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01 May 2024
From: Breaking News
Two of national sales and lettings agency Martin & Co’s Oxfordshire branches are under new ownership. Experienced international property professional David Rebe...
21 March 2024
From: Breaking News
Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered property portal Jitty has now expanded to Bristol and the surrounding areas. The app said it clocked over 3,000...
15 March 2024
From: Breaking News
Sir Simon Clarke’s call for Rishi Sunak to be ousted from Downing Street may well express what many of his MP...
27 January 2024
From: Features
A new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered property portal has launched its app with an initial focus on Bath. The brand, called Jitty, aims...
25 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Leaders Romans Group (LRG) has launched a new staff benefit to support employees undergoing fertility treatment. The benefit allows staff time off...
27 November 2023
From: Breaking News
The founder of family-run brand Coopers Estate Agents is marking 50 years in the industry. Martin Cooper has recalled his first sale,...
15 November 2023
From: Breaking News
A new analysis of the housing market has assessed 50 cities in the UK to establish which is best for first...
26 October 2023
From: Breaking News
Homes in England are less affordable and in worse condition than those in most other developed nations, new research claims. Analysis from the...
06 October 2023
From: Breaking News
Deliveroo may have revolutionised the way we order takeaways and now three former executives from the delivery app have set their...
29 August 2023
From: Breaking News
‘Schools out for Summer’ as the Alice Cooper song goes and the kids are not the only ones looking forward to...
22 July 2023
From: Features
Now more than ever, property professionals across the sector need to pull together and collaborate more closely to make business gains,...
15 July 2023
From: Features
An agency brand claims to have reduced its fall-through rate to just 8% by legally preparing properties for sale before they...
22 June 2023
From: Breaking News
Agents haven't let the festive season get in the way of supporting good causes, and there is a big focus on...
16 December 2022
From: Breaking News
First-time buyers are set to wait up to two years longer to get on the property ladder due to the cost...
22 September 2022
From: Breaking News
Property professionals have been pondering the impact of the sudden Bank Holiday scheduled next Monday for the Queen’s state funeral. It creates...
13 September 2022
From: Breaking News
A webinar this week is set to see the release of more details of changes to property listings being demanded by...
28 February 2022
From: Breaking News
Identity verification service Credas claims the UK sits second in the list of global money laundering hotspots. The amount laundered - much...
15 February 2022
From: Breaking News
Welcome to 2022 and the first Agents Do Charity of the New Year. We’re all learning to live with Covid a little...
07 January 2022
From: Breaking News
A well known westcountry estate agent has died just ahead of what would have been his 50th year with the same...
04 January 2022
From: Breaking News
The Propertymark Qualifications Awards annual ceremony taking place early next month have revealed their shortlist. There is a total of nine Awards...
16 November 2021
From: Breaking News
It’s Remembrance weekend, and on Sunday at least we fall silent to honour those who gave so much for many generations. When...
12 November 2021
From: Breaking News
The largest live event in the property industry for two years took place last Friday - the ESTAS awards. TV property expert...
25 October 2021
From: Breaking News
Right now it seems that another day means another house price record, an all-time high for transactions, and a conveyancing log-jam...
12 June 2021
From: Features
Two of Britain’s largest house builders have reacted sharply to calls by Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick and the Competition and Markets...
22 March 2021
From: Breaking News
A cyber-attack on a London council has caused some transactions to fall through and others to be significantly delayed. The attack occurred...
14 December 2020
From: Breaking News
Free-to-list portal group OneDome claims 425 estate agency branches joined its listing services last month, OneDome Group operates two portals, OneDome and...
30 November 2020
From: Breaking News
The soon-to-launch Boomin portal has signed up a national firm and now claims to have recruited 40 per cent of the...
25 November 2020
From: Breaking News
A new survey reveals the uphill struggle first time buyers appear to be having in securing a mortgage. A study of 1,000...
27 October 2020
From: Breaking News
Boomin, the still-to-launch portal created by the founders of Purplebricks, has named another 10 founding member agencies. Like the initial 10 they...
21 October 2020
From: Breaking News
A league table drawn up by a quick buy property firm claims that some estate agents' average commission has hit 2.32 per...
30 September 2020
From: Breaking News
A quick buy firm which typically purchases homes from sellers at below market levels has accused estate agents and the private...
28 September 2020
From: Breaking News
A quick buy firm boasting it has ‘sold’ a home within six days also says it now takes 140 days on...
21 September 2020
From: Breaking News
Across the UK and Europe, lockdown measures are changing and the markets are kicking back into life as we grow accustomed...
16 September 2020
From: Features
An American realtor who once predicted his company would have 5,000 UK estate agents working under its banner is now saying...
01 September 2020
From: Breaking News
Purplebricks is selling its Canadian business. The sale comes little over a year after the troubled agency closed both its failed Australian and...
15 July 2020
From: Breaking News
Over the last few years, there have been a number of high-profile court cases in which renters took action against letting...
30 May 2020
From: Features
One of the few agents anywhere in the British Isles who has returned to something like normal working has revealed new...
27 April 2020
From: Breaking News
The last five years have seen unprecedented changes to the property market and agents and their clients have never faced such...
15 April 2020
From: Features
In this time of economic uncertainty, more and more people are becoming unwilling to leave their homes, yet you and your...
