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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...

As part of its commitment to promoting and enforcing high standards, RICS has launched its Home Survey Standard, which will become...

Recent Zoopla reports stating that first-time buyers are deciding against purchasing one-bedroom flats came as no surprise to me, or I’m...

Housing Minister Esther McVey has launched an expert advisory council that the government says is “dedicated to the digital transformation of...

Young homebuyers want tech-savvy, astute and attentive estate agents who are able to handle their complex requirements via a range of...

Housing minister Esther McVey says Compulsory Purchase Orders and brownfield land registers are to be made digitally transparent.  This will allow CPO...

Zoopla has unveiled new functionality that it claims will make searching for new homes easier for consumers - and resumes the...

A trade body has sharply criticised HM Land Registry for its slow progress on digitising local searches after a promising start...

The price premium paid by purchasers for a freehold property rather than a leasehold is at its highest for eight years. An...

New research shows that three bedroom homes are the quickest selling property type this autumn. After a series of sluggish house price...

The typical estate agency fee paid by a seller has actually fallen one per cent in the past year according to...

A new analysis of privately owned homes with mortgages outstanding shows repossessions have risen in London - but they’re down in...

I feel I am in a fortunate position. I have been central to the PropTech movement for a number of years,...

A leading agent has suggested that some parts of the UK would face “a property exodus” if Boris Johnson’s proposals for...

With this summer marking forty years since Margaret Thatcher came to power, her legacy continues to invoke both celebration and consternation...

A PropTech firm has repeated claims it first made in March about allegedly inaccurate floorpan measurement and says a new initiative...

An analysis of transactions agreed this spring suggests there will be a surge in prices which will ultimately be reflected later...

The National Association of Estate Agents has welcomed the commitment by the Competition and Markets Authority to investigate the mis-selling of...

The leasehold scandal has received plenty of press coverage, with horror stories of people living in homes that are impossible to...

Foxtons has revealed that its six branch closures announced towards the end of last year will save the company £3m in...

Over the last few years, there have a number of changes to the stamp duty land tax (SDLT) regime, which have...

Zoopla says the number of its leads delivered to member agents in the period March 2018 to February 2019 was 36...

The proliferation of big data is paving the way to improving our economy on almost every front as entrepreneurial digital companies...

Winkworth has set up a dedicated land and new homes division. The franchise agency, which has most of its offices in and...

At the end of January the Asian PropTech company PropertyGuru announced the imminent launch of beta-phase testing of its cutting-edge new product, PropertyGuru Lens. This...

A new website is offering to contact owners of homes that are not for sale, on behalf of people who would...

The global chief executive of Purplebricks, Michael Bruce, has warned mortgage lenders against offering so-called ‘super-sized’ home loans to borrowers.  Bruce is...

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

Estate agents are missing around half of the conveyancing referral opportunities they could take, according to a new report.  PropTech firm OneDome...

Hard-pressed buyers who try to minimise house moving costs by doing their own conveyancing have been warned of the disastrous consequences...

Strutt & Parker is bucking the trend on High Street offices by opening a new one - and in this case,...

The government has unveiled a new body which, it claims, will raise agency standards. There is a long-standing commitment from the government...

Strutt & Parker is offering free Virtual Viewings to 1,000 new clients, and says it's the first national agency to offer such...

The government, which only recently said there would be one Ombudsman covering the entire housing sector, has announced that there is...

In a surprise weekend announcement the government has almost doubled funding for the National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team - the...

The government says its funding schemes such as Help To Buy will no longer be applied to what it calls “unjustified...

A property portal that describes itself as free-to-list has launched today, taking the industry by surprise - however, at least one...

A magazine claims its investigations into the sales tactics of Countrywide and Connells suggest the two agency are “harming consumers, stopping them from...

HM Land Registry has taken another step towards its aim to “make conveyancing simpler, faster and cheaper” for the general public. The...

A new ‘quick buy’ property company claims it will make an offer on any home within 24 hours of the vendor...

A specialist leasehold enfranchisement firm has branded government leasehold reforms as "incredibly weak". In an announcement lost in the noise following Damian Green’s sacking,...

Property has always been an industry built on a foundation of personal relationships. Deals made, promotions gained, clients won, portfolios grown;...

The housing industry has set out a list of demands in advance of the government’s hotly anticipated Autumn Budget on Wednesday.  Despite...

The largest mutual life pension and insurance company in the UK has added its voice to growing calls for stamp duty...

