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Delays with the return of property searches is one key factor for sales taking longer to complete. As conveyancers start to warn...

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

‘Many are in complete denial about the time it takes and still think it’s eight to 10 weeks.’ I won’t tell you...

If this year has taught us anything, it's that estate agents need their software provider and specifically their CRM, to help...

Recent debate about urgent need for reform and better collaboration within the property industry, has once again come under the spotlight...

A new survey of prime London property shows 21 per cent of homes on sale have had their asking prices cut...

An alarming story has appeared in the mortgage trade press, highlighting an apparent pitfall in the house buying process that has...

Annual house price inflation is now running at 6.5 per cent according to the latest Nationwide index after a 0.9 per...

One of the biggest supporters of the self employed estate agent business model admits there are risks and it’s not for...

The Federation of Independent Agents trade group has unveiled a new automated nurture product available exclusively to members - and it claims...

Public sentiment over the housing market remains stable despite the Coronavirus crisis and the possibility of a No Deal Brexit. That’s the conclusion...

The Property Ombudsman has joined calls for greater disclosure of referral fees by agents.  The issue has become a hot topic in...

NAEA Propertymark has renewed its warning that a cliff-edge threatens housing market stability as the stamp duty holiday ends. The organisation’s outgoing chief...

Property sales take a seriously long time to complete. There are a number of reasons for this, although often delays are...

The secure Conservative victory in the 2019 General Election meant the property market in the sunlit uplands was set for a...

As what now seems like a common occurrence everything has changed again since I last sat down to write about the...

Property tax rises and falling house prices look as if they are on the way according to the small print accompanying...

Stamp duty breaks have historically done little to help the housing market - and it’s the same now. So says David Hannah,...

So, we’re back to where we were in the spring, more or less. England is in a national lockdown again to...

You probably don’t have to listen closely to hear estate agents across the country starting to cheer. It’s been a big...

Moving home is emotionally fraught. Buyers and sellers will get upset and unfortunately some people will take it out on you....

The Guild of Property Professionals is urging the industry - all agents, not just its own members - to lobby MPs...

Zoopla’s research team is anticipating the first quarter of next year will see the current boom continue as 100,000 additional sales...

The mixture of the stamp duty holiday and generally fast-rising house prices has led to a resurgence of flipping. Data released this...

Safety checks which are apparently now preventing thousands of owners selling flats are to be eased - but there is confusion...

It may make little difference to agents but a leading analyst suggests thousands of buyers have effectively lost money on their purchase...

A mortgage technology platform has released figures suggesting the housing market remains strong, with high numbers of searches by buyers for...

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

Searches that are bound by the Search Code, protecting the seller, buyer and lender, are property and not client specific. As...

Newspapers are pushed through the door, whereas websites have to pull in visitors - it’s a simple but fundamental difference with vast implications...

Tenants, landlords, agents, and house buyers all breathed a sigh of relief on Halloween when the government announced that home moves...

The Boomin portal, which incentivises agents to cross-sell and benefit from referral fees, is to receive advice on fee disclosure from...

The government has revealed new regional price caps for its revamped Help To Buy Equity Loan scheme, set to operate between...

It’s no secret that the recent pandemic has forced more businesses to operate remotely, but the shift for estate agents has...

The customer service performance of conveyancers has improved in recent months according to the ESTAS review platform.  The long-standing and sometimes-heated debate...

Purplebricks has just appointed its new chief marketing officer, who was most recently global director of restaurants at a food chain. Ben...

One of the country’s top buying agents is advising purchasers and vendors to avoid online agencies and 'bucketshop' conveyancers. Edward Heaton - founder...

Estate agents can stand out from the crowd and help consumers through lockdown by providing a more secure sales process, a...

A regional wing of Fine & Country has reported a record month - and puts it down to the self-employed ‘associate’ business model...

Just when you thought the housing market was beginning to calm down... along comes a likely vaccine for Coronavirus. One of the country’s...

Hello and welcome to the latest PJT, your opportunity to catch up on who’s moving where in the agency and supplier...

Asking prices are down for the first time in many months. It’s a small drop - an average of 0.5 per cent...

