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Property demand has halved but the slowdown is focused on the previously popular rural and coastal areas, Zoopla has revealed. Higher mortgage...

There have been plenty of heart-warming examples of agents supporting their local communities and charities this week, from sleep-outs to donations. Whatever...

Agents have managed to secure a buyer two weeks faster for their vendors so far this year compared with in 2021,...

A North West England-based independent agent is marking its 40th anniversary. Independent agent Hackney & Leigh has reached the milestone in the...

Hello and welcome to another Agents Do Charity, the weekly round up of fund-raising in our industry. Once more our thoughts are...

The Nationwide has released data listing the most and least affordable locations in Britain - background information for agents. Some entries are...

Owners of second homes who abuse a tax loophole by claiming their often-empty properties are holiday lets will be forced to...

The Competititon and Markets Authority says it’s to look into reviews on Google and Amazon, and see whether the online giants...

The estate agency industry is besotted with digital canvassing to try to win business - but that’s the wrong approach to take...

The trend of buyers apparently fleeing the city to get more for their money in the country has hit the buffers...

Agents Do Charity - as the summer heat is on… It’s hotting up outside and while this is set to be a...

The Mail Online is running a story on estate agents allegedly breaking the lockdown by conducting physical viewings in recent weeks...

Over the past decade, the short-term rental industry, now eponymised by Airbnb, has experienced meteoric growth. This has been driven by the...

A major regional estate agency is expanding with another physical office because it says the traditional High Street business model delivers...

An estate agency service in the Lake District has rolled out a new benefit to all its staff - and in...

The new managing director of easyProperty claims the hybrid agency will be targeting branch managers and senior negotiators who think they...

Hello and welcome to this latest edition of PJT, your regular weekly column giving all the key appointments news in the...

An agent with over 29 years of experience has taken over as  chief executive officer at Humberts - just as the...

Major regional agency Humberts, which was bought out of administration last year, has announced the first acquisition since its new owners...

An estate agent says he’s “bruised” by recent mysterious negative online reviews he has received - shortly after he posted positive...

Welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today - and as ever we have a breakdown of key moves within our industry. To...

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

There’s a particularly heart-warming theme to Agents Do Charity this week...several of our heroic industry figures are raising funds for children and...

Agents’ charity fundraising obviously spans a wide range of genuinely good causes, but it’s noticeable that at the end of each...

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

Today we’re publishing what we think is our longest-ever list of charitable activities being conducted by agents and their supporters -...

Pole-axed by politics? Bored of ballots? Well, this is where you can escape from pledges, promises and politicians and instead read...

Humberts - until now known as an agency operating predominantly in market towns across southern England - is opening a Mayfair office in...

The property market in northern England, supported in part by the Northern Powerhouse concept, has attracted a lot of media attention,...

If this past year is anything to go by, outsourcing is firmly on the agenda for estate agents. Rather than being...

Humberts, long established as a southern England agency specialising in rural and semi-rural areas, says it is now going to use...

The highest number of second homes in UK local authority areas exist not in the south west, the Lake District or...

The Budget's over, Easter is a week away, and agents are preparing for the busiest time of year - whatever the...

My suspicion in my December Industry Views column that the Chancellor, George Osborne, holds certain types of property owners in contempt...