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A sales platform that monitors the market is warning that house price falls are likely to spread beyond London and the...

My eye was caught yesterday morning by news that PropTech company, Agent Software, is claiming that ‘some agencies deliberately over-value properties...

There’s been another call for the government to reform stamp duty - and this time the request is that the duty...

JLL has opened a new ‘virtual’ office with dedicated sales and lettings staff to serve the Westminster and St James’s areas...

Another agency has teamed up with an auction company to allow it to offer vendors the choice of both in-room and...

A PropTech firm has adopted the unusual position of claiming some agencies deliberately over-value properties in a bid to win instructions. Agent...

An OnTheMarket sales rep - who now no longer works for the company - wrote a critical review of an independent estate...

Local media in Huddersfield report that an estate agent smashed into a traffic bollard while four times over the drink-drive limit...

The investment bank Jefferies says Foxtons’ long-running share price slump is a reflection of Brexit uncertainty “until we find out what...

Oakwood Homes, a four-branch sales and lettings agency operating across East Kent, has acquired Parkland Estates, a single-branch firm based in...

Rumours abound over the future of Countrywide, which lost further share value on Friday, closing very slightly down on the day...

Boris Johnson is calling for a cut to Britain’s “absurdly high” stamp duty. Writing in this morning’s Daily Telegraph - the same newspaper...

Welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today - and as ever we have a breakdown of key moves within our industry. To...

The chairman of LonRes says online estate agents have only a one per cent share of the market in prime central...

The Property Redress Scheme says it’s recruited another 1,750 members following the shake-out last week when one of its rival redress...

Research by Estate Agent Today reveals that there have been 12 different stamp duty regimes in the UK since the Millennium. What’s...

It’s been revealed that the creators of Purplebricks came up with the name while brain-storming around a kitchen table - and...

There’s been another drop in mortgage arrears and possessions for owner occupiers - although an increase for some elements of the...

LonRes says transactions in prime locations in London dropped another six per cent when the second quarter of 2018 is compared...

The heatwave is gone and summer is in its closing stages (sorry!) so it comes as no surprise that there’s already...

The Swiss investment bank Credit Suisse has slashed its target share price for the company from 77p to only 17.2p.  The reason...

A respected mortgage broker has found that there is widespread public uncertainty amongst the public about the effects of stamp duty...

High-end agency and international property consultancy Savills has reported strong half-year figures for its UK business - but warns that Brexit...

New property listings in July were down 6.0 per cent across the UK and down no less than 12.7 per cent...

Winkworth is beefing up its services for franchise owners with expanded support teams for its IT, Client Services and China departments.  Winkworth’s...

The EY ITEM Club, regarded as one of the most influential groups of economists in the UK, says it’s still “dubious”...

One of London’s leading estate agents says Brexit has had at worst a neutral effect on the housing market and may...

OnTheMarket has signed up 12-office regional agency Robert Oulsnam and Company.  The firm, which handles sales and lettings, has 12 offices in...

In a surprise announcement, house prices picked up in July with the annual rate of growth rising from 1.8 per cent...

Hello again from Italy. Only another week or so left out here, working every day from the same table at my...

One of the spate of property raffle competitions has been the subject of a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority. The complaint...

Purplebricks co-founder Michael Bruce says traditional agents sell only around 50 per cent of the homes that they list, so spend...

The number of properties withdrawn from the market in the second quarter of this year was greater than the number of...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - which replaces the Data Protection Act 1998 - has now become effective and is...

The redress scheme which formally quit the housing sector admits some estate agencies may have missed its deadline - and are thus...

The London market continues to produce unexpected results with two high end agencies reporting contrasting fortunes.  Half year figures released by Chestertons...

Countrywide is under fire again over the controversial rescue plan it announced last week. On Friday the troubled agency group’s share price -...

Outspoken property commentator and buying agent Henry Pryor has made a scathing attack on some of the main house price indices. In...

The government has revised its guidance to agents over redress schemes - amending it to take account of the fact that...

We may be well into August but there’s little sign of a holiday for our industry, with a string of big...

The former Chancellor George Osborne - architect of drastic stamp duty reform - has come out fighting to defend the tax...

The business editor of right wing political weekly The Spectator says “what’s bad for Foxtons is on the whole likely to...

