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Few things anger the industry more than the effect of stamp duty and other costs on property transactions (well, maybe Purplebricks...

Bored with Brexit? Baffled by the backstop? Troubled by the transition period?  Well here’s a promise - there’s no mention of the...

The estate agency group Humberts, which narrowly avoided collapse early this year, now claims to have turned around its fortunes thanks...

A new estate agency has come up with a novel way of taking prospective purchasers around its patch - by using...

An insurer claims there is a huge gulf between the cost of rebuilding a house and its market value because around...

The culture of impatience and instant gratification has a lot to answer for. It has forced the hand of the property...

A service which describes itself as an alternative to part exchange has been launched to facilitate sales to ‘corporate property buyers’. It’s...

London agency Stirling Ackroyd has announced its third acquisition in the course of a year. It’s only 15 months ago that Stirling...

Is Help To Buy going to remain in existence for much longer? Question marks over the scheme’s future are being raised through...

The National Association of Estate Agents has welcomed the government’s move to ensure most future new-build houses are sold as freehold...

The vast majority of new-build houses are to be sold as freehold with ground rents for new leases capped at £10...

It’s time to sort the wheat from the chaff when it comes to overseas buyers of property. If you listen to Theresa...

Foxtons says its use of technology allows it to increase the reach of its branches - and claims this is behind...

Estate Agent Today can reveal that Foxtons has closed another London agency office - this time at Barnes in the borough...

Even the cheapest local homes are out of reach for at least 40 per cent of young adults according to a...

Foxtons is shutting its Park Lane office - the flagship of the agency in prime central London’s Mayfair. Estate Agent Today was...

One estate agent has described the latest price fall announced by the Halifax as “quite a retreat” for the housing market...

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

When Facebook first announced it would be entering the property listings market a few weeks ago it sent shockwaves across the...

It seems a lifetime ago but in fact we’re approaching just the first anniversary since the government triggered its Call for...

New build house prices rose 5.1 per cent in the year to the end of August - substantially more than the...

One of London’s highest profile and most outspoken estate agent chiefs has scolded ‘Maybot’ Theresa May on the day she is to...

House prices grew two per cent year on year for September according to new figures - and a senior agency chief...

A website has officially launched this morning, aiming to push the concept of US-style For Sale By Owner online property marketing...

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

Agents have continued to express their shock and opposition to the announcement by the government that it wants a stamp duty...

A competitive pricing analysis undertaken for hybrid estate agency Emoov claims that it sells for an average £6,000 more than rival...

Figures released by HMRC over the weekend show another huge rise in stamp duty going to the Treasury - and that’s...

The government has used this week’s Conservative party conference to announce a new stamp duty tax of one per cent to three...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity - another chance to hear about the remarkable fund-raising done by our...

Zoopla has once again released its list of the costliest streets in the UK - but for the second year running...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Marco Ferrara, Director of Tili What is Tili and what does...

Purplebricks has this morning announced that it’s to expand its US activities still further, breaking into Florida for the first time. It...

We’ve all heard the comments - the countryside is being covered in concrete, new houses are springing up everywhere, our green...

The rise and rise of Equity Release continues with a more-than-doubling of the number of product options on the market in...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today, the latest weekly catch-up with moves within and across our industry. A quick...

Sales of holiday homes could be hit as a result of a new £560m tax proposal put forward by Labour.  Under the...

Landlords and letting agents might feel they’ve taken a bit of a battering from the government in recent years – and...

The National Association of Estate Agents has given broad support for radical proposals from the Law Commission to end leasehold abuse...

The Land & New Homes Network has announced a part exchange and assisted move collaboration with Relocation Agent Network in a...

Estate agents say the continuing gentle slowdown reflected in the latest government house price figures will be the story of the...

Those of you who receive (and read) my Sunday PropTech Review will know that, by far and away, the most shared...

A buying agency says it has secured a prime London property for one of its clients at almost 40 per cent...

With the news that Hunters and Fisher German are the latest agencies to offer online auctions to sellers, is this something...

