By Graham Norwood

Local elections rarely set the pulse racing and this year’s...

By Nat Daniels

The biggest news story in town this last week –...

By Graham Norwood

The launch of Boomin has been and gone with, perhaps,...

By EAT & LAT Team

We recently launched our state of the property nation survey...

By Graham Norwood

Purplebricks is now part of the mainstream landscape of British...

By Graham Norwood

When it comes to communications, Propertymark could do with a...

By Graham Norwood

There is no scientific formula, no list of must-have elements...

By Nat Daniels

At the back-end of last year and the start of...

By Graham Norwood

There’s been a flurry of recent activity involving agencies quoted...

By Graham Norwood

Just a week ago, I thought it was all over....

By Graham Norwood

Here’s hoping you managed to have as good a Christmas...

By Graham Norwood

The industry seems almost back to normal. Not the ‘new normal’...

By Beth Rudolf

‘Many are in complete denial about the time it takes...

By Graham Norwood

The agency industry may look back on this year and...

By Graham Norwood

With a new President elected and the old one reluctant...

By Graham Norwood

“I’ve got 47 years of experience as an agent. Do...

By Tom Harrington

The Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England)...

By James Tamm

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has encouraged people to complain...

By Nat Daniels

For a number of years now, predictions have been made...

By Graham Norwood

You have to feel for Rishi Sunak - well, at...

By Graham Norwood

Back in the day, party politics and the private rental...

By Graham Norwood

The coming week’s stories in the mainstream media - inevitably...

By Graham Norwood

If it’s really the case that estate agents’ offices could...

By Graham Norwood

There’s a sense that we really are on the verge...

By Nat Daniels

Where else to start? Since my last Natter two weeks...

By Graham Norwood

The extraordinary past week of anger over portals’ fees plus...

By Nat Daniels

Now we’re well into the second month of the year,...

By Graham Norwood

Suddenly Brexit Day is nearly here. It may have taken three...

By Graham Norwood

A new year dawns - but will 2020 bring new...

By Marc Da Silva

With Brexit still unresolved, the domestic agenda has been pushed...

By Graham Norwood

Problems with relationships are usually helped, if not always resolved,...

By Graham Norwood

Reservation Agreements are the subject of the moment in the...

By Graham Norwood

If you thought - perhaps hoped - that five weeks...

By David Westgate

If you’d asked me at the start of the year...

By Graham Norwood

The industry press has given substantial space to recommendations from...

By Marc Da Silva

Theresa May arrived in Downing Street some three years ago...

By Graham Norwood

Britain lives in fundamentalist black-and-white times - all the more...

By Graham Norwood

While media attention has been on Theresa May, Brexit and...

By EAT & LAT Team

So far in our contribution to the campaign to replace...

By Graham Norwood

It’s clear that some agents are not fans of Trading...

By Marc Da Silva

It has been a long time coming, but the tenant...

By EAT & LAT Team

The leasehold scandal has received plenty of press coverage, with...

By Kristjan Byfield

This article was originally written for City AM in response...

By Graham Norwood

It’s been a theatrical week in Westminster with talk of...

By Marc Da Silva

As 2018 draws to a close, it is fair to...

By Marc Da Silva

When renting a property out, letting agents and landlords recognise...

By Marc Da Silva

Given that online property portals, dominated by a handful of...

By Paul Smee

On the face of it, this year’s Budget was not...

By Graham Norwood

Perhaps it’s been our pre-occupation with Brexit, or on the...

By Richard Rawlings

Several agents have asked me whether they should consider ditching...

By Graham Norwood

Any day now we’ll hear the date for the Autumn...

By Iain McKenzie

Making my way to our London office on a busy...

By Graham Norwood

It’s holiday time: schools have broken up, quite a few...

By David Westgate

Another day, another housing minister – at least that’s what...

By Graham Norwood

It may not be a good idea for a journalist...

By Nat Daniels

Cast your mind back to July 2008 – Gordon Brown...

By Eddie Goldsmith

To say this is a turbulent time for UK politics...

By Graham Norwood

The rise and fall - and perhaps rise again -...

By Graham Norwood

If you want to know whether buy to let, landlords...

By Graham Norwood

As always seems to be the case with Purplebricks, the...

By Marc Da Silva

For many estate agents seeking to become entrepreneurs, the idea...

By David Westgate

At the start of February, Nationwide suggested that the housing...

By Nat Daniels

This week I carry out a question and answer session...

By Graham Norwood

It’s no surprise that figures don’t always show the results...

By Graham Norwood

It’s traditional before Christmas to either review the year past...

By Graham Norwood

It’s not breaking new ground to say that younger people...

