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The radically-restructured Humberts estate agency claims the risks it took last year in scrapping branches and moving to ‘hubs’ has paid...

The first major estate agency business to launch a crowdfunding bid since the controversial collapse of Emoov has emphasised its “realistic”...

One of the country’s leading property auctioneers is back to the job he loves today after an absence of 12 months...

We all know the three essential things an estate agent must have on their website include the ability to be able...

A trading statement this morning from beleaguered agency group Countrywide reveals that its revenue is down again - but it insists...

What do BREXIT and PropTech have in common?  I got thinking about this question for a number of reasons this week but...

Who are you? I’m the Director of Sales for both the well-known industry leading Today publications and The ValPal Network. Leading publications: Estate...

Northwood has hoovered up Humphreys of Chester, which it describes as one of the city’s “most reputable and well-established estate agencies.” Jim...

OnTheMarket says one of its key aims for 2019 is to match Rightmove’s product offer to agents. “We’re looking to match Rightmove’s...

An estate agent says he’s “bruised” by recent mysterious negative online reviews he has received - shortly after he posted positive...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, your regular catch-up on key appointments news in our industry. It’s been a difficult seven...

The first online-only property auction held by a large provincial auction house resulted in a 100 per cent sale rate.  The residential...

Strutt & Parker says transaction levels in Prime Central London, already at a low ebb, plummeted a further nine per cent...

To a sales-focused agency, having a lettings department can sometimes feel like losing control of the business. Recent cases of property management...

Winkworth has set up a dedicated land and new homes division. The franchise agency, which has most of its offices in and...

A major restructuring of LSL Property Services has just been announced to shareholders, with substantial numbers of branch closures. The statement says...

The former chief executive of Emoov says he has the answer to Foxtons’ current downbeat performance - it should exploit its...

OnTheMarket says it now has listings agreements with more than 12,500 estate and lettings agency branches. In a statement to shareholders and...

The regional agency MoveSelf, which set up in 2017 as an online estate agent, is shifting emphasis towards For Sale By...

Purplebricks might have the last laugh - its biggest critic is ditching his High Street office and making his own agency online. Controversial...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT.  Everyone here let us know about their jobs news by emailing press@estateagenttoday.co.uk - please do...

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

Outsourcing. Everyone has an opinion on it and there’s a stigma surrounding it in the lettings industry. But get this…letting agents ARE...

The head of a For Sale By Owner website claims that some agents are making “vast amounts” of up to £7,000...

Foxtons has reported further small slides in both revenue and profits for 2018 - but sales income plummeted from £43m to...

Franchise giant Hunters, which started 2019 by announcing two new branches, is to open another four next month after an upbeat...

There’s no end to the PropTech and photography solutions available to estate agents these days to help them sell good, old-fashioned...

Brexit may be continuing to dominate the headlines - try to stifle that yawn - but there is still a housing...

Agents need to focus on more targeted marketing using a mix of traditional and modern methods to optimise their position in...

A respected property investment consultancy is warning that the current premium put on the prices of new-build homes - around 15...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, your Monday update on jobs and key moves across the industry. Everyone mentioned here has...

If you want an engaging page-turner novel for cold winter evenings, my recommendation is Our House by Louise Candlish, a bestseller...

High-end agency Savills says London’s super-rich are now buying and selling more actively than a year ago.  The agency says London’s so-called...

The government has this morning set out wide-ranging changes to redress systems for agents, the sales and lettings sectors, and other...

Politicians and officials are studying a ‘model’ two page reservation agreement drawn up by a law firm as a possible way...

A property platform that has chronicled the London sales market’s problems in recent years says the recovery will start in 2020...

Former City analyst Anthony Codling - who is now the front-man for a new property portal - has set out why...

There’s been another raft of movers and shakers in the industry in recent days, so this is a busy Property Jobs...

Chestertons says its profitability in 2018 doubled compared to the previous year, but appears to have relied heavily on lettings for...

I don’t think I can add anything more to the excellent 2019 pieces we’ve seen on EAT in recent weeks –...

When it comes to building online reputation, Google is king. It is estimated that over 90% of consumers Google a business before...

