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Conveyancers have had their busiest year on record, industry data shows. Search Acumen’s latest Conveyancing Market for the first quarter of 2022...

The fast-moving property sales market is increasing the risk of fraud, an anti-money laundering expert claims. Olly Thornton-Berry, co-founder of risk management...

Belvoir has reported that group revenue is up 14% in the first four months of the year, helped mainly by its...

The property supply shortage may be easing but Zoopla has warned it will still take some time for stock to be...

April looks set to go down as the busiest month for house sales of the year.  And with record numbers of properties predicted...

London’s prime sales market is set to underperform compared with 2021 but is still looking to be better than the pre-pandemic...

Zoopla has unveiled a Sales Advisory Board in an attempt to give agents a greater say in how the portal is...

John D Wood - which along with Hamptons is regarded as the prime end of the suite of agency brands now...

An estate agency says London’s sales market is now at its busiest since the Brexit referendum in mid-2016. Douglas & Gordon, sold by...

Foxtons has told shareholders that it has enjoyed "a good year of progress with revenues, profits and cash flow significantly ahead of...

In the first few months of 2022, agents have experienced some of the lowest stock levels in several years. The number...

This is our first Property Jobs Today column of 2022 and it’s testimony to how busy our industry is right now...

House and apartment sales are still being hit by confusion and worry over ground rents on existing second-hand leasehold properties. This is...

Phil Spencer’s new series of Move iQ podcasts is to be sponsored by Propertymark. During the nine part series, Spencer will talk...

Data released by Zoopla suggests that demand for new builds outside London remains above the five year average, but has failed...

Cluttons has given its market snapshot for the sales market in central London - and it’s echoing the familiar story of...

The latest LonRes market snapshot for prime London carries mixed messages in terms of transaction volumes.  Overall, for the month of October,...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? David Ruddock – Partner and Head of Residential Sales Operations...

Foxtons has given an upbeat trading update to shareholders this morning. It says so far this year sales revenue is a huge...

Zoopla has calculated how much the average house price has risen every single day since the start of the pandemic in...

The Property Franchise Group (TPFG) – the umbrella property brand which incorporates well-known names such as EweMove, Ellis & Co, Martin...

Forget London, Scotland is now the fastest-moving market for million-pound properties. Analysis by Rightmove has found that million-pound homes are selling 25...

What estate agency is going to look like in the post-pandemic world, and what the role of the physical branch will...

Newly instructed properties across the country dropped by 10 per cent in August compared to July’s numbers, according to Homesearch. The company,...

Yet another housing market snapshot is reporting the stock of property for sale plummeting further downwards.  Property website Home says that while...

The stamp duty holiday came and went with much fanfare. For many buyers it represented a rare opportunity to make some...

Zoopla data has confirmed that buyer demand started to moderate in the months prior to the initial stamp duty holiday tapering...

The housing market across the country shows little or no sign of cooling despite the end of the main stamp duty...

A leading agency in the capital says it’s seen its strongest ever half year of trading. According to Chestertons’ latest market analysis,...

Phil Spencer has interviewed five key regional estate agents in the latest of his Move iQ industry videos. It’s a fascinating insight...

EweMove, the high profile hybrid estate agency owned by The Property Franchise Group, says it has recruited a record 30 new...

An estate agent has been accused of charging prospective clients to view a property. The claim has been made on Twitter by...

In a trading statement this morning Foxtons has revealed that following a 49 per cent increase in sales revenue in the...

An agency says two thirds of its sales valuations in London in the first quarter of the year have been conducted...

The number of transactions is scheduled to reach 1.52 million this year - way above the norm of between 1.0 and...

Data consultancy LonRes has given a typically upbeat assessment of the Prime London sales market - despite the effects of Coronavirus...

In recent years, the property market has been taking steps to become more digital – with HM Land Registry leading the...

New figures from Zoopla today emphasise just how frenzied the housing market remains. Here are the figures: - so far in the first...

If you’re worried the stamp duty holiday is denying the Treasury of much-needed income, think again. Stamp duty receipts soared to £1,196...

Hello and welcome to another working week, and the latest on jobs and staff movement across our industry. You can be part...

Foxtons has reassured investors that 2021 has started well and the agency is on the road to recovery after the Coronavirus...

