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A study of house price affordability has revealed that train drivers can afford a greater proportion of homes in the UK's...

Average property prices fell in all but one English region during March, according to the latest official UK House Price Index. Overall,...

Respected industry spokesperson Kristjan Byfield is continuing his fightback against the negative coverage of the agency industry in the mainstream press...

Average first-time buyers in London spend double the amount paid by those across the rest of Britain. A typical London buyer now...

Two online agents and a number of PropTech companies have been named in startups.co.uk's Startups 100 index. Coming in at number 64...

Welcome back to Property Jobs Today - EAT's weekly roundup of all the big moves going on in our industry. If you...

A study of estate agencies and portals floated on the London Stock Exchange suggests that digital companies have shown much better...

High-end London chain Marsh & Parsons, part of the LSL Property Services empire, has opened in 30th office in Chiswick.  “Chiswick’s wonderful...

Consumer body Which? is warning that those who used the Help To Buy equity loan to purchase their homes could face...

Our industry does great work for good causes not just in this country but around the world, as this week’s Agents...

Foxtons has this morning given a gloomy trading update to the City and shareholders. In a statement issued at 7am it says:...

A new report suggests Capital Gains Tax changes coming into effect next year are worrying a large majority of wealthy overseas...

The Court of Appeal has overturned controversial fraud decisions which have a bearing on agents’ and conveyancers’ responsibilities for checking buyers’...

The chief executive of Winkworth says the upcoming Brexit is creating uncertainty and causing buyers and investors to delay purchasing plans. Dominic Agace,...

It went largely unreported when news broke last week but now the suggestion that home owners should pay a surcharge if...

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

Another high end estate agency is reporting difficulties in the London market with Knight Frank saying prices are down in both...

New data from Haart estate agency suggests that despite many homes sticking on the market, apparently would be buyers are locked...

The rise and fall - and perhaps rise again - of Countrywide has been of enduring interest to the agency industry...

Hello and welcome to this week’s celebration of the industry’s fund-raising activities. Remember it’s easy to get publicity and additional support for...

Strutt & Parker has repeated its warning that the market in prime central London could see a typical house price fall...

House prices in the three months to the end of April were 2.2 per cent higher than in the same period...

London-focussed Buying agency Black Brick has launched a specialist service to cater for divorcing couples. The company - increasingly regarded by some...

David Brown, the chief executive of London high-end agency Marsh & Parsons, is retiring with immediate effect.  The news came through late...

As the world becomes ever more digital and people increasingly look to technology to provide convenient solutions to sometimes complex problems,...

New data from a private bank shows a five per cent rise in the number of £1m-plus homes sold in 2017.  The...

Ever wondered what it’s like to be on the frontline of property journalism? Well, wonder no more, as our very own...

Recent void statistics have had me wondering how agents can juggle client and consumer demands in the face of the impending...

Here’s some good news to take into the Bank Holiday weekend.  Research undertaken by Estate Agent Today suggests that fees charged by...

Emoov founder Russell Quirk says that in some cases social media might give a more accurate picture of an estate agency’s...

The UK chief executive of Purplebricks says his company has ambitions to roll out its business model all over the world. Lee...

OnTheMarket says it has now struck listing agreements with 7,500 agency branches, adding over 2,000 branches since floating on the London stock...

Today is the day. 1,600 people will gather in London for FUTURE: PropTech, an event I have supported when there were...

London’s housing market may be in the doldrums but two estate agencies have shown faith in its long-term recovery with moves...

The Guild of Property Professionals has launched a series of regional roadshows with a target of enhancing the success of independent...

An insider in a senior position in Humberts says the weekend announcement that it was in talks with proposed administrators to...

Hello and welcome to the latest PJT, our regular Monday round-up of moves around our industry. Please let us know what’s happening...

If you want to know whether buy to let, landlords and letting agents will be in the firing line for more...

Figures from the Treasury suggest that the annual revenue from stamp duty for the year to the end of March is...

Coutts bank has issued a starkly pessimistic snapshot of prime London’s housing landscape, reporting price falls, valuation mark-downs and slower sales...

Several newspapers are carrying allegations that the diary secretary working for housing minister Dominic Raab has been selling sex via a...

