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Hello, welcome to another Monday and the latest PJT. As ever, a brief reminder to please let us know your appointments new...

Zoopla has unveiled new functionality that it claims will make searching for new homes easier for consumers - and resumes the...

Yopa – launched in 2015 as part of the new breed of hybrid operators seeking to shake up the industry –...

Since I started working with Zero DepositTM, for me the market leader in deposit replacement alternatives, the most common question I...

A new national agency concept - eXp UK - has told Estate Agent Today that its recruitment schedule is running “well...

Controversy and Purplebricks have gone hand in hand since the agency was first launched in 2012, through its float on the...

The latest housing market snapshot from the listings website Home suggests more regional markets are heading for price corrections. Home says that...

A trade body has sharply criticised HM Land Registry for its slow progress on digitising local searches after a promising start...

Data from an agency comparison website reveals that in the current market it takes well over a year for a home...

News broke last weekend of a further online estate agency casualty as letting agent Upad announced on its website that it...

There has been a real wind of change in estate agency and over the last 18 months we have seen the...

The US-based real estate firm Keller Williams says it is aiming to be this country’s leading agency training organisation. Ben Taylor, who...

A few weeks ago, I came across a couple of really interesting articles which I immediately thought worth writing a piece...

An equity release specialist says the scrapping of stamp duty for so-called last time buyers would lead to more downsizing, freeing...

Upad, the national online letting agent set up by entrepreneur James Davis has announced that it is “closed to new business”...

A relatively new company which signs up vendors and then effectively sub-contracts their sales to strongly-performing local estate agents says it...

Reservation agreements locking in buyers and sellers could be trailed with some agencies and conveyancers early in 2020, a government official...

A leading agent and property management expert says the shock closure of online agency Upad is a sign that technology alone...

There are fewer ‘accidental landlords’ - vendors who resort to letting out their homes because the sales market is difficult. That’s the...

A London agent is urging rivals to provide realistic valuations, even if vendors want more and despite temptations to over-value to...

When renting a property out, letting agents and landlords recognise that it is important to take a deposit from the tenant...

A high-end estate agency which describes itself as 'the world's only global lifestyle real estate company' is recruiting new partner agents. Quintessentially...

Fewer property sales fell through before completion, despite uneasy market conditions, according to Quick Move Now. The home buying company's data shows...

The average age of a first-time buyer in the UK is 27, according to research from Nested.com. The online estate agency says...

OnTheMarket has this morning posted its latest results to the stock market. The portal reports that 2,346 branches had converted to full-paying...

The boss of a 15+ branch estate agency group has explained how he thinks regulation could 'ruin' the estate agency industry. Simon...

A regional agency operating across Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire has announced an acquisition which adds two branches to its network. This week, Alexander...

Raise more money for your charity with help from the industry charity – Agents Giving. At Agents Giving we work with estate and...

I have been banging on about partnerships and collaborations for years now. Whether it’s between two real estate firms, two PropTech firms,...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? David Masters – Account Manager for the Midlands What is ‘company...

The latest figures from Halifax show annual house price growth has dipped to a six-year low. Average property price growth in...

The ValPal Network, which consists of over 800 agency brands with more than 4,000 offices, has launched a new product which...

Welcome back to Property Jobs Today - your Monday roundup of all the latest employment news from the industry. If you have...

An independent agency has partnered with high-end firm Fine & Country after its own brand reached a 'glass ceiling'. Home Truths Sales...

In a revival of the Natter’s day in the life of series, I catch up with Rajeev Nayyar, managing director of...

There’s no doubt that we live in politically charged times and every day appears to bring something new to the ‘party’. For...

Estate agents are being encouraged to consider providing increased flexible working options for their staff, including increased opportunities to work from...

A yet-to-launch estate agency comparison site is nearing its crowdfunding target of £50,000. Invite Agents, which is crowdfunding on crowdcube, had, as...

It may only be October 4, but temperatures have already started to drop this week as preparations for winter begin. As we...

Three key industry organisations have endorsed a best practice guide for the controversial Modern Method of Auction. The iamsold guide is aimed at...

