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The outgoing chief executive of the National Association of Estate Agents is warning that the sales system continues to struggle with...

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

Tenant enquiries and property viewings unsurprisingly slowed this spring, due to the necessary government restrictions brought in to manage the pandemic....

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

Knight Frank has launched a new radio advert for the first time. The rollout marks the firm’s fourth phase of its “partners...

Shorter days and darker nights deflate the spirits, especially in today’s challenging circumstances, but there’s some bright news - a large...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I am James D. Marshall, Founder and CEO of Pupil. What...

One of Countrywide’s largest shareholders has come out against a £90m investment package in the company proposed by a private equity...

The troubled Countrywide group has announced a £90m investment by Alchemy Partners, a private equity company that specialises in investing in...

Savills says the shape and size of the housing market in the coming months will be determined by the capacity of conveyancers...

A tax expert says his research suggests some buyers of homes with annexes may have paid too much stamp duty on...

Integration, collaboration and connected platforms – some great buzzwords, but what do they actually mean and do they really help agents? One...

One of the industry's senior agency leaders says it would be a mistake for agents to be stopped from working in...

I had a wry smile when I read the article on Monday from the conveyancers complaining about people getting off their...

Delays across the house buying sector mean those wanting to benefit from the stamp duty holiday need to begin the buying...

The country producing the largest number of buyers of prime London properties is not China, nor from north America or the...

The latest Rightmove asking price index shows the extraordinary market and amazing times we are living through. The average price of property coming...

Book review by Graham Norwood, editor of Estate Agent Today, Letting Agent Today and Landlord Today. If a letting agent wants to...

Lawyers, politicians, bankers, insurance sellers – no matter where you go, there are some professions that are just always going to...

When letting agents are preparing to migrate from one piece of client accounting software to another, it can sometimes seem like...

2020 has definitely been a year of change. With little warning, the pandemic disrupted the day-to-day operations of almost every industry...

Zoopla has linked with a PropTech company led by the former boss of Purplebricks to offer agents free virtual viewings services. The...

The government has issued new guidance to estate and lettings agencies on their obligations regarding money laundering issues - and online...

We all know that people can’t move to a new house without going through the Conveyancing process. However, with that said,...

I wanted to take this opportunity to write an advice piece on what we here at Angels Media have found important...

A prominent housing market analyst is warning that in 14 years of studying prices and transactions he has never seen the...

With many transactions now delayed by up to three weeks by slow searches, a body representing local search providers is urging...

Hello and welcome to PJT, our Monday feature giving you the inside track on major moves in and across our industry. Let...

In early September, mio achieved an industry first with the release of the mio chain view API. Now, all the parties...

A security company says it is “disappointing” the estate agency industry is only around 55 per cent through preparations to cope...

Hello again - the good news is it’s Friday and even better news is it’s Agents Do Charity, celebrating the industry’s great...

In July, here at Environet UK, we transferred 100% ownership of the company to our employees, in the form of an...

Recently, when giving speeches, I have discussed investment trends and industry trends that the built environment is experiencing. They are quite...

It’s about this time of year, pandemic or not, that agents may be asked one particularly awkward question by a vendor...

The National Association of Estate Agents has thrown its weight behind the recommendation of Trading Standards that agents must by law be...

Customers must be told about third party referral fees when buying or selling a home says the National Trading Standards Estate...

The agency leading the Say No To Rightmove campaign has returned all of its offices and brands to Zoopla. The Acorn Group,...

Ed Mead has joined a growing chorus demanding government action on the cladding crisis. He is one of the industry’s leading figures from...

Propertymark has teamed up with an employment and health and safety specialist to establish a service for member agents with Coronavirus-related...

Agents have universally welcomed new Nationwide data showing annual price growth picked up to 5.0 per cent last month - the highest rate...

Savills has boosted its forecast for housing transactions this year because the stamp duty holiday has been such a success at...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Lee Rix - Head of Business Development What is ‘company name’...

A leading agency says so-called Covid Clauses are being inserted into contracts as buyers become increasingly cautious ahead of a possible...

Franchise network Hunters has recorded strong figures for the first half of 2020 but a trading statement reveals the measures it...

Are agents swimming upstream against the Electrical Safety Regulations? 3 months on from the introduction of the ‘Electrical Safety Standards in the...

Survivors and bereaved family members from the Grenfell Tower fire have joined forces with residents trapped in allegedly dangerous flats in...

The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, better known as the furlough scheme, was introduced by the chancellor Rishi Sunak in March to...

