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Next month will see new rules around upfront Material Information for property sales and lettings come into force in the UK...

Millions of people use online property portals every year to conduct their property search, whether it be for sales or for...

The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team (NTSELAT) deemed yesterday that the use of POA or “price on application”...

The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team (NTSELAT) has deemed that the use of POA or “price on application”...

The property supply shortage may be easing but Zoopla has warned it will still take some time for stock to be...

The property industry is fortunate in including many great people, doing great work across a range of businesses – from traditional agency...

Buyers are happy and ready to pay for more upfront material information when it comes to purchasing a property. It comes as...

From the beginning of April, long-awaited rules from the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team (NTSELAT) came into effect....

Trading Standards has advised agents to update listings once they reach the "sold subject to contract" (SSTC) stage. It comes after legal...

Agents are being offered an easier way to offer 3D virtual viewings that could get homes listed more quickly. Spatial data technology...

Agents and conveyancers have signed up to a new buyers’s and seller’s property information form that is described as having been...

They say that in fashion, if you wait for long enough, clothes that are hanging at the back of your wardrobe...

A number of pro-active conveyancers are joining a new conveyancing directory being set up by one of the leading figures in...

Agents are being advised to revise their processes now to accommodate changes to the information required on property details, which begin...

A prominent industry supplier has produced startling statistics about the numbers of fall throughs in just the first 10 weeks or...

Boomin claims that one of the online influencers it has commissioned to create YouTube content has won has many viewers as...

Propertymark is urging agents to respond to a consultation exercise being conducted by the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agents...

Of the many industry buzzwords, I suspect “upfront information” was up there as one of the most widely used in 2021....

One of the UK’s leading economic experts is to be the speaker at a Rightmove seminar this week, considering whether events...

A webinar this week is set to see the release of more details of changes to property listings being demanded by...

A PropTech supplier has been quick off the mark to launch a tool which it says will help agents satisfy new...

The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agent Team has released background information on how it came to make changes to...

Industry figures have come out in favour of the long-term programme of new compulsory information to be contained on property listings. From...

Trading Standards and the government have jointly announced compulsory new data which must appear on property listings. A property's council tax band or...

Rightmove - which issues its annual figures to shareholders later this week - has released a bullish snapshot of the housing...

There’s been yet another month of declining property listings according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors market snapshot. Those responding...

There are many features and functionalities a website must have to be successful. Ultimately, the purpose of your website should be...

The market may be soaring in most of the country but there are still locations where significant numbers of properties sell...

There’s been a huge rise in references to electric car charging within property listings submitted to Rightmove. The number of homes listed...

Another market snapshot has identified low supply as the chief characteristic of the sales landscape this autumn. Landmark Information Group’s latest Property...

OnTheMarket figures for the first half of this year show stronger revenue and improved profits. Agency numbers have increased modestly since January...

Rightmove is at the centre of a revolutionary advertising initiative involving Channel 4’s Location, Location, Location. Using Artificial Intelligence technology, a digital...

Available residential property listings across the country are at historic lows according to property data firm Homesearch. The company, which focuses its...

A leading agent says the supply of homes coming to the market is still insufficient to match demand. London estate agent Jeremy...

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

London property is still a draw for the wealthiest in the world according to Knight Frank. Despite international travel restrictions, the number...

The Trading Standards agency team has outlined to Estate Agent Today the process it will follow to improve what it calls...

An agency says sellers should improve the attractiveness of their properties for sellers - so it's linked with a florist to offer...

The controversial demands of Trading Standards for more “material information” to be provided upfront in property details have been criticised by...

The number of properties coming on the market is still not meeting the huge demand from buyers, but the level of...

Rightmove is to roll-out two-factor authentication within Rightmove Plus to try to protect agents against attempts by fraudsters to steal leads and...

Boomin founder Michael Bruce says his new site has enjoyed a stronger start than any other portal in terms of visits, viewings,...

A major agency is reporting a “frenzy” with branches inundated with enquiries as soon as homes are listed. Nicky Stevenson, managing director of...

National Trading Standards wants agents, portals and industry groups to come up with ways to provide basic essential material information ‘upfront’.  The National...

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

This time out, I’m in conversation with one of the big three established portals. Since it was founded in 2007, Zoopla...

Technology has advanced in leaps and bounds in recent years, undoubtedly improving many parts of the moving process for both estate...