The London Marathon may have been and gone but there are plenty of agents and others in our industry still prepared...

LSL Property Services has issued a warning that market conditions are softer than expected so far in 2018 and that transaction...

Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward is defying the glut of stories suggesting the London market is beset with difficulties and has launched...

The final winners’ list for this year’s ESTAS Awards has just been published with the  ‘Best In County’ agents named -...

Countrywide, the troubled agency group which today holds its annual general meeting, says it is “encouraged by the early progress that...

Leading housing analyst Kate Faulkner says the current low transaction level is “a little scary” because with so few sellers, buyers...

New figures from Hometrack show that a typical home in Greater London now takes 17 weeks to find a buyer -...

Four estate agencies have opened new branches, either as a result of expansion or because of acquisitions. Homes4u has opened a futuristic...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, the regular Monday update on who’s moving where within our industry. Let us know what’s...

A flat in Brixton is being raffled for £5 a ticket by a start-up entrepreneur who claims this is just the...

Maplin, Toys R Us, Carpetright, Warren Evans – what do they have in common? All are well-known high street chains that...

The sun has finally returned to ours skies and you’re on the lookout for a little bit of summer reading. As...

The scores are in and the results announced for the 2018 ESTAS Awards - and the winner of the coveted Grand...

The Future: PropTech conference takes place in under a fortnight’s time on May 2 and over 1,200 delegates have now been...

It’s London Marathon weekend and it’s set to be hot, hot, hot for those agents and other brave industry folk running...

Average house prices in the UK have increased 4.4 per cent in the year to February according to the latest official...

Stubbornly high house prices and concerns over leasehold-related charges top the list of worries amongst the public about the housing market. That’s...

Purplebricks has issued a statement saying that 99.98 per cent of its shareholders have backed the new investment to expand its...

A central London buying agent says she was once offered a bribe by an estate agent to try to persuade a...

The Guild of Property Professionals has given details of a strong field of potential winners in this week’s ESTAS awards.  This year...

Purplebricks has returned to the fray after recent controversies with a claim that home owners saved themselves over £140m in commission...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today - our regular Monday look at who’s moving where within our industry. You...

A website that monitors house prices says “red warning lights are flashing as market conditions in London and the South East...

The announcement that MPs will set up a Select Committee to probe the scale of money laundering in the UK property...

The latest mortgage snapshot from e.surv has reinforced recent claims from other sources that London’s housing market remains the most difficult...

Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity - it’s a bumper edition with plenty of fantastic fund-raising going...

Demand is down for the 12th successive month according to the latest market survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. New...

Purplebricks has issued a provocative response to the government’s new measures to promote a more professional and transparent house buying process.  The...

As the spring market gets into full swing, here’s the traditional beach hut story - yet this time, it really does...

A 15-branch agency group operating in parts of London and the Home Counties has joined OnTheMarket according to a statement from...

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

It’s under two weeks to The ESTAS 2018 held in London on Friday April 20. It’s the biggest and best bash in...

A technology company says that despite government attempts to eradicate money laundering in property transactions, agents and other industry professionals have been left...

Average prices dropped another 1.1 per cent in prime central London in the year to March according to new figures released...

The first-ever ‘digital mortgage’ deed has been lodged at HM Land Registry, for a property at Rotherhithe in London.  Coventry Building Society...

Foxtons says its long-term branch expansion programme is now “largely complete” and it is shifting its attention to using technology to...

Statistics published for the Annual Tax for Enveloped Dwellings show that the government appears to be succeeding in its  bid to...

It’s all very easy, talking and evangelising about the use of technology in the property market, but, now that I’m selling...

A leading buying agency says the Brexit transition deal will help central London’s fragile sales market. Caspar Harvard-Walls, a partner in the...

The Treasury Select Committee of MPs has announced an inquiry into ‘economic crime’ - including the possibility that overseas-owned UK homes could be...

A leading estate agent says his findings confirm those of the latest house price index in suggesting that prices are turning...

The chairman of Chancellors was trampled to death by his own horses after taking them out for a carriage driving exercise,...

Winkworth, the agency which released its 2017 results this morning, says the franchise business model it supports is more resilient than others...

