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A London agency has undergone what it calls a ‘genteel’ rebrand with a subtle change of name - but a major...

The Good Estate Agent, set up in 2010, is slashing its franchise fee - it claims the reductions are for Black...

One of the first companies to promote the self-employed ‘broker’ business model has announced its first franchise agreement - and says...

Rightmove claims to have found the happiest place in the UK - and it’s in Northumberland. The market town of Hexham has...

A survey of 100 agents commissioned by industry supplier Landmark suggests most believe the current onboarding process is ripe for simplification.  Some...

A high-speed internet connection is the second most important factor for buyers after property size, a survey claims. And the study -...

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

Energy Performance Certificates are “misleading” indicators of zero carbon buildings and should no longer be used as official guides to help...

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

OnTheMarket says it delivered a record number of instant valuation enquiries last month, beating its previous best period in June of...

PropertyHeads, a platform describing itself as a social network for house buyers and sellers, has a new PropTech partnership. It’s linked with...

Reservation Agreements provide agents with absolute certainty that both sellers and buyers are being honest. “If they’re lying or… shall we say,...

A property media analyst claims Purplebricks has record-breaking website traffic thanks to its “relentless” and vast budget marketing. “Whether you like to...

Agents are being offered a theoretical £300,000 if they introduce a buyer willing to pay £30m for a mansion on sale in...

EweMove - the hybrid brand owned by The Property Franchise Group - says its operating model effectively solves a reported staff...

Rightmove says sellers who have upgraded their Energy Performance Certificate rating to a C - from a D, E or F -...

A new service has been launched claiming to offer ‘a new supportive partnership opportunity’ for agents to earn referral fees. Cox &...

The class action taken by former self-employed workers against two online agencies should be a warning to other firms breaking the...

A claims firm wants to commence proceedings against online estate agency companies such as Purplebricks and Yopa. It's on behalf of thousands...

A small property portal has accused Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket of listing properties with asking prices far in excess of market...

Over-65s saw their property wealth increase by £800 a month recently thanks to frenzied demand during the stamp duty holiday, an equity release...

PropTech and CRMs should be about far more than merely gathering data - they should be telling agents which prospects are...

Despite increasing public debate and media spotlight on energy efficiency, the issue appears relatively unimportant to seven out of eight buyers according to...

A portal says many buyers feel disappointed when viewing a property becuase it is typically smaller than agents’ photographs suggest.  MoveStreets claims...

Estate agents who differentiate themselves from competitors should not be afraid of charging more - and should have confidence when doing...

One of the country’s leading buying agents has set out what’s hot and what’s not in London’s housing market as it...

The Women In Property group claims talented females are being lost to the industry due to the menopause.  It says panic attacks,...

Some two thirds of agents and other property professionals who have worked alone have suffered an incident endangering their safety, according to...

It’s been revealed that HM Revenue & Customs scours the listings on both Rightmove and Zoopla to assess whether property investors...

Agent wages have been in the news this week, with boastful claims from a number of self-employed businesses about the sums...

An estate agent claims he may be the highest paid in the industry this year - and he puts it down to...

Best and Final Offers should be scrapped - and a property expert claims that would be good because they do a massive...

Fledgling portal Boomin says its new SmartVal tool has received over 10,000 requests since launching in early September. SmartVal is powered in part by...

Rightmove - which for some time has linked solely with iamsold to provide the controversial Modern Method of Auction system to...

The right technology can reassure agents that transactions will complete on time - vital to retaining business following the end of the...

Prices in prime central London have risen for the past two quarters, prompting a tentative claim that the market may be...

A video interview claims to spill the beans on how sales progression can be accelerated by three to four weeks. Estate agent...

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

One of the leading figures in trade body Propertymark wants stamp duty to be reformed, and claims that the success of...

An online agency which describes itself as being “the future of property” is up for sale. Nu:move is a franchise operation, set...

Foxtons has given details of the PropTech it uses to help improve leads and business decisions.  The agency, which has some 50 offices...

An estate agency that charges buyers not sellers is proposing to roll out nationwide. FreeAgent247.com, has been set up by Daniel Lewis...

The Halifax claims that homes with the highest energy ratings are worth up to £40,000 more on average compared to less...

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

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

New figures from HM Treasury have revealed that businesses, including a number of major agencies, have returned £1.3 billion in furlough...

