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With Easter now upon us (happy Easter, by the way, and hope you’re enjoying the long weekend, the Easter eggs and...

An ex-housing minister and ex-Brexit secretary says he wants to radically change taxes on buy to let capital appreciation to help...

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

At the end of a week consisting of largely depressing market reports, new data from Knight Frank suggests that the bad...

The investment bank which on Friday put Purplebricks under the cosh has now given a boost to two High Street estate...

Some branches of one of London’s largest agencies, Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward, have returned to Zoopla after dropping it just over four...

It’s a testing time for the property industry, amid Brexit fears, a slowing market and the looming tenant fees ban.  There’s no...

A long running property magazine delivered to homes in prime areas of London has shut down with immediate effect. London Property had...

One in eight people buying or selling in the next six months say they will delay their plans because of Brexit...

Zoopla’s Hometrack index of 20 major UK cities shows that London property prices are starting to stabilise after a three year...

Hello and welcome to the regular Monday edition of Property Jobs Today. Everyone here contacted us on press@estateagenttoday.co.uk to espresso the word;...

Over the last few years, there have a number of changes to the stamp duty land tax (SDLT) regime, which have...

One of the largest investors in Purplebricks has now joined forces with an off-shoot of luxury car firm Porsche to launch...

Average house prices in the UK increased by 1.7 per cent in the year to the end of January according to...

A survey of owners has revealed that recent leasehold scandals have deterred many would-be buyers from considering new build homes.  The survey,...

Prices have dropped 0.5 per cent in the past year according to LSL Property Services, the parent company of Your Move...

The spring market has got off to a subdued start according to Rightmove - and the portal says more buyers are...

The topic of introducing rent controls in London crops up time and time again in our industry. But it’s been hitting...

You can tell it’s the onset of spring by the fact that this weekend sees the start of the Formula 1...

Savills has this morning talked up its investment in onliner Yopa, which it claims is the sixth largest estate agency in...

Estate agents have responded cynically to the small-fry property sector announcements made by Chancellor Phillip Hammond in yesterday’s spring statement mini-Budget. Overshadowed...

A PropTech firm claims agents are currently undervaluing properties in London because of what it calls “outdated and inaccurate property measurement...

Outsourced auction provider IAMSold says it is the top independent auctioneer for residential property lots sold in 2018, according to the...

The row over whether Help To Buy benefits house builders’ personal wealth more than it assists the housing market is continuing...

Another estate agency has closed one of its prime London offices as the capital’s most exclusive areas continue to be hit...

Hello and welcome to this half-term week’s PJT, your regular Monday opportunity to catch up with the key personnel changes in...

A design and renovation business has set up a property sourcing business which will find homes requiring renovation. What’s more, it claims...

There are many misconceptions about the franchising world but, whether we’re talking about estate agency franchises or fast food franchises, it’s...

Strutt & Parker says transaction levels in Prime Central London, already at a low ebb, plummeted a further nine per cent...

As an estate agent, you need to be ready to cater for the specific requirements of buyers and sellers, tailoring your...

There’s been a big rise in the number of homes being listed for sale despite ongoing concerns over Brexit. That’s the news...

The former LSL director of estate agency, David Newnes, has made what is officially described as “a significant investment” in a...

The former chief executive of Emoov says he has the answer to Foxtons’ current downbeat performance - it should exploit its...

The online publication aimed at London’s high-rolling property professionals, Prime Resi, has named what it believes to be the capital’s 10...

A respected property investment consultancy is warning that the current premium put on the prices of new-build homes - around 15...

Every day thousands of estate agency boards are erected across the UK. Even in the digital age the board remains one...

Shares in OnTheMarket hit another new low of 75.7p yesterday, dropping over nine per cent on the day and falling well...

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

A think tank is suggesting that micro-homes could be the answer to London’s shortage of available homes for first time buyers. The...

There may be a cloud over the economy right now but growth of 2.7 per cent in house prices last year...

Even with 2019 well underway, letting agents need to keep refining their long-term goals and business targets. For agencies with a...

It’s the word on everyone’s lips: after two and a half years of debate, and months before that leading up to...

