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Alto is rolling out free Property Valuation Reports for agents.  The tool can be accessed directly from individual property record pages, and...

UK house prices may be broadly static but sales volumes are up 12% year on year according to Zoopla data out...

Detached homes in Wales are the slowest property types to sell across the UK and take an average of 92 days...

Artificial Intelligence is now a part of all our lives, but my attention was grabbed recently by an AI critique of...

The number of new sellers coming to the market is up by 12% compared to this time a year ago, and...

Winkworth has revealed that it has not renewed franchises on offices “where our standards were not being met and results were...

Chestertons Global has expanded into the Bermuda property market with a new affiliate, Realestate.bm. The brand will offer residential sales and lettings...

The average time it takes to sell a house from listing to completion has dropped by 0.7% in the past year,...

Alto has announced a new integration with secure messaging platform Tappter. Existing Alto customers can get seamlessly set up with Tappter to...

Buyers and sellers should focus on their own local market rather than national house price indices, the chief executive of Properytmark...

Zoopla is rolling out more branded taxis as it recorded a record January for unique vendor leads, the portal claims. The property...

Properties favoured by first-time buyers are typically selling for an average of 8% or £20,300 below the local market average, Zoopla...

Like millions of others, I watched in open-mouthed astonishment as details emerged about the Post Office scandal. I knew a little bit about...

After a difficult 2023, the property market has been buoyed by a triple-boost in the early days of 2024.  According to the...

Keller Williams has expanded its content and insights partnership with Dataloft after a successful trial period. The brand said 20 agents have...

We’re now just 2 days away from the end of 2023 and what a year it’s been for the property industry....

A third of Jackson-Stops agents are expecting a “modest decrease” in house prices next year with some offices expecting drops of...

There has no doubt been many commenting on Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s recent Autumn Statement held a couple of weeks ago. We...

There has no doubt been many commenting on Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s recent Autumn Statement held a couple of weeks ago. We...

It’s that time of year already: Halloween’s happened, Bonfire Night’s blown itself out, and there’s now a feast of festivities leading...

London and the Home Counties have topped the list of ‘hotspots’ for potential house sales, according to a new Pre Mover...

In today's world of rising costs and economic uncertainty, estate agents are seeking innovative ways to maximise their resources while delivering...

The old adage that estate agency is a people business is rarely more relevant than right now, when the market is...

Over-valuations and too much reliance on national asking price data is skewing seller expectations, agents claim. The latest Agents MVMT podcast tackles...

The number of homes going under offer within 30 days of listing has dropped from 54% to 38% as buyers become...

Phil Spencer’s property advice website Move iQ has launched a video market solution that shares housing market insights at a local...

Sprift has launched a new competitor analysis tool for agents using its services. A new market insights dashboard will provide users with...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Mark Bevan and I am the Sales...

Asking prices of new listings have dropped 1.9% this month, the largest fall in August since 2018. Data from Rightmove shows asking...

Time is running out for agents to submit their final customer reviews for consideration in the prestigious 2023 allAgents Customer Experience...

Rightmove and Propertymark have unveiled a two-year partnership to provide agents with the latest local market data and easier access to...

House prices may be cooling but some local markets are actually heating up with property values increasing by up to 10%,...

It’s the start of what promises - perhaps ‘threatens’ is a better word - to be a challenging second half of...

It’s no secret – 2023 is a difficult year for the property industry. While rising rents should lead to increased income...

Hometrack has launched a property listings data product for agents to help analyse their local market. Powered by Zoopla data, the product...

From Million Dollar Listing to Selling Sunset, we’re used to seeing real estate reality TV in full force on Netflix. Whilst...

OnTheMarket (OTM) has launched a range of new tools that aim to boost the user experience for consumer and also make...

Fine & Country has unveiled details of its 2023 International conference and awards ceremony The upmarket agent brand will hold its annual...

For agents who take full advantage of new developments in technology in 2023, it’s a chance for them to move ahead...

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

It has been a mixed year for prime London markets, with some areas faring better than others when it comes to...

Rightmove is forecasting a ‘less urgent’ market in 2023 and is predicting asking prices will drop by 2%. It comes as the...

Self-employed estate partnership brand The Agency UK (TAUK) has launched a series of roadshows to attract agents to its offering. The company...

The level of price cutting on agency listings has started to hit new highs. Property Log, which is a Chrome extension that...

High-end global property firm Savills has unveiled a major new multi-channel creative platform for its residential business. The agency says it will...

After two years of extraordinary activity in the housing market there are signs that the clouds are gathering as RICS reports...

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

The Federation of Independent Agents (FIA) has partnered with industry data specialist TwentyEA to offer a new tool for the membership...

As uncertainty continues to prevail across the industry, aided by a government in crisis, the challenges in the months ahead feel...

The number of prospective sellers contacting estate agents to have their home valued has hit its highest level since January, Rightmove...

Prime estate agent John D Wood & Co has marked 150 years in business by opening a new headquarters. It has moved...

