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Around one in 10 buyers who failed to get a survey on a property purchase have gone on to find issues...

Only realistic sellers willing to negotiate prices are successful in the current market, says one of the country’s leading estate agents. The...

The number of new sellers coming to the market is up by 12% compared to this time a year ago, and...

Almost one in five vendors admit to having failed to disclose disputes with neighbours to prospective buyers when selling their home,...

Many agents may perceive that the need to negotiate only comes into play at the point of offer if a property...

The negative effects of higher mortgage rates on affordability were overestimated throughout 2023, TwentyCi claims. The property data firm highlights that house...

More than a third of property sales fell through last year, with buyers to blame in most cases. A survey by QuickMoveNow...

A record 50% of homes sold in England & Wales last year were purchased following a price reduction, Hamptons analysis has revealed. The...

This year has seen an ongoing cost-of-living crisis, fluctuating mortgage rates, rising rents, and the threat of falling property prices. Although average...

Rightmove is anticipating a 1% average drop in national asking prices by the end of next year. The latest forecasts from the...

By Kevin Shaw, National Sales, Managing Director, Leaders Romans Group This year has seen an ongoing cost-of-living crisis, fluctuating mortgage rates, rising...

All new houses in England and Wales will have to be sold as freehold properties under government plans to phase out...

A house removal specialist and a consumer property group reckon they’ve discovered the busiest day of the year for moving. It’s Friday...

OnTheMarket has become the first major UK portal to allow agents to promote their own revenue generating partnerships on listing pages. Agents who...

Propertymark says that sellers who strive to find a “middle ground” in today’s difficult market can still turn a healthy profit...

Cooling house prices are providing an opportunity for buyers even with higher borrowing costs, Propertymark claims. The agency trade body said it...

In his latest column, Jonathan Rolande, founder of House Buy Fast, explains how those working in the sector can beat the...

More than half of prospective homebuyers looking for a new location to move to want to be within a 20-minute walk...

Mortgage approvals rose between April and May but are down by a quarter annually, underlining the uncertain market. Bank of England data...

Asking prices have fallen on a monthly basis at this time of year for the first time since June 2017 as...

The Guild of Property Professionals is launching a tiered membership offer which it says will allow agents to choose according to...

The cost of moving home has soared in the past year, new figures reveal. According to new data compiled by insurers Admiral...

Online agent Strike has been granted an exclusivity period to negotiate a possible takeover of its rival Purplebricks. A late stock market...

LSL Property Services’ share price hit a six-month high during trading yesterday after it announced its entire estate agency network would...

As Tennyson once observed…’.In the Spring, a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of love…’.but not really. At the moment the...

Every year, those thinking about investing in property for the first time and even current landlords ask themselves whether it’s the...

Cash buyers are securing properties 6% below the average UK house price. Research by national agent Jackson-Stops has revealed the regions where...

A Keller Williams agent has revealed how he gets clients to happily pay 2% and he is calling on others to...

Historic estate agency brand Humberts has expanded into the Oxford area with a tenth franchised office. It is led by experienced local...

Agents will need to articulate their worth in the new challenging property market but shouldn’t rush to drop fees, industry trainer...

High transaction volumes are likely to lead to more complaints about agents, a compliance expert claims. Paul Offley, compliance officer at The Guild...

Property sales are being put at risk by failure to tackle infestations of bamboo, according to new warnings. Invasive plant removal firm...

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

Over the last five years, the Government has introduced a range of measures to regulate the property market, particularly in the...

Zoopla has launched a review into its editorial processes after agents criticised a consumer guide published by the portal that encouraged...

Properties are being down valued by up to 5% in some areas of the UK in the sign of a housing...

Thanks to a relentless market, the property market has enjoyed a purple patch over the past few years. But now that...

Nest Seekers International is returning to UK TV screens with the announcement of a new BBC Two series. The show, which has...

Online agent 99home is planning to go international. The brand, which lets sellers pay to list their property on the major portals...

Technology developed for the estate agency industry has advanced and expanded seismically over the past decade as software vendors develop their...

The path from agent to developer is not easy, but it is a relatively straightforward one, if you are willing to...

With the drastic changes enacted on the industry over the past two years thanks to the pandemic and political events such...

Rightmove has identified the UK’s strongest sellers’ market - and it’s in Easton, Bristol. Four of the top 10 sellers’ markets are...

Estate agents, and indeed all professionals, should be offered the option of flexible working when they are appointed to the job. That’s...

A new membership scheme aiming to increase the industry’s energy efficiency credentials is being launched next year by allAgents. The Sustainable Agent...

Rightmove has revealed the strongest markets for sellers and buyers this autumn.  Grays in Essex has topped the list of the strongest...

