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Welcome to the start of another week and as the housing market continues at full pelt, so does the movement of...

In the first of a two-part special with the presidents of the UK’s largest property trade organisation, we carry out an...

The property market is currently in a unique position where the number of house hunters looking for their next home is...

easyJet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou has given his personal backing to the newest recruit of online agency easyProperty - even though...

London’s housing market may be distinctly lacklustre compared to much of the rest of the UK right now but one development...

The long running saga of insurance firms failing to honour agents’ Business Interruption claims appears to be making progress at last. A...

Welcome to our second Euros Agent Match Report, when we get leading agents’ and suppliers’ takes on the matches featuring England and Scotland.  Today...

A former commercial director of Zoopla, who worked at the portal for 12 years, has been named as managing director of...

Hello and welcome to our first Euros Agent Match Report, a really engaging piece on England's triumphant campaign start yesterday. Our thanks go to...

The youngsRPS agency now has a fifth branch in the north of England - it’s in Darlington and will cover the...

A home within 500 metres of a tube or railway station in London will carry a massive premium compared to a...

With just hours to go to the start of the Euros, we can announce our squad for writing Agents Reports on...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says its monthly sentiment measure of house prices is at its highest level since 1988. A...

Hello and we’re at the end of another week celebrating all those in our industry who do great work. And this...

There are an estimated 2.7 million landlords in the private rented sector (PRS) providing rental accommodation to multiple generations of tenant,...

Hello and welcome to the latest Property Jobs Today, your chance to catch up with who’s on the move. Let us know...

Independent agents come in all shapes, sizes and looks, many with their own USPs and little quirks. It is this variety...

The Grenfell Tower disaster in June 2017 exposed the dangers of inflammable cladding on residential tower blocks, and what has come...

It’s been reported that Foxtons is to create ‘virtual branches’ in as many as 15 UK cities outside London, plus commuter...

New research has found that homebuyers would prioritise buying a home with superfast broadband over being close to a good school.  A...

Books about property are, relatively speaking, commonplace - books by estate agents are far less so, hence the interest in The...

Banking has gone through radical changes in the past few years, in step with technology and the sheer amount we can...

Shock price rises in materials are set to make new build homes more expensive if a warning from leading industry figures...

A new survey of some 700 estate agency customers show that they want to get traditional services like High Street branches,...

Propertymark has thrown its weight behind the government’s First Homes initiative, describing it as “creative” and saying it’s a sign of...

In the previous edition of PropTech Today, Nathan Emerson highlighted the importance of effective implementation, linking poor staff engagement to the...

After a recent incident involving an Estate Agent based in Devon in which a property virtual tour they published revealed a...

An assessment by a risk solutions firm shows that estate agents are on average just 53 per cent of the way...

It’s now over a year since the property market officially reopened after an unprecedented two-month shutdown at the height of the...

In an industry which is faced with constant changes in day-to-day practices and even more so given the Covid terrain which agents...

A report by the Office of Tax Simplification on Capital Gains Tax has called for a series of changes. They include extending...

EweMove says it’s has just recorded its best-ever month for new enquiries from sellers. In April the hybrid - which is part...

The Federation of Independent Agents is forming a partnership with the new portal lead management platform Agent Response. Agent Response is led...

It’s great to enjoy hospitality inside now...but it’s even better to fundraise, perhaps outside in the spring and summer weather. It’ll...

A controversial league table of corporate agents’ market share is deliberately excluding Purplebricks and other online agencies.  This is despite Purplebricks this...

An industry provider has created a free e-book for agents explaining the latest must-have - a Tech Stack. Tech provider Rex has created...

Welcome to another working week and with it, our regular update on appointments and moves within our industry. Please let us know...

In a video interview for Estate Agent Today, Dominic Murphy, Managing Director of DM & Co. in the Midlands, speaks to...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Christopher Keen and Company Director  What is ‘company name’ and what...

A leading industry trade body is warning that remote-working agents and smaller independent agencies are particularly vulnerable to the growing threat...

The number of properties coming on the market is still not meeting the huge demand from buyers, but the level of...

