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

Banking has gone through radical changes in the past few years, in step with technology and the sheer amount we can...

With property fraud on the rise and an ever-increasing number of transactions taking place in the lettings sector, having strict anti-money laundering...

One of the men behind the defunct Emoov online estate agency has re-emerged as the head of a marketing service. The service...

Welcome to another working week and with it, our regular update on appointments and moves within our industry. Please let us know...

It’s been quite a week for the rental sector. Lettings agents and landlords have had such a torrid time in recent years...

The interim executive chair of Propertymark has now taken up a leading role in The Conveyancing Association Nicky Heathcote is becoming the...

The last 12 months have heralded significant change across the property market and indeed we could argue across all markets in...

With property transactions taking longer than ever and many people operating at capacity, it is easy to overlook the progress made,...

The UK affiliated agency of Warren Buffett’s global real estate company has unveiled its new website. Berkshire Hathaway Homes Services (Kay &...

If someone broke into your house and took a video of lots of personal information, like photos of family and pets,...

Targeting the specialist student rental market can be rewarding for letting agents and landlords if they take the right approach. The current...

Two property directors have been banned from holding company office for a total of 25 years after abusing £7.7m taken from...

This week’s interviewee in the ‘In Conversation Today’ hotseat is a man better placed than most to shed some light on...

A prominent estate agent has warned buyers and sellers about the perils of the controversial Modern Method of Auction. MMA is now...

Paul Creffield, a veteran figure at Countrywide involved in a controversy over bonuses, is staying on to “support” the transition into new...

Propertymark has set out a four point strategy for the future of the organisation. The body - which encompasses the National Association...

One of the biggest TV hits of lockdown has been the Netflix show Call My Agent! It’s a surprise success, perhaps, because...

An independent agency has announced the opening of another office in what it calls a vote of confidence for the local housing...

Propertymark has named a veteran industry figure as interim chief executive - and says it has a "new strategy." Nathan Emerson has some...

Being a letting agent today means keeping up to date with the long list of rules and regulations governing how a...

Propertymark has slammed government energy efficiency proposals as being “unrealistic, too simplistic and could deter people from moving home.” A formal consultation...

This week’s In Conversation Today interviewee needs no introduction. One of the property industry’s most recognisable names, she has been a...

An agent has told a court she was 'heartbroken' to discover her accountant had stolen cash from her business, which then...

This time out, I’m in conversation with one of the big three established portals. Since it was founded in 2007, Zoopla...

One of the country’s most popular tourist destinations may ban the sale of new builds to second home buyers. The council in Padstow -...

A property industry body representing developers wants the government to think again about making it easier for redundant High Street shops...

Welcome to the start of another week and this catch up on the latest moves within the agency world. Everyone featured here...

At the back-end of last year and the start of this, the biggest news stories in town – besides debates over...

There’s been a flurry of recent activity involving agencies quoted on the London Stock Exchange: Hunters, The Property Franchise Group and...

If your house is anything like mine, the postman has a path beaten to your door over the last nine months. In...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors last night announced a dramatic U-turn in the controversy over a report by an independent...

By any available metric, Belvoir had a good 2020. Already a well-known and well-established name, it was highly praised for its...

Some 70 per cent of first time buyers in 2020 took out mortgages in excess of 25 years, says the Nationwide. A decade...

The president of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors insists that the organisation is acting on recommendations of a probe into...

The Sunday Times has made new and detailed allegations regarding the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. For some weeks the newspaper has...

An auction house that's made a transition from ballroom operations to online streaming is to publish all fees for all lots -...

A £17.8m pre-tax loss has been reported by Yopa in its latest financial statement filed at Companies House. Figures lodged just before...

The largest company involved in the controversial Modern Method of Auction says it’s producing a “disruptive digital market campaign to address...

Mystery still surrounds the number of homes actually sold by Purplebricks, despite upbeat statements regarding the number of instructions it wins. The...

The coronavirus pandemic has somewhat eclipsed Brexit this year – which is no mean feat. Cast your mind back to pre-Covid...

The Homes Act requires landlords to consider whether their tenants' indoor air is safe. Five key air contaminants are listed in...