A Hertfordshire-based hybrid agency has released a surprising and some might argue refreshing message, saying it’s not interested in size as...

The government has been warned that its much-talked about levelling up agenda is ‘doomed to fail’ without major reform of the...

Forget en-suites and garden rooms, could you boost viewings with the postcode of a property? Research by comparison website Money.co.uk has identified...

A think tank has proposed scrapping Council Tax and stamp duty in favour of an annual property levy.  The Institute for Public...

Buyer demand per property for sale is more than double that of pre-pandemic levels, Rightmove claims. The property portal’s latest House Price...

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

First-time buyers are £25,000 worse off thanks to the stamp duty holiday, according to estate agent comparison site GetAgent. The website revealed...

Rightmove claims to have identified the dream home for buyers. A survey of more than 2,000 visitors to the portal’s website has...

Picky buyers are walking away from property deals after realising the internet connection at a property is poor, research claims. A poll...

The property market is unlikely to enter a last-minute rush before the final stamp duty holiday ends in October, research claims. Analysis...

Implementing measures recommended in an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) could boost the sales price of a property for a vendor, the...

Demand from buyers is set to be strong for the rest of 2021 as the stamp duty holiday unwinds but uncertainty...

Purplebricks says its aim to move 650 staff from self-employed status to employed has had a 95 per cent success rate. It...

A TV advertising campaign begins today to promote SmartVal, its real-time valuation tool available on the Boomin portal. The advertisements will start...

We are living in the age of information. Our working and personal lives are underpinned by software, data and technology to...

A small survey commissioned by a PropTech firm appears to show that a majority of respondents believe estate agents lack expertise...

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

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

Many Britains are apparently under-estimating the impact of furlough on their ability to get a mortgage and buy a property. A new...

A prominent London-focussed buying agent says she is seeing more foreign buyers returning to the UK capital - with more expected...

An agency claims that across the UK there have been very nearly 400,000 property transactions down valued in the last year...

The work of the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team is “vital” it claims - and the case of the...

A broker claims the high profile return of the 95 per cent mortgage has actually made little impact on the housing...

Zoopla-owned Proptech platform Yourkeys has launched what it calls a first-of-its-kind sales progression service for new-build shared ownership properties. It works like...

An estate agency comparison website has conducted research into how much it costs to simply keep an average home in a...

Auction service Iamsold says a small-sample survey it conducted of agents suggests that increasing numbers are looking favourably on auctions as...

A new survey of online and hybrid agents claims that they are now taking a 13 per cent share of the...

A PropTech entrepreneur is advising agents not to settle for simply having their websites up and running, and instead using CRM...

An unexpected claim was made over the weekend - that the long-running stamp duty holiday was not, after all, behind the...

An agent has gone on record saying how he has progressed from being a photocopier boy at a Connells branch to...

A company says it’s gathering £500m in funding to purchase properties for a “gradual home ownership” scheme - a variation on...

Estate agents have gone on the record to say the flow of purchasers from London to country and market town locations...

The average asking price, as recorded by Rightmove, has fallen for the first time this year. In another sign that the market...

Over 55,000 households bought homes through the government’s Help to Buy equity loan scheme in the past financial year - a...

An estate agency is celebrating its 21st anniversary by launching a new ‘realtor’ franchise model based on enhanced technology and personalised...

HM Revenue & Customs is reported to be targeting recent home buyers after a slump in income from property taxes during...

A report claims the flurry of transactions over recent months has been down mostly to families moving into larger homes and...

The chief executive of Purplebricks says he wants to move his agency’s 600 Local Property Experts from self-employed to employed status...

A prominent property consultancy is urging the government to ensure that holiday home owners pay more tax.  Colliers claims local authorities are...

The former leader of the Liberal Democrats is calling for a ban on family homes being used for holiday lets and...

A former estate agent has accused the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agent Team of trying to discredit him. Chris Wood,...

Well, we’re technically more than halfway through the year already, but we’ll let that slide. And what a year it’s been...

Rightmove has reported a dramatic bounce back in its fortunes - and it’s making more money from agents even than before...

With stock remaining perilously short for most agents, the industry has been advised to use data to identify those existing owners...

“There is an average of 19 buyers for every available property on the market” according to Propertymark’s latest market snapshot for...

