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Who says irony is dead? That Purplebricks, of all agencies, should promote the idea of a ‘BS-Tester’ to identify false promises by...

You will hopefully have seen that the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act 2022 has now received its Royal Assent, meaning it...

A French billionaire who made his money from estate agency is promising to transform the UK property industry with his unique...

Sky News is reporting that Boomin, the portal founded by Purplebricks creator Michael Bruce, is close to finalising a new round...

New portal Boomin suggests it has “thousands” of agents who have signed up on a paid basis. The portal - which launched almost...

The government has failed to take the opportunity of the Spring Statement to provide clarity on its business rates reform agenda,...

Hello and welcome to the weekend, and another ADC - our chance to pay tribute to fundraisers throughout our industry. Want to...

Normally estate agents are rightly proud of their professional abilities to provide expertise to vendors when it comes to selling -...

In the Autumn Budget on Wednesday 27 October, very few impending tax hikes were revealed by the Chancellor Rishi Sunak –...

Disclaimer: This article is intended for information only and does not constitute legal advice. As part of its 2020 budget, the UK...

The government has released details of a new property tax. It’s the Residential Property Developer Tax, first announced at the start of...

Propertymark says confusion over new stamp duty rules has led to a surge in fall-throughs. Since April 1 homes bought in England...

There’s already plenty of talk about autumn - depressing huh? - with agents pondering how the housing market will respond to...

Mortgage lending has shown the biggest net increase on record according to the Bank of England.  Mortgage borrowing in March rose by...

New figures from Zoopla today emphasise just how frenzied the housing market remains. Here are the figures: - so far in the first...

A consumer financial service suggests it’s already too late for most buyers to meet the latest stamp duty holiday deadline of June...

The latest Moneyfacts monitor of the mortgage market suggests a significant number of new 95 per cent products - even without the...

The last property event I attended in person – and I think the last physical property event held all told –...

Estate agency offices in Wales, closed for many weeks as part of that country’s lockdown, will reopen from next Monday, April 12. The...

Licensing of the short-term lets sector in Scotland was due to be introduced next month. However, it was recently announced that...

It’s 12 years since we opened our doors with the Fine and Country estate agency in Drayton on April 1 2009. The...

A new property board game called Gazumped aims to rival Monopoly but reflect a much more realistic view of how the house...

Earlier this month, Fixflo held a webinar with David Cox, legal and compliance director of Rightmove, to discuss key government policies...

Unsurprisingly it’s been a busy few months in the property market so far this year, and a busy few months in...

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

The UK is only the eighth most popular country for Asian investment buyers, and accounts for just three per cent of...

High end purchasers of homes in London paid 15 per cent of the stamp duty in 2020, yet the value of...

Honesty is a concept that journalists will tell their readers is non-existent for estate agents. Yeah, right! But as the end...

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

There’s been a huge focus on both the stamp duty holiday and Help To Buy deadlines at the end of March...

There is no scientific formula, no list of must-have elements in a successful campaign. That’s especially the case for a campaign involving...

Almost a year ago the government announced that estate and lettings agencies were to be included in the business rates relief...

The Financial Conduct Authority is extending the ban on repossessions by two months until April 1, in light of the pandemic. The...

The Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020 have been in place for several months now. While letting...

The irrationality of Britain’s council tax system has been laid bare in a new league table drawn up by estate agency...

A tax expert says that there is 'zero likelihood' of the government changing its mind on stamp duty changes for overseas...

The government has published draft legislation giving further details on the two per cent stamp duty surcharge on non-residents purchasing residential...

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

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

There’s been another increase in the number of mortgage products available to buyers and landlords - a sign of all aspects...

Mortgage product choices for buyers have increased to the highest level in three months according to new data. PropTech platform Mortgage Brain...

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

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

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

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

We'd hoped it was good news but in fact it's just good-news-yet-to-come. The Savills office in Wuhan, the epicentre of the Coronavirus crisis in...

Hello and welcome to today’s Conquering Corona, our guide to the latest information to help agents and the rest of the...

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

Agents have reacted angrily to the government contemplating introducing a Mansion Tax, and to the Housing Secretary not ruling out the...

Hello and welcome to the final Property Jobs Today before Christmas - and yes, there are still plenty of people moving...

An estate agent in Cardiff has come up with a marketing wheeze in a bid to win more instructions - but...

Agents have reacted gloomily to the release of figures showing that the number of new mortgages offered to both movers and...

Thousands of homeowners listed their properties for sale in the days following the latest Brexit delay on April 12, new research...

Trading in OnTheMarket’s shares was subject to two so-called Price Monitoring Extensions - temporary freezing of transactions because of erratic movements. The...

