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Industry charity and mentoring group Agents Together is planning to help firms prioritise mental wellbeing. It has developed a checklist that agents...

With this week being Mental Health Awareness Week, Sam Hunter - COO at Homesearch and a keen mental health advocate -...

Fundraising efforts featuring bikes, boats and James Bond all feature in this week's edition of Agents Do Charity. Remember, if you have...

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

In June, the biggest pilot scheme of a four-day working week anywhere in the world will begin in Britain, with more...

A high profile London estate agency has appointed two so-called Wellness Ambassadors to look after the mental health and wellbeing of...

A prominent trade body says the property industry must do more to recognise and support those with mental health issues. The Association...

No matter how dark the news, there’s light in our industry thanks to so many agents and suppliers doing good deeds....

Hello and if it’s Friday, it’s definitely the day for Agents Do Charity. We’re leading up to Valentine’s - a neat opportunity...

Hello and welcome to the latest Agents Do Charity, our weekly round-up of who’s-doing-what-good-deeds in our industry. Want to be involved? Well...

Barely three weeks into the new year and we’re already talking about plans to raise tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands of...

It’s often said that agency is a people business, and I can see no reason to disagree - agents dealing face-to-face...

A conveyancer has contacted Estate Agent Today suggesting that the Simplify Group IT data crisis could be the death knell for the company...

One of the founders and leading figures in the Agents Together industry charity says one silver lining of the pandemic has...

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

A conveyancing company is asking clients to set their own fee - with some strings. Zen Move Solicitors is a year-old digital...

An agency has won one of the most prestigious ‘gongs’ of the season - it’s been named Employer of the Year...

A coroner says there is no explanation how an estate agent suffered a cut to his wrist, which led to his...

Well it’s about time isn’t it? We mean winter - it’s here at last, with white, wintry weather that gets us...

In support of International Men’s Day - today - LSL will celebrate what it calls “the positive value men bring to...

We’re building up towards both Christmas and the Awards season right now, and that gives plenty of opportunities for fund raising,...

Some two thirds of agents and other property professionals who have worked alone have suffered an incident endangering their safety, according to...

A property company is offering its employees in the UK and overseas a day’s leave later this month to mark World...

The stamp duty holiday concluded at midnight, marking the end of the busiest period for the industry - all parts of...

We may be getting an extended summer but agents haven’t just been basking in the heatwave. There has been plenty of goodwill...

Almost a million tenants have built up rent arrears since March 2020, according to research by National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA)....

A London agency has launched a Wellbeing At Work initiative to help agents and other staff as they return to the...

The controversial proposal by a PropTech start up to charge potential viewers of properties to let or for sale has been...

Boy it’s been hot out there - yet even 30 degrees or more have failed to stifle the enthusiasm of our...

In the world of football – very topical at the moment, as we all enjoy the Euros – there is an...

Hello and welcome to another ADC, the weekly wrap of good work by the industry. You probably know the score by now...

A recent survey run by mio revealed that almost 50% of home movers selected their estate agent because they liked them....

The pandemic and lockdowns have made over a third of those aged 18 to 34 want to move house according to...

A trade union is demanding that the government ban emails from all employers outside office hours - and it wants emails...

Hello - it’s Friday already and that means more salutes to those in our industry raising money for good causes. If...

It’s now over a year since the property market officially reopened after an unprecedented two-month shutdown at the height of the...

The end of the week is always charity day here on EAT, and this week we have a typical cross section...

In this week’s In Conversation Today, I speak to someone who has made an excellent impression on the property industry in...

Propertymark is backing the current Mental Health Awareness Week - and says the market boom is a possible cause of additional...

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

Mental health – and the importance of good mental health – has become a vital thing for all of us in...

Normal life still seems far away so there hasn’t been the usual spotlight on a good-news-feeling that comes every year on...

Boomin co-founder Kenny Bruce says the UK economy should now be opening up thanks to the success of the Coronavirus vaccines. In...

From 4 May 2021, your agency could be blocked from charging late fees, compounding interest on missing rent and taking any...

Hello and welcome to the end of another week - and a step in the right direction towards the easing of...

The head of one of the industry’s foremost recruitment organisations says the pandemic has caused people to re-evaluate priorities and change...

A conveyancing organisation has launched an initiative called Be Kind We Care to promote kindness and wellbeing within the property industry. The...

