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Regulated firms, particularly estate agents, who take on new business clients are leaving themselves exposed to serious red flags by not...

Fine & Country agent Luke Hammond is looking to make his mark on Mayfair after 13 years covering central London. Hammond established...

A first-of-its-kind degree has launched that focuses on residential estate agency. The Swindon campus of the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) has launched...

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

After a difficult 2023, the property market has been buoyed by a triple-boost in the early days of 2024.  According to the...

Specialist buying agency Recoco Property Search has appointed former director of Strutt & Parker’s country house department Andrew Cronan to strengthen...

The end of the year is always a time of reflection around careers and whether we should pursue pastures new. I...

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

It’s the start of what promises - perhaps ‘threatens’ is a better word - to be a challenging second half of...

Barriers to entry are a big concern for any sector, particularly those who need a greater number of technology innovations to...

In this latest article from the team at Iceberg Digital, they review the feature of the Lifesycle CRM, and its importance...

More than 20 streets in Worcestershire have signed up to take part in a garage sale organised by local agent Nicol...

In this latest article from the team at Iceberg Digital, they review how Estate Agents can increase their revenue. If you're...

By the Co-founders of Freehold; David Mann MBE, Partner at Tuffin Ferraby Taylor and Saleem Fazal MBE, Real Estate Partner at...

It has been a busy start to the year for job moves. If you want your jobs or appointments news to feature...

Zoopla-backed agency software provider Alto has launched new mobile functionality to support agents on-the-go.  Agents will be able to search for contacts on...

The rise of online and low-fee offerings has devalued the expertise that estate agents can offer, an industry trainer claims. Responding to...

A prime central London (PCL) agency established by former Savills and Knight Frank staff is celebrating five years in business. Tedworth Property...

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

Property professionals and commentators have begun pondering an official definition of a house price crash. It comes amid forecasts that house prices...

Last weekend, Nat Daniels' latest Property Natter column focused on the average day in the life of a conveyancer. In this feature,...

Estate agency brands have begun reaching out to school leavers as students received their A and T-Level grades yesterday. Top grades for...

Estate agents use their experience, knowledge, and connections to help people to sell properties at the best prices. Working in this field...

OneDome has launched a new platform for agents to monitor and manage referrals made and earned through the challenger portal. The platform,...

Buyers are being urged to ditch their laptops and hit the streets to find a property. The property market is currently hampered...

In this guest piece, the team at Iceberg Digital set out the benefits of Lifesycle 3, which is to appear this autumn. Perfect...

One of the most valuable assets to any company is the data it stores. According to a recent study completed by...

An estate agency which has already donated £50,000 to help the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, is now calling on other firms...

The path from agent to developer is not easy, but it is a relatively straightforward one, if you are willing to...

Well-known property expert and video interviewer Chris Watkin independently investigates how one piece of software is having such a big effect...

Hello and welcome to the latest Agents Do Charity, our weekly round-up of who’s-doing-what-good-deeds in our industry. Want to be involved? Well...

In this guest piece, the team at Lifesycle discuss a recent experiment they did with AI and estate agents' data and...

Propertymark has appointed an insider to the key role of policy adviser - effectively the position vacated last month by industry...

The last two years have been dramatic and decisive for many people and many businesses. Both have reassessed their work approaches...

Estate agents and other workers in Northern Ireland are being urged to work from home "where possible" in a bid to...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? David Ruddock – Partner and Head of Residential Sales Operations...

I’m going to declare upfront that, as an investor, I have a financial interest in the success of MovePal but I also need...

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

Many agents working in the industry, whether for large corporates or smaller independents, might one day have ambitions to branch out...

The telecoms solutions company behind "Phone-in-a-Phone" (PiP) now brings property professionals the UK's first mobile-only business phone system in an app...

Estate agents, even before Covid-19 reared its ugly head, were flexible, hybrid workers. It is a job that requires a significant...

Last month it was reported that up to 500,000 people had been ‘pinged’ by the NHS in a week. While the...

A Midlands property firm has quit its city centre premises after 25 years and says the pandemic has proved it can...

Working in real estate can be incredibly rewarding, but it takes a lot of hard work to be able to succeed...

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

Last weekend we spoke with Liana Loporto, NAEA Propertymark’s president, in an exclusive interview. Here we follow that up with an...

The policy and campaigns team at Propertymark, headed by Mark Hayward, has been expanded after what it calls “a number of...

Hello and welcome to Agents Do Charity as we are on the threshold of May why not get on to the...

Hello and welcome to another working week, and the latest on jobs and staff movement across our industry. You can be part...

The Northern Research Group, which has the backing of over 50 Conservative MPs in the north of England, wants the Chancellor...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is considering an extension to the current stamp duty holiday according to media reports today - and the...

