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![Land Registry aims to ‘minimise disruption’ amid new strikes](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_22140319.jpg)
Next week may not be the best time for agents to chase conveyancers waiting for Land Registry information. The Public and Commercial...
22 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Value of property stock currently on the market soars to £117 billion, finds research](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/HousingMarket-400x310.png)
There is a staggering £117 billion worth of property currently up for sale across the UK property market, according to new...
09 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Pandemic helps push up the number of half a million-pound hotspots](/upload/images/Locations/PrimeLondonHousesArc-400x310.jpg)
The number of areas where the average house sale price exceeded £500,000 has surpassed 15% of Great Britain for the first...
16 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![ALEP welcomes ground rents action as Countryside scraps unfair lease terms](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/UK-Houses-Row-2019-400x310.jpg)
The Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners (ALEP) has become the latest body to welcome the decision by Countryside Properties to scrap the requirement to pay...
17 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![The Cladding Scandal – what do you need to know?](/img/default/eat.png)
The Grenfell Tower disaster in June 2017 exposed the dangers of inflammable cladding on residential tower blocks, and what has come...
05 June 2021
From: Features
![New Labour shadow housing minister revealed](/img/default/eat.png)
Labour’s new housing spokesperson is the experienced MP Lucy Powell, who until the weekend was shadow business and consumer affairs minister. She replaces...
10 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity - and we start with a good old sing song (Covid-style)](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello and welcome to the first Agents Do Charity of 2021. Somehow, this year is only eight days old yet already seems...
08 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![League table of Britain’s biggest 2020 house price rises](/img/default/eat.png)
London and other urban areas dominate the league table of locations seeing the biggest house price rises of 2020. This is despite...
31 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![How to Reach More Landlords Part 1](/img/default/eat.png)
I was asked recently, how can an agent generate more landlord leads? Well that got me thinking, firstly, we have to...
27 October 2020
From: Marketing & Social Media
![Property Jobs Today - more new appointments in our industry](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello and welcome to another week. We’re more than aware that it’s a challenging time for our industry as for most...
20 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity - a bumper out-of-lockdown edition…](/img/default/eat.png)
As last Friday was the VE Day Anniversary bank holiday we have a bumper bundle of fund-raising activities to report on...
15 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Second Home numbers take a hit because of stamp duty](/img/default/eat.png)
Government figures suggest that the number of second homes in the UK has dropped two per cent in the eight year...
09 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![First-time buyers: 60% of all UK property is exempt from stamp duty](/img/default/eat.png)
Of all the UK properties for sale over the last year, 59% would have been exempt from any type of transaction...
10 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity - from the top of the world](/img/default/eat.png)
Friday is Agents Do Charity day and as the country enjoys the delights of Wimbledon and rues the Lionesses' departure from...
05 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![London sales market on the road to recovery ... thanks to the rental sector](/img/default/eat.png)
A property platform that has chronicled the London sales market’s problems in recent years says the recovery will start in 2020...
22 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![Offices converted to housing are denying affordable homes - claim](/img/default/eat.png)
Communities have missed out on more than 10,000 affordable homes in the past three years as a result of government rules...
29 November 2018
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity - £1m to £1...it's all hugely appreciated](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello and welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity - another chance to hear about the remarkable fund-raising done by our...
28 September 2018
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter: are we on the verge of a cashless, paperless society?](/img/default/eat.png)
Out and about recently, I got to thinking: how often do I actually have the call for cash anymore? Or, for...
25 August 2018
From: Features
![London dominates 'high risk mortgage lending' league table](/img/default/eat.png)
Locations in the capital dominate a league table of locations where the largest numbers of so-called ‘high risk’ mortgages are taken...
11 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![Agency chief didn't pay fixed penalty notice - ends up with big fine](/img/default/eat.png)
The director of an estate agency has been ordered to pay more that £1,800 for failing to dispose of waste properly. Adebayo...
03 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![Property Jobs Today - all the latest industry moves ...](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello - if it’s Monday, it must be Property Jobs Today, your chance to see a snapshot of the key moves...
18 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![First timers' stamp duty cuts won't help in London says ex-Rightmove chief](/img/default/eat.png)
Rightmove’s former lettings chief Sam Mitchell has taken over as chief executive of online agency HouseSimple, which recently won another £20m...
24 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Agency unveils radical 'low-cost traditional High Street business model'](/img/default/eat.png)
Arun Estates has launched what it describes as “a major new departure” - a fully-staffed High Street office but covering a...
09 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Senior Tory wants 50% of new London homes reserved for Britons](/img/default/eat.png)
Chris Philp, a Conservative MP and Parliamentary Private Secretary to Chancellor Phillip Hammond, says 50 per cent of new homes in...
18 December 2017
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter: A to Z of the property industry for 2017](/img/default/eat.png)
As we hurtle towards the end of 2017, it’s time to reflect on the year that’s just been. Even better, this property-based...
25 November 2017
From: Features
![Ex-housing minister appointed chief of staff as industry awaits replacement](/img/default/eat.png)
Former housing minister Gavin Barwell has been appointed as Theresa May's chief of staff. Barwell lost his Croydon Central seat – and...
12 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Election preview: Could we be heading for a ‘black swan moment’?](/img/default/eat.png)
In years to come, students of political history might come to look at the 2017 General Election campaign with some interest....
03 June 2017
From: Features
![#GE2017: Housing minister will leave his post on May 3](/img/default/eat.png)
Yesterday’s decision by MPs to agree to Theresa May’s snap General Election on June 8 means that the current government -...
20 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Guilty - agent admits 76 offences involving thousands of pounds](/img/default/eat.png)
An estate agent will be sentenced next month after pleading guilty to 76 fraud offences. The Get Surrey website reports that Ayodele...
16 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![South West London is 'risky' mortgages hotspot](/img/default/eat.png)
The highest number of 'risky' mortgages issued during 2015 was in South West London, according to new analysis of the latest...
24 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![Policy change soon? Minister meets buy to let tax campaigners](/img/default/eat.png)
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
![New housing minister opposes homes scheme in his own constituency](/img/default/eat.png)
It has been revealed that the new housing minister, Gavin Barwell, appears to be campaigning to oppose a new housing scheme...
19 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![Brexit-focussed May eventually names Gavin Barwell as housing minister](/img/default/eat.png)
Housing appears to have a disappointingly low priority in the new Theresa May-led Cabinet - at least judging from the time...
18 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![Zoopla beefs up marketing with new TV spots and bus adverts](/img/default/eat.png)
Zoopla is beefing up its TV and bus advertising this week to consolidate its claim to be the property portal with...
04 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![Research reveals huge rise in service charges on new-build flats](/img/default/eat.png)
The service charges for new-build flats coming on to the market this year are on average 96 per cent higher than...
09 March 2016
From: Breaking News
![The scores are in - here is the ESTAS estate agent of the month](/img/default/eat.png)
next2buy Property Retailers has scooped the September ESTAS Estate Agent of the Month title. The Tyne & Wear based agency won...
19 October 2015
From: Breaking News
![Seven more Foxtons branches next year as latest office prepares to open](/img/default/eat.png)
Foxtons is preparing to open its Croydon office on Saturday - the 58th for the company across Middlesex, Surrey and London. As...
24 September 2015
From: Breaking News
![Two more branches for expanding Foxtons](/img/default/eat.png)
London estate agency Foxtons is set to continue its expansion with the opening of two new branches next month. The new offices...
27 August 2015
From: Breaking News
![The ESTAS' new agent of the month - is it you?](/img/default/eat.png)
Three agents have been announced as winners of The ESTAS Agent of the Month competition - with Butters John Bee the...