Small print in the Countrywide rescue plan announced yesterday spells out in stark terms what could happen if the company’s bid...

The newly-appointed Group Managing Director of Countrywide says rumours of Hamptons International or other ‘crown jewels’ being put up for sale...

An analysis of HMRC stamp duty statistics for the second quarter of this year suggest that receipts are down 13.8 per...

Most estate agents have tried to dismiss the impact of the Bank of England’s base rate rise, which came following a...

Our glorious endless summer has a return visit to many areas this weekend - but it’s still not too hot for...

Countrywide's share price has dropped sharply following the announcement of the company's rescue plan - but the firm itself says this...

A leading estate agent is warning that an interest rate increase today ould hurt the delicate balance of the housing market. The...

The Council for Licensed Conveyancers says it wants legal practice websites to list cost information, including whether they have referral arrangements. The...

An equity release consultancy says the result of its survey of estate agencies suggest an increase in interest from prospective downsizers. The...

Gazumping is the biggest irritation in the property market to the general public according to a survey of over 2,000 people.  Respondents...

Another OnTheMarket founding estate agency - Strutt & Parker - has rejoined the Zoopla and PrimeLocation portals. Some months ago the London...

Data prepared for the BBC and shared with Estate Agent Today gives a snapshot of how estate agencies, lettings agencies and...

The Financial Times this morning says that Countrywide suffered a failed bond issue earlier this year, forcing it to rely on...

The former deputy chief executive at online agency Tepilo is launching a new training, recruitment and consultancy business for estate agents.  Catherine...

A trading statement this morning from The Property Franchise Group says its online brand, EweMove, is still trading profitably - and...

Connells Group - which now says it’s the country’s largest estate agency by market share and numbers of homes sold -...

An analyst for business data consultancy Bloomberg has some news for Foxtons - he says its swashbuckling days are over and...

There have been two stories dominating the PropTech headlines over this past week. As WeWork places a gentle arm around the...

Prices and transaction volumes have both fallen again in Prime Central London according to the index produced by Central London Portfolio,...

A government announcement this morning claims 121,500 first time buyers have taken advantage of the stamp duty cut introduced at the...

As if to prove there are two ways to interpret every figure, a new analysis of Rightmove’s recent trading statement suggests...

The parent company of Your Move, Reeds Rains and other agency brands has succeeded where Foxtons yesterday did not - in...

A leading buying agency is warning about asking prices that are higher than those acceptable to mortgage companies who therefore down-value...

The latest market snapshot released by the National Association of Estate Agents’ shows the challenges faced by the industry right now. The...

Labour says stamp duty receipts and other tax income from properties in the capital should go to the Mayor, Sadiq Kahn,...

Foxtons has suffered a massive 23 per cent drop in sales income and a nine per cent drop in overall company...

The new owner of Humberts says he would consider acquiring or working alongside existing agencies who want to be part of...

The price per square foot for homes in central London is currently £1,194 - that’s 16.9 per cent below its 2014...

A leading legal firm has given broad approval to proposals from the Law Commission aimed at improving the conveyancing process and...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, the place where you find all the key agency industry moves over recent days. Please...

Press speculation suggests that Countrywide’s much-anticipated rights issue will this coming week aim to raise £125m - not just the £100m...

‘Up’ is the key word in Rightmove’s figures for the first half of 2018, released to the City and to shareholders...

The couple at the centre of a court case about agents’ fees say the issue could have been resolved earlier had...

Figures from Savills suggest that there’s currently an average 1.14 price adjustments per sale across the prime regional markets of the...

One of the brothers behind Purplebricks has bought a football stadium in his home town. Kenny Bruce last year put £500,000 into...

With the weather scheduled to get a little cooler this weekend, fund-raising is clearly still a hot topic in the industry...

OnTheMarket has now signed listing agreements with UK estate and letting agents with a total of over 10,000 offices - but...

A businessman who’s just entered the estate agency industry says he’s got the secret behind Purplebricks’ success - even though he...

Traditional estate agencies should make their work appear more of a luxury and even showcase the prices of individual elements that...

One of the property industry’s best known figures, Richard Berridge, has teamed up with estate agency My London Home to lead...

An online estate agency has changed the wording of a listing on Rightmove, Zoopla and on its own website after a...

