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New statistics from the Financial Conduct Authority, analysed by a legal firm, show the clear disadvantage and worsening picture for single...

Borrowers are currently rolling off relatively favourable two-year fixed-rate deals agreed at the start of 2022, but the pain from higher...

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

The times, they are indeed a-changin’. But what Dylan may not have appreciated, however, was how fast that change would be...

"Property is in the blood," my dad frequently reminds me, albeit for two generations—his and mine. During the property boom of...

Self-employed agency models are helping drive growth in the estate agency sector, while larger firms struggle to maintain positive momentum, research...

Savills has appointed Mark Redfern to head its Notting Hill sales department. Having worked in the prime central London property market for...

An opinion piece by Sam Reynolds, CEO of Zero Deposit Just weeks ago, the Bank of England brought a halt to its...

September has been ‘underwhelming’ for sales in prime London except for at the high-end £5m price point, figures suggest. Separate analysis from...

High mortgage rates and a lack of supply may mean the prime property market misses its typical seasonal boost in the...

Estate agency has changed. No longer is it required to sit in a high street office working the old way. Provide a...

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

The term mixed-tenure development usually refers to residential developments where different residential tenures are provided on the same site. Typically, tenure was...

Success with your chosen CRM solution should not be a one-and-done package. Once you team up with a stellar CRM provider,...

CRMs can be superheroes for your business, but not all of them possess the necessary powers to save the day. As...

By adopting a top-notch Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution, you're not only opening doors to acquiring new customers and nurturing existing...

Property supply appears weighted toward couples and small families, an agent has claimed. Analysis by self-employed agency brand eXp UK analysed current...

UK residential property market intelligence brand Dataloft has signalled plans to expand internationally after it was acquired by PriceHubble. As part of...

Black mould associated with condensation is becoming an increasing problem for homes in the UK and following the tragic death of...

Rightmove is to become the headline sponsor of the new series of Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway. The new ITV series...

Lies, damned lies, and statistics this week. I don’t know about you, but sometimes I feel as though I’m being bombarded...

Estate agents have the challenging job of creating relationships and trust with their customers, who will make crucial life decisions such...

I’ve just read an article saying that this is the time of the online estate agency. The time in question is, of...

Are landlords following the law? To answer this question, the Government grouped answers from its English Private Landlords Survey 2022 according...

Estate Agent Today has been told that Lecram Holdings – the investment vehicle of Adam Smith which last week increased its...

The Bank of England increased interest rates to their highest level since the financial crisis yesterday, prompting fears of higher cost...

Agents using Zoopla have already seen an increase in valuation leads just a month after the portal launched a new marketing...

Zoopla has unveiled a new marketing campaign aimed at high-value home movers and claims it has already boosted leads with agents. The...

There has been plenty of movement in the property jobs market this month. Here are some of the latest moves that took...

Rising property prices in the UK mean that occupiers are renting long past their forties. According to the government’s last English...

A property lender claims to have identified signs that the property market is slowing. Analysis of Bank of England mortgage approval data...

London accounted for almost half of million-pound plus property sales over the past 12 months but the most active borough at...

Savills has opened its 10th office in south west London. It takes its London presence to 42 residential branches and 132 across the country...

Foxtons has confirmed its intention to sell the sales side of Douglas & Gordon, the London agency chain it acquired only...

The market share of hybrid and online agents has fallen again, this time to 6.7 per cent. That figure - taken at...

A new survey by property consultancy TwentyCi shows that the market share of online and hybrid agents in the third quarter...

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

2021 redefined what it meant to offer exceptional customer experiences for consumers across multiple industries, but particularly for the residential property...

A housing expert says the psychology of a population coping with the pandemic lies behind the house moving frenzy of recent...

As the property market continues to boom, competition between portals such as Zoopla, Rightmove, OnTheMarket and Boomin has been hotting up...

A leading mortgage broker is warning that over half the lenders in a key segment of the market are already unable...

I have written this column for over four years. I started writing it at a time when no-one really knew anything...

With the Government announcement this week of another national lockdown across England amid the surging coronavirus infections, it once again puts...

Purplebricks says it’s to continue to test new pricing models next year - and has not ruled out completely moving away...

Recent debate about urgent need for reform and better collaboration within the property industry, has once again come under the spotlight...

Countrywide has this morning rejected an £80m offer made for it by Connells Group. On November 23 Connells announced that its due...

Residential People, one of many free-to-list platforms in the hectic portal marketplace, is set to launch which it calls its “AI...

It’s been an unexpected year for the property market, shaped by the effects of the pandemic. We didn’t quite anticipate the...

A new portal launches today with 100,000 listings and a pledge to target buyers largely ignored by established websites - investors. It’s...