The civil servant leading work to reform the house buying has revealed key areas of government thinking - with a ban on...

Hunters has continued its expansion in the north of England with two new branches in Yorkshire and Lancashire.  The Pontefract branch becomes...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says the housing market outlook over the next three months is the worst for 20...

A statement this morning by franchise agency Winkworth says lettings and property management now accounts for 50 per cent of its turnover. The...

“Estate Agents must be suffering from supplier fatigue. Where do you even begin? Most agents haven’t got the time.” So started the...

A Scottish estate agency has changed its website following a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority. The complaint relates to West Property...

Kenny Bruce, one of the founders of sector-leading online agency Purplebricks, has sent his good wishes to Russell Quirk, who founded...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Beccy Moore. Office Manager for Nicholas Humphreys Tell us more about Nicholas...

Hello and welcome to another PJT, your regular Monday update on who’s moving where within our industry. Please keep us informed of...

It’s been an interesting week of contrasts when it comes to online replacing ‘the old school’. Data from that clever consultancy The...

Almost half of all house sales in England and Wales fell through before completion in the final quarter of 2018, according...

An agent has started an online petition demanding negotiators and others in the agency industry be paid the legal minimum wage...

With the speed of property sales continuing to slow and no end to the sluggishness in sight, it’s time to take...

Century 21 UK appears to have bucked the trend of closing offices and reduced footfall by marking the opening of 16...

The auctioneer Auction House has reported sales up 6.9 per cent in 2018, raising a total of over £455m – a...

A hybrid estate agency which uses freelance agents operating from a central hub is now expanding from London into the Home...

A new analysis claims transaction numbers fell in 241 of 374 local authority areas of the UK last year. Analysis of Land...

The online sales and lettings platform TheHouseShop has scrapped its £500,000 crowdfunding pitch - and it’s blaming the collapse of online...

It’s safe to say that the majority of agents will be glad to see the end of the past two years....

Hello and welcome to 2019. These are less predictions and more expectations - developments following on from what’s happened in the past...

As 2018 draws to a close, it is fair to say that stretched affordability and uncertainty over the Brexit negotiations has...

It’s been reported that an estate agency in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, has had its windows smashed, causing £1,500 of damage. Arlington...

If you thought Christmas Eve meant no more news in terms of industry movers and shakers…well, think again - we’ve one...

Another year is nearly done – and what an eventful year it’s been. We’ve had more than our fair share of breaking...

In the past year it seems every other story has been about PropTech - the big stuff like Purplebricks and the...

Well here we are, at the last Agents Do Charity of the year. It’s been a record haul of good works, as...

A bid by online property platform TheHouseShop to raise £500,000 investment via crowdfunding appears to be flatlining. TheHouseShop - until 2015 known...

House prices are flatlining with the rate of annual growth having fallen continually since August according to LSL Property Services, which...

A new website is offering to contact owners of homes that are not for sale, on behalf of people who would...

Hello and welcome to another batch of your agency office Christmas pictures…it’s certainly been a bumper year for them and today...

A specialist property portal says it’s offering estate agents “a captive audience for the ski properties on their books.” SnowOnly says that...

The Property Ombudsman scheme has taken action against another six rogue agents in recent days, bringing the total number expelled this...

Asking prices of homes coming to the market have fallen for the second month in a row - and Rightmove says...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT - and while it may be just days to Christmas, there’s still plenty of...

A family is raffling a £3m home on the Hampshire/Dorset border after a series of sales fell through. Mark and Sharon Beresford...

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

Over the past year I've had so many conversations with agents telling me how they feel that offering a premium customer...

Savills has snapped up an independent London estate agency in what is likely to be one of the last deals of...

So this is (almost) it. Next week may be a quiet one for business as vendors and landlords alike begin to...

A Newcastle-based property company says it has acquired the listings of Emoov and Tepilo. It has emailed and texted vendors to say...

OnTheMarket had told its shareholders this morning that it now has over 12,000 branches listing and is offering share incentives to...

Thanks to vast improvements in processing powers, the use of virtual reality (VR) in some sectors is becoming more evident than...