Tili does all the work to deliver a smooth home move for customers and income for agents. An innovative and easy to...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, your chance to catch up on the major moves in the agency industry over...

Any day now we’ll hear the date for the Autumn Budget: it may be delayed to wait for a Brexit deal...

“Baton down the hatches. Stockpile the food cupboard. Brexit is coming and it’s little more than six months away!” I jest, but there is...

An estate agency is pioneering a new business model in which it charges no commission whatsoever to the vendor. Freeagent247, an online...

An estate agency claims that it’s gone from start-up to local market leader within 12 months - and now says it’s...

The raison d'être for estate agents everywhere is to get their properties noticed! It’s as simple as that. These days you’re likely...

A housing academic claims that while popular belief has it that homes are getting smaller, the typical living space in England...

A well-known London estate agency says it signing up to a US-based real estate franchise network run by billionaire Warren Buffett. From...

The Property Ombudsman has urged the government to bring the new homes build sector under consumer redress. New builds are not currently...

Almost all buyers of new build houses who purchased a leasehold regret doing so, and the vast majority say they definitely wouldn't...

A new estate agency has opened its doors in North London, despite operating in what it describes as a 'weak' London...

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

A warning to people selling their homes to beware of internet-based scams offering cut-price surveys has been sounded by a leading...

Over a fifth of pensioners say they would be encouraged to downsize if there was a stamp duty incentive - particularly...

A full 100 per cent of 20 to 24 year olds hope to buy their own home one day -  but...

There’s little doubt that downsizing is less of a factor in the housing market than it used to be - so...

The former head of Humberts’ country house department, who has spent 30 years selling homes, has switched to buying. Jeremy Campbell-Harris was...

The online agency acquired by Purplebricks in Canada has started facing the same criticisms that its parent company have faced in...

After gaining my MBA qualification from Edinburgh Business School in 2005, I took careful consideration over my career moves and prospective...

Data from the buying agency Black Brick reveals just how big an impact has been made by the additional homes stamp...

The brief but troubled history of individuals and companies attempting to raffle homes as prizes has received another blow as a...

The latest quarterly house price report published by property portal s1homes reveals that properties across Scotland sell on average at six...

A maverick Cornish estate agent who falsely gave the impression to customers that his business was highly successful has been hit...

Were it not for climate change, I would be very close to predicting that the summer is close to being over,...

A regional pilot has been launched for what is called the Voluntary Right to Buy - a scheme giving housing association...

The government has quietly scrapped a proposal to force councils to sell off their most valuable assets, which would have included...

The buy-to-let sector, which has been under sustained pressure for a number of years now thanks to tax changes designed to...

A sales platform that monitors the market is warning that house price falls are likely to spread beyond London and the...

A PropTech firm has adopted the unusual position of claiming some agencies deliberately over-value properties in a bid to win instructions. Agent...

Oakwood Homes, a four-branch sales and lettings agency operating across East Kent, has acquired Parkland Estates, a single-branch firm based in...

Research by Estate Agent Today reveals that there have been 12 different stamp duty regimes in the UK since the Millennium. What’s...

LonRes says transactions in prime locations in London dropped another six per cent when the second quarter of 2018 is compared...

New property listings in July were down 6.0 per cent across the UK and down no less than 12.7 per cent...

One of London’s leading estate agents says Brexit has had at worst a neutral effect on the housing market and may...

Hello again from Italy. Only another week or so left out here, working every day from the same table at my...

Purplebricks co-founder Michael Bruce says traditional agents sell only around 50 per cent of the homes that they list, so spend...

The former Chancellor George Osborne - architect of drastic stamp duty reform - has come out fighting to defend the tax...

With all the recent change and upheaval in the rental sector it may be time to consider how letting agencies will...

An analysis of HMRC stamp duty statistics for the second quarter of this year suggest that receipts are down 13.8 per...

An equity release consultancy says the result of its survey of estate agencies suggest an increase in interest from prospective downsizers. The...

