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Savills has strengthened its residential sales team in Hertfordshire with the appointment of a new director to lead its Rickmansworth office. Steven...
08 April 2024
From: Breaking News
To commemorate PayProp’s 20th year in business, Estate Agent Today’s Lee Dahill took a walk down memory lane with Neil Cobbold,...
23 March 2024
From: Features
Homeowners, particularly those in larger homes are staying put for longer, research shows. Analysis of Land Registry data between 2019 and 2022...
20 March 2024
From: Breaking News
Outsourced property viewings and inspections provider Viewber is celebrating completing more than half a million appointments. Launched at the end of 2016...
29 February 2024
From: Breaking News
Average asking prices have grown on an annual basis for the first time in six months but properties are taking longer...
19 February 2024
From: Breaking News
Five years ago, Lettings expert, Tim Lawler, wrote an article for Estate Agent Today charting his early experiences of setting up...
03 February 2024
From: Features
Gascoigne Halman founder John Halman is marking 50 years in estate agency. Halman entered estate agency in 1973 and, demonstrating a natural...
02 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Reapit has appointed Steve Richmond as general manager in charge of operations in its home market of the UK and Ireland. He...
07 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Buyer demand for homes in England has hit its lowest recorded levels since 2015, according to the latest House Builders’ Survey...
29 November 2023
From: Breaking News
Foxtons shareholders are reportedly putting the board under pressure to put the agency brand up for sale Two shareholders who own a...
20 November 2023
From: Breaking News
Demand for residential property remains fragile despite a pause in interest rate rises, Knight Frank claims. While the number of new prospective...
10 October 2023
From: Breaking News
Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...
29 September 2023
From: Breaking News
Clive Humby of Dunn Humby (the Mega Minds behind the Tesco Clubcard) declared that "Data is the new oil" in 2006....
27 September 2023
From: Breaking News
A pioneer of the so-called City Living movement, trying to create more residential units in city centres, is returning to the...
26 September 2023
From: Breaking News
Since the Bank of England base rate started making large jumps around the middle of last year, mortgage rates have increased...
23 September 2023
From: Features
Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...
22 September 2023
From: Breaking News
The net housing supply in England could be set to fall to decade lows, builders have warned. New analysis by the Home...
11 September 2023
From: Breaking News
Higher mortgage rates have replaced the 'race for space' as the primary reason for buying outside of London this year, research...
07 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...
04 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Purplebricks ended its life on the stock market with a share price of 0.30p. It comes as the controversial online brand officially...
16 June 2023
From: Breaking News
It’s no secret – 2023 is a difficult year for the property industry. While rising rents should lead to increased income...
07 June 2023
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The proportion of new homes sold off-plan across England & Wales has slipped to the lowest level since 2013, new data...
22 May 2023
From: Breaking News
For just over a decade, the Government has operated ‘Help to Buy’ schemes in England. The first of these, ‘NewBuy’, which...
15 April 2023
From: Features
Lawyers are warning of a growing number of incidents of septic tank conveyancing negligence, which could prove costly for homebuyers. House buyers...
03 April 2023
From: Breaking News
Sellers resistant to cutting asking prices may soon be left with little choice if the mortgage market remains depressed, a broker...
15 March 2023
From: Breaking News
International buyers appear to slowly be returning to the prime central London (PCL) market, according to Hamptons data. Figures released by the...
07 March 2023
From: Breaking News
Black mould associated with condensation is becoming an increasing problem for homes in the UK and following the tragic death of...
24 February 2023
From: Sponsored Content
We’re only in February and it’s already clear that this year will set the future direction of the private rented sector...
15 February 2023
From: Features
Record energy bills and the cost-of-living crisis has prompted a surge in downsizing activity over the past 12 months, new research...
03 February 2023
From: Breaking News
Almost 155,000 home sellers could be impacted by a drop in house prices but it may only last for a couple...
31 January 2023
From: Breaking News
Readers of a certain age may remember 1983. The Space Shuttle Challenger made its first flight, Neil Kinnock was elected Labour leader,...
14 January 2023
From: Features
Hatched founder Adam Day has drawn on his experiences of running the online agent during the 2008 financial crisis to advise...
30 December 2022
From: Breaking News
Fewer buyers are leaving London to purchase property elsewhere, research suggests. Analysis by Hamptons has found that the share of Londoners purchasing...
28 December 2022
From: Breaking News
The number of homebuyers putting a Help to Buy Isa towards their property purchase looks set to hit a five-year low. The...