The fact is that most house hunters simply do not have the time, let alone the inclination, to trawl around properties...

What does your role involve? As team manager for the property team, I make sure PAs and clients are happy and...

For the second successive week the Advertising Standards Authority has banned an online estate agency’s advertisement.  Last week it was HouseSimple and...

As the mainstream mortgage market braces itself for yet another clampdown on buy-to-let lending, a growing number of property investors are...

Being a leading world-class city comes at a price – they are the most expensive for occupiers and the most lucrative...

This week, the obvious thing to write about would be easyProperty's merger with GPEA. It's such a huge and potentially influential...

New research has identified homebuyers' top 20 'must-have' features that would encourage them to purchase a seller's property. According to the survey...

Mortgage rates continue to fall with the average new lending rate at a record low of 2.2 per cent: as a...

This week, it would be very easy for me to focus on the startling figures that easyProperty logged with Companies House...

Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his first Budget this week pledging extra funding for the NHS, transport in the Midlands and the...

The Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in following a complaint about a TV ad for a Quick Sale company, National Homebuyers.  The...

The government has set out 29 key points in its Housing White Paper.   Introducing it in the Commons this afternoon, Communities Secretery Sajid...

The Property Ombudsman’s office has defended a change to its code of practice which, according to a national newspaper, means agents...

Lots of people buy new-build due to the perceived lack of hassle with maintenance, as they are built to the latest...

A PropTech firm is to launch a 'printed augmented reality' service that allows buyers to point their smartphone and get additional information...

Fears raised over the UK housing market in the wake of the Brexit vote have so far proved to be ‘wide...

The National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team has followed up the recent announcement by The Property Ombudsman to counteract portal juggling by...

Who are you? Nick Dyoss, Group Business Development Director, SearchFlow, property intelligence specialists You have a high profile within the conveyancing search industry,...

With the number of new homes being built across the UK still significantly below the level needed to meet demand, housebuilders...

The huge rush to acquire buy-to-let property in the first quarter of the year ahead of the stamp duty change deadline...

A property analytics company has devised a method of calculating the ‘best’ locations in which to work as an estate agent,...

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

In the capital, people will pay a premium to live near great transport links, and as we’ve seen from Crossrail and...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says the controversial findings of an insurance firm’s research shows that millions of homeowners may...

No fewer than 555,000 would-be first time purchasers have opened Help To Buy Individual Savings Accounts - HTB Isas - since...

Home loans activity has fallen to a 12 month low as market torpor sets in ahead of the EU referendum.  According to...

  Who are you? Carole Marsden   What does it say on your business card? UK Sales Director What attracted you to join SearchFlow?  SearchFlow has...

Almost three in 10 buyers have seen their house purchase fall through after making an offer - typically leaving them almost...

Fraudsters attacking the conveyancing sector, successfully stealing large sums of money from homebuyers, are making national headlines at a depressing rate....

New figures from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors backs up the theory that the market is slowing down significantly ahead...

It's a high quality RICS approved report, carried out by one of our RICS accredited local surveyors. The RICS HomeBuyer Survey is...

SearchFlow, property intelligence specialists, has partnered with Decision First to offer an unrivalled service to protect conveyancers and homebuyers from the...

The summer term – rounders, cricket and hayfever. It's also the last dash before the housing market supposedly closes down for...

The influential Home Owners’ Alliance pressure group says Britain pulling out of the EU would probably depress house prices. The HOA - a...

With the scale of devastation from flooding witnessed recently, anxiety about purchasing a property in a flood risk area is heightened....

Over the past six months I’ve noticed a number of key themes emerge from the conversations I’ve had with agents –...

This week, Storm Desmond has left devastation in its wake. Once again, the nation’s attention is drawn to the threat flooding...

Who are you? Colin Breavington What does it say on your business card? Operations Director We hear SearchFlow is expanding next year, can you give...

A body called the UK Housing Market Observatory - consisting of economists at Lancaster University Management School - is giving a...

We’re all familiar with 'gazumping' – most us have been 'gazumped' or indeed been the perpetrators of this practice, for it...

The Chancellor, George Osborne, has announced a series of measures impacting on the property industry, including:   Mortgage interest relief for buy-to-let homebuyers...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says it is working on a revised HomeBuyer Report which will not include the ‘historic’...

This week RICS reported a further drop in the number of people putting their homes up for sale; new instructions fell...

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