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London’s super-prime residential market has recorded its strongest year since 2013, according to high end agency Savills. In total, there were 522...

As this is the first Natter back since the Christmas break, I should like to first wish all our readers a...

Estate Agent Today understands that the civil servant who has been at the heart of plans to reform the house buying...

New research shows an estimated £200 billion worth of property sat vacant across Britain’s housing market - up 2.1 per cent...

Strong house price growth since the pandemic began has boosted seller gains with the typical vendor who bought two decades ago...

The last two years have been dramatic and decisive for many people and many businesses. Both have reassessed their work approaches...

A new survey suggests two thirds of current or potential home owners would accept the idea of a mortgage interest rate...

As agents return to work after the Christmas break, here’s an insight into possible new instructions. A quarter of owners apparently think...

As we slide into Christmas, with the busiest levels of house buying since 2006 and activity still buoyant, I don’t think...

UK house prices have reached an all time high - but 2022 will see a more normalised housing market thanks to...

With the business model for self-employed agents hotly debated within the industry, new data has suggested that most freelance professionals are...

Around a quarter of mortgage lenders currently have ‘green’ products promoting improved EPCs - and the vast majority of the rest...

Lenders’ umbrella group UK Finance has given its housing and mortgage market forecasts for 2022 and 2023 together, plus a year-end report for 2021. It estimates...

A good website is no longer optional for estate agents, as no single aspect of marketing to new customers is more...

Rightmove is to try to help potential buyers get their finances in order much earlier in the transaction process, to reduce...

There are many features and functionalities a website must have to be successful. Ultimately, the purpose of your website should be...

The government’s plan to put Energy Performance Certificates at the heart of its bid to reach Net Zero has hit a stumbling...

A new survey by Leaders Romans Group shows a significant majority of buyers wanting homes to be more energy efficient -...

The head of a small hybrid firm that describes traditional agencies with offices as “antiquated” says property professionals working for corporates...

Increasingly rigorous Money Laundering Directives have made regulations in the property industry more stringent than ever, and Estate Agents have a...

Just as city centre traffic is reminiscent of life before the pandemic, the rental market in central zones of UK’s largest...

Trust has always been vital for building and nurturing good relations between an agent and their customer. Maintaining trust will keep...

A high-speed internet connection is the second most important factor for buyers after property size, a survey claims. And the study -...

The prospect of higher mortgage interest rates mean the housing market may get tougher soon despite another set of upbeat house...

It’s been a busy and arguably fruitful year for the property market, with an eager consumer base pushing forwards with their...

The phrase ‘time is money’ is particularly pertinent for estate agents. Since the stamp duty holiday ended, the forecast drop in...

Energy Performance Certificates are “misleading” indicators of zero carbon buildings and should no longer be used as official guides to help...

Savills has set out its annual house price forecast for prime London - and after years of price falls, the prediction...

Strutt & Parker has revealed where it believes the housing market will see the largest demand in 2022, outside of London. The...

A leading estate agency says the government may have to use stamp duty and council tax as incentives to persuade owners...

The head of research at a leading agency is warning that although the housing market remains buoyant, there may be macro-economic...

In this article, the team at The Lettings Hub - which aims to offer tech-driven solutions for the rental market - outline...

New research suggests estate agents earn some of the lowest basic salaries of all sales professions.  Nested, an online agency promoting the...

Sir David Amess, murdered at a constituency surgery last month, may have an unexpected housing market legacy for his constituents. To commemorate...

An online intelligence platform has started ranking agencies in terms of their SEO and Google searches. The platform - Industry Alerts, which...

New research shows that despite media attention and new government policies, better energy efficiency is not a key issue for the...

New figures from Knight Frank show that price growth in the high end country market moderated in the third quarter of...

Hello and welcome to the end of the week - an opportunity for you to catch up with charity news from...

Research by price comparison service MoneySuperMarket has itemised the additional fees incurred by people moving home. This year’s 12 per cent rise...

There is no denying that managing properties is labour intensive. As real estate agents you are responsible for administering and addressing...

If there is one thing that modern consumers have come to expect, it’s convenience. As a nation, we’re driven by on-demand...

A small property portal has accused Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket of listing properties with asking prices far in excess of market...

