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Who says irony is dead? That Purplebricks, of all agencies, should promote the idea of a ‘BS-Tester’ to identify false promises by...

New data suggests Thursday 28 March was the biggest day for the number of new sellers coming to market so far...

A variety of charities have received support from the property industry this week. If there are charitable endeavours you think the rest...

Interesting report this week in Estate Agent Today on an analysis by the Resolution Foundation thinktank which suggests that the UK’s...

Lots of things change in the property sector - but one thing always seems to stay the same. For buyers and sellers,...

A variety of charities have received support from the property industry this week. If there are charitable endeavours you think the rest...

Property market conditions in the new-build sector are likely to remain subdued this year. Persimmon has claimed. An outlook in the house...

Average house prices rose for the fourth consecutive month during February, figures from Halifax show, but it is unclear how long...

Zoopla has delivered strong vendor lead performance for agents in the first half of 2023 despite the challenging macroeconomic backdrop -...

More than a third of homes have declined in value over the past six months, Zoopla data shows. It comes despite the...

High-end estate agency Strutt & Parker says its research points to a sales market recovery underway in some parts of the...

Listings appear to be taking longer to sell but buyer and seller confidence remains, OnTheMarket (OTM) claims. The portal’s latest Property Sentiment...

Fine & Country has welcomed its first Cypriot agency to the upmarket network. Purple International, which was established in September 2007, is...

Purchase mortgage searches fell by almost a fifth last month as the Easter period dampened property market activity and there are...

The worst of the pricing adjustment in response to higher mortgage rates appears to be behind us, Zoopla has claimed. The portal’s...

Annual house price growth dropped for the fourth month in a row in February and dropped further into negative territory on...

Mortgage lenders are ‘actively competing’ for home buyers, Rightmove claims. The portal’s mortgage expert has predicted that mortgage rates will remain flat...

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

The average price for larger detached homes has grown at almost twice the rate than for smaller properties such as flats...

The head of estate agency Nesbits’ sales team is marking 50 years with the independent brand. Robin Evans has looked back on...

Connells Group estate agency operations director Simon Arnes is set to step down next year after marking 50 years with the...

There is a big walking theme to this week's charity exploits, showing you don't have to break too much of a...

Agents have a “clear opportunity” to nudge high-value homeowners who are considering listing their properties for sale, Zoopla claims. It comes as...

There was an article in Estate Agent Today recently that suggested only four per cent of properties on Rightmove and Zoopla...

Estate agents are in a unique position – we handle the meeting of people’s aspirations probably more than any other profession....

You can tell that spring is in the air as this week's Agents Do Charity is full of outdoor fundraising pursuits...

First off, here at EAT we hope everyone enjoyed the Easter celebrations and didn’t eat too much chocolate! Despite the Easter break,...

Spring may be struggling to break through the clouds but agents are continuing to step up for good causes. The humanitarian crisis...

The outcome of the Ukraine crisis is far from certain, but one thing has become abundantly clear. The long-overdue Economic Crime...

The estate agent known to his thousands of followers on Twitter as Mayfair Guru is predicting a ‘Roaring 2020s’ for the...

Here’s the odd thing about interest rates - we all care about them, but they don’t directly affect that many people...

Hunters has tweaked its earlier version of hybrid franchising in a bid to attract self-employed agents. Hunters Personal was launched with a...

There’s lots of talk of people moving over within estate agency to be self-employed so they can chase the dream of...

With barely more than a week before Christmas, we’re delighted to bring you more heartwarming stories from agents. Despite the difficulties of...

The scaling back of HS2 in the north of England, contained in the government's new Integrated Rail Plan, means hundreds of homes...

There are plenty in the estate agency and lettings world who don’t like the concept of Airbnb and similar enterprises. But they...

Every so often it comes around – the argument that stamp duty should be reformed/removed/replaced (delete as appropriate). But why? Where’s the...

Remember the early days of lockdown when there was a general panic? Perhaps the hot demand for toilet rolls was a sign...

There are just three working days until the end of the stamp duty holiday for most buyers. That’s not even enough time...

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...

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

An estate agency has apologised after a bogus employee posted offensive comments about Prince Philip on a newly-created fake Facebook account. This...

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

The MP leading a new parliamentary committee on the housing market says a radical reform of tax would help more people move...

The launch of Boomin has been and gone with, perhaps, something less than its expected fanfare of publicity. Of course there are...

It’s 12 years since we opened our doors with the Fine and Country estate agency in Drayton on April 1 2009. The...

Late last year Hamptons launched ‘Relay around the World’… a fundraising initiative to raise money for Cancer Research’s Stand Up To...