As we approach the most unusual of festive periods, many property professionals will already be thinking about the January market and...

One of the oldest portals in the UK, Mouseprice, has been bought by a service which describes itself as the country’s...

The Property Ombudsman has joined calls for greater disclosure of referral fees by agents.  The issue has become a hot topic in...

We are on the threshold in December with the pandemic still dominating but we’re delighted there is still positive jobs news...

A TV advert for Rightmove first screened in 2018 has been cleared of gender stereotyping. A complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority...

A young estate agent who set up his own online auction service took his own life after a long period suffering...

One of the industry’s leading commentators says an unintended consequence of a possible Capital Gains Tax increase could be a bonus...

A leading enthusiast of the self-employed agency business model says even in these challenging times people can make a success of...

Many agents are brilliant at giving a personal touch and are professional in the way they treat customers, but I would...

Foxtons has announced that its remuneration policy for senior management is to stay unchanged - and it says a voting problem...

Strike, the firm previously known as HouseSimple, has launched another attack on the charges levied by High Street agents. This time it is...

Lettings agents, property managers and landlords should all be aware of the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018. The Act...

There is no doubting that 2020 has been a challenging year for all industries, with the lettings market being no exception. Following...

In recent years, the extent and role of the private rented sector (PRS) in the housing market has seen significant changes. The...

The only certainty at the moment is ongoing uncertainty. It’s something we’ve got used to in 2020, but it’s still not...

Gary Keller is stepping down from his post as chief executive of the global Keller Williams estate agency empire. Although operating chiefly...

A businessman with links to serious criminals has lost his vast investment property empire worth nearly £10m after a National Crime...

The so-called ‘trade up gap’ for people buying for the second time has grown to a record £67,761 according to Rightmove. The...

A woman who bought a London house in 2012 is now suing the conveyancers that worked for her at the time...

We all know what the problem is, but what’s the solution? The problem is that landlords, thinking they offer a valuable service...

As the review of the recommendations of the Regulation of Property Agents Working Group continues, Emily Hawthorne, mio Account Manager and...

Hello and at the start of another working week, welcome to our regular jobs slot announcing who’s moving where within the...

Recent Natters have explored the differences between the UK and American models of agency, and why Purplebricks failed to make a...

Two reports this morning suggest that activity in the most expensive sectors of the housing market is doing as well as...

I was giving an interview this week for an upcoming conference - yet another to convert from a physical to a...

PropertyHeads, a portal which describes itself as the industry’s social network, has sold a three per cent stake partly to raise funds...

For a number of years now, predictions have been made that one of the major tech giants will eventually enter the...

As many in the industry will know, Ian Westerling passed away last week at the age of 51: he was a...

Knight Frank says its analysis of the whole housing market across the UK shows that transactions in the final full week...

The new president of NAEA Propertymark says one of her key objectives for the year ahead is to prepare the industry...

Over £73,000 has been stolen from a Countrywide branch by two admin staff making false travel claims and issuing fake invoices. The crimes...

Hindsight is 20-20 vision, of course, and we can all see things we did ‘then’ that we would not do ‘now’....

What do General Electric, IBM, Microsoft, and WhatsApp have in common? Yes, they are American companies that boasted revenues of $50...

Purplebricks has revealed that its new board member is one of the world’s leading digital executives.  Dr Stephanie Caspar is the new...

There’s been a very large rise in the number of complaints submitted by consumers to the Property Redress Scheme. This is partly...

It is widely expected that Purplebricks will shortly reveal the result of an experiment with a number of different pricing strategies. The...

Purplebricks has changed the wording of an advertisement on its website after a watchdog stepped in following a complaint. According to the...

Purplebricks’ sale of its Canadian operation for some £35m begs the question - where can it now recoup some of its losses...

At a recent Conveyancing Association webinar focused on the provision of upfront information in the property sale process, there was a...

There’s no doubt that Covid-19 has had a huge impact on the UK’s property market, after hundreds of thousands of house...

It looks like the stamp duty holiday for England and Northern Ireland, already in effect following yesterday’s announcement, is unlikely to...

A London agency says it’s seen over 30 new agents join its hub franchise operation during the lockdown, taking the total...

