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Winkworth has launched a talent drive to find rising stars to build a career and a business within the franchise network.  The...

Paul Johnson, Head of Corporate Sales at Leaders Romans Group (LRG) Commercial property has historically been viewed as the more profitable asset...

Housing supply rather than the private rented sector (PRS) made the headlines during the Conservative and Labour Party conferences this year...

Homeowners are largely unconcerned about cooling house prices, research suggests. Instead, they are more concerned about having their own home than sitting...

The “ticking time bomb” of Help to Buy repayments could be set to explode due to the cost of living crisis,...

As Summer makes way for Autumn, many in the sector are bracing themselves for storm-clouds. But should they be?  Here, in his...

Former Homesearch head of training and development Simon Gates has been appointed as a non executive director of Chris Buckler’s new...

The size of the UK property auction house market hit the highest point in a decade in 2022, approaching half a...

Over recent years, as successive governments have tightened lettings legislation and increased the tax burden on landlords, some with investment properties...

CRMs can be superheroes for your business, but not all of them possess the necessary powers to save the day. As...

By adopting a top-notch Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution, you're not only opening doors to acquiring new customers and nurturing existing...

An estate agency has been named among the fastest growing firms in the UK. The North Property Group was named in the...

Another Keller Williams UK (KWUK) market centre is set to close its doors but it is unclear who made the decision...

By Michele Gettins, Chief Marketing Officer at iamproperty Data is a powerful tool and understanding how to successfully identify and utilise reliable...

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

As the unending attack on landlords continues, many are succumbing to the pressures of increased taxes, interest rates rising, regulations becoming...

An extraordinary increase in estate agencies has been recorded over the past year. A total of 10.6% more estate agencies existed in...

A property group is the latest to call for a Stamp Duty overhaul in today's Budget. The National Association of Property Buyers’ (NAPB)...

According to Women Count 2022, an Insights report from The Pipeline, women still face entrenched systemic barriers on their route to...

A family business within the Fine & Country network has taken on the master licence for Spain. Chris Hara, managing director of...

Automated rental payment specialists PayProp recently held a high-profile event in London - PayProp Connect - which included a number of...

In this guest piece, Andy Jones, Corporate & Build To Rent Director at LRG, looks at whether commercial property can help solve...

Connells Group chairman Stephen Shipperley is set to retire at the end of 2022. It comes as he marked his 45th anniversary...

Britain’s secret property market witnessed nearly £30.9 billion worth of property transactions last year, the highest yearly market value in well...

First-time buyers and homeowners seeking to sell alike are worried and confused about the current state of the housing market. With the average...

Purplebricks has this morning announced its long-awaited annual results, delayed since July 12 due to internal changes. It shows that revenue...

This question is not as flippant as it sounds because over recent years the status of the private landlord has taken...

There’s one message that’s come home to me loud and clear from my dealings with agents so far this year -...

A former chairman of challenger bank Monzo has joined OneDome’s board. Tim Brooke Thom has been appointed as non-executive director of the challenger...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently announced that he is considering extending Margaret Thatcher’s Right-to-Buy scheme, that gives council tenants the chance to...

Hybrid agent eXp UK is embarking on a national roadshow this month to showcase its US-inspired business model. It will visit London,...

Those aficionados of the Sound of Music will recognise the tag line above. It came to my mind when thinking about...

OnTheMarket has this morning told shareholders that its performance is ahead of expectations and it's on course to make improved profits...

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

Increasing house prices has encouraged HM Revenue and Customs to launch huge numbers of probes into Inheritance Tax payments. According to law...

In this op-ed, Warwick Haycock, accounting software specialist at The Access Group, looks at how the use of tech can empower...

A bank which a year ago told investors to sell Rightmove shares has now changed its tune - radically. In August 2020...

One of the highest profile supporters of the online estate agency concept has quit the company he founded. Akshay Ruparelia, who is...

In a trading statement this morning Foxtons has revealed that following a 49 per cent increase in sales revenue in the...

An insolvency specialist is warning that the real estate sector of the UK is seeing more firms in financial distress despite...

This time out, I speak to one of the industry’s biggest-hitters. Adrian Gill may have retired from frontline agency, having had...

An open letter from Boomin chief executive Michael Bruce shows how fierce the competition is going to be in the portal field...

A £17.8m pre-tax loss has been reported by Yopa in its latest financial statement filed at Companies House. Figures lodged just before...

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

The second England-wide lockdown is here. The good news is that this time round, the property market remains open for business,...

A new tool which identifies preferences of Facebook users and then targets them with ads for appropriate homes on sale, is...

The troubled Countrywide group has announced a £90m investment by Alchemy Partners, a private equity company that specialises in investing in...

Book review by Graham Norwood, editor of Estate Agent Today, Letting Agent Today and Landlord Today. If a letting agent wants to...