A US TV company is considering making a news programme about Russian involvement in property transactions in the UK and particularly London. The...

ZPG has announced that it has signed a listings agreement with Chestertons, one of the estate agencies involved in the founding...

House price growth in London has hit a seven year low according to Hometrack, with prices actually down across 42 per...

The National Association of Estate Agents says the government’s first time buyer stamp duty incentive “seems to be having the desired...

Countrywide has revealed precisely how many brands, branches and staff it has following the extensive and multiple restructurings of recent years. In...

The Haart agency group has given an upbeat picture of the housing market in its latest figures with instructions up 15...

Countrywide’s 132-page annual report, released today, has given details of the management and restructuring costs incurred by the company during its...

House prices started 2018 with a modest 0.3 per cent drop across the UK as a whole, including 0.5 per cent...

One of London’s leading estate agents is advising sellers to consider giving the negotiator who sells their property a bonus, and...

London has 585 one bed flats on the market at £1m or more according to research by online agency HouseSimple.  HouseSimple says...

Only one local authority in England and Wales has an average house price below £100,000 - while in every London borough...

House prices have taken a spring leap in the north of England as the market improves - but it’s a different...

So here’s another week’s great work being done by colleagues in our industry - and we’re very pleased to salute them. Everybody...

UK measures to retaliate against alleged Russian government-sponsored nerve agent attack on former spy Sergei Skripal have excluded any attempt to...

OnTheMarket says estate agencies with some 1,000 offices have joined the portal in the five weeks since it floated on the...

Greetings from Cannes, where the sun is finally shining over MIPIM. I’m sure many of you are out here, too, and...

  Chancellor Phillip Hammond claims over 60,000 first time buyers have already benefitted from the stamp duty relief he announced at his...

The UK chief executive of Purplebricks, Lee Wainwright, has been granted an option to buy 100,000 shares in the firm. The purchase would...

Average house prices rose 0.5 per cent in February, making it the biggest rise in five months according to the latest...

Orchards of London, a four-office independent operating in the west of the capital, has been fully acquired by The Hogarth Property...

In the first of an ongoing series exploring the people who make the property industry tick, I catch up with James...

New research appears to show that Purplebricks, HouseSimple, Yopa and other prominent online agencies are most popular with vendors selling in...

There has been a 19.9 per cent increase in new property listings, with some locations seeing as many as 80 per...

The troubled Countrywide group has this morning revealed its recovery plan to get - in its words - ‘back to basics’...

Investment consultancy London Central Portfolio has launched a new index which it claims uses “the most comprehensive data available” to assess...

LSL Property Services - parent company to 12 brands including Your Move, Reeds Rains and London’s Marsh & Parsons - has...

An estate agent and former chairman of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says the government’s latest drive to build new...

HM Land Registry has taken another step towards its aim to “make conveyancing simpler, faster and cheaper” for the general public. The...

Welcome once again to Property Jobs Today, the notice-board for agents, suppliers and other property professionals moving within, out or in...

High-profile buying agency Black Brick has highlighted the scale of reductions now being made by sellers of some trophy properties in...

New figures released by ZPG suggest increasing numbers of agents are listing on three portals. Amongst the latest agencies to renew long...

Whether you’re an estate agent, letting agent or property manager, having the right software in place – to enhance, upgrade and...

One of the country’s oldest estate agencies is celebrating 250 years in business.  Essex and Suffolk agency Fenn Wright has roots back...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan is stepping up the pressure on government to speed up the delivery of a new public register...

Foxtons has reported its 2017 figures to shareholders and the City this morning and as expected they show sharp falls in...

London agency Portico has been warned that if there is a repeat of issues concerning its listings on portals, it may...

London estate agency chain Dexters is expanding its brand once again thanks to a new partnership with Stirling Ackroyd New Homes.  Dexters...

New analysis by Hometrack shows that large regional cities like Edinburgh, Birmingham and Manchester look set for a 20 per cent...

A 1.0 per cent interest rate rise would add £930 a year to the cost of servicing the average mortgage, according...

Industry and financial analysts are preparing for what may well be another round of difficult trading figures from London agency Foxtons. Tomorrow...

Brexit uncertainty and weakening consumer demand are likely to hit house prices this year, according to a survey of 33 housing...

