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A property consultancy is calling for improved accreditation for Energy Performance Certificate assessors. Re:solve Real Estate - which specialises in commercial property...

Martin & Co’s Tonbridge office has a new owner. Chatham-born Stephen Castellani has taken the reins from Robert Gordon-James and his wife...

Agency staff owed money from the collapse of Douglas & Gordon last year will be repaid, the brand’s administrator has said,...

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

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

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

A competition to track down as many golden estate agent boards placed around Leeds as possible has been won by Grace...

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

A home linked to Douglas & Gordon chief executive James Evans is currently listed for sale at £3.5m. The property has been...

Mystery surrounds the current position and owner of the Douglas & Gordon sales business as documents reveal the events that led...

Estate agents are entering a ‘rocky period,’ an accountancy firm has warned, as research shows insolvencies in the sector are on...

Estate agency brand Douglas & Gordon was confirmed to have entered administration yesterday. There were rumours over the weekend that the well-known...

Foxtons has upped its expectations for its full year financial performance despites acknowledging a “less certain market backdrop.” A trading update from...

OnTheMarket has secured contract renewals from several major agency brands as it reports a revenue boost for the first six months...

Former Douglas & Gordon managing director Ivor Dickinson has passed away. He was known as one of London’s most high-profile and colourful...

The Bank of England has decided to raise the base interest rate from 1.25% to 1.75%, the biggest rate hike for...

With green issues on the agenda more than ever, homeowners wanting to learn more about making their homes more eco-friendly have...

Foxtons has announced the acquisition of two estate agents worth £10.55m. The listed agency giant has acquired IMM Properties Ltd, trading under...

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

Foxtons, Chancellors and Douglas & Gordon have been named among the first paid-up agency brands on Boomin. The challenger portal, launched by...

An estate agency says London’s sales market is now at its busiest since the Brexit referendum in mid-2016. Douglas & Gordon, sold by...

Foxtons has confirmed its intention to sell the sales side of Douglas & Gordon, the London agency chain it acquired only...

Foxtons has this morning announced that it’s selling off the sales wing of a rival London agency that it bought just...

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

The Simplify Group’s latest statement on the ongoing IT problem suggests a gradual improvement in services to agents and other clients. It...

Foxtons has given an upbeat trading update to shareholders this morning. It says so far this year sales revenue is a huge...

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

New figures from HM Treasury have revealed that businesses, including a number of major agencies, have returned £1.3 billion in furlough...

Well, we’re technically more than halfway through the year already, but we’ll let that slide. And what a year it’s been...

It’s now over a year since the property market officially reopened after an unprecedented two-month shutdown at the height of the...

A former senior Foxtons and Douglas & Gordon agent has hit out at “the relentless key performance indicator culture” of some agencies. Matthew...

Foxtons has reassured investors that 2021 has started well and the agency is on the road to recovery after the Coronavirus...

One of the industry’s leading consultants has calculated staff turnover rates at the country’s leading estate agencies. Christopher Watkin, the consultant who...

In a video interview for Estate Agent Today, property professional Chris Buckler speaks to Ed Mead,  all-round property guru and founder...

Foxtons says it's set for radical new investment and further takeovers following the acquisition of rival London agency Douglas and Gordon. In...

The extraordinary consolidation in the estate agency industry continues apace today with two of the biggest deals reaching critical points. Firstly Hunters’...

A leading market commentator says the acquisition of London agency Douglas & Gordon represents “a strategic step change” for Foxtons -...

It's been confirmed that Foxtons has bought rival London-focussed agency Douglas & Gordon. In a trading statement this morning Foxtons tells its...

Foxtons is in talks to takeover rival London agency Douglas & Gordon. A statement from Foxtons to shareholders this afternoon says: "Further to...

Douglas & Gordon, one of the highest profile London agency networks, is the latest signing for the yet-to-launch Boomin portal. The agency...

Ed Mead has joined a growing chorus demanding government action on the cladding crisis. He is one of the industry’s leading figures from...

The death has been announced of Colin Lowman, a veteran south London estate agent who had a 64 year career in...

In a wide-ranging video interview for his Move iQ service, Phil Spencer speaks to former agent and founder of Viewber, Ed...

The popular and well respected ex-Knight Frank partner Tom Tangney has joined Rose & Partners, a boutique property firm serving prime...

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

To many less fortunate on the follicle front, high profile industry supplier Ed Mead has enjoyed an infuriatingly good head of...

Yes, believe it or not, we’ve nearly reached the end of a whole decade. And what an eventful decade it’s been. We’ve...

Hello and welcome to a new week - one with darker evenings and colder days. But there is still plenty of activity...

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

In the run up to his appointment as Prime Minister, Boris Johnson suggested that he might cut Stamp Duty Land Tax...

One of the agencies most active in the creation of OnTheMarket is trialling a return to listing on Zoopla after an...

