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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...

Even before the pandemic, the estate agency sector was evolving considerably as a younger generation started buying, selling and letting homes,...

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 property market has performed strongly in recent months  as the impact of the pandemic has encouraged more people to move...

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...

Over the last year, the majority of the UK workforce will have spent some time working from home as a result...

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...

A new portal launches today with 100,000 listings and a pledge to target buyers largely ignored by established websites - investors. It’s...

Controversial Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick, tipped by some for sacking when the Cabinet is reshuffled next month, appears to be confident...

The last few months have been tough for the property sector, and the pressure will continue as estate agents across the...

One of Countrywide’s biggest shareholders has written a second letter to the company to demand bold action to save the agency...

A leading buying agency is warning sellers and buyers not to jump the gun and abandon London in the belief that...

It has been three months since the property market was given the green light to reopen. During this time, we have...

A home office set up in a dedicated room apparently adds £17,500 to the value of a property. Direct Line Insurance has...

The share of owners putting their homes on the market within five years of buying is rising again according to an...

The Zoopla Rental Market Report, published this week, mentioned a two-speed rental market, but what does that mean? We are seeing two...

It’s probably not a surprise but new research has revealed where people want to move to - as well as where...

Following the easing of lockdown restrictions on England’s property market in May, NAEA Propertymark reported a sharp increase in business for...

A PropTech firm that regularly claims London homes are mis-measured in property descriptions has taken a swipe at Purplebricks. Pupil, a spatial...

The Nationwide says annual house price growth has recovered to 1.5 per cent. Its July house price index says the fall in...

Zoopla says while there may be speculation about people fleeing London and big urban areas for the countryside, the evidence suggests...

There’s a record number of property industry companies, including agencies, in financial distress according to the latest Red Flag alert monitor. The...

Zoopla's Research and Insight Director Richard Donnell writes: Just over a fortnight on since the Chancellor announced the Stamp Duty holiday and...

Knight Frank has reported a remarkable set of figures for June showing how the housing market has bounced back with a...

The estate agency industry has been sharply criticised for its record on protecting staff and customers during the Coronavirus crisis. The compliance...

A major agency is warning that the current stamp duty holiday could leave the housing market in a state of lethargy...

In the second of a series of articles, Emma Vigus, Managing Director of mio, the Estate Agents Sales Progression platform, explores...

Savills has revised its market forecast for the enclaves of prime central London and now says prices will fall by 2.0...

There are high hopes that the new stamp duty holiday will make an already busy market even busier - but not...

A new study of British agents suggests that buyers with accents from most of the rest of the world receive less...

Agents have spoken out angrily against any uncertainty in the market caused by government leaks about future stamp duty changes. In recent...

One of the possible stamp duty options floated by Chancellor Rishi Sunak could mean 89 per cent of sales would be...

They are the names we hear about often, pushing for this or seeking clarifications on that. They are the representatives of...

We recently issued our Zoopla House Price Index, which analyses the latest real-time trends from the sales market. In our analysis, we...

With the UK housing market now largely open - there are still restrictions in some areas on home moves to occupied properties...

Businesses across all sectors have struggled to adapt to the changes brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. One group that have bucked...

Buyer demand for new-build property has bounced back 66 per cent in the six weeks since the resumption of the housing...

The challenger portal scheduled to launch in less than a week’s time on July 1 has secured the support of 10,000...

The post-lockdown surge in housing market activity has continued into its sixth week, as at least one agency’s indicators hit record...

An analysis of Countrywide branch data outside London has revealed that one in 10 applicants who registered to buy were from...

Zoopla predicts that the price strength that has been seen since the reopening of the housing market is likely to continue...

In the latest of a recent flurry of consumer-facing research exercises by Rightmove, a league table of the most popular seaside...

“Let’s Zoom later”, “are we Zooming in the morning or afternoon?” “Yeah, I zoomed the client earlier” – variations on these...

The property market is used to change, and I’m confident it will bounce back from any lockdown effects. Despite being acutely aware...

Back in the day, party politics and the private rental sector used to be straightforward. Conservatives were pro-landlord, Labour were pro-tenant, while...

It’s official – the property market is back open for business. Estate agents have started to unfurlough staff and many are...

There’s been a strong rebound in demand for homes and an “unprecedented” bounce in new sales agreed according to Zoopla. The portal...

The only story that has come remotely close to pushing coronavirus – and its various knock-on effects – off the top...

Consumers are not as worried as they should be about conveyancing fraud, putting them at risk of losing life-changing sums of...

The outlook for the housing market is still taking shape, but here I take a look at three market indicators to...

Over the last few years, there have been a number of high-profile court cases in which renters took action against letting...

The financial services industry’s much-hyped mortgage holiday scheme, heavily endorsed by the government, could cost home owners hundreds of pounds in...

Zoopla’s head of research says a stamp duty holiday could encourage more home owners to move which in turn could help...

