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![Phil Spencer and Russell Quirk team up to tackle housing crisis](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LearningAgents-400x310.png)
Online agent turned property PR guru Russell Quirk has set out his solution to solving the housing crisis. Speaking on the latest...
22 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Troubled town halls face even tougher times](/upload/images/3%20---%20Proofed%20by%20Peter%20---%20Weekend%20feature%20Troubled%20town%20halls%20face%20even%20tougher%20times%20by%20Mark%20Edgerley.jpg)
The news in September that Birmingham City Council (‘Europe’s largest local authority’) had been forced to issue a Section 114 notice...
06 January 2024
From: Features
![New developments look set to catch election fever](/upload/images/5%20--%20Proofed%20--%20Weelkend%20feature%20-New%20developments%20look%20set%20to%20catch%20election%20fever%20by%20Ian%20Barnett.jpg)
Landowners seeking to sell their land for development will have to adjust their expectations as the market, the planning system and...
30 December 2023
From: Features
![Time to stop wading through treacle: General Election must prioritise property digitisation drive](/upload/images/3%20Time%20to%20stop%20wading%20through%20treacle%20General%20Election%20must%20prioritise%20property%20digitisation%20drive%20by%20Andrew%20Lloyd.jpg)
The 2023 Autumn Budget, amongst its considerable 110 growth measures, contained an important announcement for the property sphere, with £3 million...
16 December 2023
From: Features
![Can public private partnerships help address the shortage of rental homes?](/upload/images/4%20RentOnlineSearch-400x310.png)
A recent poll of 11,000 private renters by SpareRooom reveals that 81% spend more than 30% of their take-home pay on...
22 July 2023
From: Features
![Will Jeremy Hunt play the good Samaritan for the PRS?](/upload/images/MortgageCalculated_400x310.png)
So next week we get to know how high housing is on the Government’s list of priorities. As we wait to see...
11 March 2023
From: Features
![Legal body: Land Registry ‘must get house in order’ after strikes](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_1524802199%20protest(1).jpg)
Conveyancers are warning that this week’s Land Registry strikes could have a knock-on effect on property sales once staff return to...
03 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Land Registry expects ‘minimal disruption’ if strike goes ahead](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Compliance-2-400x310.png)
The Land Registry has said it anticipates ‘minimal disruption’ if a civil service strike goes ahead. Civil servants across 126 public sector...
16 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![What do we do about a problem like Airbnb?](/upload/images/Logos/airbnb-logo400x310.png)
Some people will say: What problem? But they are getting fewer as the detrimental effect of increasing numbers of short lets on...
03 September 2022
From: Features
![Uncertainty remains over housing’s importance to new PM, says expert](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Parliament-Summer-400x310.jpg)
A property expert has claimed that it remains to be seen where housing will feature in the upcoming political agenda. Nicky Stevenson,...
12 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Debate - should the property industry trial a four-day week?](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/HappyMillennialTeam-400x310.jpg)
Earlier this year, we ran a story asking whether agency would ever embrace a four-day week. This came ahead of the...
10 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![What is Right to Buy and am I eligible?](/upload/images/library/First-TimeBuyer-Questions-400x310.jpg)
In this Guides & Tips piece, the team at Together set out what Right to Buy is and who is eligible. If...
21 July 2022
From: Legislation & Compliance
![Agency chooses London for its first-ever international office](/upload/images/library/London400x310.png)
An agency specialising in Nigerian clients has opened its first international office in London. Jide Taiwo & Co’s office will open next...
29 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Income Tax cut and VAT scrapped on home energy efficiency measures](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/RishiSunak-400x310.jpg)
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a dramatic future income tax cut, changes to National Insurance thresholds and scrapping VAT on more...
23 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agency makes commitment to become carbon neutral](/upload/images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/EnvironmentallyFriendly-400x310.jpg)
Buying agency Middleton Advisors has made a commitment to go carbon neutral - and its method may be a template for...
25 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Connells tells Gove he “must do more” to build new homes](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/MichaelGove2-400x310.png)
A part of the Connells Group is telling the new Housing Secretary that he and his government “must do more” to...
18 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Avoiding Future Logjams - How to Remove Roadblocks to E-Conveyancing](/img/default/eat.png)
The race to complete home sales before the stamp duty holiday came to an end on June 30 has created what...
03 July 2021
From: Features
![National auctioneer seeks agency partners for new sales initiative](/img/default/eat.png)
National property auctioneer Pugh & Co is launching an initiative to partner with estate agents across the UK. Via a new network...
08 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![How’s the housing market? Ask again in September…](/img/default/eat.png)
Rightmove has taken the unusual step this weekend of issuing its usual monthly asking price index on a Saturday instead of...
16 May 2020
From: Features
![Let’s work together: Call for councils and search firms to cut virus risks](/img/default/eat.png)
A trade group wants councils and search companies to co-operate more closely during the virus to minimise delays to the remaining...