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has encouraged people to complain if they are unhappy about working conditions and thousands of complaints...

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

Seller and landlord leads are what makes estate agency tick. Without them, new business is nowhere to be seen and you...

Two agencies have entered the debate on whether the current frenzied housing market is seeing delays in completions. Yesterday EAT reported that...

Share prices for many quoted estate agencies and property portals fell in trading as fears grew about Coronavirus. London-focussed agency Foxtons was one...

A survey of over 2,300 home owners across the UK suggests market sentiment is mixed, with most doubting house prices have risen. The...

With the high street open again, and the Chancellor’s temporary stamp duty holiday helping to stimulate the market, estate and letting...

A highly-experienced former Savills agent has launched his own buying agency focusing on the prime country market in Surrey. The new company,...

A disgraced former estate agent has paid his victims around £110,000 but must pay another £5,000 or so in the immediate...

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...

A leading agent says the government’s new Coronavirus clampdown from Monday will push more home owners to sell. Caspar Harvard-Wills, a partner at...

The letting industry has come a long way over the past few years, embracing regulation and taking pride in doing good...

For a mixture of reasons, I now only write this column every two weeks. At first, I missed the weekly consideration...

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

Hello, and if it’s the start of a new week it’s time for Property Jobs Today, giving you the inside track...

There will not be a single business within the property sector that did not start the year in vastly different circumstances...

In the week the Nationwide recorded the UK’s highest ever average house price, high-end agency Savills has forecast that prime markets...

Whilst Estate and Letting Agents have adapted their operations during COVID-19, to ensure safer working practices under Government guidance, ‘virtual property...

Record house prices recorded this week by the Nationwide index are set to go higher still according to a leading agent. Nationwide...

A specialist property lender says transactions are being delayed by key staff being furloughed. Gareth Lewis, commercial director of property lender MT...

Two City consultancies instructed by OnTheMarket have talked up the company’s fortunes after the appointment of its new chief executive.  Shore Capital, which in...

An American realtor who once predicted his company would have 5,000 UK estate agents working under its banner is now saying...

It’s fair to say that UK estate agents don’t have the best of reputations, often featuring in the lists of the...

With access to finance being such a hot topic at the moment, more and more estate agents are turning to commercial...

Fine & Country has revealed its latest branch - a West Wales office opening for business on Tuesday. It will initially cover...

You might be forgiven for thinking we’ve been cheated out of our Bank Holidays this year, as so many fell during...

Since June 1, under The Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020, landlords in England have been...

New research suggests that British estate agents charge some of the lowest fees in the world. Based on an apparent British average...

An overview of the global PropTech sector is often what I am asked to cover at conferences around the world. This generally...

In another sign of the buoyant housing market, estate agency Savills is breaking tradition by staging its first ever August auction...

The last few months have been tough for the property sector, and the pressure will continue as estate agents across the...

One of Countrywide’s biggest shareholders has written a second letter to the company to demand bold action to save the agency...

If anyone thought the days of Purplebricks bosses making millions were in the past,  think again. The chief executive and chief finance...

Swiss bank UBS has upgraded its investment rating on Purplebricks, raising its price target and urging investors to buy. In a note...

A digital resource hub for estate agents claims to shorten transaction times. Sort Move, which has been operating since late 2019,...

In my last Natter, I explored the differences between estate agency in the UK and the US with the help of...

Life as we know it has changed – for everybody – and what tenants want, need and expect in this post-pandemic...

Hello and welcome to Agents Do Charity, a weekly round-up of news as the industry continues fund-raising even in these challenging...

The number of jobs advertised as available in the UK real estate sector plummeted from 14,000 at the end of the...

Is Countrywide finally on the road to recovery? Its share price has risen 125 per cent in the past three months; much of...

The Federation of Independent Agents has announced its latest partnership - this time with a live-streaming viewing service called Gavl. The platform...

Agents have been understandably delighted at the latest Halifax index which shows house prices posting their biggest gain of the year...

It’s hotting up out there as a beautiful summer’s weekend beckons - an ideal time for some fund-raising in the sun,...

Following the easing of lockdown restrictions on England’s property market in May, NAEA Propertymark reported a sharp increase in business for...

The chairman of LSL Property Services - Simon Embley - says he is “increasingly optimistic” about the outlook for the market,...

Rightmove and OnTheMarket have revealed their latest bids to keep agent support. Rightmove is launching an extensive redesign of property details pages, after...