Welsh independent agency Nuttall Parker has been snapped up by Cardiff-based property business Seraph Group. Newport-centred Nuttall Parker is Seraph Group's second...

With March marking one year since the beginning of the first national lockdown across all four nations of Britain in response...

Foxtons says it's set for radical new investment and further takeovers following the acquisition of rival London agency Douglas and Gordon. In...

Honesty is a concept that journalists will tell their readers is non-existent for estate agents. Yeah, right! But as the end...

Much of the agency industry has reacted with delight at the extension of the stamp duty holiday deadline until June. Rightmove estimates...

London still dominated the league table of locations with the highest volumes of sales by value in 2020, despite the apparent...

As we move towards the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the first lockdown, it is a good time to reflect...

By any available metric, Belvoir had a good 2020. Already a well-known and well-established name, it was highly praised for its...

Firstly, Happy New Year – here’s to 2021 being less chaotic than the last! In the final part of our series on...

The sales market is currently strong but the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has issued a warning about a slowdown next...

The London sales market is slowing as Christmas nears but no significant impact has been caused by the second wave of...

Some 713 estate agency branches have failed to reopen following the spring lockdown according to a business consultancy. TwentyCi says that is the...

A prominent housing market analyst is warning that in 14 years of studying prices and transactions he has never seen the...

It’s not a big rise, but price growth has returned to the Prime Central London sales market for the first time...

The only certainty at the moment is ongoing uncertainty. It’s something we’ve got used to in 2020, but it’s still not...

The latest market snapshot by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors warns the current boom may not continue as government support measures...

The Guild of Property Professionals is relaunching its online auction brand - Guild Auctions - even though it has already successfully...

The EweMove hybrid agency has been singled out for special praise in a trading statement from its parent company, which also...

Zoopla's Research and Insight Director Richard Donnell writes: Just over a fortnight on since the Chancellor announced the Stamp Duty holiday and...

We recently issued our Zoopla House Price Index, which analyses the latest real-time trends from the sales market. In our analysis, we...

Buyer demand for new-build property has bounced back 66 per cent in the six weeks since the resumption of the housing...

The announcement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer that he was extending the furlough scheme until the end of October appears...

PropTech big names Reapit and ViewMyChain are joining up to try to accelerate transactions when the lockdown finally ends and the...

The peak of the 2020 sales market is likely to be September instead of the usual early summer - but that...

Hello and as it’s Monday it’s PJT Day - and there are plenty of people moving jobs in our industry even...

Sales in February grew, for the third consecutive month, according to the latest market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered...

House prices have risen 2.3 per cent in the past year - the strongest rate of inflation for property since July...

Foxtons is warning that 2020 will be yet another difficult year for the agency despite the so-called Boris Bounce helping the...

  Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Catherine Shinerock - ARO Account Manager What is your ‘company name’...

Foxtons's trading statement this morning reveals another huge slump in sales - but no new announcement about future branch closures after a spate...

At the end of a strong week for housing market indicators, the latest survey from the website Home suggests a major...

Winkworth says it’s achieved a big jump in London sales market share despite “an uncertain and difficult year that was dominated...

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

There’s a warning today that Rightmove could be vulnerable to losing its number one portal status because it has such a...

After a year dogged by Brexit deadlock, political turmoil, and slow growth, estate agents’ confidence in the property market hit a...

Foxtons is reported to have closed four more branches across London, backing up widespread industry speculation that the agency is retrenching further in...

The Property Franchise Group has issued a trading statement that is upbeat on lettings but warns that the sales market has...

Foxtons' latest trading statement shows another fall in sales revenue - but this time lettings income is down too. In an announcement...

An equity release specialist says the scrapping of stamp duty for so-called last time buyers would lead to more downsizing, freeing...

There are fewer ‘accidental landlords’ - vendors who resort to letting out their homes because the sales market is difficult. That’s the...

A rock bottom supply of homes on sale is helping to reinvigorate London sales according to a market monitor. The website Home...

Winkworth’s trading statement for the first half of 2019 show the company’s revenue and pre-tax profit both dipping slightly - but...

The parent company of franchised hybrid estate agency EweMove says that experienced estate agents outperform inexperienced franchisees - but only for...

