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Despite the recent effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, there is still much opportunity in the market for letting agents to grow...

With the high street open again, and the Chancellor’s temporary stamp duty holiday helping to stimulate the market, estate and letting...

If you’re in any way connected to estate agency all it takes is a quick glance at Facebook or LinkedIn to...

The letting industry has come a long way over the past few years, embracing regulation and taking pride in doing good...

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

Record house prices recorded this week by the Nationwide index are set to go higher still according to a leading agent. Nationwide...

A specialist property lender says transactions are being delayed by key staff being furloughed. Gareth Lewis, commercial director of property lender MT...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Stewart McRae, Sales Director at CoreLogic UK What is ‘company name’...

With access to finance being such a hot topic at the moment, more and more estate agents are turning to commercial...

A new study reveals that two thirds of property professionals expect a pay rise in the next 12 months, despite Coronavirus and the recession. Of 1,100 professionals questioned...

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of PJT, the industry’s summary of new movers. Of course many agencies are reassessing their...

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

The latest market snapshot by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors warns the current boom may not continue as government support measures...

It has been three months since the property market was given the green light to reopen. During this time, we have...

Connells Group has announced its trading statement for the first half of 2020 - and its support for its staff is...

The chairman of LSL Property Services - Simon Embley - says he is “increasingly optimistic” about the outlook for the market,...

A law practice says HM Revenue & Customs is launching a probe into companies that have allegedly abused the Coronavirus furlough...

A trading statement from Foxtons this morning reveals that 85 per cent of staff are now off furlough, and that the...

If a week is a long time in politics (an old phrase, for younger readers), then a year is a very long...

Agents have almost unanimously been reporting a big surge in business since the reopening of the housing market, but new figures...

Rightmove says it’s going to reject over £150,000 in payouts from the government's Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. The portal furloughed 160 employees...

The investment bank UBS says it’s forecasting that Rightmove revenues will be down £53m in the first half of this year. “The...

The ESTAS Group says it will combine its awards events for agents, conveyancers and mortgage brokers in one ceremony in May...

You have to feel for Rishi Sunak - well, at least a little. Leave to one side that he carries more presentational...

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak has announced that there will be no stamp duty on homes selling for £500,000 or...

Mortgage enquiries in June surged to double the rate of the previous month according to the latest halifax house price index. Although...

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

In the first of a series of articles, Emma Vigus, managing director of mio, the estate agent sales progression platform, explores the...

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

It may be that by the time you read this it’s all over for Robert Jenrick, the Secretary of State for...

Savills has revealed the measures it has taken to mitigate the impact of the Coronavirus on its activities and balance sheet. The...

There was a big spike in the use of live chat across all agency sectors during lockdown - no doubt spurred...

The chief executive of a property information platform says now is a “dangerous time” to buy or sell homes because of...

The phrase ‘game-changer’ has been hugely overused. But when applied to how Covid-19 is changing the way estate agents will work...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I'm Darren Loftus and it says Commercial Director on...

Estate agents are likely to get through the next five to six months even if the market falls away - but...

OnTheMarket says it still aims to be the number one portal, but the acting chief executive has revealed a far more...

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 housing market is set for long-term recovery, despite dips in the road on the way.  That's the message from the latest house...

LSL Property Services has this morning released details of its response to the Coronavirus crisis. All members of its board have taken...

The Covid-19 crisis has forced the UK property industry to rethink the way it operates. With little warning, the pandemic disrupted the...

A survey of sellers by a high-end agency suggests that around a third expect price falls of six per cent or...

The outlook for the housing market is still taking shape, but here I take a look at three market indicators to...

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

The Say No To Rightmove campaign is to release a set of options for member agents to consider if the portal...

The government is jeopardising the success of the housing market relaunch through the inflexibility of the furlough scheme, claims a group...

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

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has revised its Anti-Money Laundering guidance in the light of Coronavirus. It says the scale of...

** This Bank Holiday Monday both Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today look at how agencies have modified offices and protocols...

Outsourced communications provider Moneypenny has launched a new facility called Client Services for agents resuming business. Moneypenny’s 80-strong team of receptionists can...

The Bank of Ireland UK is the latest mortgage lender to resume physical valuations of properties in England, subject of course...

