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Welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity, our chance to salute those who do so much to help others. If your agency...

House prices may have slumped for most of the year but some areas have bucked the trend. Analysis by Halifax shows that...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. Chestertons: London agent Chestertons has added two...

Rightmove has unveiled its Autumnal marketing campaign, with a new advert aiming to convince potential buyers that they should have ‘belief’...

The inaugural Northwest PROPS Awards will be hosted by England and British Lions rugby legend Martin Bayfield. The two-time Grand Slam winner...

I sometimes wonder just how far our national obsession with buying our own homes will stretch. First-time buyers are prepared to save...

If, like me, you’re an ardent England rugby fan or indeed a fan of rugby in general, you’ll be counting down...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. Agents Giving: Entries are now open for...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...

Agents and property professionals have been getting on their feet for charity this week. If there are charitable endeavours you think the...

Agents and property professionals have kicked off the year by supporting a range of causes. Whatever the cause you are working for,...

From singing to dressing as superheroes, there are plenty of inspirational examples of agents raising money for good causes this week. Whatever...

A variety of charities have received support from the property industry over the past week, from on land to under the...

I am somewhat disappointed, yet not surprised, when I see the headlines ‘blaming’ various fractions of a property transaction as the...

Knight Frank head of London sales James Clarke has stepped down after two years in the role. He was recently diagnosed with Motor Neurone...

Fundraising efforts featuring bikes, boats and James Bond all feature in this week's edition of Agents Do Charity. Remember, if you have...

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

A Channel 4 property TV presenter is to become an estate agent. Kerr Drummond, who hosts Coast vs Country, has joined the...

Purplebricks has unveiled changes to its For Sale and To Let boards to reflect its continuing sponsorship of Team GB and...

Welcome to part three of our ongoing series on local independent agents, as we seek to give this all-important part of...

The latest agency recruits for online firm easyProperty are batting for the company in more ways than one - they are...

The proportion of the asking price achieved on average in the past year is 95.8 per cent according to a new survey. Comparison...

It’s a tough time for agents and our stories show a disturbingly high number of  branches closing - but there are...

For a very long time, it was one of the best ways – if not the best way – of generating...

A rugby star has signed a deal to operate the easyProperty franchise in his home town area. Castleford Tigers prop forward Liam...

Following on from the second half of the last decade, the first few weeks of 2020 have been a bit mad...

It’s been revealed that Countrywide is involved in a pilot exercise to help the creation of a so-called ‘affordability hub’ for...

A prominent regional agent says the industry owes it to vendors to try competing marketing outlets for property, and not to...

There may be lots of agents giving time this weekend to see England at the Rugby World Cup final and Lewis...

Just because Halloween has officially been and gone for another year, doesn’t mean we would give up a chance to celebrate...

England rugby fans will have been disappointed to find out that Saturday's planned World Cup group stage clash with France in...

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

A high profile estate agency selling some of the most expensive homes in the west of England has shut two of...

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

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

An estate agent in Cardiff has come up with a marketing wheeze in a bid to win more instructions - but...

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

Hello there - if it’s Friday it’s Agents Do Charity, and as we prepare for a hot weekend for Glastonbury revellers...

Purplebricks is the “Official Estate Agent Of Team GB” for the build-up to and completion of next summer’s Olympics in Tokyo. It is going...

It’s an eye-catching combination - former professional rugby players turn estate agents, set up in converted shipping containers, and promise in time-honoured fashion...

Purplebricks has become the major partner with a leading Australian rugby league team, Melbourne Storm. "Purplebricks is reshaping the real estate market...

Hello and here we go with yet another Agents Do Charity, the weekly opportunity to herald the unsung efforts of our...

OnTheMarket will be “blanketing the commercial radio landscape” as well as engaging in sports and agency industry sponsorship programmes over the...

OnTheMarket is to continue its TV advertising campaign throughout February - and this time it’s ad is also going to be...

As eagle-eyed readers may have discovered over weekend, Purplebricks is the new back-of-shirt sponsor of the Scotland national team throughout the...

Kit Malthouse has been making headlines this week, but – in keeping with his tenure as Housing Minister so far -...

The weather suggests that at long last winter has truly kicked in - so what better time to celebrate, amongst other...

Fine & Country’s annual conference in the New Year is to have former England rugby player Matt Dawson MBE as the...

When was the last time you looked at your business and really thought about what you could do to improve? Yesterday? Last...

Yet another estate agency has announced that it’s shutting branches and opening a centralised hub. This time it’s Newman Property Experts, a...

No, I haven’t lost the plot. Such a thing exists – and if you’re familiar with North London, there is a...

New data reveals that new property listings have fallen for three successive months - and that includes a huge 17.1 per...

When Oakland A’s, a small-market team, stunned the baseball world 16 years ago by transforming itself into world-beaters on a shoestring-budget,...

With the weather scheduled to get a little cooler this weekend, fund-raising is clearly still a hot topic in the industry...

Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity - it’s a bumper edition with plenty of fantastic fund-raising going...

There has been a 19.9 per cent increase in new property listings, with some locations seeing as many as 80 per...

The death of traditional TV – where viewers sit down together to watch shows at defined times – has been much...

It’s been quite a week, much of it concerning the technology that increasingly underpins our industry.  A glut of fund-raising and relaunching...

Really? The first day of autumn? Well yes, according to weather professionals who say September 1 is the start of meteorological...

Wimbledon finals and the British Grand Prix await us this weekend and The Open begins a few days later, completing what...

The political ebb and flow continues - seemingly with all the subtlety of a Boris Johnson rugby tackle on a 10-year...

The Guild of Property Professionals is holding its annual regional meetings next month at 10 sporting venues across the UK under...

Propertymark, the new brand umbrella for the National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Letting Agents, is to...

This week has seen the estate agency industry demonstrating just how big it is these days with Purplebricks raising £50m in...

The seasonal slowdown in property supply was much sharper than usual in December, claims an online agency which monitors property listings...

A fantastic exclusive this week as I carry out a question and answer session with one of the leading names in...

An agent has broken new ground by creating an open-plan shop which includes an agency office, a cafe and an interiors...

Hannah Gill from Newman Estate Agents in Rugby has won a new award for ‘Inspirational Estate Agents’ after helping the family...

Right, so it’s one more week till Christmas and two more weeks until we head face first into 2016. Both these...

It’s hard not to have been influenced by the Rugby World Cup over the past month and a half – while...

We have reached an interesting point in what has been a most unusual year for the property sector.  The latest figures from...

Well, the hosts have left the party early. England have crashed out of their own Rugby World Cup after a demoralising...

It’s Friday so it’s time for us to salute those agents who tirelessly go the extra mile for good causes -...