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A panel of estate agents recently participated in a webinar to discuss the benefits of livestream open house viewings. The webinar, part...

Honesty is a concept that journalists will tell their readers is non-existent for estate agents. Yeah, right! But as the end...

When it comes to communications, Propertymark could do with a lot fewer confidentiality agreements and a lot more transparency. And I...

Fixflo’s webinar on February 9 saw an industry panel debate 2021’s threats and opportunities for letting agents. The panel discussed a range...

On March 23rd 2021, Dezrez and its partners are hosting EAvolution21 the event that showcases the latest in PropTech using an...

Knowing adjudication terms and phrases can make all the difference in a deposit dispute. The DPS has been helping landlords and letting...

Estate agents might be expert at advising on buying and selling properties on their books but when it comes to buying...

Agents are invited to a webinar at lunchtime today to discuss how home staging can improve sales prospects for properties. Lemon and...

It’s pretty cold out there, making a difficult time that much worse - except for fans of sledging of course. But many...

This time out, I’m in conversation with one of the big three established portals. Since it was founded in 2007, Zoopla...

A branch of franchise agency CJ Hole is marking what it calls “an incredible 30 years of success” this month. The Burnham-on-Sea...

A group that last year floated the concept of a one-off wealth tax - which would include taxing main homes as...

Welcome to the start of another week and this catch up on the latest moves within the agency world. Everyone featured here...

An online petition has been started by an independent estate agent seeking a radical overhaul of how homes are sold in...

At the back-end of last year and the start of this, the biggest news stories in town – besides debates over...

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

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

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I am the General Manager of Ravensworth, which is what...

Zoopla has revealed a multi-million-pound programme of future developments which have taken 18 months to finalise. Chief executive Charlie Bryant has told...

Homeowners staying at home during another lockdown are doing more than sharing memes of groundhog day or doing family quizzes on...

The last few months have seen property agents work hard to continue delivering quality client communications and maintain an increasingly digital...

A new estate agency listing historic houses is to have “a select group of creatives and thinkers” that will assist in the...

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

Propertymark, the overarching body aiming to bring five different associations (ARLA, NAEA, NAVA, ICBA and APIP) into a single brand, was...

A customer due diligence training webinar is being held for Rightmove members next week. This is the third anti-money laundering training webinar...

Sir Kier Starmer has told the government it should look again at whether estate agents’ viewings of properties for sale and...

Hello and welcome to the first Property Jobs Today of 2021 - we’re less than a fortnight into the New Year...

With the Government announcement this week of another national lockdown across England amid the surging coronavirus infections, it once again puts...

Connells has cemented its takeover of Countrywide - it now has backing from over 52 per cent of shareholders. In a statement...

Over the last 20 years, the growth of online property portals – including Zoopla, Rightmove and PrimeLocation – has transformed the...

January presents an opportune time for agency leaders to resolve and plan for resilience, performance and growth in 2021. With most of...

A trade body has called on House Secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene over the growing problem of delays in councils providing...

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

The pandemic has reignited the flagging country house market and boosted demand for larger homes with gardens, claims Savills. Larger country houses...

He’s gone from Downing Street but the legacy of Dominic Cummings lives on in Rightmove’s top searches of 2020. Barnard Castle -...

Entrants for the 2021 ESTAS Customer Service Awards have only until December 31 to sign up. Founder Simon Brown says: “The bounce...

Figures from Zoopla suggest there’s a Christmas present being unwrapped by agents across the country - a far busier housing market tha this...

Many independents will be based in the capital, but given its size and breadth they may get drowned out even more...

Hello and a final ‘send your pictures and videos’ message from us to you. There’s still time to email images to press@estateagenttoday.co.uk...

It is the end of my column for another year, my 4th if I am not mistaken.  This year has seen a...

OnTheMarket is to undergo a revamp under its new chief executive, former Foxtons agent Jason Tebb - who has been given...

There’s no let up in your fantastic festive photos and videos as we enter the final laps of the race to...

Hello - and here we are nearing the end of the strangest of years.  With agents and industry suppliers rushed off their...