A former sales agent with a historic property name and heritage has launched his own buying agency after becoming 'frustrated' with...

We know that the tenant fee ban has cost letting agents dearly, with an estimated loss of £300 million paid to...

I want to take the time this week to talk about PropTech startups and how they can often be seen to...

Leaders Romans says it has won new funding to acquire more agencies.  “We have made no secret of the group’s intention to...

Savills, Knight Frank, Cushman & Wakefield and JLL are the main estate agencies now working with a review website allowing buyers...

It’s Monday so that can mean only one thing - a chance to catch up on the key moves in and...

Briefings from the Conservative Party to The Sun newspaper suggest that the party will this week announce further relaxation in planning...

In recent years, governments and local councils have sought to change the private rented sector (PRS) to make it more appealing...

Although property transactions have, unsurprisingly, recently seen a decline which is almost certainly in part due to the ‘B-word’, this doesn’t...

Stamp duty won’t take centre stage at the Conservative Party conference - that’ll be Brexit, quelle surprise. But if the government...

London agency Foxtons has announced some management changes - the first since a shareholder revolt at the firm’s annual general meeting...

When Jasmine Fakir moved from her home in Brent, north London, to look after her ill mother she certainly did not...

A trading statement from OnTheMarket reveals that fewer agents than anticipated have so far converted from free or discounted deals to...

The tech publication WIRED has conducted an in-depth analysis of Purplebricks’ reviews on the Trustpilot site and suggests the agency may...

The collapse of Thomas Cook, widely seen as failing modernise with the expectations of modern shoppers, is a clear lesson for...

The price premium paid by purchasers for a freehold property rather than a leasehold is at its highest for eight years. An...

Two prominent estate agency chiefs, both members of the Conservative Party, have both tweeted their opposition to some of the policies...

Picture this: You have finally pushed that sale or purchase through, which means your client is over the moon and happy...

A story from America caught my eye this week. It’s about a company called Curbio partnering with another called The Keyes...

Tim Hyatt, currently in charge of Knight Frank’s London residential operation, is to take over as the firm’s residential work across...

The annual number of property transactions edged down slightly according to the figures released applying to August. However, buyers and sellers email...

Shadow defence secretary Nia Griffiths is pledging to improve the quality of housing for serving military personnel if Labour gets into...

Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, who earlier this month told a newspaper that he wanted to introduce a Right To Buy policy for...

Around one person in seven in England are living in unaffordable, insecure or unsuitable accommodation. The claim comes from the research produced...

Labour will this week discuss plans to allow councils to compulsorily purchase homes left empty for six months. Young Labour - a...

A sales and lettings agency which has entered insolvency is reported by a local newspaper to have offered vendors cut-price fees...

In a previous Natter, I promised to talk more about CRMs – and here I stick to that promise. Following on from...

HM Revenue & Customs has revealed that the original Emoov online agency has been fined for breaches of money laundering regulations. HMRC...

A quick move company claims that the general public underestimate estate agents’ fees by around £6,000.  A survey of 2,000 home owners...

All eyes are on Japan for the Rugby World Cup beginning this weekend…but there’s still time for our industry to raise...

A property MOT being launched by Countrywide and described as “game changing” for the house buying process will include survey and...

It’s bizarre but true (apparently). London’s golf courses could provide the land for homes that could house a million people. An interesting...

‘Workers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains’. So is written on the tombstone of the father...

Earlier this year, the Regulation of Property Agents (RoPA) working group announced the initial details of plans for mandatory qualifications and...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Simon Trippett – Partner at The Property Centre. What services...

A hybrid estate and lettings agency operating currently in Manchester, Liverpool and others parts of the north of England has told...

There's good news for the market in at least one sector - mortgages offered to first time buyers. Latest figures from the...

There are those who say that PropTech is at risk of becoming a bubble market, and others who say bubbles don’t...

A report by the influential Public Accounts committee of MPs has been highly sceptical of the effectiveness of Help To Buy. It...

Continuing political uncertainty over Brexit and now a significant chance of an autumn or winter General Election makes the case for...

A PropTech start-up says its service allows investors from anywhere in the world to buy property in the UK which can...