The emerging Proptech platform BestAgent has announced its latest partnership - this one is with sales progression company ViewMyChain. BestAgent, run by...

The new owner of Humberts is to ultimately close many of the traditional branches and move to what he is calling...

The agonisingly painful decline of Countrywide continues, with no one sure whether it is the darkest hour before the dawn or...

Since January 2018, nine of the UK’s biggest banks have allowed competitors direct access to customer data as part of the...

The latest transaction figures from HM Revenue and Customs make depressing reading - a three per cent drop between May and...

A report drawn up by Reapit and data consultancy Dataloft suggests that agents in 2017 lost a potential (and jaw-dropping) £4...

The mortgage industry may be throwing agents and the housing market something of a lifeline - it’s been revealed that 40...

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

Countrywide, the troubled estate agency group thought by some to be near collapse, has delayed issuing its interim figures which were...

A report out today shows a 19 per cent rise in the number of property businesses classified as being in “significant...

The debate over alleged ‘down-valuing’ by mortgage lenders has flared again with one leading agent claiming that surveyors are just “covering...

The Law Commission has unveiled proposals that it claims could stop property fraudsters in theirb tracks and improve conveyancing at the...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - which replaces the Data Protection Act 1998 - has now become effective and is...

It’s being suggested that Countrywide’s rights issue, previously expected to be announced this week, may now be delayed. The Times says the...

At least one estate agency appears to be doing better than expected in the current challenging market - Hunters says sales...

Purplebricks has told the Press Association it wants to secure over 10 per cent of the agency market share in the...

The former head of Rightmove’s lettings division has blasted High Street estate agencies for “living in the past, charging exorbitant fees...

Countrywide has not made any official statement about speculation over the weekend that it was about to seek an additional £100m investment. Estate...

Japanese Knotweed remains a major problem for a property sale - and that’s despite a recent study suggesting that the growth...

Hello and welcome to the regular Monday feature, Property Jobs Today. There’s plenty going on despite the summer holidays beginning for many...

Agents are being offered a new way to capture details of prospective clients thanks to a partnership between The ValPal Network...

Councils across England will have new powers to charge dramatically more council tax on homes left empty for many years following...

It’s being reported this morning that Countrywide will seek new investment of over £100m, probably in the next few days.  The Sunday...

A disciplinary investigation by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has blown the lid on the infamous fee-fixing cartel scandal involving estate...

The creators of a website using market data to define postcodes as hosting a seller’s market or a buyer’s market have...

Only 24 hours after the Land registry released data showing a 20 per cent slump in housing transactions, new figures from...

HM Land Registry calculates that 125,000 buyers will benefit from just the first phase of its digitisation programme for Local Land...

A Labour MP has used Parliamentary privilege to name a quick buy company and to make accusations about its practices. During Prime...

It’s holiday season shortly and we’ve got just the weather for it - good news for some, perhaps less so for...

The National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team has this morning issued a warning to agents that they must be signed up to...

Foxtons share price hit a new low yesterday, dropping to only 46p early in the afternoon: it eventually closed narrowly up...

Agents appear to be getting more pessimistic over the housing market as the latest government figures show prices still growing - but...

A report in the Financial Times lays bare the scale of the housing market downturn in central London - it suggests...

The Welsh estate agency Jeffrey Ross has opened its fourth branch in Cardiff, with a former Savills agent as its head....

Rightmove claims that homes with sea views attract an average price premium of 29 per cent. The analysis - aimed at publicising a...

The Advertising Standards Authority has today issued a three-point guidance note for estate agents, including controversial interpretations of what constitutes a...

Peter Long, executive chairman of Countrywide, has resigned from another boardroom to focus on saving the troubled estate agency. Long has chosen...

Emoov’s latest crowdfunding campaign has now gone well over £1.5m, making it already 50 per cent over-funded already from its original...

One of three schemes with government backing to offer redress for complaints about estate and letting agents has reignited the debate...

Before I get into the nitty gritty of the government (well, one of its startup accelerator schemes) giving away £20,000, let...

The fast-expanding Spicerhaart group has launched its own in-house Property Marketing Academy and has secured a well-known industry trainer and coach...

A new market snapshot shows how there’s now a two-tier market with homes in London taking substantially longer to sell than...