Propertymark says a new pay-per-viewing service is “interesting” but warns agents to protect themselves by abiding by consumer protection regulations. The warning has come following...

A number of estate agencies have signed up to a service which charges £30 to view a property. The online service, called...

Boots is the latest company to dip its toe into the water of the property sector.  Modular housing company ilke Homes has...

Fledgling portal Boomin is launching what it claims to be the most interactive and accurate online valuation tool on the market.  It...

New research suggests that the number of owners enquiring to sell across Greater London has increased by 68 per cent since...

The largest player in the Modern Method of Auction sector says there is growing consumer confidence in the way the system...

The reviews element of the ESTAS Group has signed a two year deal with Hunters. The agreement means Hunters - now part...

A supplier of virtual viewings claims physical viewings cost £233 of an agent’s time on average - and that’s without fuel...

Greater Manchester Police have arrested the Savills estate agent who allegedly posted a racist tweet about black England football stars after...

An online estate agency is launching a quasi franchise operation it calls Agency In A Box and claims applicants will “effectively”...

The Covid-19 crisis has been marked by so-called high-wealth households amassing savings and benefitting from rising house prices far more than...

OnTheMarket, which until now has lagged behind the leading two portals in terms of consumer-facing housing market information, has today launched...

The police have now received complaints about the tweet believed to have been sent from a personal account of a Savills...

An estate agency is opening a large new office in London which it claims will be “very different” to the traditional...

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

Channel 4 Ventures is one of a number of investors who have collectively put the equivalent of £11m into the online...

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

The chief executive of Purplebricks says research into pricing strategies has suggested around a third of sellers at least consider using...

The industry is braced for more anti-money laundering compliance processes according to a risk consultancy. LexisNexis Risk Solutions claims its survey shows...

A conveyancing services firm is warning that buyers are making “hasty rather than considered” decisions over properties because they feel under...

Zoopla has launched a new advertising innovation which it says will help both agents and housebuilders as they seek to capitalise...

Agency staff who worked from home at any point during the pandemic - even for just one day - can still...

Online estate agency Strike - which used to be HouseSimple - is expanding its sell-for-free service out across the Midlands and...

Knight Frank claims that the number of UK property transactions in June is on track to be the highest on record.  Although...

A PropTech entrepreneur is urging agents to maximise their training on existing PropTech to ensure they optimise its effectiveness. Anton Babkov, chief...

Property portal app MoveStreets says the latest upgrade to its app sends leads to agents’ inboxes and allows users to instantly arrange...

A new analysis claims Help To Buy has improved building volumes and has not been a drain on taxpayers. The scheme which...

Estate agency comparison website GetAgent has calculated the typical fees charged to vendors in different parts of the country. It says agents...

A company supplying data to conveyancers and other property professionals warns that Japanese Knotweed is a bigger headache than usual this summer. A wet and frosty spring,...

The distribution of home ownership across different generations has been a cause of strife according to a think-tank. The Resolution Foundation’s latest...

There’s been a dramatic slump in instructions for online agencies, particularly Purplebricks, according to data produced by one online firm itself. 99Home...

As agents, we’ve finally got used to the word PropTech - some of us even like it! What’s more, PropTech has,...

A consultation into the draft New Homes Quality Code has been published with a consultation period for the industry ending on...

There may well have been times in recent weeks when any agent would have been forgiven for wanting a break -...

One in 10 buyers say they will seek to renegotiate on the price of their chosen home if they miss the...

The long running saga of insurance firms failing to honour agents’ Business Interruption claims appears to be making progress at last. A...

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

Buyers are not told the true scale of flood risk in many properties - and the rush to beat the stamp...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says its monthly sentiment measure of house prices is at its highest level since 1988. A...

An app that promotes both on- and off-market homes to prospective buyers has linked up with a moving service PropTech platform.  Houso...

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

The Guild of Property Professionals is to give its members a tool which, it claims, will show existing owners’ propensity to...

An online agency has issued an outlandish statement that it, and other online agencies, have made the profession more trusted amongst...

A new home buying platform being set up by a challenger portal has revealed details of its mortgage offer to users. OneDome...

A global financial software and analytics firm says it’s launching a new PropTech tool which promises in the near future to...

Rightmove is to review the processes of an online platform which directly uploads sellers' property details via an app. Two years ago...

The free to list portal Residential People has launched what it claims to be a new Map View feature which “goes...