Hello and welcome to the final full working week before Christmas 2020. With everyone pre-occupied with Covid, the festive season has crept...

Welcome to the weekend - and there are just two of these left before Christmas, so it’s time to hit the...

With just over two weeks to go to Christmas and the well-deserved break for the industry, we’re delighted that your pictures...

Hello and welcome to our latest selection of photos from agencies which have dressed their offices for Christmas. We’ve had another great...

Delays with the return of property searches is one key factor for sales taking longer to complete. As conveyancers start to warn...

Welcome to part three of our ongoing series on local independent agents, as we seek to give this all-important part of...

Here at Giraffe360, the PropTech startup, we have raised a £3.5 million funding round to further accelerate our product development and...

Recent debate about urgent need for reform and better collaboration within the property industry, has once again come under the spotlight...

The private equity company which wants to take control of Countrywide has issued a statement saying it now has the support...

A digital resource hub for estate agents launches a new product today, claiming to shorten transaction times.  Sort Move, which has been...

The industry regulator who comes into force when the Regulation of Property Agents’ recommendations are adopted may take over versions of...

Hello, and if it’s Friday it can only mean Charity day as we celebrate the industry’s continuing fund-raising despite challenges from...

Countrywide has this morning rejected an £80m offer made for it by Connells Group. On November 23 Connells announced that its due...

After you. No, after you. That is often how innovation seems amongst the real estate elite. And this week I see it...

We’re off and running with our annual showcase of the decorations and festivities in agency branches and for those working from...

We are on the threshold in December with the pandemic still dominating but we’re delighted there is still positive jobs news...

Back in September, Westminster Council launched a new strategy to help 'protect tenants' and 'ensure they live in good-quality and well-managed...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Vicky Quinn-Campbell – Sales and Marketing Director What is ‘company name’...

Zoopla’s research team is anticipating the first quarter of next year will see the current boom continue as 100,000 additional sales...

One of Countrywide’s two up-market brands, Hamptons International, has unveiled a new look which it describes as part of “a transformational...

The Boomin portal, which incentivises agents to cross-sell and benefit from referral fees, is to receive advice on fee disclosure from...

The new property portal Boomin has revealed its fees structure for agents. Tapping into the industry debate over portal fees, Boomin describes...

A TV advert for Rightmove first screened in 2018 has been cleared of gender stereotyping. A complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority...

One of the country’s top buying agents is advising purchasers and vendors to avoid online agencies and 'bucketshop' conveyancers. Edward Heaton - founder...

Hello and welcome to the latest PJT, your opportunity to catch up on who’s moving where in the agency and supplier...

With a new President elected and the old one reluctant to move out, this is a good time to see how...

One of the industry’s leading commentators says an unintended consequence of a possible Capital Gains Tax increase could be a bonus...

Hello and welcome to your regular Friday charity round-up from the industry - appropriately enough on the day of the latest...

A leading firm of conveyancers will this week tell new clients that their property purchases are likely to miss the stamp...

Firstly, let’s get the obvious out of the way. Lockdown 2, as it’s being known, is now with us, but fortunately...

The UK lettings market is no stranger to technology. But only a few of the early initiatives have remained, and landlords...

Hello and welcome to yet another Agents Do Charity, the weekly forum for the industry to share its good news on...

Letting agents and landlords have faced huge change and uncertainty this year, with Covid-19 the major driver. But even before the...

Hunters chairman and Conservative MP Kevin Hollinrake has hit out at allegedly false claims made by Donald Trump and Nigel Farage. Trump’s...

I remember so clearly in my Foxtons days, working as a lettings manager in Putney, that lettings, though less sexy than...

Boomin is to levy a traditional monthly fee for estate and letting agents listing on the site, in line with other...

Countrywide is to hold a special general meeting on November 18 to consider its future ownership and structure. Last month Countrywide group...

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

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

“I’ve got 47 years of experience as an agent. Do I still have to get a qualification?” asked one attendee at...

