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A sales platform that monitors the market is warning that house price falls are likely to spread beyond London and the...

JLL has opened a new ‘virtual’ office with dedicated sales and lettings staff to serve the Westminster and St James’s areas...

The investment bank Jefferies says Foxtons’ long-running share price slump is a reflection of Brexit uncertainty “until we find out what...

Rumours abound over the future of Countrywide, which lost further share value on Friday, closing very slightly down on the day...

Welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today - and as ever we have a breakdown of key moves within our industry. To...

The chairman of LonRes says online estate agents have only a one per cent share of the market in prime central...

When Oakland A’s, a small-market team, stunned the baseball world 16 years ago by transforming itself into world-beaters on a shoestring-budget,...

At first sight, to suggest this is a good time for an agency business to go for an IPO - that...

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

Research by Estate Agent Today reveals that there have been 12 different stamp duty regimes in the UK since the Millennium. What’s...

LonRes says transactions in prime locations in London dropped another six per cent when the second quarter of 2018 is compared...

The heatwave is gone and summer is in its closing stages (sorry!) so it comes as no surprise that there’s already...

High-end agency and international property consultancy Savills has reported strong half-year figures for its UK business - but warns that Brexit...

New property listings in July were down 6.0 per cent across the UK and down no less than 12.7 per cent...

Winkworth is beefing up its services for franchise owners with expanded support teams for its IT, Client Services and China departments.  Winkworth’s...

One of London’s leading estate agents says Brexit has had at worst a neutral effect on the housing market and may...

Hello again from Italy. Only another week or so left out here, working every day from the same table at my...

The number of properties withdrawn from the market in the second quarter of this year was greater than the number of...

The London market continues to produce unexpected results with two high end agencies reporting contrasting fortunes.  Half year figures released by Chestertons...

The former Chancellor George Osborne - architect of drastic stamp duty reform - has come out fighting to defend the tax...

The business editor of right wing political weekly The Spectator says “what’s bad for Foxtons is on the whole likely to...

Making my way to our London office on a busy commuter train, my mind got busy thinking about the new do-it-yourself...

With all the recent change and upheaval in the rental sector it may be time to consider how letting agencies will...

An analysis of HMRC stamp duty statistics for the second quarter of this year suggest that receipts are down 13.8 per...

Countrywide's share price has dropped sharply following the announcement of the company's rescue plan - but the firm itself says this...

A leading estate agent is warning that an interest rate increase today ould hurt the delicate balance of the housing market. The...

Another OnTheMarket founding estate agency - Strutt & Parker - has rejoined the Zoopla and PrimeLocation portals. Some months ago the London...

An analyst for business data consultancy Bloomberg has some news for Foxtons - he says its swashbuckling days are over and...

Prices and transaction volumes have both fallen again in Prime Central London according to the index produced by Central London Portfolio,...

The parent company of Your Move, Reeds Rains and other agency brands has succeeded where Foxtons yesterday did not - in...

A leading buying agency is warning about asking prices that are higher than those acceptable to mortgage companies who therefore down-value...

Labour says stamp duty receipts and other tax income from properties in the capital should go to the Mayor, Sadiq Kahn,...

Foxtons has suffered a massive 23 per cent drop in sales income and a nine per cent drop in overall company...

The price per square foot for homes in central London is currently £1,194 - that’s 16.9 per cent below its 2014...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, the place where you find all the key agency industry moves over recent days. Please...

The big story to break this week in the property world was the announcement by the new owner of Humberts that...

With the continued indecision surrounding Brexit and the final divorce settlement still months away, it seems property buyers are choosing to...

Figures from Savills suggest that there’s currently an average 1.14 price adjustments per sale across the prime regional markets of the...

One of the property industry’s best known figures, Richard Berridge, has teamed up with estate agency My London Home to lead...

An online estate agency has changed the wording of a listing on Rightmove, Zoopla and on its own website after a...

The latest transaction figures from HM Revenue and Customs make depressing reading - a three per cent drop between May and...

The debate over alleged ‘down-valuing’ by mortgage lenders has flared again with one leading agent claiming that surveyors are just “covering...

With the shelf life of recent housing ministers being on a par with football managers, it's perhaps little surprise that we're...

It’s holiday season shortly and we’ve got just the weather for it - good news for some, perhaps less so for...

Foxtons share price hit a new low yesterday, dropping to only 46p early in the afternoon: it eventually closed narrowly up...