Gazumping is the biggest irritation in the property market to the general public according to a survey of over 2,000 people.  Respondents...

Connells Group - which now says it’s the country’s largest estate agency by market share and numbers of homes sold -...

A government announcement this morning claims 121,500 first time buyers have taken advantage of the stamp duty cut introduced at the...

Labour says stamp duty receipts and other tax income from properties in the capital should go to the Mayor, Sadiq Kahn,...

The new owner of Humberts says he would consider acquiring or working alongside existing agencies who want to be part of...

The price per square foot for homes in central London is currently £1,194 - that’s 16.9 per cent below its 2014...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, the place where you find all the key agency industry moves over recent days. Please...

‘Up’ is the key word in Rightmove’s figures for the first half of 2018, released to the City and to shareholders...

Figures from Savills suggest that there’s currently an average 1.14 price adjustments per sale across the prime regional markets of the...

A businessman who’s just entered the estate agency industry says he’s got the secret behind Purplebricks’ success - even though he...

One of the property industry’s best known figures, Richard Berridge, has teamed up with estate agency My London Home to lead...

One of the country’s largest regional agencies is moving into the sale of homes overseas despite Brexit uncertainty and concern over...

Councils across England will have new powers to charge dramatically more council tax on homes left empty for many years following...

Another day, another housing minister – at least that’s what it feels like! The resignation of the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson...

Only 24 hours after the Land registry released data showing a 20 per cent slump in housing transactions, new figures from...

A report in the Financial Times lays bare the scale of the housing market downturn in central London - it suggests...

The Welsh estate agency Jeffrey Ross has opened its fourth branch in Cardiff, with a former Savills agent as its head....

Rightmove claims that homes with sea views attract an average price premium of 29 per cent. The analysis - aimed at publicising a...

The Advertising Standards Authority has today issued a three-point guidance note for estate agents, including controversial interpretations of what constitutes a...

A new market snapshot shows how there’s now a two-tier market with homes in London taking substantially longer to sell than...

Humberts’ new owner has issued a statement saying he is on “a personal mission to revolutionise the industry and become the...

House prices in London are projected to fall in the short-term, down by two per cent by the end of 2018...

A new digital product claims to help agents estimate which of their past customers are statistically most likely to move again...

It may not be a good idea for a journalist to be personal about a politician, so I write about our...

Amid the headline-grabbing political manoeuvring over Brexit, a policy proposal which could have serious ramifications for private landlords, and those who...

The Advertising Standards Authority says its compliance team is considering its next steps following the refusal of estate agency PDQ Estates...

Over 15,000 households have exchanged after listing with an online agent in the second quarter of 2018 - that’s eight per...

An agent from Cornwall who has waged a long-running campaign against online agencies in general and Purplebricks in particular has been...

Auction House says the number of lots it sold in the first half of 2018 was some 3.8 per cent up...

A leading agency chief says the frequent churn of housing ministers means there is only one answer if our industry wants...

A left-leaning think tank is urging the Bank of England to manipulate the housing market to ensure house prices don’t rise...

Former housing minister Dominic Raab, who yesterday left his post after just six months in office, may have had a lucky...

Hello, and welcome to this week’s regular Monday summary of all the major jobs moves in our industry.  The industry is still...

A senior agent says an innovative business model allows him to work in prime central London - even though he lives in France.  Former...

Some of Britain’s top property experts say bureaucracy, lack of cooperation and a dwindling number of smaller builders are the main...

  Purplebricks says it enjoyed an 81 per cent growth in revenue in the UK the year to the end of April and...

Part of the South Hams area, a popular tourist hotspot in south Devon, has voted overwhelmingly in favour of a ban...

Another four existing estate agency branches have rebranded as Hunters. In the westcountry three branches of Heritage4homes - at Yatton, Nailsea and...

Two more price reports from high-end agencies make grim reading about the prime London housing market. New data from Savills suggests that...

By now we’ve all seen news about the long-term decline in property sales and competition from online alternatives leading to ‘more...