Thousands of sales are at risk because slow searches by councils may prevent deals completing by the next stamp duty deadline. With just under...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Jack Reid Founding Director of Orlando Reid  In your experience,...

A market analysis by Fine & Country suggests that annual house price inflation could hit 10 per cent next month. Nicky Stevenson,...

In a return to a favourite series of mine, as it gives an excellent insight into the very many facets of...

Property owners who play it cool when it comes to marketing their home find their frustration soon becomes overheated. The constant we...

The group chief executive of south east England’s largest independent agency is retiring. David Lench of Arun Estates has revealed that he is...

The current crisis has led to many of us to re-evaluate our lives to ensure that we put ourselves in the...

Keller Williams now boasts 377 estate agency partners across the UK - agents that have set up and run their own...

Online agency Strike has used specialist eye-tracking software to analyse what attracts a buyer’s attention when scrolling through homes online — and...

The UK affiliated agency of Warren Buffett’s global real estate company has acquired a historic independent company operating in prime central...

An increased focus on the provision of financial services has helped boost the trading figures released today by LSL Property Services,...

As London plays catch-up with the buoyant housing market seen in the rest of the country, two agencies have announced new...

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

The market share of hybrid and online agents has remained at eight per cent, according to property industry consultancy TwentyCi. This figure...

Hello and welcome to another working week, and the latest on jobs and staff movement across our industry. You can be part...

For many, the funeral of HRH Prince Philip will be a solemn affair, while for some it will also be a...

The UK government has been told it should make the stamp duty cut permanent to encourage investment and make it easier...

One of the industry’s leading consultants has calculated staff turnover rates at the country’s leading estate agencies. Christopher Watkin, the consultant who...

The property market has performed strongly in recent months  as the impact of the pandemic has encouraged more people to move...

Agents have contacted Estate Agent Today to say they fear the new MatchMaker service on the Boomin portal could be used...

The stamp duty holiday has backfired and buyers almost everywhere are paying more for homes, rather than less. StripeHomes analysed house price...

Annual house price growth remains strong but it has slowed significantly according to the Nationwide. Prices dropped 0.2 per cent on average...

A prominent London agency says today’s new two per cent stamp duty surcharge imposed on most overseas buyers will not dampen...

Here are the first three TV adverts for Boomin, the new property portal which launches on Friday.The new website launches early...

First the good news - estate agents are trusted more than politicians and no less than bankers. Now the bad news:...

Hello, and as we near the first Bank Holiday of the year (and a little light at the end of the...

Normal life still seems far away so there hasn’t been the usual spotlight on a good-news-feeling that comes every year on...

The Law Society is to pilot upfront conveyancers’ information for home buyers and sellers. This will involve the TA6 form which contains...

Purplebricks is now part of the mainstream landscape of British estate agency. There - I said it. An agency whose whispered name...

This week’s interviewee in the ‘In Conversation Today’ hotseat is a man better placed than most to shed some light on...

Agents have been warned they are likely to require PropTech assistance to cope with a surge in transactions expected this year. The...

The UK is only the eighth most popular country for Asian investment buyers, and accounts for just three per cent of...

One of the biggest trends in recent times, as a direct result of the pandemic, is the concept of working from...

High end purchasers of homes in London paid 15 per cent of the stamp duty in 2020, yet the value of...

Legal firm Anderson Strathern has announced a merger with Lerwick-based Neil Risk Solicitor and Estate Agent. The Shetland firm's practice areas focus on residential...

Savills has upgraded its house price and transaction forecasts following the Budget - and prime London, especially the centre, is tipped to...

Boomin has revealed its launch date after months of high-profile publicity. It’s to be three and a half weeks from now on...

Leaders Romans Group is to use only fully recycled material to create its sales and lettings boards across all of its...

Another week and another frenzy of news, culminating in the Budget and the extension of the stamp duty holiday. A cliff edge...

It’s been revealed that some far reaching changes to property taxes may not be unveiled at Wednesday’s Budget and may wait...

Zoopla says over 250 agents have now signed up to its partnership deal with PropTech firm FocalAgent, set up by former...