The Guild of Property Professionals is relaunching its online auction brand - Guild Auctions - even though it has already successfully...

A BBC presenter has used her local newspaper column to mock an estate agency for suggesting fridge magnets be removed to improve...

Agents have long been the victim of a poor public reputation, from scoring highly in most disliked profession polls to being...

OnTheMarket has confirmed it is “considering” making redundancies - the second of the large portals to be in this position. Rumours have been...

The Nationwide says annual house price growth has recovered to 1.5 per cent. Its July house price index says the fall in...

We have had a special relationship for many years and are bonded as countries in many ways – historically, politically and...

The debate over whether For Sale boards remain a valuable source of publicity has been in the headlines of late -...

Boilers as we know them are set to vastly change in the next few decades. While fossil-fuelled boilers are the norm...

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

An agent in Hertfordshire says he routinely secures 5,000 visits to ‘live open houses’ on Facebook Live, and have on one...

Earlier this month, it was revealed that property industry bodies have joined a new Code of Practice Steering Group to enact...

As expected within the property industry, the Chancellor announced a stamp duty holiday in his Summer Statement. This now means that...

Zoopla's Research and Insight Director Richard Donnell writes: Just over a fortnight on since the Chancellor announced the Stamp Duty holiday and...

A PropTech platform that aims to lock-in sellers and buyers via a mutually agreed reservation agreement system is being offered free...

The new code of conduct for estate agents has been dismissed as “a waste of time” - and the senior industry...

Agents now have a chance to say what they think should be in a new Code of Conduct being discussed following...

Speculation is mounting that Capital Gains Tax could for the first time be applied to gains made when owners sell first...

Conferences, events and awards dinners are a hugely important part of the property calendar, bringing the great and the good of...

In a video interview for Estate Agent Today, property professional Chris Buckler speaks to Matt Nicol, managing director of Nicol &...

Emma Vigus, managing director of sales progression platform mio, in discussion with key suppliers in the residential property industry on operating...

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

The Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020 - which require increased electrical testing in rental properties...

Zoopla has entered into a partnership with an online platform to promote the so-called Modern Method of Auction option to estate...

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

Evidence is pouring in that the stamp duty holiday introduced 48 hours ago has already produced huge levels of interest from...

What work did I do through lockdown? I went to work for a company who provide Domiciliary care for the vulnerable and elderly...

Have you ever wondered how industry-specific software and property portals have influenced the typical estate agency of today? A new book, which...

A PropTech supplier claims that an agency has secured the first ever transaction where the complete chain used Reservation Agreements.  Harrison Residential,...

One of the possible stamp duty options floated by Chancellor Rishi Sunak could mean 89 per cent of sales would be...

The Andrew Grant regional estate agency brand is “very much alive” despite the firm which bore the name losing 54 jobs...

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

They are the names we hear about often, pushing for this or seeking clarifications on that. They are the representatives of...

In a video interview for Estate Agent Today, property professional Chris Buckler speaks to industry video expert Christopher Watkin. Watkin gives his...

Haart - one of the brands owned by Spicerhaart, which laid off staff in the first hours of the pandemic -...

A survey of 2,000 prospective movers by Zoopla shows the vast majority still intent on buying - but younger purchasers’ plans...

With the UK housing market now largely open - there are still restrictions in some areas on home moves to occupied properties...

A prominent tax specialist has suggested that stamp duty cuts would not help improve the housing market, despite many agents suggesting...

A new estate agency Code of Practice is to be written by a group set up by the Royal Institution of Chartered...

"New property website launches. Not immediately sure what it does differently, what its USP is or who will use it, but...

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

It may be that by the time you read this it’s all over for Robert Jenrick, the Secretary of State for...

As we adjust to a life post-Covid-19, letting agents, landlords, and tenants are thinking - ways to speed up the process...

Rightmove and OnTheMarket have announced that they are extending their cut-price fees deals, introduced because of Coronavirus. This morning Rightmove says: "We have...

“Let’s Zoom later”, “are we Zooming in the morning or afternoon?” “Yeah, I zoomed the client earlier” – variations on these...

The phrase ‘game-changer’ has been hugely overused. But when applied to how Covid-19 is changing the way estate agents will work...

The former commercial director of Rightmove has made a strong defence of much of the company’s activities, including the charges it...

A market commentator says it will take up to three months before the housing market stabilises into the ‘new normal’ after...

Imagine a Zoom call where ten people are discussing the same topic, but everyone speaks a different language and has a...

