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![House prices to grow by 6.3% by end of 2025](/upload/images/shutterstock_2218189005%20(1)(3).jpg)
A new house price forecast by peer-to-peer real estate investment platform, easyMoney, reveals that recent optimism in the UK property market could...
22 June 2024
From: Features
![How agents can use property market data](/upload/images/shutterstock_1712450632.jpg)
There are those in the technology sector that claim “data is the new oil”. I think they might be right, but...
29 May 2024
From: Features
![Material Information Guidance - Is compliance a legal obligation?](/upload/images/4%20--%20Proofed%20Part%203%20Material%20Information%20Guidance%20%20Is%20compliance%20a%20legal%20obligationl%20by%20David%20Beaumont%20Part%203.jpg)
In his third and final article in this 3-part series, David Beaumont looks at the legal statues of Material Information Guidance. ...
06 April 2024
From: Features
![How Much Will Mortgage Rate Hikes Affect the UK Housing Market?](/upload/images/2%20How%20much%20will%20mortgage%20rate%20hikes%20-%20weekend%20features%20By%20Tom%20Bill%20Head%20of%20UK%20residential%20research%20at%20Knight%20Frank.jpg)
Borrowers are currently rolling off relatively favourable two-year fixed-rate deals agreed at the start of 2022, but the pain from higher...
30 March 2024
From: Features
![The art of negotiation in a buyer's market](/upload/images/4%20Negotiation_buyers_market_artic_FINAL(19March)%20by%20Charlotte%20Jeffrey-Campbell.jpg)
Many agents may perceive that the need to negotiate only comes into play at the point of offer if a property...
30 March 2024
From: Features
![Property sellers urged to resist asking price cuts](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/AgentsWorking-400x310.png)
An estate agency firm is urging sellers to resist cutting asking prices. Tom Cranenburgh, of GetanOffer, which describes itself as a quick...
14 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Interest rate rises ‘driving the market’ as sellers rush to secure peak prices](/upload/images/library/interest-rate-warning-24715.png)
Interest rate rises are driving an increase in homes for sale, research claims. National estate agency Jackson-Stops has analysed Rightmove data and...
29 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Gazundering returns as property market weakens – warning](/upload/images/library/HandsHouse-400x310.png)
Increasing numbers of buyers are gazundering or ‘price chipping’ on their offers to force property sellers and agents into last minute...
24 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Google is the battleground for vendor instructions - claim](/upload/images/Social%20Media/Google-400x310.jpg)
Google rather than the portals is the starting point for sellers finding an estate agent, a survey claims. A survey among 2,000...
19 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![The Modern Method of Auction is fast, transparent and the future](/upload/images/Auctions/PropertyAuctionHome-400x310.png)
The Modern Method of Auction (MMoA), also known as Conditional auction, can sometimes get a bad rap. However, much of the...
13 October 2021
From: Features
![Will online agencies take over, or do we still need face-to-face contact?](/upload/images/library/Millennials-Handshake-400x310.jpg)
Like most industries, estate agency is changing. A general trend to a more hybrid model, accelerated by the pandemic has resulted...
06 October 2021
From: Features
![Sector reform - stamp out this market malaise](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Stamp-Duty400x310.png)
Every so often it comes around – the argument that stamp duty should be reformed/removed/replaced (delete as appropriate). But why? Where’s the...
21 August 2021
From: Features
![Phil Spencer: sellers can avoid January blues with positivity from agents](/img/default/eat.png)
As we approach the most unusual of festive periods, many property professionals will already be thinking about the January market and...
07 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Third of sellers won't budge on asking price despite buyer requests](/img/default/eat.png)
Almost a third of property sellers (29%) say they won't accept a lower offer for their property, according to new research. Online...
18 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![No cuts: properties twice as likely to sell if asking price doesn't change](/img/default/eat.png)
Property sellers are twice as likely to find a buyer for their property if the original asking price does not change,...
17 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Auction march continues - record summer for UK's largest auctioneer](/img/default/eat.png)
The strong performance of the auction market in recent months has been reinforced by the latest figures from iamsold, the UK's...
17 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Auction PropTech startup aims to streamline legal process for buyers](/img/default/eat.png)
A new PropTech startup is giving prospective buyers the opportunity to receive due diligence at a fraction of the time and...
15 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Multi-agency sales operation wins high-profile new investor](/img/default/eat.png)
An unusual property sales concept, which signs up vendors and then effectively sub-contracts their sales to strongly-performing local estate agents, has...
18 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Darren Loftus, Commercial Director at OfferPal](/img/default/eat.png)
Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I'm Darren Loftus and it says Commercial Director on...