Carter Jonas has doubled the footprint of its UK headquarters in prime central London. It’s added a further 6,760 square feet of...

One of the top PropTech analysts in the world, Mike DelPrete, says Purplebricks deserves more credit for its performance in the...

The UK division of Keller Williams, the world's largest estate agency, says it can help entrepreneurial agents to set up their...

Humberts’ new owner has issued a statement saying he is on “a personal mission to revolutionise the industry and become the...

The manufacturers of a new PropTech tool claims it produces “the most accurate measurement of floorplans on the market” and has...

House prices in London are projected to fall in the short-term, down by two per cent by the end of 2018...

The consumer group Which? says some estate agents are misleading buyers about in-house mortgage services.  The consumer group has issued a number...

There’s a new twist in the row between a Cornish agent and the Advertising Standards Authority. The row revolves around a tweet...

An article in Investors’ Chronicle says the dominance of Rightmove and ZPG in the portal market could be under threat from...

A new digital product claims to help agents estimate which of their past customers are statistically most likely to move again...

Asking prices are at a virtual standstill as the summer lull kicks in, according to the latest Rightmove index. New seller asking...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today - a slim edition given how quiet the industry is at the...

A property software guru says he wants PropTech firms to join with him in an ‘open platform’ which would allow smaller...

An agent who is only 20 - and who set up his own firm when he was still a teenager -...

There’s more gloomy reading for vendors from a new report by website Home, which says the volume of properties slashing their...

The battered prime central London market is now suffering from the UK’s wider political volatility, the lack of stability of the...

The dream may be over but the return to reality can at least be staged in the spirit of an England...

The Advertising Standards Authority says its compliance team is considering its next steps following the refusal of estate agency PDQ Estates...

“They think it’s all over ... it is now.” The refrain that haunts England fans returned last night, not in a good...

Automated search companies have heaped praise on HM Land Registry following the digitisation of local land charge data - the LLC1...

Fine & Country and The Guild of Property Professionals are refurbishing the Park Lane showroom they share - and it’s going...

The new housing minister, Kit Malthouse, has made his first formal statement from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. It...

Over 15,000 households have exchanged after listing with an online agent in the second quarter of 2018 - that’s eight per...

An agent from Cornwall who has waged a long-running campaign against online agencies in general and Purplebricks in particular has been...

Auction House says the number of lots it sold in the first half of 2018 was some 3.8 per cent up...

Locations in the capital dominate a league table of locations where the largest numbers of so-called ‘high risk’ mortgages are taken...

A leading agency chief says the frequent churn of housing ministers means there is only one answer if our industry wants...

I loved my Foxtons office. I started in the Battersea branch. It was the old-style office; traditional carpets, actual properties in...

A left-leaning think tank is urging the Bank of England to manipulate the housing market to ensure house prices don’t rise...

A new free-to-list portal is to be launched - and it is to be ‘voice led’.  The PropTech firm Triplerr says it...

A hybrid estate agency has launched in Bury, one of the first of its kind to operate in the UK on...

Leading PropTech guru Mike DelPrete has revealed that he was involved in Purplebricks’ latest expansion, entering the Canadian agency market via the...

Industry groups have welcomed Kit Malthouse as housing minister - but make little effort to hide their frustrations, disappointment and disillusionment. Malthouse was announced...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - which replaces the Data Protection Act 1998 - has now become effective and is...

Former housing minister Dominic Raab, who yesterday left his post after just six months in office, may have had a lucky...

A PropTech company boss says evidence given to MPs confirms the need to improve anti-money laundering processes through greater automation and...

The little-known Conservative MP Kit Malthouse has been named as the new housing minister. He takes over from the high-flying Dominic Raab,...

It’s been announced this morning that Dominic Raab - who became housing minister just a few months ago - is to...

The German publishing company Axel Springer has increased its stake in Purplebricks to 12.5 per cent - and says it may...

A ‘disruptor’ tech company claims that large numbers of people are dissastisfied with the conveyancing element of house moves, with many...

Highly regarded industry figure Simon Whale, who quit his role as head of sales at Reapit on Friday, took to the...

Rowcliffes, the Derbyshire estate agency, has been sold out of administration with all 22 agency jobs being saved. A statement from the...