Despite increasing public debate and media spotlight on energy efficiency, the issue appears relatively unimportant to seven out of eight buyers according to...

An analysis of estate agencies in 21 major cities suggests a big rise in competing companies, prompting risks of fee wars between...

Propertymark’s chief executive - officially still in post on just an interim basis - is to face questions from a past...

2021 redefined what it meant to offer exceptional customer experiences for consumers across multiple industries, but particularly for the residential property...

Some two thirds of agents and other property professionals who have worked alone have suffered an incident endangering their safety, according to...

The  housing market is not immune from the supply shortage hitting the economy, according to Knight Frank - with London the...

The property industry and its many stakeholders are key participants in a global digital transformation that has been underway for quite...

PropTech industry giant epropservices has acquired Property Technology Ltd, better known to agents as marketing platform LeadPro. epropservices is the parent company of...

British homebuyers take an average of 25 seconds to decide whether a house is right for them, according to Purplebricks. As a...

Prices in prime central London have risen for the past two quarters, prompting a tentative claim that the market may be...

By the time I next write this column, we’ll be just days before the next Budget and Autumn Statement. So I’ll...

As we motor towards the next major global climate change conference – the UN’s COP26 being held in Glasgow from 31...

A leading planning consultancy has claimed that ‘the myth’ that housing developers are hoarding land after gaining planning consent in order...

Affordability has always been a hot topic when it comes to the property market, and this is doubly true for first-time...

The government has been warned that its much-talked about levelling up agenda is ‘doomed to fail’ without major reform of the...

The pandemic has led to many people ditching more formal wear as they work from home on a more regular basis,...

Forget en-suites and garden rooms, could you boost viewings with the postcode of a property? Research by comparison website Money.co.uk has identified...

A think tank has proposed scrapping Council Tax and stamp duty in favour of an annual property levy.  The Institute for Public...

A cloud-based software provider has claimed that agents need to prepare for the future – and a very different working day...

First-time buyers are £25,000 worse off thanks to the stamp duty holiday, according to estate agent comparison site GetAgent. The website revealed...

Almost a million tenants have built up rent arrears since March 2020, according to research by National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA)....

Drone technology has come on a long way in recent years, with different use cases across various industries. New developments in...

Buyers are getting less square foot for their money when buying a property. Research by insurer Churchill has found that the average...

Picky buyers are walking away from property deals after realising the internet connection at a property is poor, research claims. A poll...

Scotland and the south west of England have been identified as cash buyer hotspots. Analysis by Barrows and Forrester, found 27 per...

The property market is unlikely to enter a last-minute rush before the final stamp duty holiday ends in October, research claims. Analysis...

Property values may seem high in the UK but spare a thought for buyers in other countries such as Israel, Switzerland...

Implementing measures recommended in an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) could boost the sales price of a property for a vendor, the...

Demand from buyers is set to be strong for the rest of 2021 as the stamp duty holiday unwinds but uncertainty...

Forget London, Scotland is now the fastest-moving market for million-pound properties. Analysis by Rightmove has found that million-pound homes are selling 25...

2020 gave rise to an exodus from the city as work from home became the mandated norm for large swaths of...

The Victorian phrase “as safe as houses” well surmises the security of the housing market as, whether they are buying or...

An estate agency says it’s analysed the housing market’s long term cycles and forecasts that house price rises will continue -...

Exchanges of properties in prime central London, following the end of the largest part of the stamp duty holiday, suggest the...

A survey conducted by a bank suggests that over half of the self-employed sector of the economy believes its financial position...

Day in, day out, I see how good estate agents really are.  Whether it’s in my day job on Location, Location, Location...

A TV advertising campaign begins today to promote SmartVal, its real-time valuation tool available on the Boomin portal. The advertisements will start...

Since the announcement of the Regulation of Property Agents (RoPA), an increasing amount of Principle, Partners and Directors (PPD) from the...

Tech, as has been shown more than ever during the pandemic, can be a wonderful thing – bringing people closer together,...

Homebuyers are suffering huge delays in receiving responses to their search requests to council according to a study of local authorities. Consumer...

Many Britains are apparently under-estimating the impact of furlough on their ability to get a mortgage and buy a property. A new...

