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Adoption of virtual tours among estate agents remain low but new data suggests they could boost sales. Industry analysis shows just 4%...

Rightmove has created a league table to identify where new buyer competition is hottest across the UK housing market. Across the country...

Properties selling without a chain not only sell more quickly, as one might expect, but also appear to attract a substantial...

Only 6.8m homes in England now have mortgages, just 28 per cent of the overall market and about two per cent...

Outspoken TV property expert Kirstie Allsopp has told first time buyers they may have to sacrifice lattes, Netflix and gym membership...

A fast-growing land and property consultancy has snapped up a respected independent to bolster its presence in the North of England. George...

Buyers typically pay 10.8 per cent extra for chain-free properties than for similar homes with chains, according to new research. Website GetAgent...

From first-time buyers to serial investors, no two days are ever the same for a Sales and Investment Consultant at Walton...

Halifax has revealed the UK’s most expensive streets in 2021 - and it’s no surprise that the very dearest examples are...

A housebuilding-led mortgage indemnity scheme called Deposit Unlock has now been launched nationally with 17 major developers taking part. Nationwide is the...

A comparison website dealing with estate agency charges says commission varies hugely across 20 major cities of the UK.  GetAgent looked at...

Hello and welcome to our final Property Jobs Today before the start of autumn - and it’s good to see people...

Boy it’s been hot out there - yet even 30 degrees or more have failed to stifle the enthusiasm of our...

The youngsRPS agency now has a fifth branch in the north of England - it’s in Darlington and will cover the...

eXp UK - an agency brand with roots in the US and led by Adam Day, a veteran of three online firms -...

Thousands of sales are at risk because slow searches by councils may prevent deals completing by the next stamp duty deadline. With just under...

It’s been some time since online agencies have ventured into crowdfunding to raise investment, but easyProperty has now done so -...

Put the pandemic on the back burner. Forget the freezing weather. Here’s a great way to start a working week -...

The online agency Housesimple has rebranded to become 'Strike' with immediate effect. The news comes as a surprise given the apparent success...

Zoopla predicts that the price strength that has been seen since the reopening of the housing market is likely to continue...

Research from Zoopla suggests that demand from buyers across England surged 88 per cent shortly after the housing market reopened -...

Hello and welcome to the final PJT before September - yes that means summer is almost over.  Yet even during the holiday season...

iamproperty, parent company of IAMsold, says it now works with 2,500 estate agency branches nationwide and has sold over 16,500 properties...

ARLA and NAEA Propertymark have announced their top teams for the year ahead - and on the estate agency side, the...

The gap between average asking prices and average selling prices has increased in recent months according to Zoopla. Its latest study of...

North East England regional agency chain Bradley Hall has amended details for a property listed on its website following a complaint...

Fresh analysis by Zoopla has revealed Britain's fastest moving property markets with the lowest number of average days for a seller...

It’s not just the high-end market for homes in the south east that’s hit by Brexit according to the Guild of...

The head of an online agency has accused the National Association of Estate Agents’ conference of being “a sea of old...

North east England regional chain Bradley Hall Chartered Surveyors and Estate Agents has launched a new office in Hexham as its...

The auction firm that purchased the property listings left stranded by the collapse of Emoov is now offering partnership opportunities to...

A new analysis claims transaction numbers fell in 241 of 374 local authority areas of the UK last year. Analysis of Land...

House price inflation across the UK has slowed to a six-year low of 2.6 per cent thanks to falls in London...

The auction company that has acquired some 5,000 vendor listings from the failed Emoov and Tepilo agencies says it wants more agents...

A Newcastle-based property company says it has acquired the listings of Emoov and Tepilo. It has emailed and texted vendors to say...

It’s now almost a month since the government introduced new rules on Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO), as part of its...

The estate agent behind the troubled high end Sanderson Young company is reported to be appearing in court this week as...

As the property market gears up for a busy autumn period, agents and property firms have been equally busy bolstering their...

House prices in a quarter of the UK’s largest cities are struggling to recover to the level they were at during...

A new market snapshot shows how there’s now a two-tier market with homes in London taking substantially longer to sell than...

Purplebricks says it completely rejects any claim of bullying its representatives in Australia. The Australian Financial Review, which last week reported the...

The Guild of Property Professionals has launched a series of regional roadshows with a target of enhancing the success of independent...

Hello and welcome to the latest PJT, our regular Monday round-up of moves around our industry. Please let us know what’s happening...

Data from Hometrack shows that the gap between average earnings and house prices has reached an all-time high in London.  The price...

Crowdfunding is nothing new. As I pointed out in a previous Natter, it dates back centuries, playing a part in the...

Every week we carry reports of how great causes are helped by individual agents and other property professionals - this week...

Agents’ charity fundraising obviously spans a wide range of genuinely good causes, but it’s noticeable that at the end of each...

The latest figures from business consultancy Hometrack shows that house price inflation in the UK’s major cities is likely to reach...

The steep drop in price growth for homes across London is beginning to bottom out according to Hometrack, which says values...

One of the industry’s best known training operators, TM training & development, is giving away free places on its next five...

House price inflation in London continues to slow and has now reached 4.9 per cent year-on-year according to Hometrack. London is now among...

The Guild of Property Professionals is holding its annual regional meetings next month at 10 sporting venues across the UK under...

Average UK house price growth will reach 2.2 per cent this year, a rise of £4,460 that will see the average...

An analysis of homes listed for sale on Rightmove has identified what one estate agency claims to be the slowest-moving local...

I had a very interesting chat with the man behind a new portal the other day. He was John Dixon, the portal...

Hometrack data suggests that annual house price inflation in London has fallen to 6.4 per cent, the lowest level since June...

An estate agent in Newcastle upon Tyne, whose office was the target of arsonists, has resuscitated his business after the kindness...

Housing data consultancy Hometrack says the disparity between average earnings and house prices is reaching record levels in certain parts of...

As many northern cities struggled to recover from the 2008 global financial crisis, the north-south divide returned to plague the British...

Two estate agencies have incorporated video footage on to their website homepages in order to promote their brands to prospective clients. Lumley...

One of the original online estate agents, Hatched, is marking its tenth anniversary with a series of announcements.  The firm, which began...

Talks are ongoing about portal choices for Cheshire-based estate agency Gascoigne Halman - acquired by Connells last year - and no decision has...

An employee of an estate agency in Newcastle has been accused of stealing nearly £400,000 from the company over the course...

Rettie & Co. is opening a branch at Jesmond in Newcastle, hot on the heels of the firm’s recent new office...

We’re nearing the end of what has been a remarkable display of trees, decorations, jumpers and festive fun from offices across...

Iam-Sold, which offers white label auction services to estate agents, has been named as one of the country’s fastest-growing companies by...

It’s been nearly a year since all lettings and property management agents have been legally required to join a redress scheme...

We’re all familiar with 'gazumping' – most us have been 'gazumped' or indeed been the perpetrators of this practice, for it...

An unusual story of hard-to-sell homes has emerged from Northumberland where a kind of new town, established in the 1960s, is...

The number of buyers being gazumped has fallen by 40% since October 2014, according to online estate agent eMoov. The agency surveyed...

UK house prices have increased by an average of £11,500 over the last 12 months to May - but seven cities...