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The great grandson of the founder of Jackson-Stops has returned to the sales side of the industry after running his own...

Forget the Oscars, the biggest even in town last week was the Fine & Country International Annual Conference and Awards Gala. The...

Our latest research has revealed London’s six best performing boroughs when it comes to positive property price growth. But a wider trend...

Martin & Co in South West London’s long-standing franchisee Michael van de Vyver has added a fifth branch to his growing...

Five years ago, Lettings expert, Tim Lawler, wrote an article for Estate Agent Today charting his early experiences of setting up...

Savills has recruited Cory Askew to head up its newly established South West London Parks region. Askew joins from Chestertons having worked throughout...

Off-market property platform Invisible Homes has added three more boroughs to its tool. Originally launched in 2018 by former prime London estate...

Savills has expanded its residential sales teams in south west London with the appointment of two associate directors. Oliver Morley joins as...

Jamie Lester is set to revive the HAUS Properties brand that he previously founded and quit. Lester, a former contestant on The...

Prime estate agent John D Wood & Co has named a new Head of Sales and claims this marks “a new...

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

Chestertons has announced its second acquisition in six weeks and third of the year. The London agent has acquired boutique Chelsea agency...

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

Portico Estate Agents is set to unveil a new sustainable office at its Fulham branch in London next week. It forms part...

A plethora of property professionals are ending the year with new jobs. If you want your jobs or appointments news to feature...

Property sales are currently taking 15 weeks on average to complete, new research claims. Challenger portal and property platform OneDome has launched...

Foxtons had become ‘flabby’ and lost its sense of business, its interim chief executive Peter Rollings claims. Speaking on The Guild of...

There is a staggering £117 billion worth of property currently up for sale across the UK property market, according to new...

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

Off-market property platform Invisible Homes is planning to expand throughout London over the next year and to cover the whole of...

Winkworth agents posted record sales income last year, attributed to the stamp duty holiday. The London-listed agent franchise group revealed in its...

A new analysis has revealed those areas of England and Wales with the largest numbers of Russian-owned homes. Credas Technologies analysed Land...

A franchise for two agency offices in west London has been acquired by property professionals Faith Cook and Georgia Everton-Wallach –...

The average first-time buyer’s home across Britain has increased in price by approaching £9,000 a year for the past decade. FTBs are...

Chestertons, which is itself currently on sale, has snapped up independent London Residential, a firm operating in the north west of...

One of the country’s leading buying agents has set out what’s hot and what’s not in London’s housing market as it...

The latest market snapshot of prime London by estate agency Benham and Reeves shows demand up 5.8 per cent annually for...

The number of transactions is scheduled to reach 1.52 million this year - way above the norm of between 1.0 and...

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...

It may make little difference to agents but a leading analyst suggests thousands of buyers have effectively lost money on their purchase...

Aspire, the six-branch south west London agency, has dropped its previous franchise structure and reverted to being owned outright by its...

A league table drawn up by a quick buy property firm claims that some estate agents' average commission has hit 2.32 per...

Fine & Country has announced it signed a string of agencies to its brand during lockdown. Most F&C agents members are High...

Coutts has identified areas of London where house prices are still below peak. Although the wealth manager and private bank says there...

Welcome to the first February PJT. As the year progresses the industry embarks on more appointments, especially with a market that’s...

When is a property really off-market? There may be many answers to that question but it’s likely that few would consider...

Hello and welcome to PJT: even with little more than a fortnight before Christmas it seems there are still plenty of...

An estate agent is linking a drop in transactions of as much as 20 per cent with the stamp duty increases...

Hello and welcome to the latest PJT, your weekly opportunity to catch up on key moves within the industry. Everyone mentioned here...

Sellers are back with a vengeance according to figures from online agency HouseSimple.  It claims the Brexit date extension has given sellers...

Thousands of homeowners listed their properties for sale in the days following the latest Brexit delay on April 12, new research...

Some branches of one of London’s largest agencies, Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward, have returned to Zoopla after dropping it just over four...

A property platform that has chronicled the London sales market’s problems in recent years says the recovery will start in 2020...

A leading buying agent says 2019 is likely to see the continuation of last year’s trend where distressed sellers accept discounts...

