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

Everyone thought John Bercow was short. It probably didn’t help that I was on stage just before him. 5ft 6 versus...

In the latest part of the Natter’s ‘day in the life of’ series, I catch up with Chris Osmond, sales director...

House prices increased 0.5 per cent in November, which was the strongest monthly rise since April according to the Nationwide.  However, annual...

If you haven’t noticed, it’s November already - a month where it’s increasingly popular for men to grow moustaches for charity....

Hello and welcome to a new week - one with darker evenings and colder days. But there is still plenty of activity...

News broke last weekend of a further online estate agency casualty as letting agent Upad announced on its website that it...

A London agent is urging rivals to provide realistic valuations, even if vendors want more and despite temptations to over-value to...

England rugby fans will have been disappointed to find out that Saturday's planned World Cup group stage clash with France in...

Welcome back to Property Jobs Today - your Monday roundup of all the latest employment news from the industry. If you have...

Countrywide says London agency Greene & Co, acquired back in May 2015, will become ‘fully immersed’ into its Hamptons International brand...

A north of England estate agency is marking its 160th anniversary with the pledge to announce an acquisition by the end...

We daren’t mention it but this is the final Bank Holiday before…well, Christmas.  Let’s hope agents and suppliers have an opportunity to...

A property company chief has been banned from being involved in any company for five years following a case involving over...

With the often negative portrayal of agents in the media and popular culture, you might ask yourself why anyone would want...

Traditionally speaking, users who are looking to buy, rent, or sell their property to customers on an international basis have been...

In a marketplace as competitive as the property industry, you may think that generating leads is the most important focus for...

The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined a London estate agency £80,000 for leaving 18,610 customers' personal data exposed for almost two years. The security...

Hello and welcome to this latest edition of PJT, your Monday catch-up on all the key appointments news in the industry. Please...

The PropTech era is changing the way in which employees decide where they are going to work. As CBRE has discovered in...

In the last ten years Google's revenue, largely from pay per click ads (Adwords), has grown by 527% (Source: Statista). In...

Britain lives in fundamentalist black-and-white times - all the more surprising when the country's most divisive point of contention sits on...

It’s London Tech Week, everybody! The sprawling city-wide event taking in dozens of conferences, events, workshops, panel debates and so on,...

Hello there and we’re at the start of another Bank Holiday weekend - but no rest for you lot, working hard...

One of the capital’s most outspoken estate agents at the upper end of the market has given eye-watering statistics to show...

The owner of a home for sale has complained to the Advertising Standards Authority after seeing it marketed on Zoopla -...

Virtual tours are a compelling way of enhancing a property’s potential through online marketing, increased transparency and efficiency for agents, and...

Four high-profile industry figures have sent an open letter urging agents to think about what they call “smarter marketing” in a...

A survey by the Centre for Ageing Better recently showed that 72% of people want to see every new home built...

Instagram (or, as the younger generation would have it, Insta) is, by any measure, massive.  Only launched in October 2010, it’s a...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, your regular catch-up on key appointments news in our industry. It’s been a difficult seven...

Another year is nearly done – and what an eventful year it’s been. We’ve had more than our fair share of breaking...

The Guardian is this morning reporting that “a major estate agent” has been accused of involvement in corruption with the house...

Photos and floor plans remain an essential tool in property marketing. Despite a wealth of choice from aspiring UK PropTech start-ups the...

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

London agency chain Portico has signed up to OnTheMarket.  The 17 branch firm, which handles both sales and lettings, has offices in...

You don’t need EAT to remind you that Christmas is now just next month.  Many agents are gearing their fund-raising to that...

Fewer than 15 per cent of owners go on to sell their home with the same agency they bought it through,...

No, I haven’t lost the plot. Such a thing exists – and if you’re familiar with North London, there is a...

It’s been nine years since we created a dedicated team of property receptionists to answer telephone calls on behalf of agents,...

When Professor Andrew Baum’s PropTech 3.0 report was first published, a small event was held to celebrate the very first academic...