11 November 2022
From: Breaking News
Scotland may face “serious labour shortages” due to its relatively high property buying taxes compared with in England, a leading agent...
21 October 2022
From: Breaking News
Are landlords following the law? To answer this question, the Government grouped answers from its English Private Landlords Survey 2022 according...
15 October 2022
From: Features
Regional estate agency Bradley Hall has undergone a rebrand as it looks to expand its presence beyond the North East and...
10 October 2022
From: Breaking News
OnTheMarket (OTM) is not currently aiming to overtake Rightmove or Zoopla but has succeeded in reducing listing fees for agents across...
30 September 2022
From: Breaking News
From sky dives to golf days, here is how agents have been raising money for charity this week. If there are charitable...
02 September 2022
From: Breaking News
July was the most active month for home sales so far this year but agents acknowledge that a slowdown is coming. The...
24 August 2022
From: Breaking News
Fewer than 20% of Scots homeowners paid more than 83% of all house purchase tax north of the border, according to...
22 August 2022
From: Breaking News
A property expert has claimed that it remains to be seen where housing will feature in the upcoming political agenda. Nicky Stevenson,...
12 August 2022
From: Breaking News
Earlier this year, we ran a story asking whether agency would ever embrace a four-day week. This came ahead of the...
10 August 2022
From: Breaking News
Double-think, for those who have not read George Orwell, is when people are expected to accept two conflicting beliefs as truth,...
06 August 2022
From: Features
Rightmove’s average revenue per agent has reached record levels as firms continue to spend more on the portal’s services. The property website...
29 July 2022
From: Breaking News
Purplebricks’ share price hit a record low during trading yesterday after an activist investor upped its stake and called for the...
12 July 2022
From: Breaking News
Estate agency trade body Propertymark is hoping to “maintain momentum” with newly appointed Housing Secretary Greg Clark. He replaces Michael Gove, who...
08 July 2022
From: Breaking News
Greg Clark has been named as the new Housing Secretary. Clark will replace Michael Gove who was sacked by Prime Minister Boris...
07 July 2022
From: Breaking News
Former Countrywide boss Bob Scarff has warned that estate agents have become too reliant on alerts, emails and text messages for...
07 July 2022
From: Breaking News
Propertymark has rebranded its charitable arm. Its members charity Arbon Trust unveiled a new identity and vision at the trade body’s national...
07 July 2022
From: Breaking News
It’s the fifth anniversary of the Grenfell fire tragedy, but are high rises any safer today than they were then? On 14th...
18 June 2022
From: Features
New data suggests the prime London market has a new lease of life as buyers and sellers look to beat the...
14 June 2022
From: Breaking News
Conveyancers have had their busiest year on record, industry data shows. Search Acumen’s latest Conveyancing Market for the first quarter of 2022...
10 June 2022
From: Breaking News
Record numbers of homes are being sold off-market and for a premium due to the property supply shortage. Off-market sales are traditionally...
06 June 2022
From: Breaking News
A former chairman of challenger bank Monzo has joined OneDome’s board. Tim Brooke Thom has been appointed as non-executive director of the challenger...
25 May 2022
From: Breaking News
Many people in recent years will have become familiar with challenger banks such as Monzo, Starling and Atom. Many will have...
14 May 2022
From: Features
Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently announced that he is considering extending Margaret Thatcher’s Right-to-Buy scheme, that gives council tenants the chance to...
14 May 2022
From: Features
What a difference two months and some local elections make. Cast your minds back to March 9 and the annual report of...
07 May 2022
From: Features
Buyer demand has rebounded in prime areas of the capital and there is also talk of a return to competitive bidding. The...
06 May 2022
From: Breaking News
One of the biggest names in agency has been appointed as chairperson of the board at BidX1, one of Europe’s leading...
21 April 2022
From: Breaking News
Following a series of unexplained delays, Helena Marston has now finally been confirmed as the new chief executive of beleaguered agency...
20 April 2022
From: Breaking News
A former UK national sales director at Purplebricks has been reunited with the online agent’s founder Michael Bruce at Boomin. Paul Vickerstaff,...
05 April 2022
From: Breaking News
Franchise giant Belvoir has snapped up one of the earliest British estate agencies to adopt the model of using self-employed or...
11 March 2022
From: Breaking News
Almost exactly a decade ago I wrote a blog on the back of a spate on mainstream news stories about prime...
05 March 2022
From: Features
These are undeniably darker days as news comes through of a humanitarian crisis in Ukraine - we have the first agency...
04 March 2022
From: Breaking News
The hot topic of rent controls has remerged in recent weeks, with passionate voices on both sides of the argument speaking...
