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It may be a measure of the government’s incompetence in...
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By Graham Norwood
It may be a measure of the government’s incompetence in...
By Graham Norwood
As sure as night follows day, so our industry sets...
By Graham Norwood
If you’ve paid even scant attention to Landlord Today or...
By Graham Norwood
What a waste. Islington council announced in recent days that it...
By Graham Norwood
Talk about a wasted opportunity. The Conservative party conference - just...
By Graham Norwood
After years - indeed a decade - of anti-rental sector...
By Graham Norwood
And suddenly it’s autumn. It’s just six weeks before the...
By Graham Norwood
When it comes to plain English, we in the property...
By Graham Norwood
There is much debate about energy efficiency right now and...
By Graham Norwood
It’s not a sentence that I thought I would be...
By Graham Norwood
So much has changed in the world of property of...
By Graham Norwood
Just because you don’t live in London - and of...
By Graham Norwood
Should commercial properties be converted into homes? I think so. I...
By Graham Norwood
If journalists believed everything they received in their inboxes, you’d...
By Graham Norwood
New year, old worries: what’s happening in the housing market? We’ve...
By Graham Norwood
Is it really just a year ago that we were...
By Nat Daniels
Here at Angels Media towers, we’re always keen to get...
By Graham Norwood
I’ve just read an article saying that this is the...
By Nat Daniels
Aside from all the news surrounding the Autumn Statement this...
By Graham Norwood
I’ve been on Twitter for a decade and have 23,500...
By EAT & LAT Team
In this guest feature, Ben Bailey, CCO at Even, a mortgage lender...
By Graham Norwood
And…breathe. For a while back there, the only certainty for the...
By EAT & LAT Team
With reform of the home buying and selling process as...
By Graham Norwood
How did the housing market transform from incredibly strong -...
By EAT & LAT Team
First-time buyers and homeowners seeking to sell alike are worried...
By Graham Norwood
Who would be in the shoes of Liz Truss and...
By Coadjute
One of the particular characteristics of the property market is...
By Graham Norwood
The current period of national solidarity over the death of...
By Nat Daniels
First off, my own quick tribute to the Queen, who...
By Graham Norwood
Some people will say: What problem? But they are getting fewer...
By Nat Daniels
In this latest Day in the Life of...Natter, I get...
By Graham Norwood
We are only a fortnight away from having a new...
By Mike Ward
It’s taken Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for the UK to...
By Graham Norwood
Double-think, for those who have not read George Orwell, is...
By Philip Farrell
Thanks to a relentless market, the property market has enjoyed...
By Graham Norwood
When it comes to housing policy, the Conservative MPs have...
By Graham Norwood
People in prominent positions in the housing industry aren’t always...
By Jon Horton
I look back on when my dad helped me buy...
By Graham Norwood
It’s often fashionable to criticise trade bodies and official groups,...
By Mark Armstrong
The digital transformation of the property industry is not a...
By Graham Norwood
This question is not as flippant as it sounds because...
By Paul Sams
For years, the issue of phone etiquette created tension between...
By Graham Norwood
In retrospect, it was perhaps inevitable that the infamous dead...
By Sam Hunter
With this week being Mental Health Awareness Week, Sam Hunter...
By Graham Norwood
What a difference two months and some local elections make. Cast...
By Nat Daniels
The property industry is fortunate in including many great people, doing...
By Graham Norwood
It’s easy to overestimate the importance of something in one’s...
By Graham Norwood
For the record, this isn’t my last Industry Views for...
By Nat Daniels
With Boomin nearly turning one, I decided to catch up...
By Graham Norwood
If you want to sex-up the Chancellor’s financial statement scheduled...
By Bruce Burkitt
The path from agent to developer is not easy, but...
By Graham Norwood
Almost exactly a decade ago I wrote a blog on...
By Martin Cheek
The outcome of the Ukraine crisis is far from certain,...