One of the country’s leading estate agents claims some solicitors are charging exorbitant fees on transactions as they near the latest...

A report by the Office of Tax Simplification on Capital Gains Tax has called for a series of changes. They include extending...

Three of the leading portals have made major announcements as the fierce rivalry between the big players continues apace.  Firstly Zoopla claims its latest...

An online platform claims each agency branch in the UK has benefited from the stamp duty holiday by over £120,000. WiggyWam says...

One of the men behind the defunct Emoov online estate agency has re-emerged as the head of a marketing service. The service...

The Trading Standards agency team has outlined to Estate Agent Today the process it will follow to improve what it calls...

The controversial demands of Trading Standards for more “material information” to be provided upfront in property details have been criticised by...

A leading industry trade body is warning that remote-working agents and smaller independent agencies are particularly vulnerable to the growing threat...

Two former directors of the prestigious Beauchamp Estates agency in central London have set up their own new company. They say their...

On 28 April 2021, Fixflo ran the first in a series of quarterly legal update webinars with David Smith, Partner at...

An agent has contacted Estate Agent Today to issue what he calls “an urgent alert” about the risk of Capital Gains...

A leading agency says the stamp duty holiday is not a big influence on the current housing market frenzy - and...

A think tank claims that ‘urban flight’ - when people leave cities and head for towns and villages - is merely a...

There’s a new warning that the estate agency industry may be in a more fragile financial condition than before the pandemic,...

A nationalist candidate in next month’s elections claims there is a second homes crisis which may create a “lost generation” of...

The TDS annual review 2020 indicates that deposit disputes have remained low over the last year, at around 1%. This is...

International investment bank UBS has double-downgraded Purplebricks from ‘buy’ to ‘sell’ - and that could be good for independent agents, a...

Some 45 per cent of people who had their home valued by an agent or sold it in the past three years discovered it...

National Trading Standards wants agents, portals and industry groups to come up with ways to provide basic essential material information ‘upfront’.  The National...

Rightmove’s new Modern Method of Auction service launches on Monday.  The service - which Rightmove calls Online Conditional Auctions - will involve...

It’s Friday so it’s Charity day of course, and today we get to the root of the issue of lockdown easing...

Zoopla has unveiled a subtle rebranding plus new features and functionality - and says it wants to be number one, not...

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

A leading agency claims the stamp duty holiday has actually had a minimal impact in the mainstream market, despite many suggestions...

One in three property sales in England and Wales fell through before completion in the first quarter of 2021. The 32 per...

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

A new survey suggests 53 per cent of buyers never actually visit an estate agent’s office during the course of their...

A mortgage firm specialising in high net worth clients says the stamp duty holiday cliff edge will not impact the most expensive...

Winkworth says Covid and its aftermath will not derail plans to open five offices a year.  In a trading statement to shareholders...

An agency has analysed sold prices since the first lockdown in March 2020 and February this year - and has found...

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

There’s been a drop of no less than 16,000 in the number of physical viewings over the past year thanks to just...

Earlier this month, Fixflo held a webinar with David Cox, legal and compliance director of Rightmove, to discuss key government policies...

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

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...

Purplebricks has removed advertising claims which suggested it sold homes for a higher sum, on average, than rival agencies. The Advertising Standards...

PropTech firm Sprift has entered into a deal with The Guild of Property Professionals. The partnership means that Guild member agents have...

A quarter of agents say they intend to recruit new staff in the next 12 months, following on from the surge...

One of the companies at the heart of the campaign to provide more upfront information to prospective buyers has struck a...

Digital channels are essential for agents’ promotion of properties but there is still a key place for print and direct mail...

With much attention on those at risk of repossession or running up rent arrears, it's emerged that many others have actually used...

High end purchasers of homes in London paid 15 per cent of the stamp duty in 2020, yet the value of...

A broker has launched the UK’s longest-ever fixed rate mortgage, with no early repayment charge or exit fees - the first product...

One of the biggest TV hits of lockdown has been the Netflix show Call My Agent! It’s a surprise success, perhaps, because...

Labour says Chancellor Rishi Sunak “will give away half a billion pounds to second homeowners and landlords through the stamp duty...

OnTheMarket has hit out at a newspaper claim that it is just “limping along.” Patrick Hosking, a prominent financial columnist at The...

