By Graham Norwood
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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 -...