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North Berwick in East Lothian, has been named the best place to live in the annual Sunday Times Best Places to Live...

The administration of collapsed agency brand Douglas & Gordon has been extended by a year. Douglas & Gordon called in Grant Thornton...

Like so many I’ve been infuriated by the injustice meted out to sub-postmasters and postmistresses over many years.  I was aware of...

The liquidator of collapsed portal Boomin is investigating a sale of the portal's intellectual property to My Bespoke Room as its...

As 2023 trundles towards the buffers and we look forward to our Christmas break, it is something of a seasonal phenomenon...

Forget John Lewis or Marks & Spencer, the latest Hat and Home Christmas advert has been released. (Well it was released last...

Secured creditors of collapsed agency brand Douglas & Gordon are likely to receive most money owed to them but there is...

The rate of inflation slowed from 6.8% to 6.7% in August, providing hope for homebuyers when it comes to high mortgage...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Graham Paterson. If I had a business card it would probably...

The managing editor of The Good Schools Guide has outlined the measures that some families take to secure a place at...

It may be all change - again - at the Department of Levelling Up, Communities and Local Government if media speculation...

Everyone at Estate Agent Today is delighted to announce that our Editor, Marc Shoffman, has won the prestigious Headlinemoney freelance journalist...

OnTheMarket this morning claims to be the first major UK property portal to use Artificial Intelligence natural-language technology. The controversial technology is...

Savills and OnTheMarket are among property brands set to deliver a webinar next week aimed at helping buyers to understand what...

The company behind Keller Williams' Evolve Market Centre - TBF Centres - has entered voluntary liqudation, Companies House documents show. It comes...

The organisers behind a prestigious property journalist awards ceremony has announced the event will no longer go ahead. The Property Press Awards...

The liquidator for Doorsteps is seeking a buyer for the collapsed online agent’s intellectual property. Prospective buyers have been messaged by restructuring...

The important issue of hard-to-sell inherited properties has been raised in Parliament. Labour MP Zarah Sultana issued a written question asking what...

When Winter stabs its icy fingers at us Brits our thoughts tend to turn to sun-kissed beaches, the lapping Mediterranean and...

Readers of a certain age may remember 1983. The Space Shuttle Challenger made its first flight, Neil Kinnock was elected Labour leader,...

New year, old worries: what’s happening in the housing market? We’ve asked experts and collated forecasts, 15 in total. On the one...

Agents at Greater London Properties have got into the festive spirit with what this editor secretly considers the best Christmas song...

Is it really just a year ago that we were nervously wondering whether yet another Christmas would be Covid-affected? Little did we...

Here at Angels Media towers, we’re always keen to get the biggest names in the business on board for interviews. And that...

Collapsed challenger portal Boomin has officially named its liquidator as company documents this morning outlined a deficiency of almost £10m in...

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

Aside from all the news surrounding the Autumn Statement this week, which will have a significant bearing on the property market...

Collapsed online agent Doorsteps owes more than half a million pounds to company creditors including Rightmove, HMRC and the Treasury, documents...

Estate Agent Today was named Trade Publication of the Year at the Property Press Awards last night. The title beat tough competition...

I’ve been on Twitter for a decade and have 23,500 followers - a gratifying number and of those a couple of...

And…breathe. For a while back there, the only certainty for the housing market was uncertainty. That isn’t to say the election of Rishi...

How did the housing market transform from incredibly strong - almost too strong - early in the year, to a situation...

Who would be in the shoes of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng? I don’t mean who would like their power, pay and...

Good estate agents are always busy, we get that, but the constant juggling of tasks that could be outsourced to others...

The current period of national solidarity over the death of Queen Elizabeth II has embraced the world of property as it...

Zoopla has launched a review into its editorial processes after agents criticised a consumer guide published by the portal that encouraged...

Some people will say: What problem? But they are getting fewer as the detrimental effect of increasing numbers of short lets on...

The new owner of easyProperty has promised changes and expansion at the hybrid agent. It comes after Evolve – which acquired easyProperty...

We are only a fortnight away from having a new Prime Minister, following a contest in which housing has played a...

Former Evolve staff are being offered £2,000 ex-gratia payments by the easyGroup after its ownership of easyProperty ended. Jason Bull, national sales...

Double-think, for those who have not read George Orwell, is when people are expected to accept two conflicting beliefs as truth,...

When it comes to housing policy, the Conservative MPs have given their party a choice between Tweedle Dum and Tweedle DumDum. Rishi...

If there’s one thing that received a boost as a result of Covid and lockdowns, it’s podcasts – which reached whole...

It’s often fashionable to criticise trade bodies and official groups, but right now I think that’s absolutely inappropriate. In well over 20...

This question is not as flippant as it sounds because over recent years the status of the private landlord has taken...

Agents from Leaders are getting into the Platinum Jubilee spirit across the country. The brand’s branches have added a royal touch to...

In retrospect, it was perhaps inevitable that the infamous dead cat would come into the debate over government housing targets and...

What a difference two months and some local elections make. Cast your minds back to March 9 and the annual report of...