A new survey shows that there’s just a 1.7 per cent house price premium on homes with EPC ratings A or...

An agency claims that across the UK there have been very nearly 400,000 property transactions down valued in the last year...

A sentiment survey amongst wealthy international buyers suggests the affluent sector of the western world is seeing similar house buying frenzy...

An estate agency comparison website has conducted research into how much it costs to simply keep an average home in a...

A new survey of online and hybrid agents claims that they are now taking a 13 per cent share of the...

There are 19 new distinct £1m-plus property markets in the UK thanks to the soaring house prices of the past 15...

A  mortgage expert says surveyors should improve their standard services to cover the threat of climate change.  This comes after a summer...

Estate agents have gone on the record to say the flow of purchasers from London to country and market town locations...

The average size of homes in England has plummeted by over 10 per cent in the past four decades. Research from ElectricalDirect...

Recent research shows that when asked what their ideal working set up would be, most agents said ‘hybrid’* and with proposals...

One of the biggest trends since Covid, in the property world and elsewhere, has been a shift towards more hybrid, flexible...

Following a month in which the number of property transactions was the highest since records began, it might seem a little...

Savills has revised its price forecasts for prime property market across the UK, but when it coms to prime central London...

Transaction volumes in prime London fell in July according to data from LonRes. Transactions were down 22 per cent compared with July...

Zoopla has revealed that some 200 agents have joined its new Product Research Panel, testing new innovations introduced by the portal. First...

Londoners purchased over 60,000 homes outside of the capital in the first half of 2021 - and many of those buyers...

The stamp duty holiday came and went with much fanfare. For many buyers it represented a rare opportunity to make some...

We’re about to enter August and second half of the Olympic Games - and fund-raising is happening at a Gold medal...

New research shows that the surge in house prices this year has taken homes in at least 25 areas of England...

Around 2.66 million landlords were operational in Great Britain in 2019, according to data estimations previously released by Hamptons International. Of those...

One of the leading housing market analysts says some of the extreme house price rises seen this year could unwind during...

There’s gathering momentum to do ‘something’ about the unfairness of council tax and stamp duty. This isn’t new in principle. Agents have...

Zoopla data has confirmed that buyer demand started to moderate in the months prior to the initial stamp duty holiday tapering...

New research from Zoopla appears to show that buyers typically move further away for larger homes rather than smaller or same-size...

Boy it’s been hot out there - yet even 30 degrees or more have failed to stifle the enthusiasm of our...

The biggest challenge facing many agents in the current climate is the general shortage of stock, both for sales & lettings. Let’s...

New research suggests that the number of owners enquiring to sell across Greater London has increased by 68 per cent since...

Property consultancy LonRes says June was a record-breaking month for property sales in the capital, with exchanges up 140 per cent...

Let it never be said that this column isn’t here to help out agents directly. In this week’s Natter, I speak...

Our long-awaited ‘Freedom Day’ approaches. From Monday all of the restrictions, introduced since the Covid-19 pandemic made an impact across the...

Properties with professional marketing packs sell up to 48 per cent quicker than those without, according to an experiment conducted by...

The reviews element of the ESTAS Group has signed a two year deal with Hunters. The agreement means Hunters - now part...

Working in real estate can be incredibly rewarding, but it takes a lot of hard work to be able to succeed...

Purplebricks is to launch an extensive marketing campaign after this summer’s Olympics to emphasise the local knowledge of its 600 agents...

There are currently 341,419 homes across England, Scotland and Wales that have been vacant for at least six months.  Collectively, these homes...

The Halifax is reporting a 0.5 per cent monthly drop in house prices, plus a fall in the annual rate from...

The chief executive of Purplebricks says research into pricing strategies has suggested around a third of sellers at least consider using...

Purplebricks has addressed its critics on house sales by pledging to return vendors’ upfront fees if the agency fails to find...

Several estate agencies have reported record months of business thanks to the rush of transactions ahead of the main stamp duty...

By any measure, the housing market has been unprecedently busy in recent months, fuelled not just by the stamp duty holiday...

It doesn’t seem that long ago that 2D floorplans were considered cutting edge – but it’s safe to say they’re now...

Rightmove estimates that 1.3m buyers have benefitted from the stamp duty holidays across Great Britain since they were announced in July...

