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Five years ago, Lettings expert, Tim Lawler, wrote an article for Estate Agent Today charting his early experiences of setting up...

Agency brands Knight Frank and Savills are among 12 of the largest real estate consultancies in the UK behind a new...

Estate agency has changed. No longer is it required to sit in a high street office working the old way. Provide a...

The term mixed-tenure development usually refers to residential developments where different residential tenures are provided on the same site. Typically, tenure was...

Independent agency brand Pat Robson & Co is celebrating 25 years of residential sales, lettings and property management. Tim Nixon launched the...

Hamptons’ head of London private office has questioned why video has not become more widely-used in listings as he suggests more...

The managing director of Essex-based agent Lamb & Co has designed his own gin that will be part of moving-in packs...

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

Agents are marking a record breaking 2022 for fundraising and are hoping to attract more funds for charitable causes during the...

A plethora of property professionals are ending the year with new jobs. If you want your jobs or appointments news to feature...

Trade body Propertymark has revealed that it has opened compliance cases against a small number of members following the latest HMRC...

Estate agents selling rural homes have been urged to provide better levels of upfront information regarding homes in the countryside that...

Some people will say: What problem? But they are getting fewer as the detrimental effect of increasing numbers of short lets on...

Double-think, for those who have not read George Orwell, is when people are expected to accept two conflicting beliefs as truth,...

PropertyHeads has relaunched its valuation and insights tool as Mouseprice Pro in the UK after a period of major investment and...

London accounted for almost half of million-pound plus property sales over the past 12 months but the most active borough at...

If you are an easily offended Frankie Valli fan, look away now. A regional agent that was rapped by the Advertising Standards...

An estate agent has hit back at the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) after the watchdog banned a poster advertising the firm’s...

A new analysis has revealed those areas of England and Wales with the largest numbers of Russian-owned homes. Credas Technologies analysed Land...

An estate agency has revealed which London boroughs have been the busiest in terms of the number of homes sold as...

In this article, the team at Lifesycle outline why agents are increasingly turning to their CRM. Unless you have been living under...

TV property celebrity Amanda Lamb has revealed the winners of the 2021 allAgents customer experience awards. They were announced at the awards’...

Hello and welcome to a new week - and even as Christmas approaches there remains plenty to report about people moving...

A part of the Connells Group is telling the new Housing Secretary that he and his government “must do more” to...

TV property personality Amanda Lamb has been named as the presenter of the first ever allAgents Annual Customer Experience Awards in...

By the time I next write this column, we’ll be just days before the next Budget and Autumn Statement. So I’ll...

Hello and welcome to our final Property Jobs Today before the start of autumn - and it’s good to see people...

New research suggests that the number of owners enquiring to sell across Greater London has increased by 68 per cent since...

Price renegotiations are underway between buyers and sellers in danger of missing Wednesday’s stamp duty holiday deadline, says Knight Frank. The agency...

Hello and welcome to the latest Property Jobs Today, your chance to catch up with who’s on the move. Let us know...

Independent agents come in all shapes, sizes and looks, many with their own USPs and little quirks. It is this variety...

The Grenfell Tower disaster in June 2017 exposed the dangers of inflammable cladding on residential tower blocks, and what has come...

A family is appealing for help in tracing the whereabouts of a motorhome stolen from outside their house at Whitstable in Kent...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Jack Reid Founding Director of Orlando Reid  In your experience,...

At the back-end of last year and the start of this, the biggest news stories in town – besides debates over...

With the Government announcement this week of another national lockdown across England amid the surging coronavirus infections, it once again puts...

Delays with the return of property searches is one key factor for sales taking longer to complete. As conveyancers start to warn...

New research attempts for the first time to identify the most lucrative property markets in the country - with surprising results...

It’s been an unexpected year for the property market, shaped by the effects of the pandemic. We didn’t quite anticipate the...

Hindsight is 20-20 vision, of course, and we can all see things we did ‘then’ that we would not do ‘now’....

One of Countrywide’s biggest shareholders has written a second letter to the company to demand bold action to save the agency...

Is Countrywide finally on the road to recovery? Its share price has risen 125 per cent in the past three months; much of...

Savills has held its fourth remote auction, raising some £32m with an 82 per cent success rate - making it the...

The hunt is on for a new boss of Countrywide according to news reports. Sky News says the company has recruited professional...

An investment manager who has a 7.8 per cent stake in Countrywide, is warning that the agency group may not survive...

There appears to have been a small shareholder rebellion at Countrywide’s annual general meeting over the company’s remuneration of senior management. No...

Troubled estate agency group Countrywide has invited shareholders to submit questions to the company ahead of its AGM later this month. Countrywide...

Countrywide says it is pursuing the businessman who failed to complete on the purchase of the troubled agency’s commercial arm, Lambert...

The founder of OnTheMarket has revealed why the portal floated on the stock market and why Ian Springett was the right...

New temporary rules have thrown a lifeline to troubled agencies like Countrywide and Purplebricks which may need to raise additional funds...

Countrywide’s share price fell by as much as 17 per cent at one point yesterday afternoon as investors assessed the latest...

