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16 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Fine & Country expands Luxury Homes Tour Series with new host](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Estate-Agent-400x310.png)
London based presenter and property expert Elizabeth Warburton has partnered with Fine & Country as one of the hosts of the...
24 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Jonatha Rolande: A New Year and early signs of optimism](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Help%20to%20buy%20equity%20loan.jpg)
There will be many of us working in the property sector who will have raised a glass and toasted seeing the...
05 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Ashley Day - Director of Bristol Property Centre](/upload/images/IMG_1246(1).jpg)
Who are you, and what does it say on your business card? I'm Ashley Day, the Director of Bristol Property Centre. What is...
09 October 2023
From: 60 Second Interview
![Landlord rental portfolio expenses revealed](/upload/images/Site%20logos/__thumbs/LB%20Image.jpg/LB%20Image__400x250.jpg)
Analysis by professional cash buyer and portfolio landlord, Landlord Buyer (part of Open Property Group), has revealed what costs make up...
08 March 2023
From: Features
![HMRC deadline looms for companies to revalue UK residential properties](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/MortgageCalculated1_400x310.png)
Companies that own UK residential properties have under a month to revalue and tell HMRC if any are worth more than...
07 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Reinvent then rent: could old commercial buildings boost rental stock?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-3-400x310.png)
In this guest piece, Andy Jones, Corporate & Build To Rent Director at LRG, looks at whether commercial property can help solve...
12 November 2022
From: Features
![Five of the best tips and tricks for running a successful lettings business](/upload/images/adv-2021/Guides%20%26%20Tips/ReapIT/400x310%20Andrew-Tyler%20(002).jpg)
Have you ever noticed that it is much easier to fix other people's problems than your own? Whether it is resolving a friend's...
09 August 2022
From: Recruitment & Business Matters
![How to catch up on interim rental visits efficiently](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/InventoryChecklist-400x310.jpg)
Interim rental inspections have taken a hit over the past two years and letting agents are now wading through their backlogs...
30 July 2022
From: Features
![Student accommodation: how to manage mass check-outs without a mess](/upload/images/BTR%2C%20PBSA%2C%20Co-living/Students02_400x310.png)
As the mass student exodus from rented accommodation begins throughout the UK, Richard Abbots of Inventory Hive offers advice on how...
02 July 2022
From: Features
![National agency merger creates multi-disciplinary property firm](/upload/images/Today%20Site%20Images/FisherGermanMerger-400x310.png)
National estate agency and advisory company Fisher German has merged with commercial property consultancy Matthews & Goodman. The merger creates one of...
22 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Property Jobs Today - the movers, shakers and people in the news](/upload/images/Site%20logos/PropertyJobsToday-400x310.png)
The property recruitment market seems to be moving as fast as house prices. Here are some of the latest moves that took...
29 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![Proptech and the future of the UK’s economy and property market](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/PropTech-4-400x310.jpg)
Although Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak’s Spring Statement did not include many announcements regarding housing, it did provide a good...
23 April 2022
From: Features
![Russians own substantial number of homes outside London too](/upload/images/library/London400x310.jpg)
A new analysis has revealed those areas of England and Wales with the largest numbers of Russian-owned homes. Credas Technologies analysed Land...
03 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Ex-Purplebricks staff set up new agency and reveal big expansion](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/open-image400x310.png)
The self-employed partnership known as The Agency UK - founded by three refugees from Purplebricks - has announced a major expansion. The...
28 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agents capitalise on soaring high-street footfall with digital window signage](/img/default/eat.png)
As the high-street sees a dramatic increase in footfall1, a trend that is set to continue, agents are elevating their window...
07 June 2021
From: Sponsored Content
![Is the tide turning for the lettings industry?](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s been quite a week for the rental sector. Lettings agents and landlords have had such a torrid time in recent years...
15 May 2021
From: Features
![Property Natter: why agency must never become a closed shop](/img/default/eat.png)
The biggest news story in town this last week – which has brought people who don’t usually like or watch football...
