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Honesty is a concept that journalists will tell their readers is non-existent for estate agents. Yeah, right! But as the end...

Much of the agency industry has reacted with delight at the extension of the stamp duty holiday deadline until June. Rightmove estimates...

Foxtons is in talks to takeover rival London agency Douglas & Gordon. A statement from Foxtons to shareholders this afternoon says: "Further to...

The Law Society for England and Wales says it wants action now to prevent tens of thousands of  transactions collapsing at...

On March 23rd 2021, Dezrez and its partners are hosting EAvolution21 the event that showcases the latest in PropTech using an...

Hello - another Monday dawns but the good news is that we can update you on the industry’s latest appointments. Everyone here...

We are now over four weeks in to our third national lockdown in the UK. Although the property market remains open,...

Labour and Conservative MPs have expressed a unanimous view on their desire to see an extension of the stamp duty holiday...

Technology has advanced in leaps and bounds in recent years, undoubtedly improving many parts of the moving process for both estate...

Zoopla has revealed a multi-million-pound programme of future developments which have taken 18 months to finalise. Chief executive Charlie Bryant has told...

Zoopla's latest figures suggest 70,000 transactions are likely to miss the stamp duty holiday deadline of March 31.  And the portal says: “The...

High profile agency owner Sean Newman is offering his entire self-employed team of 100 agents and mortgage advisors a chance for...

Well, what a start to 2021! None of us thought things would change as the clock struck midnight on New Year’s...

By any available metric, Belvoir had a good 2020. Already a well-known and well-established name, it was highly praised for its...

The government may be stopping MPs debating an extension to the stamp duty holiday - despite a pledge they would do...

A PropTech firm claims its new interactive property reports are “the most comprehensive on any UK property” and reduce the need...

The average UK house price is now a record £253,374 according to the Halifax - but the rate of growth is...

Just a week ago, I thought it was all over. Christmas and New Year had gone, as had the passionate calls...

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

The shock and almost immediate increase in stamp duty on additional homes in Wales has prompted one question in the industry...

There’s been a shock one per cent increase in the Welsh equivalent of stamp duty on second homes, coming into effect...

Ever since the initial ripples of innovation in the 1990s, PropTech has proceeded to reshape our market beyond recognition; going on...

NAEA Propertymark has written to the Scottish Government demanding it extend the current Land and Buildings Transaction Tax holiday - the...

Solicitors’ leaders say members of their industry are suffering mental health problems as a result of the workload to meet the...

Revenues have slumped by 18 per cent at LSL Property Services, the corporate which boasts Your Move and Reeds Rains and...

A prominent London agency says cash buyers are securing substantial discounts in prime areas of the capital. The biggest cash discount currently...

MPs lobbied by agents to extend the stamp duty holiday are staying firmly on the fence with standard answers and no...

A petition has been launched demanding a stamp duty holiday extension. The online petition is the idea of Jonathan Steel - a layperson...

‘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...

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

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

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Vicky Quinn-Campbell – Sales and Marketing Director What is ‘company name’...

One of the highest profile figures in the agency industry - and a past critic of Purplebricks - has come out as a vociferous...

The high profile Yorkshire agency chain Dacre, Son & Hartley has been appointed by the largest charity care provider for older...

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

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has resisted changing any property taxes in the short term, but has used his Spending Review statement to...

Two prominent suppliers have teamed up to offer customers instant visibility of chain lengths, details of agents connected to properties being...

A survey of completion times for house sales over the past four years suggests that the worst performing local authority area...

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

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...

A five-branch agency in the westcountry is the subject of a management buy out by two directors. Westcoast Properties - with branches...

A prominent PropTech supplier wants agents to hand over much more information to conveyancers to allow them to make faster progress on...

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

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

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 relaunched home buying service says it wants to partner with agents to unlock sales if the housing market deteriorates. The service...

The UK lettings market is no stranger to technology. But only a few of the early initiatives have remained, and landlords...

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

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

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

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...

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

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is taking credit for saving thousands of agency jobs through increased transactions prompted by the stamp duty holiday. A...

Integration, collaboration and connected platforms – some great buzzwords, but what do they actually mean and do they really help agents? One...