The acquisition of Countrywide by Connells might just be the deal of the century in the British estate agency industry. That’s the...

Some 12 per cent of buyers will pull out of their transaction if it does not complete in time for their stamp...

An agency says it now sells more prime London properties than any of its rivals. Chestertons makes the claim based on figures...

Industry supplier Kerfuffle and high-profile training service Marvellous have launched a competition for the children of agents and suppliers. The kids are...

An agent is challenging the insurer Hiscox over its interpretation of whether to honour a Business Interruption Insurance policy. A standard letter...

Hello - another Monday dawns but the good news is that we can update you on the industry’s latest appointments. Everyone here...

In this week's Natter, I focus on the inspiring story of Clare Hughes, who has bounced back in the last 12 months...

The rise and rise of portal listings and changing consumer habits during the pandemic may mean the death of the High...

Agents should put as much emphasis on ensuring a house move actually happens as on winning the instruction to begin with,...

The government has given details of two new taxes to provide funds to address the cladding problem on high rise tower blocks...

Agents and a wide range of property experts have demanded yet more government funds to end the cladding crisis that is...

A housing market analyst says stamp duty, for all its unpopularity within the property industry, may not be so bad after...

The high-end housing market on Jersey has been rocked by a plan from the island’s government which may ban foreign investors from...

There is no scientific formula, no list of must-have elements in a successful campaign. That’s especially the case for a campaign involving...

In a video interview for Estate Agent Today, property professional Chris Buckler speaks to Justin and Victoria Bhoday - a married...

Pressure is building for widespread property tax reform beyond short term issues regarding stamp duty. Many MPs in this week’s 65-minute special...

Estate agents have kept up the pressure on the Westminster government to consider some kind of tapered ending to the stamp...

One of the country’s most popular tourist destinations may ban the sale of new builds to second home buyers. The council in Padstow -...

Property portals remain an essential marketing tool for estate agents and their value is clearly appreciated by consumers. However, with a...

At the back-end of last year and the start of this, the biggest news stories in town – besides debates over...

The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has changed the way we evaluate our lives and, looking more specifically at the property market, it...

Members of staff at an estate agency branch in the Midlands tested positive for Coronavirus in consecutive weeks, triggering a temporary...

Zoopla's latest figures suggest 70,000 transactions are likely to miss the stamp duty holiday deadline of March 31.  And the portal says: “The...

While the property industry has suffered far less than other sectors during the past year, it would be short of the...

There's good news for thousands of estate agencies awaiting pay outs under Business Interruption Insurance schemes. The agents are amongst 370,000 businesses whose...

A housing index says the market continues to defy Coronavirus and Brexit worries with asking prices up 4.9 per cent in...

Two of the most outspoken agents in the industry have criticised those calling for an extension to the stamp duty holiday...

Countrywide and Foxtons have thrown their weight behind an idea to identify every single UK residential property with a unique number. The...

The Supreme Court will give its judgment on the long-running Business Interruption Insurance case on Friday. In November a Supreme Court appeal...

Property expert Phil Spencer is warning that “chaos” and “mayhem” looms in the housing market if the stamp duty holiday is...

Hello and welcome to the first Property Jobs Today of 2021 - we’re less than a fortnight into the New Year...

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

Hello and welcome to the first Agents Do Charity of 2021.  Somehow, this year is only eight days old yet already seems...

London’s largest independent estate agency, Dexters, suggests that the stamp duty holiday ending in 12 weeks time will have relatively little...

Here’s hoping you managed to have as good a Christmas and New Year as Covid rules allowed. Journalism in early January is...

Firstly, Happy New Year – here’s to 2021 being less chaotic than the last! In the final part of our series on...

Zoopla has revealed precisely how much house prices have risen over the course of 2020. Across the UK as a whole prices...

The Brexit deal agreed in dramatic form on Christmas Eve is one part of a cocktail eventually boosting the London market...

The pandemic has reignited the flagging country house market and boosted demand for larger homes with gardens, claims Savills. Larger country houses...

He’s gone from Downing Street but the legacy of Dominic Cummings lives on in Rightmove’s top searches of 2020. Barnard Castle -...