The firm behind iamsold, the leading operator in the controversial Modern Method of Auction arena, is entering the private treaty sales...

The head of a PropTech platform wants financial penalties on conveyancers if transactions miss deadlines. “The only way to accelerate the current...

Zoopla says over 250 agents have now signed up to its partnership deal with PropTech firm FocalAgent, set up by former...

Connells Group says it is the UK's largest estate agency group by market share - and that's before the Countrywide acquisition...

The Bruce brothers’ latest project, Boomin, is “ready to launch” some two months after it was expected to see the light...

An agent working for a Countrywide brand in Lancashire has been given a suspended jail sentence after being found guilty of...

An agency says it now sells more prime London properties than any of its rivals. Chestertons makes the claim based on figures...

Fixflo’s webinar on February 9 saw an industry panel debate 2021’s threats and opportunities for letting agents. The panel discussed a range...

Knowing adjudication terms and phrases can make all the difference in a deposit dispute. The DPS has been helping landlords and letting...

An agent is challenging the insurer Hiscox over its interpretation of whether to honour a Business Interruption Insurance policy. A standard letter...

Estate agents might be expert at advising on buying and selling properties on their books but when it comes to buying...

It’s now more than a year since the government offered an additional £4 million to councils to combat rogue landlords. At the...

An online agency has apologised to a single mother who felt pressured into allowing viewings of a property she was renting. Local media in...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has announced “an exceptional intervention” promising that leaseholders in high-rise buildings above 18 metres will bear no...

One of the early operators of the self-employed agency model has launched a scheme under which its agents receive shares in the...

A new body which says it will “champion better outcomes for buyers” is described as independent but is to be chaired...

A newspaper claims that thousands of customers’ financial details held by Foxtons Group are being freely accessed on the so-called dark...

The government needs to step in to rescue two valuable property incentives before they expire at the end of March, a...

An online petition has been started by an independent estate agent seeking a radical overhaul of how homes are sold in...

Labour has entered the cladding controversy by calling a vote in the House of Commons to force government action on the...

Just as the new chief executive of Propertymark holds interviews across the industry, so The Guild of Property Professionals is coming out...

An international property and residency consultancy claims the sold prices of homes in some prime London locations have collapsed by up to 40...

One of the country’s top auctioneers is not going to stage any ballroom auctions this year - and it’s keeping its 2022...

Propertymark, combining both the National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Letting Agents, claims to speak for the...

The BBC says some buyers are taking advantage of lockdown rules to travel hundreds of miles to view homes. The story suggests...

Another group of independent estate agents have launched a portal - a rival to a similar project launched by other agencies...

A property platform claims the current pipeline stock is so large that the average UK agency branch is waiting on £105,000...

A trade body is warning that increased home working triggered by Coronavirus makes the agency industry more vulnerable than ever to...

The latest Rightmove analysis shows it now takes 126 days from the time an offer is accepted until legal completion -...

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

Propertymark, the overarching body aiming to bring five different associations (ARLA, NAEA, NAVA, ICBA and APIP) into a single brand, was...

There's good news for thousands of estate agencies awaiting pay outs under Business Interruption Insurance schemes. The agents are amongst 370,000 businesses whose...

One of the housing market’s senior analysts says the end of the stamp duty holiday on March 31 would not be...

An online petition wants all agents’ offices to close during the pandemic. Keeping them open means agents feel "forced and pressured" to conduct...

Countrywide and Foxtons have thrown their weight behind an idea to identify every single UK residential property with a unique number. The...

The Supreme Court will give its judgment on the long-running Business Interruption Insurance case on Friday. In November a Supreme Court appeal...

An estate agency is being criticised for marketing properties as second homes in an area reportedly suffering a housing shortage. Local media...

Independent agents inspired by the Say No To Rightmove campaign are to launch a rival portal next month. Wearethemarket is a portal...

The UK outlet of Warren Buffett's estate agency empire is launching its first TV advert in this country.  Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Kay &...

Rightmove says it’s recorded the busiest ever start to a New Year in its two decade history with visits to the...

An estate agency group has launched new franchise business models to help those in the industry impacted by Covid-19. Century 21 UK...

An auction house that's made a transition from ballroom operations to online streaming is to publish all fees for all lots -...

A house price index that is routinely one of the most pessimistic about the market claims the New Year will see...

