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Female agents have shared their view on representation and opportunities in the sector to mark International Women’s Day. Industry data shows while...

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

Almost 2m aspiring homeowners do not think they will be able to follow in the footsteps of their parents by owning...

Estate agents spend almost half their working day chasing or being chased for issues as a new report highlights concerns about...

Savills has expanded its residential sales teams in south west London with the appointment of two associate directors. Oliver Morley joins as...

I listened carefully, and I even played it back afterwards.  But, even now, I remain astonished by what I didn’t hear.  On Wednesday, in his...

Keller Williams UK’s (KWUK) Gatwick market centre is rumoured to have closed but the self-employed agency network’s chief executive Ben Taylor...

Keller Williams (KW) UK has shifted around responsibility for its market centres amid speculation of closures. The self-employed agency brand’s Aspire market...

From Million Dollar Listing to Selling Sunset, we’re used to seeing real estate reality TV in full force on Netflix. Whilst...

Female estate agents have shared the highs and lows of working in the property industry to mark International Women’s Day (IWD). The...

A well-known local agency in Kent is turning 100 this year.   Starting out in Gillingham in 1922, Wards is now based...

The path from agent to developer is not easy, but it is a relatively straightforward one, if you are willing to...

The Modern Method of Auction (MMoA), also known as Conditional auction, can sometimes get a bad rap. However, much of the...

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

In this week’s In Conversation Today, I chat with Fine & Country UK’s managing director Nicky Stevenson, one of the most...

Independent estate agency Dacre, Son & Hartley plans to significantly grow its franchise network across Yorkshire and beyond. Dacres currently employs 125...

The biggest news story in town this last week – which has brought people who don’t usually like or watch football...

The Nationwide Building Society has launched a product which, controversially, allows some first time buyers to borrow 5.5 times their income. From...

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

Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  Dan Muir, Area Sales Manager, LetsBid Property What is LetsBid and...

Firstly, Happy New Year – here’s to 2021 being less chaotic than the last! In the final part of our series on...

Countrywide, which is thought to have closed over a fifth of its branches in recent years, has opened a new office...

The second England-wide lockdown is here. The good news is that this time round, the property market remains open for business,...

Aspire, the six-branch south west London agency, has dropped its previous franchise structure and reverted to being owned outright by its...

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

Steve, his name was. Steve, the board man. A rather frightening man, if truth be told. When I started at Foxtons, he used...

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

It’s a substantial Tory government for the next five years: what does this mean for estate agents, property and the market? We have...

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

Recent Zoopla reports stating that first-time buyers are deciding against purchasing one-bedroom flats came as no surprise to me, or I’m...

A new online estate agency has attacked the industry for being “largely cloaked and ambiguous” - and says that of all...

The PropTech era is changing the way in which employees decide where they are going to work. As CBRE has discovered in...

Britain lives in fundamentalist black-and-white times - all the more surprising when the country's most divisive point of contention sits on...

Research from OnTheMarket shows that 40 per cent of London homes costing around £1m have only two bedrooms or fewer. And only...

Property developing is an incredibly diverse and exciting career choice, and something that many people aspire to do in the UK.  I...

Purchasing a property. It’s a key life goal that so many Millennials aspire to - yet one that has become frustratingly...

Those of you who receive (and read) my Sunday PropTech Review will know that, by far and away, the most shared...

Young adults rather than the older generations are driving demand in the waterside living market, according to Strutt & Parker. The agent's...

An outspoken estate agent has given the government a clear message - get off our backs , ease the red tape...

I’ve written before about the impact of headlines on the property industry. Interest rate speculation.   Market booms and busts. Demand...

Mortgage broker The Mortgage Hut has signed distribution deals with Century 21, Taylor Hill & Bond, Aspire Estate Agents and Wayne...

The best estate and letting agents in the UK were recognised at the prestigious ESTAS luncheon and ceremony, which was held...

Over 250,000 non-homeowners appear to have given up on the dream of owning their own property in the past year alone,...

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

At least one estate agency and one letting agency have been listed on a ‘name and shame’ roll-call of companies not...

One of Britain’s most respected veteran estate agents, Hugh Dunsmore-Hardy, is urging new recruits to the industry to join what he...

With the number of new homes being built across the UK still significantly below the level needed to meet demand, housebuilders...

The haemorrhage of Labour spokespeople now includes the party’s respected shadow housing minister John Healey. His letter to party leader Jeremy Corbyn...

The summer term – rounders, cricket and hayfever. It's also the last dash before the housing market supposedly closes down for...

Government figures claim almost 50,000 households in council and other forms of social housing have taken up their Right To Buy...

When, during his budget speech, George Osborne announced Capital Gains Tax (CGT) was going down to 20%, I experienced a mix...

Yet another agency is opening a new office in Greater London - this time it is Century 21 UK which has...

Aspire estate agency has opened its ninth office in south west London at Raynes Park, SW20. It is “doing a Foxtons” by...

In January readers of Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today were given the opportunity to give their views on proposed...

The government claims that over 36,000 new home owners have been created through Right to Buy since 2012. Figures released by the...

If the first few hours of the new government’s approach to housing are anything to go by, it could be a...