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![Lomond unveils new staff benefits and wellbeing platform](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/BTR%20and%20affordable%20housing%20-%20By%20Andy%20Jones%20Property%20Investor%20Today%20BuildToRent-400x310.png)
Agency acquirer Lomond has launched a new benefits and wellbeing platform for its 1,100 staff and pledged to raise £25,000 across...
19 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Reinvent then rent: could old commercial buildings boost rental stock?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-3-400x310.png)
In this guest piece, Andy Jones, Corporate & Build To Rent Director at LRG, looks at whether commercial property can help solve...
12 November 2022
From: Features
![HMRC debt-chasing as thousands of property firms hit ‘financial distress’](/upload/images/library/UK-Cash-NEW-400x310.jpg)
Despite the roaring housing market, a new report says that no fewer than 70,500 real estate and property businesses are showing...
03 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![How the 2021 consumer will impact the residential property industry](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Millennial-BusinessWoman-Communication-400x310.jpg)
The property industry and its many stakeholders are key participants in a global digital transformation that has been underway for quite...
09 October 2021
From: Features
![Phil Spencer: High Streets reopen - so what now for agency branches?](/img/default/eat.png)
Today is the day that non-essential retail reopens as part of the government's roadmap out of lockdown. For the majority of the...
12 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Free welcome boxes available for agents to give to movers](/img/default/eat.png)
A new service is offering agents free welcome boxes which can be passed over to buyers and tenants who move in. The...
17 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![It’s time to stamp on stamp duty speculation](/img/default/eat.png)
You can always tell when Budget day is approaching. There’s lots of comment from every imaginable quarter about what the Chancellor of...
13 February 2021
From: Features
![Should agents repay Business Rates relief because offices were open?](/img/default/eat.png)
Almost a year ago the government announced that estate and lettings agencies were to be included in the business rates relief...
02 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Don’t let shops be converted to homes, urges developers’ trade body](/img/default/eat.png)
A property industry body representing developers wants the government to think again about making it easier for redundant High Street shops...
02 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![What can estate agents learn from retailers?](/img/default/eat.png)
If your house is anything like mine, the postman has a path beaten to your door over the last nine months. In...
23 January 2021
From: Features
![Property Natter: exclusive Q&A with Tim Balcon, Propertymark’s new CEO](/img/default/eat.png)
Propertymark, the overarching body aiming to bring five different associations (ARLA, NAEA, NAVA, ICBA and APIP) into a single brand, was...
16 January 2021
From: Features
![Propertymark says it’s only agent body with influence on government](/img/default/eat.png)
Propertymark is the only agency trade body with sufficient influence on, and links with, government to achieve major gains for the...
15 January 2021
From: Breaking News
07 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Getting PropTech for free? It's probably because you're the product](/img/default/eat.png)
The proliferation of free and accessible digital services has - at face value - brought us many great things: same-day deliveries,...
28 October 2020
From: Features
![Covid employment advice service set up by Propertymark](/img/default/eat.png)
Propertymark has teamed up with an employment and health and safety specialist to establish a service for member agents with Coronavirus-related...
02 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Revealed: What today's renters want, need and expect](/img/default/eat.png)
Life as we know it has changed – for everybody – and what tenants want, need and expect in this post-pandemic...
15 August 2020
From: Features
![Property Natter – who will be the property disrupters of the 2020s?](/img/default/eat.png)
The 2010s were a good decade for disrupters. Early on, Airbnb and Uber shook up the holiday lettings/hospitality and traditional black...
15 February 2020
From: Features
![Agencies that don’t modernise will fail like Thomas Cook - property chief](/img/default/eat.png)
The collapse of Thomas Cook, widely seen as failing modernise with the expectations of modern shoppers, is a clear lesson for...
26 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Forget branches - Google and Feefo are go-to for today’s buyers](/img/default/eat.png)
A well known regional agent has closed one of its offices saying “the old shop window of an estate agency is...
23 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Branch closures: Large number of offices quit the High Street](/img/default/eat.png)
A comprehensive report into the changing complexion of the High Street suggests that some 143 estate agents’ offices closed in the...
12 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Property Jobs Today - we’re back with the latest industry moves](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s been two weeks since our last PJT, thanks to the Bank Holiday, so there’s plenty of news in today’s edition. If...
02 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![It Might Not Be A Popular Opinion But…](/img/default/eat.png)
Innovate or Die. But What is Innovation? It Isn’t just PropTech A certain Mr Dick Whittington Esquire was once convinced that the...
22 August 2019
From: Features
![The week’s biggest property story - and you probably missed it](/img/default/eat.png)
I missed the biggest property story of the week and it’s only scant consolation that almost everyone else seemed to miss it...
