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Boomin, the new portal being set up by the founders of Purplebricks, is holding a series of confidential webinars next week...

The cross-sector group looking at reforming the sales process has agreed a new pledge which it says introduces greater transparency for...

Two reports this morning suggest that activity in the most expensive sectors of the housing market is doing as well as...

The Times has revealed new allegations concerning the behaviour of Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick. The Cabinet member has been under the spotlight...

Hello and welcome to the latest ADC, your regular Friday round-up of great work being done by agents, suppliers and others...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has outlined his measures to help agencies and other businesses survive Coronavirus. His announcements - endorsed by both the...

Propertymark, which will from later this year combine both the National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Letting...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak today reveals his latest measures to help businesses - including agencies, suppliers and other parts of the property...

The frenzied housing market and the uncertain wider economic outlook during the pandemic have combined to lead to a surge in...

One of the many new portals recently launched has made a pitch for agents to join because of its referral fees...

New PropTech products continue to appear, many aimed at enhancing transparency in buying and selling, or helping agents adopt new ways of...

Vendors spend an average £41 a day for 144 days when selling their home - but some spend a remarkable £140 a...

Figures drawn up by a property industry recruitment guru show that estate agents work only two thirds of the hours they...

One of the growing number of free to list property portals, Residential People, claims a record-breaking number of sales and letting...

I was giving an interview this week for an upcoming conference - yet another to convert from a physical to a...

The regional agency group which master-minded the Say No To Rightmove campaign has made a big commitment to the future of...

The government claims its stamp duty holiday has supported nearly 750,000 jobs thanks to the ripple effect in the economy. A statement from HM...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that all retail staff will be obliged to wear masks when working - and it's now...

Two agencies have entered the debate on whether the current frenzied housing market is seeing delays in completions. Yesterday EAT reported that...

Share prices for many quoted estate agencies and property portals fell in trading as fears grew about Coronavirus. London-focussed agency Foxtons was one...

Connells Group has revealed seven appointments to its board of directors which it links directly with a target to grow presence and...

A survey of over 2,300 home owners across the UK suggests market sentiment is mixed, with most doubting house prices have risen. The...

Independent agency Sawyer & Co has announced the opening of a new branch in the Preston Park area of Brighton -...

Logjams in the mortgage, conveyancing and removal stages of house moving mean sales are taking much longer than usual, according to...

The Property Franchise Group has named high-profile industry veteran Eric Walker as managing director of Martin & Co (South and Scotland).  Walker...

Another regional agency group has returned to Zoopla, attributing the move to the portal's “receptive audiences” amongst the house buying and renting...

A family-run agency which last year asked people to “make an offer” to buy a franchise is now claiming it will...

A quick buy firm boasting it has ‘sold’ a home within six days also says it now takes 140 days on...

A new league table drawn up by a property advice website may be the most authoritative yet for first time buyers...

The irrationality of Britain’s council tax system has been laid bare in a new league table drawn up by estate agency...

Almost a third of property sellers (29%) say they won't accept a lower offer for their property, according to new research. Online...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has been criticised for its lack of enforcement of anti-money laundering (AML) legislation so far in...

A highly-experienced former Savills agent has launched his own buying agency focusing on the prime country market in Surrey. The new company,...

The green light for a vacant office building in the capital to be redeveloped into residential housing has been given after...

Hello and welcome to the start of the weekend and that means it's time for Agents Do Charity. Each week, we publicise...

Property sellers are twice as likely to find a buyer for their property if the original asking price does not change,...

A North East agency, which first opened in 1977, has revealed a new identity with a new name and fresh branding. Thirlwells...

The strong performance of the auction market in recent months has been reinforced by the latest figures from iamsold, the UK's...

Estate agents and small businesses are being warned to take greater care over passwords to stop hackers breaking into their systems. David...

National property consultancy Carter Jonas has bucked the trend of remote working and closing branches to announce it has secured 12,000...

NAEA Propertymark has written a letter to Housing Minister Christopher Pincher, asking what measures the government is taking to get more...

The strong house price growth experienced in recent months could soon be 'marred' by oversupply, according to Home.co.uk. The property website says...

Independent estate agency Heywoods has undergone a major rebrand in honour of its former boss Chris Stops. Stops, 57, passed away in...