Recent figures emanating from the mortgage and housing market suggest that – since lockdown was ended in mid-May – transaction levels...

It’s Halloween time, and while this year’s festivities may be muted there’s plenty to celebrate as far as agents’ good deeds...

The mandatory qualifications expected of agents have not been forgotten and will come into effect in two or three years. That’s the...

David Cox is joining Rightmove next week in a dramatic return to the industry. Cox left the ARLA Propertymark in late July after...

A conveyancing firm is blaming councils for delays in transactions. Conveyancers have themselves been sharply criticised in recent weeks as the sharp...

A progress report on the Regulation of Property Agents recommendations will be made today by a key RoPA committee member, Mark...

It’s been an unexpected year for the property market, shaped by the effects of the pandemic. We didn’t quite anticipate the...

The announcement of the Renters’ Reform Bill in the Queen’s speech last December caused a collective groan across the country from...

Hello and welcome to a new week - and evenings that get darker earlier.  As winter approaches we’re continuing to bring you...

They’ve got it covered - the charitable arm of Propertymark is offering free face coverings to member agents. The Arbon Trust is...

One of Countrywide’s largest shareholders has come out against a £90m investment package in the company proposed by a private equity...

One of the latest 10 agents joining the still-to-launch Boomin portal says it could be the go-to website for all property...

I had a wry smile when I read the article on Monday from the conveyancers complaining about people getting off their...

Hello and welcome to the start of a new week and a new edition of Property Jobs Today, your chance to...

The latest Rightmove asking price index shows the extraordinary market and amazing times we are living through. The average price of property coming...

2020 has definitely been a year of change. With little warning, the pandemic disrupted the day-to-day operations of almost every industry...

The new Boomin portal being launched shortly has named 10 high profile agency chains as founding members. The 10 give the new portal...

Agents Together, the wellbeing and mentorship service which came into existence earlier this year, is launching what it calls a Redundancy...

The latest agency recruits for online firm easyProperty are batting for the company in more ways than one - they are...

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

A prominent housing market analyst is warning that in 14 years of studying prices and transactions he has never seen the...

With many transactions now delayed by up to three weeks by slow searches, a body representing local search providers is urging...

Two agencies have announced the opening of offices in out-of-town-centre locations with easy parking. In Loughborough, well-known local agency Andrew Granger &...

It’s not a big rise, but price growth has returned to the Prime Central London sales market for the first time...

A new portal-style PropTech product has launched and wants to recruit estate agents to its fold - despite describing the way...

Hello and welcome to PJT, our Monday feature giving you the inside track on major moves in and across our industry. Let...

The only certainty at the moment is ongoing uncertainty. It’s something we’ve got used to in 2020, but it’s still not...

Many agents, certainly those in London, will have faced the difficult task of selling a flat with a shorter lease. A...

Hello again - the good news is it’s Friday and even better news is it’s Agents Do Charity, celebrating the industry’s great...

Recently, when giving speeches, I have discussed investment trends and industry trends that the built environment is experiencing. They are quite...

A woman who bought a London house in 2012 is now suing the conveyancers that worked for her at the time...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he wants to create a ‘Generation Buy’ to help young people purchase homes with low-deposit mortgages. In...

We all know what the problem is, but what’s the solution? The problem is that landlords, thinking they offer a valuable service...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Lee Rix - Head of Business Development What is ‘company name’...

Are agents swimming upstream against the Electrical Safety Regulations? 3 months on from the introduction of the ‘Electrical Safety Standards in the...

Hello and at the start of another working week, welcome to our regular jobs slot announcing who’s moving where within the...

Recent Natters have explored the differences between the UK and American models of agency, and why Purplebricks failed to make a...

The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, better known as the furlough scheme, was introduced by the chancellor Rishi Sunak in March to...

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has encouraged people to complain if they are unhappy about working conditions and thousands of complaints...

Boomin, the new portal being set up by the founders of Purplebricks, is holding a series of confidential webinars next week...

Vendors spend an average £41 a day for 144 days when selling their home - but some spend a remarkable £140 a...