Purplebricks is starting a new wave of TV advertisements today, continuing its theme from earlier this year as a sponsor of...

A former City analyst best known for his scathing criticisms of Purplebricks has launched a PropTech platform that he describes as...

One of the key members of the Purplebricks board has stood down after two years. Andreas Wiele joined the Purplebricks board in...

Over 50 jobs have been lost as a result of a Midlands regional estate agency falling into administration. The Shropshire Star reports...

An estate agent has been awarded over £41,000 by an employment tribunal - after her offer to settle for £10,000 was...

A raft of changes in the senior management of Strutt & Parker is being heralded as part of a “shift towards...

It’s official – the property market is back open for business. Estate agents have started to unfurlough staff and many are...

The only story that has come remotely close to pushing coronavirus – and its various knock-on effects – off the top...

A well-known saying in estate agency is that first-time buyers are the sellers of the future. If we believe this to...

The outlook for the housing market is still taking shape, but here I take a look at three market indicators to...

Over the last few years, there have been a number of high-profile court cases in which renters took action against letting...

Zoopla’s head of research says a stamp duty holiday could encourage more home owners to move which in turn could help...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick - accused by some of breaking the lockdown some weeks ago - is now in more hot...

Countrywide says it is pursuing the businessman who failed to complete on the purchase of the troubled agency’s commercial arm, Lambert...

There’s been a substantial 20 per cent rise in formal complaints about agents taken up by The Property Ombudsman.  The figures refer...

NAEA Propertymark has made a series of demands on the government in the light of the Coronavirus crisis.  In a formal written...

The market share for all online agents fell sharply in the period up to the start of the pandemic according to new...

Countrywide has added its weight to the campaign asking the government to allow agents to get back to work - and...

OnTheMarket’s share price dropped again yesterday, ending down 2.4 per cent. This was despite the portal announcing a share giveaway to encourage new agents...

Lockdown measures are still in place for another two weeks, at least, with the possibility of them being extended beyond that....

Foxtons' Annual General Meeting next month is to be held virtually, meaning voting will be electronic. A feature of last year’s AGM...

This month saw the introduction of the final stages of the Section 24 tax changes, first introduced in April 2017. Whereas buy-to-let...

Purplebricks chief financial officer James Davies has resigned. His place has been taken by Andrew Botha, who has joined from the online...

Due to the current Coronavirus pandemic, we are all being told to stay at home as much as possible to contain...

A PropTech start-up led by a prominent commentator has become the latest part of the industry to take a pop at...

There’s been widespread outrage amongst agents at Rightmove’s offer to allow some agents a deferred payment scheme operating for just three...

Beleaguered estate agency group Countrywide has asked the government to give agents a business rates holiday. Measures announced in last week’s Budget...

A surveyors’ firm has been wound up after courts declared that it had misled clients over the success of its core...

Nested is the latest online agency to base a marketing campaign around criticism of established estate agents.  In three 30-second TV ads...

Your business may be growing quicker than you could ever imagine which is great when it comes to raising brand awareness....

LSL Property Services says the Coronavirus crisis has led to a softening of "lead sales indicators" - and it warns of...

Prominent agency industry analyst Anthony Codling is asking agents whether the board of OnTheMarket did the right thing by firing Ian...

OnTheMarket is not responding to requests to reveal details of any pay-off for its chief executive Ian Springett, who was sacked...

It may be that we’re facing another year - make that yet another year - of disruption in the housing market. Coronavirus...

Almost eight in 10 sellers have instructed High Street agents in the past year - a significantly higher figure than 12...

Any bid by Zoopla and OnTheMarket to displace Rightmove as the number one portal in the UK is at best expensive...

By now, most letting agents and landlords will have heard about the draft legislation laid in Parliament concerning a mandatory minimum...

The right wing political magazine that Boris Johnson used to edit has called on him to cut stamp duty. The Spectator says...

House prices have risen 2.3 per cent in the past year - the strongest rate of inflation for property since July...

Hello and another Monday means PJT Day, your regular update on movers in the industry - and it’s March already. If there...

Rightmove has released another stonking set of results - but there are signs that some agents are defecting from the ever-more-expensive...

