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It’s taken Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for the UK to finally take a much-needed step in the right direction to stop...

It was announced back in February this year that PEXA, the Australian FinTech/PropTech that enabled the world’s first fully digitised property settlement...

For years now estate agents have been on a journey from digital infancy to digital maturity. But what does the future...

Recent months have seen interest rates rise from historic lows back closer to pre-financial crisis levels as the Bank of England...

As uncertainty continues to prevail across the industry, aided by a government in crisis, the challenges in the months ahead feel...

Stipendium, the platform that simplifies life’s complex events, has compiled a guide to submitting an offer and exchanging contracts, to help buyers...

The current challenges facing the conveyancing sector have put the industry in the spotlight. Here, property expert Colum Smith, Chief Vision...

The ongoing debate about how to boost agent and conveyancer relations, and improve the homebuying system for all, continues to rage,...

I look back on when my dad helped me buy my first car and shared his pearls of wisdom on what...

Between you and me, dear reader, I had little to no idea about what the metaverse was before researching it for...

The digital transformation of the property industry is not a new chapter, but an ongoing journey in which the winners are...

OneDome has launched a new platform for agents to monitor and manage referrals made and earned through the challenger portal. The platform,...

If there’s not a book called ‘The Art of Collaboration’ then there should be. Update: a quick Google search shows there...

There’s one message that’s come home to me loud and clear from my dealings with agents so far this year -...

A record 600 firms and individuals have been shortlisted for the 2022 ESTAS Customer Service Awards. Sponsored by blockchain property network Coadjute,...

Buyer issues have been cited as the main cause of fall-throughs, according to new research. A survey of more than 940 agents,...

Agents using Boomin have managed to convert more than 20% of SmartVal valuation requests into instructions. The challenger portal and lead generation...

Referral fees, lack of trust and too much email have been identified as barriers to greater collaboration between conveyancers and estate...

Just this month, the Government Property Agency kicked off its search for a digital chief to lead its 10-year technology journey,...

A County Down-based estate agent has acquired a local rival and launched a new “stop-gap” accommodation service for buyers and sellers...

Agents may be gearing up for this year’s ESTAS Customer Service Awards but there is another accolade that you could aim for next...

Speedy property sales may not be as good as they seem, an industry figure has warned. Recent figures released by Rightmove indicate...

Buyers are being urged to act now to secure decent mortgage pricing as interest rates hit a 13-year high yesterday. The Bank...

The property supply shortage may be easing but Zoopla has warned it will still take some time for stock to be...

A third of first-time buyers have had to reduce their budgets as a result of recent interest rate hikes and the...

The shortlists for this year’s much-coveted ESTAS awards will be revealed from the end of this week. The ESTAS Customer Service Awards,...

I attended a forum in London a couple of weeks ago, which for the first time brought estate agents and conveyancers...

Property blockchain network Coadjute has launched a research project to identify ways estate agents and conveyancers can improve their working relationship. It...

A legal expert has suggested that Metaverse sales could eventually become part of a property chain. The Metaverse is the latest trend...

A ‘quick buy’ service launched by veteran proptech innovator Giles Mackay is now looking to help fix broken chains. UPSTIX, which launched...

Record numbers of buyers are now purchasing homes chain-free research suggests. Analysis by Hamptons has found that an increase in the share...

More than half of those working within the property sector are suffering from higher levels of fatigue or stress, due to...

Boomin has unveiled its latest round of paying agents. The challenger portal, launched by former Purplebricks founder Michael Bruce, has revealed 10...

A leading conveyancing network that works closely with estate agents has signed up to property blockchain platform Coadjute. The blockchain technology provided...

Foxtons, Chancellors and Douglas & Gordon have been named among the first paid-up agency brands on Boomin. The challenger portal, launched by...

Estate agents and conveyancers have agreed on better working relationships at the first collaborative event between the two professions. There has been...

A survey of 700 borrowers by a high net worth lender suggest almost four out of 10 have lost a mortgage...

A rewards and recognition programme has been launched at an agency chain, with claims that it will enhance staff careers and...

Challenger portal group OneDome has linked with a chain repair service to provide what it calls an end-to-end property offering. The OneDome...

PropTech solutions have continued to ingratiate themselves in both the forefront of an agency within advertising mediums and in the backend...

As regular readers will know, I like to use this column to shout out about the independent agents who are the...

Those aficionados of the Sound of Music will recognise the tag line above. It came to my mind when thinking about...

The market boom goes on, for now at least. In February, house prices rose at their fastest since June 2007 according to...

Peta Milne, founder of Instagram growth and PR service Monimo, and a content writer at Choices Estate Agents, recently sat down...

The market’s likely to slow this year as the rising cost of living saps some buyer confidence, so agents are understandably...

The government is considering seizing British property owned by Russian oligarchs on the sanctions list without paying compensation. The Financial Times says Housing...

Properties selling without a chain not only sell more quickly, as one might expect, but also appear to attract a substantial...

Well-known property expert and video interviewer Chris Watkin independently investigates how one piece of software is having such a big effect...

Propertymark has backed a call for stamp duty incentives to be introduced to drive forward domestic energy efficiency. The trade body’s policy...

