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Hello and welcome to Property Jobs Today, the regular Monday round-up of moves and changes in our industry. Do please let us...

Savills has suggested that it may be time for a fundamental review of what’s left of the flagship policy of Margaret...

Major online agencies appear to be unaffected by yesterday’s Supreme Court decision over workers' rights in the so-called 'gig economy'.  Yesterday’s case concerned...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, and although we’re well into the summer season now there are still plenty of...

The online agency shake-out and consolidation continues apace. Former YOPA director Russell Humphrey has been named as the managing director of estate...

Cluttons - which a year ago was bought out of pre-pack administration by a so-called ‘turnaround’ business, RCapital - has now...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT - this is the first edition for a fortnight as last Monday was a...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity - and just because it’s half term, don’t think the industry has...

Welcome back to Property Jobs Today - EAT's weekly roundup of all the big moves going on in our industry. If you...

A study of estate agencies and portals floated on the London Stock Exchange suggests that digital companies have shown much better...

The rise and fall - and perhaps rise again - of Countrywide has been of enduring interest to the agency industry...

Countrywide’s Group Operations Director Paul Creffield - one of three figures now at the top of the organisation - says he...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, the regular Monday update on who’s moving where within our industry. Let us know what’s...

Foxtons says its long-term branch expansion programme is now “largely complete” and it is shifting its attention to using technology to...

A buying agent says a higher proportion of Britain’s rarified country estates market is now being sold off-market. Jess Simpson, an ex-Savills...

Only one local authority in England and Wales has an average house price below £100,000 - while in every London borough...

High-end international estate agency company Savills claims Yopa, in which it has invested substantial sums, is now the UK’s 10th largest...

Savills has reported good figures for 2017 although most of its strongest performance was outside the world of residential property. In a...

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

A 1.0 per cent interest rate rise would add £930 a year to the cost of servicing the average mortgage, according...

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

The other day I met with two agents who have 30 years of property sales experience between them, and yet also...

Yopa, the online agency with financial backing from Savills and LSL Property Services, is the latest online firm to launch a...

Most listed agencies and portals suffered share price falls yesterday, creating a challenging landscape for Agents’ Mutual which launches on the London stock exchange...

Hello and welcome to our latest Property Jobs Today; if you missed the launch last week, each Monday we will provide...

Harding Green, an agency with a business model based on freelance associates earning commission of up to 70 per cent, says...

Savills has amended its website concerning auctions after a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority. The complainant challenged whether the listed guide...

Hello and welcome to our first Property Jobs Today, a weekly round-up of key job moves within estate and letting agencies...

Analysts have given a frosty reception to the announcement by Agents’ Mutual that it is going to float shares priced at...

The Financial Times has identified that 10 of the 21 tables at the notorious Presidents Club dinner last weekend were sponsored by...

ZPG, which operates Zoopla and PrimeLocation as well as owning the Property Software Group, has signed more long-term marketing deals with a...

According to The Branding Journal, a brand is “a name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one seller's...

High end agency Savills has this morning revealed that Jeremy Helsby will retire as chief executive of the group at the...

More price falls have been recorded across areas of prime London according to Savills.  The pattern is not uniform - the agency...

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

The operators of a new website which earlier today claimed to have 500,000 property listings appear to have now removed the...

Another new year is nearly upon us and, once we’ve got the season of mince pies, mulled wine, pigs in blankets,...

A former Hamptons International and Savills agent is the first to join a ‘freelance agency’ set up in prime central London. In...

The Advertising Standards Authority has intervened following a complaint about a mailshot from the high profile online agency Yopa. The ASA says...

As we hurtle towards the end of 2017, it’s time to reflect on the year that’s just been.   Even better, this property-based...

Stamp duty reform for first time buyers has taken pride of place in the Budget speech of Chancellor Phillip Hammond.   From today,...

Winter seems to be firmly with us now, if the plunging temperatures are anything to go by. After a ridiculously mild...

Savills has given a pessimistic outlook for the mainstream housing market for the next five years.  It says average house prices across...

