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Estate agents have listed an average of 7.3 homes for sale per branch during 2022, research suggests- down 12.5% annually. Agency comparison...

Following a rigorous process, Lifesycle has been chosen as the software provider for By Design, a new high-end network brand for independent...

Agency stock has reached its highest level for 12 months, OnTheMarket claims. The portal’s latest Property Sentiment Index revealed that there has...

Propertymark’s partnership with MoveIQ has already attracted attention from more than 250,000 consumers and potential property buyers and sellers. The agency trade...

The latest research from Rightmove has revealed that the price of property coming to the market has witnessed its first fall...

PropTech platform Gazeal, which specialises in digital reservation agreements and upfront seller information, has announced that it now has an app available...

The entirety of the property market could be enhanced by embracing all-in-one moving and streamlining processes, according to The ValPal Network. This,...

A property expert has warned that the Bank of England’s gloomy economic forecasts and last week’s rise in interest rates could...

The auction industry could end up taking advantage of the upcoming downturn in the property market, because it provides the quickest...

Sellers are always looking for ways to improve the value of their home, and according to new research agents may just...

Dye & Durham says it could potentially appeal the decision by the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) to effectively disallow its acquistion...

A compliance expert has warned that even though most agents will have robust anti-money laundering (AML) checks and processes in place,...

A property purchasing specialist has revealed how the UK’s home sellers are now paying £793 more in estate agent commission when...

Smart conveyancers are making themselves indispensable to estate agents by doing their due diligence for them. Until now, estate agents and conveyancers...

Agents are being urged to discuss pricing with vendors after research shows 52% of listings have been on the market for...

For some time, LinkedIn was seen – fairly or unfairly – as stodgy, dull, corporate and formal. The uncool uncle to...

Thanks to a relentless market, the property market has enjoyed a purple patch over the past few years. But now that...

As uncertainty continues to prevail across the industry, aided by a government in crisis, the challenges in the months ahead feel...

As UK temperatures soared last week, potential property buyers and sellers were even too hot to enquire about homes. Data from live...

Homeowners are getting as much as 16% extra on average when selling their properties if the energy performance certificate (EPC) rating...

With so many benefits including lower fall-through rates and quicker sales, it is no surprise that selling a property via auction...

Agents are currently achieving 99.4% of the asking price on listings, research shows.  The figure, calculated by agency comparison website GetAgent based...

Automation is the direction the industry is moving in and it’s gathering pace every day. Forward-thinking agents are using automation and...

More than a third of England’s regions have seen buyer demand fall over the previous quarter, research claims in the latest...

Rightmove has upped its house price forecasts for this year as new stock supply fails to keep up with demand. The portal...

More properties went under offer in June 2022 than during the same month of the stamp duty holiday rush of last year,...

Anti-money laundering (AML) software provider SmartSearch is warning of a rise in financial crime, particularly targeting smaller property firms. A survey of...

Former Fine & Country chief executive David Lindley has teamed up with other industry heavyweights to launch a network of independent...

Estate agents are being urged to be supportive after a LinkedIn post highlighted the current pressures that conveyancers are under to...

New research suggests agents can win more business by making better use of video content. A survey of 2,000 home sellers by...

The number of prospective sellers contacting estate agents to have their home valued has hit its highest level since January, Rightmove...

Connells Group has rolled out a new service to help homeowners, sellers and landlords boost the energy efficiency of their properties. Its...

The ongoing debate about how to boost agent and conveyancer relations, and improve the homebuying system for all, continues to rage,...

I look back on when my dad helped me buy my first car and shared his pearls of wisdom on what...

Propertymark has announced an extension of its working relationship with property expert and TV presenter Phil Spencer. The agency trade body will...

Technology continues to enhance the way estate agents work, from improving efficiencies, reducing admin time, and ensuring your team remains highly...

Increasing numbers of women are being flagged during anti-money laundering (AML) compliance checks. AML platform Credas Technologies suggests the main reason for...

Better LGBT representation is needed among property professionals, both in the workplace and in marketing, campaigners claim. LGBT property networking group Freehold...

Changes to Google’s algorithm may be impacting how agency websites appear in search results, firms have been warned. Google released its latest...