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

I am a patient man; a pacifist. Yet there is little in life right now that would satisfy me more than...

Peter Long, the chairman of the troubled Royal Mail organisation, has stepped down from that role to focus full time on...

Bank of England governor Mark Carney says a no-deal Brexit exit could lead to a 35 per cent house price crash. The...

I received a press release yesterday - one of many that get sent my way - and, as I always do,...

There’s been another call for the government to reform stamp duty - and this time the request is that the duty...

Next week ludlowthompson celebrates its 25th anniversary. Here, I catch up with Stephen Ludlow, co-founder and now executive director of the...

The redress scheme which formally quit the housing sector admits some estate agencies may have missed its deadline - and are thus...

With the weather scheduled to get a little cooler this weekend, fund-raising is clearly still a hot topic in the industry...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - which replaces the Data Protection Act 1998 - has now become effective and is...

It’s being suggested that Countrywide’s rights issue, previously expected to be announced this week, may now be delayed. The Times says the...

It’s holiday season shortly and we’ve got just the weather for it - good news for some, perhaps less so for...

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

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - which replaces the Data Protection Act 1998 - has now become effective and is...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - which replaces the Data Protection Act 1998 - has now become effective and is...

Major online agencies appear to be unaffected by yesterday’s Supreme Court decision over workers' rights in the so-called 'gig economy'.  Yesterday’s case concerned...

Over 100 ‘top achievers’ from Connells Group have just enjoyed an all-expenses paid trip to New York as a thank you...

Firstly, my sincere apologies - it has now been over a month since my last PropTech blog, doesn’t time fly!  In the...

Coming into force on May 25, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - which replaces the Data Protection Act 1998 -...

Purplebricks is reported to have hired a new advertising agency to handle a “multi million pound” media campaign. The advertising industry weekly...

Hello and welcome to this week’s celebration of the industry’s fund-raising activities. Remember it’s easy to get publicity and additional support for...

Coming into force on May 25, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - which replaces the Data Protection Act 1998 -...

Coming into force on May 25, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - which replaces the Data Protection Act 1998 -...

Purplebricks’ finance chief Matthew Farrow is reported to have left the company to join IT and cloud communications company Timico. Just over...

Coming into force on May 25, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - which replaces the Data Protection Act 1998 -...

Coming into force on May 25, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - which replaces the Data Protection Act 1998 -...

An estate agent has been jailed for 18 months after he took out £30,000 worth of loans in the name of...

Coming into force on May 25, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - which replaces the Data Protection Act 1998 -...

Coming into force on May 25, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - which replaces the Data Protection Act 1998 -...

London agency Portico has been warned that if there is a repeat of issues concerning its listings on portals, it may...

Coming into force on May 25, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - which replaces the Data Protection Act 1998 -...

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

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

easyProperty is to sponsor some of the most iconic property programmes on TV from January 1. It will sponsor Sun, Sea, and...

The man behind a PropTech company has blasted Rightmove and Zoopla for failing to emphasise 360-degree virtual tours - the feature recently...

As we hurtle towards the end of 2017, it’s time to reflect on the year that’s just been.   Even better, this property-based...

The rise of Airbnb has been majestic, going all the way from conception to becoming a common noun in less than...

Winter really is the time for fund-raising - and thanks for letting us know exactly what you are up to to...

It’s been a big week for property news - controversies surrounding Purplebricks, merger discussions between big franchise operators, and another government...

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

Investors from countries as diverse as South Africa and Russia are getting a 21 per cent discount on UK property according...

It’s been quite a week, much of it concerning the technology that increasingly underpins our industry.  A glut of fund-raising and relaunching...

Are you protecting your data right? This may sound like the sort of direct warning you get from cold callers or...

Property has been changing hands for centuries, but when did estate agents as we know them today – with their branches,...

For the second time in two weeks, experts are warning that new data protection laws could seriously disrupt the agency industry...