Almost two fifths of property buyers don't know what conveyancers and solicitors do, according to new research. My Home Move Conveyancing's survey...

The result of a test case over Business Interruption Insurance involving agents has been handed down by the High Court. It has...

A tax expert says that there is 'zero likelihood' of the government changing its mind on stamp duty changes for overseas...

Ahead of the launch of a new iBuyer platform later this year, agents are being invited to attend two webinars hosted...

A new PropTech startup is giving prospective buyers the opportunity to receive due diligence at a fraction of the time and...

The property market experienced a slowdown last month as a result of more people going on summer holidays, according to the...

The scale of the problems facing many prospective buyers has been set out in a survey showing as many as one-third...

Independent agents are busier than they have ever been thanks to the post-lockdown surge but larger corporates are actually losing market...

A disgraced former estate agent has paid his victims around £110,000 but must pay another £5,000 or so in the immediate...

Hello and welcome to the new working week. Here’s the latest information on key hires across our industry: if you have similar...

PropertyHeads, a portal which describes itself as the industry’s social network, has sold a three per cent stake partly to raise funds...

OnTheMarket has signed up one of the country’s biggest house builders, Taylor Wimpey. The builder - which has 24 offices and covers...

A new customer service award category at The ESTAS will see agency networks competing against each other for the first time.  Networks...

Rightmove, which recently posted a 37 per cent drop in revenue for the first six months of 2020, has lost almost...

A buying agency targeting what it calls the “prime and super-prime” London market is offering clients not only a sourcing service, but also...

The estate agency industry is still under the spotlight for possible illegal price fixing cartels according to the Competition and Markets...

An estate agency founded in 1995 has undergone a management buyout from two existing director. Westcoast Properties is a north Somerset firm,...

Hello and welcome to the weekend and that means a charity-fix for all those agents and suppliers doing great fund-raising in these...

A leading agent says the government’s new Coronavirus clampdown from Monday will push more home owners to sell. Caspar Harvard-Wills, a partner at...

OnTheMarket has this morning announced record leads during August, beating July’s previous record. The portal generated over two million leads in August, an...

Agents involved in a test case over their Business Interruption insurance will know the result next Tuesday morning. The test case concluded...

Franchise giant Winkworth has reported an 11 per cent drop in gross revenue and profit plummeting 20.2 per cent in the...

Knight Frank has launched an auction business to give vendors a wider range of sale options as market uncertainty remains because...

The government has published draft legislation giving further details on the two per cent stamp duty surcharge on non-residents purchasing residential...

The portal  set up by Purplebricks founders Michael and Kenny Bruce has revealed it's recruited Rightmove and Zoopla personnel and intends...

For a mixture of reasons, I now only write this column every two weeks. At first, I missed the weekly consideration...

As many in the industry will know, Ian Westerling passed away last week at the age of 51: he was a...

Hybrid agency EweMove has outperformed its traditional sister companies within The Property Franchise Group over the past six months. That’s the clear...

The ESTAS, which is fast establishing itself as a review platform as well as an awards network, has signed up the...

The National Association of Estate Agents is inviting members to join a panel reviewing new PropTech produced as a result of...

Another US real estate agency wants to follow Keller Williams, Berkshire Hathaway and others by opening in the United Kingdom. Nest Seekers International...

House prices rose again in August to reach a record high level according to Halifax, which is part of the Lloyds...

A new league table shows how many listings exist per agency in 23 different cities across the UK.  The analysis looks at the...

The Guild of Property Professionals says that in the past quarter it has had its highest number of new joiners on...

A sentiment survey conducted amongst 585 estate agents by the OnTheMarket portal suggests fewer than half have witnessed price rises since...

The Residential Property Surveyors’ Association appears to be taking on the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in a battle for authority...

Hunters chairman Kevin Hollinrake - who is also a backbench Conservative MP - has been criticised on Twitter by Manchester United...

Hello, and if it’s the start of a new week it’s time for Property Jobs Today, giving you the inside track...

Knight Frank says its analysis of the whole housing market across the UK shows that transactions in the final full week...

NAEA Propertymark has thrown its weight behind a Competitions and Markets Authority investigation into whether consumer protection law has been broken...