The importance of marketing properties is something that is often undervalued. Big budgets are dedicated to selling everyday items such as...

The hundreds of estate and lettings agencies involved in various Business Interruption Insurance policies must wait even longer to find their...

Mystery still surrounds the number of homes actually sold by Purplebricks, despite upbeat statements regarding the number of instructions it wins. The...

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

There’s no let up in your fantastic festive photos and videos as we enter the final laps of the race to...

The industry seems almost back to normal. Not the ‘new normal’ we spoke so much of a few weeks and months ago,...

The coronavirus pandemic has somewhat eclipsed Brexit this year – which is no mean feat. Cast your mind back to pre-Covid...

A prominent London agency says cash buyers are securing substantial discounts in prime areas of the capital. The biggest cash discount currently...

First off, hello and welcome to this new series – appearing in Estate Agent Today’s Breaking News section each month –...

The sales market is currently strong but the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has issued a warning about a slowdown next...

The design quality of new homes and neighbourhoods across the UK remains stubbornly low, according to a new report by academics.  The...

Another day, another house price record as the bull market continues. The latest Halifax index shows prices surging 7.6 per cent to...

Put the pandemic on the back burner. Forget the freezing weather. Here’s a great way to start a working week -...

‘Many are in complete denial about the time it takes and still think it’s eight to 10 weeks.’ I won’t tell you...

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

A new survey of prime London property shows 21 per cent of homes on sale have had their asking prices cut...

An alarming story has appeared in the mortgage trade press, highlighting an apparent pitfall in the house buying process that has...

Rezi’s integration with Zapier has transformed the way in which estate agents can now save time, money and resource. Agents are...

One of the highest profile figures in the agency industry - and a past critic of Purplebricks - has come out as a vociferous...

We’re just a few days from December so why not get into the festive spirit a little early and get some...

Moving home is emotionally fraught. Buyers and sellers will get upset and unfortunately some people will take it out on you....

What’s the happiest place in Britain? Rightmove has the answer. In a new ‘Happy At Home’ index calculated by the portal and...

Agents anxious to know if they will receive a payout from their Business Interruption Insurance will have to wait still longer...

One of Countrywide’s two up-market brands, Hamptons International, has unveiled a new look which it describes as part of “a transformational...

As regular readers will know, the Natter kickstarted a series last time out zoning in on local independent agents – the...

Tenants, landlords, agents, and house buyers all breathed a sigh of relief on Halloween when the government announced that home moves...

Hello and welcome to the latest PJT, your opportunity to catch up on who’s moving where in the agency and supplier...

Asking prices are down for the first time in many months. It’s a small drop - an average of 0.5 per cent...

Hello and welcome to your regular Friday charity round-up from the industry - appropriately enough on the day of the latest...

A relaunched home buying service says it wants to partner with agents to unlock sales if the housing market deteriorates. The service...

Firstly, let’s get the obvious out of the way. Lockdown 2, as it’s being known, is now with us, but fortunately...

The Business Interruption Insurance saga, involving hundreds of agencies awaiting pay-outs on policies, enters its next and final stage later this month. An...

Buyers in around 30 per cent of English cities are almost certainly already too late to complete a purchase by March 31...

Advanced information released today about Boomin suggests it will seek a much closer relationship with agents than existing portals, with lifetime...

Purplebricks has issued a statement to its shareholders saying it’s ‘never been more relevant’. However, the expected radical change to its fees structure appears...

A London agency says it's discovered the five key priorities that buyers want, following a survey of its own database. “Lockdown and...

An extensive culling of branches and staff continues apace at Countrywide as it significantly reduces the size of both its office...

A conveyancing firm is blaming councils for delays in transactions. Conveyancers have themselves been sharply criticised in recent weeks as the sharp...

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

Agents spend their whole careers telling vendors and landlords why they will be able to achieve a better sale price or...

Here is a quick read focusing on 5 things you can check your business is doing while on your tea break....

Independent agent uses innovative ‘feet up’ campaign to win business. An independent letting agency has invited landlords to put their ‘feet up’...

I was asked recently, how can an agent generate more landlord leads? Well that got me thinking, firstly, we have to...