A former chief executive of Countrywide has issued a string of extravagant claims about the lockdown success of the online agency...

Tuesday mornings at 6am is usually my time to review all the latest PropTech news. This fires off ideas for my...

US-originated estate agency Keller Williams claims to be the fastest growing in the UK as a result of 29 agents joining...

Two estate agency directors have been disqualified by the Competition and Markets Authority after taking part in an illegal price fixing...

To most people, purchasing a home is the single most significant financial commitment made across a lifetime. Given the impact and...

Covid-19 has placed a spotlight on the impressive variety of fundraising platforms and technologies available – and not often in places...

More details have been released about a test case being brought by the Financial Conduct Authority about the ongoing Business Interruption...

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

A 27 year old agent with a background working in London’s Canary Wharf has headed north to set up his own...

A new thought-provoking five-part video series is launching to the industry today. ‘Simon says…’ is being hosted by Property Tribes with...

The death has been announced of Colin Lowman, a veteran south London estate agent who had a 64 year career in...

There’s no doubt we’re in a less-than-rosy phase of the property cycle. This, however, is not another doom and gloom piece:...

How prime London has changed. In 2002 work began on The Knightsbridge. Located within a stone’s throw of Harrods and a near-neighbour...

A taxation institute is urging the government to delay Capital Gains Tax changes relating to housing transactions until the virus crisis...

I was asked a question by a German journalist yesterday. What is the biggest lesson German and European PropTech founders can...

A survey of sellers by a high-end agency suggests that around a third expect price falls of six per cent or...

Although the shake-out in the industry is ongoing - online agency Settled and established new-build agency Cushman & Wakefield have both...

The combined market share of agencies in the Guild of Property Professionals is now higher even than it was at the...

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

Rightmove has enjoyed over six million visits to its portal in one day, for the first time ever. Three days ago -...

The Say No To Rightmove campaign is to release a set of options for member agents to consider if the portal...

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

A digital ‘members-only club’ for property professionals around the world has slashed its prices nine months after launching. The Eighth Door is...

The Covid-19 crisis hasn’t caused the revolution it has been reported to have. Despite the challenges it has brought, fundamentally, the...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Tom Harrington and I’m the founder and...

Many of the leading advocates of the self-employed estate agent business model have talked about why many want new recruits with...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has revised its Anti-Money Laundering guidance in the light of Coronavirus. It says the scale of...

The Financial Conduct Authority has published new draft guidance for lenders which will set out options available to their customers in the extended...

** This Bank Holiday Monday both Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today look at how agencies have modified offices and protocols...

All my recent Natters have been focused on one particular topic, the coronavirus crisis, for obvious reasons. But there has been...

The fast-growing trade group for independent estate agents has launched a partnership with the soon-to-launch Homesearch portal. Of the various free-to-list portals...

During March, the coronavirus pandemic put the brakes on the property market with an enforced period of shutdown. However, almost two...

The industry should continue to prepare for large-scale reforms such as mandatory agency training, the licensing of agents and a new...

A survey of agents’ attitudes which two weeks ago showed a big majority of agents wanting to work as self employed...

As you know, having professional images of your properties is the best (only?) way to get people wanting to step through...

As last Friday was the VE Day Anniversary bank holiday we have a bumper bundle of fund-raising activities to report on...

The agency at the heart of a fierce row over staff safety in the lockdown says it's now insisting local managers...

A large majority of property professionals polled by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors say a stamp duty holiday would be...

A respected estate agency has revised downwards its price forecast for the housing market for the second time since the start...

There’s been a surge in buyers wanting to view properties - but agents must sit on their hands and wait for...

The acting chief executive of OnTheMarket says the Coronavirus crisis could indirectly create a catalyst for change in the portals marketplace. Clive...

Details being presented to Parliament today may include information on how agents can return to work in some sort of ‘new normal.’ A 50...

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

The Agents Here To Help initiative, launched recently by Kristjan Byfield of The Depositary, is now developing fast and becoming a...

Over Easter we carried stories of good deeds done by agents and how firms were coping with working from home -...

Fine & Country is one of those clever agencies employing interior designers to help stage properties, making them look their best...

An estate agent has reopened his High Street office to the public with social distancing and other safety measures in place. It’s...

The Say No To Rightmove campaign has launched a countdown clock on its website to galvanise agents into remembering only 85...

Savills has given the industry an insight into how buyers’ and sellers’ priorities may change as the industry returns to work...