Ilchester Place in London’s Holland Park may be the most expensive residential street in Britain - but it’s cheaper than a year...

As 2018 draws to a close, it is fair to say that stretched affordability and uncertainty over the Brexit negotiations has...

House price inflation across the UK has slowed to a six-year low of 2.6 per cent thanks to falls in London...

Londoners paid some £30 billion on homes elsewhere in the UK this year - the highest amount since 2007. A report from...

If your New Year’s resolution is to move to a four bedroom home in London or the south of England, you...

Purplebricks says it has £100m net cash to exercise “relentless innovation” and benefit from an industry shake-out that will ”expose undercapitalised traditional...

Research by comparison website Netanagent claims the commission paid to estate agents in London could be over £70,000 depending on where...

The chief executive of failed online agency Emoov has been named this week as one of the 500 top “tech influencers”...

Property analysts say ‘flippers’ - those who buy new homes and sell them quickly, hopefully for a profit - are losing...

The UK renting demographic is diversifying at a rapid pace. While the current market poses many challenges for traditional letting agents,...

Emoov has this afternoon appointed administrators as a result of not being able to secure a buyer - the move had...

House prices showed an unexpected pre-Christmas boost last last month but worries about Brexit remain foremost for buyers according to the...

The closure of Foxtons’ Park Lane office and five other branches in the capital are merely the start of things to come...

To say legendary ZPG founder and CEO Alex Chesterman left big boots to fill when he stepped back from day-to-day operations...

The latest research from online estate agency Emoov shows at least one silver lining to the current Brexit-hit housing market -...

A leading buying agent says the first quarter of 2019 may be crucial in determining the future of the current stamp...

Given that online property portals, dominated by a handful of websites, are by far the most popular home search method, it...

New research shows 35 per cent of deals fall through within three weeks of a seller receiving an offer and a...

New build property values are rising at a much greater rate than existing property values according to a study by DJ Alexander. The...

London estate agency JOHNS&CO, which specialises in new homes, has opened its seventh office in the capital - the announcement came...

A leading property consultancy has called out Manchester as the location which has seen the highest urban price growth of anywhere...

It’s been reported that Nested, an estate agency launched two years ago, has received a massive £120m cash injection from venture capitalists. Nested, which...

Coutts Private Bank is the latest institution to express its concern over London’s housing market. The latest Courts London Prime Property Index...

Homes that require major structural work have asking prices which are on average £40,000 below the market norm, according to research...

Two former High Street agents say their new hybrid agency has enjoyed an impressive launch gathering 40 instructions in just four...

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

I am currently in the back of a taxi. The deadline for this piece is looming and I am desperate to...

A consumer group says agents are securing increasing income from online auctions, but it warns that for buyers there are pitfalls...

Stamp duty relief for first time buyers of full-priced houses and apartments is to be extended to first time buyers of...

Perhaps it’s been our pre-occupation with Brexit, or on the other hand maybe we’re bored with politics, but this year’s Budget...

An open rental market, where neither landlord nor tenant is in a dominant position, enables rents to rise and fall, which...

One of London’s most prominent buying agencies says post-Brexit the interest in buying in the capital will return - whether there...

Few things anger the industry more than the effect of stamp duty and other costs on property transactions (well, maybe Purplebricks...

A new estate agency has come up with a novel way of taking prospective purchasers around its patch - by using...

A city’s housing market that suffered badly because of the collapse in North Sea oil prices is now likely to rebound...

It’s time to sort the wheat from the chaff when it comes to overseas buyers of property. If you listen to Theresa...

Hello and welcome to a new working week, which means your chance to catch up on the key moves in our...

The latest assessment of supply across the housing market undertaken by online agency HouseSimple claims that the number of new properties...

Agents have continued to express their shock and opposition to the announcement by the government that it wants a stamp duty...

London has been identified as one of a number of ‘bubble risk cities’ in a report by Swiss bank UBS. In a...

Zoopla has once again released its list of the costliest streets in the UK - but for the second year running...

Shareholders in the ailing Countrywide agency group appeared to remain largely indifferent to the news that their executive chairman Peter Long...

Estate agents say the continuing gentle slowdown reflected in the latest government house price figures will be the story of the...