With a new President elected and the old one reluctant to move out, this is a good time to see how...

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

A law firm wants the government to agree that properties that have exchanged but not yet completed can definitely benefit from the...

One of the industry’s leading commentators says an unintended consequence of a possible Capital Gains Tax increase could be a bonus...

An unidentified estate agency has been threatened with prosecution by a local council after opening its office to the public during...

A new report funded by high profile consumer champion Martin Lewis says the government must do more to help ‘mortgage prisoners’. These...

A PropTech platform that says it halves the time taken for transactions has just completed a multi-million pound investment round. Coadjute - which...

The London sales market is slowing as Christmas nears but no significant impact has been caused by the second wave of...

Many agents are brilliant at giving a personal touch and are professional in the way they treat customers, but I would...

As we embark on another nationwide lockdown, the team at SDL Auctions are keen to help agents ride the storm, beat...

A survey of people currently buying property suggests as many as a quarter may pull out if they know they’ll miss...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says its new Home Survey Standard will be implemented from March and will represent a...

The six brands that make up The Property Franchise Group are the latest signings for yet-to-launch portal Boomin. TPFG’s brands are national...

A leading firm of conveyancers will this week tell new clients that their property purchases are likely to miss the stamp...

The trend of buyers apparently fleeing the city to get more for their money in the country has hit the buffers...

Fledgling portal Boomin - launching later this month - has announced another 10 independent regional agencies as founder members. This includes its...

A new survey has been launched by the Residential Property Surveyors Association. The RPSA - which wants to rival the RICS as...

Purplebricks recently launched a meditation service to help buyers and sellers manage stress. You might disagree with the idea, but moving...

I remember so clearly in my Foxtons days, working as a lettings manager in Putney, that lettings, though less sexy than...

Buyers in around 30 per cent of English cities are almost certainly already too late to complete a purchase by March 31...

A London property investment consultancy says 22 per cent of properties it’s advised overseas purchasers on this year have been bought sight-unseen. London...

The national lockdown beginning on Thursday makes the case for an extension to the stamp duty holiday, according to a tax...

Advanced information released today about Boomin suggests it will seek a much closer relationship with agents than existing portals, with lifetime...

We can all agree that the recovery of the property market since May has been outstanding. The latest data from Zoopla...

Figures just released from HM Revenue & Customs show just how much stamp duty buyers pay, at least before the current holiday...

The housing market is to remain open in the four week lockdown in England. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government...

Recent figures emanating from the mortgage and housing market suggest that – since lockdown was ended in mid-May – transaction levels...

The housing market boom looks set to continue for some months yet as mortgage approvals for home purchases hit their highest...

The housing market’s recovery will be threatened with drastic consequences for buyers and sellers if the stamp duty holiday isn’t extended beyond...

A London agency says it's discovered the five key priorities that buyers want, following a survey of its own database. “Lockdown and...

The so-called hub model of estate agency adopted by a growing number of firms appears to be part of a wider...

A conveyancing firm is blaming councils for delays in transactions. Conveyancers have themselves been sharply criticised in recent weeks as the sharp...

There are 140,000 more buyers waiting to complete on their properties right now than there were this time last year. The claim, by...

One of Britain’s most respected agents is suggesting Chancellor Rishi Sunak could ‘taper’ the stamp duty holiday to avoid a cliff-edge...

A developer operating in prime central London is offering buyers a deferred-payment scheme. K10 Group says it’s doing this because of the...

It’s been an unexpected year for the property market, shaped by the effects of the pandemic. We didn’t quite anticipate the...

Agents spend their whole careers telling vendors and landlords why they will be able to achieve a better sale price or...

Independent agent uses innovative ‘feet up’ campaign to win business. An independent letting agency has invited landlords to put their ‘feet up’...

Putting fingers to keyboard to create blogs and articles isn’t always the easiest job for agents, particularly when meetings, viewings and...

It’s a given these days that your business needs to be on social media. Consumers spend a large portion of their...

Staying on top of the numbers and figures in a constantly changing industry can be stressful. Changing property prices can be...

