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20 August 2024
From: Breaking News
![Revealed! The nation’s cash buyer hotspots](/upload/images/shutterstock_1263869710.jpg)
New research has revealed the areas where sellers have the best chance of finding a cash buyer. Analysis by My Home Conveyancing...
04 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Fine & Country honours top performers](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/BusinessChain-400x310.png)
Forget the Oscars, the biggest even in town last week was the Fine & Country International Annual Conference and Awards Gala. The...
13 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Spicerhaart names new estate agency managing director](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/BusinessChain-400x310.png)
Spicerhaart has boosted its senior team with the appointment of a new managing director within its estate agency division. Tommy Taylor is...
29 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Revealed! The best areas for sellers to find a chain-free buyer](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
Almost a third of homes sold across Britain have been purchased by a cash buyer, new research shows. Analysis of the latest...
14 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agency partnership brand launches roadshow for new recruits](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Acquisition-2-400x310.png)
Self-employed estate partnership brand The Agency UK (TAUK) has launched a series of roadshows to attract agents to its offering. The company...
03 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents facing falling demand as asking price cuts rise](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/DemandDown-400x310.jpg)
Property demand has dropped while price reductions have increased in recent weeks, data shows. Two separate pieces of industry data give new...
04 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity - fundraisers on their feet for good causes](/upload/images/Site%20logos/AgentsDoCharity-1-18-400x310.png)
There is a big walking theme to this week's charity exploits, showing you don't have to break too much of a...
23 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Debate - should the property industry trial a four-day week?](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/HappyMillennialTeam-400x310.jpg)
Earlier this year, we ran a story asking whether agency would ever embrace a four-day week. This came ahead of the...
10 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rishi-Tweedle-Dum and Liz-Tweedle-DumDum](/img/default/eat.png)
When it comes to housing policy, the Conservative MPs have given their party a choice between Tweedle Dum and Tweedle DumDum. Rishi...
23 July 2022
From: Features
![Government unveils self-build boost](/upload/images/Back-link-images/1_-London.jpg)
The government has launched a new equity loan scheme for the self-build market. The Help to Build scheme aims to help thousands...
24 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Insight – would a four-day working week ever work in agency?](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/MillennialAgents-2020-400x310.jpg)
In June, the biggest pilot scheme of a four-day working week anywhere in the world will begin in Britain, with more...
22 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![Question marks remain after death of young Estate Agent](/upload/images/Miscellaneous/PassAway-400x310.png)
A coroner says there is insufficient evidence to determine the cause of death of a 23-year-old estate agent found on a...
18 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![At least eight new offices to open in 2022, pledges franchise network](/upload/images/Logos/Winkworth-logo400x310.png)
Franchise giant Winkworth says at least eight new offices will open next year, following an upbeat performance in 2021. In a trading...
12 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Out-of-London hotspots for 2022 revealed by two major agencies](/upload/images/Seasonal%20%26%20Holidays/2022Diary-400x310.png)
Strutt & Parker has revealed where it believes the housing market will see the largest demand in 2022, outside of London. The...
10 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Stamp duty boost for first-time buyers? Not a bit of it, claims research](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/MillennialTenants-Tablet-400x310.jpg)
First-time buyers are £25,000 worse off thanks to the stamp duty holiday, according to estate agent comparison site GetAgent. The website revealed...
16 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Revealed! The cash buyer hotspots as London lags behind](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/UK-Cash-20-400x310.jpg)
Scotland and the south west of England have been identified as cash buyer hotspots. Analysis by Barrows and Forrester, found 27 per...
14 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Property Jobs Today - the late summer moves in our industry](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello and welcome to our final Property Jobs Today before the start of autumn - and it’s good to see people...
23 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Stamp Duty: Buyers caught out as higher prices trigger tax take](/img/default/eat.png)
New research shows that the surge in house prices this year has taken homes in at least 25 areas of England...
29 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Property Jobs Today - this summer’s movers and shakers…](/img/default/eat.png)
It may be the height of summer but the industry is still super-busy and new appointments continue to come thick and...
05 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity - we’re free to go inside (and fundraise outside)](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s great to enjoy hospitality inside now...but it’s even better to fundraise, perhaps outside in the spring and summer weather. It’ll...
21 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Self-Employed Surge - agency has 100 new applicants since January](/img/default/eat.png)
A company which was once an early adopter of using a central resource for self-employed agents working under its name, says...
10 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Property Jobs Today - a bumper bundle of movers and shakers](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello and welcome to another working week, and the latest on jobs and staff movement across our industry. You can be part...
19 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Fake Reviews: Watchdog pushes Facebook into action](/img/default/eat.png)
The Competition and Markets Authority says it has pushed Facebook into taking new action to combat fake reviews - an issue...
12 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agency plans five new offices a year despite profit slump](/img/default/eat.png)
Winkworth says Covid and its aftermath will not derail plans to open five offices a year. In a trading statement to shareholders...
09 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Property Jobs Today - who’s going where this spring?](/img/default/eat.png)
If it’s Monday, it’s jobs news day on EAT - welcome to the latest update. Want to be featured in our next...
