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Foxtons’ share price got a mini boost on Monday morning after rumours that the agency brand is preparing for a sale. The...

The Home Buying and Selling Group (HBSG) has arranged a new pilot scheme for a group of lawyers and conveyancers to...

Trade and representative bodies representing the legal, surveying, estate agency and property management sectors have launched the fifth iteration of the...

MPs have launched an inquiry on improving the home buying and selling process in England. The Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (LUHC)...

Property professionals have called for the Government to allocate its promised £3m towards improving the home buying and selling process to...

UK property professionals should look to Norway when assessing how to improve the home buying process, a housing minister has claimed. Speaking...

Everyone’s a pundit these days, aren’t they? And January is pundit season – when a New Year starts, out come the...

Agents should be more picky about their listings during 2024 and focus on sellers that will help speed up sales by...

The 2023 Autumn Budget, amongst its considerable 110 growth measures, contained an important announcement for the property sphere, with £3 million...

Reservation agreement provider Gazeal has partnered with Optimus, Landmark’s panel of conveyancers to offer its services as an option for home...

The Autumn Statement ended up being silent on Stamp Duty reforms and direct housing market stimulus but there were some nuggets...

The Home Buying and Selling Group (HBSG) is seeking feedback from agents on proposals that it feels will “revolutionise moving home...

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has launched a new document to help firms benefit from the range of digital services available to...

The property transaction in England and Wales is a notoriously slow and fraught process, taking typically 150 days to complete, with...

Client onboarding and verification tool LandmarkAgent has announce a strategic partnership with CRM provider Street.co.uk. The collaboration will enable agency users to...

The chairman of the Residential Logbook Association (RLBA) has queried the relevance of a new Government-backed property group focused on digital...

Coadjute has launched a Digital Property Data Pack service for its users. The pack is designed to cover the requirements of the...

Fortune favours the brave, as the saying goes. So, when you consider how upfront material information can and does make the...

Industry veteran Tim Main has issued a challenge for agents in the latest attempt to speed up sales and reduce fall-throughs. Main,...

The Home Buying and Selling Group (HBSG) has formed an independent industry body, the Open Property Data Association (OPDA), for companies...

A year-long pilot of using upfront material Information by conveyancer Thomas Legal and search provider Conveyancing Data Services, a part of...

A coalition of businesses from across the property industry have united to call on the Government to do more to speed-up...

Last week was the first ever National Conveyancing Week, which I hope registered with agents and perhaps you even took up...

Land Registry analysis tool provider Veya has announced a partnership with home buying and selling platform adoor to help speed-up sales. Clients...

According to the recent industry research report ‘Back to the Future’ from tmgroup, mio and CDS 40% of property transaction delays...

The Home Buying and Selling Group (HBSG) has announced a new update to the Leasehold Property Enquiries (LPE1) form, which it...

Conveyancers are warning that this week’s Land Registry strikes could have a knock-on effect on property sales once staff return to...

Property professionals have given their backing to the idea of a universal digital identity for buyers and sellers to speed up...

Industry analyst and and chair of The Home Buying and Selling Group Kate Faulkner, has called for the Government to stop agents being...

We are now well into 2023 and, while there have been a huge number of steps taken towards a digital future...

Property market analyst and chair of The Home Buying and Selling Group Kate Faulkner was given an OBE in the New...

As we get ever closer to 2023, this final Natter of the year is dedicated to the five biggest property moments of...

As we move closer to the end of the year, we invariably begin to think of what 2023 will bring, how...

Agents have begun trialling a new common technology framework devised by a committee within the Home Buying and Selling Group (HBSG)...

Recent political changes – and there have been quite a few in recent weeks – have brought about something of a...

With reform of the home buying and selling process as crucial as it's ever been, and disrupters like Coadjute and PEXA...

The Government is being urged to take the lead on homebuying reform as conveyancers warn that recruitment issues and lawyer burn-out...

One of the biggest frustrations people have with the home buying and selling process is the amount of time it takes...

First off, my own quick tribute to the Queen, who died on Thursday afternoon aged 96. Despite her age and declining...

In this latest Day in the Life of...Natter, I get an insight into one of the most vital cogs of the...

I am somewhat disappointed, yet not surprised, when I see the headlines ‘blaming’ various fractions of a property transaction as the...

Estate Agent Today's good friend Christopher Watkin recently carried out a video interview with Glynis Frew, the well-known former managing director...

The last week has been dramatic even by the standards of UK politics, with a Cabinet and junior minister rebellion bringing...

A senior member of the Home Buying and Selling Group has insisted work on reforms is ongoing despite the ministerial merry-go-round...

I look back on when my dad helped me buy my first car and shared his pearls of wisdom on what...

There have been many articles about ‘digitising upfront information’, following the publication of DLUHC’s Levelling-Up white paper and National Trading Standards...

If there’s not a book called ‘The Art of Collaboration’ then there should be. Update: a quick Google search shows there...