A new tool which identifies preferences of Facebook users and then targets them with ads for appropriate homes on sale, is...

A new property portal that operates a Tinder-style ‘swipe’ app is offering agents 12 months free listings. MoveStreets operates like the dating...

Yet-to-launch portal Boomin has secured the support of 10 more estate agencies, one of them the national chain Humberts. In its third...

The new two per cent stamp duty surcharge applying to non-resident buyers may cause a wide range of properties to be...

A new survey reveals the uphill struggle first time buyers appear to be having in securing a mortgage. A study of 1,000...

The outgoing chief executive of the National Association of Estate Agents is warning that the sales system continues to struggle with...

Another attempt is being made to introduce property logbooks to the selling and buying process, and agents are invited to play a...

The Stamp Duty Land Tax holiday has been a hot topic of conversation for many in the residential property industry –...

The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the way every industry operates and the property sector is no exception. Following an enforced seven-week...

Purplebricks is the first estate agency in the country to launch a meditation service to ease “the emotional rollercoaster felt by...

One of the latest 10 agents joining the still-to-launch Boomin portal says it could be the go-to website for all property...

A tax expert says his research suggests some buyers of homes with annexes may have paid too much stamp duty on...

A new analysis of searches and leads to agents by Rightmove suggests buyers in London are deserting central locations in favour of...

I had a wry smile when I read the article on Monday from the conveyancers complaining about people getting off their...

Delays across the house buying sector mean those wanting to benefit from the stamp duty holiday need to begin the buying...

Agents in some parts of the country may be able to make use of data from utilities comparison service uSwitch, which...

Another new property portal has been launched, this one - Mutual - describing itself as the ‘Pre-Portal Property Platform for estate...

The country producing the largest number of buyers of prime London properties is not China, nor from north America or the...

Sales of £1m-plus homes have surged since lockdown as affluent buyers seek more space and lifestyle changes.  An average of 868 £1m-plus...

A mortgage service claims 46 per cent of buyers have had their prospective property down-valued by lenders - often forcing them...

The latest Rightmove asking price index shows the extraordinary market and amazing times we are living through. The average price of property coming...

2020 has definitely been a year of change. With little warning, the pandemic disrupted the day-to-day operations of almost every industry...

Zoopla has linked with a PropTech company led by the former boss of Purplebricks to offer agents free virtual viewings services. The...

A Bank of England survey suggests it may be more difficult for prospective buyers to get a mortgage later this year. In...

Online agency Purplebricks says an absence of technology in property details is one of the biggest turn-offs for potential buyers. A survey...

New instructions almost doubled across prime areas of London in September compared to the same period a year ago, while the...

The south of England is not the only region to benefit as city-dwellers search for more greenery and outdoor space, says...

A new Proptech platform is launching next month with claims it will “up-end the way agents do business” and that it will...

A new portal-style PropTech product has launched and wants to recruit estate agents to its fold - despite describing the way...

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

Countrywide’s high-end brand John D Wood and Co has launched a new country house department, to take advantage of growing demand...

In early September, mio achieved an industry first with the release of the mio chain view API. Now, all the parties...

Many agents, certainly those in London, will have faced the difficult task of selling a flat with a shorter lease. A...

A right wing magazine once edited by Boris Johnson has called estate agents “spivs with tape measures” who conceal information from...

The total Sales Agreed in 2020 so far has overtaken Sales Agreed up to this point in 2019, despite the Coronavirus...

New figures released this morning give weight to calls for the complete scrapping of stamp duty.  The dats shows there have been...

House prices in September were 7.3 per cent higher than a year earlier – the highest house price inflation since June 2016. The Halifax...

London’s properties are “over-valued” according to a leading bank. UBS, which has what it calls a Global Real Estate Bubble Index, says...

Recently, when giving speeches, I have discussed investment trends and industry trends that the built environment is experiencing. They are quite...

Stamp duty specialist consultancy Cornerstone Tax claims some 120,000 buyers in the UK may be owed SDLT refunds. It says that in...

A former healthcare executive is the latest convert to become an online agent with easyProperty, the company has announced. Richard Ayres has...