The leading reason for property sales falling through is gazumping, according to new research from Comparethemarket. Over the past year, nearly two-fifths of...

Average house prices have risen by £29,000 over the course of the stamp duty holiday as house price annual inflation hits...

Price renegotiations are underway between buyers and sellers in danger of missing Wednesday’s stamp duty holiday deadline, says Knight Frank. The agency...

Last weekend we spoke with Liana Loporto, NAEA Propertymark’s president, in an exclusive interview. Here we follow that up with an...

NAEA Propertymark says the news that two major players in the leasehold sector have reformed their activities must be just the...

New research has thrown light on how much buyers must pay on average to trade up to a property with one...

As agents, we’ve finally got used to the word PropTech - some of us even like it! What’s more, PropTech has,...

The Oxfordshire-based PropTech founders and software developers of Openview, today announced they have welcomed Pattinson Estate Agents to their list of clients.   Peter Grant, Managing...

Over the last 15 months (basically since the ‘c’ word entered our daily vocabulary) agent websites has become more crucial than...

One in 10 buyers say they will seek to renegotiate on the price of their chosen home if they miss the...

The Stamp Duty holiday has been very beneficial for hundreds of thousands of buyers looking to take advantage of savings, even...

Knight Frank says it will be September at the earliest before the current frenzy of housing market activity will stabilise. The agency’s...

Welcome to our second Euros Agent Match Report, when we get leading agents’ and suppliers’ takes on the matches featuring England and Scotland.  Today...

A home within 500 metres of a tube or railway station in London will carry a massive premium compared to a...

Right now it seems that another day means another house price record, an all-time high for transactions, and a conveyancing log-jam...

Over 500,000 homebuyers in England are set to benefit from the stamp duty holiday to the tune of £3.4 billion, according...

There are an estimated 2.7 million landlords in the private rented sector (PRS) providing rental accommodation to multiple generations of tenant,...

New research shows that UK estate agents are amongst the best value in the world. Using data from the Global Property Guide...

In the third part of this series, Neil Cobbold – Chief Sales Officer at rental payment automation provider PayProp – explores...

Prices in prime central London grew by 0.3 per cent in the year to May - tiny rise but a significant...

A gradual increase in the supply of homes coming to the market means the stellar price rises of recent months are...

New research has found that homebuyers would prioritise buying a home with superfast broadband over being close to a good school.  A...

Banks and building societies want the government to offer more help to the housing market through additional assistance to home owners...

Rightmove is to review the processes of an online platform which directly uploads sellers' property details via an app. Two years ago...

The number of transactions is scheduled to reach 1.52 million this year - way above the norm of between 1.0 and...

The apparent plight of first time buyers hits the headlines frequently but new research shows that second steppers face a wide...

Digital marketing agency Angels Media and digital platform Gazeal have announced an exclusive strategic partnership to help improve and speed up...

Telephone and chat support service Moneypenny has outlined a strategy to help agents avoid burn out. The service argues that working throughout...

An assessment by a risk solutions firm shows that estate agents are on average just 53 per cent of the way...

In an industry which is faced with constant changes in day-to-day practices and even more so given the Covid terrain which agents...

The Trading Standards agency team has outlined to Estate Agent Today the process it will follow to improve what it calls...

Thousands of sales are at risk because slow searches by councils may prevent deals completing by the next stamp duty deadline. With just under...

In the first of our revamped PropTech Today series - which will see six industry experts discussing a range of issues...

London’s super prime residential market shows signs of recovery with more £5m-plus sales recorded in the first four months of 2021 than...

A league table of the most important issues facing vendors places the scale of estate agents’ charges at the bottom - and this...

A leading agency says the stamp duty holiday is not a big influence on the current housing market frenzy - and...

In this week’s In Conversation Today, I chat with Fine & Country UK’s managing director Nicky Stevenson, one of the most...

A consumer financial service suggests it’s already too late for most buyers to meet the latest stamp duty holiday deadline of June...

Two leading agencies and an agent network have signed up to the UK’s first dedicated portal for those finding, researching, buying...

Research by an estate agency comparison service has revealed which type of road address produces the highest average price.  GetAgent has analysed...