Rightmove is reporting a mini-boom as the autumn market gets into gear, with a surge in buyers and a one-month rise...

Any day now we’ll hear the date for the Autumn Budget: it may be delayed to wait for a Brexit deal...

A well-known London estate agency says it signing up to a US-based real estate franchise network run by billionaire Warren Buffett. From...

One of Countrywide's major investors has significantly reduced its holding in the troubled estate agency group. Oaktree Capital yesterday lowered its stake...

The online auction platform BidX1 has announced a strategic investment which will be used to accelerate its growth. The investment comes from...

Following the first day of trading its new shares yesterday, Countrywide's share price finished at 12.52, down almost 4%. The new shares were...

An established estate agency in Guernsey is being listed as 'voluntarily winding up' and liquidators have been appointed. Concerns about Sarnia Estate...

Speculation is growing that Rightmove could drop out of the prestigious FTSE-100 within the next few days as the stock exchange...

An online estate agency run by one of the country’s youngest entrepreneurs has agreed to change a reference about savings on...

Countrywide’s embattled management leaders have been overwhelmingly backed by shareholders in their bid for additional funding. A General Meeting of shareholders was held...

House prices in a quarter of the UK’s largest cities are struggling to recover to the level they were at during...

Some 31 per cent of first time buyers residing in London ended up moving away from the capital to purchase a...

Countrywide’s share price defied the expectations of some analysts and rose over six per cent yesterday with the company moving from...

Today sees the first of a series of important deadlines which will determine the success of otherwise of Countrywide’s controversial rescue...

The chief executive of the newly-expanded Emoov group has been giving details of the merger with Tepilo and the possibility of...

JLL has opened a new ‘virtual’ office with dedicated sales and lettings staff to serve the Westminster and St James’s areas...

Boris Johnson is calling for a cut to Britain’s “absurdly high” stamp duty. Writing in this morning’s Daily Telegraph - the same newspaper...

Next week ludlowthompson celebrates its 25th anniversary. Here, I catch up with Stephen Ludlow, co-founder and now executive director of the...

When you are starting up a new business, it is unlikely that you will already have enough capital to invest. Taking...

The Swiss investment bank Credit Suisse has slashed its target share price for the company from 77p to only 17.2p.  The reason...

Countrywide is under fire again over the controversial rescue plan it announced last week. On Friday the troubled agency group’s share price -...

Small print in the Countrywide rescue plan announced yesterday spells out in stark terms what could happen if the company’s bid...

Countrywide's share price has dropped sharply following the announcement of the company's rescue plan - but the firm itself says this...

The Financial Times this morning says that Countrywide suffered a failed bond issue earlier this year, forcing it to rely on...

Labour says stamp duty receipts and other tax income from properties in the capital should go to the Mayor, Sadiq Kahn,...

Foxtons has suffered a massive 23 per cent drop in sales income and a nine per cent drop in overall company...

With the continued indecision surrounding Brexit and the final divorce settlement still months away, it seems property buyers are choosing to...

Figures from Savills suggest that there’s currently an average 1.14 price adjustments per sale across the prime regional markets of the...

One of the property industry’s best known figures, Richard Berridge, has teamed up with estate agency My London Home to lead...

The agonisingly painful decline of Countrywide continues, with no one sure whether it is the darkest hour before the dawn or...

Since January 2018, nine of the UK’s biggest banks have allowed competitors direct access to customer data as part of the...

The latest transaction figures from HM Revenue and Customs make depressing reading - a three per cent drop between May and...

Countrywide, the troubled estate agency group thought by some to be near collapse, has delayed issuing its interim figures which were...

The debate over alleged ‘down-valuing’ by mortgage lenders has flared again with one leading agent claiming that surveyors are just “covering...

It’s being reported this morning that Countrywide will seek new investment of over £100m, probably in the next few days.  The Sunday...

A new market snapshot shows how there’s now a two-tier market with homes in London taking substantially longer to sell than...

House prices in London are projected to fall in the short-term, down by two per cent by the end of 2018...

Locations in the capital dominate a league table of locations where the largest numbers of so-called ‘high risk’ mortgages are taken...

