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There was a long-awaited return to the House of Commons this week when the Renters (Reform) Bill finally rose to the...

Reading the news on Estate & Letting Agent Today every day (as I’m sure you all do, too), there appears to...

Happy New Year, to you all. Now that we’re all back in harness and Christmas feels like a long-distant memory, I...

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...

As we get ever closer to 2023, this final Natter of the year is dedicated to the five biggest property moments of...

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...

I can’t really write about anything else this week, can I? Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you will have...

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

In tougher times – as is the case now, post-Covid, post-Brexit, cost-of-living crisis, war in Ukraine, etc – reputation and consumer...

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

The worst cost-of-living crisis in generations is everywhere we look and agents – and the property industry more widely – are...

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

First off, my own quick tribute to the Queen, who died on Thursday afternoon aged 96. Despite her age and declining...

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

In this latest Day in the Life of...Natter, I get an insight into one of the most vital cogs of the...

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

In a welcome return to a favourite series of mine - and a timely one at that, given the current back...

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

For some time, LinkedIn was seen – fairly or unfairly – as stodgy, dull, corporate and formal. The uncool uncle to...

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

If there’s one thing that received a boost as a result of Covid and lockdowns, it’s podcasts – which reached whole...

The ongoing debate about how to boost agent and conveyancer relations, and improve the homebuying system for all, continues to rage,...

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

Between you and me, dear reader, I had little to no idea about what the metaverse was before researching it for...

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

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

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

In this latest video interview, exclusively for EAT and LAT readers, Estate Agent Today's Lee Dahill chats with Mike Dawson from...

Many people in recent years will have become familiar with challenger banks such as Monzo, Starling and Atom. Many will have...

Agents have pledged to keep a close eye on planning reforms amid a proposed overhaul announced in the Queen’s Speech yesterday. Prince...

The Queen’s Speech has unveiled proposed overhauls on planning, consumer and economic crime laws that could all have an effect on...

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...

As regular readers will know, I like to use this column to shout out about the independent agents who are the...

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

Until a few years ago, you would have been forgiven for not knowing who or what Coadjute was. But the company, founded...

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

Property events and functions are now back in full swing, with 2022 likely to be the first ‘normal’ year for this...

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

Our Agents Do Charity column each Friday does a fantastic job of highlighting the amazing charitable work of agents up and...

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

As this is the first Natter back since the Christmas break, I should like to first wish all our readers a...

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

It really is beginning to look a lot like Christmas – just a week to go now. Presents all wrapped and...

Sky News reports that the little-known Lomond Group - backed by private equity money - is in exclusive talks to buy one...

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

In a first for the Natter, this week's interview is a video affair, with me posing the questions to Stephen Brown,...

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

In this latest Natter piece zoning in on independent agents doing things differently, following on from the one I did with...

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

A few weeks ago the ESTAS took place at the Grosvenor House hotel in London - the first chance for many...

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

As a character from a fairly well-known TV show once said, winter is coming and we’re all contemplating where 2021 has...

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

Agent wages have been in the news this week, with boastful claims from a number of self-employed businesses about the sums...

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

As we motor towards the next major global climate change conference – the UN’s COP26 being held in Glasgow from 31...

Good property marketing photos have arguably never been more important in an increasingly visual and tech-led world. We saw just the...

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

There are some parts of the world, including in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, where estate agent isn’t seen as...

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

One of the biggest trends since Covid, in the property world and elsewhere, has been a shift towards more hybrid, flexible...

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

Well, we’re technically more than halfway through the year already, but we’ll let that slide. And what a year it’s been...

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

Let it never be said that this column isn’t here to help out agents directly. In this week’s Natter, I speak...

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

In the world of football – very topical at the moment, as we all enjoy the Euros – there is an...

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

Around 18 months ago, just a few months before the pandemic hit, I did a Natter with the team at software...

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

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

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

It’s now over a year since the property market officially reopened after an unprecedented two-month shutdown at the height of the...

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

In a return to a favourite series of mine, as it gives an excellent insight into the very many facets of...

In a video interview for Letting Agent Today, Neil Cobbold, Chief Sales Officer of PayProp, speaks to property professional Chris Buckler...

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

The biggest news story in town this last week – which has brought people who don’t usually like or watch football...

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

Today is the day that non-essential retail reopens as part of the government's roadmap out of lockdown. For the majority of the...

The last property event I attended in person – and I think the last physical property event held all told –...

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

As you’ll know by now, I like to use the Natter to shine a light on independent agents doing things a...

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 trends in recent times, as a direct result of the pandemic, is the concept of working from...

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

It might be tempting during the pandemic to focus simply on the business, yet many agents have been turning their attention...

Pre-pandemic, virtual and video viewings were a nice little add-on for some agents, but they were far from universally used and...

In a video interview for Letting Agent Today, property professional Chris Buckler speaks to Mike Dawson, Group Head of Sales at...