Former Purplebricks chief executive Lee Wainwright says the problem for estate agents maintaining a strong level of fees isn’t competition from...

A rock bottom supply of homes on sale is helping to reinvigorate London sales according to a market monitor. The website Home...

If you thought - perhaps hoped - that five weeks of prorogued Parliament meant a break from politics, think again: the...

A blog for the British Property Federation has come up with three radically different proposals for stamp duty, providing food for...

A banking company used by OnTheMarket has issued a note to its investor clients claiming the portal “arguably beats its peers...

A former Foxtons estate agent has set up a property finding service which is exclusively for first time buyers - believed...

Our first wonderful fund-raising agents this week are walking over hot coals - now that’s a dare for you. But you don’t...

Winkworth’s trading statement for the first half of 2019 show the company’s revenue and pre-tax profit both dipping slightly - but...

The independent Seel and Co, one of Cardiff’s and Wales’ oldest independent agencies and auction houses, has been acquired by Jeffrey...

One of the biggest changes seen in the property market over the last decade is technology growth. With the likes of Rightmove...

Purplebricks has spent £26.7m on marketing in the past year - that represents £382 per instruction.  The figures, revealed in the agency’s...

I remember the day well; the day we all fell foul of addiction, the day our website was launched. Until then, at...

Purplebricks’ recent strong share price rise is not a good sign for the agency but an indication that it may be...

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

Hunters chairman Kevin Hollinrake, who is also a Conservative MP, has given notice that he would resign the party whip if...

Three former online estate agency founders - including the controversial Russell Quirk - are going into mainstream full fee agency. They are...

The government has issued a revised version of its official How To Buy and How To Sell documents, aimed at consumers...

Hello and welcome to the latest PJT, your weekly opportunity to catch up on key moves within the industry. Everyone mentioned here...

Another house price index has suggested the housing market continuing to show great resilience despite the continuing economic and political uncertainty. The...

First time buyers will constitute the largest single group of purchasers in 2019, despite the apparent difficulties of deposits and securing...

It’s been six years since the Help to Buy scheme was launched, with the honourable intentions of helping more people onto...

A survey claims that millions of potential sellers would use online estate agents - and bizarrely, this includes an online agency...

A business site says an agency’s administration has been extended as insolvency specialists try to find its former owner to claim...

There’s plenty of action in and around Westminster these days, but while the political temperature rises, the marvellous work of agents,...

Professional client account solutions for modern letting agents Letting agents will need to come up with new ways to manage client money...

One of the country’s largest regional estate and lettings agencies has now fully rejoined Zoopla. Yorkshire-based Dacre, Son & Hartley brings its...

A portal which describes itself as a social network and which has been operating on a soft launch basis for many...

In the old days an agent would procure clients based upon their position in the high street, the size of the...

Former Purplebricks US chief executive officer Eric Eckardt is seeking some £6m in funding from across the world for his latest...

I suspect that at some time we have all rented an Airbnb (I am sitting on the couch of one as...

A new PropTech online platform called BestAgent Property Marketplace is to launch next year following a series of 12 meetings this autumn. It...

OnTheMarket’s selective fee freeze for agents has been challenged by a new portal which asks agents: ‘Why pay at all?’ OTM revealed...

No less than 56 per cent of properties across the UK are in areas that are affordable for first time buyers...

A new online estate agency has attacked the industry for being “largely cloaked and ambiguous” - and says that of all...

OnTheMarket says it will not increase listing charges in 2020 for any agents currently paying full fees, while agencies which list on only...

Pressure continued to mount on the government to clearly address the issue of stamp duty as a leading business consultancy suggested...

The chief executive of the Suzy Lamplugh Trust, set up to commemorate the murdered estate agency, has died at the age...

A London estate agency says one of its buyers wants to delay completion until November 1 “just in case stamp duty...

The number of new homes registered to be built in the UK during July was nine per cent lower than a...

I think I speak for most people when I say that we are not currently where we thought we would be...

The Deposit Protection Service (The DPS) keeps deposit money safe for letting agents, landlords and renters during the course a tenancy....

