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Welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity, our chance to salute those who do so much to help others. If your agency...

A former Hamptons agent has moved into staging after finding she was spending much of her time helping vendors in this...

The annual ESTAS Awards have seen 1,000 people from across the industry witness a string of winners, including new categories celebrating...

An opinion piece by Sam Reynolds, CEO of Zero Deposit Just weeks ago, the Bank of England brought a halt to its...

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

New 2023 research from Open Property Group found that just 41% of homes in England meet the recommended Energy Performance Certificate...

Next week may not be the best time for agents to chase conveyancers waiting for Land Registry information. The Public and Commercial...

Midlands-based land and property company Sheldon Bosley Knight (SBK) has kicked off the new year by snapping up another business. Coventry sales...

Relocation Agent Network (RAN) has announced a change in date for its annual RANCON conference. Taking into account the national rail and...

The ESTAS Customer Service Awards – which are often described as estate agency’s version of the Oscars – took place last...

Property demand has dropped while price reductions have increased in recent weeks, data shows. Two separate pieces of industry data give new...

Knight Frank has recruited two former Savills executives to launch and run its new homes team in Cheltenham. The property consultancy and...

Estate agency network the Experts in Property has expanded its geographical spread. The group of more than 65 independent estate agencies across...

Relocation Agent Network (RAN) has unveiled details of its much-anticipated conference, and you don’t have to be a member (yet) to...

Midlands-based property firm Sheldon Bosley Knight - also known as SBK - has snapped up north Warwickshire estate agency Hawkins. As well as...

The number of locations where average house prices still stand at below £150,000 has shrunk by 28 per cent in recent...

A few weeks ago the ESTAS took place at the Grosvenor House hotel in London - the first chance for many...

Estate agents have gone on the record to say the flow of purchasers from London to country and market town locations...

Online estate agency Strike - which used to be HouseSimple - is expanding its sell-for-free service out across the Midlands and...

An independent agency has announced the opening of another office in what it calls a vote of confidence for the local housing...

By any available metric, Belvoir had a good 2020. Already a well-known and well-established name, it was highly praised for its...

Zoopla has revealed precisely how much house prices have risen over the course of 2020. Across the UK as a whole prices...

A conveyancing firm is blaming councils for delays in transactions. Conveyancers have themselves been sharply criticised in recent weeks as the sharp...

Hello and welcome to the latest ADC, your regular Friday round-up of great work being done by agents, suppliers and others...

Rupert and Annabel Wakley - both long-time stalwarts of Knight Frank’s country department - have moved over to the rival Jackson-Stops...

Details being presented to Parliament today may include information on how agents can return to work in some sort of ‘new normal.’ A 50...

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

There’s been a furious response to the agent who appears to have breached government rules by opening his branch to the...

An estate agent has reopened his High Street office to the public with social distancing and other safety measures in place. It’s...

Hello and welcome to Agents Do Charity’s final edition before this Christmas and the New Year. It’s been a terrific year for...

A sales and lettings agency in the Cotswolds has taken on a fleet of fully electric company cars. The Volkswagen eGolfs selected...

Two separate former High Street estate agents have sung the praise of switching to the hybrid business model. Appleby’s in Gloucestershire is...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Simon Trippett – Partner at The Property Centre. What services...

Over a third of homes across Southern England are at risk of suffering price falls as the housing market slowdown extends...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, the destination where you can catch up with the key moves announced in the...

The scores have been counted and the results are in for the 2019 ESTAS Awards, sponsored by Zoopla. On Friday, over 1,000...

Both major portals have this morning revealed more evidence of a gently slowing housing market. The average time to sell a property...

EweMove, the hybrid agency owned by The Property Franchise Group, has announced five new franchisees - several of them are independent...

Following a break for last week's final Bank Holiday before Christmas, we're back with a bumper edition of Property Jobs Today. We're...

A major hybrid agency says there is a huge ‘reality gap’ between the typical asking price of homes on sale and the...

The sun has finally returned to ours skies and you’re on the lookout for a little bit of summer reading. As...

It’s London Marathon weekend and it’s set to be hot, hot, hot for those agents and other brave industry folk running...

A Cotswolds-based agency has expanded to a second office and says it has plans to develop further in the region. Move was...

An estate agency has started a petition to get bollards erected outside its branch after two accidents, in each of which...

The housing market may appear sluggish at best in many areas but data from Rightmove suggests it’s now quicker to sell...

Purplebricks has released more details of expansion plans to recruit hundreds of additional Local Property Experts. The recruitment drive was launched yesterday...

The recent rise in consumer complaints against sales and letting agents suggests that there is a general lack of trust and...

The best estate and letting agents in the UK were recognised at the prestigious ESTAS luncheon and ceremony, which was held...

Is it the Brexit triggering of Article 50, the snap General Election or the cold weather we have had until recently?...

I had a very interesting chat with the man behind a new portal the other day. He was John Dixon, the portal...

Police were called in when an anxious resident spotted what appeared to be an assault rifle in a photograph of a property...

HomeXperts says it has recruited new franchisees covering Dorset, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire. Some 18 months ago the chain - which then had...

What does it say on your business card? Christopher Merriman, Land and Planning Director at Intro Crowd Who are Intro Crowd? Intro...

A health service tribunal has found that a senior paramedic tried to sexually assault an estate agent as she prepared for...

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has published details of four more cases in which it has 'informally resolved' complaints made against...

A campaign has been launched to make Bristol the colour capital of the UK by ensuring that more homes are painted...

Rentplus, a business providing Rent To Buy homes, has announced that it has new funding of £20m - on top of...

Stacks Property Search & Acquisition has become the first independent buying agency to become a member of the Royal Institute of...

A member of the public has submitted a complaint on portal juggling to the National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team following...

Winners’ reactions and views from a fantastic day of celebration! The Kings Group scooped the gold award for Best Estate Agent in...

It is reported this morning that OnTheMarket has lost one of its key early investors, the Gascoigne Halman agency which is...

Newham in London recorded the biggest percentage rise in house prices among major UK towns and cities over the past year,...

Thanks yet again for the latest batch of festive photographs sent by agents - we’re really delighted so many of you...

A high-end estate agency which closed unexpectedly in April is now reported to have been hit by low demand for homes...

A housing association has launched an ‘ethical’ sales and lettings agency. Two Rivers Housing Group, based in Gloucestershire, has launched TwoCan, an...