Research by comparison website Netanagent claims the commission paid to estate agents in London could be over £70,000 depending on where...

Amidst all the Brexit chaos let’s remember that it’s Children In Need day...always a time when Britons’ generosity raises the spirits,...

There was a drop in the number of new listings across the UK last month, suggesting that the usual autumn rush to...

London agency chain Portico has signed up to OnTheMarket.  The 17 branch firm, which handles both sales and lettings, has offices in...

An early sign of a possible recovery in the London housing market may be appearing, according to data consultancy Hometrack.  It’s just...

Police have confirmed that a search is taking place at a property in the Midlands, in the hunt for the body...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity - another chance to hear about the remarkable fund-raising done by our...

As summer turns to autumn over the next few weeks, that won't stop the nation's agents and property professionals from raising...

With the continued indecision surrounding Brexit and the final divorce settlement still months away, it seems property buyers are choosing to...

The former managing director of Foxtons, Peter Rollings, has spilled the beans on what it was like working at the heart...

Peter Rollings is one of the most respected and best-known figures in property, having helped to rapidly grow Foxtons (where he...

Paul Lamplugh, the father of estate agent Suzy who was presumed murdered 33 years ago, has died - tragically, without ever...

New figures from Your Move suggest that average house prices across England and Wales barely moved in 2017, increasing just 0.2...

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

Mwahahahahaha.... the big day is here. No, we don't mean The Negotiator awards (although we wish you good luck if you're in...

The agent behind a new online service covering off-market homes in part of prime central London says his service will expand...

An estate agent who is campaigning for boards to be banned in his local area says they should be 'confined to...

In this week’s Natter I’m going to get all political. Don’t worry, I won’t be giving my opinions on Brexit, Trump...

A London agency says it’s angry that out of 200,000 homes officially classified as long term empty across the UK, just...

Haus Properties - the estate agency set up by former Apprentice finalist Jamie Lester, who quit the company suddenly last year...

Jamie Lester, the former Apprentice reality TV star who ran a high-profile estate agency in London until last autumn, has resurfaced...

A new statement by Countrywide’s John D Wood & Co says its now-completed merger with Faron Sutaria has had the effect...

The much-discussed merger of Countrywide’s John D Wood & Co with Faron Sutaria brands - with the latter’s name apparently disappearing...

Marsh & Parsons has expanded its Residential Development & Investment team - just one of a number of agencies to announce...

New data from LSL Property Services suggest that the image of London as one large housing market encountering difficulties at the...

Experts in Property, a network of independent agencies with 80 offices across the west country, has secured a new affiliate to...

The former Apprentice runner-up Jamie Lester, who at one time ran four London estate agency branches under Haus Properties, says he...

Suzy Lamplugh was just 25 years old when she disappeared whilst working as an estate agent in London in 1986. She’d...

Countrywide has started the formal process of merging and rebranding some of its existing local chains, beginning with London.  John D Wood...

Haus Properties, the high-profile London estate agency started almost five years ago by Apprentice star Jamie Lester, now appears to be...

Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward has expanded its network of branches in central London with the launch of new offices in Clerkenwell,...

Data company Propcision has quantified the scale of asking price reductions on some prime central London properties, with many dropping by...

An analysis of homes on sale in every borough of London shows up to a third of properties in some areas...

Research from a residential investment consultancy throws light on the extraordinary large pipeline of new homes to be built in central London,...

Fine & Country this week opens a new London office in Bow, coinciding with the imminent start of its TV advertising...

Haus Properties - the agency run by former Apprentice finalist Jamie Lester - has secured a former Foxtons staff member who...

Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward has opened two new offices, taking its London-wide network to well over 50 branches. The new offices are...

Prime Central London’s housing market will stagnate with no price growth at all next year, warns Savills. Even in 2017 price growth...

London agency Barnard Marcus has secured what is believed to be a record sale price for a former council flat -...

John D Wood & Co., one of the high end agents in the Countrywide stable, has unveiled its new office interior...

London chain Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward has opened another new sales and lettings outlet, this time in South Kensington - hot...

Twelve of the UK’s largest regional cities are now seeing higher price rises than central London as the capital’s performance continues...