Foxtons is warning that 2020 will be yet another difficult year for the agency despite the so-called Boris Bounce helping the...

Purplebricks and Countrywide have each recently claimed to be the biggest agency group in the UK but now Connells says that...

A woman claims she had no idea that her husband stole almost £1.5m from two high-profile employers - one of them...

New figures from the National Association of Estate Agents show a big surge in demand despite the winter weather since the...

The share price of challenger portal OnTheMarket has fallen to its equal lowest-ever level after a drop of over five per cent...

The government has - once again - announced the introduction of a New Homes Ombudsman.  The news came yesterday when Housing Secretary...

Some of the biggest figures in the industry have given Estate Agent Today their reaction to the news - broken yesterday...

Despite still being in the transition period after leaving the EU on January 31, we are seeing an upturn in the...

In another positive sign for the housing market, every region of the UK has seen a price rise according to the...

The landscape of the estate agency market in the UK is evolving to reflect changes in the way we live our...

Predictions that landlords are not buying properties to let out because of tougher rental taxes and regulations appear to be short...

The Financial Conduct Authority has issued a shock warning that mortgage borrowers who purchased properties through the Help To Buy scheme...

Rightmove has hit back at critics saying it’s no longer the force it used to be by reporting record traffic for...

An online valuation service says the number of leads it generated for agents in January was over double the figure in...

Hello and welcome to the start of a new week - and it’s been a frantic seven days since the last...

Esther McVey has been sacked as housing minister; she was the ninth housing minister in as many years. Her successor is the...

Zoopla has published a startling set of statistics to demonstrate what it calls “a record January with significant growth in delivery...

Now we’re well into the second month of the year, we have reached a crucial point in the ongoing plans to...

New home registrations in the UK have risen over 80 per cent in the last decade, according to the NHBC. From 2010...

An estate agency that won a major property award only 18 months ago has shut after trading for 40 years. The Marlborough...

For a very long time, it was one of the best ways – if not the best way – of generating...

The Hunters franchise group says it’s now the third largest agency in the UK, and it promises to reveal a major...

Here’s a reminder of some news we broke last week - the hugely-respected Phil Spencer starts a regular column for the...

London-focussed high end agency Chestertons says it’s on the hunt for acquisitions after posting what it describes as a “record performance”...

The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee meets today for its monthly decision on whether the move base rate - and...

Zoopla’s Hometrack data research arm says the start of 2020 has seen buyer demand up 26 per cent compared to the...

It’s been reported that two founders of an estate agency at Leigh in Greater Manchester have been banned until 2025 after...

Insolvency firm Begbies Traynor says the estate agency and property industry sector of the UK economy has seen a big rise...

The housing market appears to have ended 2019 on a positive note according to the National Association for Estate Agents. Its latest...

'It's a recipe, not a menu' is a mantra championed by a host of Keller Williams' millionaire estate agents. But what are...

The hugely-respected Phil Spencer is to write a regular column for the industry on Estate Agent Today under the auspices of...

The proportion of 25 to 34 year olds who own their own home in England has risen for the first time...

The high-end estate agent who has quit his post after being found to have posted pictures of clients’ houses on Instagram...

Data from HM Revenue & Customs shows tax receipts from stamp duty fell a further 5.2 per cent between 2018 and...

In the field of conveyancing, there’s a new dynamic at play. And that dynamic is customer-driven and customer-focused, using digital technology...

It looks like the Equity Release bubble may have burst, with latest figures showing a four per cent fall in the...

Figures released this morning by data firm LonRes provide the latest evidence of a so-called Boris Bounce with the market improving...

In its latest State of the Property Nation report, which questions over 650 agents and 6,000 consumers, Zoopla says 55 per...

Following on from the second half of the last decade, the first few weeks of 2020 have been a bit mad...

HM Land Registry appears to be making painfully slow progress on digitising land charge search data - contrary to its earlier...

Winkworth says it’s achieved a big jump in London sales market share despite “an uncertain and difficult year that was dominated...

A leading analyst says Purplebricks has clearly plateaued and will not reach its own target of a 10 per cent market...

A hybrid estate agency which set a target of rivalling Purplebricks when it launched says it aims to recruit 25 agents...