The dream goes on, and as England eases into the World Cup semi-finals, our agents’ reviews of their games continue -...

Hello, and welcome to this week’s regular Monday summary of all the major jobs moves in our industry.  The industry is still...

One of the UK’s leading group of economic experts has repeated its warning that housing market is not going to see...

Reapit has announced that its head of sales, the well-respected and popular industry figure Simon Whale, is leaving the company.  He is...

The stock market and at least one City analyst have shrugged their shoulders at the claim by Purplebricks that it is...

A senior agent says an innovative business model allows him to work in prime central London - even though he lives in France.  Former...

The Agency Express board company says its monitor of the sales market suggests that it’s in better shape now than it...

Some of Britain’s top property experts say bureaucracy, lack of cooperation and a dwindling number of smaller builders are the main...

Hello and welcome to this week’s hat-tip towards those in our industry doing so much to help others in need. Summer fund-raising...

  Purplebricks says it enjoyed an 81 per cent growth in revenue in the UK the year to the end of April and...

An estate agency chain has produced strikingly successful sales figures for the first half of the year - evidence, it says,...

An outspoken high-end London estate agent says millionaire foreign buyers purchasing “cheap” properties in the capital represent what he calls “the...

Part of the South Hams area, a popular tourist hotspot in south Devon, has voted overwhelmingly in favour of a ban...

Another four existing estate agency branches have rebranded as Hunters. In the westcountry three branches of Heritage4homes - at Yatton, Nailsea and...

Another update from OnTheMarket this morning claims the portal is now listing over 550,000 UK residential property listings, in excess of...

Any fingernails left after last night’s thriller? It was a cracker of a game, particularly the last 45 minutes...and then the...

Two more price reports from high-end agencies make grim reading about the prime London housing market. New data from Savills suggests that...

By now we’ve all seen news about the long-term decline in property sales and competition from online alternatives leading to ‘more...

A branch of Andrews estate and lettings agency, damaged by water as a result of a fire eight months ago, is...

If agents want to get into what looks like a guaranteed growth sector, retirement properties might just be the one if...

A new website has been set up specifically to help leasehold flat owners who have been served a Section 5 Notice...

Emoov has launched a crowdfunding campaign giving investors, it says, “a final chance” to put their money into the hybrid agency...

Purplebricks is reported to be set to reveal increasing losses when it issues its full-year financial results to the London Stock...

The government says its funding schemes such as Help To Buy will no longer be applied to what it calls “unjustified...

The director of an estate agency has been ordered to pay more that £1,800 for failing to dispose of waste properly. Adebayo...

Many existing homeowners wanting to trade up now rely on financial help from family and friends to help make the jump...

Labour says it wants ‘Healthy Homes Zones’ in a bid to reduce housing-related health inequalities which are estimated to cost the NHS £1.4...

An insolvency firm claims 153 estate agencies have gone bust in the past year with more than 7,000 “showing signs of...

Purplebricks has acquired another fixed-fee agency for £29.3m - it’s in Canada and marks another new territory for the hybrid agency. The...

A decade ago we were still years away from Purplebricks, Countrywide was a colossus in the industry, no one had thought...

The creative agency behind the new round of Purplebricks Commisery TV advertisements have been explaining the philosophy they brought to the...

Two high-profile PropTech entrepreneurs have raised £150,000 to help fund what they call “the first global PropTech platform.” James Dearsley and Eddie...

Hello, and welcome to this week’s regular Monday summary of all the major jobs moves in our industry.  Despite summer and the...

We all need to lighten up from time to time, especially at the start of another working week at the height...

Estate Agent Today is 10 years old this weekend. We hope you’ll agree that’s a cause for celebration and a great...

One of the country’s best know estate agents, Marc Goldberg, has joined London agency Dexters. Goldberg spent some 30 years at Countrywide’s...

Here’s our third England World Cup match report prepared by a reader - and it’s another terrific review...perhaps more interesting than...

Hometrack says other cities are now closing the gap on London in terms of house prices and market value. The latest Hometrack UK...

In what is regarded as his most important speech since becoming housing minister, Dominic Raab has told a conference that it...

Boy it‘s hot out there, with little end in sight yet. That’s the good news. Now the even better news -...

