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The Lomond Group has continued on the agency acquisition trail after backing its Thornley Groves brand to snap up Manchester-based Julian...

Rightmove has created a league table to identify where new buyer competition is hottest across the UK housing market. Across the country...

At least 18 MPs have come out in favour of a new annual Proportional Property Tax which would be levied on...

The police investigation into the Savills agents who allegedly racially abused England players on Twitter after the Euros 2020 final is...

The Savills member of staff who allegedly racially abused England players online after the Euros 2020 final has been sacked. The Metro...

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

A young estate agent is being praised because of his heroic actions to save a woman from drowning.  Austin Mellor - just...

Greater Manchester Police have arrested the Savills estate agent who allegedly posted a racist tweet about black England football stars after...

There is growing criticism of Savills on social media following the controversy over a racist tweet apparently sent from the personal...

The police have now received complaints about the tweet believed to have been sent from a personal account of a Savills...

A home within 500 metres of a tube or railway station in London will carry a massive premium compared to a...

The number of properties coming on the market is still not meeting the huge demand from buyers, but the level of...

An online agency that already operates in the lettings field is spreading into sales - and pledges to give most of...

If it’s Monday, it’s jobs news day on EAT - welcome to the latest update. Want to be featured in our next...

An estate agency has issued an abject apology for calling the Covid pandemic “a blessing in disguise.” There was a huge social...

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

It’s been reported that two founders of an estate agency at Leigh in Greater Manchester have been banned until 2025 after...

It’s no secret that the UK’s housing sector is in crisis. Headlines scream about the shortage of new-build homes. TV pundits...

For many years, the majority of agents have stuck to the tried-and-tested 9am-6pm opening hours framework. But is this now changing,...

It’s been revealed that Countrywide has been hit with a £215,000 fine as part of a swoop by HMRC cracking down...

The chief executive and founder of a developer and property investment group says Purplebricks is “an excellent business” but its recent...

The regional agency MoveSelf, which set up in 2017 as an online estate agent, is shifting emphasis towards For Sale By...

The industry has long been critical of reports claiming house price movements are in some way uniform across the country, but...

Six directors have been banned from office after misleading over 300 people who bought new build homes in the north of...

A leading property consultancy has called out Manchester as the location which has seen the highest urban price growth of anywhere...

If World Cup 2018 appeared to be low profile at the start, it didn’t last long. Following this week’s Harry Kane goals...

Rightmove’s latest assessment of the housing market suggests that Newport in Gwent is the fastest moving area in Britain for vendors. A...

Japanese knotweed, the invasive plant brought over to Britain in the Victorian era, threatens millions of pounds worth of property transactions...

It’s been quite a week, much of it concerning the technology that increasingly underpins our industry.  A glut of fund-raising and relaunching...

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

A telephone number is more than just a number. To consumers, it gives useful information about the company it belongs to....

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

Home ownership has halved for young families across some parts of the UK according to a charity.  The Resolution Foundation says its...

There’s no sign yet that the snap General Election is distracting our industry from continuing its fine record of doing good...

HomeXperts, the network of franchise agents operating from their homes and covering sales and lettings, has announced three new franchisees. They are...

The property market in northern England, supported in part by the Northern Powerhouse concept, has attracted a lot of media attention,...

An estate agency with four offices across Greater Manchester has been bought out of administration, with all of its 21 staff...

Plans for the Northern Powerhouse scheme, designed to rival London and the South East as the main driver of economic growth...

Miller Metcalfe Surveyors is a centre of excellence, with accreditation from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors for residential surveys and...

As the summer holidays near, we’re continuing to publicise the side of estate agency that rarely presents itself to the public...