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Last week was Mental Health Awareness Week, and there is a great deal of positive things to be said about a...

NAEA Propertymark is advising agents to continue measures to allow them to operate if a second wave of Coronavirus hits later...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Tom Harrington and I’m the founder and...

Letting agents up and down the country have undoubtedly felt the financial strain added by the outbreak of COVID19. Whilst this will continue,...

New figures released by Foxtons this morning show a collapse in commission income to the agency during the Coronavirus period. Sales commissions...

** This Bank Holiday Monday both Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today look at how agencies have modified offices and protocols...

** This Bank Holiday Monday both Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today look at how agencies have modified offices and protocols...

** This Bank Holiday Monday both Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today look at how agencies have modified offices and protocols...

Rightmove says it enjoyed 5.3m visits on Tuesday of this week - up four per cent on the comparable day of...

It’s a Bank Holiday weekend and if you’re taking time off we hope you and your families enjoy a well-earned break. We’ll...

The industry should continue to prepare for large-scale reforms such as mandatory agency training, the licensing of agents and a new...

The Bank of Ireland UK is the latest mortgage lender to resume physical valuations of properties in England, subject of course...

For the coming Bank Holiday on Monday, we’d like to show images of how agency offices have adapted to cope with...

The biggest awards for the agency sector - The ESTAS - will now be a virtual event on Friday July 3,...

A series of polls taken by Estate Agent Today suggest substantial numbers of agents remain uncomfortable about returning to trading even...

The agency at the heart of a fierce row over staff safety in the lockdown says it's now insisting local managers...

It’s back to work today for England’s estate agents and the housing market - but it’s the start of a new...

Domestic cleaners can now re-enter private homes under new Coronavirus return-to-work guidelines - the very guidelines which appear to stop estate...

An estate agent has reopened his High Street office to the public with social distancing and other safety measures in place. It’s...

Rightmove’s shareholders appear to have been generally unmoved by the string of protests against the portal in recent weeks. At the portal’s...

One of the few agents anywhere in the British Isles who has returned to something like normal working has revealed new...

At the moment, it somehow seems like tempting fate to think too far into the future, especially in terms of the...

A regional agency has thrown its weight behind an independent report which says estate and lettings agents could lead the economy...

Hello, this is the final Conquering Corona for the week as we continue to help agents with advice and guidance through...

Some estate agents are now receiving small business grants from the government, according to the Guild of Property Professionals. Guild chief executive...

Allsop has staged its first principal residential auction entirely online, and has raised £28m. Some 76 per cent of all lots offered...

In this time of economic uncertainty, more and more people are becoming unwilling to leave their homes, yet you and your...

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

Countrywide has strongly denied claims made to Estate Agent Today that some people have felt obliged to work at an admin...

One of the biggest issues for agencies at the moment is furloughing - a safety net being offered by the government...

Welcome to the latest edition of our daily service dedicated to advice and guidance on how agents can best cope with...

The boss of controversial estate agency Dexters has hit out at social media reports and press articles about company staff working...

Two auctions held behind closed doors have been deemed a success, and evidence that the property market can still function despite...

Hello, and we trust you had as good a weekend as possible in these difficult circumstances.  As we start a new week...

Former housing minister Alok Sharma has revealed new measures to allow agencies and other businesses to avoid insolvency during the virus...

The government has at last issued extensive advice on home moving and the activities of estate agents during the continuing Coronavirus crisis. This...

Advice to removal companies from their main trade body has put a stop to most transactions not already at a very...

Propertymark has been told the agents should shut their offices immediately - they are not “essential businesses” under the new Coronavirus...

The annual FUTURE PropTech conference scheduled for London next month is the latest casualty of the havoc being caused by the...

Hello and here’s the next batch of guidance and advice from different sectors of the industry, many from influential trade groups. It’s...

Auction houses are the latest part of the residential sector to seek PropTech help to attract business during the Coronavirus crisis. For...

With confirmation that Section 21 will be scrapped, how can agents get ready for life after no-fault evictions? The short answer is...

The head of a firm that has been creating digital property log books for well over a decade says the house-moving...

By now, most letting agents and landlords will have heard about the draft legislation laid in Parliament concerning a mandatory minimum...

A PropTech firm claims it will improve the security of estate agents and other lone workers through a new app and location...

Hello and welcome to this week’s ADC - a sure sign that it’s the end of the week and time to...

The property management industry is evolving at a rapid pace, thanks almost entirely to the rise in PropTech. Hundreds, if not thousands...

Not for the first time, a government policy on housing ends up begging more questions than it provides answers - but...

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

Over the past decade, the short-term rental industry, now eponymised by Airbnb, has experienced meteoric growth. This has been driven by the...

It's been two years since the SDL Group launched its franchise block management business, SDL Property Partners, the first of its...

The government has given details of a scheme allowing 30 per cent reductions for what it calls ‘local first time buyers’...

“There won’t be a single home but millions of different homes”, is one quote.  “There will be an end to gadgets”, is...

An unlicensed landlord who let out rooms with dangerous electrics and refused to pay a civil fine, has been told he...

No one would argue that unfair fees and practices by rogue landlords is a problem that should be ignored, but the...

It’s beginning to look a lot like…we’re running a very popular service for agents, as we’ve been inundated with more fund-raising...

As we know, the world’s moving very fast and how we communicate now is drastically different to even 10 years ago....

The National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Letting Agents have issued their manifesto for next month’s General...

A survey suggests that 15 per cent of people who work in the real estate sector feel unsafe at work. This figure...

When renting a property out, letting agents and landlords recognise that it is important to take a deposit from the tenant...