The Savills-backed online estate agency YOPA has found itself in glittering company amongst 25 firms listed by business media site LinkedIn...

The fact is that most house hunters simply do not have the time, let alone the inclination, to trawl around properties...

After some months of speculation within the industry, high-profile supplier Reapit has confirmed today that it is the subject of a...

Figures in the property industry have sharply criticised the announcement made at the Conservative party conference to pump an estimated £10...

As those of us in the industry know, there is a fine balance to strike between disruptive technology – and the...

Savills has revised its forecasts for the housing market and says that uncertainty over the impact of Brexit points to two...

Harrods Estates has recruited an ex-Savills sales negotiator with 10 years of experience working in prime central London. Michael Harte, who will work...

A former Savills agent and a former Sotheby’s and Knight Frank agent have joined forces to launch a new property consultancy...

I’ve been in France for the past few days and depending on your viewpoint, I made a spectacularly good or singularly...

Online estate agency YOPA - well known recently for advertisements featuring the Village People - is this evening launching a new...

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

LSL Property Services has announced that it has invested £20 million into hybrid agency YOPA. News of the investment broke on Friday...

Savills is remaining silent on the issues surrounding the apparent filing of a High Court order that may oblige the agency...

Savills has apologised to a potential client who accidentally received emails between agents saying one was “lumbered” with an enquiry about...

The stock exchange seems to be on everyone’s lips at the moment. There’s Agents’ Mutual seeking to float on the Alternative Investment...

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

After my article last week predicting that Agents’ Mutual would likely seek to raise external capital, including possibly on the public markets,...

Property has been changing hands for centuries, but when did estate agents as we know them today – with their branches,...

I hate to be the guy to say ‘I told you so’…but I told you so! It seems that my predictions...

Agents’ Mutual has confirmed that it proposes to form a new company, OnTheMarket plc, to list on the AIM market of...

Independent high-end estate agency Galbraith, which operates mostly in Scotland, says local knowledge is key to good customer service - and might...

Sky News is reporting that OnTheMarket is to demutualise and list on the Stock Exchange.    The portal made much of its mutual...

A data analytics firm that has studied over 2.7m visits to UK property company websites claims that once a visitor arrives...

High end estate agency Savills says the credit crunch - roughly 10 years old next month - is still having an...

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

Prime London house prices are now 5.3 per cent lower than at the time of the EU referendum admits Savills, following...

Hybrid estate agency YOPA has launched a recruitment campaign suggesting that agents have “the chance to make between £6k and £12k per...

Since we last spoke, the ESTAS – the biggest and best property awards ceremony in the UK – has been and...

Hybrid estate agency YOPA has announced a successful Series B round of funding in which it raised a total of £15...

It has emerged that global property firm Savills won a case in the Court of Appeal, entitling them to claim an...

Think ‘fake agents’ are no threat to your business? Think again. The rise of online agents - dubbed by some as...

The next few weeks leading to the General Election on June 8 are likely to have “a short term adverse impact...

Auctions are a great way to sell property competitively, with a wide range of homes often selling under the hammer, and...

It’s that time of year again – peak conference/event season. And, while Brexit and a shock snap general election are dominating...

A record number of over 300 agents have so far signed up for next week’s FUTURE: PropTech conference, the largest event...

The snap General Election on June 8 adds to uncertainty but does not significantly worsen the market for prime properties in...

The aftermath of Easter and shock announcement of a snap General Election have done little to stop the industry making plenty...

The new chief marketing officer of online estate agency YOPA is a figure with over 20 years experience with brands such as...

Savills has acquired Granville Residential, an independent agency covering the high-end Marlow, Maidenhead, Bourne End and Cookham areas in Berkshire and...

Land Registry data shows that homes across the UK have risen in price by an average 5.8 per cent in the...

Savills is warning that while low interest rates will probably keep house prices relatively static, transaction volumes are likely to remain...

High-end agency Savills has produced a few notable house price figures in its time but its latest measure takes some beating...

The number of new homes built in London will reach record levels in 2017, according to high-end agency Savills - but...