Property analysts say ‘flippers’ - those who buy new homes and sell them quickly, hopefully for a profit - are losing...

Hello and welcome to the Wednesday edition of your Christmas agency branch decorations - and what a festive lot you are.  Before...

An end-of-year analysis from the National Association of Estate Agents shows the state of the industry - and it confirms just...

Every other advert on the TV is featuring Santa Claus, snowmen or reindeer, the tinsel, trees and decorations are out in...

More speculation has swirled around the future of Emoov as it appeared that company chief executive and founder Russell Quirk had...

A firm is launching a new Home Owner’s Passport this weekend in a bid to speed up conveyancing.  With characteristics reminiscent of the much-derided Home...

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...

The closure of Foxtons’ Park Lane office and five other branches in the capital are merely the start of things to come...

Belvoir has this morning announced that it has acquired MAB Glos, part of the Mortgage Advice Bureau.  The £3.6m deal, done through...

East Midlands estate and lettings agency Jackson Grundy has signed up to OnTheMarket. The firm, with its Northampton headquarters, has 10 sales...

A sales and lettings agency specialising in waterside property along the Thames is linking up with a larger business to co-market...

The debate about online auction charges levied on buyers continues this morning with the release of figures showing that one company...

Hello and welcome to the latest Property Jobs Today - the last one in November. Career moves tend to slow this time...

The future of online agency Emoov remains in the balance this weekend with talks continuing between the management and possible buyers. On...

Orchards of London is abandoning its current branch network and instead opening a single Hub from the middle of next month. Orchards,...

Yorkshire agency Linley & Simpson is on the acquisition trail yet again - and it’s revealed its eighth deal of the...

A website that lists private sale properties and calls itself “the all in one property marketplace” has valued itself on a...

Humberts’ revolution continues apace as it opens its first controversial hub in Dorset and accompanies it with a brand new vocabulary...

The latest research from online estate agency Emoov shows at least one silver lining to the current Brexit-hit housing market -...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has launched a new guide in a bid to end what it calls inconsistencies and...

Every cloud has a silver lining, and a high end prime central London estate agent appears to have found one from...

How will things be done in the future? There’s no knowing, of course, given the many variables at play, but it’s...

New research shows 35 per cent of deals fall through within three weeks of a seller receiving an offer and a...

A new prime London hybrid agency wants what it calls “disillusioned property professionals” to join the firm and take advantage of...

An online auction platform which works with estate agents says this method of selling homes works, with four sales in one...

Winkworth’s Bath franchise has been acquired by new franchisees Lucy McIlroy and Matthew Leonard - the latter having been a partner...

An estate agency analyst has shared with Estate Agent Today his findings on the current and recent conversion rates of online...

London estate agency JOHNS&CO, which specialises in new homes, has opened its seventh office in the capital - the announcement came...

The ValPal Network, an automated valuation system, has for the first time provided over 100,000 leads to agents in just one...

Hello and welcome to our latest edition of Property Jobs Today, a weekly run-through of the key job moves within our...

Conveyancers’ use of data and technology to speed through sales is on the cusp of a ‘big bang’ moment according to...

Coutts Private Bank is the latest institution to express its concern over London’s housing market. The latest Courts London Prime Property Index...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? It just says “Agent” for, at the end of the...

A business rates tax break which benefits holiday home owners is to be reviewed by ministers, who have now launched a formal...

We’re used to recent stories about transaction dips and price stagnation as Brexit uncertainty and stamp duty take their toll on...

He’s got a fax machine for PropTech, he’s got an answerphone so he’s open 24/7, and he’s got 2.5 per cent...

The troubled Emoov hybrid estate agency, currently up for sale, has removed an advertisement after a complaint to a watchdog over...

A new company is claiming to reduce chain collapses during sales by creating a lockout agreement, also known as a reservation agreement. Property...

An estate agency that’s been commended for its flexible working has launched a recruitment drive for franchisees who would keep 75...

London agency chain Portico has signed up to OnTheMarket.  The 17 branch firm, which handles both sales and lettings, has offices in...

On the face of it, this year’s Budget was not what you could describe as ‘housing heavy’ in terms of the...

