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

Lots of things change in the property sector - but one thing always seems to stay the same. For buyers and sellers,...

Only two out of five UK adults are aware of what conveyancing is, while the number for those who are already...

Conveyancers shouldn’t give buyers and sellers assurances about building safety remediations unless they are confident doing so, the Law Society has...

If you’ve paid even scant attention to Landlord Today or other trade titles, you’ll be familiar with the headlines about rogue...

We all want more transactions - the Holy Grail when it comes to agencies’ bottom lines - but an interesting aspect...

Now more than ever, property professionals across the sector need to pull together and collaborate more closely to make business gains,...

Step right up and witness the extraordinary world of Estate Agents as they embrace the power of biometric checks, turning the...

Despite most businesses across industry now adopting some form of digital alternative to traditional work methods, many in the private rental...

I was delighted to read recently about the creation of the first ever ‘register of logbooks’ in the UK, which offers...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. Thomas Morris Sales & Lettings: Last week...

As is generally the case, we didn’t start out with solutions, we started with questions…. two, actually. The first was, ‘Why does...

Tracking mortgage rates may be more fruitful for buyers than following house price data, a property expert claims. Tom Bill, head of...

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

Homeowners and prospective buyers considering a move before Christmas should act quickly to increase their chances of a smooth relocation, as...

It was announced back in February this year that PEXA, the Australian FinTech/PropTech that enabled the world’s first fully digitised property settlement...

The other day I read a story here on Estate Agent Today, which was both depressing and inspiring. It reported a study...

I look back on when my dad helped me buy my first car and shared his pearls of wisdom on what...

The property recruitment market seems to be moving as fast as house prices. Here are some of the latest moves that took...

The objective of estate agents in 2022 must be to cut their business costs and employ technology to replace - and...

The last 18 months have been full of ups and downs, but the property market has coped remarkably well during the...

Some 14 trade bodies in the estate agency, conveyancing, property management and surveying industries have jointly launched new upfront documents which...

The push for greater sustainability, energy efficiency and generally being ‘green’ has existed in the agency world for several years -...

We have been speaking with many agents over the past months and the story appears the same with them all. There...

In this article, the team at The Lettings Hub - which aims to offer tech-driven solutions for the rental market - outline...

There is no denying that managing properties is labour intensive. As real estate agents you are responsible for administering and addressing...

In this thought leadership article, Videosign CEO Steven Tallant looks at electronic signatures and conveyancing and whether the time is nigh for the...

Like most industries, estate agency is changing. A general trend to a more hybrid model, accelerated by the pandemic has resulted...

Last month it was reported that up to 500,000 people had been ‘pinged’ by the NHS in a week. While the...

Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, technology has proven to be the answer for many problems faced by sectors across...

It’s a big ask to expect anyone to suddenly change what they have always done, particularly if their results have proven...

Working in real estate can be incredibly rewarding, but it takes a lot of hard work to be able to succeed...

The government and property industry have been talking about it for a long time, and there have been numerous initiatives introduced...

The frenzy of activity in the housing market thanks to the stamp duty holiday shows the need for automated processes to...

The current housing market frenzy would be easier to deal with if upfront buyers’ packs were available, improving transparency and cutting...

“A hybrid offering, which serves customers of all needs and capabilities, is what we should all be working towards.” Following Aconveyancing opening...

Brexit means that the UK’s anti-money laundering laws are no longer governed by the European Union (EU), but any estate agents...

Zoopla says house builders “are at the heart of everything we do” and it is revamping its New Homes marketing offer...

The UK property market is always evolving but never as quickly as it is now. Traditional estate agents are seriously questioning...

We are just over one year on from the day our lives truly changed, when the UK went into its first...

Following the fluctuation of the property market during the UK’s first national lockdown, the industry was given a lifeline by the...

The government has issued an official note to detail the announcement made yesterday by Chancellor Rishi Sunak regarding stamp duty holiday...

An online petition has been started by an independent estate agent seeking a radical overhaul of how homes are sold in...

Countrywide and Foxtons have thrown their weight behind an idea to identify every single UK residential property with a unique number. The...

A new family-run estate agency in Cornwall claims to be the first in the county to focus on green thinking, championing...

A digital resource hub for estate agents launches a new product today, claiming to shorten transaction times.  Sort Move, which has been...

Safety checks which are apparently now preventing thousands of owners selling flats are to be eased - but there is confusion...

Various investors in Countrywide have submitted early online paperwork to The Panel on Takeovers and Mergers - the red tape required to...

A conveyancing firm is blaming councils for delays in transactions. Conveyancers have themselves been sharply criticised in recent weeks as the sharp...