Data produced by the government showed that some 211,000 homes have been bought using the Help to Buy: Equity Loan. The scheme...

A statement this morning from the government says that property details must use Imperial Measurements after Britain leaves the EU. The Imperial...

There’s a distinctly northern flavour to some of the great fund-raising this week - and in particular Yorkshire. This isn’t the only...

With a new year nearly upon us, it’s always a good idea to be aware of the major events that are...

Has no one told the industry that it’s December and things are supposed to be slowing down? This week’s Property Jobs...

It’s holiday time: schools have broken up, quite a few estate agents are taking time off, and the MPs are in...

As noted in Estate Agent Today’s news pages, OnTheMarket’s (OTM) recent dire share performance (at time of writing the price is...

Essex and Suffolk-based estate agency and chartered surveying firm Fenn Wright is opening a new branch - its fourth in the...

Welcome once again to Property Jobs Today, the notice-board for agents, suppliers and other property professionals moving within, out or in...

HMRC says there has been a five per cent drop on the number of transactions attracting stamp duty in the first...

Property transactions rose marginally in March this year, up 0.5 per cent on February’s total according to figures from HM Revenue...

By Wednesday April 19th, a UK citizen, on an average income, had earned £7,789 from their day job so far this...

The Competitions and Markets Authority has released more details of its ‘calling-in’ of the acquisition of Expert Agent by Zoopla Property...

It’s been another busy week of fund-raising for agents across the industry, sparing time to do good works despite the market...

A new recruitment business for the property industry in general and agents in particular is offering a phased-fees system for clients...

Rightmove secured over 131m visits last month, an all-time high for January. The 131m total was some three per cent above January...

Data from HM Revenue & Customs shows that the sale of residential properties rose a marginal 0.8 per cent last month...

New data revealed by investment consultancy Central London Portfolio claims that transactions in prime central areas of the capital have dropped 24...

Transaction volumes across all of London are 48 per cent lower than they were a year ago, claims an estate agency...

The Welsh Government has announced that from April 2018, Stamp Duty Land Tax will be replaced with a Land Transaction Tax.  The...

Knight Frank is warning that it will “take time” for the three per cent stamp duty surcharge to be absorbed into...

House prices in Scotland rose 0.9 per cent in May, taking the average value to £172,119 - still down on a...

The pace of property valuations conducted last month grew on both an annual basis and since the previous month, despite jitters...

The chief economist who compiles Nationwide’s monthly house price index says it is too early yet to see the impact of...

As we have just passed the 6 month half way point of 2016 we thought it would be a good idea...

Conveyancing transactions hit a post-recession high during the first quarter of 2016, according to new figures. Search provider Search Acumen's analysis of...

A modest 0.4 per cent rise in average asking prices over the past month conceals a nasty surprise for first time...

New figures from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors backs up the theory that the market is slowing down significantly ahead...

Buy to let investors and second home owners were behind three in five property purchases made in prime London during the...

On April 15 2016, hundreds of the UK's best estate and letting agents descended on London's Grosvenor House Hotel to celebrate...

Buy to let mortgage sales - one of the key indicators of buy to let property sales - fell drastically in...

The rush to beat the stamp duty surcharge deadline has pushed average asking prices to a record high according to Rightmove...

Political and economic uncertainty caused by the upcoming EU referendum is beginning to hit the housing market according to two different...

Home lending in 2016 saw its best opening quarter for nine years according to the figures from chartered surveying firm e.surv.  An...

There has been a broad welcome for what would appear to be a government U-turn over the imposition of the stamp...

There was a significant drop in interest in purchasing buy to let properties in March as the April 1 stamp duty surcharge...

George Osborne has been busy over the last year. First came the General Election which had everyone on tenterhooks until the...

Data from the Council of Mortgage Lenders shows that gross mortgage lending reached £17.6 billion last month - that's the highest...

Yesterday George Osborne delivered his eighth budget as chancellor, announcing an extra £3.5 billion in spending cuts by 2019-20. The Office for...

In today's budget, the Chancellor, George Osborne, has announced a number of measures which will impact the property industry.  The Chancellor confirmed...

The Nationwide is warning that the busy start to 2016 in the housing market is driven at least partly by the...

A record 30,000 surveys have been submitted to the organisers of The ESTAS awards on the performance of estate and letting...

The supply of homes to buy is at its lowest level in 14 years according to the National Association of Estate...

The chief executive of Countrywide says there’s “no change of course” after a 37 per cent slump in operating profits were...

Haart says a shortage of conveyancers and lawyers is leading to delays in transactions, made worse by the high volume of...

A letter from the Financial Secretary to the Treasury appears to suggest that the government is set on implementing the three...