Next month will see new rules around upfront Material Information for property sales and lettings come into force in the UK...

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

They say that in fashion, if you wait for long enough, clothes that are hanging at the back of your wardrobe...

A number of pro-active conveyancers are joining a new conveyancing directory being set up by one of the leading figures in...

PropTech solutions have continued to ingratiate themselves in both the forefront of an agency within advertising mediums and in the backend...

Those aficionados of the Sound of Music will recognise the tag line above. It came to my mind when thinking about...

HM Revenue & Customs has been warned by financial experts that its latest crackdown on stamp duty abuse could make the...

Until a few years ago, you would have been forgiven for not knowing who or what Coadjute was. But the company, founded...

A leading property lawyer says some agents will struggle to meet the demand for more ‘material information’ put forward by Trading...

Industry figures have come out in favour of the long-term programme of new compulsory information to be contained on property listings. From...

‘Knowledge is power’ goes the old saying, and one variation on that theme is a quote from academic, Robert Boyce, who...

The government’s call for a pack of property information to be made available upfront during the sales process has been welcomed...

The government’s Levelling Up White Paper, released today, contains an unexpected and shock commitment - to create a new 'lite' version...

High profile conveyancing supremo Rob Hailstone makes many announcements about government and industry housing policy - but he is less keen...

As this is the first Natter back since the Christmas break, I should like to first wish all our readers a...

Estate Agent Today understands that the civil servant who has been at the heart of plans to reform the house buying...

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

With 2022 swiftly approaching, businesses in the property industry are likely to be reflecting on the trials and tribulations that have...

Despite the progress made in so many areas, particularly in terms of leasehold reform – although we are calling upon the...

As you are no doubt aware, building mutually beneficial relationships with conveyancers in your local area can not only make your...

The ESTAS – often known as the property world’s version of the Oscars – returns as an in-person event this Friday...

The recent stamp duty holiday and the subsequent conveyancing logjam this triggered has acted as a wakeup call for the industry....

I’m sorry to break this to you but in 10 days’ time it will be autumn - and we will have...

The House of Commons Library has published what may be the definitive record of estate agency regulations issued in recent years...

Agents have been told in new government guidance that the liftings of some Covid restraints in wider society “does not mark...

In this week’s In Conversation Today, we have another industry big-hitter and one of the most high-profile female leaders in property...

Ben Ridgway gives his views on the current market, material information and PropTech for agents. What is your current view of the...

The race to complete home sales before the stamp duty holiday came to an end on June 30 has created what...

TM Group and sales progression solution mio have signed up as partners for the 2021 ESTAS Forum & Awards, sponsored by...

With property transactions taking longer than ever and many people operating at capacity, it is easy to overlook the progress made,...

A surveyors group has launched a new ‘Home Review’ service which it claims will identify structural problems which create an immediate...

We are just over one year on from the day our lives truly changed, when the UK went into its first...

An industry group charged with trying to make house buying simpler and quicker says it’s made a breakthrough on ‘upfront’ information...

Another day, another house price record as the bull market continues. The latest Halifax index shows prices surging 7.6 per cent to...

Purplebricks has just appointed its new chief marketing officer, who was most recently global director of restaurants at a food chain. Ben...

Another attempt is being made to introduce property logbooks to the selling and buying process, and agents are invited to play a...

Conveyancers are sending a blunt message to estate agents: transactions will take longer than usual and don’t chase us with queries and...

The cross-sector group looking at reforming the sales process has agreed a new pledge which it says introduces greater transparency for...

The government is jeopardising the success of the housing market relaunch through the inflexibility of the furlough scheme, claims a group...

If it’s really the case that estate agents’ offices could be in the category of High Street premises first allowed to...

The head of a firm that has been creating digital property log books for well over a decade says the house-moving...

Now we’re well into the second month of the year, we have reached a crucial point in the ongoing plans to...

The National Trading Standards Estate & Letting Agency Team and The Property Ombudsman have launched an urgent survey to assess awareness...

The Law Society has announced that there will be a new TA6 Property Information Form launching next week, on Friday February...

Rightmove and Zoopla have been working with key figures from government and the agency and conveyancing industries on how to reform...

Logbooks about properties must be made available up-front at the point of marketing and not later in the buying process if...

The group charged with pioneering Reservation Agreements in the house buying process admits both the industry and the public are split...

Reapit has joined a consortium attempting to make the long-anticipated end-to-end digital home buying process a reality. It’s joined the IPN Consortium,...

It’s one of the most crucial aspects of the homebuying and selling process but is too often bogged down by frustrating...

[Estate Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise...

A PropTech company says the majority of transactions now involve chains and that the issue is becoming more problematic for agents...

Reservation Agreements are the subject of the moment in the agency industry. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is to...

There are many adjectives that can be applied to Boris Johnson, probably very few of them complimentary, but there’s one that...