From the beginning of April, long-awaited rules from the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team (NTSELAT) came into effect....

A property analyst has warned against comparing the number of branches on Boomin to Rightmove. Challenger portal Boomin revealed its first batch...

The self-employed model, after years of not really catching on fully, was given a major boost by the pandemic and the...

Welcome to the latest edition of Property Jobs Today, your chance to catch up with who’s going where and why in...

We know that agents rely heavily on property software solutions to run their agency, particularly to ease the burden of administrative...

The estate agent known to his thousands of followers on Twitter as Mayfair Guru is predicting a ‘Roaring 2020s’ for the...

The last two years have been dramatic and decisive for many people and many businesses. Both have reassessed their work approaches...

The number of locations where average house prices still stand at below £150,000 has shrunk by 28 per cent in recent...

Purplebricks chief marketing officer Ben Carter is quitting the company; he was appointed late last year. Carter tweeted this afternoon: “Some personal...

Estate agents who differentiate themselves from competitors should not be afraid of charging more - and should have confidence when doing...

An interesting demand has been made of Chancellor Rishi Sunak - to consider reforming stamp duty with thresholds revised to reflect...

Luke Thirkettle heads up the lettings division at Stratfords, a single-branch lettings and sales agency based in Milton Keynes. Here, he speaks to...

One of the UK’s oldest estate agency firms has expanded into two new territories.  Nock Deighton was established in Shropshire in 1831...

An online operator called Nested is to spend £5m to promote the self-employed estate agency concept in 100 parts of the...

The self-employed partnership known as The Agency UK - founded by three refugees from Purplebricks - has announced a major expansion. The...

Labour is to reveal a raft of new housing policies at its party conference this weekend - and it claims it’s...

Purplebricks’ chief executive says a £4m marketing blitz scheduled for the autumn will go ahead despite the upheaval caused by the...

Almost a million shares in Purplebricks have been ‘awarded’ to the two most senior men in the organisation. The golden handcuff deal...

Purplebricks is to launch an extensive marketing campaign after this summer’s Olympics to emphasise the local knowledge of its 600 agents...

Free to list portal Residential People has launched a market intelligence platform called Prospr. This has been developed with the aim of...

The Guild of Property Professionals is launching a new PropTech platform called Fee Street, which is in its own words “dedicated...

The asking price of a typical home in the UK has hit a third of a million pounds for the first...

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

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

Potential house buyers may be fine with virtual tours during lockdown periods, but as the country opens up, people are going...

As the property market continues to boom, competition between portals such as Zoopla, Rightmove, OnTheMarket and Boomin has been hotting up...

It’s 12 years since we opened our doors with the Fine and Country estate agency in Drayton on April 1 2009. The...

Digital channels are essential for agents’ promotion of properties but there is still a key place for print and direct mail...

A panel of estate agents recently participated in a webinar to discuss the benefits of livestream open house viewings. The webinar, part...

A leading bank says as many as one in three buyers pay too much for a property because they are afraid...

Firstly, Happy New Year – here’s to 2021 being less chaotic than the last! In the final part of our series on...

He’s gone from Downing Street but the legacy of Dominic Cummings lives on in Rightmove’s top searches of 2020. Barnard Castle -...

Belvoir has become the latest major agency group to sign up to Boomin as a founder agent.  The properties of all four...

The Federation of Independent Agents trade group has unveiled a new automated nurture product available exclusively to members - and it claims...

Property is considered to be a safe investment. The buy-to-let market is booming, fuelled by a generation unable to get on...

Staying on top of the numbers and figures in a constantly changing industry can be stressful. Changing property prices can be...

Hello and welcome to a new week - and evenings that get darker earlier.  As winter approaches we’re continuing to bring you...

Lawyers, politicians, bankers, insurance sellers – no matter where you go, there are some professions that are just always going to...

Two reports this morning suggest that activity in the most expensive sectors of the housing market is doing as well as...

A new customer service award category at The ESTAS will see agency networks competing against each other for the first time.  Networks...

One of Countrywide’s biggest shareholders has written a second letter to the company to demand bold action to save the agency...

The proportion of the asking price achieved on average in the past year is 95.8 per cent according to a new survey. Comparison...

They are the names we hear about often, pushing for this or seeking clarifications on that. They are the representatives of...

In a video interview for Estate Agent Today, property professional Chris Buckler speaks to industry video expert Christopher Watkin. Watkin gives his...

Rightmove and OnTheMarket have announced that they are extending their cut-price fees deals, introduced because of Coronavirus. This morning Rightmove says: "We have...

The Covid-19 crisis hasn’t caused the revolution it has been reported to have. Despite the challenges it has brought, fundamentally, the...

An instant valuation service has launched a new tool aimed at helping agents prioritise leads through prospective vendors uploading photographs to...

Since my last column in April, one could argue that very little has changed for agents in terms of the market...

In a video interview for Estate Agent Today, property professional Chris Buckler speaks to Sam Hunter, director of Homesearch. Alongside asking Hunter...