03 August 2019
From: Features
![Property transactions: a simple case of basic arithmetic](/img/default/eat.png)
With somewhere in the region of 1.2 million property sales transactions being completed each year, and 16,500 estate agents actively vying...
06 July 2019
From: Features
![Estate agencies top league table of shop closures across Britain](/img/default/eat.png)
New figures released to Estate Agent Today show that a net total of 284 agents’ offices closed down in 2018. This number -...
29 May 2019
From: Breaking News
![Is click & collect the future for the property market?](/img/default/eat.png)
In recent years click & collect has become a popular way for retailers, supermarkets and online shopping sites such as Amazon...
24 May 2019
From: Sponsored Content
![Regressor or impresser - what kind of estate agency are you?](/img/default/eat.png)
As we move closer to the halfway point of 2019, property market conditions for agents and their clients remain challenging. Brexit may...
22 May 2019
From: Features
![Why the future of the property industry should be paperless](/img/default/eat.png)
When they first came onto the scene, online-only estate and lettings agents were predicted to swiftly spell the end for traditional...
30 March 2019
From: Features
![Data unbound – how the rise of public data will redefine property](/img/default/eat.png)
The proliferation of big data is paving the way to improving our economy on almost every front as entrepreneurial digital companies...
09 March 2019
From: Features
![Countrywide says some branch staff will fill water bottles for the public](/img/default/eat.png)
Countrywide’s high-end brand Hamptons International says agents at its branches will in future be “delighted” to fill water bottles for members of...
25 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter: 5 things you should be doing this Christmas](/img/default/eat.png)
Every other advert on the TV is featuring Santa Claus, snowmen or reindeer, the tinsel, trees and decorations are out in...
01 December 2018
From: Features
![Branch closures - 135 fewer independent agency offices](/img/default/eat.png)
New figures from the British Independent Retailers Association suggest that there are now 135 fewer independent estate agency branches than at...
22 November 2018
From: Breaking News
![Play the 'luxury' game! Startling advice to traditional estate agents](/img/default/eat.png)
Traditional estate agencies should make their work appear more of a luxury and even showcase the prices of individual elements that...
26 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![Agency boss tells redundant shop workers they should 'join us'](/img/default/eat.png)
The managing director of independent agency network Spicerhaart says shop workers who are unemployed because of the latest round of retail...
14 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter – marketing magic, Mr T and GDPR fever](/img/default/eat.png)
Last time out I looked at the growing importance of content, social media and design – but these should only form...
02 June 2018
From: Features
![Property Natter: agents bucking the high street downturn](/img/default/eat.png)
Maplin, Toys R Us, Carpetright, Warren Evans – what do they have in common? All are well-known high street chains that...
21 April 2018
From: Features
![Agents Do Charity - just ahead of the half-term break...](/img/default/eat.png)
Many agents are having a deserved break next week - well, as much of a break as looking after children and...
09 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![During industry change, service still matters most](/img/default/eat.png)
Estate agents are facing the biggest industry changes seen in decades. The rise of online and hybrid agents alongside more traditional...
06 January 2018
From: Features
![Regional portal chief welcomes end of One Other Portal rule](/img/default/eat.png)
The head of a regional portal in the north of England has welcomed the likely demise of the controversial One Other...
08 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Leeds eyes sustainable ripple effect](/img/default/eat.png)
As many northern cities struggled to recover from the 2008 global financial crisis, the north-south divide returned to plague the British...
28 October 2016
From: Features
![30 years after her disappearance, we still have to learn from Suzy’s story](/img/default/eat.png)
Suzy Lamplugh was just 25 years old when she disappeared whilst working as an estate agent in London in 1986. She’d...
07 October 2016
From: Features
![Sarah Neate, Design and Marketing Manager](/img/default/eat.png)
Who are you? Sarah Neate, Design and Marketing Manager Who Are Mid West Displays? We make, supply and install window and interior display panels. ...
08 June 2016
From: 60 Second Interview
![What's going on at Countrywide – will retail work for estate agency?](/img/default/eat.png)
What Countrywide are getting at is that they want to think more like retailers to engage better with customers. If this is...
01 April 2016
From: Features
![Countrywide chief executive says: We're in retailing, the same as Tesco](/img/default/eat.png)
Alison Platt, the chief executive of Countrywide, has made clear her belief that the transformation of the agency group to become...
25 January 2016
From: Breaking News
![The scores are in - here is the ESTAS estate agent of the month](/img/default/eat.png)
next2buy Property Retailers has scooped the September ESTAS Estate Agent of the Month title. The Tyne & Wear based agency won...