By Nat Daniels

As we hurtle towards the end of 2017, it’s time...

By Marc Da Silva

The housing industry has set out a list of demands...

By Marc Da Silva

The fact is that most house hunters simply do not...

By Graham Norwood

Another week, yet more consultations - the agency industry can’t complain...

By Graham Norwood

Like many of Labour’s recent policy proposals, its call for...

By Nat Daniels

As those of us in the industry know, there is...

By Nat Daniels

How has the world of estate agency changed in the...

By Graham Norwood

I’ve been in France for the past few days and...

By Nat Daniels

In this week’s Natter I’m going to get all political....

By Graham Norwood

It’s not just the evenings drawing in that marks the...

By Graham Norwood

The stock exchange seems to be on everyone’s lips at...

By Nat Daniels

Property has been changing hands for centuries, but when did...

By Eddie Goldsmith

Without wishing to blow our own trumpet at this time,...

By Marc Da Silva

Being a leading world-class city comes at a price –...

By Graham Norwood

That the private rental sector has become the government’s whipping...

By Graham Norwood

When it comes to provoking anger in property professionals, taxation...

By David Westgate

“Housing policy should be in independent hands.” That was the conclusion...

By Marc Da Silva

The housing industry has responded with shock, joy, and jitters,...

By Marc Da Silva

Theresa May’s call for a snap general election on June...

By Graham Norwood

The banning of letting fees levied on tenants has dominated...

By Hannah McDougall

In November 2016 when the Autumn Statement was delivered by...

By Charlie Wright

Think ‘fake agents’ are no threat to your business? Think...

By Eddie Goldsmith

Not only did Theresa May stun everyone with her decision...

By David Westgate

I wrote last month about how the Government, in introducing...

By Graham Norwood

My apologies if this causes you to break your Easter...

By Nat Daniels

In this Natter we have an exclusive interview with David...

By Marc Da Silva

Peter Robinson, CEO of AIPP – Association of International Property...

By Graham Norwood

We’re almost nine months on from the EU Referendum and...

By Marc Da Silva

Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his first Budget this week pledging...

By Marc Da Silva

Looking ahead to the Spring Budget this week, the Chancellor...

By Marc Da Silva

Over the past two decades, investing in buy-to-let has been...

By Graham Norwood

We’re used to stories on how the buying and renting...

By Graham Norwood

It’s over. Done. The only ones interested are those with...

By Graham Norwood

The story of the week has been the first steps...

By Marc Da Silva

The rental market has had to face a raft of changes...

By Graham Norwood

Now I’m not one to lose sleep over politicians, but...

By Marc Da Silva

Following a strong start to 2016, particularly in the lower...

By Graham Norwood

Let me set out my stall from the beginning. Firstly with...

By Simon Shinerock

Listening to all the coverage of the tenant fee ban,...

By Simon Duce

Chancellor Philip Hammond caught the lettings industry unaware with an...

By Marc Da Silva

It may still be too early to start compiling a...

By Rob Clifford

We are now only days away from one of the...

By Graham Norwood

Although Brexit, portal juggling and portal wars have stolen property...

By Eddie Goldsmith

We are now less than a month away from Philip...

By Graham Norwood

I hate to be a party-pooper, but one of the...

By Nat Daniels

In recent weeks I have been carrying out question and...

By Lara Wilks-Sloan

Suzy Lamplugh was just 25 years old when she disappeared...

By Rob Clifford

Those working within the UK housing market would have felt...

By Marc Da Silva

With the number of new homes being built across the...

By Graham Norwood

It’s been a heartening few weeks for those of us...

By Nat Daniels

It’s easy to forget, but there was a time when...

By Graham Norwood

If you want an indicator that the United Kingdom isn’t...

By Marc Da Silva

Plans for the Northern Powerhouse scheme, designed to rival London...

By Graham Norwood

Older readers may recall a terrific movie called Network where...

By Rob Clifford

As I sit and write this piece, even with the...

By Graham Norwood

It’s over. A win is a win, whichever side you...

By Simon Duce

Never in my lifetime have I seen so much enthusiasm...

By Graham Norwood

One estate agency leader - you’d all recognise his name...

By Marc Da Silva

The sense of gathering momentum for the Leave campaign ahead...

By Marc Da Silva

With more house-hunters than ever now starting their search for...

By Simon Shinerock

I pride myself as a logical person, so much so...

By Graham Norwood

Forgive the footballing headline – perhaps inevitable now that Euro...

By Kristjan Byfield

The old and eternal debate over whether or not tenant...

By Colin Shairp

The glorious thing about the referendum on our EU membership...

