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If you want to hear of a tale for our industry’s times - featuring housing shortages, planning disputes, rampant  inflation and...

If you’ve paid even scant attention to Landlord Today or other trade titles, you’ll be familiar with the headlines about rogue...

It’s not a sentence that I thought I would be writing, but Housing Secretary Michael Gove has indeed finally done something...

Readers of a certain age may remember 1983. The Space Shuttle Challenger made its first flight, Neil Kinnock was elected Labour leader,...

New year, old worries: what’s happening in the housing market? We’ve asked experts and collated forecasts, 15 in total. On the one...

Is it really just a year ago that we were nervously wondering whether yet another Christmas would be Covid-affected? Little did we...

Here at Angels Media towers, we’re always keen to get the biggest names in the business on board for interviews. And that...

I’ve just read an article saying that this is the time of the online estate agency. The time in question is, of...

Aside from all the news surrounding the Autumn Statement this week, which will have a significant bearing on the property market...

I’ve been on Twitter for a decade and have 23,500 followers - a gratifying number and of those a couple of...

And…breathe. For a while back there, the only certainty for the housing market was uncertainty. That isn’t to say the election of Rishi...

How did the housing market transform from incredibly strong - almost too strong - early in the year, to a situation...

Who would be in the shoes of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng? I don’t mean who would like their power, pay and...

The current period of national solidarity over the death of Queen Elizabeth II has embraced the world of property as it...

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

We are only a fortnight away from having a new Prime Minister, following a contest in which housing has played a...

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

When it comes to housing policy, the Conservative MPs have given their party a choice between Tweedle Dum and Tweedle DumDum. Rishi...

It’s often fashionable to criticise trade bodies and official groups, but right now I think that’s absolutely inappropriate. In well over 20...

This question is not as flippant as it sounds because over recent years the status of the private landlord has taken...

In retrospect, it was perhaps inevitable that the infamous dead cat would come into the debate over government housing targets and...

What a difference two months and some local elections make. Cast your minds back to March 9 and the annual report of...

The property industry is fortunate in including many great people, doing great work across a range of businesses – from traditional agency...

It’s easy to overestimate the importance of something in one’s own industry or work, but there seems good reason for believing...

For the record, this isn’t my last Industry Views for Estate Agent Today, although by the time you read this I'll be...

If you want to sex-up the Chancellor’s financial statement scheduled for lunchtime on Wednesday, you’d call it a Budget or a...

This week, you will have all seen the sad news that Graham Norwood is stepping down as editor of Estate Agent...

Almost exactly a decade ago I wrote a blog on the back of a spate on mainstream news stories about prime...

If the UK and its allies have been played by Russia over the Ukraine ‘invasion’, and it’s beginning to look that...

Here’s the odd thing about interest rates - we all care about them, but they don’t directly affect that many people...

Will he stay or will he go? You don’t need me to say who ‘he’ is - it’s the only story...

At the risk of mixing my metaphors, any mention of energy has become something of a blue touch paper in the...

We all know what did happen in 2021 - Covid and more Covid, the stamp duty holiday frenzy, a soaring rental...

Let’s begin with total transparency from this author: I believe there’s a place for Build To Rent in the wider portfolio...

I’ve never written the three letters ‘EPC’ more often than I have in the past week. Law changes for the private rental...

We’ve probably all learned to be a little less cynical about politicians in recent weeks, given the tragic events. We perhaps...

Within weeks the focus of the industry will be on the White Paper to be issued on rental reform before Christmas. Let’s...

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

Few political policies have such a ring of the past as rent controls - they were last seen in this country...

I’m sorry to break this to you but in 10 days’ time it will be autumn - and we will have...

There’s already plenty of talk about autumn - depressing huh? - with agents pondering how the housing market will respond to...

There’s gathering momentum to do ‘something’ about the unfairness of council tax and stamp duty. This isn’t new in principle. Agents have...

At first sight it’s a tough ask to defend holiday homes when there’s evidence that many who want to buy can’t,...

I recently saw a fly-through video for a home on sale for well over £2m. The imagery was good (made better by...

Right now it seems that another day means another house price record, an all-time high for transactions, and a conveyancing log-jam...

Books about property are, relatively speaking, commonplace - books by estate agents are far less so, hence the interest in The...

It’s been quite a week for the rental sector. Lettings agents and landlords have had such a torrid time in recent years...

Local elections rarely set the pulse racing and this year’s poll on Thursday faces a similar problem. But this time, it’s a...

For many, the funeral of HRH Prince Philip will be a solemn affair, while for some it will also be a...

The launch of Boomin has been and gone with, perhaps, something less than its expected fanfare of publicity. Of course there are...

