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Fraud poses a significant challenge for residential conveyancers, with criminals often attempting to exploit the transaction process for money laundering purposes. The...

Savills has appointed industry specialist Victoria Garrett to the role of director of its global residential business, based in the firm’s...

Connells Group has boosted its affordable housing offering after appoint Roy Hind as a director. Hind has been named affordable housing director...

Zoopla has sealed a new long-term contract with London estate agent Dexters, which encompasses 156 offices across the capital.  The the agency...

Spicerhaart's top performers have been honoured at an awards ceremony showcasing the agency brand’s culture. The 2024 Elevate Awards were hosted by...

Fine & Country has launched its second radio advert campaign.  The premium estate agent’s latest adverts will focus on its ‘Dare To...

In celebration of International Women's Day, Tunbridge Wells property services company Presence & Co. proudly spotlights the exceptional achievements of our...

OneDome is offering free digital know-your-customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) checks for estate agents using its various home buying services.  The...

Two brothers who previously worked as estate agents have launched a new networking platform for property professionals in the UK. Chris Tremlett,...

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

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities (DLUHC)  was this week due to conclude its consultation on proposed changes to...

Twenty-minute neighbourhoods, 15-minute cities, low traffic neighbourhoods, walkable neighbourhoods: these concepts are suddenly everywhere. They boil down to a simple idea:...

Increasing numbers of customer service issues have been resolved since Zoopla outsourced its support department, the portal claims. Zoopla outsourced its customer...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Mark Bevan and I am the Sales...

Licensing of estate agents may raise the barrier to entry but it won’t stop those with poor morals, Fine & Country’s...

Zoopla has sealed a new long-term contract with estate agent Andrews, which encompasses 44 branches across southern England.  Andrews has signed up...

Leaders has launched its latest sustainable branch. Following the opening of its first sustainable branch in Aylesbury earlier this year, Leaders has...

The Guild of Property Professionals is launching a tiered membership offer which it says will allow agents to choose according to...

The ESTAS Group has revealed new branding together with the first details of two new products to be added to its...

Zoopla has outsourced its customer service operation for agents in a move that the portal said will improve the experience for...

Zoopla has sealed a new long-term contract with Northern Estate Agencies Group. The deal encompasses the 46 branches of Manning Stainton, Mortimers...

London agent Chestertons has signed a deal with Forbes Global Properties, giving it access to its worldwide reach and audience of...

Agents are marking a record breaking 2022 for fundraising and are hoping to attract more funds for charitable causes during the...

One of the stranger stories emerging from the fallout of Kwasi Kwarteng’s sacking last Friday has been news that someone in...

Over the last two years, the property industry has experienced unprecedented change through shifting market conditions and new regulations around compliance. To...

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

An estate agency in Snodland, Kent, has been honoured with an award for services to the local community. Independent agency was presented...

More than 100,000 property transactions have benefitted from access to digitised local land charges (LLCs) data. Conveyancing software provider Search Acumen has...

Today’s consumers judge a business not just on the quality of its products, but also on their experience in using them....

Conveyancing software company ULS Technology has rebranded. The London Stock Exchange-listed company, which encompasses conveyancing brands eConveyancer, DigitalMove, Legal Eye and Amity...

This probably isn’t what wealthy buyers in one of the UK’s most expensive areas expected to hear, but a plea has...

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

Savills has set out its annual house price forecast for prime London - and after years of price falls, the prediction...

Leading politicians operating in the housing industry have paid tribute to murdered backbencher Sir David Amess. Housing Secretary Michael Gove tweeted: “David...

Sinclair Taylor, the first company to offer debt solutions to estate agencies, has been acquired by The Broadriver Group, a diverse...

Admin teams in most businesses are often the lynchpins that ensure compliance and deal with issues in order to keep the...

Franchise agency giant Belvoir has acquired share capital in a small mortgage company. Nottingham Mortgage Services Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of...

The current crisis has led to many of us to re-evaluate our lives to ensure that we put ourselves in the...

Propertymark has set out a four point strategy for the future of the organisation. The body - which encompasses the National Association...

Firstly, Happy New Year – here’s to 2021 being less chaotic than the last! In the final part of our series on...

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

A new paper from a think tank warns that many low income owner occupiers risk losing their homes when the mortgage...

Letting agents are struggling to open new bank accounts and even large established letting agents with a long history of trading...

Life as we know it has changed – for everybody – and what tenants want, need and expect in this post-pandemic...

"New property website launches. Not immediately sure what it does differently, what its USP is or who will use it, but...