By Graham Norwood
If the UK and its allies have been played by...
By Simon Tillyer
If 2020 was the year of survival, then 2021 was...
By Graham Norwood
Here’s the odd thing about interest rates - we all...
By EAT & LAT Team
In this weekend feature, inventory expert and chair of the...
By Phuong Thi Kieu
With the drastic changes enacted on the industry over the...
By EAT & LAT Team
From first-time buyers to serial investors, no two days are...
By Graham Norwood
At the risk of mixing my metaphors, any mention of...
By EAT & LAT Team
As 2021 draws to a swift close, there is much...
By Graham Norwood
We all know what did happen in 2021 - Covid...
By Graham Norwood
Let’s begin with total transparency from this author: I believe...
By Mark Armstrong
Trust has always been vital for building and nurturing good...
By Graham Norwood
I’ve never written the three letters ‘EPC’ more often than...
By Graham Norwood
We’ve probably all learned to be a little less cynical...
By Graham Norwood
Within weeks the focus of the industry will be on...
By Graham Norwood
By the time I next write this column, we’ll be...
By Colin Shairp
There’s good news and bad news from the shake-up in...
By Graham Norwood
Few political policies have such a ring of the past...
By EAT & LAT Team
360 tour technology company Made Snappy has grown rapidly over...
By Graham Norwood
I’m sorry to break this to you but in 10...
By Nat Daniels
One of the biggest trends since Covid, in the property...
By Graham Norwood
There’s already plenty of talk about autumn - depressing huh?...
By Nat Daniels
Well, we’re technically more than halfway through the year already,...
By Graham Norwood
There’s gathering momentum to do ‘something’ about the unfairness of...
By Graham Norwood
At first sight it’s a tough ask to defend holiday...
By Nat Daniels
In the world of football – very topical at the...
By Graham Norwood
I recently saw a fly-through video for a home on...
By EAT & LAT Team
In the first of a two-part special with the presidents...
By EAT & LAT Team
Michael Jones & Company celebrates its 30-year anniversary this year...
By Graham Norwood
Books about property are, relatively speaking, commonplace - books by...
By Vince Courtney
The Planning Bill, which will introduce changes to the planning...
By Graham Norwood
It’s been quite a week for the rental sector. Lettings agents...
By Ben Taylor
Keller Williams now boasts 377 estate agency partners across the...
By Marta Kalas
Potential house buyers may be fine with virtual tours during...
By Graham Norwood
For many, the funeral of HRH Prince Philip will be...
By Graeme Edwards
We’ve all spent the past nine months adapting to a...
By Colin Shairp
It’s 12 years since we opened our doors with the...
By Graham Norwood
Few people in the industry have as controversial or challenging...
By Chris Summers
The events of the last 12 months have potentially shaped...
By Colin Shairp
You could be forgiven for overlooking International Women’s Day on...
By Christopher May
As a property agent, fancy marketing terminology such as ‘omnichannel’...
By Colin Shairp
Honesty is a concept that journalists will tell their readers...
By Stuart Armstrong
Fixflo’s webinar on February 9 saw an industry panel debate...
By Paul Glassberg
Estate agents might be expert at advising on buying and...
By EAT & LAT Team
In a video interview for Estate Agent Today, property professional...
By Neil Cobbold
As part of our third PayProp Special Report on COVID-19...
By EAT & LAT Team
In a wide-ranging video interview for his Move iQ service,...
By Nat Daniels
Firstly, Happy New Year – here’s to 2021 being less...
By Nat Daniels
Many independents will be based in the capital, but given...
By Nat Daniels
Welcome to part three of our ongoing series on local...
By Edward Jarron
The secure Conservative victory in the 2019 General Election meant...
By Nat Daniels
As regular readers will know, the Natter kickstarted a series...
By Matt Gilpin
The second England-wide lockdown is here. The good news is...
By Nat Daniels
Firstly, let’s get the obvious out of the way. Lockdown...