Countrywide has revealed a major hold-up in its supposedly "vital" sale of its commercial arm - and it is now seeking...

LSL Property Services says the Coronavirus crisis has led to a softening of "lead sales indicators" - and it warns of...

It’s been revealed that under takeover rules, LSL Property Services and Countrywide have until March 23 to make merger or takeover...

Countrywide is remaining silent over the stalled sale of its commercial arm. The troubled agency group’s share price dropped over 3.5 per...

Countrywide is declining to explain why due diligence on the sale of its commercial arm did not catch a problem which...

The mystery of why Countrywide’s crucial sale of its commercial arm has failed to go through as scheduled deepened over the...

Countrywide has revealed a mysterious delay in the sale of its commercial arm, Lambert Smith Hampton - a sale considered crucial for the...

HM Land Registry appears to be making painfully slow progress on digitising land charge search data - contrary to its earlier...

In six years of editing Estate Agent Today, some of my most dramatic moments have been covering the troubles - some...

Countrywide's senior management has won overwhelming backing from shareholders for its strategy of selling its commercial arm and consoliating its shares. Today's...

Countrywide's senior management has won overwhelming backing from shareholders for its strategy of selling its commercial arm and consoliating its shares.         Earlier...

Countrywide has this morning revealed that its special general meeting of shareholders to agree the sale of its commercial arm will...

Countrywide says it is constantly keeping its current branch structure under review, saying any responsible agency would have to consider the...

Cash-strapped Countrywide has this morning announced that it is selling its commercial business, Lambert Smith Hampton, for £38m. In a surprise statement...

A PropTech company that monitors search times for transactions says only just over two thirds of them are now completed in...

Data from an agency comparison website reveals that in the current market it takes well over a year for a home...

Some homes in the UK are now worth 44 per cent less than they were a decade ago, claims the estate...

Hello and welcome to PJT, breaking you in to the working week every Monday with news of the movers and shakers...

Countrywide has told Estate Agent Today that it will not be releasing any figures on the branch closure programme it introduced...

A new global free-to-list property portal says it has secured 800 new property enquiries for estate agents in the last four...

Two Countrywide brands have joined forces to launch Airspace Exchange – a service to push the idea of constructing homes and...

The free-to-list property portal Residential People says it now has over 740 independent agents in the UK on board - and...

The head of EweMove, the hybrid agency operated by The Property Franchise Group, says he applied for the top job in...

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of Property Jobs Today - the Monday slot where you can catch up with...

Sharp-witted marketing advisers for Marsh & Parsons have done it again with a clever poster and social media campaign to mark...

One of my biggest concerns in all of my writing, speaking and influencing around PropTech is that for the people we...

An expert who has invested in an online agency in the past has slammed Purplebricks’ business model. James Max, who presents the...

New free-to-list portals Residential People and Commercial People are aiming to secure one million property listings by Q4 2019. The portals -...

The recent ARLA Propertymark conference featured a hugely interesting line-up of speaks and session during a watershed time for the lettings...

Countrywide’s executive chairman and group managing director have spoken to Estate Agent Today about the impact of Brexit on the company,...

Competition for landlords will be fiercer than ever this year. Landlords are facing a raft of changes and will likely be...

Research by comparison website Netanagent claims the commission paid to estate agents in London could be over £70,000 depending on where...

Amidst all the Brexit chaos let’s remember that it’s Children In Need day...always a time when Britons’ generosity raises the spirits,...

Given that ‘UK buyers are the most digitally active home hunters’, with HSBC’s Beyond the Bricks report stating that 90% of...

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

The newly-appointed Group Managing Director of Countrywide says rumours of Hamptons International or other ‘crown jewels’ being put up for sale...

HM Land Registry calculates that 125,000 buyers will benefit from just the first phase of its digitisation programme for Local Land...

Automated search companies have heaped praise on HM Land Registry following the digitisation of local land charge data - the LLC1...

One of Countrywide’s former allies in the City broker community - independent corporate advisor Numis - has downgraded the troubled agency...

The rise and fall - and perhaps rise again - of Countrywide has been of enduring interest to the agency industry...

It’s London Marathon weekend and it’s set to be hot, hot, hot for those agents and other brave industry folk running...

Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity - it’s a bumper edition with plenty of fantastic fund-raising going...

In an exclusive and candid interview with Estate Agent Today, Countrywide chairman Peter Long has admitted that the company had been...

HM Land Registry has taken another step towards its aim to “make conveyancing simpler, faster and cheaper” for the general public. The...

Welcome to 2018 and if your charitable activities are an indicator, it’s going to be a busy year with plenty happening...

Let’s face it - summer seems to be on holiday itself, if the weather in the UK is anything to go...

Speculation is growing over whether figures to be released by Countrywide on Thursday may prompt another fall in the troubled company’s...

Reports in the commercial property industry publication Property Week suggest there may be difficulties concerning the sale of Countrywide’s commercial operation,...

Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his first Budget this week pledging extra funding for the NHS, transport in the Midlands and the...