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

Labour says it wants ‘Healthy Homes Zones’ in a bid to reduce housing-related health inequalities which are estimated to cost the NHS £1.4...

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

Hometrack says other cities are now closing the gap on London in terms of house prices and market value. The latest Hometrack UK...

In what is regarded as his most important speech since becoming housing minister, Dominic Raab has told a conference that it...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Tom Cummuskey Sales & Marketing Manager … Fast approaching double...

Total mortgage approvals by the main High Street banks increased three per cent in May over the same month last year...

The three per cent stamp duty additional properties surcharge is to blame for tumbling house prices in some of Britain’s holiday...

In recent weeks, you could have been forgiven for thinking that you’re not actually in the UK.  Flash floods aside, the...

Estate Agent Today can reveal that Keller Williams, the US-led firm that has 170,000 agents worldwide, is to open its fourth...

High-end housebuilder Berkeley Homes says “macro and political uncertainty, including Brexit” is leading to some developers previously building in London to...

The Money editor of The Mirror newspaper has finally sold a home he first put on the market in late 2016...

A major hybrid agency says there is a huge ‘reality gap’ between the typical asking price of homes on sale and the...

Prime London’s transactions are now the preserve of so-called ‘needs-based buyers’ and not investors according to high-end agency Knight Frank -...

Savills has suggested that it may be time for a fundamental review of what’s left of the flagship policy of Margaret...

Summer is traditionally the time of the year when the property market slows down, with people going away on their holidays...

A new online agency has started charging only 0.75 per cent commission, payable only on completion, with no VAT and no...

There’s been a landslide vote to ban new-build second homes in another tourist hotspot. Some 90 per cent of those who voted...

Purplebricks is expanding its US activities by entering the markets of Las Vegas, Nevada and Phoenix, in the state of Arizona. A...

Whisper it quietly, but it may be that some bosses of online agencies used traditional High Street companies to sell their...

The young entrepreneur behind Doorsteps, the estate agency that deliberately avoids the huge marketing razzamatazz of other online companies, says his...

More stock and longer times on the market are combining to create a surge in asking price reductions according to a...

The pace of change is extraordinary. As we reach the middle of one conversation, rumblings of the next already begin. I think...

The proportion of homes sold in London was lower than any other part of England and Wales last year according to...

What is the biggest challenge in estate agency today? At the risk of sounding flippant, selling houses! It’s a unique industry...

News media in Australia say Purplebricks is the subject of an investigation by a consumer watchdog in the province of Western...

Letting agents are being advised to think seriously about how they can recoup costs to help compensate for the introduction of...

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

Is there really any true value to an estate agent in our current climate? Will there be a role for traditional agents...

Major auction companies continue to claim successes despite the challenging housing market. Auction House says a recent auction of London properties produced...

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

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT - this is the first edition for a fortnight as last Monday was a...

Last time out I looked at the growing importance of content, social media and design – but these should only form...

A recent holiday in the US gave me an opportunity to catch up with property news over there - and surprisingly,...

One of the country’s leading experts on the housing market says first time buyers are still hampered from purchasing homes despite...

The average over-65 homeowner in Britain has seen her or his property wealth gain £159,000 – or £7,000 annually - in...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity - and just because it’s half term, don’t think the industry has...

The housing market has swung back in favour of property sellers, according to the latest data from estate agents. NAEA Propertymark's Housing...

National estate agency Jackson-Stops claims that the 3% stamp duty surcharge on additional homes is still confusing buyers, despite being in...

A housing association has launched its own online agency which offers to sell vendors' homes for £275. Capsel Homes, based in Mamhilad,...

100 years ago, 90% of the UK population rented a home. Today, that figure has flipped, and over two thirds are...

A study of house price affordability has revealed that train drivers can afford a greater proportion of homes in the UK's...

Average property prices fell in all but one English region during March, according to the latest official UK House Price Index. Overall,...

The retirement housing sector has increased its market share considerably in the last two years, creating a 'perfect storm' for estate...

Well last week was interesting. The column about my decision to put the property on with a letting agent went viral.  This was...