The pandemic has reignited the flagging country house market and boosted demand for larger homes with gardens, claims Savills. Larger country houses...

Zoopla saw a record 70.5 per cent increase in traffic on Boxing Day as signs suggest the pre-Christmas boom is set...

The largest company involved in the controversial Modern Method of Auction says it’s producing a “disruptive digital market campaign to address...

Fall throughs which could be avoided by Reservation Agreements have cost agency branches an average £10,000 per month. That’s the claim from digital...

The hundreds of estate and lettings agencies involved in various Business Interruption Insurance policies must wait even longer to find their...

Down valuations could leave some surveyors liable to professional negligence claims, a law firm says. Nelsons law firm says down valuations have...

Purplebricks says it’s to continue to test new pricing models next year - and has not ruled out completely moving away...

OnTheMarket is to undergo a revamp under its new chief executive, former Foxtons agent Jason Tebb - who has been given...

A not-for-profit group of government and insurance industry representatives wants a Flood Performance Certificate to be issued for every home. The group,...

A leading property consultancy is suggesting that a possible increase in Capital Gains Tax could end up losing money for the...

Deposit disputes can be time-consuming and difficult for all parties involved whether it be a letting agent, landlord, or tenant. Although at...

A scathing document produced by MPs slams the government for its “deplorable” housing policies which are "invented, abandoned and reinvented" -...

The design quality of new homes and neighbourhoods across the UK remains stubbornly low, according to a new report by academics.  The...

A new family-run estate agency in Cornwall claims to be the first in the county to focus on green thinking, championing...

The private equity company which wants to take control of Countrywide has issued a statement saying it now has the support...

A digital resource hub for estate agents launches a new product today, claiming to shorten transaction times.  Sort Move, which has been...

Over 100 Zoopla member branches have signed up to the Modern Method of Auction system offered via the portal. Over the summer Zoopla...

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

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

Free-to-list portal group OneDome claims 425 estate agency branches joined its listing services last month,  OneDome Group operates two portals, OneDome and...

The agency industry may look back on this year and say: “Well...to be honest we didn’t really see it coming.” No, no,...

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

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

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

Online network love2move - which gives partner High Street agents an option to offer vendors an online sales service - is...

The soon-to-launch Boomin portal has signed up a national firm and now claims to have recruited 40 per cent of the...

Agents anxious to know if they will receive a payout from their Business Interruption Insurance will have to wait still longer...

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

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

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

The advertising watchdog has told the agency industry to clean up its act on four issues, with clarity over fees being...

Property is considered to be a safe investment. The buy-to-let market is booming, fuelled by a generation unable to get on...

Residential People, one of many free-to-list platforms in the hectic portal marketplace, is set to launch which it calls its “AI...

A report commissioned by the government suggests a doubling of Capital Gains Tax on profits from the sale of second homes. The government -...

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

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

As lockdown – Season 2, the sequel no one asked for – gets underway in England, landlords, tenants and agents will...

Countrywide shares soared yesterday, rising 47 per cent on the previous close at one point as investors relished the prospect of...

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...

Connells has issued a counter statement to this morning’s announcement by Countrywide that a possible takeover is underway. At 7am Countrywide revealed...

What are the best ways for a letting agency to generate additional revenue and stay ahead of the competition? Management fees are...

Hunters chairman and Conservative MP Kevin Hollinrake has hit out at allegedly false claims made by Donald Trump and Nigel Farage. Trump’s...

The Business Interruption Insurance saga, involving hundreds of agencies awaiting pay-outs on policies, enters its next and final stage later this month. An...

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

Clear communication and common-sense actions by landlords, letting agents and students at the start of a tenancy can drastically improve the...

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

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

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

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

Online auction service Iamsold secured £52.7m in total for vendors in September, an increase of 16 per cent on the same period last...

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

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

Conveyancers are sending a blunt message to estate agents: transactions will take longer than usual and don’t chase us with queries and...

The senior management from four of the agencies announced as founding members of Boomin have spoken out in favour of the...

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

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

Lifesycle, the platform built by Iceberg Digital to help estate and letting agents work smarter, continues to launch new features and...

A platform which signs up vendors and allocates their sale to a high-performing local agent says it sells property two months...

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

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

A PropTech platform wants to find out agents’ views on a range of industry issues - and that includes whether they...

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