By Neil Cobbold
Housing Minister Christopher Pincher announced that the introduction of the...
By Graham Norwood
Book review by Graham Norwood, editor of Estate Agent Today,...
By Edmond Ibrahimi
Lawyers, politicians, bankers, insurance sellers – no matter where you...
By Graham Norwood
We all know what the problem is, but what’s the...
By Nat Daniels
Recent Natters have explored the differences between the UK and...
By Simon Shinerock
The pandemic and the way the government has reacted to...
By Nat Daniels
It’s fair to say that UK estate agents don’t have...
By Graham Norwood
Hindsight is 20-20 vision, of course, and we can all...
By Nat Daniels
In my last Natter, I explored the differences between estate...
By Graham Norwood
It must have been a close thing on Friday as...
By Nat Daniels
We have had a special relationship for many years and...
By Graham Norwood
If a week is a long time in politics (an...
By Emma Vigus
Emma Vigus, managing director of sales progression platform mio, in...
By Elaine Penhaul
There’s no doubt that Covid-19 has had a huge impact...
By Graham Norwood
It may be that by the time you read this...
By Nick Neill
The phrase ‘game-changer’ has been hugely overused. But when applied...
By EAT & LAT Team
A new thought-provoking five-part video series is launching to the...
By EAT & LAT Team
In a wide-ranging video interview for his Move iQ service,...
By Graham Norwood
Dominic Cummings has been at worst a cause of huge...
By Nat Daniels
All my recent Natters have been focused on one particular...
By Nat Daniels
There has been much speculation about when agents will be...
By Nat Daniels
Lockdown measures are still in place for another two weeks,...
By Simon Shinerock
Let me start by wishing everyone well in these uncertain...
By EAT & LAT Team
In a video interview for Estate Agent Today, property professional...
By EAT & LAT Team
Due to the current Coronavirus pandemic, we are all being...
By Christopher May
It’s time to draw a line in the sand and...
By Nat Daniels
There’s been a huge change in the way estate agencies...
By Simon Shinerock
The coronavirus outbreak has highlighted once again how fragile and...
By Russell Quirk
The Atlantic Ocean is a vast space – some 4,000...
By Neil Cobbold
Earlier this month, Boris Johnson carried out a reshuffle of...
By Graham Norwood
Not for the first time, a government policy on housing...
By Babek Ismayil
Property portals generate revenue from estate agents regardless of the...
By Graham Norwood
In six years of editing Estate Agent Today, some of...
By Graham Norwood
There are reasons to be optimistic that a majority government...
By Duncan Foster
It's been two years since the SDL Group launched its...
By Graham Norwood
There used to be a consolation for some estate agents...
By Nat Daniels
In the latest part of the Natter’s ‘day in the...
By EAT & LAT Team
In a new video interview, Steve Carroll, director of industry...
By Michael Stoop
Last winter, Agents Giving had a fantastic response to our...
By Rachel Jackson
The phrase ‘death of the high street’ can be found...
By Graham Norwood
There are many adjectives that can be applied to Boris...
By Nat Daniels
Yopa – launched in 2015 as part of the new...
By Marc Da Silva
When renting a property out, letting agents and landlords recognise...
By Russell Quirk
It never rains but it pours. And that’s certainly been...
By Neil Cobbold
In recent years, governments and local councils have sought to...
By Russell Quirk
‘Workers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose...
By EAT & LAT Team
As the self-employed estate agency market continues to grow in...
By Russell Quirk
Whinge. Moan. Lead quality. Crap market. Decision procrastination. Fee pressure....
By Graham Norwood
It’s been quite a week for news so you might...
By Neil Cobbold
Recently a number of politicians and charities have been calling...
By Graham Norwood
It’s that time again. Each year I take a look...
By Neil Cobbold
With Boris Johnson winning the Conservative leadership election and becoming...
