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The JLL Prime Central London Index saw signs of improvement in the first quarter of this year, with 4.5% more properties...

The great grandson of the founder of Jackson-Stops has returned to the sales side of the industry after running his own...

Propertymark has welcomed the reappointment of Julie James as the new Welsh Housing Minister. Timothy Douglas, head of policy and campaigns at...

One of the founders of self-employed brand The Agency UK (TAUK) has set out hopes for the business to dominate the...

Property market conditions in the new-build sector are likely to remain subdued this year. Persimmon has claimed. An outlook in the house...

Hamptons has launched a residential investment department led by Ashley Mason, who has returned to the brand after 12 years. Mason will...

House prices are growing annually for the first time since January 2023, Nationwide claims. The latest Nationwide House Price Index found average...

A first-of-its-kind degree has launched that focuses on residential estate agency. The Swindon campus of the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) has launched...

Calling all self-employed property professionals! With only one week to go until the 31 January self assessment deadline, the 3.8 million people...

Parliamentary news may have been dominated by the fallout from the Rwanda Bill yesterday but another important piece of legislation also...

Happy New Year and welcome to what’s looking like a busy - perhaps even hectic - 2024! I thought it worth running...

Extra tax and rising costs drove agency acquisitions last year and more are expected in 2024. Agency broker Atomic Consultancy has said...

Chris Hemmings, Parter in Carter Jonas’ Planning & Development team We’re confident of a better start to 2024 than 2023. The news that...

There are now less than 40 days until self-employed property professionals will need to submit their self-assessment tax return, and pay...

The Government appears to have gone through so many housing ministers that it is now repeating them. Lee Rowley was appointed as...

Lee Rowley has returned as housing minister. The reappointment comes after Rachel Maclean was sacked this morning and follows reports that the...

By Jashoda Pindoria, Head of Self Assessment Operations, HMRC Self Assessment need not be daunting with HMRC’s simple steps on getting started....

Zoopla is warning that there will be further house price falls in 2024 on top of the 4.5 per cent drop...

A new analysis of the housing market has assessed 50 cities in the UK to establish which is best for first...

The 20th annual ESTAS Awards are set to take place a week from today. Backed by headline sponsor Coadjute, the event will...

As much of the country battened down the hatches for the first storm of the season, there may have been a...

An agent with two decades of experience in the industry has returned to the town where it all began. David Bruckert, the...

A pioneer of the so-called City Living movement, trying to create more residential units in city centres, is returning to the...

Tangible, tactile, and tested. Those are the three words that Royal Mail used to describe direct mail marketing campaigns. Despite living in...

The rate of inflation slowed from 6.8% to 6.7% in August, providing hope for homebuyers when it comes to high mortgage...

The EA Directors Club dinner, hosted by the Baldock Brothers returns on September 21st after its summer break. The event, which is...

Purplebricks co-founder Kenny Bruce has returned to the estate agency world. Bruce, who helped launch Purplebricks with his brother Michael as well...

Over recent years, as successive governments have tightened lettings legislation and increased the tax burden on landlords, some with investment properties...

OnTheMarket critic Brett Stone has issued a second open letter to shareholders of the portal, accusing it of “irresponsibly diluting shareholders”...

Housing Minister Rachel Maclean MP is probably looking forward to her summer break this year. But wherever she's going and whatever she's...

Have you heard of the Pareto Principle…? Named after economist Vilfredo Pareto, it describes the imbalance of most work-related events -...

The value of mortgage lending has slumped to its lowest level since the second quarter of 2020, Bank of England data...

Zoopla has sealed a new long-term contract with estate agent Andrews, which encompasses 44 branches across southern England.  Andrews has signed up...

Sotheby’s Realty International is set to return to the small screen next week. Its agents will feature in Channel 4's prime residential property...

Listings appear to be taking longer to sell but buyer and seller confidence remains, OnTheMarket (OTM) claims. The portal’s latest Property Sentiment...

The phrase ‘customer experience’ is bandied around a lot these days, so much so that it’s sometimes easy to think that...

Higher mortgage rates have meant that new buy-to-let purchases are increasingly being funded by cash rather than a mortgage, new research...

You don’t need me to tell you that buy to let has had a torrid time of it lately. For agents trying...

A well known critic of stamp duty has returned to his long-standing theme of querying whether buyers have paid too much...

Every year, those thinking about investing in property for the first time and even current landlords ask themselves whether it’s the...

Higher mortgage rates and the end of Help to Buy has had a “sharp impact” on sales rates, Persimmon has warned. A...

When the weather turns like it has, we use more energy to keep our homes cosy. However, this places increasing strain...

Inside this short article, my goal is to simply highlight the four most common mistakes l see from reviewing agents' Google Ad...

Property transactions dipped in October but remain above pre-pandemic levels, HMRC data shows. The latest property transactions report from the taxman -...

Making predictions for the year ahead is notoriously difficult and leaves me open to having egg on my face, but I’m...

Hamptons is returning to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2023 following last year’s Gold win. The agency brand is sponsoring a...

Mortgage rate hikes have already halved landlord profits according to latest research, and a base rate rise to 2.5% will see...

Mortgage rates look likely to fall after Rishi Sunak’s appointment as Prime Minister but analysts are still unsure how far the...

