A variety of charities have received support from the property industry over the past week. If there are charitable endeavours you think...
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Welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity, our chance to salute those who do so much to help others. If your agency...
08 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...
18 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...
28 July 2023
From: Breaking News
Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...
28 April 2023
From: Breaking News
Agents and property professionals are spreading plenty of charitable love ahead of Valentine's Day. See some of the inspirational examples below. Whatever the...
27 January 2023
From: Breaking News
From bake sales to beach clean-ups, there have been plenty of ways that agents have been giving back for good causes...
14 October 2022
From: Breaking News
Agents have taken a different approach to going on the run for charity this week. Here are some of the latest industry...
29 July 2022
From: Breaking News
From bike rides to boxing, agents and property professionals have been turning up the heat with their fundraising exploits. Remember, if you...
15 July 2022
From: Breaking News
Agents were busy marking the Platinum Jubilee over the past week but there was still time for fundraising exploits including tree-planting...
10 June 2022
From: Breaking News
First off, here at EAT we hope everyone enjoyed the Easter celebrations and didn’t eat too much chocolate! Despite the Easter break,...
22 April 2022
From: Breaking News
We may be getting an extended summer but agents haven’t just been basking in the heatwave. There has been plenty of goodwill...
24 September 2021
From: Breaking News
It’s a great sign of our slow but reassuring return to normality when much-missed fundraising events make a welcome comeback -...
06 August 2021
From: Breaking News
It’s been another terrific week for good deeds by our industry - so often under-reported but so important for agents and...
25 June 2021
From: Breaking News
Hello, and we’re at the start of a long weekend - and as the weather (finally) improves, perhaps that’s the opportunity...
28 May 2021
From: Breaking News
A row has blown up over a house raffle where the property prize was withdrawn and a cash alternative offered because...
11 May 2021
From: Breaking News
Property raffles are a legal minefield and many are too good to be true, according to a leading lawyer. There has been...
10 August 2020
From: Breaking News
House raffles and similar competitions have become mired in controversy in recent years, thanks to some of them failing to abide by...
06 August 2020
From: Breaking News
A vendor who suffered a fall-through on the sale of his five bedroom home in West Yorkshire is now trying to...
28 July 2020
From: Breaking News
There are high hopes that the new stamp duty holiday will make an already busy market even busier - but not...
10 July 2020
From: Breaking News
Hello - yes it’s Friday in case you lost track, and that means it’s Agents Do Charity day: and once again...
24 April 2020
From: Breaking News
Future complaints about property raffles by individual home owners seeking to avoid estate agency fees will in future be handled by...
28 February 2020
From: Breaking News
Hello and welcome to the last day of January, Brexit Day and - perhaps most importantly - the latest edition of...
31 January 2020
From: Breaking News
Stepping back and moving out of the front line is all the rage…but not, it seems, for hard-working agents and others...
10 January 2020
From: Breaking News
A Georgian mansion described as an oasis of seclusion and including a lake with 2,000 fish is being raffled by its...
28 November 2019
From: Breaking News
If you haven’t noticed, it’s November already - a month where it’s increasingly popular for men to grow moustaches for charity....
08 November 2019
From: Breaking News
The Advertising Standards Authority has clamped down on misleading claims made by the organisers of a property raffle. The controversy surrounds an...
30 October 2019
From: Breaking News
It may only be October 4, but temperatures have already started to drop this week as preparations for winter begin. As we...
04 October 2019
From: Breaking News
There’s plenty of action in and around Westminster these days, but while the political temperature rises, the marvellous work of agents,...
06 September 2019
From: Breaking News
We daren’t mention it but this is the final Bank Holiday before…well, Christmas. Let’s hope agents and suppliers have an opportunity to...
23 August 2019
From: Breaking News
Welcome to this week’s ADC…and what a week it’s been. Politics? No, hot air of a different kind - the weather. Yet...
26 July 2019
From: Breaking News
Another house price raffle has closed amid rancour, and with cash prizes being awarded instead of the property originally promoted. The latest...
02 July 2019
From: Breaking News
Hello there - if it’s Friday it’s Agents Do Charity, and as we prepare for a hot weekend for Glastonbury revellers...
28 June 2019
From: Breaking News
A company which promotes property raffles have been told that it cannot repeat certain elements of its advertisements on Facebook and...
26 June 2019
From: Breaking News
Hello - it’s that time of the week again when we celebrate the agency industry’s fantastic fund-raising. We were delighted that our...
31 May 2019
From: Breaking News
Another property raffle - this time with what appeared to be a castle as its main prize - has hit trouble...
17 April 2019
From: Breaking News
The industry is back to full-strength on its fund-raising judging from our virtual postbag this week with many new reports of...
25 January 2019
From: Breaking News
Yet another property raffle has had to be abandoned because it has been deemed illegal under Gambling Commission rules. A Yorkshire couple,...
07 January 2019
From: Breaking News
A family is raffling a £3m home on the Hampshire/Dorset border after a series of sales fell through. Mark and Sharon Beresford...