Wimbledon finals and the British Grand Prix await us this weekend and The Open begins a few days later, completing what...

Facebook has finally released more details about its previously announced plans to build 1,500 homes, 30 miles south of San Francisco,...

Estate and letting agents are being urged to prepare for new data protection legislation coming into effect next year - but...

It’s the morning after the festival before for the 150,000 estimated revellers who enjoyed the Glastonbury Festival which drew to a...

The Queen’s speech to the British parliament this week was a scaled-back affair, which was unsurprising given the Grenfell Tower fire,...

It was only a couple of weeks ago that I was writing about the Google City, in Toronto, and now the...

International agency brand Fine & Country has announced the opening of its 12th Portuguese office. The global network, which now has agents...

June marks the start of what professional weather folk call summer - and even if the temperatures are a little variable,...

A website now marketing 380,000 homes from 900 agents across the world has struck a deal with an international property referral...

Google, under the command of parent company, Alphabet, has set its sights on building the world’s first digital city, in Toronto,...

Over 100 so-called Top Achievers from across Connells Group’s Sequence and Connells estate agencies have been taken by the company on...

Given that around 95% of property searches now start online, it is more important than ever that an agent has an...

East London estate agency Spencers is today being rebranded as Portico. The seven-branch network - which also trades as Phillip Leigh -...

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

Belvoir is continuing with its strategy of selling off its corporate offices, with a new franchisee just completing on the purchase...

A London estate agency’s analysis of the latest Land Registry data suggests transactions in the capital are the lowest ever recorded.  Land...

Being featured in newspapers, magazines and websites, as well as on radio and TV, can be a great way to build...

The aftermath of Easter and shock announcement of a snap General Election have done little to stop the industry making plenty...

This actually happened - the names of the guilty have been withheld to protect the innocent. I live in Spain, Marbella actually,...

It’s never more obvious how important good communication is for letting agents than in times of bad weather. Havoc caused by...

It’s peak business season for many agents right now and yet they still have time to do good work for charities...

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

The Advertising Standards Authority has given the green light to an circular which provoked complaints suggesting it deliberately did not appear...

The triggering of Article 50 may have been regarded as a historic event but it appears to have left the housing...

Purplebricks has agreed to remove a claim from its website that “on average it takes us just 14 days to find...

It seems prop-tech is exploding at a scary rate, and the latest brands are all trying to grab our attention by...

Annoying isn’t it. You take on a stunning property, agree a compelling asking price and your Vendor is desperate to get the...

Sales in Prime Central London were down 21 per cent in the year to December according to investment consultancy London Central...

The East of England, which takes in areas from Hertfordshire to Norfolk, has recorded the biggest hike in property prices over...

Following the election of Donald Trump, there has been a rise in the number of United States investors searching for property...

An inquest has ruled that the death of an estate agent was caused by shock or dry-drowning. Twenty-eight-year-old Daniel Hutton died last...

No longer just a domain for investors, developers and property traders, the auction room is now the preferred option of buying...

One of the key factors associated with an active private rental market in the UK, as detailed in the Dataloft PRS...

Your terrific Christmas pictures continue to drop like snowflakes - thanks very much to everyone who has contributed to our daily...

Prominent top end London estate agent Trevor Abrahmsohn says some homes in the higher levels of the market may now have...

Transaction volumes across all of London are 48 per cent lower than they were a year ago, claims an estate agency...

Bonfire Night is upon us but the brightest lights this weekend are those from our industry tirelessly working for good causes. As ever, those...

Knight Frank has launched its 30th London residential office having opened the doors of its new branch in Victoria.  The agency says...

Property portal Rightmove has revealed its new logo to estate and letting agents ahead of its official launch in December. The portal...

The key lies in improving your customer experience through technology For Agents, the tremendous growth in online estate agents highlights a strong...

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...

It’s easy to forget, but there was a time when the internet didn’t exist. When the idea behind the world wide...

What is Properstar? Properstar helps UK estate agents cross the chasm from local to global in respect of advertising their properties. Using...