Two former High Street agents say their new hybrid agency has enjoyed an impressive launch gathering 40 instructions in just four...

Raffles are in the news as a way of ‘selling’ homes, and not just because an Irish club has won a...

Savills has issued its forecast for the housing market for the next five years, and while it highlights some bright spots...

You don’t need EAT to remind you that Christmas is now just next month.  Many agents are gearing their fund-raising to that...

Fresh details have emerged about the financial difficulties suffered by Emoov, its search for a buyer and its possible sale price. A...

What questions keep you awake at night? Do you know if you’re losing new instructions by undervaluing, or whether you could...

For any business, regardless of size, age or industry, operating efficiently is fundamental to your success. When faced with challenges like we...

A recent 'red flag alert' report from an insolvency firm warned that the number of real estate businesses defined as being...

Countrywide has given Estate Agent Today exclusive details of progress on its Back To Basics programme as it seeks to recover...

I am currently in the back of a taxi. The deadline for this piece is looming and I am desperate to...

A consumer group says agents are securing increasing income from online auctions, but it warns that for buyers there are pitfalls...

A hybrid estate agency with ambitions to rival Purplebricks has revealed that it has significantly expanded its current footprint, with ambitions...

The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...

Hello and welcome to a bumper edition of Property Jobs Today, your weekly insight into the key moves within our industry. Everyone...

An open rental market, where neither landlord nor tenant is in a dominant position, enables rents to rise and fall, which...

Traditional estate agent fees average just 1.1 per cent across the UK according to research from an agency comparison website -...

Given that ‘UK buyers are the most digitally active home hunters’, with HSBC’s Beyond the Bricks report stating that 90% of...

One of London’s best known estate agencies marks its 25th anniversary this month, having started with just two branches in one...

Data from HM Revenue & Customs shows some 98,400 homes were sold across the UK in September - that’s slightly lower...

Transactions across England and Wales in September dropped 7.6 per cent year on year while Prime Central London now sees fewer than...

OnTheMarket has this morning announced that franchise giant Belvoir will list all of its 300-plus branches on the challenger portal.  This includes...

A new online agency says it is currently focussing on one large city but will expand to cover the whole of...

An estate agent in London has received a posthumous honour as an organ donor. The Chiswick W4 Local news website says Jordan...

A new junior estate agent apprenticeship standard has been launched with skills being offered for residential, commercial and auction sectors. Created by...

An agent in the Guild is launching a ‘hub’ style operation from December 1 and says the concept of traditional estate...

If it’s Monday it must be Property Jobs Today, your round up of the industry’s key moves. Are you changing jobs yourself?...

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

Another high profile estate agency office in London has closed - this time a branch of Winkworth.  The Richmond branch has been...

Few things anger the industry more than the effect of stamp duty and other costs on property transactions (well, maybe Purplebricks...

Almost one in five online sales valuations generated by The ValPal Network over a two-year period resulted in a completion with...

Bored with Brexit? Baffled by the backstop? Troubled by the transition period?  Well here’s a promise - there’s no mention of the...

The estate agency group Humberts, which narrowly avoided collapse early this year, now claims to have turned around its fortunes thanks...

The number of house sales falling through before completion is on the increase according to data collated by a home buying...

A service which describes itself as an alternative to part exchange has been launched to facilitate sales to ‘corporate property buyers’. It’s...

A city’s housing market that suffered badly because of the collapse in North Sea oil prices is now likely to rebound...

London agency Stirling Ackroyd has announced its third acquisition in the course of a year. It’s only 15 months ago that Stirling...

An estate agency is moving from its traditional branch to new city centre serviced offices as it expands. East of Exe -...

The government has unveiled a new body which, it claims, will raise agency standards. There is a long-standing commitment from the government...

One of the brokers working with OnTheMarket says the portal will not be profitable until 2021, but predicts that its target...

The latest market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests the number of properties on estate agents’ books is now nearing...

OnTheMarket’s trading figures for the six months to the end of July show, as predicted, losses while the company is building...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an advertisement for a new development in London after complaints over claims about the yields...

Purplebricks’ share price dropped yesterday to barely over 200p - its lowest level for some 18 months and reflecting a near...