Hello and welcome to the latest PJT, your weekly opportunity to catch up on key moves within the industry. Everyone mentioned here...

First time buyers will constitute the largest single group of purchasers in 2019, despite the apparent difficulties of deposits and securing...

Rising house prices and the gender pay gap means that there is no English region where a single woman on median...

After months of difficulties and closures for many online and hybrid estate agencies, EweMove claims to have bucked the trend. In a...

Foxtons’ sales slumped another 10 per cent and its total revenue dropped another 3.5 per cent according to figures released this...

The industry press has given substantial space to recommendations from the Regulation of Property Agents, the government’s working party which has...

A more stable trend is now emerging in the UK housing market, according to the latest results for the RICS UK...

Recent figures from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) have revealed a rather worrying landscape for small business owners across the...

While media attention has been on Theresa May, Brexit and the Tories, chatter in the agency industry has been about what...

The Property Ombudsman (TPO) has released its annual report for 2018, showing a 16% rise in the number of complaints made...

It has been a long time coming, but the tenant fees ban, which forbids landlords and letting agents in England from...

A national and regional property auction firm has delivered its best ever first quarter sales in the 12 year history of...

Savills, which in the past has been restrained in its critique of Brexit’s effect on the housing market, now says that...

More than 800 property transactions fall through daily, which can have repercussions both practically and financially, as agents fail to get...

Foxtons has revealed that its six branch closures announced towards the end of last year will save the company £3m in...

Countrywide’s senior executives have set out reasons why investors should put their money into the group, despite its troubled recent years. Yesterday...

As the sales market across much of Britain appears to be mired in political and economic uncertainty, figures from Scotland appear...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Agency Express board company says its monitor of the sales market suggests that it’s in better shape now than it...

A new online agency has started charging only 0.75 per cent commission, payable only on completion, with no VAT and no...

May saw the highest number of new sellers list their properties in any single month for at least 18 months, claims...

Major auction companies continue to claim successes despite the challenging housing market. Auction House says a recent auction of London properties produced...

A leading buying agency says the Brexit transition deal will help central London’s fragile sales market. Caspar Harvard-Walls, a partner in the...

LSL Property Services - parent company to 12 brands including Your Move, Reeds Rains and London’s Marsh & Parsons - has...

The National Association of Estate Agents says the year has started with a boom as demand from prospective house-hunters increased by...

Between October and December 2017, some £822 million worth of UK residential property was sold at auction, according to the Essential...

Hunters is partnering with a PropTech firm to allow homes on the market and still awaiting buyers to be short-let for...

A buying agent in Melbourne says ‘old dinosaurs’ in traditional estate agencies ‘have no idea’ how to deal with the arrival of...

What a year it’s been! Back in 2016 we had Brexit, a new prime minister, Donald Trump’s election, and so when...

The short let management company Lavanda - backed by Harry Hill, former chief of Rightmove and Countrywide - has launched software...

The latest market snapshot from the National Association of Estate Agents suggests that the proportion of sales made to first time...

An estate agent branded as "thoroughly dishonest" following a Gumtree scam has been jailed for 20 months, suspended for two years....

Winkworth says solid performances from its lettings and property management services, plus new franchise deals, have compensated for a challenging sales...

Shelter, the campaigning charity that has been hugely critical of private landlords and letting agents in recent years, has now launched...

Savills has reported strong figures for the first half of 2017 across its worldwide activities, but its UK residential divisions have...

You saw it, right? This article from Monday’s Guardian? It says that one in five estate agents are at risk of...

New figures released this morning from Purplebricks shows the onward march of the hybrid agency and its Local Property Experts. For the...

The Queen’s speech to the British parliament this week was a scaled-back affair, which was unsurprising given the Grenfell Tower fire,...

The managing director of lettings at Foxtons says Brexit and domestic political uncertainty have become ‘the new norm’ in the London...

Since the seventies, housing starts and completions across England and Wales have been on a downward trajectory. The long run average...

The Property Franchise Group says it has seen 13 consecutive years of growth for the five High Street brands within its...

Winkworth’s annual figures for 2016 reveal a franchise turnover drop of six per cent and a pre-tax profit fall of 25.6...