By Nat Daniels
Nicky Stevenson has had a very varied and interesting career...
By Nat Daniels
It’s now more than three years since the EU referendum...
By Ben Leonard
With this summer marking forty years since Margaret Thatcher came...
By Neil Cobbold
Increasing legislation and regulation has arguably been the biggest talking...
By James Campbell
Recent figures from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) have...
By Bruce Burkitt
Property developing is an incredibly diverse and exciting career choice,...
By Graham Norwood
Emoov and Countrywide: what a pair, observers might say. They present...
By Nat Daniels
In the first Q&A Natter for a while, I catch...
By Jonathan Stein
What a great time to be a letting agent. In...
By Ellie Donaghy
With a mere matter of weeks until the Tenant Fees...
By Andrew Granger
1989 was a significant time for the property industry: it...
By Graham Norwood
No, this isn’t about Brexit. But as the saga of...
By Graham Norwood
Campaigning groups like Generation Rent and Shelter like to think...
By Lars Gooch
The topic of introducing rent controls in London crops up...
By Graham Norwood
It’s time, surely, for government to crackdown not just on...
By Mark Cleaver
The demand for rural properties is high, and with 20.7%...
By Mark Harris
Cast your minds back to the summer of 2014. It’s...
By Nat Daniels
With the home buying and selling process firmly on the...
By Graham Norwood
“You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn...
By Paul Smee
A review of the housing market at present, particularly when...
By David Westgate
I often speak of my wish to see property taken...
By Kev Sankar
‘I need more power’ - it’s a common request experienced...
By Graham Norwood
There’s nothing new about identifying 10 figures who have helped...
By Nat Daniels
Another year is nearly done – and what an eventful...
By Samantha Jones
Over the past year I've had so many conversations with...
By Graham Norwood
Whatever one thinks about online estate agencies, it’s a cause...
By Neil Cobbold
PropTech has been mainstream for a few years now, and...
By Graham Norwood
However mild the weather may have been for most of...
By Paul Smith
It’s now almost a month since the government introduced new...
By Graham Norwood
It’s time to sort the wheat from the chaff when...
By Alex Thorpe
When Facebook first announced it would be entering the property...
By Graham Norwood
From where I’m standing there’s a lot in common between...
By David Westgate
“Baton down the hatches. Stockpile the food cupboard. Brexit is coming and...
By Graham Norwood
There’s little doubt that downsizing is less of a factor...
By Paul Smee
Were it not for climate change, I would be very...
By Nat Daniels
Next week ludlowthompson celebrates its 25th anniversary. Here, I catch...
By Colin Shairp
It was interesting to see the recent story on Estate...
By Nat Daniels
The big story to break this week in the property...
By Simon Shinerock
As you probably know, I have been no fan of...
By Graham Norwood
So here’s the thing. It’s summer - not much going...
By Alex Tebbs
It’s no secret that technology has changed the way businesses...
By Nat Daniels
Peter Rollings is one of the most respected and best-known...
By David Westgate
100 years ago, 90% of the UK population rented a...
By Nat Daniels
Ever wondered what it’s like to be on the frontline...
By Nat Daniels
Maplin, Toys R Us, Carpetright, Warren Evans – what do...
By Nat Daniels
With the rise of Purplebricks in recent years, many will...
By Simon Shinerock
As noted in Estate Agent Today’s news pages, OnTheMarket’s (OTM)...
By Nat Daniels
For part two of the 'Day in the life of'...
By Nat Daniels
In the first of an ongoing series exploring the people...
By Graham Norwood
The operation of ‘online estate agencies’ has changed substantially in...
By Simon Shinerock
Why I won’t buy Purplebricks shares and why if I...
By Simon Shinerock
OnTheMarket has finally completed its stock market float, with less capital...
By Simon Shinerock
Whatever else you say about OnTheMarket, you can’t say it’s...
By David Westgate
Last week’s news that the lettings fee ban is unlikely...