Property portal Boomin has been "courted by a range of potential backers" according to Sky News. The news service - which has...

The Competition and Markets Authority is today opening enforcement cases focusing on the sale of leasehold homes by four leading housebuilders. They...

Rightmove is warning of a conveyancing log-jam that may delay sales, despite the ongoing frenzy of activity and faster transactions for...

Research by Zoopla has revealed the scale of the mistakes by and regrets for disillusioned home buyers. For large numbers of people...

With estate agents increasingly offering auction options to vendors, new research makes interesting reading - and suggests that homes sold via...

In the week the Nationwide recorded the UK’s highest ever average house price, high-end agency Savills has forecast that prime markets...

For many agents it’s been a big week…not because of the surge of buyers, but because their children have returned to...

A self-employed agent has gone public to lavish praise on the mentoring scheme which is part of the Agents Together charity. Cameron Carter,...

Estate agents are increasingly using low-key ‘grey’ marketing to avoid too many prospective buyers swamping them when homes go on sale. That’s...

Record house prices recorded this week by the Nationwide index are set to go higher still according to a leading agent. Nationwide...

The new president of NAEA Propertymark says one of her key objectives for the year ahead is to prepare the industry...

A south coast estate agency which has been operating since the 1980s has opened its seventh office.  Jacobs Steel’s latest branch is...

The battle between portals is hotting up again with Zoopla repeating its offer of free listings until January for agents committing...

A specialist property lender says transactions are being delayed by key staff being furloughed. Gareth Lewis, commercial director of property lender MT...

There’s good news from the think-tank the Resolution Foundation, which says the threat of negative equity because of the Coronavirus crisis...

Two City consultancies instructed by OnTheMarket have talked up the company’s fortunes after the appointment of its new chief executive.  Shore Capital, which in...

Recent speculation that the so-called Bank of Mum and Dad would be playing a reduced role in the housing market has...

There’s been a surprise appointment as OnTheMarket chief executive. Instead of popular acting CEO Clive Beattie - who had made it known...

One of the victims of a notorious estate agency price fixing cartel has spoken out against one of the offenders.  Christina Davis...

One of the most experienced British estate agents says the new portal Boomin - expected to launch next month, October -...

Hefty increases in taxes on the purchase and sale of holiday homes and buy to let properties are expected in the...

An American realtor who once predicted his company would have 5,000 UK estate agents working under its banner is now saying...

The agency affiliation group Relocation Agent Network is linking with HBB Solutions, a part exchange and ‘guaranteed purchase’ operator.  HBB says a...

An insurance firm claims estate agents are taught not to quote VAT in fees until the final bill. A statement from Admiral...

A new study reveals that two thirds of property professionals expect a pay rise in the next 12 months, despite Coronavirus and the recession. Of 1,100 professionals questioned...

Fine & Country has revealed its latest branch - a West Wales office opening for business on Tuesday. It will initially cover...

Labour’s shadow housing minister has revealed that it will be two years at least before the party sets out its long-term...

You might be forgiven for thinking we’ve been cheated out of our Bank Holidays this year, as so many fell during...

The Say No To Rightmove campaign has given a thumbs up to the new Boomin listings service created by the brothers...

If yet more proof were needed of the housing boom this summer, NAEA Propertymark says its sales agreed data suggests a...

OneDome, which operates two free-to-list property listing sites, says it’s had a record month as it strives to build an alternative...

Figures from Zoopla quantify how Coronavirus is changing the market, with houses selling significantly faster than flats. The latest market report from...

A former agency director and owner with three decades of experience in the industry has set up a coaching and training...

With the UK officially in what has been described as the single worst national recession in the world, one agency has...

New research suggests that British estate agents charge some of the lowest fees in the world. Based on an apparent British average...

The battle between rival self-employed agent business models continues apace with eXp UK - set up last autumn - announcing it...

An agency that has now closed down has been expelled by The Property Ombudsman for failing to pay an award of...

An overview of the global PropTech sector is often what I am asked to cover at conferences around the world. This generally...

Data from Rightmove shows that demand is up 61 per cent compared to the same period last year - and the...

One of the UK’s market centres set up by US-led agency Keller Williams has strongly defended its policy of recruiting newcomers...