There’s been a long-term trend of growing numbers of Londoners quitting the capital to afford a home elsewhere - and typically...

In six years of editing Estate Agent Today, some of my most dramatic moments have been covering the troubles - some...

Yesterday (January 10 2020), the Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (5AMLD) became law. It forms part of ongoing international efforts to tackle...

Government figures suggest that the number of second homes in the UK has dropped two per cent in the eight year...

Purplebricks is not revealing details of the different pricing strategies it is testing “in the field” early this year. Last month the...

After a year dogged by Brexit deadlock, political turmoil, and slow growth, estate agents’ confidence in the property market hit a...

Bristol is the location outside London most searched for on Rightmove this year, by both buyers and renters. The average asking price...

The year just ending was when the North-South divide in house prices and capital appreciation slammed into reverse gear according to...

It’s one of the most crucial aspects of the homebuying and selling process but is too often bogged down by frustrating...

When looking back on the property market this year, the main message we can take is that it has remained extremely...

Government figures from the Office for National Statistics show that house prices across the UK rose by a mere 0.7 per...

The National Association of Estate Agents has given its analysis of 2019 - and it may have been a better year...

love2move, the digital platform that allows High Street agents to operate parallel online agencies alongside their traditional offerings, is holding a...

Yes, believe it or not, we’ve nearly reached the end of a whole decade. And what an eventful decade it’s been. We’ve...

In the firmest sign yet that PropTech has entered the mainstream, Housing Minister Esther McVey recently launched an expert advisory council...

Outsourcing important business functions such as marketing, HR and IT to attract cost savings, leverage expertise and gain greater competitive advantage is...

House prices in England and Wales are set to fall over the next three months according to a price index produced...

The election is over and there’s nothing on the agenda except the run-up to Christmas - although there’s still time for...

Foxtons is reported to have closed four more branches across London, backing up widespread industry speculation that the agency is retrenching further in...

Humberts has signed off in bizarre style leaving only false contact details on its website. The historic agency - which closed several...

OnTheMarket has this morning announced that as of December 2, over 3,000 more offices had been signed under new paying contracts...

We recently asked readers for their questions to the portals - the questions they couldn’t really ask their local reps, but...

Humberts' experiment rejecting branches and promoting a supposedly one-stop-shop for property related services has failed with reports that the firm is likely...

With Brexit still unresolved, the domestic agenda has been pushed from the headlines by the seemingly overwhelming public and political discord...

[Estate Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise...

A trading statement this morning by LSL Property Services - owners of Reeds Rains, Your Move and Marsh & Parsons -...

In the latest part of the Natter’s ‘day in the life of’ series, I catch up with Chris Osmond, sales director...

Property voyeurism and the festive season have long been bedfellows for many Brits. The heady combination of over-indulgence and regret, close proximity...

It’s beginning to look a lot like…we’re running a very popular service for agents, as we’ve been inundated with more fund-raising...

The latest market snapshot from the National Association of Estate Agents continues to show how political uncertainty is dampening sentiment and...

Winkworth says the central London market has picked up from its lows of a year or more ago, but warns that...

The Property Franchise Group has issued a trading statement that is upbeat on lettings but warns that the sales market has...

There was an increase in the number of first time buyers getting on the property ladder in September compared to the...

A shock prediction from a property management firm suggests that around 10 estate agencies have gone bust every week in Britain...

As we know, the world’s moving very fast and how we communicate now is drastically different to even 10 years ago....

Foxtons has revealed that the chair of the troubled agency’s remuneration committee has stood down with immediate effect. This are also unconfirmed...

The listings website Home, which conducts a monthly survey of asking prices and wider market monitors, is reporting a show 10...

The competition is hotting up between Zoopla and OnTheMarket for new homes listings. Today Zoopla has revealed that it has seen a...

Purplebricks claims it actually sells - not just lists - three times more than the UK’s next largest estate agency.  The claim...

Troubled London estate agency Foxtons says it has rewritten its remuneration policy for its senior management following a shareholder revolt at...

Fledgling online estate agency Emoov - now owned by PropTech firm Mashroom - has removed reviews and endorsements from its website...