By Samantha Jones
Estate agents are facing the biggest industry changes seen in...
By Simon Shinerock
Who says things slow down before Christmas? The opposite appears...
By Simon Shinerock
Yesterday morning OnTheMarket confirmed its IPO plans but with no...
By David Westgate
Here we are again: another much anticipated Budget has been...
By EAT & LAT Team
Earlier this week, Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered the Autumn Budget...
By Graham Norwood
British politics is extraordinarily volatile right now and the ongoing...
By Graham Norwood
It’s something of an understatement to say it’s been a...
By Howard Freeman
Sajid Javid, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government,...
By Colin Shairp
So at last someone has woken up to the fact...
By Nat Daniels
They say presentation is key (something that Theresa May now...
By David Westgate
And so concludes another party conference season. We’ve followed the...
By Nick Faulkner
The UK is home to four million leasehold properties in...
By Graham Norwood
It used to be so easy. Around 20 years ago there...
By David Westgate
I’ve written before about the impact of headlines on the...
By Vik Tara
Parliament is sitting again and the entire lettings industry is...
By Simon Duce
Despite the fact that eight out of 10 statistics are...
By Simon Shinerock
Before we go any further, assuming you are an Agents’...
By Colin Shairp
There’s a distinct sense of déjà vu over the debacle...
By Simon Shinerock
After my article last week predicting that Agents’ Mutual would likely...
By Simon Shinerock
I hate to be the guy to say ‘I told...
By Simon Shinerock
Agents’ Mutual (oops, that name might need to change…read on)...
By Graham Norwood
You’ll see a lot of 10th anniversary stories in the...
By EAT & LAT Team
During a week in which fledgling trade group the Charter...
By Nat Daniels
We’re already more than halfway through 2017 and, against all...
By Simon Duce
As an agency business, how much are you spending on...
By Nat Daniels
Mark Goddard was the founder and CEO of The Property...
By Colin Shairp
Great Expectations was a fantastic novel-cum-social-history written by Charles Dickens,...
By Nat Daniels
To give you a nice distraction from the post-election madness,...
By Eddie Goldsmith
In years to come, students of political history might come...
By Nat Daniels
Since we last spoke, the ESTAS – the biggest and...
By Nigel Poole
Our recent roundtable on the proposed ban on tenant fees generated...
By Nigel Poole
Our recent roundtable on the government’s proposed ban on tenant...
By Charlie Wright
Even some of the most successful professionals from other professions...
By Nigel Poole
Our recent roundtable on the government’s proposed ban on tenant...
By Simon Shinerock
This actually happened - the names of the guilty have...
By Simon Shinerock
Purplebricks’ advertising is very negative and critical of the competition....
By Graham Norwood
There’s good and bad in every industry and at first...
By Richard Rawlings
Earlier this week it was Dads4Daughters Day – a campaign...
By Graham Norwood
I had a very interesting chat with the man behind...
By David Westgate
The buy-to-let market has gone through significant change in the...
By Simon Duce
If you work in lettings, I’ll already have a pretty...
By David Westgate
Welcome to February! It means that 2017 is well under...
By Simon Duce
The south’s seaside resorts are stealing the headlines for all...
By Simon Shinerock
When I read about the possible formation of yet another...
By Nat Daniels
A post-Christmas treat this week, as I carry out a...
By Simon Shinerock
I have a confession to make. In 1988 I became...
By Graham Norwood
Forecasts are so last year: who anticipated Bowie, Brexit or...
By Marc Da Silva
Next year is likely to be a challenging time for...
By David Westgate
Just a couple of weeks ago, we waited with anticipation...
By Nat Daniels
What a mad, bonkers year it’s been. We’ve had, in...
By Colin Shairp
As circus performers, most estate agents would fail. Some of you...
By Graham Norwood
Forecasts are a tricky business. And as I wrote in...
By Lloyd Davies
There is really only one topic of debate and forensic...