A leading digital analyst says online agency Yopa has doubled its listings this year and is fighting the merged Emoov-Tepilo operation...

The UK arm of the US-based estate agency Keller Williams says it is making a specific bid to recruit more women...

The vast majority of estate agents say dressing a property for sale improves its chances of a sale by leaving a...

Chestertons has announced two changes to its management team in order to, in its own words, “help lead the business into...

House prices rose at their slowest annual rate in five years in June according to the latest indicator of this summer’s...

Wary buyers reluctant to risk buying a premium-priced property in the volatile prime central London market are adopting a perhaps-surprising tactic...

Another Purplebricks ad has been stamped down on by the Advertising Standards Authority following a complaint by Hunters Property Group - but...

One of Countrywide’s former allies in the City broker community - independent corporate advisor Numis - has downgraded the troubled agency...

Just as some estate agents are reported to be making plans to retrench if the housing market continues to be sluggish,...

Total mortgage approvals by the main High Street banks increased three per cent in May over the same month last year...

The time has come for full PropTech/property integration and only those who open themselves to the globe will be part of...

Senior management at Countrywide came in for a pasting on Twitter yesterday as TV market commentator and buying agent Henry Pryor...

Purplebricks says it completely rejects any claim of bullying its representatives in Australia. The Australian Financial Review, which last week reported the...

Transactions across Greater London have plummeted - they were down 7.9 per cent over the past three months and a whopping...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - which replaces the Data Protection Act 1998 - has now become effective and is...

The head of London’s largest estate agency brand has hit back at a council in the capital which wants enhanced powers...

Countrywide’s share price has taken a massive hit this morning - down well over 20 per cent - following a surprise...

Countrywide says its Back To Basics strategy has seen a nine per cent increase in properties for sale with the group...

A London council is seeking widespread powers to ban For Sale and To Let boards which it claims are seen by...

A survey shows only 18 per cent of vendors favour reviews over personal recommendations when it comes to choosing an estate...

What a weekend for British sport! In F1 there was Lewis Hamilton’s dominant win at the French Grand Prix, and the big...

The three per cent stamp duty additional properties surcharge is to blame for tumbling house prices in some of Britain’s holiday...

Hello and welcome to Property Jobs Today, the regular Monday round-up of moves and changes in our industry. Do please let us...

Estate Agent Today can reveal that Keller Williams, the US-led firm that has 170,000 agents worldwide, is to open its fourth...

It looks as if Purplebricks has hit something less than a purple patch in the Australian housing market. The Australian Financial Review,...

Hunters is hoping to defy the long-running slowdown in the London market with the opening of a new branch in Greenwich.  The...

High-end housebuilder Berkeley Homes says “macro and political uncertainty, including Brexit” is leading to some developers previously building in London to...

If World Cup 2018 appeared to be low profile at the start, it didn’t last long. Following this week’s Harry Kane goals...

The Money editor of The Mirror newspaper has finally sold a home he first put on the market in late 2016...

A major hybrid agency says there is a huge ‘reality gap’ between the typical asking price of homes on sale and the...

Prime London’s transactions are now the preserve of so-called ‘needs-based buyers’ and not investors according to high-end agency Knight Frank -...

A fund set up in memory of a 27 year old estate agent, who died of cancer just weeks after his...

A new anti-money laundering app has been launched which allows agents to conduct checks remotely.  The app allows access from devices -...

Potential first-time buyers in every area of the UK would have lower monthly outgoings if they bought a property rather than...

What a big week for PropTech! With the very first MIPIM PropTech conference, taking place in Paris today and tomorrow, comes...

The housing market “is clearly currently struggling to gain traction” and any real upturn ”will remain elusive over the coming months”...

Savills has suggested that it may be time for a fundamental review of what’s left of the flagship policy of Margaret...

One of the country’s largest auction houses has had to amend an advertisement on its website after an intervention by the...

National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team and two of the three industry redress organisations have launched a survey to measure the...

A new online agency has started charging only 0.75 per cent commission, payable only on completion, with no VAT and no...

So what did you think of the match? A deserved 2-1 win or a lucky victory snatched from the jaws of...

There’s been a landslide vote to ban new-build second homes in another tourist hotspot. Some 90 per cent of those who voted...