Savills has revealed relatively strong figures for 2016 in its report to the City this morning, with group revenue up 13...

An online estate agency which says it could be the next Purplebricks says prejudice against internet property transactions is waning  “With Neil...

LSL Property Services - which owns high street agency brands Your Move, Reeds Rains and Marsh & Parsons - is the...

The man behind YOPA - the online agency that last year secured investment from high end traditional company Savills - says...

An analysis of estate agents quoted on the London Stock Exchange suggests that almost all the traditional firms have suffered since...

Organisers of the Future:PropTech2017 conference on May 4 have revealed new sponsors involved with the event - including Angels Media, publisher...

An analysis by Savills shows that so-called ‘additional homes’ - that is, those carrying a three per cent stamp duty surcharge...

Two reports produced by Savills suggests continuing struggles for high-priced properties in prime locations to combat economic uncertainty and the deterrent...

No longer just a domain for investors, developers and property traders, the auction room is now the preferred option of buying...

Richard Addington has switched from being Savills’ head of office in Exeter to joining Jackson-Stops & Staff’s branch in the same...

A surge in sales of London properties to overseas buyers taking advantage of the Pound’s post-referendum collapse has helped Savills exceed...

Confusion surrounds the timing of the government’s eagerly-anticipated White Paper on housing. Respected property industry weekly magazine Estates Gazette has tweeted that...

Savills has acquired Guernsey-based company Montagu Evans Channel Islands Limited to create the company’s first presence on the island, and to...

Sales of homes in prime central London improved towards the end of 2016 says Savills - but only after prices were...

One of the earliest entrepreneurs to found a website to allow for-sale-by-owner property listings back in 2000, predicts current online agents...

The head of a new ‘disruptive’ online mortgage service says 2017 will see more major estate agency and other property businesses...

This is the final Estate Agent Today until Tuesday January 3 2017, so everyone at Angels Media sends all good wishes for...

Home ownership rates among 25-year-olds have plummeted by more than half in 20 years, council leaders have warned.  New analysis for the...

Following a strong start to 2016, particularly in the lower to middle range of the UK housing market, that lasted up...

House prices will rise 2.0 per cent in 2017, below the rate of inflation and just under half the rise predicted...

Share prices for both Foxtons and Countrywide took a significant tumble yesterday as news of the ban on letting agents’ fees...

It may still be too early to start compiling a Christmas wish list, but it is the right time to provide...

Good branding is absolutely crucial to any successful business or product, even more so in a world of social media, instant...

Some sectors of the industry have been giving their initial reactions to the shock Donald Trump victory in the US presidential election.  Camilla...

Although Brexit, portal juggling and portal wars have stolen property industry headlines in recent months, there's been one story almost constantly...

Savills is the latest estate agency to warn that economic uncertainty following the Brexit vote will trigger two years of low...

As many northern cities struggled to recover from the 2008 global financial crisis, the north-south divide returned to plague the British...

YOPA, the online agency that recently had an extensive TV campaign, has amended the content of its website following a complaint to...

I hate to be a party-pooper, but one of the agency industry’s coming-up-to-Christmas traditions is going to be particularly hard to undertake...

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

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

There has been widespread scepticism from many within the industry that the government will miss its latest house building targets, despite...

One of the world’s leading financial institutions, UBS, says any sustained economic recession triggered by Britain’s departure from the EU could lead...

Hybrid estate agency YOPA is today launching a nationwide TV advertising campaign starring The Village People, the band best-known for the...

Viewers of ITV’s prime-time drama Victoria will have noticed last evening that another estate agency has started to advertise on TV...

Later on, the title of this piece should become clearer (at least I hope so). First, though, a few bits and...

The credit crunch may have been the economic backdrop against which much of the housing market performance of the past 10...

A campaign has been launched to make Bristol the colour capital of the UK by ensuring that more homes are painted...

Fiona Stewart, formerly head of marketing and communications at Strutt & Parker, has taken up a newly created role in the...

YOPA, the online agency which now has financial investment from Savills, says its instructions have risen five-fold since February. It also says...