A left-leaning think tank is urging the Bank of England to manipulate the housing market to ensure house prices don’t rise...

The Agency Express board company says its monitor of the sales market suggests that it’s in better shape now than it...

An outspoken high-end London estate agent says millionaire foreign buyers purchasing “cheap” properties in the capital represent what he calls “the...

Purplebricks has acquired another fixed-fee agency for £29.3m - it’s in Canada and marks another new territory for the hybrid agency. The...

Hometrack says other cities are now closing the gap on London in terms of house prices and market value. The latest Hometrack UK...

House prices rose at their slowest annual rate in five years in June according to the latest indicator of this summer’s...

Transactions across Greater London have plummeted - they were down 7.9 per cent over the past three months and a whopping...

The head of London’s largest estate agency brand has hit back at a council in the capital which wants enhanced powers...

Estate Agent Today can reveal that Keller Williams, the US-led firm that has 170,000 agents worldwide, is to open its fourth...

Hunters is hoping to defy the long-running slowdown in the London market with the opening of a new branch in Greenwich.  The...

High-end housebuilder Berkeley Homes says “macro and political uncertainty, including Brexit” is leading to some developers previously building in London to...

Potential first-time buyers in every area of the UK would have lower monthly outgoings if they bought a property rather than...

Summer is traditionally the time of the year when the property market slows down, with people going away on their holidays...

The proportion of homes sold in London was lower than any other part of England and Wales last year according to...

A poll of housing market experts suggests London house prices are likely to fall this year as a result of Brexit...

OnTheMarket has announced to the City and its shareholders that it’s to reveal its annual results tomorrow - the first such...

Major auction companies continue to claim successes despite the challenging housing market. Auction House says a recent auction of London properties produced...

Cluttons - which a year ago was bought out of pre-pack administration by a so-called ‘turnaround’ business, RCapital - has now...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT - this is the first edition for a fortnight as last Monday was a...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity - and just because it’s half term, don’t think the industry has...

One of London’s best known high-end estate agents, Gary Hersham, says corruption crackdowns in this country and overseas may be deterring...

A study of house price affordability has revealed that train drivers can afford a greater proportion of homes in the UK's...

As we move towards another Bank Holiday Weekend, there is no shortage of phenomenal fundraising efforts from those in our industry.  If...

Average property prices fell in all but one English region during March, according to the latest official UK House Price Index. Overall,...

Average first-time buyers in London spend double the amount paid by those across the rest of Britain. A typical London buyer now...

A study of estate agencies and portals floated on the London Stock Exchange suggests that digital companies have shown much better...

Our industry does great work for good causes not just in this country but around the world, as this week’s Agents...

A new report suggests Capital Gains Tax changes coming into effect next year are worrying a large majority of wealthy overseas...

The chief executive of Winkworth says the upcoming Brexit is creating uncertainty and causing buyers and investors to delay purchasing plans. Dominic Agace,...

New data from Haart estate agency suggests that despite many homes sticking on the market, apparently would be buyers are locked...

GetAgent, an estate agent comparison website, has won investment from a growth fund that also provides a 10 month advertising campaign on...

One of the world’s leading agency and PropTech analysts says the race is on for who comes second in the UK’s...

New data from a private bank shows a five per cent rise in the number of £1m-plus homes sold in 2017.  The...

New online auction house BidX1 says it has raised £2,087,000 from its second UK auction, posting a 70 per cent success...

London’s housing market may be in the doldrums but two estate agencies have shown faith in its long-term recovery with moves...

Hello and welcome to the latest PJT, our regular Monday round-up of moves around our industry. Please let us know what’s happening...

If you want to know whether buy to let, landlords and letting agents will be in the firing line for more...

New figures from Hometrack show that a typical home in Greater London now takes 17 weeks to find a buyer -...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, the regular Monday update on who’s moving where within our industry. Let us know what’s...

A flat in Brixton is being raffled for £5 a ticket by a start-up entrepreneur who claims this is just the...

Stubbornly high house prices and concerns over leasehold-related charges top the list of worries amongst the public about the housing market. That’s...

In recent months, there’s been a notable move in the rental market towards deposit replacement products in place of traditional security...