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Tony Strover. On my business card it says...

A veteran estate agent has got hot under the collar about a London firm which has ordered its negotiators and other...

An independent estate agency says a No Deal Brexit will prompt a “feeding frenzy” of foreign buyers who are already “piling...

The National Association of Estate Agents has told the government that it wants one single Ombudsman to provide redress across all...

A new analysis of privately owned homes with mortgages outstanding shows repossessions have risen in London - but they’re down in...

Technology will drive the lettings and property management industry in the future. There is already a plethora of various software and other...

A well-respected agent who was president of the NAEA just five years ago has written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking...

As real estate firms begin to execute their Q3 strategies and think more closely about Q4, there is one major question...

The Bank of Mum and Dad is now officially one of the 10 biggest mortgage lenders according to data from Legal...

Purplebricks has revealed it is considering changes to its pricing structure to correct “mistakes” of the past. Chief executive Vic Darvey has...

Crowdfunding has been largely avoided by property companies for much of the past year following controversies surrounding Emoov’s fund raising -...

The London market has “plummeted” because almost a third of vendors have cut their asking prices in anticipation of Brexit. Using data...

The Guardian has revealed that small investors lured into putting money into TV property guru Kevin McCloud’s eco-friendly housing projects -...

They will be the doctors, lawyers, teachers, thinkers, leaders and captains of industry of the not too distant future, but is...

In the run up to his appointment as Prime Minister, Boris Johnson suggested that he might cut Stamp Duty Land Tax...

Recently a number of politicians and charities have been calling for the introduction of rent controls or rent freezes in the...

The Liverpool Echo says housing minister Esther McVey, who was born in the city, is now ”reviled” there following comments about poor families. According...

A new digital platform has been set up in a bid to provide a one-stop-shop for self-build enthusiasts - and it...

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...

Global free-to-list property portal Residential People has announced it’s almost at its next milestone of 800,000 listings within its first six...

Innovate or Die. But What is Innovation? It Isn’t just PropTech A certain Mr Dick Whittington Esquire was once convinced that the...

Rightmove’s blog suggests that pro-standard photos can increase enquiries by up to four times, but how do you make great photos? You...

A new PropTech product uses WhatsApp to communicate within agency teams as soon as a lead is received from a portal. However,...

An estate agent has been jailed for 19 months and will have to be on the sex offenders’ register for the...

One of the country’s leading estate agents is leading the calls on Chancellor Sajid Javid to sort out the government’s stamp...

News this week tells of Zehomes, the German property management company, raising €13 million in Series-A funding, bringing its all-time total...

A few details of a possible takeover or acquisition of Countrywide have started to emerge. The possibility was first floated in yesterday’s...

New compulsory qualifications for estate agents will not only offer more transparency for customers but will help recruit better staff into...

A dramatic slump in the supply of homes being put on sale in London means that parts of the capital now...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Phil Smith - mio Account manager What is mio and what does...

If anyone thought a Boris Johnson government would be more decisive than Theresa May's when it came to housing policies, the last...

Hello and welcome to the final PJT before September - yes that means summer is almost over.  Yet even during the holiday season...

Brexit is not deterring first time buyers this year according to an analysis by the Yorkshire Building Society. It says that despite...

It’s that time again. Each year I take a look at newspaper readership - not from the angle of journalists, but...

The typical new real estate agency forms when an entrepreneurial high performer quits their job at a leading chain and sets...

A former Local Property Expert and manager at Purplebricks has gone on record to reveal what it was really like to work...

Richard Rawlings’ annual roadshow opens on September 3 with the first of 17 stops across the UK, each giving a three...

The property website Home has identified the four regions of the UK where it says the current market slowdown is at...

Average house prices in the UK increased by a mere 0.9 per cent in the year to June - the lowest...

Akshay Ruparelia, the 21 year old who founded the online agency Doorsteps while he was still in sixth form, has called for...

As the founder of Jupix, I worked in the property industry between 2008 - 2014. I had the privilege to lead...

iamproperty, parent company of IAMsold, says it now works with 2,500 estate agency branches nationwide and has sold over 16,500 properties...