From today buyers will be able to purchase properties worth up to £600,000 with just a five per cent mortgage, under...

There’s been a surge in activity in London’s prime housing market according to LonRes. The property data company says that new instructions in March...

A PropTech firm says its new tool allows comprehensive upfront property information to be shared instantly with all parties in a...

New research shared with Estate Agent Today suggest that in areas of the country almost four in 10 homes for sale...

A survey of 5,000 agents suggests the slow house selling and buying process is one of the biggest challenges facing the...

A mortgage firm specialising in high net worth clients says the stamp duty holiday cliff edge will not impact the most expensive...

Data from agency Knight Frank suggests the number of UK exchanges last month was the highest in 10 years - well above...

An agency has analysed sold prices since the first lockdown in March 2020 and February this year - and has found...

The MP leading a new parliamentary committee on the housing market says a radical reform of tax would help more people move...

The stamp duty holiday has backfired and buyers almost everywhere are paying more for homes, rather than less. StripeHomes analysed house price...

Late last year Hamptons launched ‘Relay around the World’… a fundraising initiative to raise money for Cancer Research’s Stand Up To...

Mental health – and the importance of good mental health – has become a vital thing for all of us in...

The stamp duty holiday frenzy has reduced the gap between asking and sale prices according to new research. Before the start of...

New data from The ValPal Network suggests 57 per cent of leads are generated outside office hours, putting the emphasis on...

The total value of the UK’s housing stock has hit a record £7.56 trillion despite the pandemic. The calculation - by Savills,...

There is growing speculation that a raft of tax proposals to be unveiled next week will include reform of Capital Gains...

The findings of the new ‘Thriving in a Pandemic’ report, recently published by tmgroup and mio, have highlighted that the market...

There’s a warning this morning that possible tax reforms to be unveiled next Monday could wreak huge damage on the property...

It now takes 43 days longer to sell a home than it did a year ago. Comparison site GetAgent, which makes the...

Digital channels are essential for agents’ promotion of properties but there is still a key place for print and direct mail...

Another leading research team in a major agency has revised upwards its forecast for the 2021 market. Savills revised its predictions recently...

High end purchasers of homes in London paid 15 per cent of the stamp duty in 2020, yet the value of...

A broker has launched the UK’s longest-ever fixed rate mortgage, with no early repayment charge or exit fees - the first product...

The increasingly common live-streaming of property viewings is becoming a source of lead generation according to an industry supplier. The creators of...

Transactions and house price forecasts for the mainstream housing market are being revised upwards by Savills following the Budget. The new predictions follow an...

Automatically changing the main marketing photo on a portal listing can attract up to 40 per cent more traffic, it has...

Savills has upgraded its house price and transaction forecasts following the Budget - and prime London, especially the centre, is tipped to...

The latest house price index from the Halifax suggests the market has softened ahead of the original scheduled end of the stamp...

In this week’s In Conversation Today, I speak with Anthony Payne, Managing Director and co-founder of LonRes, a data and network...

An estate agency is this month launching packs of up-front information for buyers in a bid to speed sales and reduce fall-throughs.  Miles...

New research from Propertymark suggests a typical fall through costs an agent £4,123.  The association says that if the stamp duty holiday...

Much of the agency industry has reacted with delight at the extension of the stamp duty holiday deadline until June. Rightmove estimates...

Older homeowners gifted an average of £42,500 to younger relatives to help them buy in the past year, according to new...

In this tips article, the experts at GoodMove provide expert insight into the remortgage process. Remortgaging is the process of changing your...

A new study suggests that the end of the stamp duty holiday should not significantly dent the purchasing pattens of buy...

A report drawn up by a software firm analyses sales, lettings and valuation leads from agents listing on Rightmove, Zoopla and...

A high-profile London agency is asking the police and property industry bodies including Trading Standards to investigate a fake company posing under...

London still dominated the league table of locations with the highest volumes of sales by value in 2020, despite the apparent...

First time buyers with just a 10 per cent deposit - for long almost excluded from the mortgage market - now...

High net worth individuals are struggling when it comes to successfully applying for a mortgage, according to a lender.  Research by Butterfield...

As we move towards the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the first lockdown, it is a good time to reflect...

