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A new agency has launched, describing itself as being “dedicated to creating extraordinary marketing for extraordinary homes across Hampshire, Surrey and...

Agents Giving says its Fundraising Champions of the Year Awards 2024 are now open for entries. You can enter the awards yourself...

Leaders Romans Group (LRG) has appointed its first chief technology officer. Sophia Swain has been recruited to the board-level role. She comes from...

The European real estate market is the most distressed sector across Europe, research suggest. The latest Weil European Distress Index suggests the...

Regulated firms across all sectors will be well aware of Know Your Customer (KYC) checks and their importance in combatting financial...

High-end estate agent Tyron Ash has hit out at the “sense of entitlement” at corporate estate agencies who he said don’t...

Complete ASAP has launched a new package to help agents provide material information on listings. Agents already using the Complete or Instruct...

When is a landlord a business, and when is (s)he not a business? I’m not referring to landlords who have gone down...

On the 24th of January, Adam Walker wrote a very interesting piece about the consolidation of the lettings industry where he...

With a combined value surpassing £7.4 trillion, the UK’s 29 million residential properties represent a vital national asset, and for homeowners,...

Mortgage rates may be falling but tougher lending criteria is stifling many borrowers, including high earners. Research by Investec has found the...

More than 60,000 property and real estate businesses have started the year in ‘financial distress,’ a professional services and insolvency firm...

The estate agency industry is being urged to do more to tackle the issue of gender jaws, it has been warned. The...

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

The recent cyber attack on CTS left around 80 conveyancing firms across the country commercially paralysed as the harm to their...

OnTheMarket (OTM) chief executive Jason Tebb has declared “our time is now” after shareholders backed a takeover of the portal by...

As the temperature drops outside, it can be tempting to think activity in the market is likely to freeze out entirely. And,...

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

Winkworth has launched a talent drive to find rising stars to build a career and a business within the franchise network.  The...

Synergies between sport and business have long been compared, particularly in the highly competitive world of property. Athletes and those involved...

The founders of Mr and Mrs Clarke, who sold the business to Belvoir last year, have left the franchise brand and...

Paul Johnson, Head of Corporate Sales at Leaders Romans Group (LRG) Commercial property has historically been viewed as the more profitable asset...

After a steady increase in mortgage rates, concerns about house prices have been rising too. The Financial Times reported in mid...

Foxtons has regained its position as London’s number one agent in Guy Gittins’ first year as chief executive. Former Chestertons boss Gittins...

Leading digital compliance firm SmartSearch has launched an innovative new solution to help professionals working within the UK property sector to...

Welcome back to the second instalment of our blog series on social media marketing tips for estate agents! In part one,...

Irwin Mitchell has expanded its property practice with an investment in Scotland-based law firm Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie (WJM). The two firms...

Agents should take work safety more seriously, particularly self-employed agents, an industry podcast claims. The latest Agents MVMT Pass The Syrup podcast...

An industry marketing expert has questioned the strategies of ‘house of brand’ agencies. Writing exclusively for Estate Agent Today, Simon Leadbetter, former...

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

By Dawson Scott, CTO of Reapit. As the Chief Technology Officer of Reapit, I have always held the view that the privacy,...

An estate agency with a major new homes department claims new build sales are proving more resilient than the mainstream market. Leaders...

Chestertons has become the first corporate partner to sign up to London e-bike operator Forest’s employee scheme in an effort to...

Belvoir has reported revenue growth for the first half of 2023 despite “challenging market conditions,” with its lettings performance offsetting lower...

Andrew Jones, Group Director, Corporate Lettings & Build to Rent, Leaders Romans Group (LRG) In the past 10 years, the Build to...

A new estate agency has now announced that its co-founder is a Savills head of office who has jumped ship. Sebastian Hipwood,...

Former Fine & Country global chief executive Simon Leadbetter is set to embark on his first national tour with his own...

By Michele Gettins, Chief Marketing Officer at iamproperty Data is a powerful tool and understanding how to successfully identify and utilise reliable...

The Home Buying & Selling Technology Group (HBSG) has launched the latest version of the Property Data Trust Framework following live...

The Government is backing a new trial to give homeowners who make their properties more energy efficient a mortgage rate cut. Perenna...

One of the most valuable, most successful and most recognisable brands worldwide is Coca-Cola. And we have all wondered, at least...

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

Independent agency brand Pat Robson & Co is celebrating 25 years of residential sales, lettings and property management. Tim Nixon launched the...

The UK is on its rear - fact. Whilst many were breathing a sigh of relief after surviving a global pandemic,...

An award-winning charity will cut the cost of homeownership in Wigan by up to £10,000, by offering buyers the chance to...

Homebuyers should be warned about climate-related risks of a purchase, new Law Society guidance suggests. The legal membership body has issued guidance...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. Hamptons: Agency brand Hamptons has announced it...

A new product to help agents meet their anti-money laundering (AML) responsibilities has launched. Lifetime Legal has unveiled Smart Compliance, which advises...

In this latest article from the team at Iceberg Digital, they review the Lifesycle CRM platform.  Last month saw Lifesycle become one of the...