A proposal by HMRC to speed up HMRC Capital Gains Tax payments for residential property sales could create a “compliance nightmare.” The...

The latest mortgage snapshot from e.surv has reinforced recent claims from other sources that London’s housing market remains the most difficult...

A US TV company is considering making a news programme about Russian involvement in property transactions in the UK and particularly London. The...

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

House price growth in London has hit a seven year low according to Hometrack, with prices actually down across 42 per...

One day, I’ll sit down to write for Estate Agent Today and I won’t express my dismay at the lack of...

Orchards of London, a four-office independent operating in the west of the capital, has been fully acquired by The Hogarth Property...

High-profile buying agency Black Brick has highlighted the scale of reductions now being made by sellers of some trophy properties in...

London estate agency chain Dexters is expanding its brand once again thanks to a new partnership with Stirling Ackroyd New Homes.  Dexters...

New analysis by Hometrack shows that large regional cities like Edinburgh, Birmingham and Manchester look set for a 20 per cent...

A 1.0 per cent interest rate rise would add £930 a year to the cost of servicing the average mortgage, according...

Brexit uncertainty and weakening consumer demand are likely to hit house prices this year, according to a survey of 33 housing...

A former president of the National Association of Estate Agents has attacked “irresponsible agents” for over-valuing asking prices in London in...

A forecast suggests HM Revenue & Customs will rake in no less than £8.8 billion in Capital Gains Tax in 2018...

An online agency says it knows exactly when a home should be marketed in order to sell in the optimum timeframe.  And...

Estate Agent Today can reveal that one of London’s best known agency chains has acquired one of the capital’s leading independent...

Hello and welcome to the latest Property Jobs Today, our round-up each Monday of key job moves within estate and letting...

The other day I met with two agents who have 30 years of property sales experience between them, and yet also...

OnTheMarket has told the City this morning that it has already signed up 81 new listing agreements by 5pm yesterday, completing...

One of the largest investment firms in the United States has taken a stake in the London-based venture capital firm Pi...

Franchise giant Winkworth, which opened seven new branches in 2017, has announced two new office openings this month.  They are at Banstead...

OnTheMarket’s share price fell just over five per cent yesterday, continuing its troubled launch on to the London stock exchange. It...

Hello and welcome to Property Jobs Today; this is the latest of our weekly round-ups of key job moves within estate...

House price falls have been recorded in London, the South East and the North East according to data from LSL Property Services,...

OnTheMarket has finally completed its stock market float, with less capital raised, at a lower than planned valuation and, as I write,...

There has been a 40 per cent increase in new vendors registering their properties for sale according to an online estate...

A range of factors - including fierce competition under the supplied housing market, rising property prices and political uncertainty – have...

Purplebricks has increased its charges in Australia by up to 33 per cent. The Australian Financial Review reports that the 33 per...

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

House price indices provided each month by Halifax and the Nationwide have been branded as “misguiding” and “out of date” and...

ZPG says it anticipates a strong 2018 according to a trading statement ahead of the company’s annual general meeting today. The firm...

The housing market has returned to stability with exchanges up one per cent year on year and the average house price...

Agents’ Mutual has released more details of its float on the stock market, which begins on February 9 with a placing priced...

Rightmove’s former lettings chief Sam Mitchell has taken over as chief executive of online agency HouseSimple, which recently won another £20m...

London’s prime central market is turning around at last according to the chief executive of Belgravia estate agency Henry & James. James...

Shares in troubled agency group Countrywide have fallen to their lowest-ever level of 106.40p in trading this morning. Yesterday shares fell a...

  A new league table showing how long it takes homes to sell on average in different postcodes across England and Wales...

The number of owners selling up and moving home is at its highest level since 2007 with one exception - London.  The...

Sky News is reporting that the non-executive chairman of Purplebricks, Paul Pindar, is set to invest a seven figure sum in...

Claims by President Donald Trump that the US got a bad deal by selling its prime central London embassy and building...

Figures out this morning from the Nationwide show the first annual fall in London-wide house prices for eight years - and...

More price falls have been recorded across areas of prime London according to Savills.  The pattern is not uniform - the agency...

