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![House prices to grow by 6.3% by end of 2025](/upload/images/shutterstock_2218189005%20(1)(3).jpg)
A new house price forecast by peer-to-peer real estate investment platform, easyMoney, reveals that recent optimism in the UK property market could...
22 June 2024
From: Features
![10 reasons to become a Your Move franchise.](/upload/images/adv-2021/sponsored-content/LSL/online.jpg)
If you’re thinking about becoming an Estate Agency franchise or converting your existing estate agency business to a franchise, here we...
16 May 2024
From: Sponsored Content
![International Women’s Day: The barriers and benefits for estate agents](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/3%20Equality%20comes%20through%20learning%20-%20PIT%20by%20Chitra%20Stern.jpg)
Female agents have shared their view on representation and opportunities in the sector to mark International Women’s Day. Industry data shows while...
08 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![For long-term growth, join the culture club](/upload/images/2%20proorfed%20-%20For%20long-term%20growth%2C%20join%20the%20culture%20club%20Agent%20%26%20Homes%20by%20EAT%20writer.jpg)
“I like finance. I find it intellectually interesting – there’s lots of numbers and that’s great.” That sentence coming out of the...
02 March 2024
From: Features
![Agency recruitment veteran joins property data firm](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyStats-400x310%20(1).png)
Estate agency recruitment expert and mentor Ian Dobrin has joined property data firm Addland. He will initially focus on further building the...
26 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Soccer pundit Dion Dublin is up front for Expo](/upload/images/shutterstock_1937437555(1).jpg)
Former England footballer turned TV pundit and property expert, Dion Dublin, is to headline the South East Property Expo. The centre...
06 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity - community care](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Special%20Logo's/AgentsDoCharity.png)
Agents have been showing there is more to being charitable than just donating money. This weeks charitable exploits have a big focus...
23 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Outgoing Spicerhaart chair handed special achievement award](/upload/images/shutterstock_1697309575.jpg)
Spicerhaart’s non-executive chairman John Spence has received a special achievement award after announcing his retirement from the board after more than...
12 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity - nominate your top fundraisers](/upload/images/AgentsDoCharity.png)
Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...
19 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Industry trainer marks 20-year milestone](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LearningAgents-400x310.png)
Industry veteran Michael Day is marking 20 years since setting up his Integra Property Services consultancy and training business. The brand now...
05 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents Together reaches mentoring milestone](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LearningAgents3-400x310.png)
Industry charity Agents Together is celebrating reaching new mentorship and volunteering milestone. It has revealed that 800 free mentorships have now been...
30 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![New LGBTQ+ estate agency group launches](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LearningAgents2-400x310.png)
A trio of estate agents have setup an LGBTQ+-focused mentoring, learning and networking group. Founded by James Hummerstone-Pope, Danielle Andrews and Caren...
27 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity - warm hearts on colder days](/upload/images/Site%20logos/AgentsDoCharity-NewLogo2-400x310.jpg)
There have been plenty of heart-warming examples of agents supporting their local communities and charities this week, from sleep-outs to donations. Whatever...
02 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![The Agency UK plans industry exhibition](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/BusinessTeam-400x310.png)
Self-employed estate partnership brand The Agency UK (TAUK) is to host its first industry exhibition. Titled Grow your Agency in 23, the...
21 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter - day in the life of a NTSELAT policy manager](/upload/images/Site%20logos/PropertyNatter-2019-400x310.png)
Given their leading role in the recent upfront information revolution, interest in the work of the National Trading Standards Estate &...
05 November 2022
From: Features
![Agents Do Charity - winter coats and support for schools](/upload/images/Site%20logos/AgentsDoCharity-NewLogo2-400x310.jpg)
We are dedicating today's round-up to two important cause that agents are being called on to get behind. Agents are being urged...
21 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents invited to become proptech mentors](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/Digital-Online-400x310.jpg)
Agents are being invited to help shape and be part of the future of the proptech sector. Propertymark is hosting proptech investment company...
30 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![A Level results: Agency highlighted as viable career for school leavers](/upload/images/BTR%2C%20PBSA%2C%20Co-living/2%20people.png)
Estate agency brands have begun reaching out to school leavers as students received their A and T-Level grades yesterday. Top grades for...
