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A network uniting ethical estate agents has officially launched today with 25 members. The Ethical Agent Network (EAN) is led by industry...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...

Industry charity Agents Together is celebrating reaching new mentorship and volunteering milestone. It has revealed that 800 free mentorships have now been...

Safety, support, health, wealth and happiness were the key firms of the inaugural Women in Estate Agency group conference last week. The...

Foxtons non-executive director and former boss Peter Rollings has suggested the “vast majority” of agents aren’t good at selling properties. Discussing opportunities...

Industry executives have blamed low fees, budgets and a lack of training for a lack of leadership in the estate agency...

Estate agency should be about more than just earning a commission, senior property leaders have said. The issue of commission was discussed...

The way to sell a property has changed and agents shouldn’t rely on just listing on Rightmove, senior property leaders have...

Industry leaders have hit back at a suggestion that agents should do more door-knocking to win business. Speaking in the latest video...

A lack of training and a laissez-faire attitude to leads and listings is preventing agents charging higher fees, industry leaders have...

Industry leaders have hit out at the media for “stifling sentiment” as they urge agents to help vendors make an informed...

There have been plenty of heart-warming examples of agents supporting their local communities and charities this week, from sleep-outs to donations. Whatever...

Self-employed estate partnership brand The Agency UK (TAUK) is to host its first industry exhibition. Titled Grow your Agency in 23, the...

Challenger portal and property platform Boomin informed staff that it was calling in liquidators yesterday. As first reported by Sky News, the...

Conveyancing is an integral part of the house buying and selling process. But it is a slow process, with the length...

We are dedicating today's round-up to two important cause that agents are being called on to get behind. Agents are being urged...

Property professionals and commentators have begun pondering an official definition of a house price crash. It comes amid forecasts that house prices...

Estate agency brands have begun reaching out to school leavers as students received their A and T-Level grades yesterday. Top grades for...

For some time, LinkedIn was seen – fairly or unfairly – as stodgy, dull, corporate and formal. The uncool uncle to...

Relationships between conveyancers and estate agents have improved since the manic stamp duty-holiday driven days of the pandemic, but it is...

Industry charity and mentoring group Agents Together is planning to help firms prioritise mental wellbeing. It has developed a checklist that agents...

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

In June, the biggest pilot scheme of a four-day working week anywhere in the world will begin in Britain, with more...

With Boomin nearly turning one, I decided to catch up with Michael Bruce, the co-founder of the property website and more...

Hello and welcome to another Agents Do Charity, the weekly round up of fund-raising in our industry. Once more our thoughts are...

Michael and Kenny Bruce have for the first time given their views on what went wrong for Purplebricks during their time...

In this exclusive for Estate Agent Today readers, video supremo and property expert Chris Watkin conducts an interview with the Bruce...

Hello and welcome to the latest Agents Do Charity, our weekly round-up of who’s-doing-what-good-deeds in our industry. Want to be involved? Well...

The ESTAS Forum scheduled for March says its aim is to encourage agents and conveyancers to work more closely together.  “There doesn’t...

It’s often said that agency is a people business, and I can see no reason to disagree - agents dealing face-to-face...

One of the founders and leading figures in the Agents Together industry charity says one silver lining of the pandemic has...

It really is beginning to look a lot like Christmas – just a week to go now. Presents all wrapped and...

In a first for the Natter, this week's interview is a video affair, with me posing the questions to Stephen Brown,...

Boomin has announced the appointment of six agents, described as independent representatives, who are now on the new portal’s strategic board. The...

Hello and we’re at the end of another week celebrating all those in our industry who do great work. And this...

Telephone and chat support service Moneypenny has outlined a strategy to help agents avoid burn out. The service argues that working throughout...

Sarah Edmundson, the chief executive of the Agents Together charity - set up by the Bruce brothers, Michael and Kenny -...

It’s now over a year since the property market officially reopened after an unprecedented two-month shutdown at the height of the...

Mental health – and the importance of good mental health – has become a vital thing for all of us in...

Boomin co-founder Kenny Bruce says the UK economy should now be opening up thanks to the success of the Coronavirus vaccines. In...

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

One of the biggest trends in recent times, as a direct result of the pandemic, is the concept of working from...

A conveyancing organisation has launched an initiative called Be Kind We Care to promote kindness and wellbeing within the property industry. The...

In this week’s In Conversation Today, I speak with Anthony Payne, Managing Director and co-founder of LonRes, a data and network...

A new working group on mental health in the agency industry is being set up following a poll revealing 62 per cent...

To kick off 2021, we have a Q&A with one of the most high-profile – and, it has to be said,...

One of the country’s most experienced estate agents has spoken out about mental illness in the industry and his own condition...

A survey conducted by charity Agents Together suggests a large majority of industry people would like to see more focus on...

The industry seems almost back to normal. Not the ‘new normal’ we spoke so much of a few weeks and months ago,...

The ESTAS awards service and the Agents Together foundation are entering into a partnership. That means all ESTAS customer agents will be...

Agents Together, the wellbeing and mentorship service which came into existence earlier this year, is launching what it calls a Redundancy...

A self-employed agent has gone public to lavish praise on the mentoring scheme which is part of the Agents Together charity. Cameron Carter,...

A founder of Purplebricks, Michael Bruce, suggests there was nothing wrong with the controversial Commisery TV ads that contributed to making...

One of the industry’s leading trainers and consultants has launched a range of 15 new online training modules covering sales skills,...

Industry veteran Harry Hill, a former chairman of Countrywide and founder of Rightmove, has now become a mentor at the new...

The brothers who founded Purplebricks - Michael and Kenny Bruce - have returned to the agency industry for the first time...

A survey of estate agents conducted through trade publications has revealed that market uncertainty and the handling of transactions within government...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  Jason Wilson, mio Account Manager What is mio and what does...

It's only one month before the clocks change so agents have been cramming in their good works before the worst of...