When Professor Andrew Baum’s PropTech 3.0 report was first published, a small event was held to celebrate the very first academic...

Foxtons is shutting its Park Lane office - the flagship of the agency in prime central London’s Mayfair. Estate Agent Today was...

One estate agent has described the latest price fall announced by the Halifax as “quite a retreat” for the housing market...

Hello and welcome to a new working week, which means your chance to catch up on the key moves in our...

Several agents have asked me whether they should consider ditching their high street offices and move to an out of town...

When Facebook first announced it would be entering the property listings market a few weeks ago it sent shockwaves across the...

It seems a lifetime ago but in fact we’re approaching just the first anniversary since the government triggered its Call for...

Hello and welcome to another weekly update on the industry’s good work - and a chance for us to show that...

Transactions in prime central London have dropped nine per cent in the year to the end of August according to Knight...

Last week, the first of a new kind of industry event took place; an open debate between agents and PropTech suppliers. Strong...

A website has officially launched this morning, aiming to push the concept of US-style For Sale By Owner online property marketing...

The independent Essex estate agency Beresfords is celebrating its 50th anniversary next week - and is doing so in style with...

Agents have continued to express their shock and opposition to the announcement by the government that it wants a stamp duty...

A competitive pricing analysis undertaken for hybrid estate agency Emoov claims that it sells for an average £6,000 more than rival...

Sales of properties to first time buyers have hit their lowest level for three years according to data from the National...

Hello and welcome to our weekly catch-up on the major moves within our industry. Remember, you can let the rest of the...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity - another chance to hear about the remarkable fund-raising done by our...

The latest figures from Purplebricks, contained within the agency’s annual report released this week, claim that 81 per cent of its...

Yopa - the online agency with huge financial backing from Savills - has attracted a Knight Frank agent to become its...

Having delivered over 1,800 websites for estate agents over the last 15 years, I have come to recognise one major common...

Fine & Country has opened its latest office in the Lancashire town of Rossendale, specialising in high-end properties across the county. The...

Reapit’s popular former sales manager Peter Fenwick is today formally launching as an independent PropTech consultant. Fenwick, whose departure from Reapit was...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today, the latest weekly catch-up with moves within and across our industry. A quick...

Sales of holiday homes could be hit as a result of a new £560m tax proposal put forward by Labour.  Under the...

We’re well and truly back from summer with a flurry of fund-raising to report on this week: thanks to each and...

The independent Sutton-based property business Centro PLC has acquired Cheam and Mayfair based Christies Estate Agents Limited.   The new combined agency is...

The Land & New Homes Network has announced a part exchange and assisted move collaboration with Relocation Agent Network in a...

Estate agents say the continuing gentle slowdown reflected in the latest government house price figures will be the story of the...

Over the last 10 years, so much has changed within the marketing sector, including the surge of mobile use, the way...

HM Land Registry says the full roll-out of its Local Land Charges digital register could take up to seven years, with...

Yieldit, an online agency that specialises in selling investment houses and apartments with tenants in situ, is claiming a strong quarter...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, your chance to catch up on the major moves in the agency industry over...

The number of new franchise applicants reported by Winkworth in the first half of the year rocketed 135 per cent -...

The raison d'être for estate agents everywhere is to get their properties noticed! It’s as simple as that. These days you’re likely...

Humberts - which when it was operating jointly with Chestertons was a prominent supporter of Agents’ Mutual and OnTheMarket - has...

As the property market gears up for a busy autumn period, agents and property firms have been equally busy bolstering their...

Almost all buyers of new build houses who purchased a leasehold regret doing so, and the vast majority say they definitely wouldn't...

An estate agency which operates nationally has agreed to amend its website following a complaint made to the Advertising Standards Authority...

A 'new breed' estate agency with no shop front, which uses bloggers to market its properties, has announced the opening of...

A new estate agency has opened its doors in North London, despite operating in what it describes as a 'weak' London...

The online auction platform BidX1 has announced a strategic investment which will be used to accelerate its growth. The investment comes from...

Following a break for last week's final Bank Holiday before Christmas, we're back with a bumper edition of Property Jobs Today. We're...