Franchise giant Winkworth has reported an 11 per cent drop in gross revenue and profit plummeting 20.2 per cent in the...

There’s been a surprise appointment as OnTheMarket chief executive. Instead of popular acting CEO Clive Beattie - who had made it known...

One of Countrywide’s biggest shareholders has written a second letter to the company to demand bold action to save the agency...

Life as we know it has changed – for everybody – and what tenants want, need and expect in this post-pandemic...

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

Can technology bring about the lasting change needed to the property industry? The industry has felt the effect of lockdown and...

Although the shake-out in the industry is ongoing - online agency Settled and established new-build agency Cushman & Wakefield have both...

A specialist legal advisory service is urging conveyancers to use the reopening of the housing market as an opportunity to increase...

One of the most important aspects of being a successful and profitable agent is selecting the right tenants. The industry manages this...

This month saw the introduction of the final stages of the Section 24 tax changes, first introduced in April 2017. Whereas buy-to-let...

Hello and welcome to Conquering Corona, our bid to help agents through the crisis. If you have appropriate advice to share with...

The last five years have seen unprecedented changes to the property market and agents and their clients have never faced such...

The property franchise company Belvoir Lettings has laid off 15 workers from its Grantham headquarters - and warns there may be...

OnTheMarket has announced this morning that it has given notice to its chief executive, Ian Springett, with immediate effect. The troubled portal's...

  Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Catherine Shinerock - ARO Account Manager What is your ‘company name’...

The financial consultancy advising OnTheMarket says the portal company will be in profit by Easter next year. “We now expect OnTheMarket to...

Purplebricks is to give its next trading update on General Election day, December 12, when it will tell shareholders the details...

Purplebricks has this morning released a brief and relatively downbeat trading statement to the City and its shareholders. The statement applies to the...

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

Controversy and Purplebricks have gone hand in hand since the agency was first launched in 2012, through its float on the...

The former Countrywide chief executive Grenville Turner says it is an option for online estate agency Yopa to go to an...

Connells Group has repeated its claim, made in recent months in the light of trading figures, that it is now the...

Purplebricks has revealed its annual results for the year ending April 30 2019.  The hybrid agency has posted an operating loss of...

I want to take the time this week to look at an area of PropTech and real estate which is seeing...

It’s easy to understand why people are hesitant towards processes becoming digital. It is the fear that the digital world is...

Purplebricks has announced that it is to give a trading update and the result of its review of its US activities on...

Purplebricks’ most influential investor says there is “opportunity aplenty” for the company but says it would back the closure of the US...

In recent years, estate and letting agents have been faced with a series of tough challenges to absorb and react to. There...

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

So far in our contribution to the campaign to replace leasehold with commonhold we have outlined the stories of some of...

Hello, welcome to a new week and to PJT, your regular Monday round-up of jobs news in the industry. Do please let...

Local media in the east Midlands report that four estate agency offices operated by the Nottingham building society are to close...

Many estate and letting agents are receiving more leads through OnTheMarket than through Rightmove, the challenger portal claims - and it...

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

Shares in OnTheMarket hit another new low of 75.7p yesterday, dropping over nine per cent on the day and falling well...

Former Emoov chief executive Russell Quirk has made his first on-the-record comments about the factors behind the dramatic collapse of his...

A top PropTech analyst says Purplebricks is as much an advertising firm as an estate agency but is nonetheless a huge success...

When renting a property out, letting agents and landlords recognise that it is important to take a deposit from the tenant...

Whatever one thinks about online estate agencies, it’s a cause of genuine sadness when people lose their jobs - close proximity...

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

Given that online property portals, dominated by a handful of websites, are by far the most popular home search method, it...

The market is now over-supplied with homes to sell while at the same time demand is dipping and there are widespread...

As scary Halloweens go, yesterday was quite a shocker for Britain’s online estate agency sector - and not in a good...

The estate agency group Humberts, which narrowly avoided collapse early this year, now claims to have turned around its fortunes thanks...

One of the brokers working with OnTheMarket says the portal will not be profitable until 2021, but predicts that its target...

Johnston Press, the company which owns the i national newspaper and some 200 local titles - many with property supplements carrying...

Emoov’s founder Russell Quirk has outlined how he would help Britain get out of its current housing crisis to a Labour...

Landlords and letting agents might feel they’ve taken a bit of a battering from the government in recent years – and...

The shock immediate closure of Hatched, the online agency heavily invested in by Connells, has raised question marks over the online...

Those of you who receive (and read) my Sunday PropTech Review will know that, by far and away, the most shared...

After gaining my MBA qualification from Edinburgh Business School in 2005, I took careful consideration over my career moves and prospective...

Estate and lettings agency is arguably one of the most fierce, ruthless and relentless industries going. And, with fluctuating stock levels,...