Property sellers in Scotland are profiting from buyers' willingness to pay above asking price for a home.  This is according to portal...

Two high street estate agents have used the medium of the local press to come out fighting against the threat of...

Welcome back to Property Jobs Today - EAT's weekly roundup of all the big moves going on in our industry. If you...

Consumer body Which? is warning that those who used the Help To Buy equity loan to purchase their homes could face...

Our industry does great work for good causes not just in this country but around the world, as this week’s Agents...

Akshay Ruparelia, the teenager who set up the Doorsteps online estate agency only 18 months ago, is now reported to be...

A new report suggests Capital Gains Tax changes coming into effect next year are worrying a large majority of wealthy overseas...

That’s it. I’ve given up. The lull has continued and it’s becoming quite a bore.  The price drop hasn’t worked. The revamped...

New data from Haart estate agency suggests that despite many homes sticking on the market, apparently would be buyers are locked...

ZPG shares have rocketed up in value by 30 per cent this morning on the back of a £2.2 billion bid...

House prices in the three months to the end of April were 2.2 per cent higher than in the same period...

London-focussed Buying agency Black Brick has launched a specialist service to cater for divorcing couples. The company - increasingly regarded by some...

There is a lull in my imminent flat sale. Just no activity at all, despite a price reduction!  So, I am forced...

New data from a private bank shows a five per cent rise in the number of £1m-plus homes sold in 2017.  The...

Hello and welcome to our latest chronicle of fund-raising exploits by our industry: the onset of fine weather and the Bank...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Ben Robinson, Director of Agency Services at Landmark What is Landmark...

Several agencies operating under different brand names in south east England have been retitled under just one, called Alexander & Co.  This...

One of the three official redress bodies serving the estate and lettings agency industry has conducted a survey of complaints across...

The massive wealth of owners over 55 has been revealed by a new survey. They own £938 billion of UK housing, a figure...

Theresa May has appointed a controversial former Shelter executive as her new housing policy adviser working in Whitehall. Toby Lloyd was until...

James Brokenshire - yesterday appointed Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government - joins the rank of senior politicians...

An insider in a senior position in Humberts says the weekend announcement that it was in talks with proposed administrators to...

Only one property in every eight sold in the current market succeeds in achieving its asking price - while no fewer than...

Research from the Nationwide suggests that the share of cash transactions has declined over the past 18 months, at least partly...

Figures from the Treasury suggest that the annual revenue from stamp duty for the year to the end of March is...

Online estate agency House Network claims that “the percentage of houses sold at the original valuation price is 98 per cent”.  The...

Leading housing analyst Kate Faulkner says the current low transaction level is “a little scary” because with so few sellers, buyers...

New figures from Hometrack show that a typical home in Greater London now takes 17 weeks to find a buyer -...

Four estate agencies have opened new branches, either as a result of expansion or because of acquisitions. Homes4u has opened a futuristic...

Hybrid agency Emoov is now offering a tailored sales package aimed at attracting developers listing and selling new homes. Rather than paying...

A flat in Brixton is being raffled for £5 a ticket by a start-up entrepreneur who claims this is just the...

Maplin, Toys R Us, Carpetright, Warren Evans – what do they have in common? All are well-known high street chains that...

The assessment by an investment consultancy that Purplebricks sells some 76 per cent of the homes it lists may have made...

There has been a big rise in activity in the equity release market based on data from the first quarter of...

Estate agent licensing will reduce competition, make buying and selling homes more expensive, and add another layer of red tape to...

Purplebricks has returned to the fray after recent controversies with a claim that home owners saved themselves over £140m in commission...

‘Respect’ is the new mantra for politicians: whether it’s about street gang leaders, social media trolls or those on either side...

There were 43 per cent more new properties listed for sale than in the same month last year according to online...

The proportion of first time buyers in the market is still 11 per cent below the level seen before the 2008...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today, our regular Monday look at key moves inside our industry. Everyone mentioned here...

