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Liz Morrell meets Women in Estate Agency’s co-founder Liana Loporto-Browne Liana Loporto-Browne, managing director of LB Residential, fell in love with the...

North Berwick in East Lothian, has been named the best place to live in the annual Sunday Times Best Places to Live...

As the Group HR Director of LRG – an organisation of over 3,000 employees – and perhaps more importantly, as a...

Propertymark has launched a project to boost LGBTQ+ inclusion in the estate agency sector. The trade body conducted a series of workshops...

The Government’s latest attempt to bolster the property appears to be 1% deposit mortgages. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is reported to be considering...

After a steady increase in mortgage rates, concerns about house prices have been rising too. The Financial Times reported in mid...

Spicerhaart’s HR director has been promoted to the company’s Board after being credited with helping to foster a high-performance culture and...

An estate agency with a major new homes department claims new build sales are proving more resilient than the mainstream market. Leaders...

Prestige and Village, the premium property agency firm, are continuing their drive to recruit more estate agents as part of their...

Purplebricks has seen its status as a so-called ‘superbrand’ decline while Savills remains the most highly-rated agency brand. The Superbrands listings are...

Property seekers can now search for a home through OnTheMarket based on “accessible features.” The portal has introduced a new “accessible features”...

The results are finally in, and to no-one’s surprise Liz Truss has been named the new leader of the Conservative Party...

In this Guides & Tips piece, Brian Murphy, Head of Lending at Mortgage Advice Bureau, offers insight into what rate rises...

A leading property recruitment agency says that flexible working, restructuring pay and offering better benefits and incentives can help agencies across...

The interim chairman of the RICS governing council has vowed to get the beleaguered body in a “good position” for reforms...

A high-profile review of the governance and purpose of the RICS has said the need for change at the institution is...

In this latest ‘Women in Property’ edition of the Natter, I check in with Collette Allen, who was recently appointed as...

An agency has won one of the most prestigious ‘gongs’ of the season - it’s been named Employer of the Year...

Agents are being warned about removing personal data and information from marketing material. Paul Offley, compliance officer at The Guild of Property...

Hello, and we’re at the start of a long weekend - and as the weather (finally) improves, perhaps that’s the opportunity...

In this week’s In Conversation Today, I am delighted to chat with Lucy Morton, Head of Residential Agency at JLL, about...

A new name is to appear at the top of Knight Frank from next spring - and he is charged with bringing...

Mark Hayward, who was scheduled to retire at the end of this month, is to stay on at NAEA Propertymark as...

A leading agency says so-called Covid Clauses are being inserted into contracts as buyers become increasingly cautious ahead of a possible...

Hello and welcome to the last day of January, Brexit Day and - perhaps most importantly - the latest edition of...

The Fifth Money Laundering Directive becomes law in the UK on January 10 2020, strengthening the responsibilities placed on private companies...

The Australian agent is a very different beast to his or her British counterpart - and it’s not just because we...

A new portal has been launched aiming to take on Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket in the retirement property sector - and...

An online estate agency which last week claimed it had resolved a dispute over reviews it showed on its website is...

Fledgling online estate agency Emoov - now owned by PropTech firm Mashroom - has removed reviews and endorsements from its website...

The Australian agent is a very different beast to his or her British counterpart - no surprises there. And it’s not...

It’s another Friday so it’s another Agents Do Charity - of course! It’s August and the height of the holidays but as...

The property industry is making “important strides” towards gender balance according to a new report - and it says more respect...

There’s been another raft of movers and shakers in the industry in recent days, so this is a busy Property Jobs...

There’s nothing new about identifying 10 figures who have helped shape an industry over the past year, but that doesn’t mean...

Does your company apply adequate customer due diligence measures when carrying out estate agency work?  Does it establish and maintain appropriate policies...

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

Estate agents' listings may soon include compulsory information on a location's air quality, the chief executive of NAEA Propertymark, Mark Hayward,...

Speculation has grown that the Conservatives may make a manifesto pledge to remove some family homes’ long-established exemption from Capital Gains...

The extension of Inheritance Tax from April is likely to hinder the recovery of the battered prime central London market according...

The award-winning online agency HouseSimple has had one of its advertisements banned by the Advertising Standards Authority. The advert was a poster for...

One of the most respected City analysts of the changing residential sales industry says Purplebricks’ business model is worth admiring -...

Regional estate agency Matthews of Chester says data provided by Rightmove led to an apparently-misleading advertisement which had to be altered...

George Osborne has been busy over the last year. First came the General Election which had everyone on tenterhooks until the...

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

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned a statement by the estate and letting agency review site raterAgent describing it as the...