What a year it’s been! Back in 2016 we had Brexit, a new prime minister, Donald Trump’s election, and so when...

In 2017 the average seller sold their home for £92,466 more than they paid for it, having owned the home for...

HouseSimple is reported to have secured £20m in growth capital which it says will help it “challenge Purplebricks as the UK’s...

One of prime London’s most senior estate agents says stamp duty is “strangling the residential property market” in areas of the...

Chris Philp, a Conservative MP and Parliamentary Private Secretary to Chancellor Phillip Hammond, says 50 per cent of new homes in...

PropTech start up OneDome, which supplies online booking and mapping tools, has teamed up with live chat service provider Yomdel in...

The investment service arm of international ratings agency Moody's is warning that affordability issues are likely to lead to a slowdown...

OnTheMarket has announced some details of its IPO and the launch of its stock market flotation - but it has given nothing...

John Taylor, a high-end international estate agency which until earlier this year had a presence in London, says it intends to...

The average home in England and Wales now sells for very nearly four per cent under its original asking price - a...

It’s not breaking new ground to say that younger people have what many regard as the raw end of the deal...

Franchise agency Hunters has signed up to the OnTheMarket portal.  This comes as speculation mounts that an announcement is imminent on stock market...

Data from Hometrack shows that the gap between average earnings and house prices has reached an all-time high in London.  The price...

Global investment bank RBC Capital Markets says OnTheMarket has the potential to undermine the pricing power of Rightmove and ZPG -...

Coldwell Banker, the huge US-based international estate agency business, is warning that Brexit is beginning to damage the market and the...

British politics is extraordinarily volatile right now and the ongoing battle between austerity and anti-austerity, Leave and Remain, and Conservative and...

Your Move and Reeds Rains, both part of LSL Property Services, are the latest agencies to admit a slowdown in house...

Currell is defying any gloomy predictions about the capital's housing market by opening a new office at Hackney Wick Fish Island. Currell...

Former National Association of Estate Agents president Simon Gerrard is renewing his campaign for the government to adopt two innovative reforms...

Winter seems to be firmly with us now, if the plunging temperatures are anything to go by. After a ridiculously mild...

A firm that sells homes but also creates operating platforms for other agencies to break into the industry is seeking £450,000 through...

The notion of a North-South divide in the UK has been around for as long as I can remember – certainly...

The spread and sophistication of financial crime in the UK in recent years has been unprecedented.  Figures from UK Finance show that...

Chris Bell, a former chief executive of bookies’ organisation Ladbrokes, has been named as the non-executive chairman of Agents’ Mutual as...

The fact is that most house hunters simply do not have the time, let alone the inclination, to trawl around properties...

Garrington Property Finders says some two-thirds of homes in two high-value parts of prime central London have been on sale for...

New Zealand’s new Labour prime minister elect has banned non-resident foreigners from buying existing homes anywhere in the country in a...

Hunters has another new office in its network, this time in the west Yorkshire town of Cleckheaton. The franchise group, which is...

London house prices are stuck in neutral according to the latest figures from property consultancy Hometrack, which says values in the...

The head of marketing at Rightmove has been named as one of London’s most influential people - a sign of the...

Statements from The Property Franchise Group and Belvoir continue to ramp up the war of words between the two agency groups...

Agents’ Mutual is officially making no comment on the timetable for the company flotation but speculation within the industry is mounting...

Conservative MP John Stevenson is the latest to throw his weight behind switching the burden of stamp duty from the buyer...

The research director of an investment firm which has advised Purplebricks says the “odd detractor” who doesn’t sell their home does...

The UK is home to four million leasehold properties in private ownership, according to government figures. The majority of which require...

Countrywide’s share price hit another new low yesterday of around 115.5p - a fall of just over four per cent on...

The agent behind a new online service covering off-market homes in part of prime central London says his service will expand...

Winkworth, one of the largest estate agencies in London, has expanded with two new offices - although they are 235 and...

Simon Gerrard, a past president of the National Association of Estate Agents, has called on the government to switch the burden...

The latest data from Your Move reveals London as still being the area of England and Wales with the lowest house...

One of the more puzzling questions in London's estate agency industry has been resolved - how a company which appears to...

