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Martin & Co’s Tonbridge office has a new owner. Chatham-born Stephen Castellani has taken the reins from Robert Gordon-James and his wife...

In his third and final article in this 3-part series, David Beaumont looks at the legal statues of Material Information Guidance. ...

Two of national sales and lettings agency Martin & Co’s Oxfordshire branches are under new ownership. Experienced international property professional David Rebe...

Lomond has strengthened its foothold in the Midlands with its 50th acquisition since launching just three years ago. Through its John Shepherd...

Rightmove has launched a course for estate and letting agents to help them understand and remain compliant with the Consumer Protection...

As money laundering compliance marks its twentieth year, more and more estate agents are being fined for breaches of HMRC’s ID...

I recently wrote that the long-gestating Renters Reform Bill, finally introduced in Parliament back in May, could be poorly timed, both...

A recent poll of 11,000 private renters by SpareRooom reveals that 81% spend more than 30% of their take-home pay on...

Tackling economic crime is part of the day job for estate agents. But how can the latest digital ID tools help...

Following publication of the Renter’s Reform Bill and the media coverage surrounding it, many agents and their landlords will understandably have...

Sussex based estate and lettings agency Mishon Mackay has continued its regional expansion with the acquisition of Kemptown-based brand Justin Lloyd. The...

The issue of conditional selling in estate agency has hit Westminster. There have been several reports in recent months about agents requiring...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...

You don’t need me to tell you that buy to let has had a torrid time of it lately. For agents trying...

Newcastle-based lettings agency Seekers has begun replacing its fleet of cars with electric vehicles. It comes as a clean air zone is...

Midlands-based land and property company Sheldon Bosley Knight (SBK) has kicked off the new year by snapping up another business. Coventry sales...

An estate agency has gone back to school to design new for sale boards. Three Sixty Living, the sales and lettings agency...

We spent some time with Lucy Noonan, Founder and CEO of Atomic Consultancy, to pick her brains about the many moving...

Automated rental payment specialists PayProp recently held a high-profile event in London - PayProp Connect - which included a number of...

The property industry often gets a bad rep, despite all the work that agents and others in the sector do for...

In this guest piece, Andy Jones, Corporate & Build To Rent Director at LRG, looks at whether commercial property can help solve...

Sussex-based estate and lettings agency Mishon Mackay is celebrating as its first apprentice has completed his training. Max Blencowe, the first apprentice...

A variety of charities have received support from the property industry over the past week, from on land to under the...

There are no signs of a post-summer lull in the property jobs market. Here are some of the latest moves that took...

The owners of Parkers’ Witney branch have marked their third year under the sales and lettings brand by opening their second...

There’s one message that’s come home to me loud and clear from my dealings with agents so far this year -...

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

These are undeniably darker days as news comes through of a humanitarian crisis in Ukraine - we have the first agency...

No matter how dark the news, there’s light in our industry thanks to so many agents and suppliers doing good deeds....

In the first few months of 2022, agents have experienced some of the lowest stock levels in several years. The number...

A fast-growing land and property consultancy has snapped up a respected independent to bolster its presence in the North of England. George...

Chestertons, which is itself currently on sale, has snapped up independent London Residential, a firm operating in the north west of...

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

An estate agency group is rebranding and pledges that it will build on its current revenue averaging £1m per branch.  Property group...

Spicerhaart - which is radically reshaping its structure to encourage hybrid operations and working from home as part of a new...

The latest easyProperty franchise has landed in Luton, the spiritual home of the easy brand as it’s the place where budget...

One of the country's largest independent regional agency groups has been formed through an acquisition announced today. Yorkshire estate agent, Manning Stainton,...

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

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

In this week’s In Conversation Today, I am delighted to chat with Lucy Morton, Head of Residential Agency at JLL, about...

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

A high flying agent with experience at a string of top end companies has set up an online business with his...

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

Being a letting agent today means keeping up to date with the long list of rules and regulations governing how a...

It’s now more than a year since the government offered an additional £4 million to councils to combat rogue landlords. At the...

By any available metric, Belvoir had a good 2020. Already a well-known and well-established name, it was highly praised for its...

An estate agent has shut both branches of his business for safety reasons and wants tighter Coronavirus restrictions on the industry.  ITV...

Hello and welcome to the first Property Jobs Today of 2021 - we’re less than a fortnight into the New Year...

The government has issued new guidance to estate and lettings agencies on their obligations regarding money laundering issues - and online...

We have had a special relationship for many years and are bonded as countries in many ways – historically, politically and...

The chief executive of the National Association of Estate Agents, Mark Hayward, is to retire at the end of this year.  The...

Arguments over the alleged gaming of reviews by and for some estate agencies have waged ferociously in recent years, and now...

There’s been a furious response to the agent who appears to have breached government rules by opening his branch to the...

An estate agent has reopened his High Street office to the public with social distancing and other safety measures in place. It’s...

