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A prominent estate agent has started an online petition to reverse stamp duty so it is paid by the vendor, not...

The vast majority of negligence claims against conveyancers are for relatively low sums of money, but the financial and reputational costs...

You don’t have to simply accept things as they are when it comes to managing your client accounts. If your bank...

Borrowers are currently rolling off relatively favourable two-year fixed-rate deals agreed at the start of 2022, but the pain from higher...

Last year was not one for the faint hearted. Now, at last, the market appears to be experiencing a gradual uptick. Recent...

Property professionals have called for the Government to allocate its promised £3m towards improving the home buying and selling process to...

While our own Government continues to tentatively encourage homeowners to carry out energy-efficient measures, they will no doubt be eagerly watching...

A new action group has been formed that is expressing concern about ineffective legal regulation as well as extra responsibilities being...

Estate agency has changed. No longer is it required to sit in a high street office working the old way. Provide a...

And suddenly it’s autumn. It’s just six weeks before the clocks change, days are getting shorter and - the real sign...

An industry marketing expert has questioned the strategies of ‘house of brand’ agencies. Writing exclusively for Estate Agent Today, Simon Leadbetter, former...

The term mixed-tenure development usually refers to residential developments where different residential tenures are provided on the same site. Typically, tenure was...

OnTheMarket critic Brett Stone has issued a second open letter to shareholders of the portal, accusing it of “irresponsibly diluting shareholders”...

Success with your chosen CRM solution should not be a one-and-done package. Once you team up with a stellar CRM provider,...

CRMs can be superheroes for your business, but not all of them possess the necessary powers to save the day. As...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Heather Staff and it says Co-Founder of Street Group...

The Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) is the direct result of European Legislation. They were introduced because of the Energy Performance of...

Reducing gas and electricity bills is trumping environmental and regulatory concerns for buyers seeking more energy efficient homes, research suggests. Knight Frank’s...

Conveyancers have outlined ways they believe the property transaction process could be improved including shutting down or improving “dabblers” and getting...

Is it really just a year ago that we were nervously wondering whether yet another Christmas would be Covid-affected? Little did we...

Almost a fifth of home-movers would choose a different conveyancing firm or estate agent for their next property purchase, research claims. The latest...

Conveyancing is an integral part of the house buying and selling process. But it is a slow process, with the length...

The current period of national solidarity over the death of Queen Elizabeth II has embraced the world of property as it...

Recent months have seen interest rates rise from historic lows back closer to pre-financial crisis levels as the Bank of England...

The days of storing files on hard drives are over for most agents and others must catch up to comply with...

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

PropTech solutions have continued to ingratiate themselves in both the forefront of an agency within advertising mediums and in the backend...

For all sales and letting agents, accelerating your business to new heights is a number one priority. You can’t be losing time...

Property checks can be the bane of a letting agent’s life if left unchecked. Throw in the winter weather, and you’ve...

With quality built into every stage of the production process of Bosch, NEFF and Siemens appliances. From the initial design phase, through...

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

An interesting demand has been made of Chancellor Rishi Sunak - to consider reforming stamp duty with thresholds revised to reflect...

The government has thrown its weight behind the concept of Unique Property Reference Numbers as a way of speeding up transactions. UPRNs...

Amro Partners, the Build to Rent and student accommodation operator, has launched a venture capital arm investing in PropTech and FinTech. Amro...

The growth of the internet and technology has transformed virtually every aspect of our lives, including how we approach the property...

As an estate agent, you should of course be performing robust Know Your Customer (KYC) checks as part of your Anti-Money...

With property transactions taking longer than ever and many people operating at capacity, it is easy to overlook the progress made,...

A surveyors group has launched a new ‘Home Review’ service which it claims will identify structural problems which create an immediate...

The acquisition of Countrywide by Connells might just be the deal of the century in the British estate agency industry. That’s the...

It now looks likely that Hunters will be taken over by The Property Franchise Group after several months of talks, subject...