02 March 2022
From: Features
No matter how dark the news, there’s light in our industry thanks to so many agents and suppliers doing good deeds....
25 February 2022
From: Breaking News
If the UK and its allies have been played by Russia over the Ukraine ‘invasion’, and it’s beginning to look that...
19 February 2022
From: Features
A company that sold a record 465 homes in 2021 has invested in a new office which it claims will “redefine...
18 February 2022
From: Breaking News
Only 6.8m homes in England now have mortgages, just 28 per cent of the overall market and about two per cent...
18 February 2022
From: Breaking News
Seven years after it launched on the London Stock Market, speculation continues that Purplebricks may be about to de-list and return...
15 February 2022
From: Breaking News
Was Purplebricks right to delist a property from its website when it discovered the vendors - a Christian couple - were opposed...
28 January 2022
From: Breaking News
Propertymark has appointed an insider to the key role of policy adviser - effectively the position vacated last month by industry...
21 January 2022
From: Breaking News
PropTech firm CoreLogic UK has acquired the property search and marketing platform Rummage4. Rummage4 was founded in 2015 by agent Robert May...
21 January 2022
From: Breaking News
An online auction company executive has been appointed to the National Association of Valuers and Auctioneers committee for Propertymark. Stuart Collar-Brown, co-founder...
18 January 2022
From: Breaking News
A franchise for two agency offices in west London has been acquired by property professionals Faith Cook and Georgia Everton-Wallach –...
17 January 2022
From: Breaking News
Strong house price growth since the pandemic began has boosted seller gains with the typical vendor who bought two decades ago...
11 January 2022
From: Breaking News
Just as city centre traffic is reminiscent of life before the pandemic, the rental market in central zones of UK’s largest...
20 November 2021
From: Features
In this article, the team at The Lettings Hub - which aims to offer tech-driven solutions for the rental market - outline...
06 November 2021
From: Features
The ValPal Network has won the ESTAS’ Supplier Awards – Best in Sector: Online Valuation Tool prize for the fifth year...
27 October 2021
From: Breaking News
Rightmove is warning that it’s “highly likely” interest rates will rise in the near future. The portal believes this now seems inevitable...
18 October 2021
From: Breaking News
There were 13 new buyers for every property listed for sale in the UK in September according to Knight Frank. Over the...
11 October 2021
From: Breaking News
We’re not sure if agents will agree with this but a high profile consumer group has come up with the final...
01 October 2021
From: Breaking News
The Karma Club: An industry partner has celebrated its second birthday by reaching a landmark of more than £15,000 donated to...
03 September 2021
From: Breaking News
Transaction volumes in prime London fell in July according to data from LonRes. Transactions were down 22 per cent compared with July...
10 August 2021
From: Breaking News
“There is an average of 19 buyers for every available property on the market” according to Propertymark’s latest market snapshot for...
27 July 2021
From: Breaking News
Knight Frank’s network of residential sales offices in London had a record month in June as the end of the main...
23 July 2021
From: Breaking News
Property consultancy LonRes says June was a record-breaking month for property sales in the capital, with exchanges up 140 per cent...
20 July 2021
From: Breaking News
Our long-awaited ‘Freedom Day’ approaches. From Monday all of the restrictions, introduced since the Covid-19 pandemic made an impact across the...
17 July 2021
From: Features
It may be the height of summer but the industry is still super-busy and new appointments continue to come thick and...
05 July 2021
From: Breaking News
Several estate agencies have reported record months of business thanks to the rush of transactions ahead of the main stamp duty...
05 July 2021
From: Breaking News
The frantic growth in house prices is showing its first sign of slowing down, says Rightmove. In its latest monthly market snapshot,...
21 June 2021
From: Breaking News
The MP who chairs one of the most important committees in the House of Commons has urged the government to increase...
03 June 2021
From: Breaking News
Data consultancy LonRes has given a typically upbeat assessment of the Prime London sales market - despite the effects of Coronavirus...
20 May 2021
From: Breaking News
A market analysis by Fine & Country suggests that annual house price inflation could hit 10 per cent next month. Nicky Stevenson,...
10 May 2021
From: Breaking News
There’s been a surge in activity in London’s prime housing market according to LonRes. The property data company says that new instructions in March...
19 April 2021
From: Breaking News
This time out, I speak to one of the industry’s biggest-hitters. Adrian Gill may have retired from frontline agency, having had...
15 April 2021
From: Breaking News
Our recent state of the property nation survey, which yielded nearly 350 responses from directors to junior negotiators, and many others...