Hello - yes it’s Friday in case you lost track, and that means it’s Agents Do Charity day: and once again...

Two agents have quit Rightmove and taken to social media to give their reasons. One is the 12-branch Andrew Craig agency which...

Hello: so much has happened since the last Conquering Corona column . Before we get on with it, a reminder to...

The European Union’s highest court has ruled that Airbnb is not subject to strict rules governing estate and lettings agents in...

A sales and lettings agency in the Cotswolds has taken on a fleet of fully electric company cars. The Volkswagen eGolfs selected...

Two separate former High Street estate agents have sung the praise of switching to the hybrid business model. Appleby’s in Gloucestershire is...

If you haven’t noticed, it’s November already - a month where it’s increasingly popular for men to grow moustaches for charity....

Enhanced customer care strategies, relationship-building schemes, cost-cutting measures and new revenue streams can’t help the lettings industry if the fundamental underlying...

Leaders Romans says it has won new funding to acquire more agencies.  “We have made no secret of the group’s intention to...

A sales and lettings agency which has entered insolvency is reported by a local newspaper to have offered vendors cut-price fees...

A hybrid estate and lettings agency operating currently in Manchester, Liverpool and others parts of the north of England has told...

The government has issued a revised version of its official How To Buy and How To Sell documents, aimed at consumers...

There’s been only a vague government response to the recommendations for an estate and lettings agency regulator. Last month the Regulation of...

The owners of four branches of a franchise agency in Berkshire have launched a new office in the county, just over...

The weekend is over all-too-quickly but at least if it’s Monday, it’s Property Jobs Today - your weekly catch up with...

It's been another busy 24 hours for publicly-quoted estate agencies. Swiss investment bank UBS has increased its stake in the troubled London...

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

The jury appears to be out on whether the new enforcement body for estate and lettings agents will be resourced sufficiently...

Welcome to another ADC, the weekly round-up each Friday of agents’ great fund-raising work.  This week we show the diversity of charitable...

Regional agency Prospect, which already has offices in Berkshire and Surrey, has opened its 10th office at Farnborough in Hampshire. Last year Prospect...

An estate and lettings agency that has been trading in the centre of Exeter for 12 years has ceased trading and...

OnTheMarket says it now has listings agreements with more than 12,500 estate and lettings agency branches. In a statement to shareholders and...

Another year is nearly done – and what an eventful year it’s been. We’ve had more than our fair share of breaking...

East Midlands estate and lettings agency Jackson Grundy has signed up to OnTheMarket. The firm, with its Northampton headquarters, has 10 sales...

A sales and lettings agency specialising in waterside property along the Thames is linking up with a larger business to co-market...

People now expect a streamlined, digital-first experience from every single service they interact with - and the lettings industry is no...

A city’s housing market that suffered badly because of the collapse in North Sea oil prices is now likely to rebound...

London agency Stirling Ackroyd has announced its third acquisition in the course of a year. It’s only 15 months ago that Stirling...

OnTheMarket has signed up an estate and lettings agency firm run by a family and with 11 offices across west Devon...

Estate and lettings agency is arguably one of the most fierce, ruthless and relentless industries going. And, with fluctuating stock levels,...

Oakwood Homes, a four-branch sales and lettings agency operating across East Kent, has acquired Parkland Estates, a single-branch firm based in...

Next week ludlowthompson celebrates its 25th anniversary. Here, I catch up with Stephen Ludlow, co-founder and now executive director of the...

OnTheMarket has signed up 12-office regional agency Robert Oulsnam and Company.  The firm, which handles sales and lettings, has 12 offices in...

OnTheMarket has now signed listing agreements with UK estate and letting agents with a total of over 10,000 offices - but...

An agent who is only 20 - and who set up his own firm when he was still a teenager -...

A branch of Andrews estate and lettings agency, damaged by water as a result of a fire eight months ago, is...

We have the presidential seal of approval for our Agents Do Charity this week - well, sort of, but we don’t mean...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today, our weekly feature on who’s moving where throughout our industry. And it’s...

One of the three official redress bodies serving the estate and lettings agency industry has conducted a survey of complaints across...

Agents and representatives from other property sectors have reacted enthusiastically to proposals to professionalise the industry. As we reported yesterday, the government...

Hybrid agency EweMove says it has seen four portfolio acquisitions and 29 new areas ‘purchased’ by franchisees since June 2017, taking...

Welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today, our regular look at key moves inside our industry. Next week there’s no PJT as...

An estate agency has started a petition to get bollards erected outside its branch after two accidents, in each of which...

Many agents are having a deserved break next week - well, as much of a break as looking after children and...

Figures presented to the London Stock Exchange by Agents’ Mutual appear to show that it has 200 fewer branches now than...

We're almost a week into December and still images of agents’ offices arrive. We're grateful to all those who have sent...