The demand for mortgages in April was scarcely a quarter of what it was in March - but the figures show...

Since my last column in April, one could argue that very little has changed for agents in terms of the market...

Buying and selling a house is often referenced as being one of the most stressful life experiences that we can go...

If anyone told us six weeks ago that agents would still be doing such amazing work for their communities during lockdown...

Countrywide’s senior staff earning over £45,000 per year have had their pay cut by a fifth while some 78 per cent...

A major consumer survey of existing home owners and potential movers has resulted in a plea to government to allow house...

OnTheMarket says it has another 32 million shares to give away to agents signing full fee contracts with the challenger portal...

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

At the moment, it somehow seems like tempting fate to think too far into the future, especially in terms of the...

The Say No To Rightmove campaign, which expects to have some 3,000 offices signed up by the end of the month,...

Hello - yes it’s Friday in case you lost track, and that means it’s Agents Do Charity day: and once again...

One of prime central London’s most respected estate agencies is warning that it could take until spring 2021 for the luxury...

The government is being urged to allow estate and lettings agents to return to work as soon as possible when the...

Rightmove and Knight Frank are today both calling for a series of government incentives to kick-start the market after the Coronavirus...

Let me start by wishing everyone well in these uncertain and precarious times. I truly hope you, your families, friends and...

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

Hello and welcome to Conquering Corona, our bid to help agents through the crisis. If you have appropriate advice to share with...

Only half of the branches signed up to Zoopla have taken advantage of one or other of the discount offers made...

The impact of the Coronavirus crisis is going to reduce agents' revenue into the third quarter finishing in late September warns a leading...

An economic consultancy predicts house prices will fall by a sixth as unemployment grows across Britain this year. The consultancy, Cebr, says...

Hello - we hope you had as good an Easter as possible in these unusual circumstances, and welcome back to work. Now...

A high-profile regional agency is “cracking on” with support for a hospice for children and young people that cannot raise funds during...

We are still living in highly extraordinary times, perhaps evidenced best by the fact that the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, was...

In this time of economic uncertainty, more and more people are becoming unwilling to leave their homes, yet you and your...

Hello - we’re here to help on a daily basis, sharing information across the industry.  As ever, we’d love your input to...

The Police and Crime Commissioner for an area with thousands of holiday homes wants their owners to make them available to...

There’s a sense that we really are on the verge of a huge change in the industry. It’s too early to be...

Based on our historical data over twenty years of nationwide operation and a survey conducted in partnership with YouGov, we estimate...

One of the industry’s leading automated valuation services says it’s running at approaching 1,000 leads a day for agents even during...

A leading human resources expert predicts that agents who are poorly treated by their employers now will wreak revenge and move...

Savills has withdrawn its planned dividend to shareholders but says it could declare an "enhanced" payout at an unspecified later date. Only...

Late last year a buying agent at Stacks Property Search and Acquisition set up a village Good Neighbour Scheme with her...

Kays Estates in the north of England - one of the agencies ‘powered by Keller Williams’ - has prepared packs for...

Purplebricks has this morning revealed what it calls “immediate and significant measures to preserve cash and implement a lean operating model”...

New guidance has just been agreed by conveyancers on house moves during the Coronavirus crisis. The procedures - made pubic only last...

One of London’s most experienced estate agents says there has been a very significant surge in foreclosure sales in part of...

In response to the current coronavirus pandemic, which is having such an impact on all parts of life, including the property...

It’s time to draw a line in the sand and condemn our rival portals for their current charging structure. Little will...

It’s far too early for authoritative figures on how devastating the Coronavirus lockdown has been on estate agents but there is...

For complete transparency, I write this column first thing on a Tuesday morning and have done for a couple of years...

Hello: so much has happened since the last Conquering Corona column . Before we get on with it, a reminder to...

While controversy swirls around the approach and motives of the sackings and branch closures at Spicerhaart, other agents are showing how...

The property franchise company Belvoir Lettings has laid off 15 workers from its Grantham headquarters - and warns there may be...

Hello and here’s the next batch of guidance and advice from different sectors of the industry, many from influential trade groups. It’s...

Countrywide’s share price has dived over 50 per cent during the course of the day, following news of LSL pulling out...

Hello and as it’s Monday it’s PJT Day - and there are plenty of people moving jobs in our industry even...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Jon Notley and I am the co-founder...

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

Training operator The Able Agent is to include a module on the Modern Method of Auction in its future programme.  Charlotte Jeffry-Campbell,...