Welcome back to the latest edition of Property Jobs Today (PJT) after a Bank Holiday break. Each week, we round up...

Phil Spencer is on the warpath against “constant tinkering” by government in housing matters - and instead, he wants the problems...

If you thought Christmas Eve meant no more news in terms of industry movers and shakers…well, think again - we’ve one...

We’re delighted to say we’ve had a fantastic response to our call for pictures and videos of your decorated offices -...

Given that online property portals, dominated by a handful of websites, are by far the most popular home search method, it...

Hello and welcome to a bumper edition of Property Jobs Today, your weekly insight into the key moves within our industry. Everyone...

An open rental market, where neither landlord nor tenant is in a dominant position, enables rents to rise and fall, which...

Google celebrated its 20th birthday last month. Yes, it might be hard to recall a time when it wasn’t integral in...

Humberts - which when it was operating jointly with Chestertons was a prominent supporter of Agents’ Mutual and OnTheMarket - has...

Another OnTheMarket founding estate agency - Strutt & Parker - has rejoined the Zoopla and PrimeLocation portals. Some months ago the London...

Cast your mind back to July 2008 – Gordon Brown was Prime Minister, the Euros were in full swing in Austria/Switzerland...

Estate Agent Today can reveal that a new property firm is being launched specialising solely in the sale of off-market homes...

London’s housing market may be in the doldrums but two estate agencies have shown faith in its long-term recovery with moves...

The outsourced viewing service Viewber says it has now conducted over 20,000 viewings on behalf of agents and has secured another...

ZPG has announced that it has signed a listings agreement with Chestertons, one of the estate agencies involved in the founding...

New figures released by ZPG suggest increasing numbers of agents are listing on three portals. Amongst the latest agencies to renew long...

OnTheMarket remains defiant despite the decision of Douglas & Gordon, one of its founder agencies, to list once again on Zoopla...

London’s long-standing chain Douglas & Gordon is the latest company to embrace the concept of the Purplebricks-style hybrid estate agency. The company’s...

Another attempt to create an automated conveyancing system has been launched with the claim that it will banish paper trails and...

Viewber, the outsourced viewing service, has marked its first anniversary by notching up its 6,500th appointment.  Launched in early September 2016 by...

One of the founding agents behind Agents’ Mutual and OnTheMarket and one of the current directors of Countrywide will be amongst...

One of the founding figures behind OnTheMarket, which currently bans listings from online agencies, now says bricks and mortar agencies that...

Property has been changing hands for centuries, but when did estate agents as we know them today – with their branches,...

Agents’ Mutual has confirmed that it proposes to form a new company, OnTheMarket plc, to list on the AIM market of...

I would argue the property industry is fundamentally inefficient. Much of that inefficiency is now being handled by PropTech companies and...

The new anti-money laundering regulations introduced this week will delay the routine buying and selling of homes, a lawyer warns -...

If this past year is anything to go by, outsourcing is firmly on the agenda for estate agents. Rather than being...

Peter Rollings, the well-known former managing director of Foxtons, has taken a stake in Viewber, the recently-launched outsourced viewing service.  Viewber allows...

Now I’m not one to lose sleep over politicians, but it strikes me that Communities Secretary Sajid Javid and Housing Minister...

As many northern cities struggled to recover from the 2008 global financial crisis, the north-south divide returned to plague the British...

Later on, the title of this piece should become clearer (at least I hope so). First, though, a few bits and...

Ed Mead, one of the most high profile estate agents in the industry, is leaving London agency Douglas and Gordon to...

In case you were wondering, it appears that the Labour party has still to find someone to replace John Healey as...

One of the directors of Agents’ Mutual, parent body of portal OnTheMarket, has told Estate Agent Today that his firm does...

London estate agency Douglas & Gordon, one of the firms which founded Agents’ Mutual, has launched a new website with a...

As we all know, Peter Redfern is critical to the future of the British housing market and.... What? Wait? You don’t know...

Lomond Capital has acquired John Shepherd Estate Agent in Birmingham as it continues to 'expand south.' The deal, which includes Marwood Homes...

Public relations used to be a minor part of estate agency, something only ‘the big boys’ paid for and with little...

The directors of Agents’ Mutual say they have “every confidence” in OnTheMarket as the portal approaches its first anniversary on January...

Property journalists, and more than a few estate agents, are beginning their annual autumn ritual – forecasting what’s going to happen...

Two more agencies have set up new home divisions - a barometer of how they anticipate residential development becoming a bigger...

John Healey - a former housing minister from when Tony Blair was prime minister - has taken the housing post under...

A former director of Foxtons has been appointed chief executive of a high-profile London estate agency chain.  James Evans takes up the...

Labour’s low-profile shadow housing minister, Roberta Blackman-Woods, has come out for Yvette Cooper - herself a former housing minister - in...

The agency industry has been acting with delight over the likelihood that there will be a slim overall majority for the...