Until a few years ago, you would have been forgiven for not knowing who or what Coadjute was. But the company, founded...

Fall throughs remain a significant problem with transaction collapses costing buyers and sellers a wasted £880m in 2021 according to new...

Without doubt, 2021 was an exceptional year in the property market, with the stamp duty holiday and favourable market conditions helping...

Coadjute, the blockchain network for the UK property market that claims it can radically simplify home purchasing, has revealed that PropTech...

Good-quality APIs can help agents to thrive in 2022 and beyond according to industry PropTech supplier Openview – Powered by VTUK.  API,...

A stamp duty cut would provide a long-term to improve energy efficiency on homes, the Chancellor has been told by an...

Foxtons has confirmed its intention to sell the sales side of Douglas & Gordon, the London agency chain it acquired only...

The PropTech network Coadjute, which says it will ultimately slash the time it takes to move house by as much as...

Inflation could deal a double blow to the housing market, an agency expert warns. Last week it was revealed that UK inflation...

Buyers typically pay 10.8 per cent extra for chain-free properties than for similar homes with chains, according to new research. Website GetAgent...

Homesearch has won £5m new investment from venture capital firm Octopus Ventures - an organisation that has also backed three businesses...

Imagine a world where you, as an agent, could focus on what you do best. Building and managing relationships, showing properties,...

The Bruce brothers’ new portal Boomin has given its first statistics regarding usage following the launch of a new marketing campaign...

A wealth tax on overseas owners of UK homes could raise £5 billion a year to help local people buy their...

Blockchain PropTech operator Coadjute is to continue as Headline Partner for The ESTAS for 2022 and 2023.  Coadjute - which took over...

It’s often said that agency is a people business, and I can see no reason to disagree - agents dealing face-to-face...

Planning delays, labour shortages and the surging price of building materials are combining to sharply cut the number of new homes...

Boomin is launching a new ad campaign from Boxing Day, December 26 - the date previously associated with record visits to...

EAT readers may have seen a piece in Friday’s property section of The Times about the long-running Simplify saga, which has...

We all know what did happen in 2021 - Covid and more Covid, the stamp duty holiday frenzy, a soaring rental...

A petition is being started, urging the government to ban the payment of referral fees to estate agents. It’s reported to have...

Prominent industry trainer Adam Walker, who has seen around 150,000 people attend his courses over the past 33 years, is suspending...

With 2022 swiftly approaching, businesses in the property industry are likely to be reflecting on the trials and tribulations that have...

Coadjute, the PropTech platform that aims to slash the length of property transactions, has announced a further £6m investment. Coadjute is a blockchain...

The head of a small hybrid firm that describes traditional agencies with offices as “antiquated” says property professionals working for corporates...

A new league table of earnings by estate agents, based on basic salary and commission combined, suggests that UK agents earn...

Agents are being urged to be more open to new methods of stopping deals falling through. HBB Solutions - a part exchange...

It’s been a busy and arguably fruitful year for the property market, with an eager consumer base pushing forwards with their...

TV property celebrity Amanda Lamb has revealed the winners of the 2021 allAgents customer experience awards. They were announced at the awards’...

The push for greater sustainability, energy efficiency and generally being ‘green’ has existed in the agency world for several years -...

Boomin has launched a new tool - Chainmaker - which it claims cuts fall throughs and introduces agents to ‘hot buyers’. The software...

The latest update on the prime central London market from agency Knight Frank warns that it’s still not business as usual,...

PropTech has seen a surge in uptake over the last few years for several reasons – be it the Covid-19 pandemic...

Conveyancing firms in the Simplify Group, hit by a massive systems crash for much of this week, say they are working...

The Pandora Papers - the biggest ever leak of offshore data - has revealed that the UK’s property market is being...

As you are no doubt aware, building mutually beneficial relationships with conveyancers in your local area can not only make your...

There are plenty in the estate agency and lettings world who don’t like the concept of Airbnb and similar enterprises. But they...

Rising inflation triggered by the supply chain crisis following Brexit and the pandemic may undermine recent house price gains according to...

The Modern Method of Auction (MMoA), also known as Conditional auction, can sometimes get a bad rap. However, much of the...

The ESTAS Forum scheduled for the morning of the annual awards ceremony on October 22 has been postponed - but the...

A leading business consultancy is warning that supply chain shortages as a result of Brexit and the pandemic will push up...

An online operator called Nested is to spend £5m to promote the self-employed estate agency concept in 100 parts of the...

As we motor towards the next major global climate change conference – the UN’s COP26 being held in Glasgow from 31...

The recent stamp duty holiday and the subsequent conveyancing logjam this triggered has acted as a wakeup call for the industry....

A leading planning consultancy has claimed that ‘the myth’ that housing developers are hoarding land after gaining planning consent in order...

Affordability has always been a hot topic when it comes to the property market, and this is doubly true for first-time...

It’s certainly the case that awareness of part exchange isn’t very high in the property and agency world, despite the potential...

Being able to show proof of funds in a quick, transparent and simple way is more crucial than ever to keep fall-throughs...