The managing director of Fine & Country Cardiff, Dan Thomas, has wasted no time with his fundraiser - starting as soon...

First off, happy Good Friday to all our readers. Here’s to a great, if still slightly different, long Easter bank holiday...

Propertymark has chosen YoungMinds as its charity partner of the year.  YoungMinds is dedicated to ensuring every young person gets the mental...

Zoopla employees have held a 'March for March' challenge to raise funds for The Captain Tom Foundation. This is a fine cause...

Reeds Rains is once again fundraising for the wonderful Cash For Kids - and this time there’s a twist. In previous years...

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

The London housing market is enjoying the end of the lull before the storm, according to a leading buying agent. Sara Ransom...

Rightmove says the excess of demand over supply right now is bigger than at any time over the past decade -...

You could be forgiven for overlooking International Women’s Day on Monday. Well, almost. Focus was instead turned to the first day back...

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

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

Honesty is a concept that journalists will tell their readers is non-existent for estate agents. Yeah, right! But as the end...

An online agency has apologised to a single mother who felt pressured into allowing viewings of a property she was renting. Local media in...

As the official advice over holidays descends into farce - can we go this year? if so at home or away?...

Figures from Zoopla suggest there’s a Christmas present being unwrapped by agents across the country - a far busier housing market tha this...

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

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

It’s hotting up out there as a beautiful summer’s weekend beckons - an ideal time for some fund-raising in the sun,...

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

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

Over Easter we carried stories of good deeds done by agents and how firms were coping with working from home -...

Savills is donating over £800,000 to nominated charities across the UK. Following a commitment to Land Aid’s Covid-19 campaign for youth homelessness,...

The demand for mortgages in April was scarcely a quarter of what it was in March - but the figures show...

If anyone told us six weeks ago that agents would still be doing such amazing work for their communities during lockdown...

It may seem a long time since normal trading took place but many agencies are now finding they are picking up...

With a lengthy lockdown already behind us one might think that fund-raising was a step too far - but not for...

Hello - we hope you had as good an Easter as possible in these unusual circumstances, and welcome back to work. Now...

A high-profile regional agency is “cracking on” with support for a hospice for children and young people that cannot raise funds during...

A branch of Northwood is offering its pool car to any NHS workers who need it during the Coronavirus crisis. The Fiat...

The John Bray agency based at Rock in Cornwall typically deals with some of the most expensive real estate in the...

Independent agency Nicol & Co is donating £100 to the NHS for every new instruction signed up by April 21. The agency...

This Easter, and during the whole period of the Coronavirus crisis, Agents Giving is reminding everyone to use the hashtag #IndustryActsofKindness...

You wouldn’t expect anything other than very upscale home offices from an esteemed agency with a wonderful history - and that’s...

You know the old saying - a dog is an agent’s best friend?  Well that’s clearly true for this trio of agencies...

Working from home is something of a leveller right now, applying to people in the capital and in the sticks, but...

You wouldn’t expect the good folk at Strutt & Parker to have anything less than a superlative set of home offices...

Independent agencies are the backbone of our industry so it’s great to be able to share images from three such experts...

For many this coming Easter weekend will be the strangest ever - for agents and industry suppliers it will not be...

Almost every part of the agency industry is operating remotely these days - and we would love to know how you’re...

In the last few Natters I’ve focused on the slow death of local newspaper advertising, and how many agents are now...

A high profile and widely-respected estate agent is predicting a huge demographic change to one of the country’s wealthiest enclaves -...

Stepping back and moving out of the front line is all the rage…but not, it seems, for hard-working agents and others...

The financial consultancy advising OnTheMarket says the portal company will be in profit by Easter next year. “We now expect OnTheMarket to...

An estate agent in London claims he did £53m of property deals within hours of the Conservative victory in the General...

A sales agency based in Warrington and set up originally to market new homes in Manchester is now expanding into Shanghai...

A PropTech analyst insists that the tumbling share price of Purplebricks on the London Stock Exchange does not indicate that the...

A solicitor handling cases involving Japanese Knotweed say the problem could devalue the prices of affected houses by as much as...

With Easter now upon us (happy Easter, by the way, and hope you’re enjoying the long weekend, the Easter eggs and...

There’s been a spring bounce with prices of new-to-the market properties increasing an average of 1.1 per cent in the past...

Hello and welcome to Property Jobs Today - your final chance before the Easter break to catch up with the key...

With next Friday being Easter, this is the last ADC for a fortnight - so it’s our chance to honour those...

Cast your minds back to the summer of 2014. It’s 9.55 am somewhere in east London ‘Sorry I’m late’ offers the...

The first set of figures for the year from HMRC show that there were 0.8 per cent more residential property transactions...