Research from Zoopla suggests that demand from buyers across England surged 88 per cent shortly after the housing market reopened -...

All my recent Natters have been focused on one particular topic, the coronavirus crisis, for obvious reasons. But there has been...

During March, the coronavirus pandemic put the brakes on the property market with an enforced period of shutdown. However, almost two...

The fallout from Covid-19 has hit everyone hard. With breaking news today that agents are able to look at how to...

A respected estate agency has revised downwards its price forecast for the housing market for the second time since the start...

First details of the government’s programme to allow businesses to reopen have begun to emerge - with little comfort for estate...

“A lot of people have learned that they can work at home, or that there’s other methods of conducting their business......

The market share for all online agents fell sharply in the period up to the start of the pandemic according to new...

A study by Rightmove suggests that 94 per cent of buyers and sellers currently in the market are determined to go...

The coming week’s stories in the mainstream media - inevitably focused on Coronavirus - will be dominated by two things. Firstly there...

A major consumer survey of existing home owners and potential movers has resulted in a plea to government to allow house...

Industry supplier epropservices has created a new virtual valuation platform to help the industry operate during the lockdown and social distancing...

Savills has kept in touch with almost 2,000 of its vendors and prospective buyers through two mass webinars. Entitled ‘What COVID-19 means...

Property and construction are amongst the worst hit sectors for businesses in so-called ‘critical distress’ according to figures taken before the worst...

Winkworth is now offering free video valuations to clients who are considering a future house move. It’s created a bespoke virtual service...

If it’s really the case that estate agents’ offices could be in the category of High Street premises first allowed to...

Hello and welcome to Conquering Corona, our bid to help agents through the crisis. If you have appropriate advice to share with...

The impact of the Coronavirus crisis is going to reduce agents' revenue into the third quarter finishing in late September warns a leading...

Just a month ago our homes felt, for many of us, to be a mere pitstop on a centrifuge of work,...

As the impact of coronavirus unfolds, we are in constant conversations with customers to understand the challenges they’re facing and to...

I won't be the first or last person to say that society and the property industry in which we operate is...

The latest market forecast comes from Knight Frank which says that by the end of the year there will have been...

New sales agreed have already plummeted by 15 per cent and over the next three months there’s going to be a...

New research of the buying habits of first-time buyers in the UK we’ve undertaken here at reallymoving.com shows that Shared Ownership...

A PropTech start-up led by a prominent commentator has become the latest part of the industry to take a pop at...

The extraordinary past week of anger over portals’ fees plus early-warning statements like that from Foxtons indicate the anxiety in the...

We all know how stressful buying a home is, whether it’s your very first step onto the ladder or your final...

The stamp duty surcharge for non-resident investment buyers announced in yesterday’s Budget is dwarfed by discounts they receive thanks to the...

Sellers in the past 12 months accepted an average of 96 per cent of their asking price according to new research. Comparison...

Almost eight in 10 sellers have instructed High Street agents in the past year - a significantly higher figure than 12...

There’s been a broad welcome from agents and other industry organisations for the latest report from the Competition and Markets Authority...

Trials of reservation agreements for buyers and sellers have been delayed until the late spring. Statements last year from the Ministry of Housing, Communities...

An estate agent who has himself made the move from the High Street to a hybrid operation has urged anyone in...

Why should agencies leave voicemail in the last decade and make 2020 the year to invest in a more modern solution? Voicemail...

In another positive sign for the housing market, every region of the UK has seen a price rise according to the...

A new study suggests cash buyers secure lower sale prices than mortgaged purchasers - but is that really the case? The survey by...

New research shows that 77 per cent of consumers use portals to conduct property searches - meaning, surprisingly, that almost a...

The 2010s were a good decade for disrupters. Early on, Airbnb and Uber shook up the holiday lettings/hospitality and traditional black...

As residential sales and lettings professionals we are conditioned to adapt to change, it’s the nature of the profession. However, developments...

Another weekend, another storm: it’s hard to put a smile on your face when winter goes on this long but the...

Hello and welcome to the latest PJT - your regular Monday fix of who’s moving where in our industry. As ever, a...

Now we’re well into the second month of the year, we have reached a crucial point in the ongoing plans to...

One of the country’s leading housing market research experts has been poached from Knight Frank to join Zoopla. Gráinne Gilmore - a...

New research suggests the internet and broadband coverage have become even more important to buyers and tenants. The study - involving 228...

“It appears conveyancers either aren’t too concerned with PropTech right now, or they don’t yet have all the information needed to...

The estate agency review site allAgents claims some of Trustpilot’s reviews “could be dubious.”  A statement from allAgents repeats an allegation made last...

A new renovation start-up is operating across eight cities and claims to be able to transform properties - including ones that...

After a challenging period for the UK property market, recovery is very much on the cards and the end to uncertainty...

Zoopla’s Hometrack data research arm says the start of 2020 has seen buyer demand up 26 per cent compared to the...