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The fast-growing high profile Hat and Home agency has joined the Guild of Property Professionals. Founded in December 2020, Hat and Home...

The jargon and complicated house moving process is deterring as many as 2.2m owners from entering the market, claims Zoopla.  The portal...

The cost and time consuming nature of the house moving process is deterring older owners from downsizing, it’s been alleged. An upfront...

Home-moving platform the GoTo Group has been announced as a key partner of the Relocation Agent Network (RAN). RAN agents will gain...

A former director of Southampton-based property brand White & Guard has launched his own estate agency in Hampshire. Rob Rowe has unveiled Rowe...

Home-moving platform MoveReady has launched a new game to raise awareness of new material information rules and help agents, buyers and...

At iamproperty we are excited to share the announcement of our future innovation strategy and vision, continuing our commitment to transform...

OnTheMarket is to launch a six-part podcast series aimed at demystifying the home moving process for less experienced property seekers. It comes...

Property data in the UK is mined from a labyrinth of sources such as local authorities, various government departments and private...

Fortune favours the brave, as the saying goes. So, when you consider how upfront material information can and does make the...

OnTheMarket has launched a new financial services arm. The portal has unveiled OnTheMarket Money, an umbrella brand providing consumers with access to...

Agency feedback platform The ESTAS Group has launched a new tool designed to help estate agents by collecting vital insights from...

The Home Buying and Selling Group (HBSG) has formed an independent industry body, the Open Property Data Association (OPDA), for companies...

Landmark Information Group has partnered with payment processor Shieldpay. The partnership aims to provide faster and more transparent conveyancing payments. Shieldpay’s digital platform,...

The Building Safety Act will cause further delays to the home moving process, a senior industry executive has warned. Rob Hailstone, chief...

Upfront material information is now firmly on the property industry’s radar, with Trading Standards CPR regulations expected to move towards disclosing...

Trade and representative bodies representing the legal, surveying, estate agency and property management sectors have launched the fourth iteration of the...

An outline agenda for National Conveyancing Week has been released with the event just eight weeks away. National Conveyancing Week has been...

As economic signs increasingly point to a contraction in the property market, competition for new business will inevitably heat up. But...

The Mortgage Advice Bureau has partnered with property sales progression software provider ViewMyChain to give brokers more transparency during the transaction...

Estate agents could face new transaction delays after the Land Registry and its Scottish equivalent were among Government departments and civil...

Agents should consider risk-scoring buyers and refocus on customer experience in the face of the more challenging housing market, a senior...

Proptech firm iamproperty has reached a new milestone as it reveals its partner agent network has hit 5,000 firms. The milestone represents...

The ESTAS Customer Service Awards – which are often described as estate agency’s version of the Oscars – took place last...

One of the biggest frustrations people have with the home buying and selling process is the amount of time it takes...

It was announced back in February this year that PEXA, the Australian FinTech/PropTech that enabled the world’s first fully digitised property settlement...

Another piece about conveyancing? Seems like it's been a bit of free-for-all in the last couple of weeks on the woes...

Automation is the direction the industry is moving in and it’s gathering pace every day. Forward-thinking agents are using automation and...

Proptech firm iamproperty has surpassed £1bn of sales using the Modern Method of Auction (MMoA) in the past 12 months. Its iamsold...

I look back on when my dad helped me buy my first car and shared his pearls of wisdom on what...

Proptech firm iamproperty has overhauled its movebutler platform with more material information features and a Love Island theme. The end-to-end onboarding and...

A proptech startup launched by former Conveyancing Association chairman Eddie Goldsmith has secured a second round of investment. YouConvey, which aims to...

Next month will see new rules around upfront Material Information for property sales and lettings come into force in the UK...

Referral fees, lack of trust and too much email have been identified as barriers to greater collaboration between conveyancers and estate...

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

I attended a forum in London a couple of weeks ago, which for the first time brought estate agents and conveyancers...

The sponsor of an industry forum for agents and conveyancers to be held next week says the collaborative event hails the...

A new PropTech platform set up by a major figure in the conveyancing industry claims to slash the typical time for...

PropTech supplier nurtur.group - which owns Fine & Country and the Guild of Property Professionals - has acquired Brief Your Market,...

Industry figures have come out in favour of the long-term programme of new compulsory information to be contained on property listings. From...

The branding and technology supplier epropservices - which also owns Fine & Country and the Guild of Property Professionals - is changing...

As this is the first Natter back since the Christmas break, I should like to first wish all our readers a...

Blockchain PropTech operator Coadjute is to continue as Headline Partner for The ESTAS for 2022 and 2023.  Coadjute - which took over...

Fine & Country says it’s celebrating the launch of offices in 12 new locations across Spain this year. The brand says that...

Rightmove is to try to help potential buyers get their finances in order much earlier in the transaction process, to reduce...

With 2022 swiftly approaching, businesses in the property industry are likely to be reflecting on the trials and tribulations that have...

Agents are being urged to be more open to new methods of stopping deals falling through. HBB Solutions - a part exchange...

With soaring property prices, supply continuing to be outstripped by demand and overworked and overtired industry professionals; we’re seeing the sector...

