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A former pub landlord has been appointed a new franchisee to take over Winkworth’s Worthing office on the South Coast. Nathan Wright...

A variety of charities have received support from the property industry over the past week. If there are charitable endeavours you think...

Lomond has more than doubled its footprint spanning the South Coast after sealing a new deal for Hampshire agent Beal’s. The brand...

The managing director of an estate agency has pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault by beating but did not...

The National Association of Property Buyers (NAPB) and Gumtree have teamed up to help fightback against fraudsters, particularly when it comes...

Rightmove and Propertymark have unveiled a two-year partnership to provide agents with the latest local market data and easier access to...

OnTheMarket this morning claims to be the first major UK property portal to use Artificial Intelligence natural-language technology. The controversial technology is...

Sussex based estate and lettings agency Mishon Mackay has continued its regional expansion with the acquisition of Kemptown-based brand Justin Lloyd. The...

Landlords are exiting the market in droves. According to an accountancy firm who analysed HMRC data, 70,000 buy-to-let landlords left the sector...

Lomond-owned agencies have reported a rise in market activity since the start of the year, despite withdrawals and fall-throughs remaining high. A...

New 2023 research from Open Property Group found that just 41% of homes in England meet the recommended Energy Performance Certificate...

Agency acquirer The Lomond Group has unveiled a rebrand to mark its two-year anniversary. Co-created at the beginning of 2021 when property...

Some may see there are similarities between finding your perfect partner and your perfect home. Brighton brand Maslen Estate Agents has taken...

New research has uncovered the most densely populated areas for estate agency branches. Agency comparison website GetAgent’s internal data tracks the number...

From singing and dancing to charitable support and sponsorships, agents have shown that there are plenty of ways to raise money...

A team of estate agents from Sussex-based Mishon Mackay went the extra mile to assist a buyer who found herself in a...

From bake sales to beach clean-ups, there have been plenty of ways that agents have been giving back for good causes...

Leaders Romans Group (LRG) has opened its first sustainable branch in Kemptown, Brighton City Centre. The Leaders-branded office has been completely refurbished...

A West Sussex estate agency has unveiled expansion plans after achieving a record-breaking £112m of new home sales in the past...

There is a staggering £117 billion worth of property currently up for sale across the UK property market, according to new...

Lomond Group, which says it is the UK’s fastest-growing estate agency network, has appointed Ed Phillips as its new Group Chief...

As debate rages over levelling up and a north/south property divide, in the first of a new monthly column, property expert...

New data from Rightmove has analysed millions of supply, demand and pricing data points across the property market, to assess activity...

There is pressure growing in Brighton for the city to hold a referendum giving residents the opportunity to ban new build...

The clocks have fallen back, the nights are longer and the temperature has definitely dropped - winter is here and with...

Sir David Amess, murdered at a constituency surgery last month, may have an unexpected housing market legacy for his constituents. To commemorate...

The Nested online agency, which recently revamped its business model to attract more self-employed agents, is expanding outside London for the...

The self-employed partnership known as The Agency UK - founded by three refugees from Purplebricks - has announced a major expansion. The...

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has hinted for the second time that he is looking towards property to help fund his...

Labour is to reveal a raft of new housing policies at its party conference this weekend - and it claims it’s...

We may be getting an extended summer but agents haven’t just been basking in the heatwave. There has been plenty of goodwill...

One of the biggest trends since Covid, in the property world and elsewhere, has been a shift towards more hybrid, flexible...

An estate agency has calculated precisely how much residential property has been sold so far this year, fuelled by the stamp...

A council cracking down on the increase of illegally positioned estate agent boards. Agents are required, under Planning and Highways legislation to...

A hybrid agency which until now has been active only in London is launching new hubs in Manchester and Brighton. Agent &...

High end agency Hamptons has quantified the trend of Londoners quitting the capital in the light of the pandemic. It says that...

Welcome to part three of our ongoing series on local independent agents, as we seek to give this all-important part of...

As regular readers will know, the Natter kickstarted a series last time out zoning in on local independent agents – the...

New research attempts for the first time to identify the most lucrative property markets in the country - with surprising results...

An estate agency in the south of England has abandoned its online-only strategy and has decided to open a physical office...

Independent agency Sawyer & Co has announced the opening of a new branch in the Preston Park area of Brighton -...

A south coast estate agency which has been operating since the 1980s has opened its seventh office.  Jacobs Steel’s latest branch is...

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of PJT, the industry’s summary of new movers. Of course many agencies are reassessing their...

Hello and welcome to another week. We’re more than aware that it’s a challenging time for our industry as for most...

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

Hello and welcome to the last day of January, Brexit Day and - perhaps most importantly - the latest edition of...

There may be lots of agents giving time this weekend to see England at the Rugby World Cup final and Lewis...

The average age of a first-time buyer in the UK is 27, according to research from Nested.com. The online estate agency says...

Shadow defence secretary Nia Griffiths is pledging to improve the quality of housing for serving military personnel if Labour gets into...

Labour will this week discuss plans to allow councils to compulsorily purchase homes left empty for six months. Young Labour - a...