A survey of owner-occupiers, landlords, property investors and insolvency practitioners has revealed that Brexit is the single biggest concern when it...

The famed fund manager Neil Woodford has increased his stake in hybrid agency Purplebricks, which last week announced an expansion of...

The former managing director of Foxtons, Peter Rollings, has spilled the beans on what it was like working at the heart...

The average asking price of newly marketed property continues to rise according to Rightmove - and this is despite a dip...

Hello - if it’s Monday, it must be Property Jobs Today, your chance to see a snapshot of the key moves...

ARLA and the NAEA have appointed their new presidents - and as usual they are the presidents-elect, named a year ago. Mark...

Purplebricks is expanding its US activities by entering the markets of Las Vegas, Nevada and Phoenix, in the state of Arizona. A...

Whisper it quietly, but it may be that some bosses of online agencies used traditional High Street companies to sell their...

A new digital search service is being launched next month by HM Land Registry, marking the latest phase in its attempt...

One of the best known and respected country agents has returned to Countrywide after 12 months working with Arun Estates.  Jill Bennetts...

Chestertons has again been recognised for its success in engaging employees with the Payroll Giving fundraising initiative. The Payroll Giving Quality Mark...

The World Cup may be entertaining us for the next few weeks but whatever England’s fate may be, one thing is...

The young entrepreneur behind Doorsteps, the estate agency that deliberately avoids the huge marketing razzamatazz of other online companies, says his...

OnTheMarket now has listing agreements with over 9,000 estate agency branches - that's another 500 or so since its previous release...

The managing director of independent agency network Spicerhaart says shop workers who are unemployed because of the latest round of retail...

Major online agencies appear to be unaffected by yesterday’s Supreme Court decision over workers' rights in the so-called 'gig economy'.  Yesterday’s case concerned...

Government figures are the latest to show that house prices are still going up - but with a reduced rate of...

Over 100 ‘top achievers’ from Connells Group have just enjoyed an all-expenses paid trip to New York as a thank you...

The rivalry between online and traditional property auction companies continues apace with one high profile player from each camp claiming major...

One of the country’s best known regional traditional agencies, Pygott and Crone, has used a promotion in local news outlets to...

More stock and longer times on the market are combining to create a surge in asking price reductions according to a...

Paul Lamplugh, the father of estate agent Suzy who was presumed murdered 33 years ago, has died - tragically, without ever...

The pace of change is extraordinary. As we reach the middle of one conversation, rumblings of the next already begin. I think...

The Advertising Standards Authority has intervened after receiving a complaint about a website and online advertisement for the Howard Cundey agency. The...

The proportion of homes sold in London was lower than any other part of England and Wales last year according to...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - which replaces the Data Protection Act 1998 - has now become effective and is...

Clients of software provider Reapit can now integrate with leading sharing and online valuation service The ValPal Network. The objective is to help Reapit...

Spicerhaart is reported to be replacing its fleet of 1,100 cars over the next three years with BMWs.  Much of its current fleet...

An auction house says it was “scoffed at” four years ago when it began offering online options to customers - but...

It is understood that an estate agent from Cornwall is to face trial over allegations that he misled potential customers over...

News media in Australia say Purplebricks is the subject of an investigation by a consumer watchdog in the province of Western...

Here’s your chance to release the inner John Motson - write your interpretation of how England performs in each match of...

An Oxfordshire estate agency is shutting up shop at the end of this week in order to allow its parent company...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, and although we’re well into the summer season now there are still plenty of...

A leading property industry analysts says Rightmove may be amongst the top portals in the industry worldwide, but it is facing...

Russell Quirk, chief executive of Emoov, says his agency is now one of the top seven in the UK following its...

A London estate agency run by a brother and sister is trying something completely now - it pledges to use some...

Prices grew at a faster than expected rate last month according to the Halifax House Price Index, which has reported a...

We have the presidential seal of approval for our Agents Do Charity this week - well, sort of, but we don’t mean...

OnTheMarket’s first formal annual figures released since its flotation reveal losses in what it describes as its “transformational year” but also...

The entrepreneur behind a free-to-list property portal claiming support from 17 estate agencies has defended the description of them as ‘partners’ -...

May saw the highest number of new sellers list their properties in any single month for at least 18 months, claims...