By David Westgate
Graham Norwood recently wrote that it’s going to be harder...
By Simon Shinerock
It is with no pleasure and a touch of sadness...
By Rob Clifford
The huge consequences of the EU referendum, and the impending...
By Marc Da Silva
Buy-to-let landlords may have failed in their recent legal battle...
By Graham Norwood
Some of this week’s headlines - ‘Firms must list foreign...
By Colin Shairp
It’s curious how gloom, gloom pre-Brexit Britain’s property market has...
By Nat Daniels
This week we have the Head Shepherd of EweMove, Glenn...
By David Westgate
Barely a week goes by without an announcement relating to...
By Nat Daniels
A fantastic exclusive this week as I carry out a...
By Simon Duce
I can’t remember a time when there were so many...
By Graham Norwood
It’s a headline from an Australian business journal this week...
By Glenn Ackroyd
With almost a fifth of house sales in Britain collapsing...
By Colin Shairp
As I sit here writing this on the Glorious 12th,...
By Colin Shairp
It’s a familiar theme – kids doing charity trips and...
By Marc Da Silva
Property prices were at the forefront of the EU debate...
By Graham Norwood
I’m indebted to one of the most enthusiastic estate agents...
By Eddie Goldsmith
What a month it has been. By the time you...
By Michael Robson
Significant national events such as elections and, in this case,...
By Samantha Jones
A few years ago one of our property receptionists took...
By Michael Robson
As property ‘experts’, sector know-how and experience sits centrally to...
By Graham Norwood
It’s all too easy to look sleazy in the eyes...
By Alex Sullivan
This website recently published a piece ahead of the nationwide...
By Graham Norwood
Despite being round the block quite a few times in...
By Simon Shinerock
When, during his budget speech, George Osborne announced Capital Gains...
By Rob Clifford
I recently read an article in City A.M. titled: ‘Five...
By Colin Shairp
The property market is racing ahead, but not everyone who...
By Samantha Jones
At the end of January I was one of the...
By Cristina Catino
When you're on the hunt for a new job, once...
By Simon Duce
What are we going to do about Generation Rent? Only...
By Daniel Collis
At 29, I'm Romans’ youngest senior manager. Last year I...
By Michael Robson
Birthdays aren’t just something for family and friends to celebrate. Businesses...
By Graham Norwood
Public relations used to be a minor part of estate...
By Ian Lange
I started work in 1966 in Exeter with Fox &...
By Glenn Ackroyd
Do you remember Martha Lane-Fox? She was the poster girl...
By Nat Daniels
Right, so it’s one more week till Christmas and two...
By Simon Shinerock
OnTheMartket (OTM) recently wrote to its membership saying how well...
By Colin Shairp
News from the Halifax this week that the combined values...
By Rob Clifford
It’s hard not to have been influenced by the Rugby...
By Russell Quirk
It’s rare for an incumbent to pivot to a disruptive...
By Colin Shairp
It’s interesting to read of plans to debate which business...
By Colin Shairp
It was interesting to see the report on Estate Agent...
By Colin Shairp
It’s always interesting when Which? produces a report that includes...
By Graham Norwood
I received a call from a prominent agent known to...
By Rob Clifford
How do you best sum up the current market status...
By Colin Shairp
Competition is hot among home buyers in my part of...
By Simon Shinerock
A riposte to Paul Smith's article 'Why Estate Agents Must...
By Graham Norwood
There is a very interesting but easily-overlooked piece of information...
By Graham Norwood
Two interesting developments in the past week have shown how...
By Colin Shairp
What do we actually do as estate agents to serve...
By Graham Norwood
This month has marked a real change in the way...
By Simon Shinerock
Yesterday we heard about the letter from the CMA warning...
By Simon Shinerock
This publication recently reported on Russell Quirk's latest attempt to...
By Graham Norwood
OK, you’ve had your fun. Now let’s leave the regulators...