24 April 2021
From: Features
![Another agency takeover as industry consolidation goes on](/img/default/eat.png)
Welsh independent agency Nuttall Parker has been snapped up by Cardiff-based property business Seraph Group. Newport-centred Nuttall Parker is Seraph Group's second...
01 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Dan Muir, Area Sales Manager, LetsBid Property](/img/default/eat.png)
Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Dan Muir, Area Sales Manager, LetsBid Property What is LetsBid and...
05 March 2021
From: 60 Second Interview
![Rural property benefits from Covid-19 and the property use revolution](/img/default/eat.png)
The secure Conservative victory in the 2019 General Election meant the property market in the sunlit uplands was set for a...
28 November 2020
From: Features
![Property Natter - spotlight on independents: the backbone of our industry](/img/default/eat.png)
Firstly, let’s get the obvious out of the way. Lockdown 2, as it’s being known, is now with us, but fortunately...
07 November 2020
From: Features
![Property Jobs Today - key appointments made during lockdown](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello and welcome to Property Jobs Today - our first for some weeks as the coverage has previously been dominated by...
27 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![Technology and service are the future of the property market](/img/default/eat.png)
The last five years have seen unprecedented changes to the property market and agents and their clients have never faced such...
15 April 2020
From: Features
![Agents Do Charity - more great work by the industry](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello and welcome to this week’s list of good work - yes, despite the virus lockdown. Earlier this week we featured many...
03 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![Property Jobs Today - plenty of movers as Christmas nears](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello and welcome to PJT: even with little more than a fortnight before Christmas it seems there are still plenty of...
09 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Tax Probe: family returns homes worth £8m and repays £368,000 rent](/img/default/eat.png)
Properties worth a combined £8.1m have been surrendered to the National Crime Agency following a tax probe. The properties included 16 homes...
28 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Shock advice to buyers: Consider waiting in case Labour scraps SDLT](/img/default/eat.png)
Until now General Election pledges of stamp duty reforms were restricted to the Conservatives - but now a tax consultancy says...
06 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Introducing the purpose-driven lettings agency](/img/default/eat.png)
Enhanced customer care strategies, relationship-building schemes, cost-cutting measures and new revenue streams can’t help the lettings industry if the fundamental underlying...
23 October 2019
From: Features
![Commonhold in action – one small builder’s attempts to change the system](/img/default/eat.png)
So far in our contribution to the campaign to replace leasehold with commonhold we have outlined the stories of some of...
18 May 2019
From: Features
![Impact of the Tenant Fees Act - how can agents cover their costs?](/img/default/eat.png)
It has been a long time coming, but the tenant fees ban, which forbids landlords and letting agents in England from...
13 April 2019
From: Features
![In Light of the Fee Ban, Can PropTech Firms Damage Control?](/img/default/eat.png)
Recent years have seen tighter regulation and new legislation hit the lettings industry. Combined with the fee ban, there is no...
10 January 2019
From: Sponsored Content
02 January 2019
From: Features
![What next for property in 2019?](/img/default/eat.png)
As 2018 draws to a close, it is fair to say that stretched affordability and uncertainty over the Brexit negotiations has...
29 December 2018
From: Features
![VR - the third consideration stage for property buyers](/img/default/eat.png)
Thanks to vast improvements in processing powers, the use of virtual reality (VR) in some sectors is becoming more evident than...
08 December 2018
From: Features
![Property Natter: how much is that home in the window?](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s the most obvious visual medium high street agents have at their disposal, and for many decades has been absolutely pivotal...
03 November 2018
From: Features
![Property Jobs Today - and it's a bumper week for moves...](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today, our weekly feature on who’s moving where throughout our industry. And it’s...
14 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Agents' PropTech Toolshed: Marvellous maintenance](/img/default/eat.png)
Just like that, the Easter Bank Holiday has come and gone and I find myself now looking ahead to the Summer. The...
07 April 2018
From: Features
![Budget 2017: Pleas for reform fall on deaf ears](/img/default/eat.png)
Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his first Budget this week pledging extra funding for the NHS, transport in the Midlands and the...