This week, you find me in Italy. Now that we’ve entered that languid month of August, where all of real estate...

A London council admits that it typically takes 50 working days for a search - which means a Local Land Charge...

Estate agents have collectively been fiercely criticised for allegedly exaggerating valuations to win instructions, doing a disservice to vendors and not...

An online agency has struck out against the conventional wisdom that it’s tougher than ever before for first time buyers to...

Carl Hemming, Director from Ginger in Balsall Common explains how mio has quickly proven to be a cost-effective way to simplify...

Savills says it’s not commenting on whether it will list on Zoopla in the future. Last week Knight Frank - which in...

A newspaper claims that a crowdfunding site used by some estate agencies and other property industry companies has suspended trading on...

Yes it’s Monday, so it’s another edition of PJT, your guide to the key moves and changes in the agency and...

There’s been only a vague government response to the recommendations for an estate and lettings agency regulator. Last month the Regulation of...

With the often negative portrayal of agents in the media and popular culture, you might ask yourself why anyone would want...

Savills, once a safe bet for year-on-year growth, has seen its underlying UK residential profits plunge 44 per cent with economic...

A retirement development specialist is warning buyers on such schemes to beware unexpected clauses or restrictions which they may not have...

One of the agencies most active in the creation of OnTheMarket is trialling a return to listing on Zoopla after an...

A new house price index that in June predicted big house price rises over the summer has now repeated its claim,...

House prices fell unexpectedly for the second month in a row in July according to the Halifax - but the mortgage...

It is now over two months since the introduction of the ban on fees charged to tenants, leaving letting agents with...

A record £8.2 billion was paid in Capital Gains Tax in 2017/18 - over £1 billion more than the year before.  The...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Lino Goncalves – Area Sales Manager What is Lets bid property...

An agent working at the buying arm of Knight Frank, The Buying Solution, is striking out to set up her own...

Rising house prices and the gender pay gap means that there is no English region where a single woman on median...

Traditionally speaking, users who are looking to buy, rent, or sell their property to customers on an international basis have been...

A PropTech start up says its new free tool allows prospective sellers and buyers to get an automated valuation of their...

Hello and welcome to PJT, breaking you in to the working week every Monday with news of the movers and shakers...

Countrywide has thrown its weight behind the proposals for a new single industry-wide regulator taking on the roles of Trading Standards...

A local authority that last week warned that it could not provide any local searches for over six weeks has now...

Have you asked yourself why technology is so important in letting agency today? Just look around and you will know why. Almost...

I missed the biggest property story of the week and it’s only scant consolation that almost everyone else seemed to miss it...

With Boris Johnson winning the Conservative leadership election and becoming Prime Minister, he has spent his first few days in office...

If you’d asked me at the start of the year how I thought the political landscape might look now, I wouldn’t...

Former Countrywide employees who take to social media or the mainstream press to criticise the company are betraying those who remained...

New research has identified those local housing market potentially worst hit by the planned changes to Help To Buy in 2021,...

The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee - which meets monthly to set the base rate on which the costs of...

The Advertising Standards Authority has issued a guidance note warning online estate agents, after complaints about them have “grown dramatically”. “Property is big...

Countrywide has told Estate Agent Today that it will not be releasing any figures on the branch closure programme it introduced...

After months of difficulties and closures for many online and hybrid estate agencies, EweMove claims to have bucked the trend. In a...

Sellers across England and Wales achieve an average 95.94 per cent of their asking price according to research from estate agency...

In a trading statement this morning, Countrywide says it has “a new covenant package with lenders provides the financial flexibility to...

Connells Group has this morning announced a profits dip for the first six months of the year.  Its pre-tax profits were £26.2m...

A local authority in the Home Counties says it will not be possible to accept search queries for six weeks starting...

Online estate agency EasyProperty has been acquired by a firm with the backing of Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou. easyProperty has been sold by the eProp...

LSL Property Services, parent firm of Your Move and Reeds Rains, says the company’s branch closure programme was a success with profits...

The average house price growth across southern cities is running at the lowest level recorded since January 2012, according to Zoopla.  Prices...