It’s been revealed that the home moving advice service set up by Phil Spencer is entering a collaboration with awards and...

It’s time to draw a line in the sand and condemn our rival portals for their current charging structure. Little will...

For complete transparency, I write this column first thing on a Tuesday morning and have done for a couple of years...

A free-to-list property portal is warning the estate agency industry that it’s facing “dark days” thanks to the Coronavirus crisis and...

Yes, believe it or not, we’ve nearly reached the end of a whole decade. And what an eventful decade it’s been. We’ve...

Here’s the final part of our questioning of the three portals based on comments and queries from our readers - thanks...

[Estate Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise...

I got an overnight flight to Nigeria yesterday. I landed at 5am local time and am only just now getting sensation...

London’s specialist mews estate agency, Lurot Brand, is opening a new office in the capital.  Established in 1971 and widely regarded as...

The National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Letting Agents have issued their manifesto for next month’s General...

It is now over two months since the introduction of the ban on fees charged to tenants, leaving letting agents with...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is running a Certified Property Measurer course aimed at training agents and others in the...

It’s clear that some agents are not fans of Trading Standards officers, described in the comments sections of the trade press...

Hello and welcome to this half-term week’s PJT, your regular Monday opportunity to catch up with the key personnel changes in...

Winkworth has set up a dedicated land and new homes division. The franchise agency, which has most of its offices in and...

With far-reaching reforms of conveyancing and other aspects of house buying high on the government’s agenda, a trade body has revealed...

Alongside hundreds of agents and suppliers, I recently attended the Guild of Property Professionals’ annual conference. As ever, it was a great...

A review of the housing market at present, particularly when it comes to purchase transactions, might not necessarily feel overly positive.  The...

The industry is back to full-strength on its fund-raising judging from our virtual postbag this week with many new reports of...

Technology is transforming the way we comply with Anti Money Laundering (AML) regulation. It is providing a consistent approach, reliable outcomes...

The former managing director of Foxtons, Peter Rollings, has spilled the beans on what it was like working at the heart...

Peter Rollings is one of the most respected and best-known figures in property, having helped to rapidly grow Foxtons (where he...

A property portal that describes itself as free-to-list has launched today, taking the industry by surprise - however, at least one...

Is there really any true value to an estate agent in our current climate? Will there be a role for traditional agents...

Coming into force on May 25, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - which replaces the Data Protection Act 1998 -...

There was an excellent article, published last week, based around an interview with Chandra Dhandapani, CBRE’s chief digital and technology officer.  The...

Here it is - the industry’s verdict on the latest set of figures from Purplebricks. The agency doesn’t play by any of...

Online estate agent eMoov recently set itself apart by directly addressing the issues of openness and transparency that have long dogged the online business...

There’s a particularly heart-warming theme to Agents Do Charity this week...several of our heroic industry figures are raising funds for children and...

A campaigning estate agency has taken the distinctly unusual route of exposing what it calls the ‘Top Ten Dirty Tricks’ which...

Agents’ charity fundraising obviously spans a wide range of genuinely good causes, but it’s noticeable that at the end of each...

As we end an especially tragic week, it is heart-warming to remember how our industry - along with so many other...

Residents in two parts of Cornwall will vote tomorrow on whether to join the holiday resort of St Ives in banning...

This week, it would be very easy for me to focus on the startling figures that easyProperty logged with Companies House...

This week has seen the estate agency industry demonstrating just how big it is these days with Purplebricks raising £50m in...

The huge consequences of the EU referendum, and the impending Brexit negotiations, have drawn into sharp light the consequences for a...

Who are you? Michelle Farnsworth – Senior Account Manager at LED interior & windows display specialists Mid West Displays.   Where can we see...

I write this during the week that David Cameron resigned as an MP – it is quite startling how quickly politics...

With a number of agent partner programmes available nationwide, estate agents can often increase business by offering sales by auction, especially...

Winners’ reactions and views from a fantastic day of celebration! The Kings Group scooped the gold award for Best Estate Agent in...

It’s all too easy to look sleazy in the eyes of a sceptical world, and there’s a danger right now that...

So this is Easter - a busy time for many agents although once again the industry has shown its compassionate side...

So this weekend some of us will see our first snow of the season. Harsh weather, Christmas adverts and winter generally...

Agents across the country, hopefully refreshed by a nice holiday somewhere warm, will be gearing up for the phones to start...

Consider the scene. It is July 8th and new Chancellor, Ed Balls, stands at the Dispatch Box giving his first Budget...

Estate agency marketing organisation Cream Club - formally known as Cabec Limited - has been put into administration. It was almost two...