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Congratulations from everyone at Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today to all those who triumphed at the Relocation Agent Network...

The property website Home has identified the four regions of the UK where it says the current market slowdown is at...

Average house prices in the UK increased by a mere 0.9 per cent in the year to June - the lowest...

New research has identified those local housing market potentially worst hit by the planned changes to Help To Buy in 2021,...

Hello and welcome to this latest edition of PJT, your regular weekly column giving all the key appointments news in the...

The average British homeowner stays in their property for 20.8 years, according to new research by Zoopla. The property portal analysed the...

The number of cash buyers in London has recently plummeted by very nearly a fifth - and every other part of...

Too many sellers are wedded to the idea that prices will rise after a Brexit deal is resolved, says one of the...

The latest asking prices data from Rightmove suggests that the national housing market is being dragged down by poor performance in...

Welcome to the latest Property Jobs Today - because last week there was a Bank Holiday, we have a bumper edition...

Rightmove’s latest house price statistics reveal that asking prices for newly-marketed property are on average 0.9 per cent higher than a...

Fresh analysis by Zoopla has revealed Britain's fastest moving property markets with the lowest number of average days for a seller...

1989 was a significant time for the property industry: it marked the beginning of the end of a period of unprecedented...

A new housing market survey paints a bleaker picture than that from Rightmove earlier this week - and instead speaks of...

The average time it takes for a single first time buyer to save for a 15 per cent deposit in England...

New figures from the Equity Release Council suggest more growth in this sector, alarming those agents who see this as a...

Local media in the east Midlands report that four estate agency offices operated by the Nottingham building society are to close...

Average house prices in the UK increased by 1.7 per cent in the year to the end of January according to...

Agency Express says that following a strong start to the year there’s a been a slowdown in the number of properties...

Government figures show the UK’s annual house price growth now being down to 2.5 per cent - the lowest rate since...

One of the country’s most detailed housing market forecasts for 2019 suggests house prices will fall in London and nearby regions...

Asking prices of homes coming to the market have fallen for the second month in a row - and Rightmove says...

East Midlands estate and lettings agency Jackson Grundy has signed up to OnTheMarket. The firm, with its Northampton headquarters, has 10 sales...

An online auction platform which works with estate agents says this method of selling homes works, with four sales in one...

New build property values are rising at a much greater rate than existing property values according to a study by DJ Alexander. The...

Price growth in the housing market is slow across the UK but London is again the most troubled region, seeing an...

The market is now over-supplied with homes to sell while at the same time demand is dipping and there are widespread...

The latest Your Move house price data confirms what a wide range of indices have shown recently - slowing price growth and,...

A hybrid estate agency with ambitions to rival Purplebricks has revealed that it has significantly expanded its current footprint, with ambitions...

Price cutting is becoming the new norm as the market adapts to reduced interest from buyers, according to property listings platform...

New build house prices rose 5.1 per cent in the year to the end of August - substantially more than the...

House prices grew two per cent year on year for September according to new figures - and a senior agency chief...

Winkworth has opened an office in Northampton.  The operation is owned and run by new franchisee Sunny Kooner, who is joined by...

Rightmove is reporting a mini-boom as the autumn market gets into gear, with a surge in buyers and a one-month rise...

A sales platform that monitors the market is warning that house price falls are likely to spread beyond London and the...

Agents appear to be getting more pessimistic over the housing market as the latest government figures show prices still growing - but...

Research by Zoopla suggests that homeowners' confidence in the property market is on the rise.  The property website's latest Housing Market Sentiment...

The latest data from Rightmove indicates that the average national asking price has reached another all-time high of £308,075 following a...

New data from a private bank shows a five per cent rise in the number of £1m-plus homes sold in 2017.  The...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, the regular Monday update on who’s moving where within our industry. Let us know what’s...

Purplebricks has returned to the fray after recent controversies with a claim that home owners saved themselves over £140m in commission...

Prices of new-to-the-market property rose by a modest 0.4 per cent over the past month says Rightmove - but that’s enough...

A website that monitors house prices says “red warning lights are flashing as market conditions in London and the South East...

House prices started 2018 with a modest 0.3 per cent drop across the UK as a whole, including 0.5 per cent...

House prices have taken a spring leap in the north of England as the market improves - but it’s a different...

Average house prices rose 0.5 per cent in February, making it the biggest rise in five months according to the latest...

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

Members of the Relocation Agent Network are celebrating after a successful annual awards event in London, combined with keynote conference sessions...

International property analyst Mike DelPrete has queried the suggestion that Countrywide's online sales option is drawing in additional business to those...

Horton Estate Agents - a hybrid agency which nonetheless claims to have ‘offices’ - says it will expand into 15 new...

Government figures suggest house prices are still rising by 5.1 per cent a year, with the average property value in the...

Estate Agent Today understands that Spicerhaart is in the final stages of talks to acquire major regional independent firm butters john...

Countrywide says the roll out of its online sales and lettings service is on schedule to reach 50 per cent of...

The UK property market has entered a period of stagflation where house price growth is consistently lower than the rate of...

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

Barclays Bank has given an optimistic view of the housing market over the next five years, with a prediction that across...

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

The best estate and letting agents in the UK were recognised at the prestigious ESTAS luncheon and ceremony, which was held...

Average asking prices in London have fallen, while the majority of regional markets are performing strongly, according to the latest index...

Auctions are a great way to sell property competitively, with a wide range of homes often selling under the hammer, and...

Average UK house price growth will reach 2.2 per cent this year, a rise of £4,460 that will see the average...

The website Home, which monitors asking prices, says prices have rallied strongly in the last month but thanks to growing inflation...

A sales progression tool claims to have reduced the average transaction time for a property from around 94 days to around...

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

The rental market has had to face a raft of changes over the past year, including the introduction of the 3% stamp...

Countrywide’s controversial hybrid estate agency business has produced “fantastic results” according to Sam Tyrer, the group’s Managing Director, Retail & London. In...

The founder of one of the largest independent agencies in the East Midlands is to step down, over 27 years after...

Relocation Agent Network has ended the year handing out 28 awards to individuals and firms at a gala dinner in London. The...

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

Available stock levels across Greater London, the east of England, plus the south east and the south west are now 16...

Countrywide has given Estate Agent Today some early details of how its mix of online and traditional agency services will roll-out...

Countrywide has confounded its critics with an upbeat performance in the first six months of the year, growing revenues by nine...

With a number of agent partner programmes available nationwide, estate agents can often increase business by offering sales by auction, especially...

Three separate surveys appear to suggest that even a long-term shortage of homes on sale is not enough to stop a...

Countrywide is to offer vendors and buyers a choice of using an online service, a traditional high street branch or a...

Countrywide's retail chief says the group's new hybrid joint online and traditional project has involved training agents to change the way...

The number of UK properties worth at least £1m is expected to more than triple between now and 2030. A report from...

A major estate agency chain’s price index says average house prices in England and Wales have grown 6.6 per cent in...

The latest market survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows that the stock of homes on sale with agents...

The number of commuters spending more than two hours travelling to and from work has increased by 72 per cent over...

Watch the latest weekly video roundup of news from Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today, featuring stories on the housing...

Watch the latest weekly video roundup of news from Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today, featuring stories on the housing...

An East Midlands estate agency has had a regional press advert banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).  Kirk Estates Ltd had...

A family-run estate agency network is launching an advertising campaign covering its 27 branches focussing on ‘family values’. Newton Fallowell’s network is...