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Agents are continuing to secure instructions and sales but transactions are mainly being done below asking price, data suggests. Agency trade body...

Homebuyers should prepare for short-term volatility as mortgage rates are currently being repriced, OnTheMarket chief executive Jason Tebb has warned. Tebb warned...

Lower mortgage rates than the end of last year and slowing inflation should sustain the housing market as it enters the...

Increasing numbers of young buyers are looking abroad to boost their chances of getting on the property ladder. New data from international...

A regional estate agent has outlined how the rise and fall of Purplebricks has actually been a good thing for high...

Mayfair, London’s most famous address, is in a state of radical metamorphosis, a local agency brand claims. A new report from Mayfair...

Some sellers remain optimistic about their price expectations as sales at the top end of the market begin to lag, Rightmove...

House prices will still come under pressure despite a better-than-expected economic outlook, Knight Frank claims. New analysis from the property brand claims...

The Home Buying and Selling Group (HBSG) has announced a new update to the Leasehold Property Enquiries (LPE1) form, which it...

Premium estate agency Fine & Country has added a further office to the brand’s already strong London network.  Director Gareth Mozley of...

National Conveyancing Week has kicked off from today. The awareness-raising week features a series of in-person, online and pre-recorded events aimed at...

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

  The over-50s could make the best estate agents, an industry training platform has claimed. It comes as the Treasury unveiled plans for...

A more competitive mortgage market may actually dampen hopes of a downsizing boom, an agent has predicted. Many property professionals last year...

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

Higher utility and staffing costs pushed profits down in Savills’ UK residential business last year. The property and agency brand revealed in...

Hundreds of property professionals from international premium estate agency Fine & Country gathered in London for the brand’s annual conference and...

Newly established prime London property consultancy Tyburn, has reported the completion of multiple deals worth in excess of £60m in its...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s first Budget yesterday failed to include any specific measures to boost the housing market but a mortgage broker...

News of a potential takeover gave Purplebricks’ share price a boost yesterday. Its share price rose 15.5% in a day after Estate...

Almost half of sellers who took their homes off the market in 2022 will relist them in the next two years,...

The South East of England continues to lead the way as TwentyCi revealed its latest statistics on property market activity. The property...

New software has been launched to help estate agents collect feedback on viewings. Feedback Enterprise, from the Cumbrian communications specialists SMS Speedway,...

Collaborative Conveyancing has won an Innovate UK grant in partnership with the Hartree Centre research facility and completed a fundraising round...

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has increased its expectations of a house price decline. The OBR, which keeps an eye on...

Purplebricks has confirmed that it has been in discussions with online agency rival Strike regarding a potential takeover offer. As reported by...

Online agency brand Strike is believed to be considering a bid for beleaguered rival Purplebricks. A source close to the talks has...

A property group is the latest to call for a Stamp Duty overhaul in today's Budget. The National Association of Property Buyers’ (NAPB)...

Sellers resistant to cutting asking prices may soon be left with little choice if the mortgage market remains depressed, a broker...

It was a busy 2022 for the so-called Bank of Mum and Dad and 2023 could be more manic for parents,...

The number of properties listed as sold subject to contract (SSTC) has increased by 5% so far this year versus the...

Homeowners are now almost £500 better off annually than renters, new research suggests. Analysis by Halifax shows the monthly cost of owning...

The property market looks to have avoided ‘heading over a cliff,’ Knight Frank suggests. Analysis by the agency brand suggests the further it...

The average discount to asking price on a sold property has almost doubled since last July as sellers are becoming ‘more...

Agents may hate portal fees but have ranked property websites such as Rightmove and Zoopla as their most important digital asset. A...

Pattinson Auction has gone international by opening up in Spain. After growing its UK portfolio to almost 3,000 partner agents, it will...

First-time buyers are persisting with Help to Buy purchases as cut-off-point approaches for the housing support scheme. To be eligible for an...

Agents are being encouraged to get involved in National Conveyancing Week. The awareness week will start on 20 March and features a...

From first-time buyer support to Stamp Duty changes or just doing nothing at all, there is plenty that agents and property...

Propertymark needs to do more to promote the value of its agents and to ensure people know it exists, property commentator...

The property industry may be going to great effort to digitise and improve the process of buying and selling a home...

Higher mortgage rates have meant that new buy-to-let purchases are increasingly being funded by cash rather than a mortgage, new research...

Proptech firm ValPal has entered the artificial intelligence (AI) sphere with a new tool to help agents write better quality and...

A Keller Williams (KW) agent has hailed the success of TikTok as a marketing tool just 18 months into her role. Tanya...

The financial regulator has revised its own data on how many mortgage borrowers may face repayment difficulties as it calls on...

Online agency boss-turned-media-pundit Russell Quirk has been given his own money-focused TalkTV programme, with the first focusing on the hot topic...

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

The UK residential division of property consultancy Knight Frank has been awarded for its customer services. The agency brand won the ‘Best...

You don’t need me to tell you that buy to let has had a torrid time of it lately. For agents trying...

Zoopla is set to host a 2023 market update later this month for agents. Hosted by Zoopla’s executive director of Research, Richard...