Rightmove has been given the green light to continue using the claim that “every second someone contacts an estate agent about a...

OnTheMarket’s share price slumped to an all-time low just before the end of trading last week. The price fell to 69.0p during trading on...

It’s not-so-unlucky 13 for national property consultancy Bruton Knowles which has opened its 13th office in the country. The new office is...

If you haven’t noticed, it’s November already - a month where it’s increasingly popular for men to grow moustaches for charity....

One of London’s leading estate and lettings agents has criticised the government over what he calls its “pitiful” record on affordable...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has today published the paperwork behind the recent Countrywide £10m accounting controversy. Published on the RICS...

OnTheMarket will on Wednesday of this week issue over a million shares to agents who have signed new long-term listing agreements...

Hello there and welcome along to the latest PJT, your weekly catch-up on who’s moving where in agency, amongst suppliers and...

Foxtons' latest trading statement shows another fall in sales revenue - but this time lettings income is down too. In an announcement...

Countrywide’s ever-patient investors appear to have been unfazed by the company’s latest compliance issue, which has led to a £100,000 fine...

Agents and property industry figures have given a clear message to the government six weeks ahead of the General Election -...

Countrywide has this afternoon released a statement suggesting it has, in its eyes, settled the controversy over unclaimed lettings funds being...

Countrywide has declined to comment on circumstances surrounding today’s Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors disciplinary meeting about diverted funds. One of RICS’...

The number of prime residential housing transactions has increased rapidly in the past two decades and even in the past five...

There are many adjectives that can be applied to Boris Johnson, probably very few of them complimentary, but there’s one that...

New figures released this morning by the National House Building Council show the number of new homes registered to be built...

It was in this very column, back in July, when I wrote about how the British government was starting to take...

There’s been an encouraging increase in property transaction volumes according to new figures from HM Revenue & Customs. The total number of...

A new national agency concept - eXp UK - has told Estate Agent Today that its recruitment schedule is running “well...

Controversy and Purplebricks have gone hand in hand since the agency was first launched in 2012, through its float on the...

A trade body has sharply criticised HM Land Registry for its slow progress on digitising local searches after a promising start...

Countrywide has named Amanda Rendle as a new independent non-executive director of the estate agency group; she joined the board yesterday. Rendle...

Stories with good news about the prime central London market seem few and far between but the latest figures from B2B...

Upad, the national online letting agent set up by entrepreneur James Davis has announced that it is “closed to new business”...

Reservation agreements locking in buyers and sellers could be trailed with some agencies and conveyancers early in 2020, a government official...

OnTheMarket is delivering agents “a higher marketing yield than Rightmove” according to an investment consultancy which works with OTM. Investors appear to...

There are fewer ‘accidental landlords’ - vendors who resort to letting out their homes because the sales market is difficult. That’s the...

Fewer property sales fell through before completion, despite uneasy market conditions, according to Quick Move Now. The home buying company's data shows...

OnTheMarket has this morning posted its latest results to the stock market. The portal reports that 2,346 branches had converted to full-paying...

Raise more money for your charity with help from the industry charity – Agents Giving. At Agents Giving we work with estate and...

The share price of the UK's largest estate agency remained steady yesterday following its appointment of a new chief operating officer. Countrywide...

Consumer demand for new build homes has dropped to a six-year low, according to the Federation of Master Builders (FMB). The organisation's House...

The property market in prime central London showed some impressive signs of recovery during the summer months, according to Knight Frank. The...

Case study: Connells reaping the time-saving benefits of new sales and communication tool Since adopting mio in September 2018, Josh Lally, Senior...

The ValPal Network, which consists of over 800 agency brands with more than 4,000 offices, has launched a new product which...

Estate agents are being encouraged to consider providing increased flexible working options for their staff, including increased opportunities to work from...

It may only be October 4, but temperatures have already started to drop this week as preparations for winter begin. As we...

It never rains but it pours. And that’s certainly been the case for the online estate agency sector in the last...

We know that the tenant fee ban has cost letting agents dearly, with an estimated loss of £300 million paid to...

Hybrid agency Yopa has announced that its chief executive, Ben Poynter, will be standing down at the end of October to...