The Property Franchise Group has named high-profile industry veteran Eric Walker as managing director of Martin & Co (South and Scotland).  Walker...

Despite the recent effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, there is still much opportunity in the market for letting agents to grow...

The green light for a vacant office building in the capital to be redeveloped into residential housing has been given after...

Across the UK and Europe, lockdown measures are changing and the markets are kicking back into life as we grow accustomed...

Ahead of the launch of a new iBuyer platform later this year, agents are being invited to attend two webinars hosted...

Hello and welcome to the new working week. Here’s the latest information on key hires across our industry: if you have similar...

Hello and welcome to the weekend and that means a charity-fix for all those agents and suppliers doing great fund-raising in these...

A leading agent says the government’s new Coronavirus clampdown from Monday will push more home owners to sell. Caspar Harvard-Wills, a partner at...

Hello, and if it’s the start of a new week it’s time for Property Jobs Today, giving you the inside track...

There will not be a single business within the property sector that did not start the year in vastly different circumstances...

A specialist property lender says transactions are being delayed by key staff being furloughed. Gareth Lewis, commercial director of property lender MT...

There’s good news from the think-tank the Resolution Foundation, which says the threat of negative equity because of the Coronavirus crisis...

There’s been a surprise appointment as OnTheMarket chief executive. Instead of popular acting CEO Clive Beattie - who had made it known...

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

Hindsight is 20-20 vision, of course, and we can all see things we did ‘then’ that we would not do ‘now’....

One of Countrywide’s biggest shareholders has written a second letter to the company to demand bold action to save the agency...

If anyone thought the days of Purplebricks bosses making millions were in the past,  think again. The chief executive and chief finance...

Swiss bank UBS has upgraded its investment rating on Purplebricks, raising its price target and urging investors to buy. In a note...

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of PJT - we know some agencies are reshaping their structures and downsizing but this...

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

Life as we know it has changed – for everybody – and what tenants want, need and expect in this post-pandemic...

HM Land Registry customers - including agents and conveyancers - can now manage all of their applications and correspondence including notices,...

Many young people are stuck unable to purchase their first home even if house prices fall in the wake of the...

I want to talk to you about new ways to sell homes. Let's not encourage people to sell but just swap...

It must have been a close thing on Friday as to whose faces were looking the most glum - those at...

The Zoopla Rental Market Report, published this week, mentioned a two-speed rental market, but what does that mean? We are seeing two...

Following the easing of lockdown restrictions on England’s property market in May, NAEA Propertymark reported a sharp increase in business for...

Strutt & Parker is warning that in a worst-case scenario house prices in some locations could drop 10 per cent this...

A new PropTech platform says its central feature will be the launch of a Multiple Listings Service.  This will allow agents “to...

OnTheMarket has confirmed it is “considering” making redundancies - the second of the large portals to be in this position. Rumours have been...

We have had a special relationship for many years and are bonded as countries in many ways – historically, politically and...

“Many hands make light work” – Does John Heywood’s old English proverb from the 1300s apply to modern approaches on how...

A statement by OnTheMarket this morning reveals that as of the end of last month it had a record 14,000 advertisers...

The number of Hong Kong buyers looking at property in London has doubled in just five weeks according to an agency...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s stamp duty holiday means prime property in the UK now enjoys lower tax rates than most European countries. Buyers...

The chief executive of the UK operation of a US-owned brand says his agency its the fastest growing in this country...

Agents Do Charity - as the summer heat is on… It’s hotting up outside and while this is set to be a...

Zoopla's Research and Insight Director Richard Donnell writes: Just over a fortnight on since the Chancellor announced the Stamp Duty holiday and...

Hello and welcome to another week. We’re more than aware that it’s a challenging time for our industry as for most...

Conferences, events and awards dinners are a hugely important part of the property calendar, bringing the great and the good of...

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

Another new PropTech platform claims it can streamline the completion process - this time by coordinating the work of estate agents...

Hello and welcome to the end of the week and the prospect of a sunny weekend. We appreciate fund-raising is difficult with...