The so-called ‘trade up gap’ for people buying for the second time has grown to a record £67,761 according to Rightmove. The...

It’s about this time of year, pandemic or not, that agents may be asked one particularly awkward question by a vendor...

The National Association of Estate Agents has thrown its weight behind the recommendation of Trading Standards that agents must by law be...

An estate agent in Liverpool has adopted the unusual technique of urging vendors to sell now “before prices crash.” Clearly unworried about...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he wants to create a ‘Generation Buy’ to help young people purchase homes with low-deposit mortgages. In...

Customers must be told about third party referral fees when buying or selling a home says the National Trading Standards Estate...

As the review of the recommendations of the Regulation of Property Agents Working Group continues, Emily Hawthorne, mio Account Manager and...

A new online platform claims to be the first of its kind to speed up the private treaty sales process for...

Savills has boosted its forecast for housing transactions this year because the stamp duty holiday has been such a success at...

Almost half of the country’s first time buyers say their plans have been delayed - or worse - thanks to Coronavirus,...

A leading agency says so-called Covid Clauses are being inserted into contracts as buyers become increasingly cautious ahead of a possible...

Mortgage approvals for house purchases have soared to a 13 year high according to Bank of England figures up to the...

A league table drawn up by a quick buy property firm claims that some estate agents' average commission has hit 2.32 per...

A veteran agent with 38 years experience of the industry - much of it at Countrywide - has become the head...

Property technology company OneDome, which operates two portals - OneDome and Nethouseprices - has raised another £5m in funding.  It says it...

A quick buy firm which typically purchases homes from sellers at below market levels has accused estate agents and the private...

Recent Natters have explored the differences between the UK and American models of agency, and why Purplebricks failed to make a...

The cross-sector group looking at reforming the sales process has agreed a new pledge which it says introduces greater transparency for...

Two reports this morning suggest that activity in the most expensive sectors of the housing market is doing as well as...

New PropTech products continue to appear, many aimed at enhancing transparency in buying and selling, or helping agents adopt new ways of...

Seller and landlord leads are what makes estate agency tick. Without them, new business is nowhere to be seen and you...

The government claims its stamp duty holiday has supported nearly 750,000 jobs thanks to the ripple effect in the economy. A statement from HM...

Two agencies have entered the debate on whether the current frenzied housing market is seeing delays in completions. Yesterday EAT reported that...

Logjams in the mortgage, conveyancing and removal stages of house moving mean sales are taking much longer than usual, according to...

A family-run agency which last year asked people to “make an offer” to buy a franchise is now claiming it will...

A quick buy firm boasting it has ‘sold’ a home within six days also says it now takes 140 days on...

A new league table drawn up by a property advice website may be the most authoritative yet for first time buyers...

With the high street open again, and the Chancellor’s temporary stamp duty holiday helping to stimulate the market, estate and letting...

I’m sure I speak for most in the property industry when I say that back in March and April I had...

When it comes to the future of the property market in the wake of Covid-19, there are two main schools of...

Almost a third of property sellers (29%) say they won't accept a lower offer for their property, according to new research. Online...

The strong performance of the auction market in recent months has been reinforced by the latest figures from iamsold, the UK's...

Almost two fifths of property buyers don't know what conveyancers and solicitors do, according to new research. My Home Move Conveyancing's survey...

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

A new PropTech startup is giving prospective buyers the opportunity to receive due diligence at a fraction of the time and...

The scale of the problems facing many prospective buyers has been set out in a survey showing as many as one-third...

Hello and welcome to the new working week. Here’s the latest information on key hires across our industry: if you have similar...

A new customer service award category at The ESTAS will see agency networks competing against each other for the first time.  Networks...

For a number of years now, predictions have been made that one of the major tech giants will eventually enter the...

If you’re in any way connected to estate agency all it takes is a quick glance at Facebook or LinkedIn to...

A buying agency targeting what it calls the “prime and super-prime” London market is offering clients not only a sourcing service, but also...

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

Be proactive, have a plan, and keep prospecting.  After the easing of lockdown measures, it’s safe to say the property market picked...