The government is being urged to tailor its housing market reforms beyond solely focusing on first-time buyers. It comes as new analysis...

There have been many articles about ‘digitising upfront information’, following the publication of DLUHC’s Levelling-Up white paper and National Trading Standards...

House price growth may be slowing but a senior industry figure has said it is incorrect to speculate that this means...

Images can have the ability to paint a vivid image, but video content can take this to the next level if...

Homeowners in England and Wales overvalue their properties by an average of 8%, research suggests. Property buying firm Quick Move Now compared...

Fewer sellers have cut prices over the past months but agency instructions have dropped, figures suggest. Analysis by property data and estate...

Online agent 99home is planning to go international. The brand, which lets sellers pay to list their property on the major portals...

New data suggests the prime London market has a new lease of life as buyers and sellers look to beat the...

The economic turmoil of the past two years has done little to deter people from buying a property, research suggests. Buyers and...

Relationships between conveyancers and estate agents have improved since the manic stamp duty-holiday driven days of the pandemic, but it is...

If there’s not a book called ‘The Art of Collaboration’ then there should be. Update: a quick Google search shows there...

Mortgage down valuations are being driven-up by sellers trying their luck and ignoring their estate agent’s advice, a broker claims. Analysis by...

The balance of power in the property market may be shifting back to buyers. It comes as Halifax data showed annual house...

The lack of agency stock for sale has pushed the gap between asking and sold prices to record lows, research claims. Research...

Estate agents and sellers could be set to benefit from fewer fall-throughs this year but the costs of a collapsed sale...

Hybrid estate agent ZOOM 995 has relaunched its website and logo as part of a rebrand. As part of the change, the...

Record numbers of homes are being sold off-market and for a premium due to the property supply shortage. Off-market sales are traditionally...

When was the last time you updated your website? New consumer research suggests 81% of sellers will not contact an estate agent...

The chance of a vendor selling a property is at its highest level for a decade, research claims.  The continuing imbalance between...

Why the urgency? Because the appetite is strong. Research by the Conveyancing Association reports that 98% of consumers are overwhelmingly in...

Rural areas are dominating the boost in property supply. Agents have reported an improvement in sales stock in recent weeks. Analysis by Knight...

AllAgents has revealed the 10 worst rated agency brands on its customer review platform, with Purplebricks leading the worst performers. The reviews...

Cash buyers may no longer be king in the property market. The level of demand and lack of supply in the current...

Estate agents use property technology each and every day for residential property transactions, but is there more they can do with...

There are many myths about using virtual tours to sell or let properties. The most common perceptions are that virtual property...

Oakfield Estate Agents is marking a quarter-century in business with a major rebrand and a pledge to donate £50 to a...

Agency listings appear to be on the rise with major brands seeing a spike in valuations and instructions. Data from national agent Jackson-Stops...

Homeowners may have become less willing to pay upfront fees to sell their home. Despite efforts by online-only brands such as Purplebricks...

Google rather than the portals is the starting point for sellers finding an estate agent, a survey claims. A survey among 2,000...

Scottish estate and lettings agent Stonehouse has sealed a new partnership deal with Aberdeen Football Club. Stonehouse, an Aberdeen-based sister brand to...

Next month will see new rules around upfront Material Information for property sales and lettings come into force in the UK...

More than 30 agents and property firms such as auction houses and valuers were reprimanded by HMRC for anti-money laundering breaches...

Agency proptech supplier Muuvo has partnered with Canopy to provide its RentPassport and RentTracking products. Muuvo provides software for agents to help...

There are signs that properties are starting to take longer to sell. A lack of stock in recent months has meant agents...

Buyers and sellers should focus on the Bank of England’s actions rather than words when it comes to the housing market,...

A senior industry figure has called for upfront information changes to move faster to boost market confidence amid the cost of...

A County Down-based estate agent has acquired a local rival and launched a new “stop-gap” accommodation service for buyers and sellers...

The prime country market outside of London appears to be booming again in a rush to beat a slowdown in house...

Former Hamptons and Countrywide executive Phil Tennant has joined US-style fast buy firm UPSTIX. Tennant has been recruited as chief operating officer...

There seems a consensus amongst agents, analysts and amateur pundits alike that the market will stay relatively strong for some months,...

Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) has long been the bugbear of many property transactions. Even the very wealthy will lose interest...

In this guest piece, Colum Smith, a property expert at law firm Taylor Rose MW, sets out why speedier transactions could...

Agents helped vendors sell homes at 97.9% of asking price on average last year, research claims. Analysis of portal and Land Registry...

An online auctioneer has hit out at exclusive partner agreements between agents and traditional auction houses.  Stuart Collar-Brown, co-founder and director of...

In this video interview – part of a regular monthly series – Homesearch’s Sam Hunter speaks to Angels Media’s Lee Dahill...

A third of first-time buyers have had to reduce their budgets as a result of recent interest rate hikes and the...

I attended a forum in London a couple of weeks ago, which for the first time brought estate agents and conveyancers...

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

Property portals are preparing to support agents in complying with a new era of upfront material information. From the end of May,...

The debate within estate agency on upfront information rumbles on and now there are calls for greater levels of transparency from...

Agents are being offered a free video that could help persuade homeowners who are unsure about listing their property. Industry trainer and...

Buyers are happy and ready to pay for more upfront material information when it comes to purchasing a property. It comes as...

The proportion of offers accepted at or above asking price has hit a record high, research shows. The latest Propertymark Housing Report,...

A ‘quick buy’ service launched by veteran proptech innovator Giles Mackay is now looking to help fix broken chains. UPSTIX, which launched...

Record numbers of buyers are now purchasing homes chain-free research suggests. Analysis by Hamptons has found that an increase in the share...

From the beginning of April, long-awaited rules from the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team (NTSELAT) came into effect....

In June, the biggest pilot scheme of a four-day working week anywhere in the world will begin in Britain, with more...

More than half of those working within the property sector are suffering from higher levels of fatigue or stress, due to...

A well-known Yorkshire estate agency has expanded into another of its prime locations after striking a major acquisition deal. Linley & Simpson...

A new ‘local and independent’ boutique estate agency has been founded in the heart of Wimbledon Village, with a vision of...

The vast majority of property professionals would like to see HMRC act more proactively to deter money laundering, as almost a...

A new survey by interior experts Hammonds Furniture has outlined how important interior style is to potential buyers, with 40% of...

The government has insisted it is still committed to introducing agency qualifications and minimum standards in the sector. It is almost three...

Online agent Strike is preparing to name a home seller who will be reimbursed the equivalent of an estate agent fee...

A property expert has predicted that mortgage applicants are likely to find it 'much harder' to be approved for loans as...

Netflix addicts may have come across Selling Sunset, an American series focused on the drama of US real estate agents selling...

All regions of the UK remain in a seller’s market as the traditional spring selling season begins for agents. Housing market consultancy...

The Ukraine conflict and cost of living crisis is likely to but a dent in the spring market for agents, an...

An industry expert has questioned the fairness of a “two-tier system” that has emerged between new builds and second-hand homes when...

You’re probably up to your neck at the start of a busy spring market but I’d hope there’s one thing most...

The typical time taken to sell a property has got so long that people could learn a language before a transaction...

Estate agency veteran Robin Paterson has joined new ‘quick buy” service UPSTIX. Paterson, a former chief executive of Hamptons and managing director...

Agents and conveyancers have signed up to a new buyers’s and seller’s property information form that is described as having been...

A government aim to improve the home buying process by making Local Land Charge search results instantly available is well underway,...

They say that in fashion, if you wait for long enough, clothes that are hanging at the back of your wardrobe...

A French billionaire who made his money from estate agency is promising to transform the UK property industry with his unique...

A number of pro-active conveyancers are joining a new conveyancing directory being set up by one of the leading figures in...

Rightmove has created a league table to identify where new buyer competition is hottest across the UK housing market. Across the country...

In a new column, solicitor Colum Smith, an expert in combating fraud at Taylor Rose MW Solicitors, explains why those looking...

A prominent industry supplier has produced startling statistics about the numbers of fall throughs in just the first 10 weeks or...

There is a danger that some agents forget to undertake basic activities after a lengthy period of a super-strong market. That’s the...

Buyers are already tightening their belts and choosing not to borrow as much as they could, but instead calculate what they...

There’s been a remarkable 1.7 per cent increase in the average asking price of homes coming to the market in just...

