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A former letting agent claims to have removed the need for estate agents to use floorplan software. Mark McCorrie, who describes himself...

Our inbox is regularly stuffed with exciting new industry developments and tools to help agents work better.  Here are some of the...

Visual images are key for securing the quickest sales at the best prices, according to a formal estate agency chief who...

We know from our customer research that being able to showcase property that looks the best it can online is the...

When we all thought that the Covid-19 pandemic was coming to an end, the virus decided to throw another curveball and...

Today we have photographs from another office that’s been persistent - or should that be puss-insistent - in celebrating the festive...

A portal says many buyers feel disappointed when viewing a property becuase it is typically smaller than agents’ photographs suggest.  MoveStreets claims...

Howl you doing? Yes, it’s just a fortnight until Halloween and time to wheel out unspeakably awful puns and the occasional...

Agents are being warned about removing personal data and information from marketing material. Paul Offley, compliance officer at The Guild of Property...

The pandemic has led to many people ditching more formal wear as they work from home on a more regular basis,...

Good property marketing photos have arguably never been more important in an increasingly visual and tech-led world. We saw just the...

Does this photo drive you mad? Do you see it everywhere (including on Estate Agent Today stories)?  Who are these people and...

Taking photographs or video footage during a routine property inspection can be a contentious subject. While landlords have every right to...

Kevin Thomas, the long time director at Thomas Morris Sales & Lettings, is retiring from the industry after more than 40...

I recently saw a fly-through video for a home on sale for well over £2m. The imagery was good (made better by...

There may well have been times in recent weeks when any agent would have been forgiven for wanting a break -...

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

The sizes and numbers of gardens in London are reducing because stamp duty is encouraging more extensions as an alternative to moving. That’s...

Automatically changing the main marketing photo on a portal listing can attract up to 40 per cent more traffic, it has...

The importance of marketing properties is something that is often undervalued. Big budgets are dedicated to selling everyday items such as...

Christmas is creeping up on us and, for some agents at least, a short seasonal closedown beckons. To get us in the...

Deposit disputes can be time-consuming and difficult for all parties involved whether it be a letting agent, landlord, or tenant. Although at...

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

Hello and welcome to the latest of our parade of estate agency videos and photographs to mark Christmas 2020. It may be a...

We’re off and running with our annual showcase of the decorations and festivities in agency branches and for those working from...

A prominent PropTech supplier wants agents to hand over much more information to conveyancers to allow them to make faster progress on...

A new survey has been launched by the Residential Property Surveyors Association. The RPSA - which wants to rival the RICS as...

Clear communication and common-sense actions by landlords, letting agents and students at the start of a tenancy can drastically improve the...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I am James D. Marshall, Founder and CEO of Pupil. What...

As many in the industry will know, Ian Westerling passed away last week at the age of 51: he was a...

Whilst Estate and Letting Agents have adapted their operations during COVID-19, to ensure safer working practices under Government guidance, ‘virtual property...

Whisper it quietly but in just 10 days time we have the final Bank Holiday before Christmas. We would like to mark...

A new agency called Eazy Agent has launched - it’s another online operation, this time with a starting price of £249. For...

A BBC presenter has used her local newspaper column to mock an estate agency for suggesting fridge magnets be removed to improve...

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

A survey of 2,750 buyers and tenants has revealed the aspects of online property listings which they find most annoying. The single...

There’s no doubt we’re in a less-than-rosy phase of the property cycle. This, however, is not another doom and gloom piece:...

** This Bank Holiday Monday both Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today look at how agencies have modified offices and protocols...

For the coming Bank Holiday on Monday, we’d like to show images of how agency offices have adapted to cope with...

A PropTech firm says it’s using what it calls “World War Three-style” hazard suits when they visit premises to create virtual...

An instant valuation service has launched a new tool aimed at helping agents prioritise leads through prospective vendors uploading photographs to...

The Haart estate agency chain has launched a portal called Off Market which it describes to sellers as being “a unique...

For many this coming Easter weekend will be the strangest ever - for agents and industry suppliers it will not be...

Almost every part of the agency industry is operating remotely these days - and we would love to know how you’re...

Purplebricks Local Property Experts are asking sellers who are not allowing agents into their homes during the virus crisis to draw...

Two auctions held behind closed doors have been deemed a success, and evidence that the property market can still function despite...

The government has at last issued extensive advice on home moving and the activities of estate agents during the continuing Coronavirus crisis. This...

Trading Standards says agents must include more “material information” in property details even if this may not be a wholly positive...

In the last few Natters I’ve focused on the slow death of local newspaper advertising, and how many agents are now...

The National Association of Estate Agents has launched its Sales Protocol Toolkit, in a bid to reduce fall-throughs and dramatically improve...

An estate agent has sold a home off-market by posting teaser photographs on Instagram.  The buyer - who was in the French...

For a very long time, it was one of the best ways – if not the best way – of generating...

We’re back to our Christmas celebration photographs, and with the holiday break just over a week away here’s a reminder that...