A new website aims to be the go-to service for agents who want reviews to help them assess the usefulness of...

A developer working in collaboration with Silverstone race circuit is creating homes inside the track, near one of the motor racing...

Some 275,000 subscribers have signed up for the latest Zoopla email education programme under the Zooploma banner. This one is aimed at...

In another sign of the buoyant housing market, estate agency Savills is breaking tradition by staging its first ever August auction...

Over £73,000 has been stolen from a Countrywide branch by two admin staff making false travel claims and issuing fake invoices. The crimes...

A new portal launches today with 100,000 listings and a pledge to target buyers largely ignored by established websites - investors. It’s...

Zoopla has been awarded £50,000 of premium ad space with the Telegraph Media Group in recognition of a campaign to help the UK...

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of PJT, the industry’s summary of new movers. Of course many agencies are reassessing their...

The scale of the market bounce back after lockdown is made clear in new figures from HM Revenue & Customs. It registers...

A prominent industry figure says the current stamp duty holiday could effectively be a trap to lure in buyers who will...

The stamp duty holiday running until March next year has triggered a surge in interest in UK property from Hong Kong...

The supply of homes coming to the market could struggle to meet the demand from buyers shown in recent weeks, with...

Controversial Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick, tipped by some for sacking when the Cabinet is reshuffled next month, appears to be confident...

Hello and welcome to the weekend - if it’s Friday, it’s Agents Do Charity day as we pay tribute to fund-raisers...

Whisper it quietly but in just 10 days time we have the final Bank Holiday before Christmas. We would like to mark...

Countrywide has rejected a claim by one of its biggest shareholders that it does not engage with investors over future strategy...

The number of people moving home dropped by almost a third in the first half of 2020, as the global pandemic...

Agents are being advised to operate an appointments-only system if they have offices with only one person on duty during the...

The networking organisation Women in Residential Property has grown to over 300 members - its highest ever total.  Launched three years ago...

A PropTech platform that claims to halve the time a transaction takes has received a huge cash injection from investors for...

One of Countrywide’s biggest shareholders has written a second letter to the company to demand bold action to save the agency...

An online agency says it’s offering its customers a kind of ‘fall-through insurance’ after over 100 deals collapsed between mid-March and...

A leading buying agency is warning sellers and buyers not to jump the gun and abandon London in the belief that...

Estate agents’ offices have been explicitly mentioned by the Scottish Government as locations where face masks must now be worn by...

One of the most prominent companies involved in identifying and treating Japanese Knotweed has recruited a new member of the team...

If anyone thought the days of Purplebricks bosses making millions were in the past,  think again. The chief executive and chief finance...

A new agency called Eazy Agent has launched - it’s another online operation, this time with a starting price of £249. For...

Customer review and awards platform the ESTAS is parting company with headline partner Zoopla after 10 years. The founder of The ESTAS...

An unusual property sales concept, which signs up vendors and then effectively sub-contracts their sales to strongly-performing local estate agents, has...

You may not actually have missed it, but the UK House Price Index - the official government index - returns this...

Rightmove’s latest house price index shows the highest number of sales agreed in a month for over a decade. It’s 20 per...

Swiss bank UBS has upgraded its investment rating on Purplebricks, raising its price target and urging investors to buy. In a note...

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of PJT - we know some agencies are reshaping their structures and downsizing but this...

One of the country’s highest-profile mortgage lenders, HSBC, is restricting loans on apartments from today. Only buyers of flats who have a...

A digital resource hub for estate agents claims to shorten transaction times. Sort Move, which has been operating since late 2019,...

Zoopla says it wants to know what agents think of its new TV advert which airs from tomorrow but can be...

A leading expert on estate agency and the housing market in Australia has lifted the lid on how Purplebricks failed down...

Asking prices are up again for a third consecutive month in all English regions and across Scotland and Wales.  The measurement, from...

HM Land Registry customers - including agents and conveyancers - can now manage all of their applications and correspondence including notices,...

Hello and welcome to Agents Do Charity, a weekly round-up of news as the industry continues fund-raising even in these challenging...

London agency JOHNS&CO says the performance of its staff during the Coronavirus period has led it to launch what it regards as...

The latest market snapshot by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors warns the current boom may not continue as government support measures...