A former president of the National Association of Estate Agents has attacked “irresponsible agents” for over-valuing asking prices in London in...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today. If you haven’t caught this feature before, it’s a regular Monday opportunity...

The death of traditional TV – where viewers sit down together to watch shows at defined times – has been much...

The UK property sector has been a hotbed for financial crime in recent years, with many criminals seeing it as an...

In an unexpected trading statement this morning, OnTheMarket says it has signed 243 new listing agreements within its first 10 days...

In its first release of performance figures under the ownership of BNP Paribas, the UK agency Strutt & Parker says it...

An online agency says it knows exactly when a home should be marketed in order to sell in the optimum timeframe.  And...

Estate Agent Today can reveal that one of London’s best known agency chains has acquired one of the capital’s leading independent...

The well-respected buying agency Black Brick has revealed the scale of discounts it secures on prime properties being sold for different...

Agents have welcomed more data suggesting the 2018 market is enjoying a robust start. Last week Rightmove reported a record number of...

The fast-diversifying Humberts has set up regional hubs to handle its new homes and land division, in addition to taking on...

Online auction house BidX1 has launched its first UK online auction following its acquisition of London-based auctioneer Andrews & Robertson. This is...

The Putney office of estate agency Century 21 has been targeted by two thieves, one on a moped the other in...

The other day I met with two agents who have 30 years of property sales experience between them, and yet also...

PropTech has been the industry soundbite for the last couple of years. For many of my fellow agents, I think it’s one...

One of the largest investment firms in the United States has taken a stake in the London-based venture capital firm Pi...

Thanks once again for your contributions to this weekly round-up of agents’ good works; we love covering these stories which show...

OnTheMarket remains defiant despite the decision of Douglas & Gordon, one of its founder agencies, to list once again on Zoopla...

Yopa, the online agency with financial backing from Savills and LSL Property Services, is the latest online firm to launch a...

The number of first-time buyers has increased 16 per cent in the past month and 10 per cent year on year...

The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled on another complaint lodged about Purplebricks. Although the latest appears minor it adds to a lengthy list...

Franchise giant Winkworth, which opened seven new branches in 2017, has announced two new office openings this month.  They are at Banstead...

Almost a third of all ‘Suspicious Activity Reports’ concerning possible anti-money laundering infringements and reported to the National Crime Agency have...

The latest data from Knight Frank suggests that average prices in prime central London dropped 0.7 per cent in the year...

OnTheMarket’s share price fell just over five per cent yesterday, continuing its troubled launch on to the London stock exchange. It...

The bank Morgan Stanley says OnTheMarket’s listings have fallen 19 per cent in the past year. In a note to investors issued...

Hello and welcome to Property Jobs Today; this is the latest of our weekly round-ups of key job moves within estate...

House price falls have been recorded in London, the South East and the North East according to data from LSL Property Services,...

This week I carry out a question and answer session with one of the most high-profile names in property. Isobel Thomson has...

Estate Agent Today can exclusively reveal that well known London estate agent Patricia Farley has joined the new ‘freelance’ agency Harding...

All eyes are on Agents’ Mutual’s first day of trading on the London stock exchange - just over five years after...

There has been a 40 per cent increase in new vendors registering their properties for sale according to an online estate...

The housing market has started 2018 as it ended 2017 according to the RICS, with new buyer enquiries, instructions and sales...

Most listed agencies and portals suffered share price falls yesterday, creating a challenging landscape for Agents’ Mutual which launches on the London stock exchange...

The printing industry is in the midst of a decline as digital products and services displace printed materials, which is why...

Lloyds Bank has revealed a league table of the cities which have seen the highest price growth over the past decade...

Q. How did you get in to the property industry? My career in the property industry actually started out as a holiday...

House price indices provided each month by Halifax and the Nationwide have been branded as “misguiding” and “out of date” and...

Harding Green, an agency with a business model based on freelance associates earning commission of up to 70 per cent, says...

I have high expectations for this year’s PropTech events and property conferences.  Those that I attended in 2017 demonstrated a real step...

Homes for sale in some parts of inner London are seeing price discounts of up to 10 per cent says Hometrack...