19 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Key leasehold body announces conference schedule](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/LeaseholdImage-2020-400x310.jpg)
The Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners (ALEP) has announced the schedule for its annual Conference. The event returns to its traditional in-person format this year,...
05 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter – is LinkedIn something agency can no longer ignore?](/upload/images/Site%20logos/PropertyNatter-2019-400x310.png)
For some time, LinkedIn was seen – fairly or unfairly – as stodgy, dull, corporate and formal. The uncool uncle to...
30 July 2022
From: Features
![Property Natter: ‘the only way to bring about change is to be proactive’](/upload/images/Site%20logos/PropertyNatter-2019-400x310.png)
In this latest ‘Women in Property’ edition of the Natter, I check in with Collette Allen, who was recently appointed as...
28 May 2022
From: Features
![Industry charity aims to boost agent focus on wellbeing](/upload/images/Miscellaneous/MentalHealthImage-400x310.jpg)
Industry charity and mentoring group Agents Together is planning to help firms prioritise mental wellbeing. It has developed a checklist that agents...
18 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agency launches new Franchise and Consultant schemes](/upload/images/library/MillennialAgent-400x310.jpg)
A three-branch agency in the south west has launched a franchise model which it says should appeal “to those wanting a...
29 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![The mistakes we made at Purplebricks - by the Bruce brothers](/upload/images/Logos/Purplebricks-TeamGB-Board-400x310.jpg)
Michael and Kenny Bruce have for the first time given their views on what went wrong for Purplebricks during their time...
21 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![From Poacher to Gamekeeper - Levelling Up from Agent to Developer](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/PlanningImage-400x310.jpg)
The path from agent to developer is not easy, but it is a relatively straightforward one, if you are willing to...
12 March 2022
From: Features
![Busted - newspaper reveals scandals behind self-employed agents on TV](/upload/images/library/Newspapers-400x310.jpg)
A national newspaper has lifted the lid on what it alleges to be the backgrounds of high-end self-employed agents who feature...
28 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Phil Spencer: Healthy Staff mean a Healthy Business](/upload/images/Site%20logos/PhilSpencer-MoveIQ-EATLAT-400x310.jpg)
It’s often said that agency is a people business, and I can see no reason to disagree - agents dealing face-to-face...
10 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![Pandemic has helped industry take mental health seriously - claim](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/MentalHealthImage-400x310.jpg)
One of the founders and leading figures in the Agents Together industry charity says one silver lining of the pandemic has...
24 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter – the A-Z of property for 2021](/upload/images/Site%20logos/PropertyNatter-2019-400x310.png)
It really is beginning to look a lot like Christmas – just a week to go now. Presents all wrapped and...
18 December 2021
From: Features
![Property Natter - video interview with Stephen Brown and RAN 2021!](/upload/images/Site%20logos/PropertyNatter-2019-400x310.png)
In a first for the Natter, this week's interview is a video affair, with me posing the questions to Stephen Brown,...
04 December 2021
From: Features
OnTheMarket has signed an exclusive commercial partnership with business coaching specialists, Property Academy. OTM will provide full fee-paying customers with free access...
15 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![A foot in the door - Savills welcomes young people for work experience](/upload/images/Logos/Savills-NEW-logo400x310.png)
One of the property market's leading names has welcomed young people into its company for work experience through a partnership with...
17 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter: talking the secret to good photography and working for Foxtons](/upload/images/Site%20logos/PropertyNatter-2019-400x310.png)
Good property marketing photos have arguably never been more important in an increasingly visual and tech-led world. We saw just the...
11 September 2021
From: Features
![Property Jobs Today - movers and shakers this summer](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello and welcome to another Property Jobs Today, your chance to see the latest moves in our industry. Why not be a...
26 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![England player is early graduate of estate agency academy](/img/default/eat.png)
A former England international is an early graduate of a new estate agency academy in Yorkshire. Rebecca Rayner, a former England under-18...
08 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter: how tech-led will estate agency be in 10 years?](/img/default/eat.png)
Around 18 months ago, just a few months before the pandemic hit, I did a Natter with the team at software...
