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The Government has published long-awaited reforms to its National Planning Policy Framework, confirming that local housebuilding targets will be advisory rather...

The cities of Liverpool, Nottingham and Manchester have enjoyed the biggest house price rises since pre-Covid. Despite interest rates at a 13-year...

Savills and the Daily Telegraph newspaper have combined to produce a league table of what they claim to be Britain’s 50...

Taking a proactive approach with viewing generation can increase foot flow through properties and generate more offers, and ultimately close more...

Considering the cost it takes to get a lead – from advertising to PR to relationship building – could you be...

I wasn’t completely surprised to read here on Estate Agent Today that our industry remains near the bottom of the league...

Regional agent Redbrik is celebrating a string of successes as it approaches its 10-year anniversary in January. The South Yorkshire and North...

Rightmove has created a league table to identify where new buyer competition is hottest across the UK housing market. Across the country...

The UK is reported to have dropped down the league table of governments that secure vast amounts of income from property...

A new league table of earnings by estate agents, based on basic salary and commission combined, suggests that UK agents earn...

A torrid period for Purplebricks' share value means it opens stock market trading today with a price of just 33p.  This is less...

PropTech industry giant epropservices has acquired Property Technology Ltd, better known to agents as marketing platform LeadPro. epropservices is the parent company of...

PropTech platform Agent Response has just released its latest league table for conversion stats relating to the first two weeks of...

Average house prices increased by 13.2 per cent over the year to June - the highest annual growth rate since November...

A bulk quick buy company has surveyed purchasers who have been deterred from continuing their transactions to discover what the biggest...

A controversial league table of corporate agents’ market share is deliberately excluding Purplebricks and other online agencies.  This is despite Purplebricks this...

The number of properties coming on the market is still not meeting the huge demand from buyers, but the level of...

A league table of the most important issues facing vendors places the scale of estate agents’ charges at the bottom - and this...

Iamsold, the company best known for its Modern Method of Auction online platform, has won top spot in an auction league...

New research shared with Estate Agent Today suggest that in areas of the country almost four in 10 homes for sale...

An agent in part of the UK with the strongest seller’s market claims the stock shortage is the worst he’s seen...

One of the industry’s leading consultants has calculated staff turnover rates at the country’s leading estate agencies. Christopher Watkin, the consultant who...

A report drawn up by a software firm analyses sales, lettings and valuation leads from agents listing on Rightmove, Zoopla and...

London still dominated the league table of locations with the highest volumes of sales by value in 2020, despite the apparent...

Purplebricks has been rated as only the 10th best online agency in the country in a controversial new league table. The list...

London and other urban areas dominate the league table of locations seeing the biggest house price rises of 2020. This is despite...

OnTheMarket is to undergo a revamp under its new chief executive, former Foxtons agent Jason Tebb - who has been given...

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

The country producing the largest number of buyers of prime London properties is not China, nor from north America or the...

London’s properties are “over-valued” according to a leading bank. UBS, which has what it calls a Global Real Estate Bubble Index, says...

A league table drawn up by a quick buy property firm claims that some estate agents' average commission has hit 2.32 per...

Figures drawn up by a property industry recruitment guru show that estate agents work only two thirds of the hours they...

A new league table drawn up by a property advice website may be the most authoritative yet for first time buyers...

The irrationality of Britain’s council tax system has been laid bare in a new league table drawn up by estate agency...

A new league table shows how many listings exist per agency in 23 different cities across the UK.  The analysis looks at the...

A new analysis of corporate estate agencies’ social media followings and websites shows the big winners to be Savills, Foxtons and...

In the latest of a recent flurry of consumer-facing research exercises by Rightmove, a league table of the most popular seaside...

An international comparison of how major portals have discounted their charges to agents show Rightmove and Zoopla making “deeper and longer...

Rightmove has seen one of the best returns on investment of any company in the FTSE indices according to an investment...

UK estate agents are amongst the worst paid in any country in the world according to new data. Digital marketing firm Yell...

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

The year just ending was when the North-South divide in house prices and capital appreciation slammed into reverse gear according to...

Connells has confirmed that it has closed two branches in Dorset in the south west of England, in addition to the...

An unknown website called EA League Tables has issued a list of agencies and agency-groups which it claims shows their order by...

Zoopla has revealed the most searched-for property terms on its portal in the past 12 months with ‘garage’, ‘parking’ and ‘garden’...

A new league table of High Street agents’ charges published over the weekend reveals the locations where agents charge an average...