While the property industry has suffered far less than other sectors during the past year, it would be short of the...

Here at Giraffe360, the PropTech startup, we have raised a £3.5 million funding round to further accelerate our product development and...

One of the oldest portals in the UK, Mouseprice, has been bought by a service which describes itself as the country’s...

The new property portal Boomin has revealed its fees structure for agents. Tapping into the industry debate over portal fees, Boomin describes...

An American realtor who once predicted his company would have 5,000 UK estate agents working under its banner is now saying...

It has been three months since the property market was given the green light to reopen. During this time, we have...

A home office set up in a dedicated room apparently adds £17,500 to the value of a property. Direct Line Insurance has...

A new website that describes itself as an estate agency says it wants to “empower people to sell their own home”...

How businesses can list properties on Facebook Marketplace   What is Facebook Marketplace? Marketplace is a discovery and search experience on Facebook designed to...

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

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

The only story that has come remotely close to pushing coronavirus – and its various knock-on effects – off the top...

Over the last few years, there have been a number of high-profile court cases in which renters took action against letting...

As you know, having professional images of your properties is the best (only?) way to get people wanting to step through...

There’s been a very significant increase in the number of listings carrying virtual viewings, accelerating during the period of the Coronavirus crisis and...

As the impact of coronavirus unfolds, we are in constant conversations with customers to understand the challenges they’re facing and to...

There’s been a surge in UK enquiries to global free-to-list portal Residential People, and a comparable rise in interest from Chinese...

Forget the Boris Bounce - this might be the Rightmove Retreat. A new tool produced by the portal measures price per...

Unfortunately for consumers, buying and selling properties is rarely plain sailing. But fortunately for agents, this provides you with an opportunity to...

Property portals generate revenue from estate agents regardless of the outcome of the transaction. This relationship has resulted in a fundamental...

A property portal says that it’s going to remain free to list for estate and letting agents - and that pledge...

The property market in prime central London showed some impressive signs of recovery during the summer months, according to Knight Frank. The...

A free-to-list portal says it’s an ideal way to capture potential leads so as to augment agents’ client databases that have...

The parent company of franchised hybrid estate agency EweMove says that experienced estate agents outperform inexperienced franchisees - but only for...

The number of new property listings in the UK fell by a whopping 13.2 per cent in August according to online...

Speculation surrounding whether Boris Johnson will honour his pledge to reduce stamp duty risks bringing the housing market “to a grinding...

One of the earliest property websites, nethouseprices.com, has been acquired by fledgling property portal OneDome.  Nethouseprices was set up in 2004 and...

A trade association of agents selling properties overseas has launched a new feature which it claims will give buyers greater security...

The summer market momentum building thanks to warmer weather and reduced Brexit uncertainty took a hit in June, according to new...

Online agency Housesimple has become the first in the UK to sell houses for free. It says that based on the average...

Facebook is set to enter the cryptocurrency business with the big reveal of its formal plans scheduled for some point this...

Figures released from OnTheMarket this morning suggest that its conversion programme for agents shifting from free deals to paid membership is...

Sellers are back with a vengeance according to figures from online agency HouseSimple.  It claims the Brexit date extension has given sellers...

New free-to-list portals Residential People and Commercial People are aiming to secure one million property listings by Q4 2019. The portals -...

With the UK population spending longer in rental accommodation, due to the upfront expense of buying a home, their time and...

A property listings platform has revealed what it describes as ‘the best places to sell a home’ in England and Wales. The...

The new portal OneDome is offering what it calls a “consumer-facing digital mortgage product” in a bid to cut fall-throughs. OneDome already...

A former senior management figure at Rightmove and online estate agency Doorsteps is going it alone for a new holiday property...

A slew of allegations have been made against agents and sometimes even by agents, over alleged misdemeanours over property listings as...

The controversial property portal Propertyheads has compiled a blacklist of tradesmen who have a criminal record. The website says this is the...

There’s been a big rise in the number of homes being listed for sale despite ongoing concerns over Brexit. That’s the news...

The monthly index of house price changes in Britain’s major cities, for many years operated under the Hometrack banner, has been...

The auction firm that purchased the property listings left stranded by the collapse of Emoov is now offering partnership opportunities to...

Zoopla is radically changing its strategy by exploiting the freedom it has under its new private equity ownership. That’s the conclusion of...

It is something of an understatement to say that we are in challenging times. BREXIT is unresolved and we wait with...