19 June 2021
From: Features
![Three top tips for agents offered by Kerfuffle’s Simon Whale](/img/default/eat.png)
Kerfuffle founder Simon Whale has given Estate Agent Today readers three top tips for improving their performance. The trio of suggestions -...
17 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity - well done Agents Together and industry fund-raisers](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello and we’re at the end of another week celebrating all those in our industry who do great work. And this...
11 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![In Conversation Today – ‘I've always believed agents should be regulated’](/img/default/eat.png)
In this week’s In Conversation Today, I am delighted to chat with Lucy Morton, Head of Residential Agency at JLL, about...
27 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Boomin names Bruce brothers’ charity chief as portal strategy leader](/img/default/eat.png)
Sarah Edmundson, the chief executive of the Agents Together charity - set up by the Bruce brothers, Michael and Kenny -...
23 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter – 5 ways estate agency has changed since May 2020](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s now over a year since the property market officially reopened after an unprecedented two-month shutdown at the height of the...
22 May 2021
From: Features
![Five PropTech suppliers to watch - Propertymark’s ‘good for agents’ shortlist](/img/default/eat.png)
Propertymark has shortlisted five of the 700 or so PropTech suppliers in the UK, as part of the trade body’s REACH...
23 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity - this week it’s all about young people and, er, bees](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello and welcome to a sunny Friday and this week’s round-up of the industry’s good works. We’re keen to feature agents and...
23 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter - will there be live property events this year?](/img/default/eat.png)
The last property event I attended in person – and I think the last physical property event held all told –...
10 April 2021
From: Features
![Sarah Edmundson – how Agents Together is helping the industry to talk](/img/default/eat.png)
Mental health – and the importance of good mental health – has become a vital thing for all of us in...
01 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Open up economy says Boomin boss as Covid appears to ease](/img/default/eat.png)
Boomin co-founder Kenny Bruce says the UK economy should now be opening up thanks to the success of the Coronavirus vaccines. In...
23 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Countrywide: Where did it all go wrong? A former insider gives his view...](/img/default/eat.png)
This week’s interviewee in the ‘In Conversation Today’ hotseat is a man better placed than most to shed some light on...
18 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter - is working from anywhere the future for UK estate agency?](/img/default/eat.png)
One of the biggest trends in recent times, as a direct result of the pandemic, is the concept of working from...
13 March 2021
From: Features
![How do you think Propertymark should be run?](/img/default/eat.png)
Propertymark has set out a four point strategy for the future of the organisation. The body - which encompasses the National Association...
09 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Industry veteran takes over Propertymark as interim leader](/img/default/eat.png)
Propertymark has named a veteran industry figure as interim chief executive - and says it has a "new strategy." Nathan Emerson has some...
24 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agents offered trip to Dubai - as Health Secretary warns against it...](/img/default/eat.png)
High profile agency owner Sean Newman is offering his entire self-employed team of 100 agents and mortgage advisors a chance for...
25 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![High profile agent opens up on his mental illness issue](/img/default/eat.png)
One of the country’s most experienced estate agents has spoken out about mental illness in the industry and his own condition...
04 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Corona kindness - the best of agency in 2020](/img/default/eat.png)
The industry seems almost back to normal. Not the ‘new normal’ we spoke so much of a few weeks and months ago,...
12 December 2020
From: Features
![ESTAS and Agents Together form partnership to help industry](/img/default/eat.png)
The ESTAS awards service and the Agents Together foundation are entering into a partnership. That means all ESTAS customer agents will be...
02 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Industry Redundancies: Agents Together launches support programme](/img/default/eat.png)
Agents Together, the wellbeing and mentorship service which came into existence earlier this year, is launching what it calls a Redundancy...
16 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Ian Westerling - a legacy of Humberts, NAEA, PropTech and more](/img/default/eat.png)
As many in the industry will know, Ian Westerling passed away last week at the age of 51: he was a...
09 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![PropTech offer for NAEA agents to work with start-ups](/img/default/eat.png)
The National Association of Estate Agents is inviting members to join a panel reviewing new PropTech produced as a result of...