11 April 2020
From: Features
It’s time to draw a line in the sand and condemn our rival portals for their current charging structure. Little will...
28 March 2020
From: Features
The Trading Standards report on the future of referral fees is almost completed and will be sent to government next week. However, James...
28 February 2020
From: Breaking News
The Competition and Markets Authority has released a 135 page document giving explicit details of its latest agency cartel investigation. This includes...
23 January 2020
From: Breaking News
Hello and welcome to the latest PJT, your weekly opportunity to catch up on who’s moving where and why across our...
02 December 2019
From: Breaking News
The PropTech era is changing the way in which employees decide where they are going to work. As CBRE has discovered in...
10 July 2019
From: Breaking News
The review website Trustpilot is to make it easier for the public to see whether companies have tried to stop complaints...
07 February 2019
From: Breaking News
The Competitions and Markets Authority says the result of its latest probe into estate agencies’ possible infringement of the Competition Act...
08 October 2018
From: Breaking News
Small print in the Countrywide rescue plan announced yesterday spells out in stark terms what could happen if the company’s bid...
03 August 2018
From: Breaking News
A disciplinary investigation by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has blown the lid on the infamous fee-fixing cartel scandal involving estate...
20 July 2018
From: Breaking News
The Advertising Standards Authority says its compliance team is considering its next steps following the refusal of estate agency PDQ Estates...
12 July 2018
From: Breaking News
Some of Britain’s top property experts say bureaucracy, lack of cooperation and a dwindling number of smaller builders are the main...
06 July 2018
From: Breaking News
Cluttons - which a year ago was bought out of pre-pack administration by a so-called ‘turnaround’ business, RCapital - has now...
05 June 2018
From: Breaking News
Outsourced viewing operator Viewber is expanding its offer to agents by forming what it calls “a close technical cooperation” with keyholding...
16 May 2018
From: Breaking News
The last of the leading agency analysts and business consultancies have now given their predictions for the UK housing market in...
29 December 2017
From: Breaking News
Employment tribunal fees could soon become extinct, after the Supreme Court ruled they were an obstacle to the ‘access of justice’. Once...
14 October 2017
From: Features
The Competition and Markets Authority has for the first time published details of the findings against a group of six estate...
18 September 2017
From: Breaking News
Let’s be honest - few people saw this coming. The 89 to 11 per cent majority amongst Agents’ Mutual members for...
08 September 2017
From: Breaking News
You may have heard that Airbnb and property management company, Lavanda has closed a £1 million angel investment round. Backers include Purplebricks...
19 July 2017
From: Breaking News
The chief economist of Price Waterhouse Coopers says that although by some measures the London housing market looks ripe for a...
06 July 2017
From: Breaking News
The industry’s three government-approved redress schemes have this week issued an updated version of their Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The MOU is...
07 June 2017
From: Breaking News
The best estate and letting agents in the UK were recognised at the prestigious ESTAS luncheon and ceremony, which was held...
20 May 2017
From: Features
The estate agency which was fined £200,000 after a prospective house buyer fell 30 feet into a well during a viewing...
27 February 2017
From: Breaking News
Forecasts are so last year: who anticipated Bowie, Brexit or Balls for example? Quotes, on the other hand, really ARE last year...
17 December 2016
From: Features
Just a couple of weeks ago, we waited with anticipation to see what the new Chancellor, Philip Hammond, would say in...
09 December 2016
From: Features
The Conveyancing Association has revised its wish-list of reforms to, in its words, “ensure fewer delays, a less costly process, and...
07 December 2016
From: Breaking News
The Daily Mail has calculated which of the 13 housing ministers in office before this autumn has been the most successful,...
21 November 2016
From: Breaking News
The Advertising Standards Authority says a Market Harborough firm's leaflet claiming it had 'more sales' than any other agent earlier this...
02 November 2016
From: Breaking News
Buy-to-let landlords may have failed in their recent legal battle against planned government tax relief changes for buy-to-let homes set to...
14 October 2016
From: Features
Housing minister Gavin Barwell has met campaigners to scrap anti-buy to let measures introduced by the Cameron government in the past...
12 September 2016
From: Breaking News
Plans for the Northern Powerhouse scheme, designed to rival London and the South East as the main driver of economic growth...
29 July 2016
From: Features
Online estate agency easyProperty has brought in a veteran psychology expert to look at the stress of buying a home -...
23 June 2016
From: Breaking News
An estate agent has pleaded guilty to a charge of drink-driving after being found almost three times above the legal alcohol...
27 April 2016
From: Breaking News
This week, as the title suggests, I turn my attentions to the world of deposit protection schemes. Landlords have been legally obliged...
15 April 2016
From: Features
Estate agents have been accused of flouting the rules by erecting For Sale and To Let signs despite a voluntary ban. The...
11 November 2015
From: Breaking News
Three of the four candidates standing for the Labour leadership have effectively dismissed any possibility of reintroducing mansion tax if they...
21 July 2015
From: Breaking News
Labour’s low-profile shadow housing minister, Roberta Blackman-Woods, has come out for Yvette Cooper - herself a former housing minister - in...
16 June 2015
From: Breaking News
The estate agent at the centre of an Advertising Standards Authority investigation into promotional claims using Rightmove data has hailed the...
12 June 2015
From: Breaking News
The Advertising Standards Authority has given its backing to an estate agency using Rightmove data to claim it had the most...