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Renting a flat or house in the UK has never been more difficult. The market is tight, supply is limited and...

An estate agency based in the heart of one of the UK’s largest Jewish communities has faced backlash after one of its...

London based presenter and property expert Elizabeth Warburton has partnered with Fine & Country as one of the hosts of the...

Female representation at estate agency conferences and awards was a big theme of 2023 and now there is a chance to...

OnTheMarket (OTM) can still pursue its original aims of challenging the duopoly in the property portal market, its chief executive Jason...

OnTheMarket (OTM) chief executive Jason Tebb has declared “our time is now” after shareholders backed a takeover of the portal by...

CoStar has defended its operations after a third open letter from OnTheMarket critic Brett Stone attempted to derail the US property...

OnTheMarket has partnered with an automated social media service to help agents promote listings on Instagram, X, Facebook and more. Following a...

Former Purplebricks and Boomin boss Michael Bruce has taken part in a new funding round for interior design platform My Bespoke Room. Bruce...

OnTheMarket critic Brett Stone has issued a second open letter to shareholders of the portal, accusing it of “irresponsibly diluting shareholders”...

Social media has moved on from being a “nice to have” to a necessity for most businesses, but how do you...

Rightmove has been named as the most effective portal for driving leads but there is a sense of frustration about fake...

OnTheMarket’s longstanding head of marketing has left the portal. Patsy Walton was head of marketing at OnTheMarket since 2014, meaning she has...

Purplebricks’ share price has continued falling after it informed the markets that it is up for sale last week. The beleaguered agency’s...

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

Purplebricks has begun charging buyers and sellers a £60 fee for anti-money laundering (AML) checks. An online message to potential buyers interested...

OnTheMarket (OTM) has rebuffed a surprise approach from a non-shareholder in the business to overhaul the brand and let him join...

The estate agency job market remains buoyant despite talk of a property market slowdown, an industry recruiter claims. Agency recruitment firm Rayner...

Estate agency veteran Paul Vickerstaff has found a new job with Heatable following the collapse of Boomin. Vickerstaff had joined the challenger...

Estate agents have the challenging job of creating relationships and trust with their customers, who will make crucial life decisions such...

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

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

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

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

Over the last two years, the property industry has experienced unprecedented change through shifting market conditions and new regulations around compliance. To...

An Estate Agent Today reader poll has revealed opposition to climate risks being outlined to buyers when purchasing a property. A poll...

Tackling the cost of utility bills has been highlighted as the top priority that new Prime Minister Liz Truss should focus...

Choosing the right technology platform for your agency is hard. Getting it wrong is easy. The last thing you need is to...

Zoopla has launched a review into its editorial processes after agents criticised a consumer guide published by the portal that encouraged...

Estate Agent Today's good friend Christopher Watkin recently carried out a video interview with Glynis Frew, the well-known former managing director...

Former Evolve staff are being offered £2,000 ex-gratia payments by the easyGroup after its ownership of easyProperty ended. Jason Bull, national sales...

Estate agency brands have begun reaching out to school leavers as students received their A and T-Level grades yesterday. Top grades for...

Propertymark’s partnership with MoveIQ has already attracted attention from more than 250,000 consumers and potential property buyers and sellers. The agency trade...

Our story yesterday on whether the property industry should consider trialling a four-day week generated lots of debate, comments and poll...

What do Tilly Ramsay and Kim Kardashian have in common? Other than both having well-known fathers, they’ve both also mastered the art...

A quarter of agents have indicated they may prefer Rishi Sunak as the next Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister –...

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

Agents have shown their support for helping junior staff with the cost of living crisis. The rate of inflation hit 9.4% during...

A mortgage broker has hit out at estate agents for forcing prospective buyers to visit their branches to sell financial services...

Being an estate agent can be sweat-inducing at the best of times but property professionals intend to keep going through the...

Simon Leadbetter has stepped down as global chief executive of Fine & Country. Leadbetter’s LinkedIn profile shows he stopped working for the...

More than half of agents disagree that mobile phone signal should be treated as material information in listings. James Munro, head of...

Estate agents are being urged to be supportive after a LinkedIn post highlighted the current pressures that conveyancers are under to...

A client called asking for advice on their social media marketing strategy. They’d thrown a lot of budget at it, but...

Agents and property professionals are travelling far and wide to raise money for charity, plus there is a new way to...

A ‘frightening’ number of respondents to a Rightmove online poll appear to be unaware of their anti-money laundering reporting requirements. The portal...

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

Property blockchain network Coadjute has launched a research project to identify ways estate agents and conveyancers can improve their working relationship. It...

