a...

Estate Agent Today understands that the fledgling trade group CIELA - the Charter for Independent Estate and Letting Agents - has...

Google, under the command of parent company, Alphabet, has set its sights on building the world’s first digital city, in Toronto,...

Over 100 so-called Top Achievers from across Connells Group’s Sequence and Connells estate agencies have been taken by the company on...

First time buyers who were supposed to be helped by the high-profile Help To Buy ISA have in fact found it...

An estate agency group operating from two offices close to Heathrow airport has announced it is to open a third, ultimately...

An estate agency that allegedly charges people a “buyer’s premium” has been criticised by politicians for unscrupulous “sharp practice”. The Scottish First...

The proportion of mortgage products available for investor buyers operating through limited companies has risen by over 50 per cent in...

Baroness Diana Warwick (below right) has been appointed chair of The Property Ombudsman scheme’s independent council. A life peer for the past 18...

The Green Party, one of the final political groups to launch their manifesto for the June 8 General Election, wants an end...

An internet monitoring service operated by international financial services giant Morgan Stanley says OnTheMarket is continuing to lose both its share...

Two of the most influential figures behind the PropTech sector have run a microscope over Rightmove’s business model and technology -...

The Conservative Party says it wants greater competition and more digitisation to cut the costs and reduce the amount of time...

Asking prices of homes coming to the market have now been rising for five consecutive months says Rightmove.  Asking prices rose 2.0...

Home ownership has halved for young families across some parts of the UK according to a charity.  The Resolution Foundation says its...

The Conservatives now say they are not resuscitating Home Information Packs, despite a suggestion by a prominent former minister that they "had...

A ‘disrupter’ estate agent says the English housing market operates in a way that is far less efficient than Scotland’s -...

The comparison service Get Agent has released the full details of its analysis of the performance of four different online estate...

Over 250,000 non-homeowners appear to have given up on the dream of owning their own property in the past year alone,...

This might just be one of the busiest Agents Do Charity columns we’ve ever had with many firms having a mixture...

The Conservatives have this morning announced a reform of the house buying process in the party’s manifesto for the June 8...

A respected City analyst has pointedly dissed Purplebricks over its allegedly modest inventory of homes for sale and rent. Antony Codling of...

A company which last month launched a service which it claims allows High Street estate agents to compete with online and...

The Liberal Democrats have set a building target of 300,000 new homes a year, have pledged to scrap housing association Right...

Almost half the agents in London surveyed by LonRes say that 10 per cent or more of their vendor clients intend...

Home buyers borrowed £11.2 billion in March - down on the ‘stamp duty bonanza‘ period at the same time last year...

Hybrid estate agency YOPA has announced a successful Series B round of funding in which it raised a total of £15...

Trinity Mirror is aiming to secure more of agents' marketing spend after launching what it is describing as a 'fightback' against...

On behalf of The University of Oxford, Professor Andrew Baum has overseen the compiling of an academic study of the PropTech...

Official figures from the latest UK House Price Index show that average house prices fell by 0.6% between February and March. The...

A provider of 360 virtual tours for estate and letting agents has announced it is offering customers a 'freemium package'. EyeSpy360 previously...

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has informally resolved a complaint made against Connells. The case focused on a Connells Rightmove listing which...

London estate agency Marsh & Parsons has announced that its sales director Liza-Jane Kelly has taken the decision to leave after...

It has emerged that global property firm Savills won a case in the Court of Appeal, entitling them to claim an...

Estate agents' listings may soon include compulsory information on a location's air quality, the chief executive of NAEA Propertymark, Mark Hayward,...

Viewber, the outsourced property viewing service and brainchild of high-profile former estate agent Ed Mead, says its network of 'Viewbers' now...

The boss of the UK's largest independent agency has called on the government to be 'radical' and consider a range of...

New research has identified homebuyers' top 20 'must-have' features that would encourage them to purchase a seller's property. According to the survey...

Theresa May's decision to call a snap election in June has so far had 'little effect' on the property market, according...

Over 1,000 guests celebrated the success of the industry at the 14th annual ESTAS awards on Friday. The event, which is sponsored...