Agents appear to be getting more pessimistic over the housing market as the latest government figures show prices still growing - but...

A report in the Financial Times lays bare the scale of the housing market downturn in central London - it suggests...

Peter Long, executive chairman of Countrywide, has resigned from another boardroom to focus on saving the troubled estate agency. Long has chosen...

Emoov’s latest crowdfunding campaign has now gone well over £1.5m, making it already 50 per cent over-funded already from its original...

Before I get into the nitty gritty of the government (well, one of its startup accelerator schemes) giving away £20,000, let...

A new market snapshot shows how there’s now a two-tier market with homes in London taking substantially longer to sell than...

Carter Jonas has doubled the footprint of its UK headquarters in prime central London. It’s added a further 6,760 square feet of...

The UK division of Keller Williams, the world's largest estate agency, says it can help entrepreneurial agents to set up their...

House prices in London are projected to fall in the short-term, down by two per cent by the end of 2018...

There’s a new twist in the row between a Cornish agent and the Advertising Standards Authority. The row revolves around a tweet...

It may not be a good idea for a journalist to be personal about a politician, so I write about our...

First things first, I have to mention the World Cup. The dream is over, football’s not quite coming home (not until...

There’s more gloomy reading for vendors from a new report by website Home, which says the volume of properties slashing their...

The battered prime central London market is now suffering from the UK’s wider political volatility, the lack of stability of the...

Fine & Country and The Guild of Property Professionals are refurbishing the Park Lane showroom they share - and it’s going...

Over 15,000 households have exchanged after listing with an online agent in the second quarter of 2018 - that’s eight per...

Locations in the capital dominate a league table of locations where the largest numbers of so-called ‘high risk’ mortgages are taken...

I loved my Foxtons office. I started in the Battersea branch. It was the old-style office; traditional carpets, actual properties in...

A left-leaning think tank is urging the Bank of England to manipulate the housing market to ensure house prices don’t rise...

A new free-to-list portal is to be launched - and it is to be ‘voice led’.  The PropTech firm Triplerr says it...

The dream goes on, and as England eases into the World Cup semi-finals, our agents’ reviews of their games continue -...

Hello, and welcome to this week’s regular Monday summary of all the major jobs moves in our industry.  The industry is still...

A senior agent says an innovative business model allows him to work in prime central London - even though he lives in France.  Former...

The Agency Express board company says its monitor of the sales market suggests that it’s in better shape now than it...

An outspoken high-end London estate agent says millionaire foreign buyers purchasing “cheap” properties in the capital represent what he calls “the...

Another update from OnTheMarket this morning claims the portal is now listing over 550,000 UK residential property listings, in excess of...

Two more price reports from high-end agencies make grim reading about the prime London housing market. New data from Savills suggests that...

By now we’ve all seen news about the long-term decline in property sales and competition from online alternatives leading to ‘more...

Emoov has launched a crowdfunding campaign giving investors, it says, “a final chance” to put their money into the hybrid agency...

Purplebricks is reported to be set to reveal increasing losses when it issues its full-year financial results to the London Stock...

An insolvency firm claims 153 estate agencies have gone bust in the past year with more than 7,000 “showing signs of...

The creative agency behind the new round of Purplebricks Commisery TV advertisements have been explaining the philosophy they brought to the...

Hello, and welcome to this week’s regular Monday summary of all the major jobs moves in our industry.  Despite summer and the...

So here’s the thing. It’s summer - not much going on, school holidays about to start, industry publications filling out space...

Estate Agent Today is 10 years old this weekend. We hope you’ll agree that’s a cause for celebration and a great...

One of the country’s best know estate agents, Marc Goldberg, has joined London agency Dexters. Goldberg spent some 30 years at Countrywide’s...

Hometrack says other cities are now closing the gap on London in terms of house prices and market value. The latest Hometrack UK...

The UK arm of the US-based estate agency Keller Williams says it is making a specific bid to recruit more women...

Chestertons has announced two changes to its management team in order to, in its own words, “help lead the business into...

House prices rose at their slowest annual rate in five years in June according to the latest indicator of this summer’s...

Wary buyers reluctant to risk buying a premium-priced property in the volatile prime central London market are adopting a perhaps-surprising tactic...

One of Countrywide’s former allies in the City broker community - independent corporate advisor Numis - has downgraded the troubled agency...

Total mortgage approvals by the main High Street banks increased three per cent in May over the same month last year...

