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The Relocation Agent Network (RAN) has named Smart Compliance as a preferred supplier.  This partnership is a continuation of a collaboration that...

Whether we’re selling properties, managing buildings, servicing heavy goods vehicles or flogging widgets, we’re all operating in a digital world. This is...

Property blockchain network Coadjute has secured a £10m investment from Lloyds Banking Group, Nationwide, Natwest, and Rightmove.  This is the first time...

Agency acquirer Lomond has recruited Tony Haran as its new head of residential development. He brings experience from both Knight Frank and...

Property professionals have called for the Government to allocate its promised £3m towards improving the home buying and selling process to...

A network uniting ethical estate agents has officially launched today with 25 members. The Ethical Agent Network (EAN) is led by industry...

A variety of charities have received support from the property industry over the past week. If there are charitable endeavours you think...

Fine & Country has partnered with James Edition, a marketplace for international luxury real estate.  This strategic collaboration will help Fine &...

The Guild of Property Professionals has launched a referral arrangement for its members with The Land & New Homes Network.  New home...

The search for the very best of the property industry is officially on for The Midlands PROPS Awards 2024. The awards is...

Eddisons has signed a partnership deal with proptech firm Valos in a collaboration which is designed to streamline the property consultancy’s...

Rightmove and FCS Compliance have launched the latest in their series of anti-money laundering (AML) webinars. The events are free for Rightmove...

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

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

OnTheMarket (OTM) can still pursue its original aims of challenging the duopoly in the property portal market, its chief executive Jason...

Reservation agreement provider Gazeal has partnered with Optimus, Landmark’s panel of conveyancers to offer its services as an option for home...

This week saw around 80 conveyancing firms across the UK paralysed by a service outage caused by a ‘cyber incident’ on...

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

The ValPal Network (TVPN) has partnered with Street.co.uk to combat ‘proptech fatigue’ for agents. Under this collaboration, estate agency users can access...

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

Chestertons has launched a new initiative with its e-Bike partner Forest that it hopes will get 5,000 of its customers and...

Iamproperty, which champions the so-called Modern Method of Auction, has announced a private equity partner. A statement from the auction service says...

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

Agency website and digital marketing company Property Webmasters has partnered with social media proptech firm Flow. The collaboration will provide clients with...

The property transaction in England and Wales is a notoriously slow and fraught process, taking typically 150 days to complete, with...

I recently wrote that the long-gestating Renters Reform Bill, finally introduced in Parliament back in May, could be poorly timed, both...

The Federation of Independent Agents (FIA) has unveiled a new collaboration with Dataloft. The partnership will give FIA members access to Dataloft’s...

Prominent industry figure Sean Newman has renewed his licence agreement with Fine & Country for five more years.  Newman has licenses in...

Client onboarding and verification tool LandmarkAgent has announce a strategic partnership with CRM provider Street.co.uk. The collaboration will enable agency users to...

More than half of property professional have admitted experiencing constant stress at work, new research suggests. The findings were revealed as part...

Now more than ever, property professionals across the sector need to pull together and collaborate more closely to make business gains,...

The long-awaited Renters Reform Bill was finally introduced in Parliament in May, but is it really good news for tenants? Several...

Property data in the UK is mined from a labyrinth of sources such as local authorities, various government departments and private...

Self-employed agency brand eXp UK has launched a strategic partnership with proptech supplier nurtur.group.  Under the agreement, nurtur.group will become the exclusive...

In the fiercely competitive property industry, staying ahead of the game is essential for thriving and achieving success. That's where the...

The Home Buying and Selling Group (HBSG) has formed an independent industry body, the Open Property Data Association (OPDA), for companies...

In an exclusive interview with Estate Agent Today, Simon Coaker, Sales & Marketing Director of Desert Springs Resort, shared captivating insights into...

Self-employed agency brand eXp UK has unveiled details of a new nationwide roadshow including an as yet unnamed ex-footballer. Its ‘Growing into...

Upfront material information is now firmly on the property industry’s radar, with Trading Standards CPR regulations expected to move towards disclosing...

The Bank of England last week announced the completion of Project Meridian, a digital synchronised settlement prototype that aims to digitise...

According to the recent industry research report ‘Back to the Future’ from tmgroup, mio and CDS 40% of property transaction delays...

Agents are being encouraged to get involved in National Conveyancing Week. The awareness week will start on 20 March and features a...

The property industry's self-destructive, point-scoring way of working just doesn’t cut it. When low stock means low cash flow low, agents and...

Having just had an appointment popped into my diary by my car as it apparently told the garage it’s due a...