The path from agent to developer is not easy, but it is a relatively straightforward one, if you are willing to...

Despite a backdrop of the Ukraine crisis, soaring fuel bills, rising interest rates and high inflation, buyer sentiment remains strong according...

A new ‘quick buy’ service has been announced which would mean that sales could be completed in a week, providing a...

Of the many industry buzzwords, I suspect “upfront information” was up there as one of the most widely used in 2021....

The market’s likely to slow this year as the rising cost of living saps some buyer confidence, so agents are understandably...

A popular myth suggesting 50 per cent of homes sell with a second agent, is simply untrue. That’s the claim from property...

Yesterday we reported on how the Chartered Institute of Taxation was warning of problems with new HMRC stamp duty rules to...

Well-known property expert and video interviewer Chris Watkin independently investigates how one piece of software is having such a big effect...

We know that agents rely heavily on property software solutions to run their agency, particularly to ease the burden of administrative...

Some agents say they have as many as one in 10 vendors taking their properties off the market and seeking to...

Until a few years ago, you would have been forgiven for not knowing who or what Coadjute was. But the company, founded...

In the last two years digital Property Logbooks for our homes have moved from concept to reality with almost a quarter...

There’s been another large rise in fee earnings for Rightmove this morning, as the portal softens the blow by announcing a...

A bid to regulate second home ownership in part of the UK through changes to planning policy will add complexity and...

OnTheMarket has inked a deal with Kremer Signs to supply agents with Smartboards to be added to For Sale signs -...

The overwhelming majority of vendors do not choose their estate agent based on fees, but on wider market expertise. That’s the finding...

A lead generation platform that boasts Leaders, EweMove and Northwood amongst its clients says it’s expanding into mortgages. Rentround, now in its...

Industry figures have come out in favour of the long-term programme of new compulsory information to be contained on property listings. From...

A PropTech platform claims its “unique” features will help its subscribers get a 1,500 per cent return on investment by the...

Rightmove - which issues its annual figures to shareholders later this week - has released a bullish snapshot of the housing...

A financial analyst says there could be tough times ahead for the housing market, despite another upbeat set of figures regarding...

Fall throughs remain a significant problem with transaction collapses costing buyers and sellers a wasted £880m in 2021 according to new...

An agency is warning some house hunters that they face a more competitive time this year following a “truly remarkable” change...

The number one portal is making a big marketing and research push to get reluctant owners to put up the For...

OnTheMarket says buyer and seller confidence has not been adversely affected by the first base rate rise in more than three...

Without doubt, 2021 was an exceptional year in the property market, with the stamp duty holiday and favourable market conditions helping...

As debate rages over levelling up and a north/south property divide, in the first of a new monthly column, property expert...

Rightmove has revealed a major rise in visits to its site and app as the housing market boom shows no sign...

Coadjute, the blockchain network for the UK property market that claims it can radically simplify home purchasing, has revealed that PropTech...

The average home sale in England and Wales in 2021 achieved 98 per cent of the asking price - slightly improved...

An estate agency has brought cheer - or should that be cheers? - to the local community by brewing a beer. Neil...

The supply of new properties coming to the market is up on this time last year in every single region of...

Was Purplebricks right to delist a property from its website when it discovered the vendors - a Christian couple - were opposed...

A leading buying agency says that while prime central London’s property market shows clear signs of recovery, a weak area remains...

In this guest piece, the team at Lifesycle discuss a recent experiment they did with AI and estate agents' data and...

There’s been huge sale price inflation in the rarified high-end country estate market according to a buying agent. Jess Simpson, who runs...

Purplebricks’ decision to de-list a property after the Christian vendors made anti-gay comments has won widespread support from industry figures, including...

The market share of hybrid and online agents has fallen again, this time to 6.7 per cent. That figure - taken at...

Three of Martin & Co’s most prominent branches in the north of England are under new ownership. The Saltaire, Keighley, and Thackley...

A survey suggests that an overwhelming proportion of estate agents believe the government should make the provision of upfront property information...

There’s been a surge in the number of sellers who resort to using quick buy firms, according to the sector’s trade...

A High Street estate agent on Merseyside has criticised online rivals for creating nightmares for vendors who are then obliged to...