15 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Prime London bounces back - prices to soar up to a fifth by 2025](/img/default/eat.png)
Savills has upgraded its house price and transaction forecasts following the Budget - and prime London, especially the centre, is tipped to...
09 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agent closes branches and demands stricter Coronavirus controls](/img/default/eat.png)
An estate agent has shut both branches of his business for safety reasons and wants tighter Coronavirus restrictions on the industry. ITV...
20 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Property Jobs Today - latest news on the movers and shakers](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello and welcome to the start of a new week and a new edition of Property Jobs Today, your chance to...
19 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Storming Ahead - high end properties still flying off the shelves](/img/default/eat.png)
Two reports this morning suggest that activity in the most expensive sectors of the housing market is doing as well as...
25 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agency group wins exclusive marketing deal with developer](/img/default/eat.png)
The Sequence Group is to be the sole selling agent for RoyaleLife, the country’s largest builder of bungalows, exclusively aimed at...
10 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Property Jobs Today - latest movers into and across our industry](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s a tough time for agents and our stories show a disturbingly high number of branches closing - but there are...
06 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Virus made us abandon branches for hubs, says agency](/img/default/eat.png)
A regional agency in the east of England says the Coronavirus lockdown working environment has made it rethink its structure -...
29 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Rightmove shows how we really do like to be beside the seaside](/img/default/eat.png)
In the latest of a recent flurry of consumer-facing research exercises by Rightmove, a league table of the most popular seaside...
24 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agency targeted by scammers leaving fake negative reviews](/img/default/eat.png)
An estate agency has been targeted by scammers who leave fake reviews if they haven’t been given a pay-off. Minors & Brady...
06 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![Video tribute to High Street is an agent's superb Christmas gift to us](/img/default/eat.png)
Today, with the festive break around the corner, we have another video from an agent - but this one is distinctly...
23 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity - the Phew What A Scorcher edition...](/img/default/eat.png)
Welcome to this week’s ADC…and what a week it’s been. Politics? No, hot air of a different kind - the weather. Yet...
26 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Property Jobs Today - latest moves in and around the industry...](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello - here we are once again with the weekly round-up of key moves in the agency and related industries. We’re letting...
18 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![Connells-owned office promotes its entire staff after profits success](/img/default/eat.png)
Every staff member at a branch of the Connells-owned William H Brown agency has been promoted, after it was voted one...
12 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Holiday home market could be hit by Labour's £560m tax plan](/img/default/eat.png)
Sales of holiday homes could be hit as a result of a new £560m tax proposal put forward by Labour. Under the...
24 September 2018
From: Breaking News
![Fast track to franchise success - are you ready to be your own boss?](/img/default/eat.png)
For many estate agents seeking to become entrepreneurs, the idea of starting their own business is undoubtedly daunting, especially when going...
17 March 2018
From: Features
![Strong trading update from Hunters, despite Norfolk troubles](/img/default/eat.png)
National franchise giant Hunters has delivered a strong trading update, despite what it describes as 'challenging conditions'. Earlier this week, it was...
21 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![Over 20 jobs lost as Hunters' Norfolk franchise goes under](/img/default/eat.png)
Administrators have confirmed that 21 jobs have been lost due to the collapse of Hunters' franchise in East Anglia. At a creditors'...
20 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![Winkworth opens two out-of-London branches with new franchisees](/img/default/eat.png)
Franchise giant Winkworth, which opened seven new branches in 2017, has announced two new office openings this month. They are at Banstead...
14 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![Disruption in agency industry will push more sales to auctioneers - claim](/img/default/eat.png)
Auction House says it has maintained its number one industry ranking, selling 3,485 lots last year – four per cent up...
26 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Inquest opens into tragic death of estate agent found in woodland](/img/default/eat.png)
An inquest has been opened into the death of a regional manager of an estate agency, The Eastern Daily Press reports that...
27 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![The ESTAS – the UK’s best letting agents have their say](/img/default/eat.png)
The recent rise in consumer complaints against sales and letting agents suggests that there is a general lack of trust and...
27 May 2017
From: Features
![House prices in the East head north on demand from the South](/img/default/eat.png)
The East of England, which takes in areas from Hertfordshire to Norfolk, has recorded the biggest hike in property prices over...
28 January 2017
From: Features
![Property auctions market round-up Q2 2016](/img/default/eat.png)
With a number of agent partner programmes available nationwide, estate agents can often increase business by offering sales by auction, especially...
15 July 2016
From: Features
![Another county estate agency joins OnTheMarket](/img/default/eat.png)
Watsons, a six branch firm with offices in Norfolk, is joining OnTheMarket; it’s the second chain in the county to join...
04 March 2016
From: Breaking News
![Hunters celebrates most successful year and continues TV ad in 2016](/img/default/eat.png)
Franchise giant Hunters says 2015 was its most successful year to date. The firm opened in 32 new locations during the past...
12 January 2016
From: Breaking News
![Hunters' latest branches take total to over 150](/img/default/eat.png)
Kudos Residential, a Norfolk sales and lettings agency, today becomes part of the Hunters empire, bringing the number of Hunters-branded franchise...