London estate agency Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward says is reported to be appealing against a court’s decision about commission payable by...

The housing market has returned to stability with exchanges up one per cent year on year and the average house price...

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

Analysts have given a frosty reception to the announcement by Agents’ Mutual that it is going to float shares priced at...

A former director at London agency Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward has taken a swipe at agencies that have made knee-jerk changes...

In recent years January has become the month of detoxes, fad diets, health kicks such as Dry January and Veganuary, and...

Agents’ Mutual has released more details of its float on the stock market, which begins on February 9 with a placing priced...

The story of this week - the ousting of Countrywide chief executive Alison Platt - prompts two key questions. Firstly, who takes...

A partner at Carter Jonas says that the next 12 months could see stagnation in the market and as a result...

Auction House says it has maintained its number one industry ranking, selling 3,485 lots last year – four per cent up...

Foxtons has this morning given details of a sharp fall in both profits and revenue, wirth sales significantly falling away and...

If Countrywide thought its fortunes would immediately improve following the departure of chief executive Alison Platt, it has to think again...

The Financial Times has identified that 10 of the 21 tables at the notorious Presidents Club dinner last weekend were sponsored by...

Home owners seeking lease extensions may now have to pay more as a result of a controversial judgement handed down by...

The chief executive may have left, the share price may still be languishing around 100p and only days ago the firm...

The ESTAS Group has announced record entries for its 2018 estate and letting agents awards.  The national award scheme - which recognises...

Here’s how the LetsBid Property team is helping them do it. A new property platform called LetsBid has launched in the...

There was confirmation this morning, as expected, that Countrywide chief executive Alison Platt has quit - but so far there is no...

Purplebricks has this morning announced it’s to launch in New York. A statement to the London Stock Exchange this morning read: The...

Rightmove’s former lettings chief Sam Mitchell has taken over as chief executive of online agency HouseSimple, which recently won another £20m...

The number of transactions last year dropped to 1.22m - a minor 0.8 per cent drop on the year before and...

London’s prime central market is turning around at last according to the chief executive of Belgravia estate agency Henry & James. James...

ZPG, which operates Zoopla and PrimeLocation as well as owning the Property Software Group, has signed more long-term marketing deals with a...

A set of figures produced by Haart suggests the market has had a difficult past 12 months - but the firm...

Estate agents have been hit with six- and seven-figure fines under new anti-money laundering and anti-tax evasion regulations according to the...

Andrews & Robertson, one of the UK’s highest profile auction houses, has been taken over by Ireland’s BidX1 and is set...

According to The Branding Journal, a brand is “a name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one seller's...

For a while now, property and technology have been combining seamlessly to offer the industry innovative solutions to often complex problems....

Shares in troubled agency group Countrywide have fallen to their lowest-ever level of 106.40p in trading this morning. Yesterday shares fell a...

  A new league table showing how long it takes homes to sell on average in different postcodes across England and Wales...

A trading statement from Countrywide this morning continues the decline shown by the agency group in recent years. It says total income...

An overwhelming 86 per cent of RICS members questioned in a survey claim they have seen no increase in interest from...

Franchise giant Winkworth has told its shareholders that its revenues for 2017 are likely to be less than five per cent...

Figures from the Office for National Statistics show that in the year to November average house prices in the UK increased...

The number of owners selling up and moving home is at its highest level since 2007 with one exception - London.  The...

The Court of Appeal is today expected to rule on a legal battle which may be critical in determining the value...

Sky News is reporting that the non-executive chairman of Purplebricks, Paul Pindar, is set to invest a seven figure sum in...

New figures from Your Move suggest that average house prices across England and Wales barely moved in 2017, increasing just 0.2...

Rightmove says its visits so far in January are running over nine per cent higher than the same period a year...

Claims by President Donald Trump that the US got a bad deal by selling its prime central London embassy and building...

New analysis by credit and comparison service Totally Money has revealed the districts where the controversial Help To Buy initiative is...

After the fun and over-indulgence of the festivities, most of us are now back to the world of work. And, with...

The Sun reports that a British estate agent spent three weeks in jail in Dubai after sending a highly critical WhatsApp...