Just like that, the Easter Bank Holiday has come and gone and I find myself now looking ahead to the Summer.  The...

Barclays is next week launching a so-called ‘green mortgage’ which links the loan to the Energy Performance Certificate rating of the...

Statistics published for the Annual Tax for Enveloped Dwellings show that the government appears to be succeeding in its  bid to...

The Treasury Select Committee of MPs has announced an inquiry into ‘economic crime’ - including the possibility that overseas-owned UK homes could be...

At any given moment it’s difficult to say which issue dominates our marketplace, but I think it’s fair to acknowledge during...

Holiday home sales in one of the country’s most popular tourist destinations are holding up, despite stamp duty and the age...

Last week, a story was published by CNBC about a couple who sold their home, for above the asking price, without...

For part two of the 'Day in the life of' series, I spoke to Peter Kavanagh, who first joined Romans in...

One day, I’ll sit down to write for Estate Agent Today and I won’t express my dismay at the lack of...

A property technology analyst has floated the idea that portals could become eclipsed by powerful alternatives such as Google, triggered by...

HM Revenue and Customs has won a key ruling concerning a tax avoidance scheme promoter which claimed to be able to...

Smart sensors, and smart technology as a whole, are enjoying a period of accelerated innovation and adoption.  It’s my opinion that such...

London has 585 one bed flats on the market at £1m or more according to research by online agency HouseSimple.  HouseSimple says...

Average asking price of newly-marketed property have jumped 1.5 per cent - or over £4,500 - in the past month, says...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today, our regular Monday look at key moves inside our industry. Everyone here simply...

Estate agency Jackson-Stops says it has discovered precisely how many existing home owners understand the difficulties facing first time buyers in...

A survey by consumer body Which? suggests askng prices and agents' fees are the most significant factors considered by a vendor choosing an...

  Chancellor Phillip Hammond claims over 60,000 first time buyers have already benefitted from the stamp duty relief he announced at his...

Average house prices rose 0.5 per cent in February, making it the biggest rise in five months according to the latest...

Ombudsman Services, which recently announced it was quitting its role as one of three approved redress schemes for estate and lettings...

The Ernst & Young ITEM Club - a group of economists highly regarded by politicians and some sectors of the property...

There has been a 19.9 per cent increase in new property listings, with some locations seeing as many as 80 per...

Thanks very much to everyone getting in touch to publicise their efforts for good causes: we’re always delighted to help. Just let...

House prices in the UK have suffered their first quarterly fall in almost a year - but strong transaction totals suggest...

An estate agent and former chairman of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says the government’s latest drive to build new...

The operation of ‘online estate agencies’ has changed substantially in the relatively short few years of their existence: I have spotted...

Collars up, gloves on, scarves pulled tight...it’s so cold you can hardly concentrate on work let alone anything else. But the...

London estate agency chain Dexters is expanding its brand once again thanks to a new partnership with Stirling Ackroyd New Homes.  Dexters...

A former president of the National Association of Estate Agents has attacked “irresponsible agents” for over-valuing asking prices in London in...

Land and investment deals achieved by Connells Group in 2017 will add a further 2,750 units to its new homes pipeline,...

The death of traditional TV – where viewers sit down together to watch shows at defined times – has been much...

In the great swathe of housing market data which is delivered each month, conveyancers’ case volumes often get overlooked, however the...

The UK property sector has been a hotbed for financial crime in recent years, with many criminals seeing it as an...

Rightmove has reported another very large leap in revenue in 2017 and a modest rise in agency and new home customers...

The well-respected buying agency Black Brick has revealed the scale of discounts it secures on prime properties being sold for different...

The fast-diversifying Humberts has set up regional hubs to handle its new homes and land division, in addition to taking on...

Three councils are encouraging local residents to sign a new register which aims to bring more quality homes for sale to...

Scottish portal s1homes.com has reported that the average property in Scotland sold for £10,000 higher than its asking price during the...

Hello and welcome to the latest Property Jobs Today, our round-up each Monday of key job moves within estate and letting...