In a previous Natter, I promised to talk more about CRMs – and here I stick to that promise. Following on from...

We daren’t mention it but this is the final Bank Holiday before…well, Christmas.  Let’s hope agents and suppliers have an opportunity to...

Hello and welcome to Property Jobs Today - your final chance before the Easter break to catch up with the key...

It’s not just the high-end market for homes in the south east that’s hit by Brexit according to the Guild of...

We’re back with the first edition of Agents Do Charity for 2019 - and despite the uncertainty everywhere else, one thing...

Well here we are, at the last Agents Do Charity of the year. It’s been a record haul of good works, as...

Zoopla claims a new Property Valuation Report being trialled in nine areas will win more leads for agents.  The PVR will use...

Bored with Brexit? Baffled by the backstop? Troubled by the transition period?  Well here’s a promise - there’s no mention of the...

An insurer claims there is a huge gulf between the cost of rebuilding a house and its market value because around...

Hello and welcome to another Agents Do Charity - your opportunity to salute those in our industry working hard for great...

The young entrepreneur behind Doorsteps, the estate agency that deliberately avoids the huge marketing razzamatazz of other online companies, says his...

It’s London Marathon weekend and it’s set to be hot, hot, hot for those agents and other brave industry folk running...

A Maserati 3200 has ended up wedged into the front of a Fox and Sons estate agency office in central Brighton. The...

Thanks once again for your contributions to this weekly round-up of agents’ good works; we love covering these stories which show...

Hello and welcome to our latest Property Jobs Today; if you missed the launch last week, each Monday we will provide...

Data from a firm specialising in lone-worker protection suggests that there has been a 27 per cent increase in the number...

Lloyds Bank has revealed a league table of the cities which have seen the highest price growth over the past decade...

There's just a week to go to Children In Need, the UK's largest fund-raising event of the year - as we...

Winter really is the time for fund-raising - and thanks for letting us know exactly what you are up to to...

And so concludes another party conference season.  We’ve followed the great and the good (both terms are debatable) around Torbay, Bournemouth,...

Figures in the property industry have sharply criticised the announcement made at the Conservative party conference to pump an estimated £10...

Labour’s shadow housing minister John Healey is reported to be one of a number of prominent front bench opposition spokespeople being...

An estate agent who is campaigning for boards to be banned in his local area says they should be 'confined to...

In this week’s Natter I’m going to get all political. Don’t worry, I won’t be giving my opinions on Brexit, Trump...

The roadshow of presentations of Agents’ Mutual’s plans to float on the stock market have just passed the half-way mark. Remaining sessions...

High profile estate agency Cluttons has returned to marketing with Zoopla Property Group (ZPG).  The firm rejoined the portal at the end...

Home ownership has halved for young families across some parts of the UK according to a charity.  The Resolution Foundation says its...

Lomond Capital has purchased a majority stake in one of the south coast of England’s major estate and letting agency groups,...

At the end of a week dominated by grim news, it is worth remembering our capacity for good far outweighs rare...

London multi-office estate agency Victorstone Property Consultants has won the ‘Best National Guild Member’ accolade at the annual awards of the...

The south’s seaside resorts are stealing the headlines for all the wrong reasons and at the heart of the troublesome issue...

Sawyer & Co., an agency operating sales and lettings in Brighton and Hove, is the latest firm to be chosen to...

The former ‘retail director’ of Countrywide’s south east operations, Keith Knight, has left the troubled agency group and has returned to...

The average UK property takes 91 days to sell - and that’s down to greedy sellers according to the mortgage arm...

Auction rooms across the UK are filled with people looking to buy property, from bargain hunters to seasoned investors, ensuring that...

Schools going back, final Bank Holiday over until Christmas, and agents returning from their summer breaks. It can only mean September. But...

YOPA, the online agency which now has financial investment from Savills, says its instructions have risen five-fold since February. It also says...

A leading estate agent in a town where the local council wants to dramatically extend a ban on For Sale and...

A ban on agents' For Sale and To Let boards is being widened out across a city six years after a...

With a number of agent partner programmes available nationwide, estate agents can often increase business by offering sales by auction, especially...

The Conservatives on the council in Brighton and Hove have called for a ban on estate agents’ boards to be extended...

Running a business is not easy, but sometimes it becomes harder because we are expected to modify our behaviour due to...

March and spring are fast approaching - time for more entries to be listed on this regular Friday feature, giving respect...

John D Wood, one of Countrywide's two high-end brands operating in London and southern England, has produced a cinema commercial to be...

Lomond Capital has acquired John Shepherd Estate Agent in Birmingham as it continues to 'expand south.' The deal, which includes Marwood Homes...

If you think house price indices are confusing, just look at affordability indices. As recently as Monday BBC TV news reported that,...

Agents' Giving: No less than £20,000 has been raised at the Agents Giving Ball where Phil Spencer and 240 of the...

There's been a surge in agents letting us know about their fantastic good work - an indication of just how big...

We’re all familiar with 'gazumping' – most us have been 'gazumped' or indeed been the perpetrators of this practice, for it...

The number of buyers being gazumped has fallen by 40% since October 2014, according to online estate agent eMoov. The agency surveyed...