09 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Ground-breaking agent mentoring scheme wins lavish praise](/img/default/eat.png)
A self-employed agent has gone public to lavish praise on the mentoring scheme which is part of the Agents Together charity. Cameron Carter,...
03 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Nothing wrong with 'Commisery' says unrepentant Michael Bruce](/img/default/eat.png)
A founder of Purplebricks, Michael Bruce, suggests there was nothing wrong with the controversial Commisery TV ads that contributed to making...
27 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Leading trainer launches range of online modules spanning industry](/img/default/eat.png)
One of the industry’s leading trainers and consultants has launched a range of 15 new online training modules covering sales skills,...
22 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![NAEA Propertymark in PropTech deal to promote start-ups](/img/default/eat.png)
NAEA Propertymark is partnering with a service called REACH UK, to promote selected PropTech start ups to agents who may need...
10 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Ex-Countrywide chief joins mentor team at Agents Together](/img/default/eat.png)
Industry veteran Harry Hill, a former chairman of Countrywide and founder of Rightmove, has now become a mentor at the new...
24 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks' founders reveal new project to re-enter the agency industry](/img/default/eat.png)
The brothers who founded Purplebricks - Michael and Kenny Bruce - have returned to the agency industry for the first time...
09 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agents’ biggest challenges now are handling instructions in ‘new normal’](/img/default/eat.png)
A survey of estate agents conducted through trade publications has revealed that market uncertainty and the handling of transactions within government...
09 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![What are your views on well-being and Corona recovery? New survey](/img/default/eat.png)
A mystery group, believed to consist of high-level former agents and suppliers, is asking the industry for its feedback on current...
29 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Conveyancers told to put UP their fees just as housing market reopens](/img/default/eat.png)
A specialist legal advisory service is urging conveyancers to use the reopening of the housing market as an opportunity to increase...
27 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Property Jobs Today - new moves on the March...](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello and another Monday means PJT Day, your regular update on movers in the industry - and it’s March already. If there...
02 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity - from desert marathons to nuclear rushes…](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello and welcome to the end of the week, which always means a round-up of our industry’s good work for charity....
07 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![PropTech Today: The biggest mistake you can make is to do nothing](/img/default/eat.png)
This line is one that I use a lot in my speeches and presentations, often as part of the final slide. I...
06 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Property Jobs Today - your weekly update on who’s moving where](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello and welcome to PJT, breaking you in to the working week every Monday with news of the movers and shakers...
05 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter - what’s it like to work for the world’s biggest agency?](/img/default/eat.png)
Nicky Stevenson has had a very varied and interesting career in property. She started out as a lettings negotiator for Nicholas...
27 July 2019
From: Features
![Property Natter: a guide to property startups - Part 1](/img/default/eat.png)
All the most successful startups of recent years – from Airbnb and Uber to Just Eat and Deliveroo – have melded...
15 June 2019
From: Features
![Making the transition from estate agency to property development](/img/default/eat.png)
Property developing is an incredibly diverse and exciting career choice, and something that many people aspire to do in the UK. I...
15 June 2019
From: Features
![New ‘tech solutions group’ for agents unveils high-profile suppliers](/img/default/eat.png)
The Innovative Collaboration Group - a collection of high-profile tech suppliers to the agency industry - has unveiled a raft of new...
30 May 2019
From: Breaking News
![NAEA and ARLA launch training and compliance service for agents](/img/default/eat.png)
NAEA and ARLA Propertymark have launched an initiative called Propertymark Inspire to promote training and compliance awareness amongst agents. A statement says the...
29 May 2019
From: Breaking News
![Countrywide’s hugely popular “inspirational leader” has died](/img/default/eat.png)
John D Wood has announced that Nick Taylor, the agency’s managing director and a well-known figure in the industry for four...
15 May 2019
From: Breaking News
![Major Purplebricks backer launches new PropTech start-up fund](/img/default/eat.png)
One of the largest investors in Purplebricks has now joined forces with an off-shoot of luxury car firm Porsche to launch...