OnTheMarket figures for the first half of this year show stronger revenue and improved profits. Agency numbers have increased modestly since January...

As we move into the autumn of 2021, what the coming year has in store for estate agents is something we...

The Federation of Independent Agents has passed the key milestone of 50 member branches covering in excess of 200 exclusive postcode...

Average house prices increased by 13.2 per cent over the year to June - the highest annual growth rate since November...

The first stamp duty holiday deadline has now passed, and we can all sigh a slight relief after the sheer numbers...

By any measure, the housing market has been unprecedently busy in recent months, fuelled not just by the stamp duty holiday...

Rightmove estimates that 1.3m buyers have benefitted from the stamp duty holidays across Great Britain since they were announced in July...

Last weekend we spoke with Liana Loporto, NAEA Propertymark’s president, in an exclusive interview. Here we follow that up with an...

One in 10 buyers say they will seek to renegotiate on the price of their chosen home if they miss the...

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

There are over 700,000 homes marked Sold Subject to Contract and going through conveyancing right now, according to a new Rightmove...

Buying agents level the playing field with estate agents according to Phil Spencer - the TV property expert who started his...

Rightmove is to review the processes of an online platform which directly uploads sellers' property details via an app. Two years ago...

The TDS annual review 2020 indicates that deposit disputes have remained low over the last year, at around 1%. This is...

One in three property sales in England and Wales fell through before completion in the first quarter of 2021. The 32 per...

Some 12 per cent of buyers will pull out of their transaction if it does not complete in time for their stamp...

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

A leading bank says as many as one in three buyers pay too much for a property because they are afraid...

A leading agency chief suggests there will have to be substantial bargaining between buyers and sellers as the stamp duty holiday cliff...

Estate agents have kept up the pressure on the Westminster government to consider some kind of tapered ending to the stamp...

Today’s the day when Parliament debates a possible extension to the stamp duty holiday beyond its March 31 cliff edge deadline...

Just as the new chief executive of Propertymark holds interviews across the industry, so The Guild of Property Professionals is coming out...

Well, what a start to 2021! None of us thought things would change as the clock struck midnight on New Year’s...

The latest Rightmove analysis shows it now takes 126 days from the time an offer is accepted until legal completion -...

Just when you thought the housing market was beginning to calm down... along comes a likely vaccine for Coronavirus. One of the country’s...

Buyers in around 30 per cent of English cities are almost certainly already too late to complete a purchase by March 31...

A platform which signs up vendors and allocates their sale to a high-performing local agent says it sells property two months...

Franchise giant Winkworth has reported an 11 per cent drop in gross revenue and profit plummeting 20.2 per cent in the...

One of the victims of a notorious estate agency price fixing cartel has spoken out against one of the offenders.  Christina Davis...

An unusual property sales concept, which signs up vendors and then effectively sub-contracts their sales to strongly-performing local estate agents, has...

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

Buyer registrations and sales enquiries are reportedly back to pre-Covid levels. Completions, however, are lagging behind. This is probably down to...

One of the leading ‘new breed’ of hybrids relying on self-employed agents is opening a share offer to investors in a...

If you are an established UK estate agent, the status quo dictates that you will most likely work for ‘the man.’ Corporate...

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

The number of full property details viewed on Rightmove - a key indicator of market health - is already stronger than...

There’s a warning today that the housing market could face a wave of legal disputes if buyers of off-plan new builds...

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

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

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

The key figure behind the Say No To Rightmove campaign says the fight for more realistic fees goes on - and...

There’s been a huge change in the way estate agencies operate in recent years, with far more focus on marketing properties...

The lightbulb moment for LonRes was born out of sheer frustration. I’d just missed out on a deal and the postman...

A new hybrid set up by ex-Purplebricks territory owners says it wants to "redefine estate agency in the customer's favour." Knock Knock...

As competition hots up between affinity groups and associations in the industry, the Guild of Property Professionals has come out fighting. It...

Estate agents concerned over security breaches will be closely analysing what happens with a case concerning a London firm’s compromised email...

A leading property lawyer is urging sellers not to use online agents because to do so would be “a gamble”. Gillian Wright...

Savills says the decisive General Election result appears to have suddenly turned the market around and gave “a strong close to...

Annual UK house price growth exceeded one per cent for the first time in 12 months in December according to the...

The Australian agent is a very different beast to his or her British counterpart - and it’s not just because we...

[Estate Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise...

The latest market snapshot of prime central London suggests that homes there are now 15.2 per cent cheaper than five years...

A small online agency which in six months of trading has secured around 140 sales says it’s on course to be...

There’s been an encouraging increase in property transaction volumes according to new figures from HM Revenue & Customs. The total number of...