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

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

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

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

Property sales take a seriously long time to complete. There are a number of reasons for this, although often delays are...

Two prominent suppliers have teamed up to offer customers instant visibility of chain lengths, details of agents connected to properties being...

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

Aside from the obvious health crisis, the current pandemic is proving difficult for the business worldwide. However, despite the increasing contact...

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

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

Some of the biggest figures in the industry have given Estate Agent Today their reaction to the news - broken yesterday...

The landscape of the estate agency market in the UK is evolving to reflect changes in the way we live our...

Here’s the final part of our questioning of the three portals based on comments and queries from our readers - thanks...

When we launched Reapit’s Foundations Platform as a Service (PaaS) in November, it may have seemed like a recent development in...

Homesearch, the data service which launched this year as free-to-use with a subscription model launching in 2020, has announced it’s introducing...

28th NOVEMBER 2019: Christopher Watkin’s recent thought-provoking interview with Dan Marsden sheds light on the property industry today and offers an...

You’ve probably heard about unified communications (UC) before. But why are your competitors and other organisations moving towards centralised comms platforms? What are...

I want to take the time this week to look at an area of PropTech and real estate which is seeing...

All the most successful startups of recent years – from Airbnb and Uber to Just Eat and Deliveroo – have melded...

It’s clear that some agents are not fans of Trading Standards officers, described in the comments sections of the trade press...

The leasehold scandal continues to generate plenty of column inches, with fresh stories emerging almost daily of people living in unsellable...

The former chief executive of Emoov says online estate agencies charge too little, so risk appearing cheap and ineffective to potential...

When renting a property out, letting agents and landlords recognise that it is important to take a deposit from the tenant...

It’s that time of year again where we start saying goodbye to 12 months of hard work and start looking forward...

One of the country’s top buying agents says he expects 2019 to be a much better year than 2018 as Brexit...

People now expect a streamlined, digital-first experience from every single service they interact with - and the lettings industry is no...

The estate agency group Humberts, which narrowly avoided collapse early this year, now claims to have turned around its fortunes thanks...

Technology is transforming the way we comply with Anti Money Laundering (AML) regulation. It is providing a consistent approach, reliable outcomes...

One of three schemes with government backing to offer redress for complaints about estate and letting agents has reignited the debate...

Greetings from Cannes, where the sun is finally shining over MIPIM. I’m sure many of you are out here, too, and...

“Are we there yet?” In the same way that these words can drive you to distraction (any parent who has endured the...

Whisper it quietly, but there seems to be change in the air when it comes to agents recommending lawyers based on...

Fall-through rates have long been a problem for the UK residential property market, the issue is nothing new. Today, however, the...

Property has always been an industry built on a foundation of personal relationships. Deals made, promotions gained, clients won, portfolios grown;...

The housing industry has set out a list of demands in advance of the government’s hotly anticipated Autumn Budget on Wednesday.  Despite...

When Kenneth Bruce, co-founder of Purplebricks, published an emotional post on social media this week, my first reaction was; what a...

As someone who spends his days peering into the PropTech world, one thing I’ve observed is the way in which certain tech prompts...

I would argue the property industry is fundamentally inefficient. Much of that inefficiency is now being handled by PropTech companies and...

We live in world where the online economy is just as important as the offline economy. Whether your business is online...

A ‘disrupter’ estate agent says the English housing market operates in a way that is far less efficient than Scotland’s -...

As Trussle and Placester add to 2017s bonkers tally of PropTech investment, isn’t it time we end the conflict between Tech...

It seems prop-tech is exploding at a scary rate, and the latest brands are all trying to grab our attention by...

This week, 25 years ago the world's first website went live to those of us who were around then.  Amazingly, despite the...

OnTheMartket (OTM) recently wrote to its membership saying how well its doing, how membership has increased beyond expectations and how it...

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

Readers of Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today were given an exclusive opportunity to pose questions to Zoopla Property Group...