11 March 2017
From: Features
![Residential property comes out on top for investors](/img/default/eat.png)
Not many of us have a multi-million property portfolio, so the results of the MSCI / IPD UK property index for...
25 February 2017
From: Features
![Buy-to-let mortgages: What opportunities and challenges lie ahead?](/img/default/eat.png)
The rapid growth in popularity of buy-to-let in recent years, fuelled in part by the failings of the pensions industry, has...
17 February 2017
From: Features
![Kevin Ward, Agent Locator](/img/default/eat.png)
1) Who are you? Kevin Ward – Director and founder of Agentlocator.co.uk 2) For those not familiar with Agent Locator, can you explain...
16 February 2017
From: 60 Second Interview
![Three things agents need to consider in 2017](/img/default/eat.png)
2016 was quite a year – eventful, dramatic, shocking and impossible to predict. In no particular order, we saw Leicester winning...
18 January 2017
From: Sponsored Content
![Autumn Statement: The property industry's wish list for Philip Hammond](/img/default/eat.png)
It may still be too early to start compiling a Christmas wish list, but it is the right time to provide...
19 November 2016
From: Features
![easyProperty claims largest deal by an online agency](/img/default/eat.png)
easyProperty has exchanged contracts on a £35 million property portfolio, which it claims to be the largest deal carried out by...
23 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Around 400 homes sold off by infamous buy to let investment couple](/img/default/eat.png)
Fergus and Judith Wilson, at one time considered to be Britain’s biggest private landlords, have sold off an estimated 400 of...
12 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Agency launches dedicated 'Country and Village' sales division](/img/default/eat.png)
Beresfords, which describes itself as the largest independent estate agent in Essex and Greater London, is strengthening its country property portfolio...
19 April 2016
From: Breaking News
![The rise of an increasingly unpredictable market](/img/default/eat.png)
Property has long been a safe investment. Before the downturn in 2008, sellers were able to gain a healthy capital return. Post-economic...
25 March 2016
From: Features
![How do you define a landlord?](/img/default/eat.png)
I want to take this opportunity to share some findings from the National Landlord Association’s latest Quarterly Landlord Panel. The first is...
13 February 2016
From: Features
![Steve Gosney, Kremer Signs MD](/img/default/eat.png)
Who are you? Steve Gosney. What does it say on your business card? Managing Director of Kremer Signs. How long has Kremer Signs...
27 January 2016
From: 60 Second Interview
![LSL Property Services plc acquire another agency](/img/default/eat.png)
LSL Property Services plc has announced another lettings acquisition, this time in Elgin and Inverness. The agency they have bought, PHP Lettings,...
17 November 2015
From: Sponsored Content
![Police probe continues as struck-off solicitor linked to MP's property portfolio](/img/default/eat.png)
There is still no word on when a police investigation will report on alleged irregularities said to involve the buy to...
12 October 2015
From: Breaking News
![On average, property investors sell nine times more often than your typical family. That's nine times the commission](/img/default/eat.png)
Introduce your properties to over 500,000 investors, increase sales and management stock... WHAT IS PRING Pring.co.uk is the largest investment property portal...
05 August 2015
From: Sponsored Content
![Rezi Pro](/img/default/eat.png)
Estate agents want systems that deliver power, speed and mobility. Increase efficiency, reduce admin, offer a personalised service and increase your income...
04 August 2015
From: Sponsored Content
![Property Natter: Agents, target your websites better!](/img/default/eat.png)
OK, you’re being spoilt. This column is now going to be on a bi-weekly rather than monthly basis. You lucky people,...
19 June 2015
From: Features
![No job too big or too small](/img/default/eat.png)
Some companies pride themselves on being able to accommodate customers of all kinds. “No job too big or too small,” they...
02 June 2015
From: Sponsored Content
![The voters have spoken – with confidence](/img/default/eat.png)
A little over four weeks ago I was here musing what impact the impending general election might have on the property...