The government has launched a surprise consultation on the creation of a new redress system for customers of agents and others...

The other day I met with two agents who have 30 years of property sales experience between them, and yet also...

At the start of February, Nationwide suggested that the housing market was picking up. Last week, RICS reported on its continued...

A lengthy analysis of the online agency sector, based on material supplied by an online agent, suggests that its market share...

City broker Jefferies is warning that Countrywide’s earnings as calculated through the EBITDA measure could drop to as little as £50m -...

The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled on another complaint lodged about Purplebricks. Although the latest appears minor it adds to a lengthy list...

Despite a string of property pundits suggesting the market is slowing down, new figures from the Office for National Statistics show...

Traditional solicitor estate agents north of the border have a higher success rate than any other estate agency model. The claim comes, perhaps...

This week I carry out a question and answer session with one of the most high-profile names in property. Isobel Thomson has...

Connells Group - which includes Connells, Sequence and other brands - says it recorded over 9,000 new homes sales in 2017. This...

A range of factors - including fierce competition under the supplied housing market, rising property prices and political uncertainty – have...

MPs will next month debate a Bill which aims to have the energy efficiency of all UK homes brought up to...

I had an interesting meeting last week with a VR company called Garou. Based in New York, they claim to have...

Former estate agent Nick Ferrand has gone public with a new website which says home owners decide when and to whom...

Right To Buy is unsustainable without local councils being given the right to set discounts for their areas and replacing every...

It’s probably unwise to write too much about politics these days. The most fanciful predictions turn out to be less wild...

Purplebricks has this morning issued an unusual statement to the Stock Exchange blaming a City report for the sharp fall in the...

An analysis of one month’s listings on Purplebricks by City consultancy Jefferies concludes that it sold 51.6 per cent of its...

Q. How did you get in to the property industry? My career in the property industry actually started out as a holiday...

Demand for homes fell by 20 per cent year-on-year in December. There were 268 prospective home-owners registered per NAEA member branch, down...

Homes for sale in some parts of inner London are seeing price discounts of up to 10 per cent says Hometrack...

Hello and welcome to our first Property Jobs Today, a weekly round-up of key job moves within estate and letting agencies...

A former director at London agency Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward has taken a swipe at agencies that have made knee-jerk changes...

In recent years January has become the month of detoxes, fad diets, health kicks such as Dry January and Veganuary, and...

A partner at Carter Jonas says that the next 12 months could see stagnation in the market and as a result...

The latest release of data from the English Housing Survey reveals that the number of under-45s owning their own homes has...

Foxtons has this morning given details of a sharp fall in both profits and revenue, wirth sales significantly falling away and...

Home owners seeking lease extensions may now have to pay more as a result of a controversial judgement handed down by...

Purplebricks has this morning announced it’s to launch in New York. A statement to the London Stock Exchange this morning read: The...

The number of transactions last year dropped to 1.22m - a minor 0.8 per cent drop on the year before and...

A set of figures produced by Haart suggests the market has had a difficult past 12 months - but the firm...

According to The Branding Journal, a brand is “a name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one seller's...

US bank J P Morgan has predicted that Purplebricks, which it says now has around six per cent of advertised homes...

New research from the National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Letting Agents reveals that no fewer than...

  A new league table showing how long it takes homes to sell on average in different postcodes across England and Wales...

Hunters is partnering with a PropTech firm to allow homes on the market and still awaiting buyers to be short-let for...

The number of owners selling up and moving home is at its highest level since 2007 with one exception - London.  The...

Virtual Staging is about presenting a property in the most appealing way to potential buyers. Many consider virtual staging is deceiving...

The Court of Appeal is today expected to rule on a legal battle which may be critical in determining the value...

In a sign of how technology has become a mainstream part of the house sales process. the consumer group Which? has...

New analysis by credit and comparison service Totally Money has revealed the districts where the controversial Help To Buy initiative is...

Labour MP Chris Williamson, regarded as an ally of party leader Jeremy Corbyn, is suggesting that high-value homes in England should...