It’s a headline from an Australian business journal this week but it has a familiar ring to it: “Estate agents’ attempts...

Foxtons has removed its listing for the sale of a property on an estate in Walthamstow after concerns expressed by nearby...

Online agency YOPA has launched a recruitment campaign via social media. Tweets began appearing over the weekend and the latest, posted yesterday,...

It’s easy to forget, but there was a time when the internet didn’t exist. When the idea behind the world wide...

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

YOPA, the online agency which recently won financial backing from high end consultancy Savills, is on the look out for an...

Swiss bank UBS has given an upbeat assessment of online estate agencies in the changing housing market - but it warns...

One of the first major pieces of research to come from an estate agency following the EU referendum suggests the short-term...

The chief executive of Savills says “the sale of homes will move more and more online” - justifying the recent investment...

With the new Formula One season now well underway, we delve into the fast lane to take you on a whirlwind...

Countrywide says it is too early to say whether the stamp duty surcharge introduced in the spring has had any significant...

Referendum uncertainty - even before the shock Brexit vote itself - led prime central London prices to drop 1.4 per cent...

Agency and other property shares that have been buffetted in the past two trading days have now stabilised - in most...

A small estate agency is spelling out why it has taken the unusual step of scrapping its established High Street office...

Cashing in on the publicity surrounding the share price of Purplebricks and recent entries into hybrid estate agency by Countrywide and...

The influential consumer property body HomeOwners Alliance says Purplebricks-style hybrid estate agencies may be “the future”. In a blog on the HOA website,...

Forgive the footballing headline – perhaps inevitable now that Euro 2016 has started – but several decisions and statements across the...

There has been a muted response from the City to the announcement just before the weekend that high-end estate agency Savills...

It’s nearly June – June! – already. Seriously, where has this year gone? This means summer is nearly upon us, with a...

Last time out I spoke about the beginnings of a PropTech revolution, with two major London-based events in the offing over...

Strutt & Parker won the UK Sales Agency of the Year award at the annual RESI Awards event, organised by Property...

A report using data from Savills and property consultancy Dataloft claims that luxury private residential towers can dramatically increase the values of...

Leaked emails dating from 2013 and seen this week by Estate Agent Today appear to show a number of estate agencies...

One of the directors of Agents’ Mutual, parent body of portal OnTheMarket, has told Estate Agent Today that his firm does...

It almost goes without saying that PropTech is a hot topic these days - this year alone we’ve seen multi-million pound...

A former head of Savills’ buying arm says well-heeled overseas buyers are unphased by the recently-increased stamp duty on high value...

It’s all too easy to look sleazy in the eyes of a sceptical world, and there’s a danger right now that...

One of the leading financial advice websites in the country has said that Rightmove’s “significant market share” and “insanely high margins”...

Savills says prices of homes in prime areas of London dipped in the first quarter of 2016 because of economic uncertainty...

Two property professionals who in the past have worked for Savills and Hamptons International, have launched a hybrid estate agency. Founded by...

Savills is the latest estate agency to consider a TV advertising campaign. The agency’s marketing director Alison Dean has told Estate Agent...

Savills has been named the UK Business Superbrand for the eighth consecutive year, beating rival high-end firms CBRE, BNP Paribas Real...

New research shows that the north-south divide over house prices is not only continuing but is getting significantly worse.  High-end agency Savills,...

The goverrnment says new figures show that after a year-after-year decline in the number of people owning their home, starting in...

Discounted starter homes could be out of reach for the majority of families in need of an affordable home in many...

High-end agency Savills has launched a dedicated Sports Services team to offer what it calls “a confidential property service to the...

Private equity financier Nick Ferguson is to become chairman of Savills in May.  Ferguson’s CV includes his current role as chairman of...

The latest government house price index from the Office for National Statistics shows that house prices across the UK rose by...

Several agencies have announced expansion plans and new personnel as they gear up for 2016. Strutt & Parker is announcing that Giles...

OnTheMarket says there is no delay with its plans to list member agents’ overseas properties for sale, but still cannot reveal...