Agents finding it difficult to persuade potential vendors to come to the market this early in the year have new ammunition...

An online auction company executive has been appointed to the National Association of Valuers and Auctioneers committee for Propertymark. Stuart Collar-Brown, co-founder...

OnTheMarket chief executive Jason Tebb is warning that we might be near the top of the market. His portal’s latest sentiment index...

Rightmove’s first housing market report of 2022 starts when last year’s ended - on a high.  The average price of property coming...

The iamproperty group’s auction service, iamsold, says it’s raised over £804m in capital value from properties sold by the Modern Method...

A new survey of people who have sold their home in the past six months has given a strong backing to...

Strong house price growth since the pandemic began has boosted seller gains with the typical vendor who bought two decades ago...

It’s the last call for agents to sign up to a ‘Battle For Listings’ webinar to be held tomorrow (10am-11am) by reservations...

A new agency service has been launched seeking to attract vendors of second-hand residential park homes.  Quickmove Properties has partnered with park industry...

A hybrid agency that charges no fees to vendors but instead relies on referral fees for income has officially rolled out...

An extensive online training programme has been devised to help properly professionals identify and treat Japanese Knotweed. A programme of 15 videos...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur with a lengthy pedigree as an estate agent says agents should use more technology in a bid...

Rightmove claims its visits over the Christmas period were its busiest ever with what it calls ‘buyer demand’ up 23 per...

The latest figures for mortgage approvals show demand as being relatively unchanged - a development welcomed by agents. House purchase mortgage approvals...

A conveyancer has contacted Estate Agent Today suggesting that the Simplify Group IT data crisis could be the death knell for the company...

Propertymark’s chief executive has rejected claims that his organisation’s housing market data inaccurately states the numbers of prospective buyers for each...

The surge in Omicron cases and possible future restrictions are set to hit the housing market in 2022 - and may...

Government regulation and reform of house buying should see the process made faster and easier in 2022, it’s been predicted. Lloyd Davies - managing...

A webinar in mid-January will help agents get an edge on securing leads and ensuring transactions are not lost. That’s the claim...

Areas with the biggest house price growth of 2021 have seen the value of homes rise by three times the national...

This year, Londoners purchased 112,780 homes outside the capital, the highest number since 2007. New data, from Connells-owned agency Hamptons, shows that...

A housing market forecast based on conveyancing instructions says average prices will dip this month. Average prices will fall by 1.1 per...

As we slide into Christmas, with the busiest levels of house buying since 2006 and activity still buoyant, I don’t think...

A property finance expert is telling buyers to sit on their hands and not commit to purchases - as he believes...

Only one in eight sellers use the estate agent through which they purchased their home to begin with. That’s a staggering loss of...

Christmas - time for a much-needed rest for our industry after getting through a workload which reached almost unprecedented levels in...

Rightmove has identified the UK’s strongest sellers’ market - and it’s in Easton, Bristol. Four of the top 10 sellers’ markets are...

A good website is no longer optional for estate agents, as no single aspect of marketing to new customers is more...

Data out today from Rightmove shows the predictable seasonal effect of around 0.7 per cent knocked off the typical asking price. The...

EAT readers may have seen a piece in Friday’s property section of The Times about the long-running Simplify saga, which has...

You’ve heard me bang on about the wonder of reservation agreements for some time now, but it’s definitely the case that...

OnTheMarket has revamped its website in a bid to shed the final connections with the portal’s failed leadership and strategy of...

A survey of sellers shows that 61 per cent of them visit the agent’s website before instructing them. According to respondents the...

With 2022 swiftly approaching, businesses in the property industry are likely to be reflecting on the trials and tribulations that have...

In this latest Natter piece zoning in on independent agents doing things differently, following on from the one I did with...

Guy Leaning, a former high street agent who has now moved into working in the hybrid model of agency, outlines why...

It’s been a busy and arguably fruitful year for the property market, with an eager consumer base pushing forwards with their...

As we all know, the sector is constantly evolving and as we start to get to grips with the changes, another...

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

Boomin has launched a new tool - Chainmaker - which it claims cuts fall throughs and introduces agents to ‘hot buyers’. The software...

The average asking price of homes coming to the market has dropped by over £2,000 in the past month - the...