At mio, we often have conversations with Estate Agency firms who have a dedicated sales progresser in their team. Whilst there...

House prices rose again in August to reach a record high level according to Halifax, which is part of the Lloyds...

A sentiment survey conducted amongst 585 estate agents by the OnTheMarket portal suggests fewer than half have witnessed price rises since...

Knight Frank says its analysis of the whole housing market across the UK shows that transactions in the final full week...

The Competition and Markets Authority is today opening enforcement cases focusing on the sale of leasehold homes by four leading housebuilders. They...

Research by Zoopla has revealed the scale of the mistakes by and regrets for disillusioned home buyers. For large numbers of people...

For many agents it’s been a big week…not because of the surge of buyers, but because their children have returned to...

Estate agents are increasingly using low-key ‘grey’ marketing to avoid too many prospective buyers swamping them when homes go on sale. That’s...

Record house prices recorded this week by the Nationwide index are set to go higher still according to a leading agent. Nationwide...

From December, the new RICS Home Survey Standard will become mandatory for all RICS professionals undertaking home surveys. The below article explains...

A specialist property lender says transactions are being delayed by key staff being furloughed. Gareth Lewis, commercial director of property lender MT...

Recent speculation that the so-called Bank of Mum and Dad would be playing a reduced role in the housing market has...

It’s fair to say that UK estate agents don’t have the best of reputations, often featuring in the lists of the...

Figures from Zoopla quantify how Coronavirus is changing the market, with houses selling significantly faster than flats. The latest market report from...

With the UK officially in what has been described as the single worst national recession in the world, one agency has...

Data from Rightmove shows that demand is up 61 per cent compared to the same period last year - and the...

Some 275,000 subscribers have signed up for the latest Zoopla email education programme under the Zooploma banner. This one is aimed at...

In another sign of the buoyant housing market, estate agency Savills is breaking tradition by staging its first ever August auction...

A new portal launches today with 100,000 listings and a pledge to target buyers largely ignored by established websites - investors. It’s...

Zoopla has been awarded £50,000 of premium ad space with the Telegraph Media Group in recognition of a campaign to help the UK...

The scale of the market bounce back after lockdown is made clear in new figures from HM Revenue & Customs. It registers...

A prominent industry figure says the current stamp duty holiday could effectively be a trap to lure in buyers who will...

The stamp duty holiday running until March next year has triggered a surge in interest in UK property from Hong Kong...

The supply of homes coming to the market could struggle to meet the demand from buyers shown in recent weeks, with...

The number of people moving home dropped by almost a third in the first half of 2020, as the global pandemic...

A PropTech platform that claims to halve the time a transaction takes has received a huge cash injection from investors for...

One of Countrywide’s biggest shareholders has written a second letter to the company to demand bold action to save the agency...

An online agency says it’s offering its customers a kind of ‘fall-through insurance’ after over 100 deals collapsed between mid-March and...

A leading buying agency is warning sellers and buyers not to jump the gun and abandon London in the belief that...

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

One of the country’s highest-profile mortgage lenders, HSBC, is restricting loans on apartments from today. Only buyers of flats who have a...

Many young people are stuck unable to purchase their first home even if house prices fall in the wake of the...

It has been three months since the property market was given the green light to reopen. During this time, we have...

Agents should check where buyers and sellers have been on holiday as part of their approach to safety during the Coronavirus...

I want to talk to you about new ways to sell homes. Let's not encourage people to sell but just swap...

A property developer has set up an estate agency that charges no commission to sellers but instead levies a non-refundable reservation...

Knight Frank says the stamp duty holiday for properties at £500,000 and below should be made permanent. The holiday is due to...

The Federation of Independent Agents has announced its latest partnership - this time with a live-streaming viewing service called Gavl. The platform...

The Sequence Group is to be the sole selling agent for RoyaleLife, the country’s largest builder of bungalows, exclusively aimed at...

Agents have been understandably delighted at the latest Halifax index which shows house prices posting their biggest gain of the year...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has confirmed that the First Homes scheme will provide newly built homes at a 30 per cent...