By Graham Norwood

So what is it with young people failing to stand...

By Marc Da Silva

The new mayor of London Sadiq Khan has pledged to...

By Graham Norwood

I wish it were otherwise, but there’s a crisis just...

By Marc Da Silva

The race to replace London Mayor Boris Johnson has entered...

By Graham Norwood

By accident or design, the PR machine at OnTheMarket was...

By Nat Daniels

This week, as the title suggests, I turn my attentions...

By Ian Wilson

We talk about the unstoppable rise of buy-to-let and forget...

By Iain White

What Countrywide are getting at is that they want to...

By David Westgate

George Osborne has been busy over the last year. First...

By Robert Nichols

Agents' boards get a lot of stick. Many see them...

By Graham Norwood

When it comes to Budgets and Property, you have to...

By Carl Brignell

As any marketer will tell you, the marketing mix in...

By Graham Norwood

And so it begins. Four months and counting before we...

By Robert Nichols

Shelter has been tirelessly campaigning for longer tenancies for the...

By Nick Crayson

The amount of column inches taken up by ‘property’ is...

By Graham Norwood

As we all know, Peter Redfern is critical to the...

By Colin Shairp

Life is getting pretty frustrating for estate agents, and not...

By Richard Price

I want to take this opportunity to share some findings...

By Samantha Jones

We’ve been facing some pretty adverse weather recently. Gales, storms...

By Rob Clifford

Predicting ho­­w the housing market might play out over the...

By EAT & LAT Team

In January readers of Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent...

By Simon Shinerock

I'm sure most of you have seen, or at least...

By Graham Norwood

And so it begins. The first anniversary of OnTheMarket’s launch...

By Colin Shairp

My suspicion in my December Industry Views column that the...

By Samantha Jones

Over the past six months I’ve noticed a number of...

By Robert Nichols

Online estate agent Purplebricks has now completed its pre-Christmas IPO...

By Graham Norwood

There’s been plenty of forecasting in recent weeks - banks,...

By Graham Norwood

It’s time to take a pause, to reflect and put...

By Graham Norwood

The possibility of agents having to keep offices open until...

By Cristina Catino

Diversity is a hot topic in offices across the UK...

By Robert Nichols

Last week, on the latest series of The Apprentice, Lord...

By Nat Daniels

It was an end of an era in the property...

By Colin Shairp

I’m sure I’m not the only estate agent confused by...

By Graham Norwood

Once you go beyond the industry’s anger about the Chancellor’s...

By Chris Chapman

No sooner was Halloween done and dusted than attentions turned...

By Graham Norwood

I make no apologies for returning to Build To Rent,...

By Graham Norwood

A reader of Industry Views is unlikely to need converting...

By Russell Quirk

Over the past few years Rightmove and Zoopla Property Group...

By Trevor Mealham

The consumer is King and to protect sellers and buyers'...

By Graham Norwood

The big online estate agencies appear to have come of...

By Nat Daniels

There’s been a lot of talk lately about artificial intelligence...

By Simon Duce

The party's over. It's probably the best double entendre in...

By EAT & LAT Team

Readers of Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today were...

By EAT & LAT Team

Readers of Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today were...

By EAT & LAT Team

What will Zoopla Property Group (ZPG) do if it is...

By Graham Norwood

It’s become almost obligatory for start-ups in many industries –...

By Simon Duce

You can't help but notice that it's back to school...

By John McKay

A new website has been launched to fight back against...

By Simon Shinerock

There has long been the assumption and contention in the...

By Rob Clifford

Consider the scene. It is July 8th and new Chancellor,...

By John Fisher

Wednesday’s budget proved a grim viewing for those who have...

By Eddie Goldsmith

This week the Chancellor, George Osborne, delivered the first Conservative...

By Simon Duce

I don't think there is one person in lettings and...

By Rob Clifford

Given that I wrote my last article on the day...

By EAT & LAT Team

There has been much debate in recent years about Britain’s...

By Colin Shairp

The Conservatives’ election victory came as a surprise, so much...

By David Westgate

A little over four weeks ago I was here musing...

By Graham Norwood

So, a sigh of relief.  Most agents will be pleased with...

By Rob Clifford

I write this article on the day of the General...

By EAT & LAT Team

Gentrification is a divisive, provocative issue, but why are estate...

By Trevor Youens

The presupposed notion still exists that new online agents are...

By Simon Shinerock

Ian Wilson, the head of Martin & Co, recently threw...

By EAT & LAT Team

With another hung parliament looking increasingly likely, the so-called ‘challenger...

By Rob Clifford

No agent reading this will be under any illusions that...

By Graham Norwood

It is to the credit of our political parties -...