Boomin, the still-to-launch portal created by the founders of Purplebricks, has named another 10 founding member agencies. Like the initial 10 they...

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

The new Boomin portal being launched shortly has named 10 high profile agency chains as founding members. The 10 give the new portal...

The latest review by the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team into referral fees places the outdated practice of...

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

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

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

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

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...

Ahead of the launch of a new iBuyer platform later this year, agents are being invited to attend two webinars hosted...

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

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

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

Rightmove is warning of a conveyancing log-jam that may delay sales, despite the ongoing frenzy of activity and faster transactions for...

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

The agency affiliation group Relocation Agent Network is linking with HBB Solutions, a part exchange and ‘guaranteed purchase’ operator.  HBB says a...

A digital resource hub for estate agents claims to shorten transaction times. Sort Move, which has been operating since late 2019,...

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

Hunters has announced the launch of an additional franchise office at Torquay in Devon. The branch is a conversion of local independent...

The chairman of LSL Property Services - Simon Embley - says he is “increasingly optimistic” about the outlook for the market,...

The new portal OpenBrix, which is powered by Blockchain, has revealed its fee structure ahead of its formal launch on September...

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

The EweMove hybrid agency has been singled out for special praise in a trading statement from its parent company, which also...

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

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Jon Horton, Product director of sales progression platform, mio What does...

Another new PropTech platform claims it can streamline the completion process - this time by coordinating the work of estate agents...

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...

A PropTech supplier claims that an agency has secured the first ever transaction where the complete chain used Reservation Agreements.  Harrison Residential,...

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

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

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

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...

Midlands regional chain Andrew Grant, which last year closed some branches as it moved to a ‘hub’ structure, appears to have...

The phrase ‘game-changer’ has been hugely overused. But when applied to how Covid-19 is changing the way estate agents will work...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I'm Darren Loftus and it says Commercial Director on...

A company promoting a Blockchain platform with promises to speed up the buying and selling process claims the pandemic has proved...

Imagine a Zoom call where ten people are discussing the same topic, but everyone speaks a different language and has a...

Tuesday mornings at 6am is usually my time to review all the latest PropTech news. This fires off ideas for my...

As we emerge from lockdown, quickly progressing sales to completion is vital to replace lost commission income.  What role can mio...

It’s official – the property market is back open for business. Estate agents have started to unfurlough staff and many are...

The only story that has come remotely close to pushing coronavirus – and its various knock-on effects – off the top...

The Covid-19 crisis has forced the UK property industry to rethink the way it operates. With little warning, the pandemic disrupted the...

PropTech supplier mio says it now has over 1,000 agency branches using its sales progression platform - and it’s recruited Countrywide...

The government is jeopardising the success of the housing market relaunch through the inflexibility of the furlough scheme, claims a group...

All my recent Natters have been focused on one particular topic, the coronavirus crisis, for obvious reasons. But there has been...

A series of polls taken by Estate Agent Today suggest substantial numbers of agents remain uncomfortable about returning to trading even...

The agency at the heart of a fierce row over staff safety in the lockdown says it's now insisting local managers...

There’s been a surge in buyers wanting to view properties - but agents must sit on their hands and wait for...

The Haart estate agency chain has launched a portal called Off Market which it describes to sellers as being “a unique...

Business consultancy TwentyCi is the latest to try to put a value on the potential losses to the property industry and...

There’s going to be a 35 per cent drop in the number of new homes delivered this year because of the...

PropTech big names Reapit and ViewMyChain are joining up to try to accelerate transactions when the lockdown finally ends and the...

We are all operating in peculiar times. Times of great upheaval. Our lives are both in a complete state of flux...

Winkworth is now offering free video valuations to clients who are considering a future house move. It’s created a bespoke virtual service...

Much like PropTech, Open Banking has been used as a buzzword in recent years. However, when it comes to the rental...

Welcome to the latest edition of our daily service dedicated to advice and guidance on how agents can best cope with...

Yet another one of the giants of our industry, Hunters, says it’s taking “appropriate measures” to safeguard the firm in the...

Two property portals insist they’re going to launch this spring despite the Coronavirus chaos effectively closing down much of the housing...