An MP demanding a root and branch reform of property taxation, including scrapping stamp duty, says the chance of fundamental reform is...

Affordability across the housing market is at its worst for 10 years according to an analysis by a London agency. Benham and Reeves...

Experts are warning that buyers rushing to complete before the March 31 cliff edge for the stamp duty holiday may miss...

Pressure is building for widespread property tax reform beyond short term issues regarding stamp duty. Many MPs in this week’s 65-minute special...

Boomin, created by Michael and Kenny Bruce, promises “highly memorable and engaging” TV and radio ads at its launch in the near...

This time out, I’m in conversation with one of the big three established portals. Since it was founded in 2007, Zoopla...

Agents can win more instructions by using text messages to prospective sellers as part of a short term ‘nurture’ campaign, according...

Estate agents have kept up the pressure on the Westminster government to consider some kind of tapered ending to the stamp...

Properties are currently taking 29 per cent longer than average to sell once under offer, according to research by a home...

Zoopla has revealed a multi-million-pound programme of future developments which have taken 18 months to finalise. Chief executive Charlie Bryant has told...

Homeowners staying at home during another lockdown are doing more than sharing memes of groundhog day or doing family quizzes on...

A new working group on mental health in the agency industry is being set up following a poll revealing 62 per cent...

An international property and residency consultancy claims the sold prices of homes in some prime London locations have collapsed by up to 40...

London buyers have been by far the biggest winners from the stamp duty holiday according to new research. The Keller Williams UK...

The Northern Research Group, which has the backing of over 50 Conservative MPs in the north of England, wants the Chancellor...

In the not-too-distant future, it will be possible to order a driverless car to collect you and then drive you to...

The average UK house price is now a record £253,374 according to the Halifax - but the rate of growth is...

Over the last 20 years, the growth of online property portals – including Zoopla, Rightmove and PrimeLocation – has transformed the...

Firstly, Happy New Year – here’s to 2021 being less chaotic than the last! In the final part of our series on...

House prices surged in December to post their fastest growth in six years, according to the Nationwide.  Prices rose 7.3 per cent...

The Brexit deal agreed in dramatic form on Christmas Eve is one part of a cocktail eventually boosting the London market...

The pandemic has reignited the flagging country house market and boosted demand for larger homes with gardens, claims Savills. Larger country houses...

99Home, the agency that describes itself as the country’s fifth largest hybrid, has teamed up with the Mortgage Advice Bureau. MAB will...

The importance of marketing properties is something that is often undervalued. Big budgets are dedicated to selling everyday items such as...

A 10 week marketing campaign is being launched by Zoopla - and the portal urges agents to stay open as much...

Here we are, on the brink of a festive season like never before, and approaching the end of 2020. Although a dreadful...

A survey conducted by charity Agents Together suggests a large majority of industry people would like to see more focus on...

Hello - and here we are nearing the end of the strangest of years.  With agents and industry suppliers rushed off their...

In the six months to November there’s been a 79 per cent increase in sales of homes priced £5m to £10m says Knight...

The design quality of new homes and neighbourhoods across the UK remains stubbornly low, according to a new report by academics.  The...

Delays with the return of property searches is one key factor for sales taking longer to complete. As conveyancers start to warn...

It now takes an average 12 days longer to complete a sale in Britain compared to a year ago - but...

It’s that time of year again. Black Friday has been and gone and the run-up to Christmas is well and truly...

The Federation of Independent Agents trade group has unveiled a new automated nurture product available exclusively to members - and it claims...

The secure Conservative victory in the 2019 General Election meant the property market in the sunlit uplands was set for a...

We’re just a few days from December so why not get into the festive spirit a little early and get some...

So, we’re back to where we were in the spring, more or less. England is in a national lockdown again to...

Zoopla’s research team is anticipating the first quarter of next year will see the current boom continue as 100,000 additional sales...

New research attempts for the first time to identify the most lucrative property markets in the country - with surprising results...

The soon-to-launch portal Boomin - set up by the people who founded Purplebricks- has signed another 10 independent agents. They are all...

Just when you thought the housing market was beginning to calm down... along comes a likely vaccine for Coronavirus. One of the country’s...

According to the annual Property Week PropTech survey, almost 48% of property businesses had tested new technology because of the COVID-19...