Franchise giant Winkworth says it has backed the start up of a commercial company advising on investment in retail or business...

Business intelligence is paramount to companies looking to gain a competitive edge, particularly in saturated markets like estate agency. Each client...

Independent agency chain haart is opening what it calls a new ‘property centre’ in Aylesbury later this month.   Tim Wardley, managing...

Blockchain network Coadjute has announced new partnerships with software firms. Coadjute launched in July and claims it will halve the time it...

Homebuyers are suffering huge delays in receiving responses to their search requests to council according to a study of local authorities. Consumer...

Chestertons, the London high-end estate agency chain, is reported to be looking for a buyer. Sky News says it’s hired Deloitte, the...

A PropTech operator claims that agents currently pay around £250 per lead, averaging costs of different sources ranging from Google Ads...

One of the most effervescent figures in the industry has given his five top tips to becoming a great estate agent...

Last month it was reported that up to 500,000 people had been ‘pinged’ by the NHS in a week. While the...

My neighbour had been seeking to move home for some time. Suggestions that he wanted to get away from his neighbours...

Propertymark says confusion over new stamp duty rules has led to a surge in fall-throughs. Since April 1 homes bought in England...

One of the best known faces in estate agency has launched his own podcast - and is giving Estate Agent Today...

Boomin has announced the appointment of six agents, described as independent representatives, who are now on the new portal’s strategic board. The...

The already-high fall-through rate for transactions is likely to be supercharged by the impending end of the tapered stamp duty holiday...

A call has gone out for Property Logbooks to receive official recognition as “digital assets” by the Law Commission: the move...

RVU - the ZPG-owned company that already owns Zoopla and independently-run price comparison and financial services - has acquired online mortgage broker Mojo...

Anyone working in residential property knows it is taking longer and longer to get from SSTC (sold subject to contract) to...

Coadjute, the long-awaited real-time network which uses Blockchain technology to sell a property, is launched today with its first property deal...

In the world of football – very topical at the moment, as we all enjoy the Euros – there is an...

By any measure, the housing market has been unprecedently busy in recent months, fuelled not just by the stamp duty holiday...

Last weekend we spoke with Liana Loporto, NAEA Propertymark’s president, in an exclusive interview. Here we follow that up with an...

There are just three working days until the end of the stamp duty holiday for most buyers. That’s not even enough time...

Around 18 months ago, just a few months before the pandemic hit, I did a Natter with the team at software...

In the first of a two-part special with the presidents of the UK’s largest property trade organisation, we carry out an...

Agents should prepare for a surge in fall throughs and collapsed sales thanks to the first stamp duty holiday period expiring...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Well I rarely use them now! Chris Hodgkinson, Managing Director What...

A leading agent has been in touch with EAT to vent his frustration at the government for extending most of the...

Amro Partners, the Build to Rent and student accommodation operator, has launched a venture capital arm investing in PropTech and FinTech. Amro...

The Law Society has published new guidance for what it calls “under-pressure conveyancing solicitors” as the stamp duty deadline of June...

Independent agents come in all shapes, sizes and looks, many with their own USPs and little quirks. It is this variety...

The growth of the internet and technology has transformed virtually every aspect of our lives, including how we approach the property...

In recent years, the property market has been taking steps to become more digital – with HM Land Registry leading the...

A relatively modest interest rate rise could trigger a crash in the housing market according to the housing analyst behind the...

TM Group and sales progression solution mio have signed up as partners for the 2021 ESTAS Forum & Awards, sponsored by...

Boomin founder Michael Bruce says his new site has enjoyed a stronger start than any other portal in terms of visits, viewings,...

With property transactions taking longer than ever and many people operating at capacity, it is easy to overlook the progress made,...

The land and new homes division of Sequence has signed a deal to offer fully-funded part exchange and home buying services...

Agents are being urged to push through their pipelines before the upcoming stamp duty deadlines. The plea comes from Simply Conveyancing, which...

New research shared with Estate Agent Today suggest that in areas of the country almost four in 10 homes for sale...

An agent in part of the UK with the strongest seller’s market claims the stock shortage is the worst he’s seen...

The ESTAS Group has named a new headline sponsor for its 2021 Forum and Awards, taking over from Zoopla with immediate effect. It’s...

The UK property market is always evolving but never as quickly as it is now. Traditional estate agents are seriously questioning...

A surveyors group has launched a new ‘Home Review’ service which it claims will identify structural problems which create an immediate...

A new property board game called Gazumped aims to rival Monopoly but reflect a much more realistic view of how the house...

A company in the German Axel Springer publishing empire - which also invested in Purplebricks in the past - has put...

NAEA Propertymark says a record number of transactions are taking four months to move from offer to exchange. The organisation says this...

As you’ll know by now, I like to use the Natter to shine a light on independent agents doing things a...

Emoov’s new 'guaranteed offer' service means fall-thoughs and chain-related delays are effectively eliminated, the agency claims. Emoov - now owned by a firm...

Data from Rightmove suggests a sharp increase in the number of chain-free properties on the market because sellers are increasingly willing...

Following the fluctuation of the property market during the UK’s first national lockdown, the industry was given a lifeline by the...

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...