A specialist property portal says it’s offering estate agents “a captive audience for the ski properties on their books.” SnowOnly says that...

Estate Agent Today has been given details of responses made by administrators to an enquiry about the possible acquisition of some...

A tweet from Purplebricks’ chief executive Michael Bruce suggests that the agency may be about to play a role in the Emoov...

A statement by the administrators appointed by Emoov says there are prospective buyers for the listings on the online agency and...

Zoopla founder Alex Chesterman - who sold the portal company for more than £2.2 billion to US private equity fund Silver...

To say legendary ZPG founder and CEO Alex Chesterman left big boots to fill when he stepped back from day-to-day operations...

Photos and floor plans remain an essential tool in property marketing. Despite a wealth of choice from aspiring UK PropTech start-ups the...

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

There was a drop in the number of new listings across the UK last month, suggesting that the usual autumn rush to...

The head of a controversial property portal says agents can by-pass some GDPR marketing restrictions by using his service’s social network. Ben Davis,...

Zoopla says 38 per cent of properties on sale have had their asking prices slashed. That’s a five per cent rise since...

No, I haven’t lost the plot. Such a thing exists – and if you’re familiar with North London, there is a...

Price cutting is becoming the new norm as the market adapts to reduced interest from buyers, according to property listings platform...

When Facebook first announced it would be entering the property listings market a few weeks ago it sent shockwaves across the...

New data reveals that new property listings have fallen for three successive months - and that includes a huge 17.1 per...

New property listings in July were down 6.0 per cent across the UK and down no less than 12.7 per cent...

As you probably know, I have been no fan of OnTheMarket (OTM) over the years. You may see this admission as...

Another update from OnTheMarket this morning claims the portal is now listing over 550,000 UK residential property listings, in excess of...

Purplebricks is reported to be set to reveal increasing losses when it issues its full-year financial results to the London Stock...

Purplebricks has acquired another fixed-fee agency for £29.3m - it’s in Canada and marks another new territory for the hybrid agency. The...

May saw the highest number of new sellers list their properties in any single month for at least 18 months, claims...

A property portal that describes itself as free-to-list has launched today, taking the industry by surprise - however, at least one...

A leading agent has urged major portals Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket to feature virtual viewings content more prominently on their platforms. Writing...

An estate agent claims that online property listings which include video tours receive 'hundreds more views' than those without. Dan Killeen of...

An online question-and-answer article with OnTheMarket chief executive Ian Springett has suggested that its focus of criticism may be shifting from...

Review service allAgents has relaunched its property portal, saying it may become an agent-owned service and pledging to turn it into...

OnTheMarket says it has now struck listing agreements with 7,500 agency branches, adding over 2,000 branches since floating on the London stock...

There were 43 per cent more new properties listed for sale than in the same month last year according to online...

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

ZPG has announced that it has signed a listings agreement with Chestertons, one of the estate agencies involved in the founding...

An estate agency has been the subject of a complaint over website wording which appeared to suggest that it had a...

Market analysts at Swiss bank UBS are warning that Purplebricks’ meteoric growth in the UK may be slowing. The bank has cut...

OnTheMarket says estate agencies with some 1,000 offices have joined the portal in the five weeks since it floated on the...

There has been a 19.9 per cent increase in new property listings, with some locations seeing as many as 80 per...

Rightmove says its commercial property side is “continuing to gain momentum” with 650,000 leads generated for customers in 2017. Perhaps with an...

OnTheMarket has told the City this morning that it has already signed up 81 new listing agreements by 5pm yesterday, completing...

There has been a 40 per cent increase in new vendors registering their properties for sale according to an online estate...

Agents’ Mutual has released more details of its float on the stock market, which begins on February 9 with a placing priced...

ZPG, which operates Zoopla and PrimeLocation as well as owning the Property Software Group, has signed more long-term marketing deals with a...

December saw the fewest number of people put their homes on the market than in any month in 2017, according to...

We would like to take this opportunity to provide a clarification to a newsflash sent by Property Industry Eye on January 1.  The...

The operators of a new website which earlier today claimed to have 500,000 property listings appear to have now removed the...

ZPG has revealed its 2017 annual report this morning with a stream of records - 648 million visits to portals, revenue...

The supply of homes coming to the market has slumped again according to a monthly survey conducted by online agency HouseSimple. September...