An outline agenda for National Conveyancing Week has been released with the event just eight weeks away. National Conveyancing Week has been...

Agency brand eXp UK has launched a new network referral programme for its self-employed agents to earn extra commission by sending...

Industry brothers Matt and Neil Baldock are cooking up a new dinner series called the EA Directors Club for estate and...

Customer review platform ESTAS has partnered with the Women in Estate Agency Group (WIEA) to promote the health, wealth, and empowerment...

As we get ever closer to 2023, this final Natter of the year is dedicated to the five biggest property moments of...

Why is it that some agents report seeing little impact/improvement from adopting a PropTech solution when another (similar) agent reports transformational...

As we move closer to the end of the year, we invariably begin to think of what 2023 will bring, how...

As economic signs increasingly point to a contraction in the property market, competition for new business will inevitably heat up. But...

Estate Agent Today publisher Angels Media and Facebook expert Paul Long have teamed up to launch a new social media lead...

Increased conveyancing fees would speed-up transaction times, it has been claimed. Iain McKenzie, chief executive of The Guild of Property Professionals suggests...

Hamptons is returning to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2023 following last year’s Gold win. The agency brand is sponsoring a...

With reform of the home buying and selling process as crucial as it's ever been, and disrupters like Coadjute and PEXA...

Digital transformation is not a new concept. It has been around for many years in various forms and across multiple industries,...

Industry figure Iain White has admitted he has overcome ‘original scepticism’ about the launch of OnTheMarket after the portal was added...

Earlier this year, we ran a story asking whether agency would ever embrace a four-day week. This came ahead of the...

An Australian FinTech which this year entered the UK market has outlined the e-conveyancing lessons that the UK property industry can...

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

Another piece about conveyancing? Seems like it's been a bit of free-for-all in the last couple of weeks on the woes...

The relationship between estate agents and conveyancers is undoubtedly a complex one and has certainly had ‘its moments’ over the years,...

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

It may be cliche to say, but technology is advancing at such a fast pace. So fast, in fact, that according...

A reluctance by property firms to hire individuals to focus on innovation is leaving the sector behind when it comes to...

There has been so much coverage recently over how painfully slow conveyancing is at the moment - 18-20 weeks is now...

Automation is the direction the industry is moving in and it’s gathering pace every day. Forward-thinking agents are using automation and...

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...

Knight Frank head of London sales James Clarke has stepped down after two years in the role. He was recently diagnosed with Motor Neurone...

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

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

In this article, Kristian Stott, Head of New Business at iamproperty, analyses the digital revolution in our lives and in property and why...

Why the urgency? Because the appetite is strong. Research by the Conveyancing Association reports that 98% of consumers are overwhelmingly in...

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

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,...

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

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

Our inbox is regularly stuffed with exciting new industry developments and tools to help agents work better.  Here are some of the...

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

Zoopla has unveiled a Sales Advisory Board in an attempt to give agents a greater say in how the portal is...

The self-employed model, after years of not really catching on fully, was given a major boost by the pandemic and the...

Ben Ridgway and Jamie Cooke, co-founders of iamproperty Group brought together industry leaders in a recent roundtable to discuss the challenges...

Welcome to the latest edition of Property Jobs Today, your chance to catch up with who’s going where and why in...

PropTech supplier tmgroup is to hold a six-part webinar series called Achieving Change: Think tomorrow, act today. The webinars - from linked...

Reapit Elements is an open-source, cross-platform design system that gives designers and developers a framework to quickly create responsive, device-agnostic, and...

Research suggests there are substantial numbers of older Londoners using too-large properties but unable to downsize because of a lack of...

The ESTAS Forum scheduled for March says its aim is to encourage agents and conveyancers to work more closely together.  “There doesn’t...

The lettings sector looks set to steam ahead in 2022 after a record-breaking 2021, despite the financial and mobility challenges of...

The government should reset planning policy and scrap proposals for thousands of new homes in high-risk flood areas. The think-tank Localis, in...

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

High-profile outsourced communications provider Moneypenny has joined the industry PropTech hub known as the Innovation Collaboration Group. There are around 40 companies...

I recently took part in a webinar hosted by ICG (The Innovation Collaboration Group) – titled ‘New estate agency revenue streams...

The stamp duty holiday concluded at midnight, marking the end of the busiest period for the industry - all parts of...

There are some parts of the world, including in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, where estate agent isn’t seen as...

Apart from a buoyant market, high transaction levels, and consumer confidence in the property market, one considerable additional benefit which has...

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

In this week’s In Conversation Today, I am delighted to chat with Lucy Morton, Head of Residential Agency at JLL, about...