The government has at last issued extensive advice on home moving and the activities of estate agents during the continuing Coronavirus crisis. This...

Hello and welcome to a special Agents Do Charity, given over entirely to a wonderful effort to coordinate the industry’s response...

A mortgage broker that’s just become a partner of OnTheMarket is warning that house prices are likely to fall 10 per...

Hello and here’s the next batch of guidance and advice from different sectors of the industry, many from influential trade groups. It’s...

Hello and welcome to today’s Conquering Corona, a service we’re running to share official guidance and agents’ advice in a bid...

The National Association of Estate Agents has launched its Sales Protocol Toolkit, in a bid to reduce fall-throughs and dramatically improve...

Regional estate agency chain Ashtons has been listed in the Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work for, for the...

The property management industry is evolving at a rapid pace, thanks almost entirely to the rise in PropTech. Hundreds, if not thousands...

A new study suggests cash buyers secure lower sale prices than mortgaged purchasers - but is that really the case? The survey by...

A high profile and widely-respected estate agent is predicting a huge demographic change to one of the country’s wealthiest enclaves -...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Joanne (Jo) Tattum. Channel Manager - Property What is Moneypenny and...

Property auctions – online or otherwise – can be hugely helpful to sellers, buyers and estate agents. Online auctions, in particular, are...

Agents “dread” buyers’ questions on value, asking prices and nearby new development according to a survey. Some 50 agents and over 1,500...

The Law Society has announced that there will be a new TA6 Property Information Form launching next week, on Friday February...

A leading property lawyer is urging sellers not to use online agents because to do so would be “a gamble”. Gillian Wright...

Quite a few years ago, I spoke at a conference for auctioneers. It was a traditional affair. Rural location. Nice hotel....

Independent agents in a fast-growing trade body are to be given the opportunity to secure exclusivity on land deals and new...

Hello - if it’s Monday it’s PJT day, so welcome to the latest update on key moves within our industry. Let us...

The founder of an online agency has spoken publicly for the first time about how his near-death experience led him to...

Reapit has joined a consortium attempting to make the long-anticipated end-to-end digital home buying process a reality. It’s joined the IPN Consortium,...

Following on from the second half of the last decade, the first few weeks of 2020 have been a bit mad...

Over the past decade, the short-term rental industry, now eponymised by Airbnb, has experienced meteoric growth. This has been driven by the...

Hello and welcome to the first PJT of 2020 - a new decade and, for many, a time of new opportunities. We’re always...

Almost exactly one quarter of house sales in England and Wales fell through prior to completion according to new figures. In the...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Emily Hawthorne, mio Account Manager for the South West of...

A senior regional estate agent says the appliance of PropTech has helped his company streamline communications, reduce sales times, and generate...

It’s one of the most crucial aspects of the homebuying and selling process but is too often bogged down by frustrating...

A new tie-up between Coadjute, a network for decentralised workflow and data sharing within the property industry, and banks including NatWest...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Emma Vigus, Managing Director of mio What is mio and what...

The Fifth Money Laundering Directive becomes law in the UK on January 10 2020, strengthening the responsibilities placed on private companies...

[Estate Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise...

A new portal claims it will do what OnTheMarket failed to do, and offer an agent-led operation charging every agency branch...

The legendary Mayfair estate agency Wetherell is linking with London’s Dexters chain in a new partnership. Wetherell, run by high profile chief...

A new app is being launched which allows agents to gauge possible interest in a property before it is formally put...

28th NOVEMBER 2019: Christopher Watkin’s recent thought-provoking interview with Dan Marsden sheds light on the property industry today and offers an...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Michelle O’Brien, mio Account Manager for Home Counties North What is...

A PropTech company says the majority of transactions now involve chains and that the issue is becoming more problematic for agents...

I got an overnight flight to Nigeria yesterday. I landed at 5am local time and am only just now getting sensation...

Election time means setting out your stall and getting support - so how about a vote of confidence for those agents,...

A new survey suggests that an overwhelming majority of householders want a legal ban on gazumping. The result is likely to be...

A survey conducted by Estate Agent Today suggests there is huge anger from agencies against Rightmove in particular for its fees. On...

A PropTech firm has calculated the different delays that lead to transactions taking an average 120 days (and often much longer)...