A new website which completely by-passes all kinds of estate agents and allows vendors to upload details of their own properties...

The fact is that most house hunters simply do not have the time, let alone the inclination, to trawl around properties...

ZPG has announced that Connells is the latest major agency chain to sign a long-term deal with its portals Zoopla and...

London estate agency Residential Realtors removed a property listing from its website after a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority. The property...

An upbeat survey by online website HouseSimple claims there has been a 20 per cent increase in the number of homes...

Speculation that OnTheMarket was courting Countrywide to list on its website after flotation may have suffered a setback following an announcement...

An analysis conducted by estate agency comparison website GetAgent has for the first time attempted to calculate how ‘local’ agencies' local property...

One of the most thorough analyses of property portals ever undertaken shows that Rightmove is the world’s most profitable portal company...

A mystery online petition is urging Rightmove to filter its advertisements “in a bid to curb down inflationary / speculative / fake...

It looks likely that Facebook will soon be able to list homes for sale in the US, in the style of...

eMoov, the online agency which last month secured an additional £9m funding from investors, has launched a recruitment drive for what...

Humberts, a member of Agents’ Mutual, is today launching an online-only option and claims it can list online-only properties on OnTheMarket. Such...

Facebook appears to be interested in entering the sales and lettings world with its first advertising product geared solely towards industry professionals. The...

Agents’ Mutual has confirmed that it proposes to form a new company, OnTheMarket plc, to list on the AIM market of...

Reapit has launched a new digital product following agents’ demands to handle an increasing volume of out of hours dealings with...

Agents’ Mutual says it will be seeking to recover costs and compensation for losses incurred after what is widely seen as...

Estate and letting agents' property descriptions are becoming increasingly likely to appear in keyword searches, according to a web marketing expert. Director...

An assessment of new stock on sale through agents in February suggests a monthly rise in supply of 13.3 per cent...

Zoopla Property Group says that in the last three months alone over 100 estate agency branches have returned to its portal...

The seasonal slowdown in property supply was much sharper than usual in December, claims an online agency which monitors property listings...

One of the earliest entrepreneurs to found a website to allow for-sale-by-owner property listings back in 2000, predicts current online agents...

A new property portal is to launch in April, and has this week started recruiting estate and letting agency members while...

The Advertising Standards Authority has stepped into a dispute over a property listing which claimed a property was a two bedroom...

The Financial Times has beefed up its high-end house and apartment listings after the newspaper's property sector saw a 17 per...

An online agent monitoring the market claims there was a 10.4 per cent rise in new properties listed in September up,...

The National Association of Estate Agents report has batted away an idea which has been resuscitated by the insurance industry, suggesting...

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

The phrase 'well-appointed' is commonplace in many property descriptions, but do 'well-appointed' homes really have more features than those that are not? Well,...

Zoopla Property Group has this morning told the City that it has seen another increase in agent numbers and listings in...

A data consultancy says it will shortly release the findings of an online survey on estate agents’ concerns over how their...

With more house-hunters than ever now starting their search for a new home by typically looking online on one of the major...

Online agency HouseSimple Award claims a new £13m investment package will allow it to “challenge PurpleBricks as the UK’s leading online...

OnTheMarket says there is no delay with its plans to list member agents’ overseas properties for sale, but still cannot reveal...

New property listings on Rightmove plummeted by 21.5 per cent across the UK in November according to an analysis made by...

House builders say portals are vital generators of leads, especially for drawing in buyers who are not ‘brand loyal’ to one...

The Advertising Standards Authority has ordered the company Homewise not to use misleading wording following two complaints about one of its...

YourLocalAgent.com Some 91% of the public use search engines to find information every day and 91% of these always or most of...

The war of words and statistics between rival portals continues apace as OnTheMarket says its visits hit a record last month according...

OnTheMarket has made a defiant response to news that Zoopla is growing both its estate agent membership and its property listings...

Zoopla Property Group has launched a new service across Zoopla and PrimeLocation to provide users with access to thousands of professionals and...

The internet and rapidly evolving digital landscape has revolutionised the way people buy and sell properties. With some reports suggesting 95 per...

Zoopla has launched its Real Time Listings Service, allowing member agents to send updates to property listings on ZPG websites within...

Investors’ Chronicle, the Financial Times group magazine for private investors, says Zoopla’s acquisition of price comparison site uSwitch is ‘a creative...

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