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Average mortgage rates have ticked up ahead of the typically busier spring home selling season but borrowers are at least benefiting...

In the first of a short series of articles, David Beaumont, managing director of Compliance Matters, casts a professional eye over...

The increased focus on upfront material information could push up estate agency professional indemnity (PI) requirements, an industry trainer has warned. Michael...

The mortgage price war appears to have eased and the shelf life on home loans has hit a six-month low, Moneyfacts...

In my last Natter, I recounted the story of how Angels media bounced back from the 2008 financial crisis by launching...

Average mortgage rates have hit a six-month low, giving new hope to buyers looking to climb on or up the property...

Simon Jackson is Managing Director of SDL Surveying If we look at the latest data, it looks like there is something of...

Average asking prices have increased as usual between September and October but at the slowest rate since 2008, Rightmove has revealed. The...

Hunters’ first ever franchised branch in the North Yorkshire town of Selby is under new ownership after 16 years. James Powell, who...

Estate agency has changed. No longer is it required to sit in a high street office working the old way. Provide a...

House prices won’t fall by as much as the 1990s and 2008 financial crashes but it will take until 2025 for...

The term mixed-tenure development usually refers to residential developments where different residential tenures are provided on the same site. Typically, tenure was...

In his latest column Jonathan Rolande explains why estate agents need to ditch selling techniques and brush up on persuasion to...

Agents and property professionals have expressed hopes that rates have peaked after latest rise Iin the cost of borrowing. The Bank of...

The number of mortgage approvals edged up for a second month in a row during June but remains below 2022’s monthly...

It is no secret that our climate is getting warmer. 2022 was one of the six warmest years on record globally,...

HMRC has recorded the lowest level of UK property sales for the month of June since 2020. The latest property transaction data...

Homeowners selling in Scotland without an estate agent are being reminded that they still need a Home Report. Scottish surveying firm DM...

Connells group chief executive David Livesey has announced his intention to retire during 2024. Highly respected throughout the industry, Livesey joined Connells...

Two sets of housing data have suggested a declining property market, with further price drops on the horizon. Halifax has recorded the...

In simple terms, as you are probably aware, ‘lenders’ are the organisations who loan you something, in this case money to...

The Bank of England’s strategy to tackle inflation isn’t working, an agent has claimed, after policymakers hiked rates for the 12th...

Skipton Building Society has unveiled details of the first 100% loan-to-value mortgage launched since the 2008 financial crisis. Aimed at renters, the...

Olympic gold medallist Dame Kelly Holmes, has been announced as Propertymark’s final keynote speaker for its landmark conference next month. She will...

100% mortgages are rumoured to be making a comeback. The products were blamed as a cause for the 2008 financial crash, with...

The ESTAS team may be known for its Customer Service Awards but it has now picked up a gong of its...

ANY REPOSSESSION is a tragedy for the person involved, and latest figures indicate the number of victims falling victim is currently...

Roger Barrett, Connells Group’s Land & New Homes managing director, is celebrating an impressive 40 years with the business. Since joining Connells...

It has been a busy start to the year for job moves. If you want your jobs or appointments news to feature...

The proportion of take-home pay that first-time buyers are having to put towards mortgage repayments is returning to levels last seen...

House prices fell for the fourth consecutive month in December, the worst run since 2008, according to Nationwide. The lender’s final House...

Hatched founder Adam Day has drawn on his experiences of running the online agent during the 2008 financial crisis to advise...

Talk of a housing market crash is overstated, Zoopla’s chief executive Charlie Bryant has claimed. Speaking in an exclusive video interview with Estate...

The housing market is struggling to regain momentum following the mini-Budget but a ‘soft landing’ is possible, Nationwide suggests. The lender is...

Over the later part of 2022, we have experienced unprecedented economic and political turmoil, which will remain as we head into...

By David Boughtflower Business Analyst at Reapit, 14 years in Residential Sales and Lettings Having entered estate agency in the eye of the...

Average house prices fell by their largest level since October 2008 last month, Halifax data shows. It is the latest sign of...

The property market is ‘recalibrating’ but should be seen in context of economic events, agents are being urged. Kris Mclean, managing director...

A report earlier this month warned that conveyancing firms should stress test their businesses for a sharp decline in work volumes. These businesses...

House prices are set to fall by 9% over the next two years, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) claims. The OBR,...

Fall-throughs doubled in the first two weeks of October compared with a month before, analysis claims. Chain-breaking service UPSTIX, which conducted the...

The housing market isn’t definitely facing a 2008-style cliff-edge moment, Knight Frank claims. New commentary from the agent has asked if October’s weak...

The number of viewings per sale should be used as an indicator for the health of the housing market, a senior...

Mortgage rate hikes have already halved landlord profits according to latest research, and a base rate rise to 2.5% will see...

The housing market is set to turn “sluggish” rather than experiencing a major slump, new predictions claim. Agency and property consultancy brand...

Connells Group chairman Stephen Shipperley is set to retire at the end of 2022. It comes as he marked his 45th anniversary...

Buyer demand is cooling but the property sector still remains in a sellers’ market for now, new analysis claims. The latest National...

The share of homeowners struggling to repay their mortgages could hit the same peak levels of the 2008 financial crisis by...

House prices in some regions of the UK could continue increasing, despite concerns over the economic downturn and forecasts of house...