A PropTech company that monitors search times for transactions says only just over two thirds of them are now completed in...

Belvoir has struck an innovative eight-year exclusivity agreement with Dacres, the 20 office estate agency network based in Yorkshire, to deliver...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  Jason Wilson, mio Account Manager What is mio and what does...

Buyers and sellers changing their minds lie behind almost a third of fall-throughs - the single biggest reason why transactions collapse,...

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

A small online agency which in six months of trading has secured around 140 sales says it’s on course to be...

Enhanced customer care strategies, relationship-building schemes, cost-cutting measures and new revenue streams can’t help the lettings industry if the fundamental underlying...

A London estate agency chain says It’s seen a 59 per cent surge in the number of its clients who have...

Fewer property sales fell through before completion, despite uneasy market conditions, according to Quick Move Now. The home buying company's data shows...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? David Masters – Account Manager for the Midlands What is ‘company...

Case study: Connells reaping the time-saving benefits of new sales and communication tool Since adopting mio in September 2018, Josh Lally, Senior...

Estate agents are being encouraged to consider providing increased flexible working options for their staff, including increased opportunities to work from...

The annual number of property transactions edged down slightly according to the figures released applying to August. However, buyers and sellers email...

The niche agency Singer Veille has set up its own PropTech consultancy and application development service for the property industry. Singer Veille...

Robert Anderson, Branch Manager at William H Brown in Leicester shares how sales progression and communication tool, mio, has created a...

A well known regional agent has closed one of its offices saying “the old shop window of an estate agency is...

Property management service Move with Us has announced a new partnership with chain management service View My Chain. Move with Us, founded...

‘Workers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains’. So is written on the tombstone of the father...

A study from Santander Mortgages has blown the cover on first time buyers, suggesting they know almost nothing and research very...

Continuing political uncertainty over Brexit and now a significant chance of an autumn or winter General Election makes the case for...

A comprehensive report into the changing complexion of the High Street suggests that some 143 estate agents’ offices closed in the...

A survey claims that millions of potential sellers would use online estate agents - and bizarrely, this includes an online agency...

Former Purplebricks US chief executive officer Eric Eckardt is seeking some £6m in funding from across the world for his latest...

Innovate or Die. But What is Innovation? It Isn’t just PropTech A certain Mr Dick Whittington Esquire was once convinced that the...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Phil Smith - mio Account manager What is mio and what does...

The typical new real estate agency forms when an entrepreneurial high performer quits their job at a leading chain and sets...

A London council admits that it typically takes 50 working days for a search - which means a Local Land Charge...

Carl Hemming, Director from Ginger in Balsall Common explains how mio has quickly proven to be a cost-effective way to simplify...

With the often negative portrayal of agents in the media and popular culture, you might ask yourself why anyone would want...

Speculation surrounding whether Boris Johnson will honour his pledge to reduce stamp duty risks bringing the housing market “to a grinding...

Traditionally speaking, users who are looking to buy, rent, or sell their property to customers on an international basis have been...

Matt Nicholson, Sales Progressor at Edwards & Co in Rhiwbina, Cardiff, explains how adopting sales progression and communication tool, mio, has...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Eric Woodhams F.N.A.E.A. mio Account Manager What is mio and what...

There’s more ammunition today for those agents who argue that equity release stops people moving and thus cuts the number of...

Improved communication and increased transparency throughout the buying process can manage vendors’ expectations, improve satisfaction scores and create long-term clients. That’s the...

The recent announcement of a clicktopurchase partnership demonstrates some much-needed progression from Rightmove. In doing so, however, it could be said it...

The city of Norwich has become the sixth part of the UK to switch from council Local Land Charges to digital...

Property portal Rightmove has confirmed that it is trialling an option which allows buyers of commercial properties to submit offers online...

  Who are you and what does it say on your business card?             Becky Howes, mio Account Manager What...

Purplebricks’ former chief executive Lee Wainwright has made a stout defence of the controversial agency’s sales progression process and its local...

A property in London’s Mayfair has a price tag of £23m and is being sold via a system allowing interested parties...

Facebook is set to enter the cryptocurrency business with the big reveal of its formal plans scheduled for some point this...