Buyers spent £9.7 billion on moving house in 2017 with the average individual move costing £9,580 according to comparison website Compare...

Arun Estates has launched what it describes as “a major new departure” - a fully-staffed High Street office but covering a...

Moneypenny is pledging to expand the services to offers to agents following the acquisition of a firm creating business products and...

The latest house prices as indicated by the most recent index offer confirmation of “a slowing rather than collapsing market” according...

December saw the fewest number of people put their homes on the market than in any month in 2017, according to...

New analysis by the Nationwide has revealed just how big an obstacle a 20 per cent deposit can be for buyers...

Arun Estates says his group’s four main operating companies are to become ‘premium brands’ through a mixture of marketing and PropTech...

No one can ever accuse high-profile London agent Trevor Abrahmsohn of doing things the boring way That applies to closing a deal...

Welcome to 2018 and if your charitable activities are an indicator, it’s going to be a busy year with plenty happening...

Figures out this morning from the Nationwide show the first annual fall in London-wide house prices for eight years - and...

Mystery surrounds a claim made by Prime Minister Theresa May that the stamp duty changes for first time buyers made in...

Franchise giant Winkworth says three new offices are set to open early in 2018 to build upon its seven new branches...

The Home Office has announced a new division to tackle fraud issues, including money laundering. A new national economic crime centre within...

Well, I don’t know about you but after the holidays I've got an imprint just below my navel where my belt...

More price falls have been recorded across areas of prime London according to Savills.  The pattern is not uniform - the agency...

With an average house price of £252,896 and trains to London taking as little as 24 minutes, Luton has been named...

A House of Commons committee has prepared a briefing document on areas of the UK residential and commercial properties sectors most impacted...

What a year it’s been! Back in 2016 we had Brexit, a new prime minister, Donald Trump’s election, and so when...

Outspoken buying agent Henry Pryor says some “pretty dodgy” overseas buyers have purchased homes in the UK in the past -...

The last of the leading agency analysts and business consultancies have now given their predictions for the UK housing market in...

The property consultancy Hometrack says London is facing “a drawn-out period during which there will be a slow re-alignment of house...

In 2017 the average seller sold their home for £92,466 more than they paid for it, having owned the home for...

Grosvenor Crescent, located in the heart of London’s Belgravia between Hyde Park Corner and Belgravia Square, is the most expensive residential...

House price growth will come to a halt next year as the number of transactions reduces, according to the RICS forecast...

A major industry supplier has reminded estate and letting agents that they have to check their responsibilities and systems ahead of...

Rightmove has revealed the top 10 locations outside London where asking prices grew most and where homes sold fastest - and...

Andy Martin, the popular and respected senior partner at Strutt & Parker from 2009 to earlier this year, has been appointed...

Asking prices are being cut more heavily than at any time in the past six years says Zoopla.  It says just over...

London-focussed high-end agency Chestertons has won the award as ‘Best Promotional Partnership – Small Employer’ at the 2017 National Payroll Giving Awards. The award is a...

One of prime London’s most senior estate agents says stamp duty is “strangling the residential property market” in areas of the...

Chris Philp, a Conservative MP and Parliamentary Private Secretary to Chancellor Phillip Hammond, says 50 per cent of new homes in...

It’s traditional before Christmas to either review the year past or anticipate the one ahead - but I’m intrigued about what...

Another new year is nearly upon us and, once we’ve got the season of mince pies, mulled wine, pigs in blankets,...

Christmas is just around the corner and we’re all looking forward to a break - but before then we know many...

Keller Williams UK is launching its third office in the UK. It’s in Glasgow and the new market centre - the term...

We’ve been running our Christmas pics for almost two weeks now and we hope they’ve helped readers get in the festive...

The housing market remains flat as it heads towards 2018 according to the latest snapshot survey by the Royal Institution of...

So have we got a treat for you today…. In a moment, one of the best fun videos we’ve seen from an...

Both Purplebricks and OnTheMarket are keeping their powder dry on speculation that that hybrid agency is going to list on the...

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

The investment service arm of international ratings agency Moody's is warning that affordability issues are likely to lead to a slowdown...

OnTheMarket has announced some details of its IPO and the launch of its stock market flotation - but it has given nothing...