Transactions across Greater London have plummeted - they were down 7.9 per cent over the past three months and a whopping...

The head of London’s largest estate agency brand has hit back at a council in the capital which wants enhanced powers...

A London council is seeking widespread powers to ban For Sale and To Let boards which it claims are seen by...

Hello and welcome to Property Jobs Today, the regular Monday round-up of moves and changes in our industry. Do please let us...

Estate Agent Today can reveal that Keller Williams, the US-led firm that has 170,000 agents worldwide, is to open its fourth...

Hunters is hoping to defy the long-running slowdown in the London market with the opening of a new branch in Greenwich.  The...

High-end housebuilder Berkeley Homes says “macro and political uncertainty, including Brexit” is leading to some developers previously building in London to...

The Money editor of The Mirror newspaper has finally sold a home he first put on the market in late 2016...

A major hybrid agency says there is a huge ‘reality gap’ between the typical asking price of homes on sale and the...

Prime London’s transactions are now the preserve of so-called ‘needs-based buyers’ and not investors according to high-end agency Knight Frank -...

One of the country’s largest auction houses has had to amend an advertisement on its website after an intervention by the...

Summer is traditionally the time of the year when the property market slows down, with people going away on their holidays...

The former managing director of Foxtons, Peter Rollings, has spilled the beans on what it was like working at the heart...

Hello - if it’s Monday, it must be Property Jobs Today, your chance to see a snapshot of the key moves...

Peter Rollings is one of the most respected and best-known figures in property, having helped to rapidly grow Foxtons (where he...

Chestertons has again been recognised for its success in engaging employees with the Payroll Giving fundraising initiative. The Payroll Giving Quality Mark...

OnTheMarket now has listing agreements with over 9,000 estate agency branches - that's another 500 or so since its previous release...

Major online agencies appear to be unaffected by yesterday’s Supreme Court decision over workers' rights in the so-called 'gig economy'.  Yesterday’s case concerned...

More stock and longer times on the market are combining to create a surge in asking price reductions according to a...

Paul Lamplugh, the father of estate agent Suzy who was presumed murdered 33 years ago, has died - tragically, without ever...

The Advertising Standards Authority has intervened after receiving a complaint about a website and online advertisement for the Howard Cundey agency. The...

The proportion of homes sold in London was lower than any other part of England and Wales last year according to...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, and although we’re well into the summer season now there are still plenty of...

Having recently attended FUTURE: PropTech in London, it struck me just how far the integration of property and technology has progressed...

Russell Quirk, chief executive of Emoov, says his agency is now one of the top seven in the UK following its...

A London estate agency run by a brother and sister is trying something completely now - it pledges to use some...

Prices grew at a faster than expected rate last month according to the Halifax House Price Index, which has reported a...

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

OnTheMarket’s first formal annual figures released since its flotation reveal losses in what it describes as its “transformational year” but also...

May saw the highest number of new sellers list their properties in any single month for at least 18 months, claims...

London estate agency Kay & Co says it is targeting Chinese buyers following research data produced by a portal. The China property...

A poll of housing market experts suggests London house prices are likely to fall this year as a result of Brexit...

OnTheMarket has announced to the City and its shareholders that it’s to reveal its annual results tomorrow - the first such...

Major auction companies continue to claim successes despite the challenging housing market. Auction House says a recent auction of London properties produced...

TV property expert Sarah Beeny says she expects online agencies to take 70 per cent market share in the future -...

Cluttons - which a year ago was bought out of pre-pack administration by a so-called ‘turnaround’ business, RCapital - has now...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT - this is the first edition for a fortnight as last Monday was a...

An outspoken estate agent has given the government a clear message - get off our backs , ease the red tape...

One of the country’s leading experts on the housing market says first time buyers are still hampered from purchasing homes despite...

The average over-65 homeowner in Britain has seen her or his property wealth gain £159,000 – or £7,000 annually - in...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity - and just because it’s half term, don’t think the industry has...

One of London’s best known high-end estate agents, Gary Hersham, says corruption crackdowns in this country and overseas may be deterring...

Property portal OnTheMarket has announced that it now has listing agreements with over 8,500 estate and letting agency branches.  It says that...

Property sellers in the South of England are having to accept asking reductions in order to achieve a sale.  Data from Hometrack...

A leading agent has urged major portals Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket to feature virtual viewings content more prominently on their platforms. Writing...

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...