Hello and welcome to another day of our estate agency decoration pictures and videos. Every one that we have shown so far...

Christmas gets ever closer and we’re delighted that you’re sending in those splendid festive videos and still photographs. Everyone today got in...

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

You are an enterprising lot! Today we’ve got two fantastic Christmas videos from agents who’ve kindly responded to our call for...

Don’t even think how quickly Christmas has come around again: it’s December 1 on Sunday, so we imagine many offices will...

A new app is being launched which allows agents to gauge possible interest in a property before it is formally put...

As we know, the world’s moving very fast and how we communicate now is drastically different to even 10 years ago....

love2move, an online network which allows high street agents to offer a white-labelled hybrid service, has teamed up with the Mortgage...

The big day is here and thanks so much to all the agents who have this year sent in their Halloween...

Thanks a lot - or should that be fangs so much? - for sending in photographs of your brilliantly decorated offices...

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

We’ve had a particularly scary entry for our Halloween videos and photographs - and our sympathy goes out to the innocent...

It’s only a week to the Big Day when gore-splattered figures wreak havoc on an unsuspecting industry and nation. But enough about...

A property MOT being launched by Countrywide and described as “game changing” for the house buying process will include survey and...

Countrywide’s surveying division says it’s found a “knowledge gap” in existing surveys after a study involving over 15,000 buyers. The agency group...

A veteran estate agent has got hot under the collar about a London firm which has ordered its negotiators and other...

Advertising on Zoopla is a must-have for most sellers but for Susan Tate in Anglesey it meant she ended up in...

Prime London subscription-based property platform LonRes has launched an off-market service for its subscribers. It says that as transactions across prime London...

Outsourced viewings firm Viewber now handles viewings for more than 50 per cent of all UK auctioneers. The claim is from Essential...

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

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a complaint made against a listing on property website Houser.co.uk. In January, the complainant notified...

love2move, the online network which allows high street agents to offer a white-labelled hybrid service, has announced its latest partner. Peter David...

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

A London sales and lettings agent has revealed to Estate Agent Today some of the tactics used by his rivals in...

The first hour of a property’s listing on a portal is the most crucial for sellers or landlords according to research...

A working party of NAEA Propertymark is to conduct a pilot of a new Property Information Questionnaire - part of a...

Instagram (or, as the younger generation would have it, Insta) is, by any measure, massive.  Only launched in October 2010, it’s a...

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

There’s no end to the PropTech and photography solutions available to estate agents these days to help them sell good, old-fashioned...

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

Hello, and the wind-down to the Big Day continues with more pictures of your agency offices. Thanks so much, firstly, to Becky...

Hello and welcome to another batch of your agency office Christmas pictures…it’s certainly been a bumper year for them and today...

With only 10 days to go before Christmas, surely everyone’s decorations are up by now? It seems that way in the agency...

Your terrific festive photographs keep on rolling in and we’re delighted to share them with the industry - and we’d like...

Thanks to vast improvements in processing powers, the use of virtual reality (VR) in some sectors is becoming more evident than...

December is here and we’re delighted to start our annual displays of agents’ Christmas windows, decorations and even those dodgy jumpers. Our...

Time appears to be running short for the sale of troubled online agency Emoov. An Emoov insider has told Estate Agent Today...

It’s Children In Need in just a few days’ time on Friday, November 16 - it’s one of the biggest fund-raising...

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

A hybrid estate agency has launched in Bury, one of the first of its kind to operate in the UK on...

Gone are the days of having to rush back to your office every time you win an instruction to market the...

Floor plans are an essential marketing tool, which play an important part in helping an estate agent sell a home.  A floor...

You don’t have to look far to see an abundance of photo failures, just head to any property portal and they’ll pop...

A PropTech firm claims its new tool gives people the option of running an entire agency...from a phone.  BestAgent, which has built...

Getting your property marketing right is vital, and the starting point is with professional images.  With most buyers browsing the internet for...

Welcome once again to Property Jobs Today, the notice-board for agents, suppliers and other property professionals moving within, out or in...

The operation of ‘online estate agencies’ has changed substantially in the relatively short few years of their existence: I have spotted...

An estate agency has started a petition to get bollards erected outside its branch after two accidents, in each of which...

As the £1m-plus housing market continues to struggle in most parts of the country, so the use of stunts and gimmicks...

In a sign of how technology has become a mainstream part of the house sales process. the consumer group Which? has...

So here it is … a very Merry Christmas from Estate Agent Today and Angels Media, with our very best wishes...

We have images from three more agency offices to show you today as the pictures keep rolling in - thanks so...

Here are some more absolutely stunning images from your offices as they mark the approach of Christmas - what a cheery...

Agents look like they’re getting into their decorative strive - here are two more terrific-looking offices sent in by our readers. If...

We’re delighted to say that the first estate agency pics have arrived as the industry unravels the tinsel and gets out...

Black Friday’s over, November is nearly down and out - now it's a case of wrapping up warm until Christmas. Which brings...