Although property transactions have, unsurprisingly, recently seen a decline which is almost certainly in part due to the ‘B-word’, this doesn’t...

Stamp duty won’t take centre stage at the Conservative Party conference - that’ll be Brexit, quelle surprise. But if the government...

The latest market snapshot from the National Association of Estate Agents shows that the late summer period was a good one...

As an agent, it’s part of your role to protect and advise your clients throughout the buying and selling process. Mortgages are...

There’s been a five per cent rise in the cases of mortgage fraud as increasing numbers of house buyers appear to...

There's good news for the market in at least one sector - mortgages offered to first time buyers. Latest figures from the...

There are those who say that PropTech is at risk of becoming a bubble market, and others who say bubbles don’t...

A report by the influential Public Accounts committee of MPs has been highly sceptical of the effectiveness of Help To Buy. It...

A pessimistic set of figures on asking prices, transaction volumes and stock levels culminates in Rightmove urging vendors to be willing...

If you thought - perhaps hoped - that five weeks of prorogued Parliament meant a break from politics, think again: the...

Our first wonderful fund-raising agents this week are walking over hot coals - now that’s a dare for you. But you don’t...

Cluttons has downgraded its forecasts for the housing markets in London and the rest of the UK for the remainder of...

Winkworth’s trading statement for the first half of 2019 show the company’s revenue and pre-tax profit both dipping slightly - but...

Purplebricks has spent £26.7m on marketing in the past year - that represents £382 per instruction.  The figures, revealed in the agency’s...

A free-to-list portal says it’s an ideal way to capture potential leads so as to augment agents’ client databases that have...

The parent company of franchised hybrid estate agency EweMove says that experienced estate agents outperform inexperienced franchisees - but only for...

A survey claims that millions of potential sellers would use online estate agents - and bizarrely, this includes an online agency...

Franchise giant Hunters says its branch network has now hit 200 following a spate of acquisitions in the first half of...

Professional client account solutions for modern letting agents Letting agents will need to come up with new ways to manage client money...

One of the country’s largest regional estate and lettings agencies has now fully rejoined Zoopla. Yorkshire-based Dacre, Son & Hartley brings its...

A portal which describes itself as a social network and which has been operating on a soft launch basis for many...

In the old days an agent would procure clients based upon their position in the high street, the size of the...

OnTheMarket says it will not increase listing charges in 2020 for any agents currently paying full fees, while agencies which list on only...

The number of new homes registered to be built in the UK during July was nine per cent lower than a...

It’s been quite a week for news so you might have missed this story - there is yet another boost for...

A new analysis of privately owned homes with mortgages outstanding shows repossessions have risen in London - but they’re down in...

The head of online agency Housesimple has made another strident attack on the integrity of High Street agents by saying some...

Crowdfunding has been largely avoided by property companies for much of the past year following controversies surrounding Emoov’s fund raising -...

Since first meeting the mio team at The Negotiator Awards back in November 2018 – and being presented with no less...

They will be the doctors, lawyers, teachers, thinkers, leaders and captains of industry of the not too distant future, but is...

Speculation is growing about the future of online agency Yopa. This follows a key resignation from Yopa’s board and one expert’s analysis...

Residential property transactions totalled 86,630 in July, representing a monthly drop of 8.5 per cent and an annual fall of 12.4...

We’re fast approaching the last Bank Holiday before Christmas (ugh) so enjoy it - because on Tuesday we’re all going to...

A dramatic slump in the supply of homes being put on sale in London means that parts of the capital now...

A briefing note for MPs prepared from government statistics shows that housing starts and completions have increased from the lows observed...

A media report suggests a mystery ‘predator’ is attempting to acquire Countrywide.  The Daily Mail this morning, quoting unnamed “City sources,” says a...

Brexit is not deterring first time buyers this year according to an analysis by the Yorkshire Building Society. It says that despite...

It’s that time again. Each year I take a look at newspaper readership - not from the angle of journalists, but...

The typical new real estate agency forms when an entrepreneurial high performer quits their job at a leading chain and sets...

The property website Home has identified the four regions of the UK where it says the current market slowdown is at...

Average house prices in the UK increased by a mere 0.9 per cent in the year to June - the lowest...