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As property listings go, this one may be more barking than beautiful. Zoopla has revealed an interesting listing that has appeared on...

Long-awaited guidance on material information in property listings was revealed yesterday but policing of the rules won’t be any different, it...

The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team (NTSELAT) has published the long-awaited Parts B and C of material information...

Fine & Country is embarking on its Autumn Regional Tour this month. This events across the UK bring together industry professionals, business...

After a steady increase in mortgage rates, concerns about house prices have been rising too. The Financial Times reported in mid...

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

Almost a third of homes sold across Britain have been purchased by a cash buyer, new research shows. Analysis of the latest...

An estate agency with a major new homes department claims new build sales are proving more resilient than the mainstream market. Leaders...

In an exclusive interview with Estate Agent Today, Simon Coaker, Sales & Marketing Director of Desert Springs Resort, shared captivating insights into...

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

Digital transformation is not a new concept. It has been around for many years in various forms and across multiple industries,...

The Guild of Property Professionals is set to embark on a roadshow next month to meet agents and share insights and...

Agency branch windows are being transformed this week to mark the Queen’s 70 years on the throne. High streets across the country...

Hybrid agent eXp UK is embarking on a national roadshow this month to showcase its US-inspired business model. It will visit London,...

The UK affiliated agency of Warren Buffett’s global real estate company is offering members of the public the chance to win...

Despite the latest Halifax house price index showing a 10.8 per cent annual rise, a leading housing market analyst is warning...

Picky buyers are walking away from property deals after realising the internet connection at a property is poor, research claims. A poll...

Scotland and the south west of England have been identified as cash buyer hotspots. Analysis by Barrows and Forrester, found 27 per...

As the Tokyo Olympics draws to a close this weekend, the Nationwide Building Society has analysed long-term capital appreciation in locations regenerated...

Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond and strategist Sir Lynton Crosby - the architect of many Conservative election campaigns -...

Foxtons’ chairman and longest-serving board member is to stand down at the end of this year at the latest, after a...

The UK affiliated agency of Warren Buffett’s global real estate company has acquired a historic independent company operating in prime central...

For many, the funeral of HRH Prince Philip will be a solemn affair, while for some it will also be a...

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

One of the most prominent companies involved in identifying and treating Japanese Knotweed has recruited a new member of the team...

Customer review and awards platform the ESTAS is parting company with headline partner Zoopla after 10 years. The founder of The ESTAS...

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

Hello: if it’s Friday it’s charity day and this week we have a special announcement from the industry’s own charity, Agents...

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

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

Sellers in the past 12 months accepted an average of 96 per cent of their asking price according to new research. Comparison...

Savills has smoked out another money-making opportunity with a new enterprise which it claims has “enormous growth potential.” The property consultancy is teaming...

The average time it took a home to sell last year - measured from its first day listed on a portal...

Countrywide’s shares took another battering yesterday as they plummeted below the psychologically-painful 5p mark - reflecting a 95 per cent loss of...

The beleaguered Your Move estate agency insists there was no breach of customer privacy after an ex-employee reportedly took confidential data...

A property platform that has chronicled the London sales market’s problems in recent years says the recovery will start in 2020...

An early sign of a possible recovery in the London housing market may be appearing, according to data consultancy Hometrack.  It’s just...

Foxtons is shutting its Park Lane office - the flagship of the agency in prime central London’s Mayfair. Estate Agent Today was...

Owning a home has become almost impossible for many public sector workers across Britain, according to research from the union UNISON. Getting...

Last week, I wrote about the speed of innovation in the Far East. This week I’d like to do the same...

Foxtons is embarking on a rare advertising campaign, using a company owned by the largest independent creative agency in the world,...

When Oakland A’s, a small-market team, stunned the baseball world 16 years ago by transforming itself into world-beaters on a shoestring-budget,...

Ever wondered what it’s like to be on the frontline of property journalism? Well, wonder no more, as our very own...

An insider in a senior position in Humberts says the weekend announcement that it was in talks with proposed administrators to...

An estate agency has been ordered to pay £841 to a council - because it failed to provide paperwork about its...

Only one local authority in England and Wales has an average house price below £100,000 - while in every London borough...

We think about technology all the time. At least, I do. And there’s nothing left in property that technology hasn’t touched...

Homes in the most expensive area of England and Wales cost 25 times as much as in the cheapest area, according...

A London agency says it’s angry that out of 200,000 homes officially classified as long term empty across the UK, just...

London estate agency Marsh & Parsons has announced that its sales director Liza-Jane Kelly has taken the decision to leave after...

The proportion of first time buyers relying on inherited wealth or loans from the ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’ has reached...

Zoopla Property Group says that in the last three months alone over 100 estate agency branches have returned to its portal...

New data from LSL Property Services suggest that the image of London as one large housing market encountering difficulties at the...

Now I’m not one to lose sleep over politicians, but it strikes me that Communities Secretary Sajid Javid and Housing Minister...

New research suggests there has been a slight increase in the total number of estate agency offices in Greater London this...

We are now only days away from one of the most-anticipated events in UK politics; one which has a considerable impact...

Graham Norwood recently wrote that it’s going to be harder than ever to predict the shape of the property market in...

Data from Your Move suggests annual house price movements in London boroughs range massively from +16.4 per cent to -16.5 per...

Property Academy is embarking on its annual Home Moving Trends Survey in a bid to find out how vendors select agents...

Property sales and lettings agency William H Brown, part of the Sequence UK network, has acquired Porter Glenny estate agents in...

What a month it has been. By the time you read this, we'll have a new Prime Minister, a new Cabinet,...

The Budget's over, Easter is a week away, and agents are preparing for the busiest time of year - whatever the...

Publicity-conscious online estate agency eMoov claims vendors in London have spent £861.5m on traditional estate agents’ fees in 2015.  eMoov accuses agents...

Over the past six months I’ve noticed a number of key themes emerge from the conversations I’ve had with agents –...

Another house price index has suggested a strong mainstream housing market but a struggling one at the high end. The latest LSL...

An estate agency claims there is a “contagion” spreading across the prime London housing market with sales reduced drastically thanks to...

So housing made itself top of the list of questions by the new Leader of the Opposition’s first PMQs on Wednesday...

No agent reading this will be under any illusions that the agency market is a particularly competitive sector to operate in.  I...