Some 1,100 guests are expected to attend the ESTAS awards tomorrow - the first time agents, conveyancers and brokers will gather...

Over the last three years there has been a quiet revolution in the tenant referencing market. Starting with the 2019 tenant...

Let it never be said that this column isn’t here to help out agents directly. In this week’s Natter, I speak...

In the first of a two-part special with the presidents of the UK’s largest property trade organisation, we carry out an...

Tech is a fantastic enabler but should never be a complete replacement for the human interactions that add real value to...

Movebutler, the digital onboarding platform from online auction specialist iamproperty, says it has some 900 agency branches signed up. These include Martin...

The current crisis has led to many of us to re-evaluate our lives to ensure that we put ourselves in the...

The private treaty process has been in need of modernisation for a long time. When we open an account with a...

Later this year, on October 22, the ESTAS 2021 will take place in London. The glittering ceremony will welcome property professionals...

An industry group charged with trying to make house buying simpler and quicker says it’s made a breakthrough on ‘upfront’ information...

The Chancellor’s rumoured six week extension to the stamp duty holiday has been backed by Rightmove. Over last weekend the Daily Telegraph,...

Reservation Agreement specialist Gazeal is to sponsor the Estate Agent categories at The ESTAS later this year. Gazeal chief executive Bryan Mansell...

Agents should put as much emphasis on ensuring a house move actually happens as on winning the instruction to begin with,...

Property portals remain an essential marketing tool for estate agents and their value is clearly appreciated by consumers. However, with a...

Technology has advanced in leaps and bounds in recent years, undoubtedly improving many parts of the moving process for both estate...

The property market became somewhat fractious during 2020. After receiving a much-needed boost with the promise of stamp duty relief, things...

A PropTech company has won a grant for a project to improve ID verification in the buying and selling process, via...

Following a turbulent 2020 in which the property market and the professionals working within it excelled in the face of unprecedented...

The founder of OneDome says a likely housing market slowdown is the perfect time for agents to optimise revenue by investing in PropTech. Babek Ismayil believes...

The second England-wide lockdown is here. The good news is that this time round, the property market remains open for business,...

While England’s national lockdown exempts the housing market and allows agents to operate normally, it’s not been the same in Wales...

Purplebricks recently launched a meditation service to help buyers and sellers manage stress. You might disagree with the idea, but moving...

We can all agree that the recovery of the property market since May has been outstanding. The latest data from Zoopla...

The housing market is to remain open in the four week lockdown in England. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government...

The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the way every industry operates and the property sector is no exception. Following an enforced seven-week...

Purplebricks is the first estate agency in the country to launch a meditation service to ease “the emotional rollercoaster felt by...

Most agents' branches in Wales are expected to close for just over two weeks from 6pm this Friday, October 23 - moving...

We all know that people can’t move to a new house without going through the Conveyancing process. However, with that said,...

It’s about this time of year, pandemic or not, that agents may be asked one particularly awkward question by a vendor...

One of the many new portals recently launched has made a pitch for agents to join because of its referral fees...

A new customer service award category at The ESTAS will see agency networks competing against each other for the first time.  Networks...

From December, the new RICS Home Survey Standard will become mandatory for all RICS professionals undertaking home surveys. The below article explains...

Customer review and awards platform the ESTAS is parting company with headline partner Zoopla after 10 years. The founder of The ESTAS...

One of the main points I’ve had reinforced to me from agent after agent over the last year of hosting a...

Emma Vigus, managing director of sales progression platform mio, in discussion with key suppliers in the residential property industry on operating...

The housing market in Northern Ireland is resuming on Monday after its lockdown because of the Coronavirus crisis. Arlene Foster, first minister...

Three of the highest profile industry suppliers and house moving services have given government a four-step plan to restart the housing...

At the moment, it somehow seems like tempting fate to think too far into the future, especially in terms of the...

It may seem a long time since normal trading took place but many agencies are now finding they are picking up...

If it’s really the case that estate agents’ offices could be in the category of High Street premises first allowed to...

I won't be the first or last person to say that society and the property industry in which we operate is...

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

The government has at last issued extensive advice on home moving and the activities of estate agents during the continuing Coronavirus crisis. This...

The head of a firm that has been creating digital property log books for well over a decade says the house-moving...

Agents are consistently being told that they need to get on board with change. And one could quite easily make the...

Who are you? Jed Topping, Business Development Executive for Virgin Media How can sales and letting agents work with Virgin Media to earn extra revenue?...

Now we’re well into the second month of the year, we have reached a crucial point in the ongoing plans to...

Property auctions – online or otherwise – can be hugely helpful to sellers, buyers and estate agents. Online auctions, in particular, are...

Unfortunately for consumers, buying and selling properties is rarely plain sailing. But fortunately for agents, this provides you with an opportunity to...

The hugely-respected Phil Spencer is to write a regular column for the industry on Estate Agent Today under the auspices of...

HM Land Registry appears to be making painfully slow progress on digitising land charge search data - contrary to its earlier...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Emily Hawthorne, mio Account Manager for the South West of...