Rightmove is warning that the asking price of property coming to market has fallen by 2.6 per cent in the past...

The Halifax reports that house prices in the last three months, that’s between September and November, were 2.4 per cent higher...

James Hillier and Rob Bearsby, who have operated Apex Residential at Bexleyheath in London for the past 14 years, have switched...

A former Hamptons International and Savills agent is the first to join a ‘freelance agency’ set up in prime central London. In...

Anscombe & Ringland and Russell, Baldwin & Bright are tobe rebranded under the Chancellors name.  The agencies - Anscombe & Ringland in...

One of the last major estate agencies to give its forecast for 2018 says London prices will drop another 0.5 per...

John Taylor, a high-end international estate agency which until earlier this year had a presence in London, says it intends to...

The average home in England and Wales now sells for very nearly four per cent under its original asking price - a...

Many thanks to all of our readers who entered our competition to win tickets to the Agents Giving Ball this coming...

Foxtons says it takes just eight minutes for a purchaser to know whether they will go ahead with buying a home.  The...

Franchise agency Hunters has signed up to the OnTheMarket portal.  This comes as speculation mounts that an announcement is imminent on stock market...

Agents look like they’re getting into their decorative strive - here are two more terrific-looking offices sent in by our readers. If...

The consumer group HomeOnwers’ Alliance says buyers of new build homes should be able to retain 2.5 per cent of the...

Today’s the big day when we make our draw for two lucky Estate Agent Today readers to attend the prestigious Agents’...

Chancellors Group has signed a five year deal to list its sales and lettings properties with the OnTheMarket portal. The group has...

The London-focussed estate agency Cluttons says chains in central London are becoming increasingly fragile thanks to general uncertainty in the wider...

Data from Hometrack shows that the gap between average earnings and house prices has reached an all-time high in London.  The price...

As we hurtle towards the end of 2017, it’s time to reflect on the year that’s just been.   Even better, this property-based...

Earlier this week, Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered the Autumn Budget with a strong focus on housing.  The decision to cut stamp duty...

Training for Agents Giving’s Strictly Come Dancing event is now entering its final two weeks - and Estate Agent Today readers...

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

Stamp duty reform for first time buyers has taken pride of place in the Budget speech of Chancellor Phillip Hammond.   From today,...

Global investment bank RBC Capital Markets says OnTheMarket has the potential to undermine the pricing power of Rightmove and ZPG -...

Members of the Relocation Agent Network are celebrating after a successful annual awards event in London, combined with keynote conference sessions...

An online agency which claims to be the first in the world to be dedicated to sealed bid property sales, is...

Coldwell Banker, the huge US-based international estate agency business, is warning that Brexit is beginning to damage the market and the...

Another Budget, another pledge of new house building: it appears from statements made over the weekend by Chancellor Phillip Hammond that...

The housing industry has set out a list of demands in advance of the government’s hotly anticipated Autumn Budget on Wednesday.  Despite...

British politics is extraordinarily volatile right now and the ongoing battle between austerity and anti-austerity, Leave and Remain, and Conservative and...

The London residential market is at last improving - but faces a make or break situation with next week’s Budget according...

Jackson-Stops predicts that average UK house prices will remain flat in 2018, with stamp duty, Brexit and political uncertainties taking their...

House price growth has been strongest in the north west of England according to the latest government figures from the Office...

Belvoir has revealed that it has won the backing of a minority shareholder in The Property Franchise Group to resume merger...

Your Move and Reeds Rains, both part of LSL Property Services, are the latest agencies to admit a slowdown in house...

Currell is defying any gloomy predictions about the capital's housing market by opening a new office at Hackney Wick Fish Island. Currell...

The Guild of Property Professionals is partnering with the ESTAS to introduce greater customer service elements into its 2018 awards. Gold and...

An estate agency has used the experiences of Cambridge, Oxford and other cities to forecast that pockets of central London's housing...

ZPG says that the number of estate agency branches that left to join OnTheMarket but have now returned has reached over...

The supply of homes coming to the market has slumped again according to a monthly survey conducted by online agency HouseSimple. September...

HMRC has refunded £185m to some 15,000 house buyers since the introduction of the stamp duty surcharge in April of last...