Tenant enquiries and property viewings unsurprisingly slowed this spring, due to the necessary government restrictions brought in to manage the pandemic....

Figures drawn up by a property industry recruitment guru show that estate agents work only two thirds of the hours they...

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

“Many hands make light work” – Does John Heywood’s old English proverb from the 1300s apply to modern approaches on how...

There’s no doubt that Covid-19 has had a huge impact on the UK’s property market, after hundreds of thousands of house...

In the first of a series of articles, Emma Vigus, managing director of mio, the estate agent sales progression platform, explores the...

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

Buying and selling a house is often referenced as being one of the most stressful life experiences that we can go...

With confirmation that Section 21 will be scrapped, how can agents get ready for life after no-fault evictions? The short answer is...

The head of a firm that has been creating digital property log books for well over a decade says the house-moving...

Both Countrywide and LSL Property Services have submitted early online paperwork to The Panel on Takeovers and Mergers, an independent body...

In the field of conveyancing, there’s a new dynamic at play. And that dynamic is customer-driven and customer-focused, using digital technology...

“Give me 100 leads and I will make five-times more good appointments than any AI you put me up against,” stated...

It's been two years since the SDL Group launched its franchise block management business, SDL Property Partners, the first of its...

Reservation Agreements are the subject of the moment in the agency industry. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is to...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has today published the paperwork behind the recent Countrywide £10m accounting controversy. Published on the RICS...

In recent months, we’ve seen headlines dominated by changes to tenancy rules, government consultations and more than a few scare stories. Landlords...

A London agency has told Estate Agent Today that it makes some of its buyers pay upwards of £5,000 in Reservation...

We know that the tenant fee ban has cost letting agents dearly, with an estimated loss of £300 million paid to...

HM Revenue & Customs has revealed that the original Emoov online agency has been fined for breaches of money laundering regulations. HMRC...

I remember the day well; the day we all fell foul of addiction, the day our website was launched. Until then, at...

A fraudster who claimed to be an estate agent has been jailed for four years after conning vulnerable women into giving...

Technology will drive the lettings and property management industry in the future. There is already a plethora of various software and other...

The Deposit Protection Service (The DPS) keeps deposit money safe for letting agents, landlords and renters during the course a tenancy....

If agents ran their databases more efficiently, the property portals might find themselves redundant. Controversial opening statement aside, the reality is that...

A law firm says it’s made legal history by integrating the automated voice-activated platform Alexa into its system. Customers of Simply Conveyancing...

When they first came onto the scene, online-only estate and lettings agents were predicted to swiftly spell the end for traditional...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Beccy Moore. Office Manager for Nicholas Humphreys Tell us more about Nicholas...

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

‘I need more power’ - it’s a common request experienced by landlords, letting agents and commercial estate agents across the country. Be...

A new portal called YourMoov and describing itself as “the UK’s first decentralised property listing database” is to launch shortly. In an...

It’s safe to say that the majority of agents will be glad to see the end of the past two years....

A firm is launching a new Home Owner’s Passport this weekend in a bid to speed up conveyancing.  With characteristics reminiscent of the much-derided Home...

How will things be done in the future? There’s no knowing, of course, given the many variables at play, but it’s...

Conveyancing regularly adds unnecessary and costly delays to the home buying process and improvement could be far quicker than any efforts...

Hard-pressed buyers who try to minimise house moving costs by doing their own conveyancing have been warned of the disastrous consequences...

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

It’s the most obvious visual medium high street agents have at their disposal, and for many decades has been absolutely pivotal...

For any business, regardless of size, age or industry, operating efficiently is fundamental to your success. When faced with challenges like we...

The culture of impatience and instant gratification has a lot to answer for. It has forced the hand of the property...

Out and about recently, I got to thinking: how often do I actually have the call for cash anymore? Or, for...

It’s no secret that technology has changed the way businesses operate, in all sectors. With that has come changes to the...

It looks as if Purplebricks has hit something less than a purple patch in the Australian housing market. The Australian Financial Review,...

An estate agency has been ordered to pay £841 to a council - because it failed to provide paperwork about its...

At any given moment it’s difficult to say which issue dominates our marketplace, but I think it’s fair to acknowledge during...

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

A law firm says the problems with housing transactions lie not with issues like fall-throughs but with “people’s general lack of...

The Society of Licensed Conveyancers says it is worried that HM Land Registry’s decision to publish details of apparent errors in...

Figures from the independent Office for Budget Responsibility suggest that house prices across the UK will rise by 3.1 per cent...

That the private rental sector has become the government’s whipping boy for housing problems - landlords in particular, letting agents almost...

The detailed paperwork accompanying the Queen’s Speech includes the Conservative party manifesto pledge to streamline house buying - but gives no...