The average cost of moving home in the UK has increased by £628 over the past year from £10,966 to £11,624...

Estate agency James Pendleton says it wants to give its clients more digital advantages without becoming an online operation itself -...

An online platform that allows the public to compare the services and fees of traditional estate agents in their areas has...

The flotation of Agents’ Mutual on the London Stock Exchange could happen as soon as later this year following the endorsement...

I’ve been in France for the past few days and depending on your viewpoint, I made a spectacularly good or singularly...

It’s been quite a week, much of it concerning the technology that increasingly underpins our industry.  A glut of fund-raising and relaunching...

easyProperty has unveiled details of its relaunch, declaring itself to be the UK’s second largest hybrid estate agency - second only...

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

LSL Property Services has announced that it has invested £20 million into hybrid agency YOPA. News of the investment broke on Friday...

Jackson-Stops & Staff, a critic of the stamp duty system since its reform in 2014, now says the government should slash...

Property consultancy Hometrack says London’s 12 month market slowdown has bottomed out with the annual growth rate rising to 2.8 per...

A leading business consultancy which advises clients on investments has refuted a claim by a prominent media analyst that it is...

Ten out of 14 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News say Brexit and economic uncertainty are likely to stall London’s housing market...

The number of existing home owners moving house fell two per cent in the first six months of 2017 compared with...

The investment consultancy chosen by Agents’ Mutual to advise on its float plans - Zeus Capital - is the same one...

Savills has apologised to a potential client who accidentally received emails between agents saying one was “lumbered” with an enquiry about...

A Hampshire property investor who failed to declare Capital Gains Tax from the sale of properties evading £157,725, has been jailed...

Let’s face it - summer seems to be on holiday itself, if the weather in the UK is anything to go...

Record low stock numbers, political uncertainty and the aftermath of tax changes are the obstacles hindering the housing market, according to...

After my article last week predicting that Agents’ Mutual would likely seek to raise external capital, including possibly on the public markets,...

The ‘lower priced’ 80 per cent of homes in prime central London are seeing price rises again, giving hope they have...

Twenty areas in Greater London have an average price in excess of £5,000 per square metre according to new research from...

Marsh & Parsons will be opening a new office in Islington on September 4 - defying many analysts who say the...

As the mainstream mortgage market braces itself for yet another clampdown on buy-to-let lending, a growing number of property investors are...

Property has been changing hands for centuries, but when did estate agents as we know them today – with their branches,...

Historically, short-term rentals have been an unattractive business for the majority of estate agents and property managers. Scarcity of demand from tenants...

Agents’ Mutual has confirmed that it proposes to form a new company, OnTheMarket plc, to list on the AIM market of...

Independent high-end estate agency Galbraith, which operates mostly in Scotland, says local knowledge is key to good customer service - and might...

Sky News is reporting that OnTheMarket is to demutualise and list on the Stock Exchange.    The portal made much of its mutual...

Two leading property technology experts have warned Foxtons that it risks failing to keep up with the digital revolution which the...

LSL Property Services - owners of Your Move, Reeds Rains and Marsh & Parsons amongst estate agency brands - has enjoyed...

The latest market snapshot by high-end agency Strutt & Parker reveals more bad news for London - despite the agency itself...

Hunters is opening a new branch in the fashionable area of Shoreditch in east London, despite a slump in sales across...

More than a third of the homes in London currently on the market have had their asking prices reduced according to...

With several agent partner programmes available across the country, estate agents can often increase business by offering sales by auction, with...

PwC says the drop in the number of property transactions is the economic indicator where the uncertainty over Brexit is most...

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

A London independent says it has doubled its valuations so far this year and is opening a new office, despite the...

Being a leading world-class city comes at a price – they are the most expensive for occupiers and the most lucrative...

Facebook has finally released more details about its previously announced plans to build 1,500 homes, 30 miles south of San Francisco,...

Gently rising house values in the mainstream market and problems facing the prime market in the capital mean that over half...

Foxtons - a company seen by many as a barometer of the London housing market - is likely to face a...

High end London agency Chestertons has opened a new office in West Putney, bringing its network across the capital to 33. The branch...