The government’s new Kickstart scheme is the ideal way for agents to encourage new talent without incurring any cost. That’s the view of The...

The number of jobs advertised as available in the UK real estate sector plummeted from 14,000 at the end of the...

Many young people are stuck unable to purchase their first home even if house prices fall in the wake of the...

Connells Group has announced its trading statement for the first half of 2020 - and its support for its staff is...

Agents should check where buyers and sellers have been on holiday as part of their approach to safety during the Coronavirus...

I want to talk to you about new ways to sell homes. Let's not encourage people to sell but just swap...

A home office set up in a dedicated room apparently adds £17,500 to the value of a property. Direct Line Insurance has...

Is Countrywide finally on the road to recovery? Its share price has risen 125 per cent in the past three months; much of...

A property developer has set up an estate agency that charges no commission to sellers but instead levies a non-refundable reservation...

A row is brewing over an agency which acted on a vendor’s request to use the English version of a house...

The share of owners putting their homes on the market within five years of buying is rising again according to an...

Hunters has announced the launch of an additional franchise office at Torquay in Devon. The branch is a conversion of local independent...

Reviews and awards platform ESTAS has announced that it’s now the preferred partner of the Guild of Property Professionals.  “Over the past...

An investment adviser says Purplebricks remains “far too risky” for investors even though it now has “a fighting chance of survival”. Rodney...

Knight Frank says the stamp duty holiday for properties at £500,000 and below should be made permanent. The holiday is due to...

The Federation of Independent Agents has announced its latest partnership - this time with a live-streaming viewing service called Gavl. The platform...

The Sequence Group is to be the sole selling agent for RoyaleLife, the country’s largest builder of bungalows, exclusively aimed at...

Agents have been understandably delighted at the latest Halifax index which shows house prices posting their biggest gain of the year...

Property raffles are a legal minefield and many are too good to be true, according to a leading lawyer. There has been...

Almost all estate agents are still saying Yes to Rightmove, according to figures produced by the portal this morning. Membership numbers for...

Zoopla has revealed details of its biggest ever marketing campaign in a bid to cash in on agents’ growing dissatisfaction with...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has confirmed that the First Homes scheme will provide newly built homes at a 30 per cent...

The UK residential activities of high-end agency Savills suffered a 54 per cent reduction in profits and an eight per cent...

It’s hotting up out there as a beautiful summer’s weekend beckons - an ideal time for some fund-raising in the sun,...

The proportion of the asking price achieved on average in the past year is 95.8 per cent according to a new survey. Comparison...

It’s probably not a surprise but new research has revealed where people want to move to - as well as where...

House raffles and similar competitions have become mired in controversy in recent years, thanks to some of them failing to abide by...

Savills has held its fourth remote auction, raising some £32m with an 82 per cent success rate - making it the...

Wholesale reform of leasehold issues is still some years away, despite recent proposals by the Law Commission and pledges by the...

A PropTech firm that regularly claims London homes are mis-measured in property descriptions has taken a swipe at Purplebricks. Pupil, a spatial...

The chairman of LSL Property Services - Simon Embley - says he is “increasingly optimistic” about the outlook for the market,...

Strutt & Parker is warning that in a worst-case scenario house prices in some locations could drop 10 per cent this...

A survey of estate agents’ market share post-lockdown indicates significant advances for independent agencies and online operators. TwentyCi, a data consultancy, says...

Rightmove and OnTheMarket have revealed their latest bids to keep agent support. Rightmove is launching an extensive redesign of property details pages, after...

The Guild of Property Professionals is relaunching its online auction brand - Guild Auctions - even though it has already successfully...

New information has come to light which suggests that a leading marketing platform may be planning to step into the CRM...

Rightmove’s new chief financial officer has a basic salary of £390,000 plus bonus options coming to a potential total of £1.75m. Alison Dolan has...

A law practice says HM Revenue & Customs is launching a probe into companies that have allegedly abused the Coronavirus furlough...

The new portal OpenBrix, which is powered by Blockchain, has revealed its fee structure ahead of its formal launch on September...

An intervention by a magazine has led to Purplebricks refunding the up-front fee to a seller whose husband died suddenly and...

A new PropTech platform says its central feature will be the launch of a Multiple Listings Service.  This will allow agents “to...