As you may have seen over the weekend, the long-running Property Natter column – penned by Angels Media chief executive, Nat...

A relaunched home buying service says it wants to partner with agents to unlock sales if the housing market deteriorates. The service...

The trend of buyers apparently fleeing the city to get more for their money in the country has hit the buffers...

I remember so clearly in my Foxtons days, working as a lettings manager in Putney, that lettings, though less sexy than...

The ESTAS awards service and the Agents Together foundation are entering into a partnership. That means all ESTAS customer agents will be...

Clear communication and common-sense actions by landlords, letting agents and students at the start of a tenancy can drastically improve the...

The rise and rise of £1m-plus homes continues apace with new research from Rightmove showing the biggest growth areas. Data released this...

There are 140,000 more buyers waiting to complete on their properties right now than there were this time last year. The claim, by...

It’s a given these days that your business needs to be on social media. Consumers spend a large portion of their...

Staying on top of the numbers and figures in a constantly changing industry can be stressful. Changing property prices can be...

The property market has bounced back with all of the expected resilience and flexibility that is its hallmark since it reopened...

Shorter days and darker nights deflate the spirits, especially in today’s challenging circumstances, but there’s some bright news - a large...

Savills says the shape and size of the housing market in the coming months will be determined by the capacity of conveyancers...

A tax expert says his research suggests some buyers of homes with annexes may have paid too much stamp duty on...

The country producing the largest number of buyers of prime London properties is not China, nor from north America or the...

Sales of £1m-plus homes have surged since lockdown as affluent buyers seek more space and lifestyle changes.  An average of 868 £1m-plus...

The new Boomin portal being launched shortly has named 10 high profile agency chains as founding members. The 10 give the new portal...

A health business is offering a free support package to estate agencies with between three and 100 employees, to help staff...

New instructions almost doubled across prime areas of London in September compared to the same period a year ago, while the...

We all know that people can’t move to a new house without going through the Conveyancing process. However, with that said,...

I wanted to take this opportunity to write an advice piece on what we here at Angels Media have found important...

New figures released this morning give weight to calls for the complete scrapping of stamp duty.  The dats shows there have been...

In July, here at Environet UK, we transferred 100% ownership of the company to our employees, in the form of an...

It’s about this time of year, pandemic or not, that agents may be asked one particularly awkward question by a vendor...

Agents have universally welcomed new Nationwide data showing annual price growth picked up to 5.0 per cent last month - the highest rate...

Savills has boosted its forecast for housing transactions this year because the stamp duty holiday has been such a success at...

A new PropTech product claims to help agents generate and nurture leads - even while they sleep. MovePal generates leads through Facebook...

Vendors spend an average £41 a day for 144 days when selling their home - but some spend a remarkable £140 a...

Two agencies have entered the debate on whether the current frenzied housing market is seeing delays in completions. Yesterday EAT reported that...

The irrationality of Britain’s council tax system has been laid bare in a new league table drawn up by estate agency...

Almost a third of property sellers (29%) say they won't accept a lower offer for their property, according to new research. Online...

Almost two fifths of property buyers don't know what conveyancers and solicitors do, according to new research. My Home Move Conveyancing's survey...

The scale of the problems facing many prospective buyers has been set out in a survey showing as many as one-third...

Be proactive, have a plan, and keep prospecting.  After the easing of lockdown measures, it’s safe to say the property market picked...

Research by Zoopla has revealed the scale of the mistakes by and regrets for disillusioned home buyers. For large numbers of people...

With estate agents increasingly offering auction options to vendors, new research makes interesting reading - and suggests that homes sold via...

In the week the Nationwide recorded the UK’s highest ever average house price, high-end agency Savills has forecast that prime markets...

Whilst Estate and Letting Agents have adapted their operations during COVID-19, to ensure safer working practices under Government guidance, ‘virtual property...

Record house prices recorded this week by the Nationwide index are set to go higher still according to a leading agent. Nationwide...

Recent speculation that the so-called Bank of Mum and Dad would be playing a reduced role in the housing market has...

It’s fair to say that UK estate agents don’t have the best of reputations, often featuring in the lists of the...

New research suggests that British estate agents charge some of the lowest fees in the world. Based on an apparent British average...