The dreaded ‘C word’ – compliance – has been facing Estate Agents for years now and it’s not going anywhere. Looking ahead...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. Agents Giving: Entries are now open for...

Taking a proactive approach with viewing generation can increase foot flow through properties and generate more offers, and ultimately close more...

Proptech firm ValPal has entered the artificial intelligence (AI) sphere with a new tool to help agents write better quality and...

Estate agents should ‘rock the clothes they want’ rather than sticking to corporate 1980s suit fashions, an industry executive has claimed. It...

SmartSearch, the UK’s leading provider of digital compliance, has published an agenda-setting whitepaper to highlight the anti-money laundering shortcomings and sanctions...

OnTheMarket is celebrating retaining its majority agent-owned status amid sell-offs by some of its early shareholders. It comes after 1.9m shares held...

AML experts SmartSearch warn estate agents that, with so many firms still hiding behind ‘opaque corporate structures,’ proper due diligence has...

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

Consolidation and industry challenges are among the key themes to be tackled at The Conveyancing Association’s (CA) annual conference next month...

Former youth Olympic Badminton player Grace King is one of first recruits in a campaign launched by hybrid agency Mr and...

It’s been a busy week for agency branch openings. Dexters is the latest to unveil new offices in London, opening nine across Blackheath,...

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

Surveying is traditionally a male-dominated profession, and many women who have worked in the profession for many years report that at...

One of hybrid agent EweMove’s first franchisees has expanded his North West territory by rebranding as Property Franchise Group stablemate Whitegates. Chris...

West Midlands estate agency Berriman Eaton has completed a £250,000 investment drive that has seen it establish a new Worcestershire office...

We spent some time with Lucy Noonan, Founder and CEO of Atomic Consultancy, to pick her brains about the many moving...

HMRC has fined estate agents over £500,000 for anti-money laundering (AML) breaches in the past two months. Yet despite property managers...

In this guest piece, Andy Jones, Corporate & Build To Rent Director at LRG, looks at whether commercial property can help solve...

Foxtons has upped its expectations for its full year financial performance despites acknowledging a “less certain market backdrop.” A trading update from...

Agents are invited to a webinar with Zoopla next week to discuss the portal’s 2023 outlook. Hosted by Zoopla’s executive director of...

It’s the oddest thing. Surely, the most fundamental requirement of an estate agent having won an instruction, is to get it...

From bake sales to beach clean-ups, there have been plenty of ways that agents have been giving back for good causes...

Regional estate agency Bradley Hall has undergone a rebrand as it looks to expand its presence beyond the North East and...

In tougher times – as is the case now, post-Covid, post-Brexit, cost-of-living crisis, war in Ukraine, etc – reputation and consumer...

Let’s be completely honest - as challenges go, estate agents are up against it trying to persuade reluctant vendors to take...

Agency-backed risk management platform Thirdfort has received awarded B Corporation status. The certification recognises Thirdfort’s commiutment to goals outside of shareholder profit...

Transforming your living room into an eco-friendly space not only benefits your health and wellbeing, but the planet too. It can...

In a recent McKinsey poll* 85 per cent of people said that fear of criticism, fear of uncertainty and fear of...

The property jobs market hasn't taken a summer holiday this month. Here are some of the latest moves that took place during...

A property developer has hit out at corporate agents for “artificially inflating house prices” as she reveals the poor practices she...

It's been a busy period of fundraising and volunteering for agents and property professionals. Support has included getting one charity back on...

Agents and property professionals haven't let the summer holidays slow down their fundraising efforts. If there are charitable endeavours you think the...

Foxtons had become ‘flabby’ and lost its sense of business, its interim chief executive Peter Rollings claims. Speaking on The Guild of...

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) recently published a list of firms that have received penalty notices for failure to meet their...

Agency board supplier Kremer Signs is working on geotagging tools that can be incorporated into For Sale signs. Tom Cummuskey, sales and...

The Agency UK – which was set up by three ex-employees of Purplebricks – has strengthened its team with the arrival...

What do Tilly Ramsay and Kim Kardashian have in common? Other than both having well-known fathers, they’ve both also mastered the art...

Sellers are always looking for ways to improve the value of their home, and according to new research agents may just...

Double-think, for those who have not read George Orwell, is when people are expected to accept two conflicting beliefs as truth,...

For some time, LinkedIn was seen – fairly or unfairly – as stodgy, dull, corporate and formal. The uncool uncle to...

Property firms are still failing to make basic anti-money laundering checks (AML), and some may even unwittingly be helping politically exposed...

An estate agent is marking two years of running her own business through eXp and claims it has been better for...

Agents are being given the chance to learn how to improve their anti-money laundering (AML) processes from a veteran police investigator. Rightmove...

People in prominent positions in the housing industry aren’t always perfect role models. After all, Chris Pincher was housing minister for...

A client called asking for advice on their social media marketing strategy. They’d thrown a lot of budget at it, but...

From golf days to white collar boxing, agents and property professionals have been swinging into action for charitable causes recently. Remember, if...

Images can have the ability to paint a vivid image, but video content can take this to the next level if...

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

House price growth may be slowing but there is still plenty of movement in the property jobs market. Here are some of...

Agents and property professionals are travelling far and wide to raise money for charity, plus there is a new way to...