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Would-be home-buyers are enjoying the highest level of spring-time choice of homes in five years says Zoopla. The portal claims that there...

Trade and representative bodies representing the legal, surveying, estate agency and property management sectors have launched the fifth iteration of the...

Vendors could end up spending hundreds of pounds more when selling their home due to Trading Standards material information rules guidance,...

Winkworth is expanding its country house operation to capitalise on demand from UK and international buyers. The operation will work from Winkworth’s...

Following the release of Material Information Parts B & C, iamproperty’s Product Manager, Tania Bonesi, shares insights on how Estate Agents...

Sprift has unveiled its solution to help agents cope with material information requirements and collate the property-specific details required prior to...

Long-awaited guidance on material information in property listings was revealed yesterday but policing of the rules won’t be any different, it...

Jackson-Stops has boosted its presence across the Cornish coast, with the hiring of three new directors, Richard Holder, Dean Lonergan and Daniel...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...

It’s no secret that sea levels are rising, leaving millions of homes at risk globally and according to a recent report,...

Fine & Country has welcomed its first Cypriot agency to the upmarket network. Purple International, which was established in September 2007, is...

Landmark Information Group has launched a new product that aims to help users understand the current and potential climate-based risks on...

Energy efficiency will become key considerations for buyers next year while those with cash will be preferred purchasers, Jackson-Stops has predicted. The...

Property demand has halved but the slowdown is focused on the previously popular rural and coastal areas, Zoopla has revealed. Higher mortgage...

There has been an understandable focus on things other than Government since the death of Queen Elizabeth was announced, but Prime...

There is a big walking theme to this week's charity exploits, showing you don't have to break too much of a...

Property buyers should be warned of the climate risks when purchasing a home, a leading lawyer has claimed. Stephen Tromans QC, the...

In this Guides & Tips piece, Brian Murphy, Head of Lending at Mortgage Advice Bureau, offers insight into what rate rises...

The temperature may be heating up outside and there are also few signs of the jobs market cooling down for agents...

Independent Kent agent Miles & Barr took a musical approach to an office relocation last weekend. Miles & Barr, which has 12...

A famous environmental campaigner has sold his home to a local - because he feels second homes are “obscene and grotesque.” Green...

New data from Rightmove has analysed millions of supply, demand and pricing data points across the property market, to assess activity...

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

Just as city centre traffic is reminiscent of life before the pandemic, the rental market in central zones of UK’s largest...

Rightmove will launch its latest outdoor campaign on Monday, with advertisements in over 1,000 roadside and rail locations remaining in place...

Strutt & Parker has revealed where it believes the housing market will see the largest demand in 2022, outside of London. The...

A government report suggests that house prices are rising at three times the national rate in some rural and coastal areas...

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...

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

An estate agency is to launch its third branch, this time in a seaside location. Stoneridge Estate Agents’ new Brightlingsea town centre...

House sales slumped nearly two thirds last month as the main deadline for the stamp duty holiday passed.  HM Revenue and Customs...

A nationalist party has blasted a Labour government in one national region of the UK for its lack of intervention in...

A deep dive into Rightmove’s data by the portal itself has discovered that there’s one sector where homes sell 20 days...

New research from Zoopla appears to show that buyers typically move further away for larger homes rather than smaller or same-size...

Over a fifth of properties have risen in value by more than the average salary according to a calculation made by...

Back in April, leading portal Zoopla launched a new multi-million-pound marketing campaign, its biggest ever, to help agents capitalise on the...

The asking price of a typical home in the UK has hit a third of a million pounds for the first...

A first-time-buyer couple in a part of the country renowned for its second homes and shortage of stock has praised a...

The managing director of Fine & Country Cardiff, Dan Thomas, has wasted no time with his fundraiser - starting as soon...

Zoopla has revealed precisely how much house prices have risen over the course of 2020. Across the UK as a whole prices...

He’s gone from Downing Street but the legacy of Dominic Cummings lives on in Rightmove’s top searches of 2020. Barnard Castle -...

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

What’s the happiest place in Britain? Rightmove has the answer. In a new ‘Happy At Home’ index calculated by the portal and...

In my last Natter, I explored the differences between estate agency in the UK and the US with the help of...

In the latest of a recent flurry of consumer-facing research exercises by Rightmove, a league table of the most popular seaside...

Rightmove has given a regional breakdown in where  buyer demand is strongest in the past two weeks. It’s perhaps no surprise that...

Another west country tourist hotspot looks set to ban any future new-build home being sold as a holiday or additional property. Bigbury...

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

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

Hello and welcome to this latest edition of PJT, your regular weekly column giving all the key appointments news in the...

During our school days, most of us did that task where we imagined and drew the homes of the future, but...

The breathing space offered by the October Brexit deadline and the receding prospect of a No Deal exit from the EU...

A former senior management figure at Rightmove and online estate agency Doorsteps is going it alone for a new holiday property...

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

Two local estate agencies are entering a strategic partnership to market properties together, allowing them to list the properties on the...

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

The East of England, which takes in areas from Hertfordshire to Norfolk, has recorded the biggest hike in property prices over...

Humberts is launching a dedicated nationwide Waterfront and Coastal department.  The agency, which is now franchising in a bid to expand outside...

We know all about Grand Designs and Location, Location, Location - now Channel 4 hopes another new TV property programme will become just...

Knight Frank is warning that it will “take time” for the three per cent stamp duty surcharge to be absorbed into...

Sherry Fitzgerald, a major agency in the Republic of Ireland, says it has seen “exceptionally strong” interest in homes from British...

Channel 4 is launching another property programme to complement hits such as Location, Location, Location and Phil Spencer’s Secret Agent, with...

OK, you’re being spoilt. This column is now going to be on a bi-weekly rather than monthly basis. You lucky people,...

The ex-Savills and ex-Romans agent who heads the estate agency Capital & Coastal, Michael Riley has stepped into the row between...

Poldark, a period drama recently on the BBC, has inspired a new trend dubbed the 'Poldark Effect'.  Rather than an increase in...