Lloyds Bank has said it is focusing lending on “slightly better off customers” as it warns that house prices could fall...

Estate agents have already filled Michael Gove's inbox with property-related tasks after he returned as Housing Secretary yesterday. New Prime Minister Rishi...

Michael Gove has returned to frontline politics and his previous role as Levelling Up and Housing Secretary. He is among the new...

As I watched Liz Truss take to the stage at this week’s Conservative Party conference, my eyes were drawn to the sign behind her. “Getting Britain...

The latest housing minister has been revealed as the prospect of Stamp Duty reform returns to the property market. New ministerial appointments...

Annual house price growth returned to double digits in July, Land Registry data reveals. The figures will reignite the debate over the...

Increasing numbers of buyers are gazundering or ‘price chipping’ on their offers to force property sellers and agents into last minute...

Global property firm Knight Frank has revealed the pipeline of transactions in prime London residential markets grew further in July as...

A major new scheme worth half a million pounds is now underway in an effort to promote sustainable investment into housing,...

The Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners (ALEP) has announced the schedule for its annual Conference. The event returns to its traditional in-person format this year,...

A client called asking for advice on their social media marketing strategy. They’d thrown a lot of budget at it, but...

As the mass student exodus from rented accommodation begins throughout the UK, Richard Abbots of Inventory Hive offers advice on how...

The Bank of England’s continued rise in interest rates – the latest being a shift up to 1.25% - is, in...

Right now, one topic seems to be dominating talk in the industry. Everywhere I go people tend to quiz me about...

Annual house price growth figures returned to double digits in April but there are warnings that this could be as good...

Agency data and prospecting platform Homesearch has launched a new guide to help firms continue securing instructions during the so-called summer...

Between you and me, dear reader, I had little to no idea about what the metaverse was before researching it for...

Spicerhaart’s annual conference and awards ceremony returned earlier this month after a three-year hiatus caused by the pandemic. The company’s two day...

The issue of agency qualifications has finally been mentioned in the Houses of Parliament, almost three years since the landmark Regulation...

Fundraising frolics by agents and property professionals this week include bike rides and triathlon challenges, plus the charity award season returns. Remember,...

Knight Frank has issued a stark warning that house price growth is set to slow. House price indices from lenders such as...

PayProp’s recent Rental Confidence Index survey polled property professionals about their biggest concerns for 2022. Unsurprisingly, new regulations were a top...

Agents are preparing their businesses for the cost of living crunch, with considerations on fuel use, heating and window display lighting. Much...

The Skipton Building Society, which owns Connells estate agency, says the house-selling arm helped it reach a record profit pre-tax profit...

The jury is still out on whether the Ukraine crisis will damage public confidence in the UK housing market. Rightmove’s property data...

Foxtons has this morning launched a £3m share buy back programme, representing a major windfall for its investors. A statement from the...

Property events and functions are now back in full swing, with 2022 likely to be the first ‘normal’ year for this...

Selling a home - the period from listing to completion - is now back to its pre-pandemic levels of 16 weeks...

The annual NAEA Propertymark national conference is back in 2022. “The NAEA Propertymark National Conference is such an exciting event where property...

For an unregulated industry, agents have an awful lot of regulations to deal with. For example, there’s the mandatory membership of a...

OnTheMarket has entered a PropTech commercial partnership with Autoenhance.ai Limited, the AI photo editing platform.  Autoenhance was founded by PropTech entrepreneur Jamie...

We have been speaking with many agents over the past months and the story appears the same with them all. There...

We have all heard the terrible forecasts and listened to Sir David Attenborough’s speeches on the environment and the “we still...

The ESTAS – often known as the property world’s version of the Oscars – returns as an in-person event this Friday...

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

It’s been revealed that HM Revenue & Customs scours the listings on both Rightmove and Zoopla to assess whether property investors...

Following speculation overnight, Foxtons - one of London's leading and most high-profile agencies - has this morning announced the appointment of Nigel Rich CBE...

Lost in the noise of yesterday’s social care announcements, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has named October 27 as his next Budget Day...

Few political policies have such a ring of the past as rent controls - they were last seen in this country...

HM Revenue & Customs is reported to be targeting recent home buyers after a slump in income from property taxes during...

Purplebricks has this morning confirmed that it’s ending its self-employed Local Property Experts operation and is moving to “a fully employed model...

House prices in July rose after falling in June, according to the Halifax. They were 0.4 per cent higher than in June,...

A leading tax expert is advising investors to “plan your disposals” after new Capital Gains Tax figures have raised speculation of...

Well, we’re technically more than halfway through the year already, but we’ll let that slide. And what a year it’s been...

The busiest first half of a year ever recorded by Rightmove has led to a raft of new records for the...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Jamie Cooke, Co-Founder and Managing Director of iamsold, part...

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

An anonymous conveyancer has admitted increasing fees to deter buyers and sellers in the frenzied housing market during the stamp duty...

It’s now over a year since the property market officially reopened after an unprecedented two-month shutdown at the height of the...

With property fraud on the rise and an ever-increasing number of transactions taking place in the lettings sector, having strict anti-money laundering...

A report by the Office of Tax Simplification on Capital Gains Tax has called for a series of changes. They include extending...

One of the men behind the defunct Emoov online estate agency has re-emerged as the head of a marketing service. The service...