Many independents will be based in the capital, but given its size and breadth they may get drowned out even more...

As we embark on another nationwide lockdown, the team at SDL Auctions are keen to help agents ride the storm, beat...

Independent agent uses innovative ‘feet up’ campaign to win business. An independent letting agency has invited landlords to put their ‘feet up’...

A new property portal that operates a Tinder-style ‘swipe’ app is offering agents 12 months free listings. MoveStreets operates like the dating...

Hello and welcome to the start of a new week and a new edition of Property Jobs Today, your chance to...

The latest review by the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team into referral fees places the outdated practice of...

Two independent agencies in London have joined forces to form a 'full circle' service for developers, promising to transform the property...

A new PropTech startup is giving prospective buyers the opportunity to receive due diligence at a fraction of the time and...

Agents are being advised to operate an appointments-only system if they have offices with only one person on duty during the...

Emma Vigus, managing director of sales progression platform mio, in discussion with key suppliers in the residential property industry on operating...

Businesses across all sectors have struggled to adapt to the changes brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. One group that have bucked...

Homesearch, the long-awaited new free-to-list portal, launches today with a string of testimonials from supportive estate agents. The new portal announced at...

The return of non-essential businesses to lockdown in Leicester as a result of a localised spike in Coronavirus cases is a...

It may be that by the time you read this it’s all over for Robert Jenrick, the Secretary of State for...

Russell Jervis, who spent 33 years at Spicerhaart rising to managing director before quitting late last year, has re-emerged this morning...

Details being presented to Parliament today may include information on how agents can return to work in some sort of ‘new normal.’ A 50...

Why should agencies leave voicemail in the last decade and make 2020 the year to invest in a more modern solution? Voicemail...

This week I fly to Spain to present at a conference called Immotechnia. I am opening the conference with a 45-minute...

The people behind an online valuation service is warning agents that having a widget on their website is not enough by...

Auction House, which says it’s the largest property auctioneer in the UK, is opening a new branch in Kent, with its...

Independent agents in a fast-growing trade body are to be given the opportunity to secure exclusivity on land deals and new...

Hello and welcome to the final Property Jobs Today for November - the festive month of December is just around the...

Rightmove has been given the green light to continue using the claim that “every second someone contacts an estate agent about a...

Case study: Connells reaping the time-saving benefits of new sales and communication tool Since adopting mio in September 2018, Josh Lally, Senior...

Welcome to the latest edition of Property Jobs Today. It's the time of the week when you can catch up with...

Theresa May arrived in Downing Street some three years ago - but her premiership has not been a smooth ride. As she...

Property developing is an incredibly diverse and exciting career choice, and something that many people aspire to do in the UK.  I...

Properties sold off market by a London agency found buyers more quickly, and for nearer the asking price, than those on the...

As we move closer to the halfway point of 2019, property market conditions for agents and their clients remain challenging. Brexit may...

Humberts, the agency which was one of the first to ditch High Street offices in favour of fewer larger hubs, has...

Hello and welcome to Property Jobs Today - your final chance before the Easter break to catch up with the key...

It has been a long time coming, but the tenant fees ban, which forbids landlords and letting agents in England from...

More than 800 property transactions fall through daily, which can have repercussions both practically and financially, as agents fail to get...

The road to opening up your own business can be a long one. If you’ve never done it before, there are...

With the home buying and selling process firmly on the news agenda of late – everything from a possible ban on...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, your regular catch-up on key appointments news in our industry. It’s been a difficult seven...

When it comes to letting a property, it is important that landlords and renters have faith in their agent. The more...

Rightmove has taken steps to improve its email security and accuracy through the adoption of what has been called a “machine...

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

As 2018 draws to a close, it is fair to say that stretched affordability and uncertainty over the Brexit negotiations has...

When renting a property out, letting agents and landlords recognise that it is important to take a deposit from the tenant...

Over the past year I've had so many conversations with agents telling me how they feel that offering a premium customer...

The HomeOwners Alliance says a hack on its IT infrastructure was “a professional attempt at deception” by people who uploaded 5,000...

Perhaps it’s been our pre-occupation with Brexit, or on the other hand maybe we’re bored with politics, but this year’s Budget...

Given that ‘UK buyers are the most digitally active home hunters’, with HSBC’s Beyond the Bricks report stating that 90% of...

When Oakland A’s, a small-market team, stunned the baseball world 16 years ago by transforming itself into world-beaters on a shoestring-budget,...

Does your company apply adequate customer due diligence measures when carrying out estate agency work?  Does it establish and maintain appropriate policies...

A new digital product claims to help agents estimate which of their past customers are statistically most likely to move again...

To say this is a turbulent time for UK politics would be something of an understatement. As I write, the Brexit...