At a recent Conveyancing Association webinar focused on the provision of upfront information in the property sale process, there was a...

In the second of a series of articles, Emma Vigus, Managing Director of mio, the Estate Agents Sales Progression platform, explores...

There’s no doubt that Covid-19 has had a huge impact on the UK’s property market, after hundreds of thousands of house...

There are high hopes that the new stamp duty holiday will make an already busy market even busier - but not...

Agents have spoken out angrily against any uncertainty in the market caused by government leaks about future stamp duty changes. In recent...

Hunters has launched two additional franchise branches in Tower Bridge, London and Middleton, North Manchester, taking the company total to over...

It’s a tough time for agents and our stories show a disturbingly high number of  branches closing - but there are...

They are the names we hear about often, pushing for this or seeking clarifications on that. They are the representatives of...

In the first of a series of articles, Emma Vigus, managing director of mio, the estate agent sales progression platform, explores the...

We recently issued our Zoopla House Price Index, which analyses the latest real-time trends from the sales market. In our analysis, we...

The chief executive of the National Association of Estate Agents, Mark Hayward, is to retire at the end of this year.  The...

The estate agency group spearheading the Say No To Rightmove campaign has signed its 36 branches up to new portal Homesearch. The...

It may be that by the time you read this it’s all over for Robert Jenrick, the Secretary of State for...

With three months of lockdown behind us, commission income is vital, and sales progression is more important than ever. Emma Vigus, Managing...

Controversial Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick is the subject of a harshly critical cartoon in The Times which depicts “pigs in the...

Rightmove and OnTheMarket have announced that they are extending their cut-price fees deals, introduced because of Coronavirus. This morning Rightmove says: "We have...

The death has been announced of one of the country’s leading campaigners against the injustices of the leasehold system, Louie Burns. Burns...

“Let’s Zoom later”, “are we Zooming in the morning or afternoon?” “Yeah, I zoomed the client earlier” – variations on these...

The phrase ‘game-changer’ has been hugely overused. But when applied to how Covid-19 is changing the way estate agents will work...

With most fund-raising involving organised runs, treks or mudders, we know how difficult it is right now to do great work...

Imagine a Zoom call where ten people are discussing the same topic, but everyone speaks a different language and has a...

A former chief executive of Countrywide has issued a string of extravagant claims about the lockdown success of the online agency...

Price discounts are diminishing as the housing market strengthens, according to data from Knight Frank. The average discount to the asking price...

A free webinar is taking place this week to show how agents can list properties on Facebook Marketplace. The event, hosted by...

OnTheMarket says it still aims to be the number one portal, but the acting chief executive has revealed a far more...

It’s official – the property market is back open for business. Estate agents have started to unfurlough staff and many are...

A 27 year old agent with a background working in London’s Canary Wharf has headed north to set up his own...

The only story that has come remotely close to pushing coronavirus – and its various knock-on effects – off the top...

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

Although the shake-out in the industry is ongoing - online agency Settled and established new-build agency Cushman & Wakefield have both...

Dominic Cummings has been at worst a cause of huge anger to a nation that’s already extremely anxious. At best, he’s been...

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

The Say No To Rightmove campaign is to release a set of options for member agents to consider if the portal...

Zoopla’s head of research says a stamp duty holiday could encourage more home owners to move which in turn could help...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Tom Harrington and I’m the founder and...

** This Bank Holiday Monday both Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today look at how agencies have modified offices and...

All my recent Natters have been focused on one particular topic, the coronavirus crisis, for obvious reasons. But there has been...

The Say No To Rightmove campaign is to hold a seminar for agents who have already left the portal or are...

It’s another Bank Holiday weekend and the first since lockdown was eased and the housing market returns - so perhaps a...

Strutt & Parker is the latest agency to attract hundreds of prospective vendors and buyers to a ‘keep in touch’ webinar. Last...

Homesearch - the new property portal which describes itself as “the future of the property industry” - has delayed its launch. It was scheduled...

As last Friday was the VE Day Anniversary bank holiday we have a bumper bundle of fund-raising activities to report on...

