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Savills has appointed industry specialist Victoria Garrett to the role of director of its global residential business, based in the firm’s...

A drop in house prices remains likely for 2024 despite recent rises and improving sentiment. The latest Halifax house price index showed...

Beauchamp Estates has opened two new offices in the south of France. The prime luxury agent is now located in the luxury...

The last thing you want as we rake through the dying embers of 2023 is a journalist’s prediction of what’s going...

Home sales and house prices may have struggled in 2023 but more affluent buyers and sellers may not have noticed. Analysis by...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will deliver his Autumn Statement this afternoon amid rumours of Stamp Duty reforms and support for first-time buyers. The...

Self-employed agency brand eXp Realty has partnered with HomeHunter to help improve the property search process for consumers across its territories...

London agent Chestertons has signed a deal with Forbes Global Properties, giving it access to its worldwide reach and audience of...

The UK Sotheby’s property business has been acquired by the brand’s Dubai arm. Its former owner Robin Paterson has sold UK Sotheby’s...

Rich Americans will dominate ultra-premium property purchases in 2023, Beauchamp Estates claims. The luxury agent suggests that the strength of the dollar...

Knight Frank’s head of London residential sales Rory Penn has been named ‘Property Adviser of the Year at the Spear’s Awards...

It’s the oddest thing. Surely, the most fundamental requirement of an estate agent having won an instruction, is to get it...

The historic Chestertons brand, one of London’s largest and oldest estate agents, has today announced the appointment of John Ennis as its new...

Upmarket agent Beauchamp Estates has hailed the return of wealthy buyers to London after selling the home of two former Lebanon...

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

A leading agency has admitted that the uncertainty over the effects of the Omicron Covid variant has thrown forecasts for the...

Surprise figures released through Freedom of Information requests show that the number of homes in England and Wales with owners registered...

The bid by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors to re-establish itself as a trusted body continues with the naming of...

Agent wages have been in the news this week, with boastful claims from a number of self-employed businesses about the sums...

There are some parts of the world, including in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, where estate agent isn’t seen as...

Agents and developers are creating full-size show home-style properties overseas in a bid to woo wealthy foreigners who cannot travel to...

London’s housing market may be distinctly lacklustre compared to much of the rest of the UK right now but one development...

Right now it seems that another day means another house price record, an all-time high for transactions, and a conveyancing log-jam...

The country producing the largest number of buyers of prime London properties is not China, nor from north America or the...

A new study of British agents suggests that buyers with accents from most of the rest of the world receive less...

How prime London has changed. In 2002 work began on The Knightsbridge. Located within a stone’s throw of Harrods and a near-neighbour...

There’s been a surge in UK enquiries to global free-to-list portal Residential People, and a comparable rise in interest from Chinese...

Hello - it’s Monday and so it’s PJT, where you can catch up on the industry major moves of recent days. Please...

Estate agency Chestertons has named the new chief operating officer for the roll out of its UK and Europe franchising operation. Some...

A high profile and widely-respected estate agent is predicting a huge demographic change to one of the country’s wealthiest enclaves -...

Following on from the second half of the last decade, the first few weeks of 2020 have been a bit mad...

A growing free-to-list property portal says there's never been a better time for estate agents to target foreign investors. Residential People, which,...

In a previous Natter, I promised to talk more about CRMs – and here I stick to that promise. Following on from...

OnTheMarket’s selective fee freeze for agents has been challenged by a new portal which asks agents: ‘Why pay at all?’ OTM revealed...

A new global free-to-list property portal says it has secured 800 new property enquiries for estate agents in the last four...

By the time you read this article, I’ll be in Nigeria. My first ever visit to the continent of Africa. Sitting here...

If anyone thought Brexit may allow domestic buyers a bigger share of the market, think again: no fewer than 57 per...

Every cloud has a silver lining, and a high end prime central London estate agent appears to have found one from...

Hello and welcome to a new working week, which means your chance to catch up on the key moves in our...

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

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

Zoopla Property Group (ZPG) has announced it has become a 1% shareholder in international property portal business Propertyfinder Group (PFG). The organisation,...

It has been announced that Uber, the taxi company, has teamed up with build to rent firm, Moda Living, to ‘revolutionise renting’.    This...

The industry magazine Estates Gazette is reporting that Cluttons, the residential and commercial agency, has been bought out of pre-pack administration...

Peter Robinson, CEO of AIPP – Association of International Property Professionals – shines a light onto the international property market. Some UK...

A leading buying agency says there might be at least one upside to having The Donald in the White House -...

The Middle Eastern property development company Emaar - at one time the owner of Hamptons International estate agency - is using...

Following the election of Donald Trump, there has been a rise in the number of United States investors searching for property...

It is fair to say that 2016 is a year full of surprises. Anyone who had the foresight to predict Britain...

Estate agents and market analysts have spent 24 hours expressing their nervousness over the repercussions of Donald Trump's victory in the...

Some sectors of the industry have been giving their initial reactions to the shock Donald Trump victory in the US presidential election.  Camilla...

The director of a high-end foreign-owned estate agency in prime central London says he is surprised that so many other figures...

Ivy Gate, the start-up hybrid estate agency which won investment from TV Dragon James Caan three years ago, has announced its...

Reports suggest foreign buyers may be losing interest in directly owning property in London and are in some cases increasingly attracted...

Stephen Moss, CEO of Pring.co.uk the UK’s leading property investment search engine, takes a look at the impact of ‘Corbynmania’ on...

Two more agencies have set up new home divisions - a barometer of how they anticipate residential development becoming a bigger...

easyProperty says it is looking at the prospect of exporting its online agency business model to other countries. Chief executive Rob Ellice...

Despite seeing the word in many industry pieces, using ‘crisis’ to describe anything related to the UK housing market at present...

Transactions in prime central London have plummeted and prices per square foot have dipped. Data from LonRes shows that in the second...