Sales in February grew, for the third consecutive month, according to the latest market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered...

There will be a two per cent stamp duty surcharge on the purchase of UK investment properties by non-resident overseas buyers...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Nick Lyons CEO What is No Letting Go and what does it...

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

The author of dramatic reform proposals for estate agents has given a clear message to ministers - Get On With It!  Lord...

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

The coronavirus outbreak has highlighted once again how fragile and interconnected our societies have become. We don’t know yet how dangerous Covid-19...

More than 18 months on from the acquisition of ZPG for £2.2 billion by Silver Lake Partners, a US private equity...

In the last few Natters I’ve focused on the slow death of local newspaper advertising, and how many agents are now...

The Atlantic Ocean is a vast space – some 4,000 miles eastwards across from the USA until land is met again....

The threat of Coronavirus is beginning to make an impact in the world of property. The Cushman & Wakefield agency announced overnight that...

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

We all use postcodes in our daily life but we rarely pay attention to them. It has become a regular part...

The property management industry is evolving at a rapid pace, thanks almost entirely to the rise in PropTech. Hundreds, if not thousands...

Buyers and sellers using online estate agencies could inadvertently sign contracts if they carelessly use email signature blocks. Blocks are the ‘auto-signatures’...

What an interesting few days it’s been. I don’t think the topic of this week’s column is doing anything good for our...

An estate agent who has himself made the move from the High Street to a hybrid operation has urged anyone in...

It’s been revealed that under takeover rules, LSL Property Services and Countrywide have until March 23 to make merger or takeover...

Earlier this month, Boris Johnson carried out a reshuffle of his cabinet, telling ministers they must 'repay the trust of those...

Why should agencies leave voicemail in the last decade and make 2020 the year to invest in a more modern solution? Voicemail...

A free-to-list portal says the costs of listing on the established sites - especially Rightmove - are contributing to estate agencies...

Estate agency Chestertons has named the new chief operating officer for the roll out of its UK and Europe franchising operation. Some...

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

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Joanne (Jo) Tattum. Channel Manager - Property What is Moneypenny and...

Another weekend, another storm: it’s hard to put a smile on your face when winter goes on this long but the...

For several years the regular monthly RICS market snapshot has made depressing reading - now, for there second month in a...

At Agents Giving, we work with estate and letting agents and suppliers across the UK to encourage, support and promote your...

Estate Agent Today can reveal that one of the most senior figures in Countrywide’s upmarket John D Wood and Hampton International brands...

A book, written by Gary Kasparov, has really made me question my opinions on Artificial Intelligence (AI). The book is called...

The head of SEO at Rightmove has defected to a rival portal, Residential People. Farhaad Saleh was responsible for all of Rightmove's...

Countrywide is declining to explain why due diligence on the sale of its commercial arm did not catch a problem which...

Agents now have only seven days to complete a referral fees survey, announced late on Friday by Trading Standards and The...

Annual house price growth increased to 4.1 per cent in January, up slightly from the end of 2019, according to Halifax...

The National Trading Standards Estate & Letting Agency Team and The Property Ombudsman have launched an urgent survey to assess awareness...

  Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Catherine Shinerock - ARO Account Manager What is your ‘company name’...

The ‘on-demand’ economy is reshaping our world. The way we order food, get around, and even access healthcare has changed irreversibly...

An online agency’s claim that it sells homes “for free” has been disputed by a High Street rival - but the...

“It appears conveyancers either aren’t too concerned with PropTech right now, or they don’t yet have all the information needed to...

As competition hots up between affinity groups and associations in the industry, the Guild of Property Professionals has come out fighting. It...

Unfortunately for consumers, buying and selling properties is rarely plain sailing. But fortunately for agents, this provides you with an opportunity to...

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

Last November, as part of the Conservatives’ general election campaign, Boris Johnson made a surprise announcement that his party would introduce...

Mystery surrounds a historic agency that has ceased trading after 235 years in business - even though its website is still...

Foxtons's trading statement this morning reveals another huge slump in sales - but no new announcement about future branch closures after a spate...

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

Quite a few years ago, I spoke at a conference for auctioneers. It was a traditional affair. Rural location. Nice hotel....

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

Purplebricks has won a ‘trusted service’ award - described as “an independent seal of excellence that recognises businesses for delivering exceptional experiences,...

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

Property portals generate revenue from estate agents regardless of the outcome of the transaction. This relationship has resulted in a fundamental...