It’s one of the biggest days of the year for fund-raising in the UK, and we know many across our industry...

There's just a week to go to Children In Need, the UK's largest fund-raising event of the year - as we...

As ours attentions turn from pumpkins to bonfires, a final thank you from all of us at Estate Agent Today for...

Thanks so much for sending in more photographs of your branches as they prepare for Halloween. We have some here but want...

You may think there are enough horror stories going around the agency industry and Britain as a whole right now -...

A new firm has launched in Surrey describing itself as “the premium hybrid estate agency” with an innovative presence on the...

It used to be so easy. Around 20 years ago there were what we now call full-service estate and letting agencies, and...

An experiment conducted by insurance company AXA has revealed how sloppy photographs can alter the perception of a property in the...

Are you protecting your data right? This may sound like the sort of direct warning you get from cold callers or...

**The free photography course for estate agents (part one) offer has now expired. It is still available in special circumstances so...

TV property expert and online agency owner Sarah Beeny says there will always be some sellers who prefer to use traditional...

Vigilant followers of the Liberal Democrats may have spotted a blog in the name of Mark Pack early yesterday morning, commenting...

There’s been another flurry of publicity for Purplebricks following the posting of photographs and statements online by a blogger whose property...

Over 60% of UK consumers think that Estate Agents’ Photos Are Very Poor To Average A recent survey* by dedicated property photo...

The East Midlands, which consists of several areas including Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, and much of Lincolnshire, has an ancient...

It’s always a privilege to publicise fund-raising work by our industry, to show the caring nature of a profession that is...

A former estate agent is reported to have won £1,000 ‘commission’ from a seller - simply because she shared a sale-by-owner...

We’ve had almost three weeks of photographs and Mannequin Challenges from agents and we’re thrilled that they’re still coming in -...

Thanks for your continuing enthusiasm sending in your office photographs as we continue the countdown to Christmas. We’ll be publishing more next...

With little more than 10 days to go before we all down tools for a well-earned Christmas break - even if...

With under a fortnight left before Christmas your photographs have been coming thick and fast - but today we start with...

It’s Christmas-Central in the estate agency business if your photographs are any indicator - and we’re very grateful that you continue...

It may have been a challenging year for parts of the industry but there’s no lack of motivation when it comes...

Thanks to agencies who have already responded to our request for photographs of their Christmas windows and office decorations - it’s...

Halloween's over, Guy Fawkes' Night has been and gone - now it's a slide through the Awards season and downhill to...

When marketing a property for sale, there are a number of attributes that buyers and sellers today expect ‘as standard’, but...

Haart has apologised over what it calls the “completely unacceptable” parking of one of its cars which blocked in a care worker’s...

Conducting Customer Due Diligence on clients and beneficial owners is a requirement for all estate agents.   The articles in this series...

Vandals are reported to have smashed the windows of an estate agency with sledgehammers before destroying computers and stealing cash. The Manchester Evening...

Thanks so much for the first photographs of your office’s decorations sent in to us here at Estate Agent Today. We’re keen...

In a digital age where we have an abundance of information at our fingertips via desktops, tablets and smartphones, our attention...

A local authority has written to all known estate and letting agents in its area criticising those who have allegedly broken...

An agent has broken new ground by creating an open-plan shop which includes an agency office, a cafe and an interiors...

An estate agent has conducted an interesting test on whether photographs on agents’ details may be improved by being edited on...

We know that many agents will be shutting up shop at the end of today for a well-earned Christmas break -...

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

We’re into Christmas week and the distant rumble of sleigh bells, mingled with the unseasonal sight of daffodils, means the big...

We’re receiving more photographs from agencies showing just how much you’re getting into the Christmas spirit - and making your offices...

Thanks yet again for the latest batch of festive photographs sent by agents - we’re really delighted so many of you...

The Christmas cheer continues - here’s our fourth selection of estate agents’ offices, and agents themselves, who are entering into the...

We’re absolutely delighted with the response to EAT’s appeal for photographs of agency offices and teams deocrated for Christmas - you’ve...

Thank you so much to those agents kindly sending us photographs of their decorated offices and those festive jumpers in response...

An estate agent who was jilted by his girlfriend has been jailed for sending explicit sexual images of her to another...

There is controversy in the London suburb of Brixton over an estate agent which has allegedly 'spammed' the area with publicity...

A new online agency launched on Monday is already in hot water. It used photographs of a Manchester property on sale through...

Another online estate agency has launched, claiming to save vendors thousands of pounds by “getting rid of all the unnecessary stuff...

Agents and vendors can’t control what happens when there are photographs of views from a property, but agency Murray & Currie missed...

An agent has defended his decision to put 142 photographs of a property on its Rightmove listing after an unexpected criticism...

OK, you’re being spoilt. This column is now going to be on a bi-weekly rather than monthly basis. You lucky people,...

We knew it - a good looking estate agent can increase the value of a property. And now we have proof,...