Estate agency recruiter Josh Rayner has said job demand is at the highest level he can remember. Rayner, who runs property jobs...

In July 2020, two leading lettings technology disruptors - Vouch and Goodlord - announced that they were going into partnership. Now,...

Reapit Elements is an open-source, cross-platform design system that gives designers and developers a framework to quickly create responsive, device-agnostic, and...

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

The past two years have been a whirlwind of change, challenges and chance. The main catalyst has clearly been the pandemic...

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

A PropTech platform is urging agents to keep in touch with clients on their databases to increase their chances of future...

PropertyHeads, a platform describing itself as a social network for house buyers and sellers, has a new PropTech partnership. It’s linked with...

I’m going to declare upfront that, as an investor, I have a financial interest in the success of MovePal but I also need...

The recent stamp duty holiday and the subsequent conveyancing logjam this triggered has acted as a wakeup call for the industry....

In this article, the team at Iceberg Digital outline why agents should consider attending the Estate Agency X event as well...

Things can change. For those who remember, it’s no secret that I became one of the industry's strongest critics of OnTheMarket (OTM). My reasons...

NAEA Propertymark says there’s no appetite that it can see amongst its representatives across the UK for charging people £30 for...

The platform behind a controversial proposal to charge prospective buyers and renters £30 or more to view a property on the...

The race to complete home sales before the stamp duty holiday came to an end on June 30 has created what...

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

In this week’s In Conversation Today, I chat with Fine & Country UK’s managing director Nicky Stevenson, one of the most...

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

Propertymark has chosen YoungMinds as its charity partner of the year.  YoungMinds is dedicated to ensuring every young person gets the mental...

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

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

A conveyancing trade publication wants those involved in residential transactions to be kind to each other - especially as the stamp duty...

In this week's Natter, I focus on the inspiring story of Clare Hughes, who has bounced back in the last 12 months...

Many independents will be based in the capital, but given its size and breadth they may get drowned out even more...

Hello and welcome to our latest doffing of the cap in honour of those in our industry fund-raising for great causes....

Welcome to part three of our ongoing series on local independent agents, as we seek to give this all-important part of...

Firstly, let’s get the obvious out of the way. Lockdown 2, as it’s being known, is now with us, but fortunately...

There’s no denying it, job hunting can be hard work – even more so at the moment, with all that’s going...

Agents Together, the wellbeing and mentorship service which came into existence earlier this year, is launching what it calls a Redundancy...

The pandemic and the way the government has reacted to the private rental sector (PRS) has got me thinking about the...

If you’re in any way connected to estate agency all it takes is a quick glance at Facebook or LinkedIn to...

For a mixture of reasons, I now only write this column every two weeks. At first, I missed the weekly consideration...

In my last Natter, I explored the differences between estate agency in the UK and the US with the help of...

As we adjust to a life post-Covid-19, letting agents, landlords, and tenants are thinking - ways to speed up the process...

The chief executive of a property information platform says now is a “dangerous time” to buy or sell homes because of...

Online sector veterans Russell Quirk and Kenny Bruce have used social media to call for a temporary scrapping of all stamp...

The Say No To Rightmove campaign has started buying social media advertising space in a bid to recruit agents. In a ‘promoted’...

The Say No To Rightmove campaign, which expects to have some 3,000 offices signed up by the end of the month,...

One of the industry’s top recruitment gurus wants to check the pulse of the industry - and that includes whether furloughed...

Let me start by wishing everyone well in these uncertain and precarious times. I truly hope you, your families, friends and...

For complete transparency, I write this column first thing on a Tuesday morning and have done for a couple of years...

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

A senior figure in the industry has spoken out against the shock sackings and branch closures announced by Spicerhaart. Jon Cooke, chief...

Hello and welcome to today’s Conquering Corona, a service we’re running to share official guidance and agents’ advice in a bid...

The coronavirus outbreak has highlighted once again how fragile and interconnected our societies have become. We don’t know yet how dangerous Covid-19...

The landscape of the estate agency market in the UK is evolving to reflect changes in the way we live our...

Estate Agent Today can reveal that one of the most senior figures in Countrywide’s upmarket John D Wood and Hampton International brands...

An outspoken industry commentator says some of the country’s leading agencies are failing because they’re not actually run by experienced agents. Russell...

For a very long time, it was one of the best ways – if not the best way – of generating...

Following on from the second half of the last decade, the first few weeks of 2020 have been a bit mad...

Yes, you can promise yourself that you won't eat all the mince pies, or yet another roast potato, nor drink as...

A new portal has been launched aiming to take on Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket in the retirement property sector - and...