It’s London Tech Week, everybody! The sprawling city-wide event taking in dozens of conferences, events, workshops, panel debates and so on,...

In the first Q&A Natter for a while, I catch up with Angelica Donati - CEO of Donati Immobiliare Group, PropTech...

Just 200 conveyancing firms control over 39 per cent of the market in England and Wales, wielding significant power over customers,...

In recent years click & collect has become a popular way for retailers, supermarkets and online shopping sites such as Amazon...

We’ve reached the final instalment of my market transformation do’s and don’ts.  In previous articles, we’ve looked at: Do encourage, don’t deter;...

A new sales progression tool that claims to have been hugely successful over an 18-month pilot is being rolled out across...

North East England regional agency chain Bradley Hall has amended details for a property listed on its website following a complaint...

Two PropTech suppliers have this week announced new partnerships and products with the aim of helping estate agents.  Firstly, sales progression and...

1989 was a significant time for the property industry: it marked the beginning of the end of a period of unprecedented...

Estate Agent Today can reveal that the new Federation of Independent Agents has recruited an expert from the two leading portals...

PropTech players behind a recent trial claim that use of Blockchain can cut a transaction time from a typical three months...

Savills, which in the past has been restrained in its critique of Brexit’s effect on the housing market, now says that...

A statement this morning from the government says that property details must use Imperial Measurements after Britain leaves the EU. The Imperial...

More than 800 property transactions fall through daily, which can have repercussions both practically and financially, as agents fail to get...

Local media in the east Midlands report that four estate agency offices operated by the Nottingham building society are to close...

A quick-buy firm that buys homes at around 85 per cent of market value claims the industry is concealing how slow...

One of the industry’s leading compliance experts is to lead a roundtable discussion in May on the anti-money laundering issue -...

Thinking about the state of communication across residential property chains is enough to induce a severe migraine. We work in a world...

Nested, an innovative online agency that offers vendors a form of guaranteed sale, has laid off 20 per cent of its workforce...

The end of 2018 was a bit of a rocky time for online estate agents. Yet only a few years ago...

Maverick Cornish estate agent Chris Wood has quit the industry with a stinging attack on those who have “taken their toll”...

The proliferation of big data is paving the way to improving our economy on almost every front as entrepreneurial digital companies...

The Money Laundering Regulations require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation to...

With the home buying and selling process firmly on the news agenda of late – everything from a possible ban on...

A London estate agent says his system of ‘moral agreements’ between sellers and buyers prevents chains collapsing and means his company has...

North east England regional chain Bradley Hall Chartered Surveyors and Estate Agents has launched a new office in Hexham as its...

There’s been a dramatic improvement in the speed of searches being completed and returned by local authorities, the government claims. Housing minister...

HM Land Registry’s ambitious digitisation plans continue apace with news that it is to consider Blockchain in a bid to speed...

The high-end New York based estate agency Corcoran has issued franchise documents for ‘global markets’ prompting speculation that it could spread...

Almost half of all house sales in England and Wales fell through before completion in the final quarter of 2018, according...

With the speed of property sales continuing to slow and no end to the sluggishness in sight, it’s time to take...

Winkworth says it’s seen a huge 78.5 per cent rise in franchise applicants over the past 12 months and says there...

It’s time to think about planning the 2019 events calendar. This year, there are more PropTech conferences scheduled than ever before,...

A new portal which had branded itself as “the UK’s first decentralised property listing database” appears to have had a setback...

Century 21 UK appears to have bucked the trend of closing offices and reduced footfall by marking the opening of 16...

A new portal called YourMoov and describing itself as “the UK’s first decentralised property listing database” is to launch shortly. In an...

It’s safe to say that the majority of agents will be glad to see the end of the past two years....

When renting a property out, letting agents and landlords recognise that it is important to take a deposit from the tenant...

Hard not to mention two major breaking news stories of recent days; one directly affecting the property market and one which...

Savills has snapped up an independent London estate agency in what is likely to be one of the last deals of...

PropTech has been mainstream for a few years now, and as more agents are familiar with the range of products and...

A sales and lettings agency specialising in waterside property along the Thames is linking up with a larger business to co-market...

