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North Berwick in East Lothian, has been named the best place to live in the annual Sunday Times Best Places to Live...

One of the most heart-warming parts of my job is having the privilege to be the patron of Agents Giving, the...

Talk about a wasted opportunity. The Conservative party conference - just finished, and possibly the last one before a General Election -...

In his latest column Jonathan Rolande looks at the future of estate agnts on the high street.   You only need to walk down...

It has been a busy week for food bank collections as the temperature drops. Here are some of the ways property professionals...

There are some inspiring examples of agents and property professionals raising money for all-important children's charities this week. Remember, if you have...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove and minister Stuart Andrew are set to be grilled by MPs on their property market plans today. The...

Agency branch windows are being transformed this week to mark the Queen’s 70 years on the throne. High streets across the country...

The government last night revealed more details on its flagship Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill including letting local authorities double council...

The Queen’s Speech has unveiled proposed overhauls on planning, consumer and economic crime laws that could all have an effect on...

The government has failed to take the opportunity of the Spring Statement to provide clarity on its business rates reform agenda,...

In this latest Natter piece zoning in on independent agents doing things differently, following on from the one I did with...

Franchise giant Winkworth says it has backed the start up of a commercial company advising on investment in retail or business...

One of the biggest trends since Covid, in the property world and elsewhere, has been a shift towards more hybrid, flexible...

A family-run agency has launched a campaign to back the High Street following the reopening of most shops and businesses. London agency...

Today is the day that non-essential retail reopens as part of the government's roadmap out of lockdown. For the majority of the...

A property industry body representing developers wants the government to think again about making it easier for redundant High Street shops...

The property sector is set to lead the UK out of its Covid slump according to Ernst & Young’s latest forecast....

The only certainty at the moment is ongoing uncertainty. It’s something we’ve got used to in 2020, but it’s still not...

Estate agents facing crippling running costs as the wider impacts of the Coronavirus crisis hit home may benefit, at least in...

How prime London has changed. In 2002 work began on The Knightsbridge. Located within a stone’s throw of Harrods and a near-neighbour...

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

Countrywide has added its weight to the campaign asking the government to allow agents to get back to work - and...

Estate agents’ offices will be in the first category of High Street premises to reopen when the lockdown finally ends, newspapers claim this...

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 dismissed a request from the NAEA and ARLA Propertymark to review business rates for agency offices on High...

The NAEA and ARLA have written a joint letter to government on the impact of business rates on High Street agency...

Outsourcing important business functions such as marketing, HR and IT to attract cost savings, leverage expertise and gain greater competitive advantage is...

The phrase ‘death of the high street’ can be found in nearly any publication in any given week. And for fair...

There has been a real wind of change in estate agency and over the last 18 months we have seen the...

A well known regional agent has closed one of its offices saying “the old shop window of an estate agency is...

A comprehensive report into the changing complexion of the High Street suggests that some 143 estate agents’ offices closed in the...

It’s now more than three years since the EU referendum result in June 2016, and we’re still no clearer on when...

A newspaper claims that 1,228 estate agent branches closed on Britain’s High Streets last year. The Mirror’s business editor, Graham Hiscott, says the...

A London council is considering a borough-wide ban on agents’ boards of all kinds. Labour-controlled Camden already has a ban for a...

Shocking figures from the Local Data Company, a consultancy monitoring the health of High Streets, show that 211 estate agency offices...

One of the industry’s best respected trainers and consultants has outlined six key reasons why agents should keep offices on the...

The agonisingly painful decline of Countrywide continues, with no one sure whether it is the darkest hour before the dawn or...

We’re already more than halfway through 2017 and, against all the odds, it’s pushing 2016 close in terms of eventfulness and...

The influential consumer property body HomeOwners Alliance says Purplebricks-style hybrid estate agencies may be “the future”. In a blog on the HOA website,...

On Tuesday we managed hail, snow, rain, sun and a chilly wind all in one day. Whatever you want to say...

It’s time to take a pause, to reflect and put into context—and what a year it has been for our industry...

It’s not just inside the offices that get decorated at Christmas - many of you have done a fine job at...

A riposte to Paul Smith's article 'Why Estate Agents Must Stand Up to the Power of the Portals' I just read an...