A year ago, we were days away from the introduction of a 3% stamp duty surcharge on second homes – a...

The Prime Central London (PCL) property market finished 2016 on a high with transactions increasing by 36% between Q3 and Q4,...

The rental market has had to face a raft of changes over the past year, including the introduction of the 3% stamp...

The latest data from board supplier Agency Express suggests November was a surprisingly buoyant month for the housing market, with only...

It is too early to talk about a recovery in the long-term decline of the prime central London sales market despite...

In a surprise announcement this morning, Foxtons has revealed that its total revenues in the past three months dropped 14 per...

One of the world’s leading property portal and online consultants says Purplebricks, which is now operating in Australia and the UK,...

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

Prices of homes in Prime Central London have fallen across all sectors in the second quarter of the year and over...

Savills residential fee income rose 10 per cent in the first six months of 2016 but the firm warns that it’s...

Board supplier Agency Express says there has been a drop in new ‘For Sale’ and ‘Sold’ listings during July - but...

LSL Property Services - which owns agency brands including Your Move, Reeds Rains and Marsh & Parsons - has reported strong...

House prices in Scotland rose 0.9 per cent in May, taking the average value to £172,119 - still down on a...

An analysis by a high-end estate agency of homes on the market appears to show no significant ‘Brexit effect’ - at...

The Land Registry’s monthly ‘price paid data’ has revealed that there were 75,937 land and property sales in England and Wales...

Peter Alan, part of the Connells Group, has acquired Marina Quay, a specialist Swansea Marina estate agency as part of its...

The latest figures from the HMRC show the scale of sales market drop-off following the surge in purchases by buy to...

The sense of gathering momentum for the Leave campaign ahead of the upcoming EU referendum is causing high levels of uncertainty...

A firm says it wants to help agents and sellers frustrated by a stagnating housing market to short-let homes using controversial...

Estate agency Connells says the buoyant start to 2016 created by investors trying to beat the April stamp duty deadline may...

Foxtons has reported a 4.1 per cent increase in its group revenue in 2015 to £149.8m  although its profits dipped by...

Countrywide has given what it admits is a “mixed performance” in 2015 with a major reduction in operating profits, although it...

A detailed analysis by Hometrack reveals that new-build transactions - running at roughly 10 per cent of all house sales for...

Surely people will start moving again soon. The employment rate for the last quarter of 2015 is likely to be the...

Your Move claims the higher end of the Scottish housing market is recovering from the introduction of Land and Building Transaction...

A so-called ‘brand incubator’ has invested in online estate agency Settled. Settled launched in January 2015 but has had negligible impact even...

The sales market may be troubled by a sharp stock shortage and the rental sector bogged down with a flurry of...

Estate agents’ share prices have taken a knock after poor figures reported to the City by Countrywide suggested a wider malaise...

A central London agency has launched a ‘try before you buy’ lettings offer on an apartment being marketed for sale at...

Foxtons says affordability issues and increased stamp duty charges for some of the most expensive properties mean London’s sales market is...

Property journalists, and more than a few estate agents, are beginning their annual autumn ritual – forecasting what’s going to happen...

It would seem that now is a better time than ever for investors to join the buy-to-let market.  The Royal Institute of...

eMoov, arguably Britain’s highest-profile online estate agency, says it is “inevitable” that it will enter the US sales market in the...

Knight Frank is the latest estate agent to admit that the prime London sales market is “subdued” - and it blames...

LSL Property Services, owner of Reeds Rains and Your Move amongst other high street chains, says last month’s sales market was the...

Harry Hill, the former Countrywide chief executive, has described his old company as “going backwards” following the publication of its half-year...

easyProperty, which until now has been operating largely in the residential and commercial lettings markets, has confirmed that it is moving...

Fracking could reduce house prices by as much as seven per cent and make homes harder to sell because of traffic...

Online estate agent easyProperty has appointed a creative and PR agency to manage an ‘above the line’ advertising campaign ahead of...

Countrywide, the agency group that handles one in 10 transactions in Britain, has told the City that its income remains “resilient...

Connells says the early 2015 business has picked up from the winter lull but “couldn’t match the beginning of last year”...

In a dramatic intervention in the sales market, Labour says it will scrap stamp duty for first time buyer purchases of...