How will things be done in the future? There’s no knowing, of course, given the many variables at play, but it’s...

Conveyancing regularly adds unnecessary and costly delays to the home buying process and improvement could be far quicker than any efforts...

Hard-pressed buyers who try to minimise house moving costs by doing their own conveyancing have been warned of the disastrous consequences...

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...

Conveyancers’ use of data and technology to speed through sales is on the cusp of a ‘big bang’ moment according to...

A new company is claiming to reduce chain collapses during sales by creating a lockout agreement, also known as a reservation agreement. Property...

London agency chain Portico has signed up to OnTheMarket.  The 17 branch firm, which handles both sales and lettings, has offices in...

You know the shiver you get when the portal reps call you out of the blue? That cold sweat in the...

The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...

Outspoken online estate agency chief Russell Quirk says the estate agency industry is “really p****d off” with Rightmove trying to ride...

The number of house sales falling through before completion is on the increase according to data collated by a home buying...

A service which describes itself as an alternative to part exchange has been launched to facilitate sales to ‘corporate property buyers’. It’s...

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

When Professor Andrew Baum’s PropTech 3.0 report was first published, a small event was held to celebrate the very first academic...

Andrews, which has over 50 branches across the south of England, is the latest major chain to sign up to OnTheMarket. In...

Bradleys Estate Agents, the westcountry’s largest independent agency chain, is the latest agency to sign up with Bamboo, an online property...

A call has gone out for conveyancers to have all monies - including mortgage funds - in place the day before...

Today’s long-awaited debate staged by fledgling PropTech platform Best Agent will address the issue of how the agency industry can most...

OnTheMarket has this morning announced that it’s signed up the north east of England regional agency Pattinson, which has 27 branches...

The Land & New Homes Network has announced a part exchange and assisted move collaboration with Relocation Agent Network in a...

Propteq Global Property Technology and Innovation summit takes place in London on 26 - 27 Sep. 75 of the world's leading...

Bank of England governor Mark Carney says a no-deal Brexit exit could lead to a 35 per cent house price crash. The...

A website claim by the London estate agency Moveli has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority after a complaint from...

Over a fifth of pensioners say they would be encouraged to downsize if there was a stamp duty incentive - particularly...

A few stories caught my eye this week from China, all of which announce the arrival of cutting-edge technological innovation in...

Reapit has teamed up with a new tool called mio, which is promising “a smarter way to manage the home buying...

After gaining my MBA qualification from Edinburgh Business School in 2005, I took careful consideration over my career moves and prospective...

There’s been another call for the government to reform stamp duty - and this time the request is that the duty...

Making my way to our London office on a busy commuter train, my mind got busy thinking about the new do-it-yourself...

The new owner of Humberts says he would consider acquiring or working alongside existing agencies who want to be part of...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, the place where you find all the key agency industry moves over recent days. Please...

The emerging Proptech platform BestAgent has announced its latest partnership - this one is with sales progression company ViewMyChain. BestAgent, run by...

You will notice that there is a new author for this regular column for Estate Agent Today. Last month I was...

If you’re an estate agent and have a property that is difficult to sell or the homeowner simply needs a fast...

A property software guru says he wants PropTech firms to join with him in an ‘open platform’ which would allow smaller...

The dream may be over but the return to reality can at least be staged in the spirit of an England...

An estate agency chain has produced strikingly successful sales figures for the first half of the year - evidence, it says,...

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

Another four existing estate agency branches have rebranded as Hunters. In the westcountry three branches of Heritage4homes - at Yatton, Nailsea and...

One of the country’s best know estate agents, Marc Goldberg, has joined London agency Dexters. Goldberg spent some 30 years at Countrywide’s...

Boy it‘s hot out there, with little end in sight yet. That’s the good news. Now the even better news -...

Major online agencies appear to be unaffected by yesterday’s Supreme Court decision over workers' rights in the so-called 'gig economy'.  Yesterday’s case concerned...

The managing director of independent agency network Spicerhaart says shop workers who are unemployed because of the latest round of retail...

One of the country’s best known regional traditional agencies, Pygott and Crone, has used a promotion in local news outlets to...

Last time out I looked at the growing importance of content, social media and design – but these should only form...