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Regional agency Mundys has snapped up a sales business, taking its branch total to five. It currently has two offices in Lincoln...

Agents are set to discover who has won the Best in Postcode accolades next week as part of a rejig of...

Connells Group has become the first estate agency brand to be named an accredited supplier by the New Homes Quality Board...

MPs have launched an inquiry on improving the home buying and selling process in England. The Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (LUHC)...

The Residential Property Surveyors Association (RPSA) has announced an investigation to uncover the tensions between developers and surveyors on snagging. The trade...

The Law Society is exploring concerns that Propertymark's Property Information Questionnaire (PIQ) puts agents at risk of legal issues, Estate Agent...

It’s taking an average of 17.61 weeks to sell a property across Greater London, with some parts taking up to 147 days on...

In my last Natter, I recounted the story of how Angels media bounced back from the 2008 financial crisis by launching...

The ESTAS Group has scheduled a Big Postcode Reveal event in April to detail winners of its latest award category. The Best...

Former agency founder and property marketing veteran John Durrant has challenged Propertymark and RICS to take a leadership on the contentious...

Yulia Barnes is founder and managing partner of Barnes Law   2024 is set to be another significant year for the property...

Estate agency regulations and minimum standards may finally see the light of day after Labour put forward amendments to the Government’s...

Momentum within London’s £5m-plus residential market slowed in 2023, according to Savills, but sales remain well above the pre-pandemic average. Research across...

Welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity, our chance to salute those who do so much to help others. If your agency...

As sure as night follows day, so our industry sets out a wish list of tax changes which it hopes the...

Asking prices for newly listed homes dropped by the largest rate for November in five years, Rightmove has revealed. The portal’s latest...

If you’ve paid even scant attention to Landlord Today or other trade titles, you’ll be familiar with the headlines about rogue...

By Jashoda Pindoria, Head of Self Assessment Operations, HMRC Self Assessment need not be daunting with HMRC’s simple steps on getting started....

The annual ESTAS Awards have seen 1,000 people from across the industry witness a string of winners, including new categories celebrating...

London and the Home Counties have topped the list of ‘hotspots’ for potential house sales, according to a new Pre Mover...

Demand for residential property remains fragile despite a pause in interest rate rises, Knight Frank claims. While the number of new prospective...

The Labour Party is being urged to take the lead on estate agency regulation and help driving up standards in the...

Industry figure Sean Newman has named seven additional speakers for the Estate Agent Success Summit, with 50% of tickets already sold. The...

The average home seller across England and Wales has achieved 97.3% of asking price, a -2.4% drop versus the previous six...

The ValPal Network (TVPN) has launched a new automated direct mail service to ensure agents don’t miss out on ‘bonus leads.' It...

Tangible, tactile, and tested. Those are the three words that Royal Mail used to describe direct mail marketing campaigns. Despite living in...

Compliancy expert Legal Eye has launched a new product to help agents ensure they are properly following all rules and regulations. Its...

Phil Spencer’s property advice website Move iQ has launched a video market solution that shares housing market insights at a local...

The ESTAS team and I are now on the final countdown to Friday 20th October.  Having run the event for twenty...

Estate agency has changed. No longer is it required to sit in a high street office working the old way. Provide a...

House prices near to the higher ranked schools in the capital are getting a welcome boost, according to research from London...

The term mixed-tenure development usually refers to residential developments where different residential tenures are provided on the same site. Typically, tenure was...

The Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) has warned it is receiving “too many complaints” about breaches of undertakings by solicitors. The regulator...

A QR code on a sales board can land agents multiple leads at around £1 each, says Agency Express managing director,...

Success with your chosen CRM solution should not be a one-and-done package. Once you team up with a stellar CRM provider,...

Forget sales skills or an ability to keep track of countless numbers of keys and alarm codes, a senior industry trainer...

CRMs can be superheroes for your business, but not all of them possess the necessary powers to save the day. As...

A new study of 130 locations across the UK reveals huge ‘postcode lottery’ differences as to how quickly a first time...

By adopting a top-notch Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution, you're not only opening doors to acquiring new customers and nurturing existing...

Properties in West London are currently selling quicker than anywhere else in the UK, new research suggests. Analysis by lead generation technology...

The founder of an online agency that switched to the for sale-by-owner model has turned his attention to property portals. Kae Travis...

A new property platform aiming to help homeowners sell off-market properties has attracted 10,000 registered buyers in its first few months...

Online agents and outsourced conveyancing panels have been cited as factors delaying property sales in the UK. A trade body has warned...

The time it’s taking to sell a home across England and Wales has fallen by an average of 44 days, new...

From Million Dollar Listing to Selling Sunset, we’re used to seeing real estate reality TV in full force on Netflix. Whilst...

Agents have begun reporting concerns that Barclays has suspended access to their business bank accounts. Vijay Vashistha, co-founder of online agent 99home,...

Mayfair, London’s most famous address, is in a state of radical metamorphosis, a local agency brand claims. A new report from Mayfair...

Move with Us and Moving Made Easy have been awarded the New Homes Quality Board (NHQB) accreditation for their part-exchange and...

Around a third of agents still have some sort of dress code at work while almost half are kust expected to...

Zoopla has become the latest accredited supplier of the New Homes Quality Board (NHQB) for its software that supports housebuilders. It come...