Foxtons - which has recently closed branches and furloughed staff - has described a shareholder rebellion over senior management bonuses and pay...

An estate agency is running a series of five webinars aimed at helping agent discover new business strategies for the post-Covid...

Details being presented to Parliament today may include information on how agents can return to work in some sort of ‘new normal.’ A 50...

EweMove is this week hosting a webinar in a bid to win recruits to its hybrid model from agents who may...

There has been much speculation about when agents will be allowed back to work, and what the new office working environment...

  On Estate Agent Today this Bank Holiday weekend we’re celebrating the great work agents are doing to keep morale high and...

Fine & Country is one of those clever agencies employing interior designers to help stage properties, making them look their best...

Rightmove says it’s to launch its biggest ever national marketing campaign in a bid to kick-start the market once lockdown eases. The...

An instant valuation service has launched a new tool aimed at helping agents prioritise leads through prospective vendors uploading photographs to...

In these unprecedented times, Tenancy Deposit Scheme (TDS) aims to reassure letting agents, landlords and tenants on any legislative changes, relating...

The Say No To Rightmove campaign has launched a countdown clock on its website to galvanise agents into remembering only 85...

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

Rightmove’s shareholders appear to have been generally unmoved by the string of protests against the portal in recent weeks. At the portal’s...

Listings from an agent who ended his contract with Rightmove were not removed as he expected - instead, he is accusing...

HM Land Registry is making it easier to verify individuals’ ID from today. In addition to conveyancers and chartered legal executives, verification...

A study by Rightmove suggests that 94 per cent of buyers and sellers currently in the market are determined to go...

The Kremer Signs company has unveiled a package of products for agents to use in the new era of social distancing.  These...

If anyone told us six weeks ago that agents would still be doing such amazing work for their communities during lockdown...

Countrywide’s senior staff earning over £45,000 per year have had their pay cut by a fifth while some 78 per cent...

The Say No To Rightmove campaign has started buying social media advertising space in a bid to recruit agents. In a ‘promoted’...

Savills has kept in touch with almost 2,000 of its vendors and prospective buyers through two mass webinars. Entitled ‘What COVID-19 means...

Lockdown measures are still in place for another two weeks, at least, with the possibility of them being extended beyond that....

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

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

One of the most important aspects of being a successful and profitable agent is selecting the right tenants. The industry manages this...

We are all operating in peculiar times. Times of great upheaval. Our lives are both in a complete state of flux...

Fine & Country says now is “a great time” for estate agents to go upmarket and become “the luxury agent” in...

Ed Mead, co-founder of outsourced viewing service Viewber and a high profile agent for over 30 years, has had his closest...

Foxtons says it’s furloughed 750 staff and asked high paid staff earning over £40,000 to take a 20 per cent pay...

With a lengthy lockdown already behind us one might think that fund-raising was a step too far - but not for...

Hello and welcome to Conquering Corona, our bid to help agents through the crisis. If you have appropriate advice to share with...

OnTheMaket has this morning announced a raft of what it calls ‘mitigating measures’ to help it survive the Coronavirus crisis. These include...

Only half of the branches signed up to Zoopla have taken advantage of one or other of the discount offers made...

Hello, and welcome to Wednesday’s guidance and advice for agents and suppliers trying to find a way through the current crisis. If...

The impact of the Coronavirus crisis is going to reduce agents' revenue into the third quarter finishing in late September warns a leading...

Hello - we hope you had as good an Easter as possible in these unusual circumstances, and welcome back to work. Now...

A high-profile regional agency is “cracking on” with support for a hospice for children and young people that cannot raise funds during...

We are still living in highly extraordinary times, perhaps evidenced best by the fact that the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, was...

Just a month ago our homes felt, for many of us, to be a mere pitstop on a centrifuge of work,...

In this time of economic uncertainty, more and more people are becoming unwilling to leave their homes, yet you and your...

You wouldn’t expect anything other than very upscale home offices from an esteemed agency with a wonderful history - and that’s...