Paying too much every month for your website? Move your website to us and we guarantee to halve your monthly bill I want...

Settled, which was set up in 2015 and earlier this year announced it was hunting for an additional £1m in funding,...

With a number of agent partner programmes available nationwide, estate agents can often increase business by offering sales by auction, especially...

With the new Formula One season now well underway, we delve into the fast lane to take you on a whirlwind...

There’s been a glut of fundraising events surrounding the 90th birthday celebrations for HM The Queen - and we salute those...

It’s the news that has got everyone talking: Barclays are bringing back the 100% mortgage.  The market has taken a bit of...

Here are the top letting agents in Britain who go above and beyond to help their customers, as voted for by...

Portico has acquired all eight branches of east London agency Spencers, bringing the total offices in the expanded group to 20. Spencers,...

We’re used to agents in the provinces having to initiate incentives to attract vendors but the state of the high-end London...

Agents' boards get a lot of stick. Many see them as stains on the landscape, some see them as useless in...

Research from a residential investment consultancy throws light on the extraordinary large pipeline of new homes to be built in central London,...

There are to be significant increases in council tax paid by the owners of the most expensive homes across Scotland, in...

Shelter has been tirelessly campaigning for longer tenancies for the last few years.  The charity has led the case for change and...

The amount of column inches taken up by ‘property’ is at an all-time high.  In my mind there are two major contributing...

SearchFlow’s rebrand and positioning as the specialist in ‘property intelligence’ is a response to new technological advancements and the changing market...

This week, SearchFlow launches it new brand. Group Marketing and Communications Director, Maud Rousseau discusses the ethos behind the new brand...

Do you remember Martha Lane-Fox? She was the poster girl for lastminute.com and an icon of the dot.com bubble that ended...

Let Mid West Displays get your window in shape! Never underestimate the power of high street presence. Image is everything, and what...

Online estate agent Purplebricks has now completed its pre-Christmas IPO with shares initially valued at £240m. It’s the latest news that...

A survey of 2,000 existing and former house sellers in London suggests that relatively few regard the age and history of...

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

Last week, on the latest series of The Apprentice, Lord Sugar threw his teams into the London property market.  As expected, Twitter...

An interesting story caught my eye a few weeks ago. A man from Lytham St Annes in Lancashire attempted to sell...

An estate agency claims there is a “contagion” spreading across the prime London housing market with sales reduced drastically thanks to...

Three prisoners have been convicted of a prison attack on Jeremy Green, the former army lieutenant jailed for life for the...

A TV property show presenter and an estate agent's wife have reportedly been involved in a lurid fight that started with...

Readers of Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today were given an exclusive opportunity to pose questions to Zoopla Property Group...

We’ve enjoyed a bit of an Indian summer this week. Not sure it makes up for one of the coldest and...

The website of Country Life, the iconic rural pursuits magazine, is using OnTheMarket to provide its property search tool. The magazine -...

An estate agent has been nominated for a national award as result of his local campaigning to help rebuild play equipment...

IT’S often said that the secret of a happy and thriving business is one in which every single employee is the...

A jealous estate agent has been jailed for two months after dousing the bed of his ex-partner with diesel fuel and...

THE UK housing market is reported to be picking up according to figures this month from the Council of Mortgage Lenders...

An estate agent that reportedly left a client’s passport and tax information in the street over 18 months ago has been...

eMoov boss Russell Quirk and a senior member of his management team have been targeted in a fraud scam.  Yesterday morning the...

Everywhere we look there’s talk of the high numbers of agents clambering for our attention on the crowded high street. So...

Despite it being a short working week, we have once again been inundated with stories of estate and letting agents’ charity...

It’s New Year – time for all those resolutions and good intentions. It’s a great time for all property professionals to...

ESTATE AGENTS are still missing too many tricks when it comes to one of the most important elements of their business...

With another hung parliament looking increasingly likely, the so-called ‘challenger parties’ look set to have a major say in who forms...