By Mark Wright
Some top tips for saving for a deposit If you’re a...
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By Mark Wright
Some top tips for saving for a deposit If you’re a...
By Beth Rudolf
As we move closer to the end of the year,...
By Mark Lawrinson
With UK interest rates on the rise, following the mini-Budget...
By Beth Rudolf
As the summer draws to a close, and we begin...
By Nat Daniels
In a welcome return to a favourite series of mine...
By Eddie Goldsmith
Another piece about conveyancing? Seems like it's been a bit...
By Beth Rudolf
The relationship between estate agents and conveyancers is undoubtedly a...
By Eddie Goldsmith
There has been so much coverage recently over how painfully...
By EAT & LAT Team
The current challenges facing the conveyancing sector have put the...
By Colin Shairp
There’s talk of 50-year mortgages being introduced, loans that, along...
By Nat Daniels
The ongoing debate about how to boost agent and conveyancer...
By Lloyd Davies
The Bank of England’s continued rise in interest rates –...
By Beth Rudolf
If there’s not a book called ‘The Art of Collaboration’...
By Eddie Goldsmith
I attended a forum in London a couple of weeks...
By Eddie Goldsmith
They say that in fashion, if you wait for long...
By Adrian Gill
It’s not an easy time for many renters (and homeowners)....
By Chris Mason
In this guest feature, Chris Mason, Operations Director at The Letting...
By Eddie Goldsmith
Those aficionados of the Sound of Music will recognise the...
By EAT & LAT Team
In the last two years digital Property Logbooks for our...
By Beth Rudolf
Leasehold, quite rightly, remains not just an emotive topic given...
By John Dobson
The Covid-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on all...
By Beth Rudolf
Despite the progress made in so many areas, particularly in...
By EAT & LAT Team
In the Autumn Budget on Wednesday 27 October, very few...
By EAT & LAT Team
The Pandora Papers - the biggest ever leak of offshore...
By Colin Shairp
There are plenty in the estate agency and lettings world...
By Hayley Hellon
The recent stamp duty holiday and the subsequent conveyancing logjam...
By Colin Shairp
Every so often it comes around – the argument that...
By Colin Shairp
Remember the early days of lockdown when there was a...
By Hayley Hellon
The race to complete home sales before the stamp duty...
By Kevin Gilbert
“A hybrid offering, which serves customers of all needs and...
By Tom Mansbridge
Gathering and analysing feedback at all stages in the customer...
By Tony Machin
As an estate agent, you should of course be performing...
By Matt Gilpin
We are just over one year on from the day...
By John Dobson
The Chancellor’s recent announcement that the stamp duty holiday would...
By Jerry Walters
The coronavirus pandemic has somewhat eclipsed Brexit this year –...
By Emma Vigus
Delays with the return of property searches is one key...
By Daniel Hamilton-Charlton
Searches that are bound by the Search Code, protecting the...
By Matt Gilpin
The Stamp Duty Land Tax holiday has been a hot...
By Emma Vigus
In early September, mio achieved an industry first with the...
By Gary Hemming
With access to finance being such a hot topic at...
By Emma Vigus
“Many hands make light work” – Does John Heywood’s old...
By Emma Vigus
In the second of a series of articles, Emma Vigus,...
By Emma Vigus
In the first of a series of articles, Emma Vigus,...
By Emma Vigus
With three months of lockdown behind us, commission income is...
By Beth Rudolf
Last week was Mental Health Awareness Week, and there is...
By Richard Megson
Buying and selling a house is often referenced as being...
By Beth Rudolf
At the moment, it somehow seems like tempting fate to...
By Nic Seal
Based on our historical data over twenty years of nationwide...
By Nat Daniels
It’s one of the most crucial aspects of the homebuying...
By Mark Halstead
The Fifth Money Laundering Directive becomes law in the UK...
By Beth Rudolf
There’s no doubt that we live in politically charged times...
By Beth Rudolf
We now have a new Leader of the Conservative Party...
By Oliver Meddick
In recent years, estate and letting agents have been faced...
By Beth Rudolf
The issue of ‘intergenerational fairness’ has been raised in recent...