1. Win More Listings For estate agency in the UK, the number one task is to get new properties to market. However,...

Matt Nicholson, Sales Progressor at Edwards & Co in Rhiwbina, Cardiff, explains how adopting sales progression and communication tool, mio, has...

Those who bought and sold the same property in 2018 made an average of £30,150 - but the number who do...

Nicky Stevenson has had a very varied and interesting career in property. She started out as a lettings negotiator for Nicholas...

We now have a new Leader of the Conservative Party and, rather more importantly, a new Prime Minister. That individual is Boris...

The Deposit Protection Service (The DPS) keeps deposit money safe for letting agents, landlords and renters during the course a tenancy....

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Eric Woodhams F.N.A.E.A. mio Account Manager What is mio and what...

Rightmove’s half year figures this morning continue to show strong growth in profits and revenue - but there are the first...

Foxtons’ sales slumped another 10 per cent and its total revenue dropped another 3.5 per cent according to figures released this...

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

Welcome to this week’s ADC…and what a week it’s been. Politics? No, hot air of a different kind - the weather.  Yet...

Data from UK Finance, which represents most of the country’s lenders, shows that gross mortgage lending across the residential market in...

Transactions in the troubled prime London market have actually increased year on year according to Knight Frank’s latest market snapshot. The agency...

How many of you are in favour of estate agents being licenced? Would most agents rather not be overseen by a regulator...

Sometimes having prior knowledge of a stressful event can be more stressful than the event itself, just look at Brexit for...

One of the country’s most respected agents has advised the agency industry to treat Boris Johnson’s pledges with real caution. Black Brick buying...

I feel I am in a fortunate position. I have been central to the PropTech movement for a number of years,...

Our own industry’s upheaval over recent years has been no less dramatic than the turmoil at Westminster. The political earthquake has seen...

The chief executive of Hunters franchise operation, Glynis Frew, says online estate agencies have given the industry two ‘positives’ - but...

An online agency which last autumn said it wanted to have as much as a three per cent market share of...

This may be the final full day in office for Kit Malthouse, the latest politician to occupy the short-term position of housing...

The fledgling Federation of Independent Agents has revealed a list of agents which have joined the scheme.  The very latest is Oakwood...

An estate agent who ruthlessly used his position as a prominent figure in the community to win the trust of vulnerable...

The industry press has given substantial space to recommendations from the Regulation of Property Agents, the government’s working party which has...

In a marketplace as competitive as the property industry, you may think that generating leads is the most important focus for...

One of the country’s leading estate agents says shifting the burden of stamp duty away from the buyer - which is...

The government has published its response to an MPs’ committee’s comments on overseas buyers of properties in the UK - and...

A recent study has revealed what the biggest moving home fails are in the UK, including damaged furniture, scratched walls and...

The government has published proposals for far-reaching changes to the way estate and letting agents are regulated, trained and licensed. The proposals...

Agents have put a brave face on official government figures which have shown a shock fall in London house prices and...

The introduction of technology to an industry can be daunting, due to changes in executing daily tasks, and also a fear...

The recent announcement of a clicktopurchase partnership demonstrates some much-needed progression from Rightmove. In doing so, however, it could be said it...

Two of the highest profile independent estate agencies in the north of England have merged following a spectacular acquisition. Linley & Simpson...

Conservative Party leadership contender Boris Johnson has expressed an interest in switching the stamp duty burden from buyers to sellers. Until now Johnson’s comments on...

A new survey claims that 28 per cent of those who have put their home up for sale in past five...

Winkworth has a new office in its network, in the fashionable Suffolk town of Southwold. Independent agency Halford Wetmore has been acquired...

Some of the most radical reforms ever proposed for estate and letting agents are expected to be signed off today by...

A leading agent has suggested that some parts of the UK would face “a property exodus” if Boris Johnson’s proposals for...

The price of property coming to market fell by 0.2 per cent or an average of £656 in the past month...

The Nationwide building society is to go into house building. It has received planning permission to build 239 new homes for sale...

It’s now more than three years since the EU referendum result in June 2016, and we’re still no clearer on when...