One of Countrywide’s biggest shareholders has written a second letter to the company to demand bold action to save the agency...

It’s official – the property market is back open for business. Estate agents have started to unfurlough staff and many are...

NAEA Propertymark has made a series of demands on the government in the light of the Coronavirus crisis.  In a formal written...

A high number of agents across the country have been furloughed in recent weeks and are now at risk of losing...

Foxtons is warning that 2020 will be yet another difficult year for the agency despite the so-called Boris Bounce helping the...

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

The competition is hotting up between Zoopla and OnTheMarket for new homes listings. Today Zoopla has revealed that it has seen a...

Being a market leader means staying on top of industry trends. The more aware you are of what's happening in the...

It has been said time and time again that the uncertainty around Brexit is causing, well, uncertainty. As I write this, the...

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

Zoopla is mining data from users of its website to target sellers on Facebook and Instagram, producing leads and making it unnecessary for agencies to...

Traditionally speaking, users who are looking to buy, rent, or sell their property to customers on an international basis have been...

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

It’s no secret that the UK’s housing sector is in crisis. Headlines scream about the shortage of new-build homes. TV pundits...

Foxtons has revealed that its six branch closures announced towards the end of last year will save the company £3m in...

Strutt & Parker says transaction levels in Prime Central London, already at a low ebb, plummeted a further nine per cent...

New figures released this morning from OnTheMarket claim its listing inventory bis now over 80 per cent of the size of...

Purchasing a property. It’s a key life goal that so many Millennials aspire to - yet one that has become frustratingly...

When was the last time you looked at your business and really thought about what you could do to improve? Yesterday? Last...

Winkworth’s Bath franchise has been acquired by new franchisees Lucy McIlroy and Matthew Leonard - the latter having been a partner...

London has been identified as one of a number of ‘bubble risk cities’ in a report by Swiss bank UBS. In a...

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,...

Countrywide, the troubled estate agency group thought by some to be near collapse, has delayed issuing its interim figures which were...

Another update from OnTheMarket this morning claims the portal is now listing over 550,000 UK residential property listings, in excess of...

One of the world’s leading agency and PropTech analysts says the race is on for who comes second in the UK’s...

Figures just released assessing February’s mortgage borrowing show that approvals are 1.25 per cent lower than in January, and are down...

More price falls have been recorded across areas of prime London according to Savills.  The pattern is not uniform - the agency...

What a year it’s been! Back in 2016 we had Brexit, a new prime minister, Donald Trump’s election, and so when...

Respected buying agency Black Brick says there is evidence that prices in prime central London may be stabilising and transactions volumes...

UBS says London's housing market still faces the risk of becoming a bubble - although that risk has marginally eased over...

There has been a sceptical reception from City analysts to Agents’ Mutual’s decision to restructure and float on the stock market...

Even some of the most successful professionals from other professions fail to grasp the most important point when it comes to...

Anyone hoping that the General Election could herald an immediate change of heart by the Conservatives on high levels of stamp...

It seems prop-tech is exploding at a scary rate, and the latest brands are all trying to grab our attention by...

The East Midlands, which consists of several areas including Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, and much of Lincolnshire, has an ancient...

Annoying isn’t it. You take on a stunning property, agree a compelling asking price and your Vendor is desperate to get the...

One of the earliest entrepreneurs to found a website to allow for-sale-by-owner property listings back in 2000, predicts current online agents...

Following a strong start to 2016, particularly in the lower to middle range of the UK housing market, that lasted up...

It may still be too early to start compiling a Christmas wish list, but it is the right time to provide...

A media firm says estate agents are increasingly using Facebook as a way of improving their local marketing. “While other media such...

What is Properstar? Properstar helps UK estate agents cross the chasm from local to global in respect of advertising their properties. Using...

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The chief executive of Savills says “the sale of homes will move more and more online” - justifying the recent investment...

There has been a muted response from the City to the announcement just before the weekend that high-end estate agency Savills...

Foxtons has reported a 4.1 per cent increase in its group revenue in 2015 to £149.8m  although its profits dipped by...

We're all wise to the fact that spring is typically the busiest time of year for the property market. The financial...

I want to take this opportunity to share some findings from the National Landlord Association’s latest Quarterly Landlord Panel. The first is...

Let Mid West Displays get your window in shape! Never underestimate the power of high street presence. Image is everything, and what...

In many respects 2015 has been a good year. Despite global challenges, we have seen a marked improvement in the UK...

I’m writing this from the brand spanking new Center Parks in Woburn Forest. Set within 365 acres of lush Bedfordshire forest,...

Chief executive Alison Platt says Countrywide Group will always remain a “house of brands” but will nonetheless move to “fewer, stronger...