By Alexandra Coghlan-Forbes
The Deposit Protection Service (The DPS) keeps deposit money safe...
By Marc Da Silva
More than 800 property transactions fall through daily, which can...
By Beth Rudolf
When it comes to major issues confronting housing, and in...
By Ben Leonard
Purchasing a property. It’s a key life goal that so...
By David Westgate
Conveyancing regularly adds unnecessary and costly delays to the home...
By Eric Curran
It is a sobering thought that 40 years have slipped...
By Paul Smee
You will notice that there is a new author for...
By Eddie Goldsmith
Given the level of resource and energy being put behind...
By Eddie Goldsmith
At any given moment it’s difficult to say which issue...
By Eddie Goldsmith
In the great swathe of housing market data which is...
By Peter Ambrose
“Are we there yet?” In the same way that these words...
By Peter Ambrose
Whisper it quietly, but there seems to be change in...
By Eddie Goldsmith
With the Budget just over a month away, the steady...
By Maxine Park
Employment tribunal fees could soon become extinct, after the Supreme...
By Eddie Goldsmith
Even so close to the event, I don’t think anyone...
By Eddie Goldsmith
Whenever any research is released, part of me can’t help...
By Marc Da Silva
As the mainstream mortgage market braces itself for yet another...
By Eddie Goldsmith
The political ebb and flow continues - seemingly with all...
By Darren Pescod
One of the biggest stories post-Brexit is how the housing...
By Marc Da Silva
In recent years the mortgage industry has gone through some...
By Eddie Goldsmith
The publication of our Strategic Plan, ‘Building the framework for...
By Darren Pescod
Recent stats from the Council of Mortgage Lenders show that...
By Eddie Goldsmith
The housing market has not been short of a White...
By Marc Da Silva
The rapid growth in popularity of buy-to-let in recent years,...
By Eddie Goldsmith
They say you can prove anything with statistics, and 115%...
By Linda Kirk
I recently came across a consumer comment expressing frustration at...
By Linda Kirk
Working relationships between estate agents and conveyancers can be mutually...
By Tim Higham
It's sometimes easy to overlook the fact that the majority...
By Marc Da Silva
Fears raised over the UK housing market in the wake...
By Jonathan Caplan
As with finance broking, there can be many frustrations that...
By Eddie Goldsmith
I write this during the week that David Cameron resigned...
By Nat Daniels
As promised, this week’s Natter is dedicated to a question...
By Andrew Lloyd
Nearly three quarters of people who have sold or bought...
By Nat Daniels
A few of our Industry Views pieces this week focus...
By Marc Da Silva
While buy-to-let lenders brace themselves for further interventions as part...
By Eddie Goldsmith
In this business you get used to dealing with regular...
By Robert Nichols
It’s the news that has got everyone talking: Barclays are...
By Carl Brignell
I have spent the last 20 years working within the...
By Eddie Goldsmith
It’s almost impossible to write about the conveyancing market and...
By Carl Brignell
Having urged agents to think about the full marketing mix...
By Eddie Goldsmith
Last month the news of the Conveyancing Association’s (CA) newly-launched...
By Eddie Goldsmith
To those working within the conveyancing sector, the recent statistics...
By Matt Faizey
A riposte to Rob Hailstone's article: 'C'mon CHAPS, Don't be...
By Rob Hailstone
Earlier this week removal man Matt Faizey had an article...
By Eddie Goldsmith
When it comes to the regulation of the conveyancing industry,...
By Rob Hailstone
There was a recent article in Estate Agent Today titled:...
By Rob Hailstone
Wind back the clock a few years and the working...
By Rob Hailstone
The internet has changed the way that most businesses operate....
By Rob Hailstone
Last month it was announced that the CHAPS payment system...
By Michael Robson
When Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, recently...
By Rob Hailstone
A number of my member firms (Bold Legal Group) have...
By Eddie Goldsmith
The Conveyancing Association (CA) has embarked on a mission to...
By Rob Hailstone
So spring has sprung and the Hare is on the...
By Rob Hailstone
The issue of some estate agents insisting that buyers and/or...