A BBC presenter has used her local newspaper column to mock an estate agency for suggesting fridge magnets be removed to improve...

    Purplebricks says changes to its fees structure - possibly becoming less reliant on controversial upfront charges - has been delayed until...

Agents have long been the victim of a poor public reputation, from scoring highly in most disliked profession polls to being...

OnTheMarket has confirmed it is “considering” making redundancies - the second of the large portals to be in this position. Rumours have been...

A new director has been appointed at Fine & Country charged with achieving the corporate goal of “becoming the largest premium...

The Nationwide says annual house price growth has recovered to 1.5 per cent. Its July house price index says the fall in...

Agents are awaiting the outcome of a test case regarding Business Interruption Insurance, which may determine whether they receive thousands of...

The debate over whether For Sale boards remain a valuable source of publicity has been in the headlines of late -...

A housing market snapshot for prime London shows a fall of over half in the number of £1m-plus properties sold so...

A new study confirms the growing trend of buyers wanting good broadband links - and the possibility that homes without them...

Hello: if it’s Friday it’s charity day and this week we have a special announcement from the industry’s own charity, Agents...

A statement by OnTheMarket this morning reveals that as of the end of last month it had a record 14,000 advertisers...

OneDome has released a list of High Street agencies that have signed up to its free-to-list portal and sister website Nethouseprices  -...

Mortgage approvals - a key indicator of short-term activity in the housing market - beat expectations in June according to Bank...

Government leaks to mainstream and building trade media suggest the controversial Help To Buy scheme will be extended beyond its end-of-2020 deadline. An...

Fine & Country has announced it signed a string of agencies to its brand during lockdown. Most F&C agents members are High...

The number of Hong Kong buyers looking at property in London has doubled in just five weeks according to an agency...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s stamp duty holiday means prime property in the UK now enjoys lower tax rates than most European countries. Buyers...

Purplebricks has revealed that its new board member is one of the world’s leading digital executives.  Dr Stephanie Caspar is the new...

Steve, his name was. Steve, the board man. A rather frightening man, if truth be told. When I started at Foxtons, he used...

A new website that describes itself as an estate agency says it wants to “empower people to sell their own home”...

There’s been a very large rise in the number of complaints submitted by consumers to the Property Redress Scheme. This is partly...

Rightmove says a study of some 400,000 homes on its portal has revealed that those with a coveted south-facing garden have...

A new analysis of corporate estate agencies’ social media followings and websites shows the big winners to be Savills, Foxtons and...

A trading statement from Foxtons this morning reveals that 85 per cent of staff are now off furlough, and that the...

Zoopla says while there may be speculation about people fleeing London and big urban areas for the countryside, the evidence suggests...

HM Land Registry is now accepting witnessed electronic signatures on documents for the  transfer of ownership of property, the creation of...

Do you want to run the newly-merged Propertymark, embracing both the National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Letting...

The housing market is still booming according to data released by the National Association of Estate Agents Propertymark - although the...

A vendor who suffered a fall-through on the sale of his five bedroom home in West Yorkshire is now trying to...

A founder of Purplebricks, Michael Bruce, suggests there was nothing wrong with the controversial Commisery TV ads that contributed to making...

An agent in Hertfordshire says he routinely secures 5,000 visits to ‘live open houses’ on Facebook Live, and have on one...

There’s a record number of property industry companies, including agencies, in financial distress according to the latest Red Flag alert monitor. The...

Butters John Bee, one of the oldest agency brands in the UK, is the latest part of the Spicerhaart group to...

National Crime Agency officers working as part of a Paramilitary Crime Task Force have searched a home in Belfast and have...

Zoopla says its sale and vendor leads have reached a 2020 high, beating volumes delivered even during the strong start to the...

The chief executive of the UK operation of a US-owned brand says his agency its the fastest growing in this country...

Tens of billions of pounds of new taxes should be levied through a Capital Gains Tax imposed on main homes, not...

A new property website relying heavily on Artificial Intelligence allows sellers to by-pass estate agents and instead list directly for £14.99...

New guidance on face coverings for agents working in branches, and for those dealing directly with visitors, was issued last evening. A statement...

The EweMove hybrid agency has been singled out for special praise in a trading statement from its parent company, which also...