A more stable picture of the housing market may be emerging, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has suggested. It comes...

Search Acumen has begun beta-testing of ChatGPT within its data platform for conveyancers, which it hopes will reduce working times and...

Home-movers have been identified as one of the most attractive consumer groups during the cost-of-living crisis, contributing an estimated £29 billion...

As is generally the case, we didn’t start out with solutions, we started with questions…. two, actually. The first was, ‘Why does...

Agents are being offered a new tool to help them reclaim fees they are owed following a vendor’s withdrawal from the...

Gallagher has agreed a partnership to offer its products to customers of Knight Frank Finance. The partnership will see Gallagher offering insurance...

The latest Halifax House Price Index is set to add fuel to the fire of the ongoing market crash debate. The lender’s...

Last month marked the slowest February to sell a home since 2013 but prices are improving, new analysis claims. Insight from agency...

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

Female estate agents have shared the highs and lows of working in the property industry to mark International Women’s Day (IWD). The...

More than half of homebuyers have become more willing to compromise in the search for their next home, new research reveals. Analysis...

The Guild of Property Professionals has achieved the milestone of more than 11,000 ESTAS reviews. The network has revealed it has reached...

A representative of major Purplebricks shareholder Axel Springer has stood down from the online agent’s board. It comes as the beleaguered brand...

Foxtons has lost its DNA, its chief executive has warned. It comes as the company published its first annual results under new...

Estate agents have been bringing more listings to the market since the start of the year but professionals in the north...

International buyers appear to slowly be returning to the prime central London (PCL) market, according to Hamptons data. Figures released by the...

More than a tenth of homeowners expect to delay buying or selling a home this year due to the cost of...

Safety, support, health, wealth and happiness were the key firms of the inaugural Women in Estate Agency group conference last week. The...

Reapit has acquired agency software provider Inspect Real Estate (IRE). The service, already used by more than 3,000 real estate customers to...

Companies that own UK residential properties have under a month to revalue and tell HMRC if any are worth more than...

Estate agents are entering a ‘rocky period,’ an accountancy firm has warned, as research shows insolvencies in the sector are on...

Agents may have been slightly put out by Rightmove reporting a boom in user fees despite a drop in members, but...

Around a third of agents still have some sort of dress code at work while almost half are kust expected to...

Propertymark has made its annual call for new property professionals to join its leadership team and ambassadorial positions. The agency trade body...

Hunters has welcomed two new franchise partners who have acquired the Hunters Scarborough, Bridlington and Filey businesses. Sam Lakin and Pete Croft have...

Two well-known East Yorkshire estate agents have joined forces to merge their businesses with a new name and branding. Stanifords and Grays...

Rightmove has reported its second highest year for average revenue per advertiser (ARPA) despite agency branch membership dipping slightly. The portal revealed...

Agents are being trained in how to operate in a ‘normal’ sales market, a senior industry executive has revealed. Gareth Samples, chief...

Conveyancers are warning that this week’s Land Registry strikes could have a knock-on effect on property sales once staff return to...

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

Newly-independent estate agency North Residential has unveiled new expansion plans with the opening of at least three new UK locations per year and...

Premium property agency Prestige & Village is expanding beyond its home base in the South East of England. It has launched the...

AVRillo is seeking agents to help test a new product that aims to provide upfront material information to buyers at the...

A conveyancing firm has put the popular artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT to the test to see if it can rival legal...

Annual house price growth has fallen for the first time since June 2020 and is now at its weakest level since...

Properties need to be listed for at least nine to 14 days to achieve their optimum selling price, new research claims. The...

Winkworth is expanding its operations to focus on land and new homes opportunities across London. Dominic Agace, chief executive of Winkworth, said...

The Connells Group has said it remains optimistic about the year ahead after reporting falling profits and a decline in exchanges...

Zoopla has become the latest accredited supplier of the New Homes Quality Board (NHQB) for its software that supports housebuilders. It come...

Purplebricks has received “several credible expressions of interest” since putting itself up for sale last month, the online agent has revealed. The...

The South East of England is currently most in need of an estate agency personnel boost, new research claims. The analysis, by...

Mortgage lenders may have been grabbing the headlines in recent weeks with rates below 4% but a broker has warned this...

The competition watchdog is set to shine a spotlight on property, with investigations into the housebuilding market and a separate project...

Rightmove is set to launch a new property estimate tool for homeowners who are not actively looking to sell right now. The...

Agents working with iamproperty sold more than 7,000 properties through its auction service last year, the proptech firm has revealed, as it...

Agency trade body Propertymark has backed calls for greater leaseholder protections as the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill proceeds through Parliament. The...

In this latest article from the team at Iceberg Digital, they preview Estate Agency X 8, 2023 Estate Agency X is back and better...

Sellers are cutting asking prices by an average 4.5% discount to achieve a sale, Zoopla claims. The figure is the highest for...

Prime London demand and supply is on the rise but mainly for those without the need for a mortgage, new data...

Estate agency brand Douglas & Gordon was confirmed to have entered administration yesterday. There were rumours over the weekend that the well-known...