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Sales of £1m-plus homes have surged since lockdown as affluent buyers seek more space and lifestyle changes.  An average of 868 £1m-plus...

A league table drawn up by a quick buy property firm claims that some estate agents' average commission has hit 2.32 per...

Two reports this morning suggest that activity in the most expensive sectors of the housing market is doing as well as...

Over £73,000 has been stolen from a Countrywide branch by two admin staff making false travel claims and issuing fake invoices. The crimes...

The Sequence Group is to be the sole selling agent for RoyaleLife, the country’s largest builder of bungalows, exclusively aimed at...

In the second of a series of articles, Emma Vigus, Managing Director of mio, the Estate Agents Sales Progression platform, explores...

An estate agent has been awarded over £41,000 by an employment tribunal - after her offer to settle for £10,000 was...

Hello - Friday already so that means another Agents Do Charity, marking the wonderful work of our industry even in these...

The John Bray agency based at Rock in Cornwall typically deals with some of the most expensive real estate in the...

The Police and Crime Commissioner for an area with thousands of holiday homes wants their owners to make them available to...

There’s a sense that we really are on the verge of a huge change in the industry. It’s too early to be...

Hello and welcome to this week’s list of good work - yes, despite the virus lockdown.  Earlier this week we featured many...

Another westcountry town may ban new-build homes being sold as holiday properties, even though the idea has backfired elsewhere. Fowey in Cornwall -...

Hello and welcome to the end of the week…which must mean Agents Do Charity. There’s plenty to admire in this week’s entries;...

Over the past decade, the short-term rental industry, now eponymised by Airbnb, has experienced meteoric growth. This has been driven by the...

A new study by the London School of Economics suggests that a high profile ban on the sale of new homes...

An independent estate agency has committed its future to the high street by moving one of its offices to a more...

Two former directors of Savills in Cornwall have set up their own agency based near the county capital, Truro. Shore Partnership has been...

A bid to ban the building of new homes for out-of-town buyers has backfired on a Cornish community - and now...

Here’s an unusual story, describing the work of one of Purplebricks’ Local Property Experts who was with the company for around...

A maverick estate agent pictured wearing a yellow vest has threatened to mount what he calls a “civil protest” if Brexit...

Sales of holiday homes could be hit as a result of a new £560m tax proposal put forward by Labour.  Under the...

OnTheMarket has signed up an estate and lettings agency firm run by a family and with 11 offices across west Devon...

A maverick Cornish estate agent who falsely gave the impression to customers that his business was highly successful has been hit...

The estate agent who is refusing to abide by a decision of the Advertising Standards Authority is now demanding details of...

The big story to break this week in the property world was the announcement by the new owner of Humberts that...

There’s a new twist in the row between a Cornish agent and the Advertising Standards Authority. The row revolves around a tweet...

The Advertising Standards Authority says its compliance team is considering its next steps following the refusal of estate agency PDQ Estates...

An agent from Cornwall who has waged a long-running campaign against online agencies in general and Purplebricks in particular has been...

Just as some estate agents are reported to be making plans to retrench if the housing market continues to be sluggish,...

There’s been a landslide vote to ban new-build second homes in another tourist hotspot. Some 90 per cent of those who voted...

It is understood that an estate agent from Cornwall is to face trial over allegations that he misled potential customers over...

Holiday home sales in one of the country’s most popular tourist destinations are holding up, despite stamp duty and the age...

Welcome once again to Property Jobs Today, the notice-board for agents, suppliers and other property professionals moving within, out or in...

The consumer affairs correspondent of The Times has savaged High Street estate agents because of the commission they charge when compared...

It’s been quite a week, much of it concerning the technology that increasingly underpins our industry.  A glut of fund-raising and relaunching...

Properties located directly on the seafront attract a price premium of 33%, according to new research. A study of 30 prime seaside...

Experts in Property - the network of independent estate agencies across Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Bristol - has revealed two...

The two main political parties have squared up to each other over the issue of increasing council tax on second homes...

Purplebricks has released more details of expansion plans to recruit hundreds of additional Local Property Experts. The recruitment drive was launched yesterday...

An organisation that calls itself the Cornish Republican Army - and which has claimed responsibility for starting a fire in one...

The National Association of Estate Agents says its election for a new vice president is to go ahead as scheduled despite...

The recent rise in consumer complaints against sales and letting agents suggests that there is a general lack of trust and...

Two more local referendums have, as expected, agreed neighbourhood plans which ban the sale of new-build homes to anyone other than...

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

The south’s seaside resorts are stealing the headlines for all the wrong reasons and at the heart of the troublesome issue...

Devon & Cornwall police are appealing for information after an estate agents in the small town of Ashburton had its windows...

Experts in Property, a network of independent agencies with 80 offices across the west country, has secured a new affiliate to...

OnTheMarket is to advertise across 40 channels this month, in the build up to its second anniversary at the end of January. The...

The government’s blizzard of New Year announcements about new homes has received a distinctly frosty welcome from many within the property...

New software has been devised which can allow users to identify individual properties that have been ‘portal juggled’ - de-listed and...

The result of a referendum in a tourist hotspot seeking a ban on the sale of new-build flats and houses to...

Strutt & Parker says it has achieved record annual sales figures from its latest National Open House day on October 8. It says...

Auction rooms across the UK are filled with people looking to buy property, from bargain hunters to seasoned investors, ensuring that...

A key decision that may have far-reaching implications for the sale of holiday homes has been delayed by a High Court...

Next week sees a court case which will decide whether there will have to be a re-run of the ‘second homes...

The network of independent estate agents known as the Property Sharing Experts has become the Experts in Property. The change of name...

Knight Frank is warning that it will “take time” for the three per cent stamp duty surcharge to be absorbed into...

The National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team is warning agents not to engage in portal juggling - an activity it describes...

There is likely to be an October court date set for a judicial review into a ban on new-build houses and...

A report says agents in the Cornish holiday home haven of St Ives admit the local market has been hit by...

An estate agency chief operating in an area where there are high levels of holiday home ownership has stood up for...

A judicial review into the process surrounding the controversial 'second homes referendum' in St Ives means the result could, in theory,...

A Conservative MP is to raise the portal juggling controversy in the House of Commons. Derek Thomas, MP for St Ives in...

The agent who last year wrote a controversial ‘open letter’ about OnTheMarket has now received a letter demanding she pay alleged...

Respected westcountry estate agent Chris Wood is to offer consultancy and training courses through new industry training group Agency Mentors. Wood, who...

Hybrid agency Purplebricks has launched a recruitment drive for what it calls ‘local property experts’ in 17 parts of the country...

Estate agents with a difference, a twist, a unique selling point, whatever you want to call it, seem to be becoming...

An estate agency in Cornwall has opened on the site of a former filling station and allows people to drive up,...

Property Sharing Experts, which says it is the largest network of independent estate agencies in the south west of England, has...

OnTheMarket says there is no delay with its plans to list member agents’ overseas properties for sale, but still cannot reveal...

My suspicion in my December Industry Views column that the Chancellor, George Osborne, holds certain types of property owners in contempt...

The estate agent who last week sent an open letter to OnTheMarket, saying it had lost her both business and money,...

Zoopla says it will later this week give an update on the number of agents it now has as members -...

Poldark, a period drama recently on the BBC, has inspired a new trend dubbed the 'Poldark Effect'.  Rather than an increase in...

The Liberal Democrats want local authorities to have the power to charge 200 per cent council tax on second homes. Party leader...