You know the old saying - a dog is an agent’s best friend?  Well that’s clearly true for this trio of agencies...

You wouldn’t expect the good folk at Strutt & Parker to have anything less than a superlative set of home offices...

Independent agencies are the backbone of our industry so it’s great to be able to share images from three such experts...

The government has amended the eligibility criteria and will allow some agents' commission payments to be included in claims for Furloughed...

Individual franchisees operating under the Winkworth banner are receiving what the company calls “comprehensive help” on a range of issues, including...

Good morning and welcome to today’s edition, helping agents find a way through the Coronavirus crisis by sharing information with the...

The Police and Crime Commissioner for an area with thousands of holiday homes wants their owners to make them available to...

Due to the current Coronavirus pandemic, we are all being told to stay at home as much as possible to contain...

Hello and welcome to this week’s list of good work - yes, despite the virus lockdown.  Earlier this week we featured many...

One of the biggest issues for agencies at the moment is furloughing - a safety net being offered by the government...

Over the last two weeks we’ve seen the country come to a standstill and the property market effectively put on ice...

An online agency has offered to sell the homes of NHS frontline staff for free. Doorsteps, set up by high profile young...

Welcome to the latest edition of our daily service dedicated to advice and guidance on how agents can best cope with...

Kays Estates in the north of England - one of the agencies ‘powered by Keller Williams’ - has prepared packs for...

LSL Property Services says one of its measures to “rightsize” the organisation during the Coronavirus crisis will be to put agents...

Yet another one of the giants of our industry, Hunters, says it’s taking “appropriate measures” to safeguard the firm in the...

Hello, and we trust you had as good a weekend as possible in these difficult circumstances.  As we start a new week...

New research of the buying habits of first-time buyers in the UK we’ve undertaken here at reallymoving.com shows that Shared Ownership...

While controversy swirls around the approach and motives of the sackings and branch closures at Spicerhaart, other agents are showing how...

The extraordinary past week of anger over portals’ fees plus early-warning statements like that from Foxtons indicate the anxiety in the...

The Property Ombudsman has announced that it will postpone its annual conference, which was to have been on June 18, until...

Industry…we salute you. We thought we may have no good deeds to pass on to readers this week because of the...

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

The former director of customer experience at Purplebricks has been announced as a new partner in a Keller Williams franchise. Sarah Downes,...

Countrywide’s share price has dived over 50 per cent during the course of the day, following news of LSL pulling out...

Estate Agent Today is launching a daily service to help agents facing the Coronavirus threat. This is where you’ll find news, advice...

Hello and as it’s Monday it’s PJT Day - and there are plenty of people moving jobs in our industry even...

The three leading portals have rejected an appeal to give the industry a payment holiday to help firms through the Coronavirus...

A Somerset agency with three offices has changed ownership - but remains an independent. Gibbins Richards has offices in Taunton, Bridgwater and...

Nested is the latest online agency to base a marketing campaign around criticism of established estate agents.  In three 30-second TV ads...

Savills is the latest agency to warn about the possible threat of Coronavirus to its business activities and success this year. In...

There will be a two per cent stamp duty surcharge on the purchase of UK investment properties by non-resident overseas buyers...

Monthly webinars via Facebook are being set up to discuss compliance issues with member agents of the Guild of Property Professionals. “Because...

The National Association of Estate Agents has announced that it’s to offer US PropTech solutions to UK agents. The REACH programme has...

The coronavirus outbreak has highlighted once again how fragile and interconnected our societies have become. We don’t know yet how dangerous Covid-19...

Hello and because it’s Friday there are two pieces of good news: it’s nearly the weekend and it’s the day for...

By now, most letting agents and landlords will have heard about the draft legislation laid in Parliament concerning a mandatory minimum...

A PropTech firm claims it will improve the security of estate agents and other lone workers through a new app and location...

More than 18 months on from the acquisition of ZPG for £2.2 billion by Silver Lake Partners, a US private equity...

In the last few Natters I’ve focused on the slow death of local newspaper advertising, and how many agents are now...