A sales and lettings agency which has entered insolvency is reported by a local newspaper to have offered vendors cut-price fees...

Hello and welcome to your regular Monday PJT, the essential guide to who’s moving where in our industry. Everyone mentioned here got...

Whinge. Moan. Lead quality. Crap market. Decision procrastination. Fee pressure. Bloody competitors. Especially Purplebricks. Brexit, of course, Brexit... These are just some...

With Boris Johnson winning the Conservative leadership election and becoming Prime Minister, he has spent his first few days in office...

Hello and welcome to this latest edition of PJT, your regular weekly column giving all the key appointments news in the...

What a great time to be a letting agent. In decades, never has there been so much change. As you’re well aware,...

With the Tenant Fee Ban obliterating a key income stream, letting agents should be looking at ways they can increase the...

With Easter now upon us (happy Easter, by the way, and hope you’re enjoying the long weekend, the Easter eggs and...

It’s no secret that the UK’s housing sector is in crisis. Headlines scream about the shortage of new-build homes. TV pundits...

The Money Laundering Regulations require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation to...

Interesting news this week from South Africa where the PropTech startup, Flow, has raised R20m in the country’s 'biggest PropTech seed...

We’re delighted to say we’ve had a fantastic response to our call for pictures and videos of your decorated offices -...

Communities have missed out on more than 10,000 affordable homes in the past three years as a result of government rules...

It’s now almost a month since the government introduced new rules on Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO), as part of its...

In what is regarded as his most important speech since becoming housing minister, Dominic Raab has told a conference that it...

It’s no secret that technology has changed the way businesses operate, in all sectors. With that has come changes to the...

Paul Lamplugh, the father of estate agent Suzy who was presumed murdered 33 years ago, has died - tragically, without ever...

An outspoken estate agent has given the government a clear message - get off our backs , ease the red tape...

Any letting agent appreciates the effort, dedication, and sometimes heartache, that comes with running a business yet equally knows that when...

100 years ago, 90% of the UK population rented a home. Today, that figure has flipped, and over two thirds are...

With reports continuing to focus on a slowing property market and an understanding that not enough properties are being marketed for...

Data from a firm specialising in lone-worker protection suggests that there has been a 27 per cent increase in the number...

The Elf on the Shelf has been something of a craze in the build up to this Christmas, notoriously getting up...

PropTech start up OneDome, which supplies online booking and mapping tools, has teamed up with live chat service provider Yomdel in...

Landlords are being urged to step up and ensure that all rented properties and accommodation meet recent laws relating to carbon...

The UK is home to four million leasehold properties in private ownership, according to government figures. The majority of which require...

Stephanie Slater died last week, aged 50. Whilst she died from cancer (tragically, only 11 days after diagnosis), it’s the events...

In this week’s Natter I’m going to get all political. Don’t worry, I won’t be giving my opinions on Brexit, Trump...

Local councils say there must be an immediate and fast-moving review of building regulations in the light of the Grenfell Tower...

We’re already more than halfway through 2017 and, against all the odds, it’s pushing 2016 close in terms of eventfulness and...

“I predict that within a few years, folks advertising properties for rent or to buy will start to show if their property is a...

The estate agency which was fined £200,000 after a prospective house buyer fell 30 feet into a well during a viewing...

Excuse the puntastic (or not) title, but as you’ve no doubt already deciphered I took a trip northwards a couple of...

The chronic shortage of housing supply in the UK relative to demand has been a national issue for decades. The Government...

Whatever the weather, whatever the season, our industry excels itself at good work - and we are always delighted to publicise...

Legal firm Kirwans have released shocking statistics which state that 70% of eviction notices issued by landlords to tenants may be...

The government has launched an official consultation process on a package of measures to crack down on what it calls ‘rogue...

A health service tribunal has found that a senior paramedic tried to sexually assault an estate agent as she prepared for...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s aim of creating a 24-hour city is one step closer with the appointment of London’s first Night...

Liz runs her own estate agency in Gateshead. When researchers for the Suzy Lamplugh Trust got in touch earlier in the year to...

It is fair to say that 2016 is a year full of surprises. Anyone who had the foresight to predict Britain...

Buy-to-let landlords may have failed in their recent legal battle against planned government tax relief changes for buy-to-let homes set to...

Suzy Lamplugh was just 25 years old when she disappeared whilst working as an estate agent in London in 1986. She’d...

A 24-unit block of apartments designed by the company behind the Yo! Sushi chain has been given consent to be constructed...

Three decades after 25-year-old Suzy Lamplugh disappeared on a house viewing, the charity set up in her name is calling on...

The huge rush to acquire buy-to-let property in the first quarter of the year ahead of the stamp duty change deadline...

For many people buy-to-let continues to look an attractive income investment at a time of low saving rates and stock market...

Barely a week goes by without news of the latest disastrous AirBnB experience suffered by an unsuspecting landlord.   Whether it’s damage...

The Motley Fool, a widely-read City investment column, says a Leave vote could result in a fall in housing market transaction...

Forget the gloomy stamp duty news, or the prospect that a new house price index might revalue house prices downwards, or...

High profile stock market commentary website Motley Fool has given Zoopla a strong endorsement on the eve of the first anniversary...

Someone told me the other day that it’s now only seven Mondays till Christmas. Now there’s a scary thought. Best get...

With a raft of new legislation introduced recently now will be the ideal time to think about whether staff are up...

Headlines across the lettings industry often focus on the behaviour of ‘rogue’ landlords – those that are slow to become compliant...

You can't help but notice that it's back to school time – the shops are full of school uniforms and pencil...

No one likes to be called and told, your boiler has broken down or a burst pipe has caused damage to...