The latest update on the prime central London market from agency Knight Frank warns that it’s still not business as usual,...

PropTech has seen a surge in uptake over the last few years for several reasons – be it the Covid-19 pandemic...

Rightmove will launch its latest outdoor campaign on Monday, with advertisements in over 1,000 roadside and rail locations remaining in place...

OnTheMarket says it delivered a record number of instant valuation enquiries last month, beating its previous best period in June of...

PropertyHeads, a platform describing itself as a social network for house buyers and sellers, has a new PropTech partnership. It’s linked with...

Strutt & Parker has revealed where it believes the housing market will see the largest demand in 2022, outside of London. The...

Rightmove has revealed the strongest markets for sellers and buyers this autumn.  Grays in Essex has topped the list of the strongest...

Auction House London says the Coronavirus pandemic has proved that the power of livestream sales far outweighs the impact of earlier online...

Knight Frank says it’s already being contacted by prospective vendors wanting their homes to be listed for sale next spring. James Cleland,...

A leading agency predicts that prime central London house prices, so long in the doldrums throughout the pandemic, will bounce back...

The challenge of selling a property that has been garishly decorated over the Christmas period is one many agents will be familiar...

Reservation Agreements provide agents with absolute certainty that both sellers and buyers are being honest. “If they’re lying or… shall we say,...

Propertymark says more buyers are now looking at online auctions, making this a more viable route to sale than before. The latest...

New research suggests estate agents earn some of the lowest basic salaries of all sales professions.  Nested, an online agency promoting the...

The average time for home-movers to get through the conveyancing process has dropped by 27 days since the summer, according to Rightmove.  The...

We have all heard the terrible forecasts and listened to Sir David Attenborough’s speeches on the environment and the “we still...

The Nested online agency, which recently revamped its business model to attract more self-employed agents, is expanding outside London for the...

As you are no doubt aware, building mutually beneficial relationships with conveyancers in your local area can not only make your...

There’s been another step to make house sales more secure and speedier, with a pilot scheme starting next month. Five major identity...

PropTech is booming, and its rise was only accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, which forced the real estate industry – as...

An agent is warning the government it must manage Covid and not simply react ‘too late and too little’. He’s suggesting some...

Rightmove says sellers who have upgraded their Energy Performance Certificate rating to a C - from a D, E or F -...

With soaring property prices, supply continuing to be outstripped by demand and overworked and overtired industry professionals; we’re seeing the sector...

Rightmove is warning that it’s “highly likely” interest rates will rise in the near future. The portal believes this now seems inevitable...

2021 redefined what it meant to offer exceptional customer experiences for consumers across multiple industries, but particularly for the residential property...

The Modern Method of Auction (MMoA), also known as Conditional auction, can sometimes get a bad rap. However, much of the...

Agent wages have been in the news this week, with boastful claims from a number of self-employed businesses about the sums...

Best and Final Offers should be scrapped - and a property expert claims that would be good because they do a massive...

The telecoms solutions company behind "Phone-in-a-Phone" (PiP) now brings property professionals the UK's first mobile-only business phone system in an app...

An agency says individual agents operating as self-employed can earn up to £64,000 more per year than fully-employed counterparts. Nested says the average UK...

British homebuyers take an average of 25 seconds to decide whether a house is right for them, according to Purplebricks. As a...

Fledgling portal Boomin says its new SmartVal tool has received over 10,000 requests since launching in early September. SmartVal is powered in part by...

Like most industries, estate agency is changing. A general trend to a more hybrid model, accelerated by the pandemic has resulted...

Estate agents, even before Covid-19 reared its ugly head, were flexible, hybrid workers. It is a job that requires a significant...

One of the leading figures in trade body Propertymark wants stamp duty to be reformed, and claims that the success of...

Foxtons has given details of the PropTech it uses to help improve leads and business decisions.  The agency, which has some 50 offices...

An estate agency that charges buyers not sellers is proposing to roll out nationwide. FreeAgent247.com, has been set up by Daniel Lewis...

The recent stamp duty holiday and the subsequent conveyancing logjam this triggered has acted as a wakeup call for the industry....

The latest easyProperty franchise has landed in Luton, the spiritual home of the easy brand as it’s the place where budget...