Purplebricks is now part of the mainstream landscape of British estate agency. There - I said it. An agency whose whispered name...

One of the biggest TV hits of lockdown has been the Netflix show Call My Agent! It’s a surprise success, perhaps, because...

When it comes to communications, Propertymark could do with a lot fewer confidentiality agreements and a lot more transparency. And I...

There is no scientific formula, no list of must-have elements in a successful campaign. That’s especially the case for a campaign involving...

There’s been a flurry of recent activity involving agencies quoted on the London Stock Exchange: Hunters, The Property Franchise Group and...

Just a week ago, I thought it was all over. Christmas and New Year had gone, as had the passionate calls...

Here’s hoping you managed to have as good a Christmas and New Year as Covid rules allowed. Journalism in early January is...

As Christmas gets ever-closer, today’s video from an industry supplier is a touching montage of how bad things got this year...

Hello and welcome to Christmas week! There are just a few days to go before the industry’s festive break. On that subject,...

The industry seems almost back to normal. Not the ‘new normal’ we spoke so much of a few weeks and months ago,...

The agency industry may look back on this year and say: “Well...to be honest we didn’t really see it coming.” No, no,...

With a new President elected and the old one reluctant to move out, this is a good time to see how...

“I’ve got 47 years of experience as an agent. Do I still have to get a qualification?” asked one attendee at...

Book review by Graham Norwood, editor of Estate Agent Today, Letting Agent Today and Landlord Today. If a letting agent wants to...

We all know what the problem is, but what’s the solution? The problem is that landlords, thinking they offer a valuable service...

A new thought-provoking five-part video series is launching to the industry today. ‘Simon says…’ is being hosted by Property Tribes with...

There has been much speculation about when agents will be allowed back to work, and what the new office working environment...

More than 18 months on from the acquisition of ZPG for £2.2 billion by Silver Lake Partners, a US private equity...

After a year dogged by Brexit deadlock, political turmoil, and slow growth, estate agents’ confidence in the property market hit a...

With Brexit still unresolved, the domestic agenda has been pushed from the headlines by the seemingly overwhelming public and political discord...

When renting a property out, letting agents and landlords recognise that it is important to take a deposit from the tenant...

Have you asked yourself why technology is so important in letting agency today? Just look around and you will know why. Almost...

Theresa May arrived in Downing Street some three years ago - but her premiership has not been a smooth ride. As she...

It has been a long time coming, but the tenant fees ban, which forbids landlords and letting agents in England from...

More than 800 property transactions fall through daily, which can have repercussions both practically and financially, as agents fail to get...

Who are you? I’m the Director of Sales for both the well-known industry leading Today publications and The ValPal Network. Leading publications: Estate...

When it comes to letting a property, it is important that landlords and renters have faith in their agent. The more...

As 2018 draws to a close, it is fair to say that stretched affordability and uncertainty over the Brexit negotiations has...

When renting a property out, letting agents and landlords recognise that it is important to take a deposit from the tenant...

To say legendary ZPG founder and CEO Alex Chesterman left big boots to fill when he stepped back from day-to-day operations...

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

When Oakland A’s, a small-market team, stunned the baseball world 16 years ago by transforming itself into world-beaters on a shoestring-budget,...

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

Cast your mind back to July 2008 – Gordon Brown was Prime Minister, the Euros were in full swing in Austria/Switzerland...

Letting agents are being advised to think seriously about how they can recoup costs to help compensate for the introduction of...

Floor plans are an essential marketing tool, which play an important part in helping an estate agent sell a home.  A floor...

It’s not just the evenings drawing in that marks the approach of autumn - it’s also the return to work of...

Estate Agent Today and its sister publications published by Angels Media feature strongly on the long-list for the 2017 Property Press...

Organisers of the Future:PropTech2017 conference on May 4 have revealed new sponsors involved with the event - including Angels Media, publisher...

Property4Media , an online service for journalists, has acquired the annual Property Press Awards. This year’s event will take place in late...

Agents don’t need reminding that Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today are invaluable sources of daily industry news - but...

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

Angels Media, publisher of Estate Agent Today, is delighted to welcome on board one of Britain’s top property industry journalists, Marc...

I’m writing this from the brand spanking new Center Parks in Woburn Forest. Set within 365 acres of lush Bedfordshire forest,...

Two new reports add fuel to the continuing debate over portals. Firstly Rightmove claims to have had its busiest-ever May, with 115m...

There’s been a remarkably positive welcome from across the industry for the new Today websites unveiled this week for Estate Agent...

The Today property sites - Estate Agent Today, Letting Agent Today, Landlord Today, Property Investor Today and Introducer Today - have...