Putting fingers to keyboard to create blogs and articles isn’t always the easiest job for agents, particularly when meetings, viewings and...

It’s a given these days that your business needs to be on social media. Consumers spend a large portion of their...

Generating leads is a crucial and age-old part of estate agency. Before the internet, lead generation was just as important to...

Staying on top of the numbers and figures in a constantly changing industry can be stressful. Changing property prices can be...

Here at The ValPal Network, we know that there are other options available when considering to use a valuation tool, so...

Yet-to-launch portal Boomin has secured the support of 10 more estate agencies, one of them the national chain Humberts. In its third...

Estate Agent Today can reveal that a string of Countrywide offices across the country have been closed in recent weeks - but...

Tenant enquiries and property viewings unsurprisingly slowed this spring, due to the necessary government restrictions brought in to manage the pandemic....

In recent years, the extent and role of the private rented sector (PRS) in the housing market has seen significant changes. The...

Delays across the house buying sector mean those wanting to benefit from the stamp duty holiday need to begin the buying...

Some 713 estate agency branches have failed to reopen following the spring lockdown according to a business consultancy. TwentyCi says that is the...

The country producing the largest number of buyers of prime London properties is not China, nor from north America or the...

Hello and welcome to the start of a new week and a new edition of Property Jobs Today, your chance to...

When letting agents are preparing to migrate from one piece of client accounting software to another, it can sometimes seem like...

A health business is offering a free support package to estate agencies with between three and 100 employees, to help staff...

A prominent housing market analyst is warning that in 14 years of studying prices and transactions he has never seen the...

A PropTech platform wants to find out agents’ views on a range of industry issues - and that includes whether they...

New figures released this morning give weight to calls for the complete scrapping of stamp duty.  The dats shows there have been...

A businessman with links to serious criminals has lost his vast investment property empire worth nearly £10m after a National Crime...

London’s properties are “over-valued” according to a leading bank. UBS, which has what it calls a Global Real Estate Bubble Index, says...

A North of England estate agency has been acquired in a management buyout. Dowen Estate Agents has eight branches across the North...

The National Association of Estate Agents has thrown its weight behind the recommendation of Trading Standards that agents must by law be...

A woman who bought a London house in 2012 is now suing the conveyancers that worked for her at the time...

As the review of the recommendations of the Regulation of Property Agents Working Group continues, Emily Hawthorne, mio Account Manager and...

Savills has boosted its forecast for housing transactions this year because the stamp duty holiday has been such a success at...

Are agents swimming upstream against the Electrical Safety Regulations? 3 months on from the introduction of the ‘Electrical Safety Standards in the...

One of the country’s major regional agencies has unveiled a ‘super hub’ structure which began life as a lockdown measure but...

Data from NAEA Propertymark shows that in August, some 13 per cent of properties sold for more than the original asking...

Hello and at the start of another working week, welcome to our regular jobs slot announcing who’s moving where within the...

Recent Natters have explored the differences between the UK and American models of agency, and why Purplebricks failed to make a...

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has encouraged people to complain if they are unhappy about working conditions and thousands of complaints...

Hello and welcome to the latest ADC, your regular Friday round-up of great work being done by agents, suppliers and others...

With no clear end in sight and conflicting Government advice as to whether we should work from home or go to...

The regional agency group which master-minded the Say No To Rightmove campaign has made a big commitment to the future of...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has been criticised for its lack of enforcement of anti-money laundering (AML) legislation so far in...

A highly-experienced former Savills agent has launched his own buying agency focusing on the prime country market in Surrey. The new company,...

National property consultancy Carter Jonas has bucked the trend of remote working and closing branches to announce it has secured 12,000...

The result of a test case over Business Interruption Insurance involving agents has been handed down by the High Court. It has...

A tax expert says that there is 'zero likelihood' of the government changing its mind on stamp duty changes for overseas...

For a number of years now, predictions have been made that one of the major tech giants will eventually enter the...

Hello and welcome to the weekend and that means a charity-fix for all those agents and suppliers doing great fund-raising in these...