As I watched Liz Truss take to the stage at this week’s Conservative Party conference, my eyes were drawn to the sign behind her. “Getting Britain...

The Bank of England increased interest rates to their highest level since the financial crisis yesterday, prompting fears of higher cost...

An estate agent has looked to loo roll to explain why he thinks house prices won’t crash but the pace of...

The property jobs market hasn't taken a summer holiday this month. Here are some of the latest moves that took place during...

As uncertainty, apprehension and anxiety increasingly infiltrates every aspect of our professional and personal lives, to ‘keep calm and carry on’...

A property expert has claimed that it remains to be seen where housing will feature in the upcoming political agenda. Nicky Stevenson,...

The auction industry could end up taking advantage of the upcoming downturn in the property market, because it provides the quickest...

Interest rates made their biggest leap in 27 years yesterday, rising by 0.5% from 1.25% to 1.75%. It was the biggest...

Yorkshire agent Preston Baker has sold its lettings portfolio to focus on residential sales. It has offloaded its book of more than...

Former Countrywide boss Bob Scarff has warned that estate agents have become too reliant on alerts, emails and text messages for...

Long-term 50-year mortgages that can be passed on by parents to their children appear to be the latest idea from the...

Right now, one topic seems to be dominating talk in the industry. Everywhere I go people tend to quiz me about...

Property industry veteran Mal McCallion is among two new high-profile recruits for GetAgent. McCallion, who helped launch Primelocation in 2000 and was...

PropTech supplier nurtur.group has appointed Damon Bullimore BriefYourMarket co-founder Damon Bullimore as chief technology officer (CTO). It follows nurtur.group’s acquisition of the...

Millions of people use online property portals every year to conduct their property search, whether it be for sales or for...

The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team (NTSELAT) deemed yesterday that the use of POA or “price on application”...

The property industry is fortunate in including many great people, doing great work across a range of businesses – from traditional agency...

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has said it may consider complaints about ‘misleading SSTC listings’ on portals but suggests it may...

Trading Standards has advised agents to update listings once they reach the "sold subject to contract" (SSTC) stage. It comes after legal...

Agents will be able to grill Rightmove’s legal and compliance director David Cox this morning as part of the portal’s webinar...

They say that in fashion, if you wait for long enough, clothes that are hanging at the back of your wardrobe...

The extreme shortage of properties for sale has fuelled the first rise in new homes sold off-plan since 2016.   In 2021 some...

The self-employed model, after years of not really catching on fully, was given a major boost by the pandemic and the...

The Building Societies Association’s regular confidence tracker about the housing market shows rising pessimism over interest rates, the escalating cost of...

The industry big hitter who joined Connells on a temporary basis to support its acquisition of Countrywide has now become its commercial director and a...

A leading property lawyer says some agents will struggle to meet the demand for more ‘material information’ put forward by Trading...

The Chartered Institute of Housing, set to unveil its latest annual housing review next month, has indicated that to no one’s...

A prominent analyst says he expects a U-turn on the “folly” of interest rate rises sooner rather than later - but...

Research by new homes sales service Unlatch has revealed how much cheaper energy bills are for new-builds, saving as much as...

For an unregulated industry, agents have an awful lot of regulations to deal with. For example, there’s the mandatory membership of a...

This is our first Property Jobs Today column of 2022 and it’s testimony to how busy our industry is right now...

A prominent agency chief is warning that record house prices could lead to a housing bust if lending gets out of...

For the first time since before the global financial crisis of 2008, the number of first-time buyers is estimated to have...

A property finance expert is telling buyers to sit on their hands and not commit to purchases - as he believes...

Every year we at EAT are impressed by the pleasingly political festive cards sent out by the STANLEY Chelsea agency -...

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on all aspects of our lives, but undoubtedly one major negative side effect...

An estate agency owner who is also a qualified independent mortgage adviser has hit out against the suggestion that lenders may...

The product choice for buyers wanting mortgages is now the highest it has been since 2008 according to the independent service...

Rightmove is warning that it’s “highly likely” interest rates will rise in the near future. The portal believes this now seems inevitable...

2020 gave rise to an exodus from the city as work from home became the mandated norm for large swaths of...

The work of the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team is “vital” it claims - and the case of the...

A banned West Midlands estate agent has today been sentenced to a custodial sentence of six weeks, suspended for two years, and fined £4,000 at Wolverhampton Crown Court after pleading guilty...

The House of Commons Library has published what may be the definitive record of estate agency regulations issued in recent years...

NAEA Propertymark says there’s no appetite that it can see amongst its representatives across the UK for charging people £30 for...

Propertymark says a new pay-per-viewing service is “interesting” but warns agents to protect themselves by abiding by consumer protection regulations. The warning has come following...

Peter Everett - a veteran High Street estate agent with a quarter of a century at LSL and a decade at...

Michael Jones & Company celebrates its 30-year anniversary this year and, in an effort to both celebrate the work of local...

Books about property are, relatively speaking, commonplace - books by estate agents are far less so, hence the interest in The...

The Trading Standards agency team has outlined to Estate Agent Today the process it will follow to improve what it calls...

The controversial demands of Trading Standards for more “material information” to be provided upfront in property details have been criticised by...

National Trading Standards wants agents, portals and industry groups to come up with ways to provide basic essential material information ‘upfront’.  The National...