Agents Do Charity - as the summer heat is on… It’s hotting up outside and while this is set to be a...

It is widely expected that Purplebricks will shortly reveal the result of an experiment with a number of different pricing strategies. The...

Zoopla's Research and Insight Director Richard Donnell writes: Just over a fortnight on since the Chancellor announced the Stamp Duty holiday and...

A branch of London agency Foxtons has been targeted by a group of political agitators called Beyond Politics, which says it’s...

NAEA Propertymark is calling on agents to show “greater diligence” when dealing with Russian buyers, in the light of the report...

A PropTech platform that aims to lock-in sellers and buyers via a mutually agreed reservation agreement system is being offered free...

Purplebricks founders Michael and Kenny Bruce have revealed the name of their new property venture.  It’s to be called Boomin. There are still few specific...

Purplebricks has changed the wording of an advertisement on its website after a watchdog stepped in following a complaint. According to the...

The hunt is on for a new boss of Countrywide according to news reports. Sky News says the company has recruited professional...

Home owners in England will be entitled to add up to two storeys to the height of their home via a...

Agents have almost unanimously been reporting a big surge in business since the reopening of the housing market, but new figures...

One of the industry’s leading trainers and consultants has launched a range of 15 new online training modules covering sales skills,...

The long-awaited proposals for leasehold reform produced by the Law Commission suggests giving owners the right to extend their lease for...

The new code of conduct for estate agents has been dismissed as “a waste of time” - and the senior industry...

Large scale increases in and changes to the Capital Gains Tax regime could seriously hurt the housing market, a senior figure...

Propertymark is working with an organisation called the Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance to inform agents how to sport signs and respond...

The mortgage arm of a regional property portal has launched pre-approval software which it claims will significantly speed up the initial...

It’s a big day for leasehold reform today with the Law Commission due to publish three residential leasehold and commonhold reports. They...

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

Agents now have a chance to say what they think should be in a new Code of Conduct being discussed following...

Speculation is mounting that Capital Gains Tax could for the first time be applied to gains made when owners sell first...

An eight day court hearing kicks off this morning as the Financial Conduct Authority begins a test case regarding Business Interruption...

Rightmove says it’s going to reject over £150,000 in payouts from the government's Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. The portal furloughed 160 employees...

Hello and welcome to another week. We’re more than aware that it’s a challenging time for our industry as for most...

Rightmove is reporting a mini-boom that was existing even before the stamp duty holiday - enough to propel average asking prices...

A London Labour council has won draconian powers to effectively ban For Sale and To Let boards in several parts of...

An open verdict has been returned on the death of an estate agent whose body was spotted just 10 metres away...

Knight Frank has reported a remarkable set of figures for June showing how the housing market has bounced back with a...

Another new PropTech platform claims it can streamline the completion process - this time by coordinating the work of estate agents...

Hello and welcome to the end of the week and the prospect of a sunny weekend. We appreciate fund-raising is difficult with...

Purplebricks’ sale of its Canadian operation for some £35m begs the question - where can it now recoup some of its losses...

The estate agency industry has been sharply criticised for its record on protecting staff and customers during the Coronavirus crisis. The compliance...

Tuesday of this week was the busiest day of the year so far for searches for mortgages - widely seen as...

The latest monthly index suggests that the average asking price in England and Wales has jumped 1.5 per cent in the...

A think tank says the stamp duty holiday introduced a week ago is understandable and may be helpful to the housing...

Purplebricks is selling its Canadian business. The sale comes little over a year after the troubled agency closed both its failed Australian and...

Zoopla has entered into a partnership with an online platform to promote the so-called Modern Method of Auction option to estate...

With stamp duty cuts and 90% mortgages on their way back, anyone could think the housing market was about to go...

A London estate agent has broken ranks with much of the industry and instead of welcoming the stamp duty holiday has...

More than 24 hours after the government's announcement about the compulsory wearing of facemasks by shoppers in England, and there is...

The new thresholds for the Scottish equivalent of stamp duty come into effect today - a week after the SDLT holiday...

The founder of Purplebricks, Michael Bruce, has this morning revealed his new project to be called Launch B - and he...

The advertising and sponsorship links between Purplebricks and Team GB have won the agency a silver medal according to a leading...