A leading agent says the government’s new Coronavirus clampdown from Monday will push more home owners to sell. Caspar Harvard-Wills, a partner at...

Agents involved in a test case over their Business Interruption insurance will know the result next Tuesday morning. The test case concluded...

Franchise giant Winkworth has reported an 11 per cent drop in gross revenue and profit plummeting 20.2 per cent in the...

Knight Frank has launched an auction business to give vendors a wider range of sale options as market uncertainty remains because...

Be proactive, have a plan, and keep prospecting.  After the easing of lockdown measures, it’s safe to say the property market picked...

At mio, we often have conversations with Estate Agency firms who have a dedicated sales progresser in their team. Whilst there...

Hybrid agency EweMove has outperformed its traditional sister companies within The Property Franchise Group over the past six months. That’s the clear...

The National Association of Estate Agents is inviting members to join a panel reviewing new PropTech produced as a result of...

Hello, and if it’s the start of a new week it’s time for Property Jobs Today, giving you the inside track...

NAEA Propertymark has thrown its weight behind a Competitions and Markets Authority investigation into whether consumer protection law has been broken...

Whilst Estate and Letting Agents have adapted their operations during COVID-19, to ensure safer working practices under Government guidance, ‘virtual property...

A self-employed agent has gone public to lavish praise on the mentoring scheme which is part of the Agents Together charity. Cameron Carter,...

There’s good news from the think-tank the Resolution Foundation, which says the threat of negative equity because of the Coronavirus crisis...

Recent speculation that the so-called Bank of Mum and Dad would be playing a reduced role in the housing market has...

It’s fair to say that UK estate agents don’t have the best of reputations, often featuring in the lists of the...

If yet more proof were needed of the housing boom this summer, NAEA Propertymark says its sales agreed data suggests a...

The stamp duty holiday running until March next year has triggered a surge in interest in UK property from Hong Kong...

Agents are being advised to operate an appointments-only system if they have offices with only one person on duty during the...

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

One of the most prominent companies involved in identifying and treating Japanese Knotweed has recruited a new member of the team...

A home office set up in a dedicated room apparently adds £17,500 to the value of a property. Direct Line Insurance has...

Property raffles are a legal minefield and many are too good to be true, according to a leading lawyer. There has been...

The UK residential activities of high-end agency Savills suffered a 54 per cent reduction in profits and an eight per cent...

A PropTech firm that regularly claims London homes are mis-measured in property descriptions has taken a swipe at Purplebricks. Pupil, a spatial...

    Purplebricks says changes to its fees structure - possibly becoming less reliant on controversial upfront charges - has been delayed until...

One of the main points I’ve had reinforced to me from agent after agent over the last year of hosting a...

Agents are awaiting the outcome of a test case regarding Business Interruption Insurance, which may determine whether they receive thousands of...

Steve, his name was. Steve, the board man. A rather frightening man, if truth be told. When I started at Foxtons, he used...

There’s been a very large rise in the number of complaints submitted by consumers to the Property Redress Scheme. This is partly...

Rightmove says a study of some 400,000 homes on its portal has revealed that those with a coveted south-facing garden have...

Can technology bring about the lasting change needed to the property industry? The industry has felt the effect of lockdown and...

Home owners in England will be entitled to add up to two storeys to the height of their home via a...

An eight day court hearing kicks off this morning as the Financial Conduct Authority begins a test case regarding Business Interruption...

Knight Frank has reported a remarkable set of figures for June showing how the housing market has bounced back with a...

Two companies that persuaded property investors to pay as much as £25,000 for a parking space have been wound up in...

At a recent Conveyancing Association webinar focused on the provision of upfront information in the property sale process, there was a...

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

A new study of British agents suggests that buyers with accents from most of the rest of the world receive less...

Have you ever wondered how industry-specific software and property portals have influenced the typical estate agency of today? A new book, which...

The chief executive of a hybrid agency in London has revealed why he deserted big corporates to create his own company. Rollo...

The property market has been reopen for almost eight weeks now and during that time demand from prospective buyers has soared. Rightmove...

The chief executive of the National Association of Estate Agents, Mark Hayward, is to retire at the end of this year.  The...