Property sellers have been on the back foot over the slow summer period, according to the latest report from NAEA Propertymark....

A warning to people selling their homes to beware of internet-based scams offering cut-price surveys has been sounded by a leading...

Over a fifth of pensioners say they would be encouraged to downsize if there was a stamp duty incentive - particularly...

Two local agencies in Lancashire - Northwood Lettings and Fisher Wrathall Sales - are merging to operate as a single entity.  The...

In our previous 2 blogs we have covered the definitions of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations (CPRs) and what the practical...

In 2014 The Properties Misdescriptions Act was repealed and replaced with the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations, otherwise known as...

Foxtons is embarking on a rare advertising campaign, using a company owned by the largest independent creative agency in the world,...

Lucie Hirst and Delphine Colombo, two of Prime Central London’s most high profile sales agents, have combined forces to set up Hirst...

After gaining my MBA qualification from Edinburgh Business School in 2005, I took careful consideration over my career moves and prospective...

I received a press release yesterday - one of many that get sent my way - and, as I always do,...

The number of property transactions in July fell 3.2 per cent on the same month last year according to seasonally adjusted...

In our previous blog, we looked at the definitions outlined by the CPRs. In our next blog we’ll look at the...

The brief but troubled history of individuals and companies attempting to raffle homes as prizes has received another blow as a...

A maverick Cornish estate agent who falsely gave the impression to customers that his business was highly successful has been hit...

Rightmove says the housing market is now into a ‘summer sale’ as newly-marketed property shows an average asking price fall of...

In the past decade or so there has been a movement towards the use of digital signage screens within a number...

The UK division of US-based estate agency Keller Williams says agents need access to internal training if service levels across the...

House prices are rising at their slowest rate for nearly five years as London suffers its largest decline in prices since...

Estate and lettings agency is arguably one of the most fierce, ruthless and relentless industries going. And, with fluctuating stock levels,...

A sales platform that monitors the market is warning that house price falls are likely to spread beyond London and the...

My eye was caught yesterday morning by news that PropTech company, Agent Software, is claiming that ‘some agencies deliberately over-value properties...

JLL has opened a new ‘virtual’ office with dedicated sales and lettings staff to serve the Westminster and St James’s areas...

Another agency has teamed up with an auction company to allow it to offer vendors the choice of both in-room and...

An OnTheMarket sales rep - who now no longer works for the company - wrote a critical review of an independent estate...

The investment bank Jefferies says Foxtons’ long-running share price slump is a reflection of Brexit uncertainty “until we find out what...

Oakwood Homes, a four-branch sales and lettings agency operating across East Kent, has acquired Parkland Estates, a single-branch firm based in...

Welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today - and as ever we have a breakdown of key moves within our industry. To...

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,...

Next week ludlowthompson celebrates its 25th anniversary. Here, I catch up with Stephen Ludlow, co-founder and now executive director of the...

Research by Estate Agent Today reveals that there have been 12 different stamp duty regimes in the UK since the Millennium. What’s...

A respected mortgage broker has found that there is widespread public uncertainty amongst the public about the effects of stamp duty...

High-end agency and international property consultancy Savills has reported strong half-year figures for its UK business - but warns that Brexit...

Running an effective property business in today’s market relies on the clever use of technology.  The right technology will make your agency...

OnTheMarket has signed up 12-office regional agency Robert Oulsnam and Company.  The firm, which handles sales and lettings, has 12 offices in...

In a surprise announcement, house prices picked up in July with the annual rate of growth rising from 1.8 per cent...

Purplebricks co-founder Michael Bruce says traditional agents sell only around 50 per cent of the homes that they list, so spend...

The number of properties withdrawn from the market in the second quarter of this year was greater than the number of...

The London market continues to produce unexpected results with two high end agencies reporting contrasting fortunes.  Half year figures released by Chestertons...

Countrywide is under fire again over the controversial rescue plan it announced last week. On Friday the troubled agency group’s share price -...

Outspoken property commentator and buying agent Henry Pryor has made a scathing attack on some of the main house price indices. In...

