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Martin & Co’s Tonbridge office has a new owner. Chatham-born Stephen Castellani has taken the reins from Robert Gordon-James and his wife...

Dexters has entered the Asian property market with the acquisition of LiFE Residential. The deal strengthens Dexters position in London and also...

UK estate agents are paid one of the lowest commission rates in the world, according to a spokesperson for a leading...

A London-focussed agency is today launching a recruitment drive for 12 new team members as part of what it calls ”an...

Property consultancy JLL has rebranded its residential China division to the APAC Desk. JLL’s residential China Desk was established in 2012 when...

There are no signs of a post-summer lull in the property jobs market. Here are some of the latest moves that took...

A leading surveyor in London says the likely introduction of a register of overseas property ownership and sanctions making it difficult...

Prime Central London’s attraction to multi-millionaire and billionaire buyers appears to have soared during the pandemic. High end agency Beauchamp Estates says...

Tomorrow sees the Relocation Agent Network’s first in-person conference since 2019.   The event, at the Metropole Hilton in Birmingham, will focus...

Relocation Agent Network, the network of primarily independent agencies, says it’s looking at global options for growth thanks to its relationship...

A new league table of earnings by estate agents, based on basic salary and commission combined, suggests that UK agents earn...

The UK’s biggest property auctioneer is considering whether to bring its sales back into the auction room in the near future. Managing...

London’s housing market may be distinctly lacklustre compared to much of the rest of the UK right now but one development...

New research shows that UK estate agents are amongst the best value in the world. Using data from the Global Property Guide...

London agency Benham and Reeves says a new analysis it’s conducted of the capital’s property market since last summer shows a...

A prominent London agency says today’s new two per cent stamp duty surcharge imposed on most overseas buyers will not dampen...

The Sunday Times has made new and detailed allegations regarding the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. For some weeks the newspaper has...

London’s largest independent estate agency, Dexters, suggests that the stamp duty holiday ending in 12 weeks time will have relatively little...

London’s properties are “over-valued” according to a leading bank. UBS, which has what it calls a Global Real Estate Bubble Index, says...

New research suggests that British estate agents charge some of the lowest fees in the world. Based on an apparent British average...

The stamp duty holiday running until March next year has triggered a surge in interest in UK property from Hong Kong...

The number of Hong Kong buyers looking at property in London has doubled in just five weeks according to an agency...

Government figures show the 218,975 properties within Greater London have Chinese owners - and two agents say there will be more...

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

One of prime central London’s most respected estate agencies is warning that it could take until spring 2021 for the luxury...

The advantage given to overseas buyers when Sterling weakened during the long-running Brexit saga has returned with the arrival of the...

A high profile and widely-respected estate agent is predicting a huge demographic change to one of the country’s wealthiest enclaves -...

Savills says the decisive General Election result appears to have suddenly turned the market around and gave “a strong close to...

A sales agency based in Warrington and set up originally to market new homes in Manchester is now expanding into Shanghai...

High end London estate agency Aston Chase says there’s already been a surge in interest in property in the UK capital...

Knight Frank appears to have shrugged off the problems hitting the high end of the housing market, reporting a 14 per...

London has been identified as one of a number of ‘bubble risk cities’ in a report by Swiss bank UBS. In a...

London estate agency Kay & Co says it is targeting Chinese buyers following research data produced by a portal. The China property...

Savills has reported good figures for 2017 although most of its strongest performance was outside the world of residential property. In a...

Last week was MIPIM PropTech Summit 2017 in New York, and it was the most oversubscribed to date - proof of the...

UBS says London's housing market still faces the risk of becoming a bubble - although that risk has marginally eased over...

It’s that time of year again – peak conference/event season. And, while Brexit and a shock snap general election are dominating...

Peter Robinson, CEO of AIPP – Association of International Property Professionals – shines a light onto the international property market. Some UK...

This week I’m lucky enough to be out here in Cannes as a PropTech Ambassador for MIPIM, the international real estate...

We’re used to stories on how the buying and renting of ‘formal’ accommodation - flats and houses - has become increasingly...

Some of the industry’s leading technical experts are this morning launching a new group, the UK PropTech Association, which has already...

1.For those who are not familiar with Properstar yet, how would you summarise your services? Properstar is an online portal that helps...

Fraser & Co is opening a new office in the City of London, despite gloomy reports from other agencies about the...

Some of this week’s headlines - ‘Firms must list foreign workers’ and ‘NHS to no longer rely on foreign doctors’ -...

The importance of overseas buyers in underpinning increasing elements of the capital’s housing market and won support from an unlikely quarter...

The Bow Group - a think-tank that was previously a solid backer of the Tories but has recently flirted with UKIP...

Reports suggest foreign buyers may be losing interest in directly owning property in London and are in some cases increasingly attracted...

High-end agency Savills has announced that it has sold Wentworth Woodhouse - reported to be Britain’s largest residential property - to...

The dramatic slump in the sale of London’s most expensive homes is continuing with one agency claiming that over the past...

Labour leadership front-runner Jeremy Corbyn has suggested a party run by him would consider a ban on the purchase of homes...