A personnel company wants agents to tell them how much they earn in another anonymous online survey. Rayner Personnel - which recently...

A survey of 2,000 prospective movers by Zoopla shows the vast majority still intent on buying - but younger purchasers’ plans...

With the UK housing market now largely open - there are still restrictions in some areas on home moves to occupied properties...

Agents have remained calm in the light of Nationwide’s house price index which shows the first annual fall for eight years...

The recommendations to regulate and train the estate agency industry put forward a year ago remain on the Housing Secretary’s desk...

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

“Let’s Zoom later”, “are we Zooming in the morning or afternoon?” “Yeah, I zoomed the client earlier” – variations on these...

A successful property newspaper has collapsed after one of its former directors turned computer hacker and deliberately deleted over 5,000 files...

The Say No To Rightmove campaign has set out strategy suggestions for independent agents facing steep portal bills. A 10-page document reveals...

Housing minister Chris Pincher has now been named in media investigations into allegations concerning his political boss, Robert Jenrick, and the...

Back in the day, party politics and the private rental sector used to be straightforward. Conservatives were pro-landlord, Labour were pro-tenant, while...

More details have been released about a test case being brought by the Financial Conduct Authority about the ongoing Business Interruption...

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

The managing director of a Winkworth branch is threatening to report a senior member of a nearby Countrywide office to the...

The only story that has come remotely close to pushing coronavirus – and its various knock-on effects – off the top...

How prime London has changed. In 2002 work began on The Knightsbridge. Located within a stone’s throw of Harrods and a near-neighbour...

Now that it’s June it’s officially summer (as if we didn’t realise that from the sudden drop in temperatures). With good...

Rupert and Annabel Wakley - both long-time stalwarts of Knight Frank’s country department - have moved over to the rival Jackson-Stops...

Last week was Mental Health Awareness Week, and there is a great deal of positive things to be said about a...

A mystery group, believed to consist of high-level former agents and suppliers, is asking the industry for its feedback on current...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick - accused by some of breaking the lockdown some weeks ago - is now in more hot...

A digital ‘members-only club’ for property professionals around the world has slashed its prices nine months after launching. The Eighth Door is...

Letting agents up and down the country have undoubtedly felt the financial strain added by the outbreak of COVID19. Whilst this will continue,...

Many of the leading advocates of the self-employed estate agent business model have talked about why many want new recruits with...

The Chancellor has revealed how he will wean businesses off the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme - meaning that agencies and suppliers...

All my recent Natters have been focused on one particular topic, the coronavirus crisis, for obvious reasons. But there has been...

During March, the coronavirus pandemic put the brakes on the property market with an enforced period of shutdown. However, almost two...

As last Friday was the VE Day Anniversary bank holiday we have a bumper bundle of fund-raising activities to report on...

Over the past few weeks, estate agents have been forced to close high street branches and adapt to working from home,...

An estate agent has reopened his High Street office to the public with social distancing and other safety measures in place. It’s...

“A lot of people have learned that they can work at home, or that there’s other methods of conducting their business......

Countrywide has added its weight to the campaign asking the government to allow agents to get back to work - and...

The Property Ombudsman has announced the expulsion of eight agencies, all for contravening TPO codes of practice. Most of the expulsions were...

Rightmove, Zoopla and even OnTheMarket could make money even if they did not charge agents anything at all to list properties....

At the moment, it somehow seems like tempting fate to think too far into the future, especially in terms of the...

A property law firm is the latest to back a call for a stamp duty holiday to help kick-start the housing...

Hello - yes it’s Friday in case you lost track, and that means it’s Agents Do Charity day: and once again...

Aside from the obvious health crisis, the current pandemic is proving difficult for the business worldwide. However, despite the increasing contact...

A regional agency has thrown its weight behind an independent report which says estate and lettings agents could lead the economy...

The National Association of Estate Agents is urging its members to use the lockdown as an opportunity to train on its...

Another west country tourist hotspot looks set to ban any future new-build home being sold as a holiday or additional property. Bigbury...

Rightmove and Knight Frank are today both calling for a series of government incentives to kick-start the market after the Coronavirus...