It was interesting to see the recent story on Estate Agent Today about OnTheMarket (OTM) raising its fees after signing up...

The newly-appointed Group Managing Director of Countrywide says rumours of Hamptons International or other ‘crown jewels’ being put up for sale...

Another OnTheMarket founding estate agency - Strutt & Parker - has rejoined the Zoopla and PrimeLocation portals. Some months ago the London...

Data prepared for the BBC and shared with Estate Agent Today gives a snapshot of how estate agencies, lettings agencies and...

Connells Group - which now says it’s the country’s largest estate agency by market share and numbers of homes sold -...

An analyst for business data consultancy Bloomberg has some news for Foxtons - he says its swashbuckling days are over and...

Prices and transaction volumes have both fallen again in Prime Central London according to the index produced by Central London Portfolio,...

The parent company of Your Move, Reeds Rains and other agency brands has succeeded where Foxtons yesterday did not - in...

The latest market snapshot released by the National Association of Estate Agents’ shows the challenges faced by the industry right now. The...

Labour says stamp duty receipts and other tax income from properties in the capital should go to the Mayor, Sadiq Kahn,...

Foxtons has suffered a massive 23 per cent drop in sales income and a nine per cent drop in overall company...

Press speculation suggests that Countrywide’s much-anticipated rights issue will this coming week aim to raise £125m - not just the £100m...

It’s holiday time: schools have broken up, quite a few estate agents are taking time off, and the MPs are in...

The big story to break this week in the property world was the announcement by the new owner of Humberts that...

Does your company apply adequate customer due diligence measures when carrying out estate agency work?  Does it establish and maintain appropriate policies...

Figures from Savills suggest that there’s currently an average 1.14 price adjustments per sale across the prime regional markets of the...

Traditional estate agencies should make their work appear more of a luxury and even showcase the prices of individual elements that...

An online estate agency has changed the wording of a listing on Rightmove, Zoopla and on its own website after a...

The emerging Proptech platform BestAgent has announced its latest partnership - this one is with sales progression company ViewMyChain. BestAgent, run by...

It’s a highly competitive environment out there, where there's a constant and never-ending struggle that every agency manager, director or owner...

Since January 2018, nine of the UK’s biggest banks have allowed competitors direct access to customer data as part of the...

The latest transaction figures from HM Revenue and Customs make depressing reading - a three per cent drop between May and...

A report drawn up by Reapit and data consultancy Dataloft suggests that agents in 2017 lost a potential (and jaw-dropping) £4...

Countrywide, the troubled estate agency group thought by some to be near collapse, has delayed issuing its interim figures which were...

The debate over alleged ‘down-valuing’ by mortgage lenders has flared again with one leading agent claiming that surveyors are just “covering...

At least one estate agency appears to be doing better than expected in the current challenging market - Hunters says sales...

Hello and welcome to the regular Monday feature, Property Jobs Today. There’s plenty going on despite the summer holidays beginning for many...

We are currently engaged in consultations with our members to help to find a practical solution to the concern of the...

Another day, another housing minister – at least that’s what it feels like! The resignation of the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson...

As you probably know, I have been no fan of OnTheMarket (OTM) over the years. You may see this admission as...

If you’re an estate agent and have a property that is difficult to sell or the homeowner simply needs a fast...

Foxtons share price hit a new low yesterday, dropping to only 46p early in the afternoon: it eventually closed narrowly up...

Agents appear to be getting more pessimistic over the housing market as the latest government figures show prices still growing - but...

A report in the Financial Times lays bare the scale of the housing market downturn in central London - it suggests...

A new market snapshot shows how there’s now a two-tier market with homes in London taking substantially longer to sell than...

Asking prices are at a virtual standstill as the summer lull kicks in, according to the latest Rightmove index. New seller asking...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today - a slim edition given how quiet the industry is at the...

An agent who is only 20 - and who set up his own firm when he was still a teenager -...

The dream may be over but the return to reality can at least be staged in the spirit of an England...

Auction House says the number of lots it sold in the first half of 2018 was some 3.8 per cent up...

A new free-to-list portal is to be launched - and it is to be ‘voice led’.  The PropTech firm Triplerr says it...