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![OnTheMarket founder spills beans on fees, Rightmove and Springett](/img/default/eat.png)
The founder of OnTheMarket has revealed why the portal floated on the stock market and why Ian Springett was the right...
20 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agent sells £53m of property within hours of General Election result](/img/default/eat.png)
An estate agent in London claims he did £53m of property deals within hours of the Conservative victory in the General...
16 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![30 sellers to each buyer if Corbyn wins, predicts anti-Labour agent](/img/default/eat.png)
A stridently anti-Labour estate agent has launched a stinging attack on the Opposition’s policies and has issued a stark warning of...
07 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Another agency backs Reservation Agreements to cut fall-throughs](/img/default/eat.png)
Another estate agency has come out in favour of reservation agreements. High-end agency Chestertons says transactions currently fall through too frequently and the...
29 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Leading agent backs reservation agreements ahead of pilot project](/img/default/eat.png)
One of the country’s most prominent estate agents has given renewed backing to a pilot project on reservation agreements, being tested...
22 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Sort it out, Chancellor! Top agent leads attack on stamp duty chatter](/img/default/eat.png)
One of the country’s leading estate agents is leading the calls on Chancellor Sajid Javid to sort out the government’s stamp...
21 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![OnTheMarket founder Savills ‘no comment’ on future return to Zoopla](/img/default/eat.png)
Savills says it’s not commenting on whether it will list on Zoopla in the future. Last week Knight Frank - which in...
12 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Shifting stamp duty away from buyers will boost market, says top agent](/img/default/eat.png)
One of the country’s leading estate agents says shifting the burden of stamp duty away from the buyer - which is...
19 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Theresa May’s legacy - how has housing fared under her government?](/img/default/eat.png)
Theresa May arrived in Downing Street some three years ago - but her premiership has not been a smooth ride. As she...
06 July 2019
From: Features
![What would a Corbyn government mean for sales and lettings?](/img/default/eat.png)
While media attention has been on Theresa May, Brexit and the Tories, chatter in the agency industry has been about what...
25 May 2019
From: Features
![Agent reveals true scale of London market collapse - but it may be over](/img/default/eat.png)
One of the capital’s most outspoken estate agents at the upper end of the market has given eye-watering statistics to show...
22 May 2019
From: Breaking News
![Forget PropTech and portals ... For Sale boards are still the best](/img/default/eat.png)
A top London estate agent says the humble For Sale board remains the cheapest and most effective marketing tool - even...
24 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![Agent avoids fall-throughs by making sellers and buyers shake hands on deals](/img/default/eat.png)
A London estate agent says his system of ‘moral agreements’ between sellers and buyers prevents chains collapsing and means his company has...
08 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![League table of London's 'top 10 boutique agencies' revealed](/img/default/eat.png)
The online publication aimed at London’s high-rolling property professionals, Prime Resi, has named what it believes to be the capital’s 10...
31 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![Is that it? Industry downbeat after lacklustre Budget for housing](/img/default/eat.png)
The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...
30 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![Brexiteer agent scolds 'Maybot' over stamp duty threat to foreign buyers](/img/default/eat.png)
One of London’s highest profile and most outspoken estate agent chiefs has scolded ‘Maybot’ Theresa May on the day she is to...
03 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![Stop the red tape! Agent warns on latest 'property transparency' idea](/img/default/eat.png)
A London estate agent who works closely with High Net Worth overseas buyers has hit out a proposed law which he...
18 September 2018
From: Breaking News
![Don’t blame Brexit! Agent reveals who's behind housing market woe](/img/default/eat.png)
One of London’s leading estate agents says Brexit has had at worst a neutral effect on the housing market and may...
08 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Agent battered by GDPR tells government: Cut the red tape!](/img/default/eat.png)
An outspoken estate agent has given the government a clear message - get off our backs , ease the red tape...
01 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![Create a ‘plan’ of action to help sell more properties](/img/default/eat.png)
Floor plans are an essential marketing tool, which play an important part in helping an estate agent sell a home. A floor...
07 April 2018
From: Features
![Russian-owned property in UK appears to have escaped 'spy sanctions'](/img/default/eat.png)
UK measures to retaliate against alleged Russian government-sponsored nerve agent attack on former spy Sergei Skripal have excluded any attempt to...
15 March 2018
From: Breaking News
!['The House Whisperer' reveals his secrets on how to close a deal](/img/default/eat.png)
No one can ever accuse high-profile London agent Trevor Abrahmsohn of doing things the boring way That applies to closing a deal...
05 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Prime London: prices down 25% and sellers outnumber buyers 10-to-1](/img/default/eat.png)
One of prime London’s most senior estate agents says stamp duty is “strangling the residential property market” in areas of the...
18 December 2017
From: Breaking News
![Jostling for position: battle of the property portals continues](/img/default/eat.png)
The fact is that most house hunters simply do not have the time, let alone the inclination, to trawl around properties...
28 October 2017
From: Features
![Portal Wars - OnTheMarket to demutualise and float on stock market](/img/default/eat.png)
Agents’ Mutual has confirmed that it proposes to form a new company, OnTheMarket plc, to list on the AIM market of...
04 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Queen’s speech: Property industry reacts to proposed tenant fee ban](/img/default/eat.png)
The Queen’s speech to the British parliament this week was a scaled-back affair, which was unsurprising given the Grenfell Tower fire,...
23 June 2017
From: Features
![Stamp duty reform can win over voters, says UK's largest independent](/img/default/eat.png)
The boss of the UK's largest independent agency has called on the government to be 'radical' and consider a range of...
16 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Budget 2017: Pleas for reform fall on deaf ears](/img/default/eat.png)
Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his first Budget this week pledging extra funding for the NHS, transport in the Midlands and the...
11 March 2017
From: Features
![Budget 2017 wishlist: Expectations from the property sector](/img/default/eat.png)
Looking ahead to the Spring Budget this week, the Chancellor Philip Hammond will be obliged to face up to the implications...
04 March 2017
From: Features
![What next for property in 2017?](/img/default/eat.png)
Following a strong start to 2016, particularly in the lower to middle range of the UK housing market, that lasted up...
17 December 2016
From: Features
![Some prime London properties 'now 35% off their peak prices of 2014'](/img/default/eat.png)
Prominent top end London estate agent Trevor Abrahmsohn says some homes in the higher levels of the market may now have...
07 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![The power of floor plans](/img/default/eat.png)
When marketing a property for sale, there are a number of attributes that buyers and sellers today expect ‘as standard’, but...
23 September 2016
From: Features
![Housing must remain top of the government’s agenda](/img/default/eat.png)
With the number of new homes being built across the UK still significantly below the level needed to meet demand, housebuilders...
16 September 2016
From: Features
![Is buy-to-let investing still a safe bet?](/img/default/eat.png)
The huge rush to acquire buy-to-let property in the first quarter of the year ahead of the stamp duty change deadline...
09 September 2016
From: Features
!['Billionaires Row' agent says new PM and Chancellor may cut stamp duty](/img/default/eat.png)
One of London’s most outspoken estate agents claims the prime minister who succeeds David Cameron could appoint a chancellor who will...
27 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![What will happen to the housing market if Britain leaves the EU?](/img/default/eat.png)
The sense of gathering momentum for the Leave campaign ahead of the upcoming EU referendum is causing high levels of uncertainty...
17 June 2016
From: Features
![Bank says Brexit could contribute to 20% fall in high-end new home prices](/img/default/eat.png)
Morgan Stanley says fears over a possible UK exit from the EU and other global economic uncertainty could lead to “a...