Estate agents should ‘rock the clothes they want’ rather than sticking to corporate 1980s suit fashions, an industry executive has claimed. It...

Black mould associated with condensation is becoming an increasing problem for homes in the UK and following the tragic death of...

Lies, damned lies, and statistics this week. I don’t know about you, but sometimes I feel as though I’m being bombarded...

Half of Estate Agent Today readers agree that industry regulations and minimum qualifications will improve standards in the sector but a...

Agency brand Knight Frank has pledged to be one of the first adopters if minimum standards and qualifications are introduced in...

Independent estate agent DM & Co. Homes has launched a weekly update on the regional housing market presented by managing director...

New research has uncovered the most densely populated areas for estate agency branches. Agency comparison website GetAgent’s internal data tracks the number...

Conservative MPs are continuing to question when new estate agency regulations will come in as the Government sticks to its stock...

Buyers should be mindful about the rise of so called ‘Insta-agents,’ a property body has warned. The National Association of Property Buyers...

Being owned by Google, YouTube is the world’s 2nd largest search engine, you can find all the logical reasons online, just...

Winkworth agents ranked second when it came to property exchanges in London last year, the franchise agency brand claims. A trading update...

The directors of London agent Churchill and Mathesons have taken on a Fine & Country license to cater for the upper...

OnTheMarket Group is set to host a “Meet Our Partners” virtual series of webinars for agents to hear from the commercial...

Inside this short article, my goal is to simply highlight the four most common mistakes l see from reviewing agents' Google Ad...

Agents have been showing there is more to being charitable than just donating money. This weeks charitable exploits have a big focus...

The Government’s latest Housing Minister Lucy Frazer brings plenty of property experience as a landlord and has also indirectly received donations...

Agents have managed to secure a buyer two weeks faster for their vendors so far this year compared with in 2021,...

Estate agency software provider and platform Reapit has recruited its first graduate as a result of a recent partnership with the...

I can’t really write about anything else this week, can I? Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you will have...

New research from GetAgent has outlined where the UK’s best-performing estate agents are currently located when it comes to the price secured...

Knight Frank expects prices to fall by 3% next year in Prime Central London (PCL) before rising modestly in the years...

A new Code of Practice for builders and an independent Ombudsman for consumers in the new-build sector went live this week. Customers...

The National Association of Professional Sourcing Agents (NAPSA) has partnered with The Property Ombudsman (TPO) to boost compliance and working practices in...

Almost three-quarters of estate agents are missing out on fulfilling their advertising potential using social media, research claims. Estate agency lead generation...

In a recent McKinsey poll* 85 per cent of people said that fear of criticism, fear of uncertainty and fear of...

Many experts are predicting that house price growth will slow for the remainder of the year as the cost of living...

Zoopla chief executive Charlie Bryant has revealed aspirations for the portal to play a key role in the home buying process. Speaking...

Winkworth has claimed to have sold more properties than any other agent during the first half of the year. The bold claim...

Buyers are putting off property purchases by at least one year due to increasing living costs, research claims. Research by savings websites...

Rightmove has unveiled details of a new qualification for agents. Sales and lettings agents can now sign up to register their interest...

Estate agents have listed an average of 7.3 homes for sale per branch during 2022, research suggests- down 12.5% annually. Agency comparison...

Agency board supplier Kremer Signs is working on geotagging tools that can be incorporated into For Sale signs. Tom Cummuskey, sales and...

The leading trade body for the conveyancing industry has launched a new ‘Find an Expert’ service via its website. This will help...

The latest White Paper from the Institute of Residential Property Management (now part of The Property Institute) has called for customers...

There is a staggering £117 billion worth of property currently up for sale across the UK property market, according to new...

Savills has released a revised five-year forecast for the UK’s prime housing markets, to reflect the strong levels of activity in...

Estate agents in Scotland are bucking the sales slowdown trend, Homesearch claims. The property data and prospecting platform, which recently launched north...

Agents are currently achieving 99.4% of the asking price on listings, research shows.  The figure, calculated by agency comparison website GetAgent based...

More than a third of England’s regions have seen buyer demand fall over the previous quarter, research claims in the latest...

The last week has been dramatic even by the standards of UK politics, with a Cabinet and junior minister rebellion bringing...

People in prominent positions in the housing industry aren’t always perfect role models. After all, Chris Pincher was housing minister for...

A client called asking for advice on their social media marketing strategy. They’d thrown a lot of budget at it, but...

OneDome has launched a new product to let pre-qualified buyers register their interest for properties with local estate agents. The Buyer Passport...

We are all acutely aware of the surge in demand for rental properties in and around the capital in the months...

With Earth Day in April and Environment Day looming in June, all businesses and individuals are becoming more aware of their...

In retrospect, it was perhaps inevitable that the infamous dead cat would come into the debate over government housing targets and...

The issue of agency qualifications has finally been mentioned in the Houses of Parliament, almost three years since the landmark Regulation...

New research has revealed the regional hotspots where Japanese knotweed has been identified. The data could be of interest to estate agents...

The government last night revealed more details on its flagship Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill including letting local authorities double council...

The government has insisted it is still committed to introducing agency qualifications and minimum standards in the sector. It is almost three...