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Earlier this month we celebrated the 16th annual ESTAS Awards, once again hosted by TV property expert Phil Spencer.  The glittering ceremony...

The recent ARLA Propertymark conference featured a hugely interesting line-up of speaks and session during a watershed time for the lettings...

The final - and some say most prestigious - shortlist for this year’s ESTAS awards has been revealed. The People Awards, sponsored...

Estate agents have responded cynically to the small-fry property sector announcements made by Chancellor Phillip Hammond in yesterday’s spring statement mini-Budget. Overshadowed...

When you recruit a new member of staff, training should be one of your main priorities.  After initial training, ongoing training and...

Kit Malthouse has been making headlines this week, but – in keeping with his tenure as Housing Minister so far -...

Alongside hundreds of agents and suppliers, I recently attended the Guild of Property Professionals’ annual conference. As ever, it was a great...

Even with 2019 well underway, letting agents need to keep refining their long-term goals and business targets. For agencies with a...

The man who is leading the government’s efforts to reform the house buying process will be one of the speaker at...

In the past year it seems every other story has been about PropTech - the big stuff like Purplebricks and the...

PropTech has been mainstream for a few years now, and as more agents are familiar with the range of products and...

With all the recent change and upheaval in the rental sector it may be time to consider how letting agencies will...

A decade ago we were still years away from Purplebricks, Countrywide was a colossus in the industry, no one had thought...

Having recently attended FUTURE: PropTech in London, it struck me just how far the integration of property and technology has progressed...

Neil Cobbold, COO of PayProp, advises letting agents to act now to beat the upcoming letting agent fee ban and discusses...

Well, I don’t know about you but after the holidays I've got an imprint just below my navel where my belt...

Earlier this week, Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered the Autumn Budget with a strong focus on housing.  The decision to cut stamp duty...

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

Having launched 13 years ago, PayProp, part of Humanstate Group, an international private technology services group, has grown into a leading...