The UK residential activities of high-end agency Savills suffered a 54 per cent reduction in profits and an eight per cent...

The proportion of the asking price achieved on average in the past year is 95.8 per cent according to a new survey. Comparison...

It’s probably not a surprise but new research has revealed where people want to move to - as well as where...

Following the easing of lockdown restrictions on England’s property market in May, NAEA Propertymark reported a sharp increase in business for...

A PropTech firm that regularly claims London homes are mis-measured in property descriptions has taken a swipe at Purplebricks. Pupil, a spatial...

The Guild of Property Professionals is relaunching its online auction brand - Guild Auctions - even though it has already successfully...

New information has come to light which suggests that a leading marketing platform may be planning to step into the CRM...

The Nationwide says annual house price growth has recovered to 1.5 per cent. Its July house price index says the fall in...

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

One of the main points I’ve had reinforced to me from agent after agent over the last year of hosting a...

“Many hands make light work” – Does John Heywood’s old English proverb from the 1300s apply to modern approaches on how...

A housing market snapshot for prime London shows a fall of over half in the number of £1m-plus properties sold so...

A new study confirms the growing trend of buyers wanting good broadband links - and the possibility that homes without them...

Mortgage approvals - a key indicator of short-term activity in the housing market - beat expectations in June according to Bank...

Government leaks to mainstream and building trade media suggest the controversial Help To Buy scheme will be extended beyond its end-of-2020 deadline. An...

The number of Hong Kong buyers looking at property in London has doubled in just five weeks according to an agency...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s stamp duty holiday means prime property in the UK now enjoys lower tax rates than most European countries. Buyers...

A new website that describes itself as an estate agency says it wants to “empower people to sell their own home”...

Rightmove says a study of some 400,000 homes on its portal has revealed that those with a coveted south-facing garden have...

Can technology bring about the lasting change needed to the property industry? The industry has felt the effect of lockdown and...

Zoopla says while there may be speculation about people fleeing London and big urban areas for the countryside, the evidence suggests...

The housing market is still booming according to data released by the National Association of Estate Agents Propertymark - although the...

An agent in Hertfordshire says he routinely secures 5,000 visits to ‘live open houses’ on Facebook Live, and have on one...

Earlier this month, it was revealed that property industry bodies have joined a new Code of Practice Steering Group to enact...

A new property website relying heavily on Artificial Intelligence allows sellers to by-pass estate agents and instead list directly for £14.99...

Zoopla's Research and Insight Director Richard Donnell writes: Just over a fortnight on since the Chancellor announced the Stamp Duty holiday and...

NAEA Propertymark is calling on agents to show “greater diligence” when dealing with Russian buyers, in the light of the report...

A PropTech platform that aims to lock-in sellers and buyers via a mutually agreed reservation agreement system is being offered free...

Agents have almost unanimously been reporting a big surge in business since the reopening of the housing market, but new figures...

The online agency Housesimple has rebranded to become 'Strike' with immediate effect. The news comes as a surprise given the apparent success...

In a video interview for Estate Agent Today, property professional Chris Buckler speaks to Matt Nicol, managing director of Nicol &...

Emma Vigus, managing director of sales progression platform mio, in discussion with key suppliers in the residential property industry on operating...

Knight Frank has reported a remarkable set of figures for June showing how the housing market has bounced back with a...

The estate agency industry has been sharply criticised for its record on protecting staff and customers during the Coronavirus crisis. The compliance...

A think tank says the stamp duty holiday introduced a week ago is understandable and may be helpful to the housing...

Zoopla has entered into a partnership with an online platform to promote the so-called Modern Method of Auction option to estate...

A major agency is warning that the current stamp duty holiday could leave the housing market in a state of lethargy...

Britain’s second largest lender is to offer 90 per cent loan to value mortgages once again from next Monday - a...

A property law firm is calling on the government to backdate the stamp duty holiday to include those buyers who completed...

The threshold at which Scotland’s Land and Buildings Transaction Tax is paid by purchasers is to be raised from £145,000 to...

You have to feel for Rishi Sunak - well, at least a little. Leave to one side that he carries more presentational...