The property industry is fortunate in including many great people, doing great work across a range of businesses – from traditional agency...

Property portals are preparing to support agents in complying with a new era of upfront material information. From the end of May,...

It’s easy to overestimate the importance of something in one’s own industry or work, but there seems good reason for believing...

Following a series of unexplained delays, Helena Marston has now finally been confirmed as the new chief executive of beleaguered agency...

For the record, this isn’t my last Industry Views for Estate Agent Today, although by the time you read this I'll be...

If you want to sex-up the Chancellor’s financial statement scheduled for lunchtime on Wednesday, you’d call it a Budget or a...

This week, you will have all seen the sad news that Graham Norwood is stepping down as editor of Estate Agent...

Estate Agent Today is to have a new editor from April 4. He is award winning journalist and podcaster Marc Shoffman who...

The UK government appears to have given sanctioned Russian property owners a get-out-of-jail card valid for six months.  It’s been confirmed that...

Almost exactly a decade ago I wrote a blog on the back of a spate on mainstream news stories about prime...

We know that agents rely heavily on property software solutions to run their agency, particularly to ease the burden of administrative...

One of the UK’s leading economic experts is to be the speaker at a Rightmove seminar this week, considering whether events...

If the UK and its allies have been played by Russia over the Ukraine ‘invasion’, and it’s beginning to look that...

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

New research suggests that the estate agency industry has bucked the nationwide trend of business liquidation that he plagued other sectors...

Will he stay or will he go? You don’t need me to say who ‘he’ is - it’s the only story...

OnTheMarket has entered a PropTech commercial partnership with Autoenhance.ai Limited, the AI photo editing platform.  Autoenhance was founded by PropTech entrepreneur Jamie...

At the risk of mixing my metaphors, any mention of energy has become something of a blue touch paper in the...

The team at Estate Agent Today and our publisher, Angels Media, wish all agents a very prosperous New Year.  Thank you for your...

We’ve had a terrific display of agency and supplier videos running every weekday since late November - a wonderful lead-in to...

It really is beginning to look a lot like Christmas – just a week to go now. Presents all wrapped and...

We all know what did happen in 2021 - Covid and more Covid, the stamp duty holiday frenzy, a soaring rental...

Let’s begin with total transparency from this author: I believe there’s a place for Build To Rent in the wider portfolio...

I’ve never written the three letters ‘EPC’ more often than I have in the past week. Law changes for the private rental...

Despite the roaring housing market, a new report says that no fewer than 70,500 real estate and property businesses are showing...

We’ve probably all learned to be a little less cynical about politicians in recent weeks, given the tragic events. We perhaps...

Within weeks the focus of the industry will be on the White Paper to be issued on rental reform before Christmas. Let’s...

By the time I next write this column, we’ll be just days before the next Budget and Autumn Statement. So I’ll...

In this guest editorial, experienced property solicitor Lorraine Richardson argues that reservation agreements - designed to reduce the number of fall-throughs in...

Few political policies have such a ring of the past as rent controls - they were last seen in this country...

The Guardian has sharply criticised Chancellor Rishi Sunak for introducing and then extending the stamp duty holiday - because helping estate...

I’m sorry to break this to you but in 10 days’ time it will be autumn - and we will have...

There’s already plenty of talk about autumn - depressing huh? - with agents pondering how the housing market will respond to...

Around 2.66 million landlords were operational in Great Britain in 2019, according to data estimations previously released by Hamptons International. Of those...

There’s gathering momentum to do ‘something’ about the unfairness of council tax and stamp duty. This isn’t new in principle. Agents have...

Our long-awaited ‘Freedom Day’ approaches. From Monday all of the restrictions, introduced since the Covid-19 pandemic made an impact across the...

Is print dead as an advertising medium for estate agents? Many have suggested it is, thanks to the rise and rise of...

At first sight it’s a tough ask to defend holiday homes when there’s evidence that many who want to buy can’t,...

I recently saw a fly-through video for a home on sale for well over £2m. The imagery was good (made better by...

It’s been another terrific week for good deeds by our industry - so often under-reported but so important for agents and...

Franchise giant Winkworth has launched a new property podcast to boost its marketing. The Property Exchange podcast will air monthly, with the...

Right now it seems that another day means another house price record, an all-time high for transactions, and a conveyancing log-jam...

An estate agent has been accused of charging prospective clients to view a property. The claim has been made on Twitter by...

The editor of the legal publication the Law Gazette has taken an estate agent to task for daring to suggest that...

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

It’s been quite a week for the rental sector. Lettings agents and landlords have had such a torrid time in recent years...

Boomin founder Michael Bruce says his new site has enjoyed a stronger start than any other portal in terms of visits, viewings,...

Local elections rarely set the pulse racing and this year’s poll on Thursday faces a similar problem. But this time, it’s a...

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

Jason Tebb, the ex-Foxtons agent who is now chief executive of OnTheMarket, has given his first in depth public interview since...

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

Earlier this month, Fixflo held a webinar with David Cox, legal and compliance director of Rightmove, to discuss key government policies...