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In my last Natter, I recounted the story of how Angels media bounced back from the 2008 financial crisis by launching...

In his latest column Jonathan Rolande reacts to the shock but much-needed pause in interest rate rises. I suspect you, like me,...

The level of sales agreed has fallen below its normal market trend for this time of year but the “right-priced” properties...

Sales progression platform mio is set to launch its digital Sellers Information Pack (SIP), designed to make it easy for agents...

Last week was the first ever National Conveyancing Week, which I hope registered with agents and perhaps you even took up...

A home linked to Douglas & Gordon chief executive James Evans is currently listed for sale at £3.5m. The property has been...

National Conveyancing Week has kicked off from today. The awareness-raising week features a series of in-person, online and pre-recorded events aimed at...

Property listings and sales remain down on pre-pandemic levels but there are signs that sellers are starting to heed agent advice...

The For Sale board is one of the oldest marketing tools available to agents, but it is still considered one of...

The rise of online and low-fee offerings has devalued the expertise that estate agents can offer, an industry trainer claims. Responding to...

Agents and other property professionals have, perhaps unsurprisingly, reacted positively to rumours of a Stamp Duty cut. Prime Minister Liz Truss and...

In this week’s Natter, I carry out a Q&A with Lisa Knight, who has taken the impressive journey from barmaid to...

The number one portal is making a big marketing and research push to get reluctant owners to put up the For...

Was Purplebricks right to delist a property from its website when it discovered the vendors - a Christian couple - were opposed...

Despite the progress made in so many areas, particularly in terms of leasehold reform – although we are calling upon the...

Rightmove is warning that it’s “highly likely” interest rates will rise in the near future. The portal believes this now seems inevitable...

Buyer demand per property for sale is more than double that of pre-pandemic levels, Rightmove claims. The property portal’s latest House Price...

Yet another housing market snapshot is reporting the stock of property for sale plummeting further downwards.  Property website Home says that while...

The busiest first half of a year ever recorded by Rightmove has led to a raft of new records for the...

The housing market across the country shows little or no sign of cooling despite the end of the main stamp duty...

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

An analysis of over 1.6m listings by Rightmove shows a big return to normality - demand for smaller city centre properties...

One of the companies at the heart of the campaign to provide more upfront information to prospective buyers has struck a...

Recent debate about urgent need for reform and better collaboration within the property industry, has once again come under the spotlight...

A prominent housing market analyst is warning that in 14 years of studying prices and transactions he has never seen the...

As the review of the recommendations of the Regulation of Property Agents Working Group continues, Emily Hawthorne, mio Account Manager and...

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

Evidence is pouring in that the stamp duty holiday introduced 48 hours ago has already produced huge levels of interest from...

To most people, purchasing a home is the single most significant financial commitment made across a lifetime. Given the impact and...

Rightmove says it enjoyed 5.3m visits on Tuesday of this week - up four per cent on the comparable day of...

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

At the end of a strong week for housing market indicators, the latest survey from the website Home suggests a major...

The property website Home has identified the four regions of the UK where it says the current market slowdown is at...

The average British homeowner stays in their property for 20.8 years, according to new research by Zoopla. The property portal analysed the...

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

Rightmove is undertaking an investigation into a PropTech app that has tried to list private sales on the portal. The perhaps-ironically named...

A new survey claims the market is at its worst for eight years. The latest market snapshot from property platform Home says...

The regional agency MoveSelf, which set up in 2017 as an online estate agent, is shifting emphasis towards For Sale By...

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

Outspoken online estate agency chief Russell Quirk says the estate agency industry is “really p****d off” with Rightmove trying to ride...

House prices fell further this month as the slowdown tightened its grip according to he latest data from property platform Home. It...

Japanese Knotweed remains a major problem for a property sale - and that’s despite a recent study suggesting that the growth...

The vast majority of estate agents say dressing a property for sale improves its chances of a sale by leaving a...

A new online agency has started charging only 0.75 per cent commission, payable only on completion, with no VAT and no...

The average asking price of newly marketed property continues to rise according to Rightmove - and this is despite a dip...

The For Sale board is one of the oldest marketing tools available to agents, but it is still considered one of...

A central London buying agent says she was once offered a bribe by an estate agent to try to persuade a...

A website that monitors house prices says “red warning lights are flashing as market conditions in London and the South East...

Leading independent property expert Kate Faulkner says the current row regarding the accuracy of Purplebricks’ sales figures should be the trigger...

The printing industry is in the midst of a decline as digital products and services displace printed materials, which is why...

In recent years January has become the month of detoxes, fad diets, health kicks such as Dry January and Veganuary, and...

Here’s how the LetsBid Property team is helping them do it. A new property platform called LetsBid has launched in the...

Garrington Property Finders says some two-thirds of homes in two high-value parts of prime central London have been on sale for...

Being a leading world-class city comes at a price – they are the most expensive for occupiers and the most lucrative...

The sealed bids process - where purchasers submit their final offer by a specific time and date - should be more transparent,...

New research has identified homebuyers' top 20 'must-have' features that would encourage them to purchase a seller's property. According to the survey...

The average asking price rise for homes coming to the market in the last month has been a chunky 1.3 per...

As circus performers, most estate agents would fail. Some of you might find that difficult to comprehend. After all, many uninformed members...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is the latest body within the industry to warn its members against portal juggling. Following statements...

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

An analysis of 750,000 homes on sale across the UK reveals areas where activity remains high despite economic uncertainty surrounding the...

Three separate surveys appear to suggest that even a long-term shortage of homes on sale is not enough to stop a...

A one branch agency claims it takes prospective buyers approximately two seconds to decide whether to click on an online property advert. Redmove,...

Here’s a story with more than a little in common with Britain’s own property portal wars. A long-running legal saga between Danish...

A prominent Conservative activist is calling for a strict clampdown on estate agents’ boards which she describes as “a form of...

A property statistician says portals may be inaccurately reflecting prices in some areas because of possible double-counting of properties listed with...

Dacorum council in Hertfordshire has prosecuted an estate agency for what it calls the “illegal display” of a For Sale board...

A large survey of home movers reveals that over one in five of them considered using only an online-only estate agent...

Britain’s biggest mortgage lender, the Halifax, says the housing market will slow next year with average price rises of four to...

A new website promises ultimately to identify 'mispriced' properties, including those which have the highest probably of being secured at a...

Some agents have recently suggested that the prime central London market is sluggish in the extreme - but now one agency...