21 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![Top industry suppliers form new group offering agents ‘tech solutions’](/img/default/eat.png)
Many of the industry’s best known and widely respected suppliers have set up a new group which they say offers agents...
20 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![Property Jobs Today - many top industry names on the move this week ...](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today - the every-Monday round-up of key moves within the industry. Let us know...
04 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![Agency using hub-style Market Centres now has 130 UK agents](/img/default/eat.png)
Keller Williams, the US agency which allows agents to work from hub-like ‘market centres’, says it now has 130 freelance agents in this...
08 November 2018
From: Breaking News
![Property Jobs Today - the latest industry moves and appointments](/img/default/eat.png)
The first signs of a seasonal slowdown are appearing according to some agents in touch with EAT, but there are still...
05 November 2018
From: Breaking News
![Ditch High Street branches and use serviced offices, urges agency chief](/img/default/eat.png)
Increasingly cash-strapped traditional estate agencies should consider abandoning their High Street offices and work from serviced offices or similar lower-profile and...
28 September 2018
From: Breaking News
![Estate agency branch layouts - students drafted in to design the future](/img/default/eat.png)
Industry supplier Mid West Displays has drafted in students from the University of Wolverhampton to design future estate agency branches. The company...
21 September 2018
From: Breaking News
![My journey from franchisee to MD at the UK’s original hybrid agency](/img/default/eat.png)
After gaining my MBA qualification from Edinburgh Business School in 2005, I took careful consideration over my career moves and prospective...
22 August 2018
From: Features
![Property Jobs Today - the industry's latest moves...](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT - a thinner than usual edition as the industry enjoys the last of the...
20 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Property Jobs Today - and it's a bumper week for moves...](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today, our weekly feature on who’s moving where throughout our industry. And it’s...
14 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Top Man! Mike Day celebrates 15 years as leading consultant](/img/default/eat.png)
Mike Day, one of the best known and most popular figures in the agency business, is celebrating 15 years as one...
11 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Agency and Alice are the perfect advertisement for apprentices](/img/default/eat.png)
Alice Hickmott is the perfect advertisement for apprentices in estate agency - especially as we are now in National Apprentice Week. Essex...
06 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![PropTech: Online agencies the likely target for new investors in Pi Labs](/img/default/eat.png)
One of the largest investment firms in the United States has taken a stake in the London-based venture capital firm Pi...
16 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![US agency opens third office in UK - and pledges more in 2018](/img/default/eat.png)
Keller Williams UK is launching its third office in the UK. It’s in Glasgow and the new market centre - the term...
14 December 2017
From: Breaking News
![Top industry figure says OTM float 'just makes money for elite agents'](/img/default/eat.png)
Iain White, the ex-Romans managing director and former Countrywide director, has come out strongly against the demutualisation proposal from Agents’ Mutual...
30 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity - the first-mention-of-the-C-word edition](/img/default/eat.png)
Now we hate to spoil a long weekend but for much of the UK this is the final Bank Holiday before......
25 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Estate Agent Today Panel - Agents’ Mutual: the arguments continue](/img/default/eat.png)
No one can say Agents’ Mutual has failed to provoke debate within the industry. The project was the centre of fierce argument...
11 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Learning and growth - top tips for upskilling](/img/default/eat.png)
Our recent roundtable on the government’s proposed ban on tenant fees generated 10 tips for growing your business. Since then, we’ve been...
23 June 2017
From: Features
![Agents Do Charity - the first edition of summer](/img/default/eat.png)
June marks the start of what professional weather folk call summer - and even if the temperatures are a little variable,...
02 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![How not to sell a €12.5m villa (or any other property for that matter)](/img/default/eat.png)
This actually happened - the names of the guilty have been withheld to protect the innocent. I live in Spain, Marbella actually,...
15 April 2017
From: Features
![Property Natter: How to improve your agency - a view from the inside](/img/default/eat.png)
For my latest Property Natter I have sought the opinions of two well-known property consultants - Michael Day, managing director of...
01 April 2017
From: Features
![Redressing the balance: why we need more women in agency](/img/default/eat.png)
Earlier this week it was Dads4Daughters Day – a campaign that strives to promote gender equality in the workplace. I have three...