It might be tempting during the pandemic to focus simply on the business, yet many agents have been turning their attention...

Hello, welcome to our latest charity roundup, and as the weather improves and the vaccine roll-out lifts the spirits, so we...

Industry supplier Kerfuffle and high-profile training service Marvellous have launched a competition for the children of agents and suppliers. The kids are...

We’re now in Lockdown 3.0 and most of us have become used to juggling home-working, home schooling and a million and...

Hello and welcome to Agents Do Charity, the regular round-up of industry good work. Whatever the cause, it’s great to publicise agents’...

A new working group on mental health in the agency industry is being set up following a poll revealing 62 per cent...

A firm calling itself the UK’s first 24/7 home-based agency says it wants to roll out nationally with a network of franchisees...

To kick off 2021, we have a Q&A with one of the most high-profile – and, it has to be said,...

One of the country’s most experienced estate agents has spoken out about mental illness in the industry and his own condition...

Here we are, on the brink of a festive season like never before, and approaching the end of 2020. Although a dreadful...

A survey conducted by charity Agents Together suggests a large majority of industry people would like to see more focus on...

Solicitors’ leaders say members of their industry are suffering mental health problems as a result of the workload to meet the...

A new report funded by high profile consumer champion Martin Lewis says the government must do more to help ‘mortgage prisoners’. These...

The ESTAS awards service and the Agents Together foundation are entering into a partnership. That means all ESTAS customer agents will be...

A health business is offering a free support package to estate agencies with between three and 100 employees, to help staff...

A self-employed agent has gone public to lavish praise on the mentoring scheme which is part of the Agents Together charity. Cameron Carter,...

You might be forgiven for thinking we’ve been cheated out of our Bank Holidays this year, as so many fell during...

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

The devolved government in Wales - where the housing market is still officially closed - has urged agents to report rivals...

The brothers who founded Purplebricks - Michael and Kenny Bruce - have returned to the agency industry for the first time...

Now that it’s June it’s officially summer (as if we didn’t realise that from the sudden drop in temperatures). With good...

Last week was Mental Health Awareness Week, and there is a great deal of positive things to be said about a...

There’s a warning today to agency chiefs to keep in touch with their staff as lockdown eases across England in a...

Three more property players have been in touch to share what they're doing to help their staff during lockdown - there...

Savills is donating over £800,000 to nominated charities across the UK. Following a commitment to Land Aid’s Covid-19 campaign for youth homelessness,...

“A lot of people have learned that they can work at home, or that there’s other methods of conducting their business......

A major consumer survey of existing home owners and potential movers has resulted in a plea to government to allow house...

Hello - yes it’s Friday in case you lost track, and that means it’s Agents Do Charity day: and once again...

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of Conquering Corona, our daily update helping the industry cope with the current crisis. If...

Where else to start? Since my last Natter two weeks ago, all our lives have changed more than we could ever...

Hello and here’s the next batch of guidance and advice from different sectors of the industry, many from influential trade groups. It’s...

Hello and welcome to the last day of January, Brexit Day and - perhaps most importantly - the latest edition of...

Our mental health affects how we think, feel and act. It affects how we handle anxiety, relate to others and impacts...

It’s beginning to look a lot like…we’re running a very popular service for agents, as we’ve been inundated with more fund-raising...

If you haven’t noticed, it’s November already - a month where it’s increasingly popular for men to grow moustaches for charity....

There may be lots of agents giving time this weekend to see England at the Rugby World Cup final and Lewis...

An estate agency service in the Lake District has rolled out a new benefit to all its staff - and in...

In an increasingly aggressive UK right now, it’s worth remembering that most people just want to get along and do good...

Hello there and we’re at the start of another Bank Holiday weekend - but no rest for you lot, working hard...

Welcome to another ADC, the weekly round-up each Friday of agents’ great fund-raising work.  This week we show the diversity of charitable...

There’s a distinctly northern flavour to some of the great fund-raising this week - and in particular Yorkshire. This isn’t the only...

This may not be a great way to start the week but a survey suggests that estate agents are Britain’s least...

As we end an especially tragic week, it is heart-warming to remember how our industry - along with so many other...

It’s been another busy week of fund-raising for agents across the industry, sparing time to do good works despite the market...

Looking ahead to the Spring Budget this week, the Chancellor Philip Hammond will be obliged to face up to the implications...