Now could be the time to buy shares in Purplebricks and Foxtons if one stock market pundit turns out to be...

A new global free-to-list property portal says it has secured 800 new property enquiries for estate agents in the last four...

Auction companies have issued statements boasting of their own performance as old school companies and new entrants vie for market share. Firstly...

Once a year you might be perfectly justified in putting your feet up for a weekend and enjoying some great sport...

The Property Ombudsman will in future refer more estate agents to the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agent Team if...

A new industry regulator is likely to be in place within two years according to the chair of the government’s Regulation...

If agents ran their databases more efficiently, the property portals might find themselves redundant. Controversial opening statement aside, the reality is that...

Two Countrywide brands have joined forces to launch Airspace Exchange – a service to push the idea of constructing homes and...

The PropTech era is changing the way in which employees decide where they are going to work. As CBRE has discovered in...

Jamie Lester, the London estate agent who starred in The Apprentice almost a decade ago, has set up a property industry...

Estate agents have been urged to ensure they are carrying out an annual independent audit of their anti-money laundering (AML) processes. ID...

Theresa May arrived in Downing Street some three years ago - but her premiership has not been a smooth ride. As she...

With somewhere in the region of 1.2 million property sales transactions being completed each year, and 16,500 estate agents actively vying...

With this summer marking forty years since Margaret Thatcher came to power, her legacy continues to invoke both celebration and consternation...

  Who are you and what does it say on your business card?             Becky Howes, mio Account Manager What...

The police have opened an investigation after a number of complaints have been made about the financial affairs of a sales...

The new owners of Emoov have confirmed that 70 previous customers have opted to re-list their homes with the firm since it...

The average British homeowner stays in their property for 20.8 years, according to new research by Zoopla. The property portal analysed the...

The Metropolitan Police have confirmed that an excavation that took place yesterday was part of its ongoing investigation into the disappearance...

In the last ten years Google's revenue, largely from pay per click ads (Adwords), has grown by 527% (Source: Statista). In...

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a complaint made against a listing on property website Houser.co.uk. In January, the complainant notified...

This week, I want to take a look at the Israeli startup, Venn, an urban revitalisation firm which has recently received...

Petty Estate Agents has acquired the real estate division of Cheshire-based Wright Marshall out of administration. The deal safeguards the company after...

The head of a website that contrasts the performances of rival estate agents is urging buyers to ‘drill down’ and find...

A leasehold reform campaigner says government proposals risk creating a two-tier market and do nothing to assist leaseholders already hit by...

 – use technology to build a trusted brand as a people-focused custodian of client money Non-stop regulatory changes in the industry are...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? That depends on which business card. One says ‘Properganda PR,...

In the second part of my exploration of startups, I talk to a number of people with lived experience of creating...

Increasing legislation and regulation has arguably been the biggest talking point in the private rented sector (PRS) over the last few...

The Deposit Protection Service (The DPS) keeps deposit money safe for letting agents, landlords and renters during the course a tenancy....

The latest report commissioned by the Labour party to resolve the UK’s housing problems would crash the housing market rather than...

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

The modern method of auction is proving to revolutionise the way properties are bought and sold across the UK.  By putting the...

MyBid4It is an online auction platform which has been developed to partner with Estate Agents and revolutionise the way properties are...

I want to take the time this week to look at an area of PropTech and real estate which is seeing...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Mark Worrall the co-founder of love2move What is love2move and...

The former chief executive of Purplebricks UK says the agency completes on over 80 per cent of the homes it lists...

A former Territory Owner at Purplebricks, who at one time managed 11 Local Property Experts, has spoken out in support of...

The minister at the centre of reforms to the estate and lettings industry sector has apologised for what she calls “inappropriate...

The weekend is over all-too-quickly but at least if it’s Monday, it’s Property Jobs Today - your weekly catch up with...

Britain lives in fundamentalist black-and-white times - all the more surprising when the country's most divisive point of contention sits on...

Recent figures from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) have revealed a rather worrying landscape for small business owners across the...

You may be right in thinking that Brexit has dominated the thinking of the government in the last three years. However,...