A survey suggests that 15 per cent of people who work in the real estate sector feel unsafe at work. This figure...

Online estate agency Housesimple has appointed a company to handle its public relations and social media as it rolls it its...

Sellers across England and Wales achieve an average 95.94 per cent of their asking price according to research from estate agency...

A high-end estate agency is reporting a dramatic rise in the number of US buyers in London as they have taken...

New figures released to Estate Agent Today show that a net total of 284 agents’ offices closed down in 2018. This number -...

A new analysis suggests that sales of more than four out of five homes in the UK are taking at least...

Savills has been named the winner of the real estate agents/advisor league table in the UK Business Superbrand list for the...

Purplebricks has been named one of Britain’s ‘most relevant’ brands to consumers. The agency came in 13th in a list of...

There’s more bad news for Purplebricks: after a shock 80 per cent downgrading of its stock value by a bank on...

Outsourced auction provider IAMSold says it is the top independent auctioneer for residential property lots sold in 2018, according to the...

The online publication aimed at London’s high-rolling property professionals, Prime Resi, has named what it believes to be the capital’s 10...

Purplebricks has increased its listings by an eye-opening 44 per cent in the past two weeks according to an updated analysis...

A new report from Zoopla claims very nearly a third of buyers want to know the street - or even the...

Last year it was ‘disruptor’ and before that came ‘exclusive’ - now, according to one estate agency at least, the over-used...

Traditional estate agent fees average just 1.1 per cent across the UK according to research from an agency comparison website -...

Few things anger the industry more than the effect of stamp duty and other costs on property transactions (well, maybe Purplebricks...

The chief executive of the newly-expanded Emoov group has been giving details of the merger with Tepilo and the possibility of...

Locations in the capital dominate a league table of locations where the largest numbers of so-called ‘high risk’ mortgages are taken...

Russell Quirk, chief executive of Emoov, says his agency is now one of the top seven in the UK following its...

TV property expert Sarah Beeny says she expects online agencies to take 70 per cent market share in the future -...

The annual report from the Advertising Standards Authority and the Committees of Advertising Practice, out today, shows that the estate and...

House prices have taken a spring leap in the north of England as the market improves - but it’s a different...

Lloyds Bank has revealed a league table of the cities which have seen the highest price growth over the past decade...

The government has given its support to Land Registry proposals to increase the digitalisation of its services, with changes coming into...

  A new league table showing how long it takes homes to sell on average in different postcodes across England and Wales...

The Society of Licensed Conveyancers says it is worried that HM Land Registry’s decision to publish details of apparent errors in...

With an average house price of £252,896 and trains to London taking as little as 24 minutes, Luton has been named...

HM Land Registry says it’s consulting with the legal industry on a proposal to publish a league table of conveyancers who...

Rightmove has revealed the top 10 locations outside London where asking prices grew most and where homes sold fastest - and...

A new book written by a PropTech expert and assessing the state of the industry has hit the Amazon best sellers’...

London house prices are stuck in neutral according to the latest figures from property consultancy Hometrack, which says values in the...

UK estate agency commission levels are amongst the lowest in the world according to a league table compiled by an international...

A new survey commissioned by a property firm suggests that 31 per cent of people feel uncomfortable about the idea of...

Barclays Bank has given an optimistic view of the housing market over the next five years, with a prediction that across...

Average asking prices in London have fallen, while the majority of regional markets are performing strongly, according to the latest index...

The HomeOwners' Alliance says it has identified what it describes as "the UK's best performing agent" based on how much it...

The market got off to a strong start in 2017 with prices growing 0.3 per cent in January to push the...

High-end estate agency Knight Frank says prime central London prices are down as much as 14.0 per cent in the year to...

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

Each year the London Stock Exchange lists 1,000 firms in a league table entitled ‘Companies To Inspire Britain’ and for the...

A property analytics company has devised a method of calculating the ‘best’ locations in which to work as an estate agent,...

Estate agents and journalists don’t always have a lot in common but in a new opinion poll they rank side-by-side in...

Shepherd Direct Limited - best known for owning the Century 21 UK franchise business which has 50 operators across England -...

New research from Countrywide suggests that the growth of the private rental sector and the higher number of mortgages means far...

A review of 30 prominent property sales websites undertaken by a digital marketing company demonstrates, perhaps predictably, a huge lead for...

Margaret Thatcher may have given the country Right To Buy and David Cameron has created Help To Buy but when it...