The directors of Agents’ Mutual say they have “every confidence” in OnTheMarket as the portal approaches its first anniversary on January...

The scores are in: Estate Agent Today has collated forecasts from 10 of the leading estate agency corporates and major business...

The scores are in: here are the top 10 high-end agencies and property analysts' predictions for what 2016 has in store...

Investors’ Chronicle, the weekly investment magazine published by the Financial Times Group, has lavishly praised high-end agency Savills for diversifying its...

Many industry analysts have dismissed a claim by an online estate agency that a 21 per cent fall in new listings...

The 550 square foot boiler room in the basement of a central London mansion block is going to be auctioned with...

There’s been shock and anger from agents - especially those in London - at the surprise news of an additional three...

Over the next five years at least 70,000 new households a year in England alone will be unable to afford to...

An online estate agency has taken on the established high-end agents by marketing a home in prime central London for £19.5m...

Knight Frank has issued housing market predictions for 2016 roughly in line with all those issued by rival high end agents...

Savills has hired Isobel as its main creative agency to work on the marketing of its residential division.  Communications industry publication Campaign...

High-end agency Savills has announced that it has sold Wentworth Woodhouse - reported to be Britain’s largest residential property - to...

UK house prices are growing annually by 9.7 per cent according to the Halifax, which says "improving economic conditions" lie behind...

Economic and housing market commentators have interpreted the latest raft of Bank of England data as indicating that interest rates may...

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

Two of London’s highest profile buying agency operations have announced new team members. Prime Purchase - the buying arm of Savills -...

A reader of Industry Views is unlikely to need converting to the virtues of buy to let, but anyone involved in...

It’s rare for an incumbent to pivot to a disruptive business model, even in the face of compelling logic that they...

Estate agents using OnTheMarket have come out in defence of the new portal. “We’ve had nothing but positive experiences thus far with...

High-end property business Savills has launched a new service called Retirement Living, aimed at securing business from retirement scheme developers. The team...

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

Prime Central London’s housing market will stagnate with no price growth at all next year, warns Savills. Even in 2017 price growth...

Marsh & Parsons has expanded its residential development and investment department with the appointment of David Duke as Director of Residential...

OnTheMarket has confirmed to Estate Agent Today that it will be listing overseas properties "in the coming weeks". Amongst the founding members...

Knight Frank has become the latest high-end agency to admit that the prime central London market is in the doldrums, with...

Savills, the high end estate agency, has parted ways with public relations company The Red Brick Road as a result of...

Savills and Knight Frank say prime central London property values dipped slightly over the summer with stamp duty still being blamed...

Another 1.4m homes could be built across London if councils make better use of land and if local authority planners allowed...

Housing minister Brandon Lewis has been announced as the headline speaker at the Future: Property Tech Conference, taking place in the...

High end residential, commercial and consultancy specialist Savills has boosted its group profits by seven per cent to £26.4m before tax. Group...

Agents have expressed their disappointment at the decision by the government to restrict mortgage interest relief for Buy To let investors...

The property centre in the middle of the latest controversy surrounding the Competition and Markets Authority says it is still waiting...

A review of 30 prominent property sales websites undertaken by a digital marketing company demonstrates, perhaps predictably, a huge lead for...

The ex-Savills and ex-Romans agent who heads the estate agency Capital & Coastal, Michael Riley has stepped into the row between...

High-end brands dominated the agency section of the RESI 2015 awards, presented by Pointless host Alexander Armstrong at the Grosvenor House...

The agency industry has been acting with delight over the likelihood that there will be a slim overall majority for the...

The number of mortgage loans approved by banks fell year-on-year for the ninth consecutive month in March. Data from the British Bankers’...

Savills has snapped up this historic residential and rural agency Smiths Gore which was originally founded in 1847. Some reports say the...

It seems like every day there’s a new article about On The Market. Usually it consists something Zoopla have said, followed...

Around 120,000 home owners will have to spend around £110m to revalue their homes if Labour’s mansion tax policies come into...