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OnTheMarket is to launch a six-part podcast series aimed at demystifying the home moving process for less experienced property seekers. It comes...

It seems as if optimism is out of fashion right now: just look at the headlines to see what I mean....

OnTheMarket is launching a new three-part television series on Channel 4 as part of its plans to boost consumer awareness of...

With so many benefits including lower fall-through rates and quicker sales, it is no surprise that selling a property via auction...

OneDome has launched a new product to let pre-qualified buyers register their interest for properties with local estate agents. The Buyer Passport...

Former Hamptons and Countrywide executive Phil Tennant has joined US-style fast buy firm UPSTIX. Tennant has been recruited as chief operating officer...

In this week’s Natter, I carry out a Q&A with Lisa Knight, who has taken the impressive journey from barmaid to...

Estate agency veteran Robin Paterson has joined new ‘quick buy” service UPSTIX. Paterson, a former chief executive of Hamptons and managing director...

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

Fledgling portal Boomin is launching what it claims to be the most interactive and accurate online valuation tool on the market.  It...

Is print dead as an advertising medium for estate agents? Many have suggested it is, thanks to the rise and rise of...

easyJet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou has given his personal backing to the newest recruit of online agency easyProperty - even though...

“A hybrid offering, which serves customers of all needs and capabilities, is what we should all be working towards.” Following Aconveyancing opening...

A council cracking down on the increase of illegally positioned estate agent boards. Agents are required, under Planning and Highways legislation to...

The UK property market is always evolving but never as quickly as it is now. Traditional estate agents are seriously questioning...

A branch of franchise agency CJ Hole is marking what it calls “an incredible 30 years of success” this month. The Burnham-on-Sea...

Community spirit is definitely alive and well in the Midlands where people have gone above and beyond to support a local...

Independent agents are busier than they have ever been thanks to the post-lockdown surge but larger corporates are actually losing market...

An unusual property sales concept, which signs up vendors and then effectively sub-contracts their sales to strongly-performing local estate agents, has...

Two estate agency directors have been disqualified by the Competition and Markets Authority after taking part in an illegal price fixing...

When is a property really off-market? There may be many answers to that question but it’s likely that few would consider...

Sotheby’s International Realty says two recent sales it achieved 115 miles away from its closest office prove that local agents are...

A relatively new company which signs up vendors and then effectively sub-contracts their sales to strongly-performing local estate agents says it...

Purplebricks is the “Official Estate Agent Of Team GB” for the build-up to and completion of next summer’s Olympics in Tokyo. It is going...

The Competition and Markets Authority has provisionally found that four agencies broke competition law by taking part in a price fixing...

A survey of 3,000 people by Zoopla suggests that 47 per cent of vendors believe the success of their sale was...

Hard not to mention two major breaking news stories of recent days; one directly affecting the property market and one which...

The creators of a website using market data to define postcodes as hosting a seller’s market or a buyer’s market have...

A hybrid estate agency has launched in Bury, one of the first of its kind to operate in the UK on...

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

The short let management company Lavanda - backed by Harry Hill, former chief of Rightmove and Countrywide - has launched software...

Four weeks today almost the entire industry will be finishing work for Christmas after another year - and ready to start...

One of the biggest choices you can make in regards to the logistics of your estate agency can be picking a...

Two successful high street estate agency directors claim to have invested a six-figure sum into their new hybrid estate agency.  ispymyhome.com, which...

Hybrid estate agency YOPA has launched a recruitment campaign suggesting that agents have “the chance to make between £6k and £12k per...

Since we last spoke, the ESTAS – the biggest and best property awards ceremony in the UK – has been and...

Hybrid estate agency YOPA has announced a successful Series B round of funding in which it raised a total of £15...

The East Midlands, which consists of several areas including Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, and much of Lincolnshire, has an ancient...

Sellers should try to instruct estate agents with the largest local share of the market, even if that means ignoring well-known...

A survey by the Nottingham Building Society - owner of Harrison Murray estate agency - reveals the reliance of buyers on...

A new website has launched with the aim of providing vendors, landlords, buyers and tenants with an easy way of registering...

There is likely to be an October court date set for a judicial review into a ban on new-build houses and...

An estate agent has been ordered by a court to pay more than £7,500 after admitting advertising holiday homes as permanent...

The Conservatives on the council in Brighton and Hove have called for a ban on estate agents’ boards to be extended...

The residents of a housing estate in Northamptonshire have gone to a local newspaper to dispute what they claim is an...

YourLocalAgent.com Some 91% of the public use search engines to find information every day and 91% of these always or most of...

A new ‘enforcement toolkit’ has been designed to assist local authority trading standards teams beef up its policing of local estate...