18 June 2020
From: 60 Second Interview
![SUCCESS STORY: How to win at Financial Services](/img/default/eat.png)
When Wolverhampton estate agency Thomas Harvey opened its doors more than 50 years ago, mortgages weren’t really part of the equation...
28 February 2020
From: Sponsored Content
![Two-tier system can produce winners if landlords are prepared to move](/img/default/eat.png)
After a challenging period for the UK property market, recovery is very much on the cards and the end to uncertainty...
01 February 2020
From: Features
![Boost for Purplebricks and co as online market share rises](/img/default/eat.png)
There has been a surprise, but small, increase in the market share of online estate agents according to the latest survey. Business...
15 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Brexit uncertainty - buyers advised not to wait any longer](/img/default/eat.png)
Prospective property buyers have been provided with several reasons why they should stop delaying purchasing decisions due to Brexit uncertainty. Buying agency...
04 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Sales progression even more vital with Brexit and election imminent](/img/default/eat.png)
Continuing political uncertainty over Brexit and now a significant chance of an autumn or winter General Election makes the case for...
17 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Vendors urged to sell now as prospect of no deal Brexit looms](/img/default/eat.png)
Property sellers have been urged to list their properties now in the hope of selling their properties for maximum value within...
09 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Achieving asking price and selling quickly are top criteria for vendors](/img/default/eat.png)
A survey of property sellers has revealed that 'achieving the asking price' (43%) and 'selling properties quickly' (35%) are the most...
03 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Estate agents – here’s why you should promote the UK’s low commission fees](/img/default/eat.png)
UK estate agents charge the lowest commission out of any nation in the European Union, according to a recent study by...
09 April 2019
From: Sponsored Content
![Fees Shock: Sole agency commission plunges 34% since 2011](/img/default/eat.png)
New research by TheAdvisory consultancy, shared exclusively with Estate Agent Today, reveals exactly how fees have fallen for traditional agents in...
22 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![Leasehold scandal continues - almost all buyers regret their purchase](/img/default/eat.png)
Almost all buyers of new build houses who purchased a leasehold regret doing so, and the vast majority say they definitely wouldn't...
07 September 2018
From: Breaking News
![Sellers on the back foot as first-timers take advantage of slow market](/img/default/eat.png)
Property sellers have been on the back foot over the slow summer period, according to the latest report from NAEA Propertymark....
31 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Desperate agents deliberately overvaluing, claims PropTech company](/img/default/eat.png)
A PropTech firm has adopted the unusual position of claiming some agencies deliberately over-value properties in a bid to win instructions. Agent...
14 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Estate agency – it’s still about interactions not transactions](/img/default/eat.png)
Making my way to our London office on a busy commuter train, my mind got busy thinking about the new do-it-yourself...
04 August 2018
From: Features
![Property concierge: could this be one of agents’ future tenant services?](/img/default/eat.png)
With all the recent change and upheaval in the rental sector it may be time to consider how letting agencies will...
04 August 2018
From: Features
![Purplebricks the largest UK estate agency: 'So what?' says stock market](/img/default/eat.png)
The stock market and at least one City analyst have shrugged their shoulders at the claim by Purplebricks that it is...
06 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![A seller’s market returns - demand rises as supply falls](/img/default/eat.png)
The housing market has swung back in favour of property sellers, according to the latest data from estate agents. NAEA Propertymark's Housing...
30 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Asking price reductions on the rise as market loses momentum](/img/default/eat.png)
Property sellers in the South of England are having to accept asking reductions in order to achieve a sale. Data from Hometrack...
30 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Sellers cash in as buyers are increasingly willing to pay above asking price](/img/default/eat.png)
Property sellers in Scotland are profiting from buyers' willingness to pay above asking price for a home. This is according to portal...
22 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Property auctions market round-up Q2 2017](/img/default/eat.png)
With several agent partner programmes available across the country, estate agents can often increase business by offering sales by auction, with...
22 July 2017
From: Features
![Purplebricks: nothing divides estate agency more than this](/img/default/eat.png)
Few things provoke argument within the industry more than the online v traditional agency debate - and within that debate, nothing...
30 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Ex-agent wins £1,000 'commission' by selling home on Facebook](/img/default/eat.png)
A former estate agent is reported to have won £1,000 ‘commission’ from a seller - simply because she shared a sale-by-owner...
29 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![Sellers should pay stamp duty, says mortgage lender](/img/default/eat.png)
A mortgage lender has called on the government to reform stamp duty so that it is paid by property sellers instead...
22 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Property and technology: The birth of the silicon brick?](/img/default/eat.png)
The amount of column inches taken up by ‘property’ is at an all-time high. In my mind there are two major contributing...