17 December 2018
From: Breaking News
With Christmas less than four weeks away (yes, really) the countdown to the festive season begins tomorrow when December begins. Charity...
30 November 2018
From: Breaking News
Hello and welcome to another Agents Do Charity, our round-up of great work done by our industry to raise funds for...
09 November 2018
From: Breaking News
Raffles are in the news as a way of ‘selling’ homes, and not just because an Irish club has won a...
02 November 2018
From: Breaking News
The perils of property competitions and raffles have once again been demonstrated, this time with the Advertising Standards Authority upholding three...
26 September 2018
From: Breaking News
This week may have marked the landmark moment of Facebook entering the UK property market but as the industry prepares for...
07 September 2018
From: Breaking News
The brief but troubled history of individuals and companies attempting to raffle homes as prizes has received another blow as a...
21 August 2018
From: Breaking News
One of the spate of property raffle competitions has been the subject of a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority. The complaint...
08 August 2018
From: Breaking News
The dream may be over but the return to reality can at least be staged in the spirit of an England...
13 July 2018
From: Breaking News
Hello and welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity - and just because it’s half term, don’t think the industry has...
01 June 2018
From: Breaking News
As we move towards another Bank Holiday Weekend, there is no shortage of phenomenal fundraising efforts from those in our industry. If...
25 May 2018
From: Breaking News
A flat in Brixton is being raffled for £5 a ticket by a start-up entrepreneur who claims this is just the...
23 April 2018
From: Breaking News
Readers of a certain age may remember the spoon-bending eccentric Uri Geller, self-proclaimed friend of Michael Jackson and an almost permanent...
14 February 2018
From: Breaking News
As the £1m-plus housing market continues to struggle in most parts of the country, so the use of stunts and gimmicks...
18 January 2018
From: Breaking News
The Advertising Standards Authority has told the organisers of a house raffle that they must not repeat a promotion because of...
13 December 2017
From: Breaking News
There's just a week to go to Children In Need, the UK's largest fund-raising event of the year - as we...
10 November 2017
From: Breaking News
The raffle-a-home gimmick appears to be gaining strength with the arrival of a new website - Rafflemyhouse.com - which will also...
08 November 2017
From: Breaking News
Winter really is the time for fund-raising - and thanks for letting us know exactly what you are up to to...
03 November 2017
From: Breaking News
It’s been a big week for property news - controversies surrounding Purplebricks, merger discussions between big franchise operators, and another government...
20 October 2017
From: Breaking News
A new online property competition platform has launched that gives entrants the opportunity to win a home for £2 - but...
19 October 2017
From: Breaking News
Now we hate to spoil a long weekend but for much of the UK this is the final Bank Holiday before......
25 August 2017
From: Breaking News
The controversial raffle of a home reportedly purchased in 2014 under the Right To Buy scheme for just £360,000 is back...
30 June 2017
From: Breaking News
Today we’re publishing what we think is our longest-ever list of charitable activities being conducted by agents and their supporters -...
23 June 2017
From: Breaking News
We take a break from the relentless election coverage to look at the great fundraising work being carried out by our industry. Once...
09 June 2017
From: Breaking News
This might just be one of the busiest Agents Do Charity columns we’ve ever had with many firms having a mixture...
19 May 2017
From: Breaking News
An attempt to raffle a property - like the much-publicised case of an owner in south east London, which reached some...
11 May 2017
From: Breaking News
It’s always a privilege to publicise fund-raising work by our industry, to show the caring nature of a profession that is...
27 January 2017
From: Breaking News
Only a week to the Christmas break and still our industry goes above and beyond the call of duty to raise...
16 December 2016
From: Breaking News
There’s been a bumper mailbag sent to press@estateagenttoday.co.uk this week to mark what must be the height of the fund-raising season...
09 December 2016
From: Breaking News
Bonfire Night is upon us but the brightest lights this weekend are those from our industry tirelessly working for good causes. As ever, those...
04 November 2016
From: Breaking News
It’s been another very busy week for the excellent fund-raising champions of our industry - and the good causes are encouraging...
21 October 2016
From: Breaking News
Charity knows no geographical boundaries and we’re always pleased to support fundraising across the country and beyond. If you want to publicise...
14 October 2016
From: Breaking News
It’s a familiar theme – kids doing charity trips and needing sponsorship or raffle prizes to help fund their fares. If we...
29 July 2016
From: Features
With the new Formula One season now well underway, we delve into the fast lane to take you on a whirlwind...
08 July 2016
From: Features
Let’s face it - the biggest distraction for many estate agents in the coming weeks may well be the Euro 2016...
10 June 2016
From: Breaking News
There’s been a glut of fundraising events surrounding the 90th birthday celebrations for HM The Queen - and we salute those...
20 May 2016
From: Breaking News
So this is Easter - a busy time for many agents although once again the industry has shown its compassionate side...
25 March 2016
From: Breaking News
Don’t forget there’s an extra hour in bed on Saturday night - a chance to get some extra stamina for your...