At a recent Conveyancing Association webinar focused on the provision of upfront information in the property sale process, there was a...

In the second of a series of articles, Emma Vigus, Managing Director of mio, the Estate Agents Sales Progression platform, explores...

There’s no doubt that Covid-19 has had a huge impact on the UK’s property market, after hundreds of thousands of house...

Evidence is pouring in that the stamp duty holiday introduced 48 hours ago has already produced huge levels of interest from...

Savills has revised its market forecast for the enclaves of prime central London and now says prices will fall by 2.0...

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

An estate agency is warning that the likely rush of transactions when the new stamp duty holiday ends next spring will...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak - and the agency industry - will no doubt be delighted to know that visits to Rightmove soared...

The number of offers agreed on homes priced below £1m since mid-May is a healthy 41 per cent higher than the...

An industry analyst is challenging the long-established agents’ view that reducing or temporarily scrapping stamp duty would help the market. On the...

One of the many free-to-list portals now vying for attention is offering agents six months free access to a platform boasting...

A new study of British agents suggests that buyers with accents from most of the rest of the world receive less...

Have you ever wondered how industry-specific software and property portals have influenced the typical estate agency of today? A new book, which...

Mortgage enquiries in June surged to double the rate of the previous month according to the latest halifax house price index. Although...

Let’s face it sales progression is difficult and frustrating: 1)The process has never been properly joined up - the average chain has...

Agents have spoken out angrily against any uncertainty in the market caused by government leaks about future stamp duty changes. In recent...

The property market has been reopen for almost eight weeks now and during that time demand from prospective buyers has soared. Rightmove...

The Black Lives Matter debate has reached the property industry with some agents dropping the term ‘Master bedroom’ from descriptions. The Times...

The industry’s first virtual awards event has taken place with hundreds of agents participating courtesy of YouTube. Winners of the prestigious ESTAS...

In the first of a series of articles, Emma Vigus, managing director of mio, the estate agent sales progression platform, explores the...

We recently issued our Zoopla House Price Index, which analyses the latest real-time trends from the sales market. In our analysis, we...

A survey of 2,000 prospective movers by Zoopla shows the vast majority still intent on buying - but younger purchasers’ plans...

With the UK housing market now largely open - there are still restrictions in some areas on home moves to occupied properties...

A prominent tax specialist has suggested that stamp duty cuts would not help improve the housing market, despite many agents suggesting...

Agents have remained calm in the light of Nationwide’s house price index which shows the first annual fall for eight years...

A new estate agency Code of Practice is to be written by a group set up by the Royal Institution of Chartered...

Buyer demand for new-build property has bounced back 66 per cent in the six weeks since the resumption of the housing...

Collaboration creates a bigger market Iain White, of the Innovation Collaboration Group “the Estate Agency industry must recognise that collaboration will...

A former City analyst best known for his scathing criticisms of Purplebricks has launched a PropTech platform that he describes as...

Government figures show the 218,975 properties within Greater London have Chinese owners - and two agents say there will be more...

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

With three months of lockdown behind us, commission income is vital, and sales progression is more important than ever. Emma Vigus, Managing...

Buyer registrations and sales enquiries are reportedly back to pre-Covid levels. Completions, however, are lagging behind. This is probably down to...

The challenger portal scheduled to launch in less than a week’s time on July 1 has secured the support of 10,000...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Emma Vigus, Managing Director of sales progression platform mio You’ve never...

An analysis of Countrywide branch data outside London has revealed that one in 10 applicants who registered to buy were from...

Zoopla predicts that the price strength that has been seen since the reopening of the housing market is likely to continue...

Rightmove and OnTheMarket have announced that they are extending their cut-price fees deals, introduced because of Coronavirus. This morning Rightmove says: "We have...

The Welsh housing market is back in business today - at least in part. Letting and estate agents can reopen their offices...

“Let’s Zoom later”, “are we Zooming in the morning or afternoon?” “Yeah, I zoomed the client earlier” – variations on these...

The property market is used to change, and I’m confident it will bounce back from any lockdown effects. Despite being acutely aware...