18 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Property Jobs Today - movers and shakers across the industry](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello and welcome to a new week, and a new edition of PJT. If you’re on the move or your firm has...
20 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Property Jobs Today: what’s happening where in our industry](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello there and welcome along to the latest PJT, your weekly catch-up on who’s moving where in agency, amongst suppliers and...
04 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![PropTech Today: The government and its attitude towards PropTech](/img/default/eat.png)
It was in this very column, back in July, when I wrote about how the British government was starting to take...
23 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Labour pledge to improve housing quality for military personnel](/img/default/eat.png)
Shadow defence secretary Nia Griffiths is pledging to improve the quality of housing for serving military personnel if Labour gets into...
25 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Shock figures show agents’ pay has collapsed one-third in 10 years](/img/default/eat.png)
Estate agents are amongst the workers to suffer the worst fall in wages over the past 10 years according to shock...
24 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Shelter and Generation Rent? Radical? Don’t make me laugh…](/img/default/eat.png)
Campaigning groups like Generation Rent and Shelter like to think they are simultaneously edgy and radical; likewise some think tanks believe...
30 March 2019
From: Features
![The government must stop using agents to carry out their dirty work](/img/default/eat.png)
I don’t believe it’s unfair to state that our government, indeed, the entire political establishment is in some turmoil at the...
16 March 2019
From: Features
![Owning a home 'a pipe dream for public sector workers' claims union](/img/default/eat.png)
Owning a home has become almost impossible for many public sector workers across Britain, according to research from the union UNISON. Getting...
13 September 2018
From: Breaking News
![Exclusive: high-profile housing research guru leaves Countrywide](/img/default/eat.png)
Estate Agent Today can reveal that one of the industry’s best known research experts, Johnny Morris, has left Countrywide. Morris joined Hamptons...
17 April 2018
From: Breaking News
![Senior agents say wider issues must be addressed in housing debate](/img/default/eat.png)
An estate agent and former chairman of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says the government’s latest drive to build new...
06 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Conveyancers and searches in firing line of new government probe](/img/default/eat.png)
Conveyancers and the speed of local council searches have come in for criticism as details have emerged of the government’s consultation...
23 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![Three reasons why we need stamp duty reform](/img/default/eat.png)
Whenever any research is released, part of me can’t help thinking of that old adage, ‘lies, damn lies and statistics’ especially...
02 September 2017
From: Features
![Forget stamp duty reform - There’s a new tax on the horizon](/img/default/eat.png)
When it comes to provoking anger in property professionals, taxation takes some beating. Press releases are still arriving berating the December...
01 July 2017
From: Features
![Housing White Paper - what to expect from today's release](/img/default/eat.png)
A series of leaks to national newspapers and a flurry of broadcast interviews by housing minister Gavin Barwell means we already know...
07 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![How can estate agents secure more new build housing instructions?](/img/default/eat.png)
Lots of people buy new-build due to the perceived lack of hassle with maintenance, as they are built to the latest...
28 January 2017
From: Features
![Quote, unquote - What the industry said in 2016](/img/default/eat.png)
Forecasts are so last year: who anticipated Bowie, Brexit or Balls for example? Quotes, on the other hand, really ARE last year...
17 December 2016
From: Features
![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
![Land Registry privatisation delayed - or possibly abandoned?](/img/default/eat.png)
The government is reported to have yet again delayed a decision on whether to privatise the Land Registry. The Financial Times says...
08 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Institute bucks trend by saying Cameron leaves a proud housing legacy](/img/default/eat.png)
A housing body says that, rather than presiding over a worsening housing crisis as many suggest, David Cameron has actually left...
02 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![CMA challenges government over Land Registry privatisation](/img/default/eat.png)
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has challenged the government over its renewed attempt to privatise the Land Registry. Last week's Queen's...
24 May 2016
From: Breaking News
![Stamp duty and buy to let tax changes: Readers' views put to David Cameron](/img/default/eat.png)
In January readers of Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today were given the opportunity to give their views on proposed...
25 January 2016
From: Features
![Boris lobbying government to change Right To Buy](/img/default/eat.png)
The Financial Times says London Mayor and new Conservative MP Boris Johnson is lobbying the government in a bid to persuade...
02 July 2015
From: Breaking News
![Big rise in new-build volumes, latest figures suggest](/img/default/eat.png)
Registrations for new private homes rose 17 per cent in the three months to the end of May when compared to...
01 July 2015
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity - on Bank Holiday weekend](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s the long Bank Holiday weekend and we’re here again to publicise the side of British estate agency that rarely presents...
22 May 2015
From: Breaking News
![Letter from the Publisher: Are brownfield sites the solution to the UK’s housing shortage?](/img/default/eat.png)
There has been much debate in recent years about Britain’s desperate need for more housing stock. Demand has been outstripping supply...
15 May 2015
From: Features
![Savills snaps up historic rural agency Smiths Gore](/img/default/eat.png)
Savills has snapped up this historic residential and rural agency Smiths Gore which was originally founded in 1847. Some reports say the...