Rightmove has taken the unusual step this weekend of issuing its usual monthly asking price index on a Saturday instead of...

Foxtons - which has recently closed branches and furloughed staff - has described a shareholder rebellion over senior management bonuses and pay...

The fallout from Covid-19 has hit everyone hard. With breaking news today that agents are able to look at how to...

The announcement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer that he was extending the furlough scheme until the end of October appears...

The Chancellor has announced that the furlough scheme is to be extended until the end of October. He made the announcement in...

There's widespread expectation that Foxtons’ senior management will face sharp criticism at the company’s Annual General Meeting today. The hottest issue at...

There’s a warning today to agency chiefs to keep in touch with their staff as lockdown eases across England in a...

There has been much speculation about when agents will be allowed back to work, and what the new office working environment...

In normal times, the Winkworth team based at their Notting Hill office in west London would head to the fashionable Walmer...

Fine & Country is one of those clever agencies employing interior designers to help stage properties, making them look their best...

Three more property players have been in touch to share what they're doing to help their staff during lockdown - there...

NAEA Propertymark has made a series of demands on the government in the light of the Coronavirus crisis.  In a formal written...

The Say No To Rightmove campaign has launched a countdown clock on its website to galvanise agents into remembering only 85...

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

Since my last column in April, one could argue that very little has changed for agents in terms of the market...

Countrywide’s senior staff earning over £45,000 per year have had their pay cut by a fifth while some 78 per cent...

The Haart estate agency chain has launched a portal called Off Market which it describes to sellers as being “a unique...

OnTheMarket’s share price dropped again yesterday, ending down 2.4 per cent. This was despite the portal announcing a share giveaway to encourage new agents...

PropTech big names Reapit and ViewMyChain are joining up to try to accelerate transactions when the lockdown finally ends and the...

If there are agents still uncertain as to whether their company or themselves as individuals are claiming the maximum business support,...

We are all operating in peculiar times. Times of great upheaval. Our lives are both in a complete state of flux...

Today is the final day that agencies can register with the government scheme offering furlough pay on April 30. The furlough programme...

Foxtons' Annual General Meeting next month is to be held virtually, meaning voting will be electronic. A feature of last year’s AGM...

A new analysis of the simmering Rightmove crisis says there is now “no clear downside” stopping agents leaving. The Financial Times says that Rightmove’s...

One of the industry’s top recruitment gurus wants to check the pulse of the industry - and that includes whether furloughed...

Let me start by wishing everyone well in these uncertain and precarious times. I truly hope you, your families, friends and...

The leader of the Say No To Rightmove campaign says that agents are demanding that there is “no return to full...

Foxtons says it’s furloughed 750 staff and asked high paid staff earning over £40,000 to take a 20 per cent pay...

A high number of agents across the country have been furloughed in recent weeks and are now at risk of losing...

OnTheMaket has this morning announced a raft of what it calls ‘mitigating measures’ to help it survive the Coronavirus crisis. These include...

Hello, and welcome to Wednesday’s guidance and advice for agents and suppliers trying to find a way through the current crisis. If...

Knight Frank is furloughing agents and other staff with the company topping up the taxpayers’ funding to ensure employees get 100...

We are still living in highly extraordinary times, perhaps evidenced best by the fact that the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, was...

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

One of the first analyses of portal listings since the start of the Coronavirus crisis shows that new listings have plummeted...

Hello and welcome to Wednesday’s update on what offers and advice are available to agents at this most difficult and challenging...

On April 4, EAT published a piece titled: ‘It’s 2024: what will the industry look like, post corona-virus’. To me, this...

The government has amended the eligibility criteria and will allow some agents' commission payments to be included in claims for Furloughed...

The NAEA and ARLA have jointly written to the government asking it to include agents’ commission in its plans to help those financially...

Industry operators who receive dividends as part of their monthly income are pressing the government to include this in its financial...

Staff and senior management at a large franchise company running a string of major High Street agency brands are taking voluntary...

One of the biggest issues for agencies at the moment is furloughing - a safety net being offered by the government...

Welcome to the latest edition of our daily service dedicated to advice and guidance on how agents can best cope with...

In response to the current coronavirus pandemic, which is having such an impact on all parts of life, including the property...