An estate agent has been ‘marketing properties so well’ in a Worcestershire town that it has temporarily ‘sold out’ of all...

With the competition for new listings between agents as fierce as ever, it can sometimes feel like a race to the...

Being able to show proof of funds in a quick, transparent and simple way is more crucial than ever to keep fall-throughs...

The worst of the Covid-19 pandemic appears to be firmly in the rear-view mirror as we move into the last quarter...

Exchanges of properties in prime central London, following the end of the largest part of the stamp duty holiday, suggest the...

Day in, day out, I see how good estate agents really are.  Whether it’s in my day job on Location, Location, Location...

We are living in the age of information. Our working and personal lives are underpinned by software, data and technology to...

Parts of Britain are so short of homes for sale they have only half the number of listings to be expected...

Mortgage approvals declined over the last month as the tapering stamp duty holiday deterred home purchases, according to data from the...

It may be the final day of August but Propertymark has first out of the blocks with advice for agents to...

House sales slumped nearly two thirds last month as the main deadline for the stamp duty holiday passed.  HM Revenue and Customs...

The Property Ombudsman says there’s been a big increase in enquiries to its service in recent months, despite the pandemic.  In its...

An agent has gone on record saying how he has progressed from being a photocopier boy at a Connells branch to...

Things can change. For those who remember, it’s no secret that I became one of the industry's strongest critics of OnTheMarket (OTM). My reasons...

Every so often it comes around – the argument that stamp duty should be reformed/removed/replaced (delete as appropriate). But why? Where’s the...

Last month it was reported that up to 500,000 people had been ‘pinged’ by the NHS in a week. While the...

My neighbour had been seeking to move home for some time. Suggestions that he wanted to get away from his neighbours...

Three property agents feature on the latest list of businesses in trouble for failing to comply with money laundering regulations. The list...

Connells-owned Hamptons says it’s calculated that no fewer the 117,500 sellers this year have chosen to rent before buying their next home.  The...

The average asking price, as recorded by Rightmove, has fallen for the first time this year. In another sign that the market...

An estate agency is celebrating its 21st anniversary by launching a new ‘realtor’ franchise model based on enhanced technology and personalised...

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

A new survey suggests the majority of vendors remain wary of allowing too many unknown people into their home during viewings. Some...

Purplebricks has this morning confirmed that it’s ending its self-employed Local Property Experts operation and is moving to “a fully employed model...

A major agency is predicting that the imbalance between supply and demand, which has characterised the housing market for all of...

Viewings are in the news right now and with good reason.  As the impact of the stamp duty holiday fades, and transaction...

Propertymark says the supply of homes on the market has dwindled almost continuously since the start of the year, with 40...

Zoopla has issued a data-heavy statement on its services for agents - just days after Boomin criticised it for being over...

A prominent advocate of a reformed transaction process says more secure moving systems can help agents maintain high business levels when...

A recent news story will have set alarm bells ringing for agencies up and down the country, when it was revealed...

Some 18 months on, we’re only just beginning to understand the impact of Covid-19 and how it’ll shape the future economy...

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

Available residential property listings across the country are at historic lows according to property data firm Homesearch. The company, which focuses its...

Annual house price growth remains above 10 per cent despite a small monthly dip in July according to the Nationwide. A 0.5...

An estate agency which at one time hoped to be operating nationwide this year has now revised its target. Hortons says it...

Propertymark says a new pay-per-viewing service is “interesting” but warns agents to protect themselves by abiding by consumer protection regulations. The warning has come following...

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

Remember the early days of lockdown when there was a general panic? Perhaps the hot demand for toilet rolls was a sign...

The first stamp duty holiday deadline has now passed, and we can all sigh a slight relief after the sheer numbers...

Keller Williams - which says it’s the UK’s leading business-owner or ‘self-employed’ firm with twice the agents of any direct rival -...

Ben Ridgway gives his views on the current market, material information and PropTech for agents. What is your current view of the...

New research suggests that the number of owners enquiring to sell across Greater London has increased by 68 per cent since...

It may be ‘Freedom Day’ but it looks certain that many estate agents will still wear masks in offices today and...

Let it never be said that this column isn’t here to help out agents directly. In this week’s Natter, I speak...

The market share of the online and hybrid agencies combined has risen to 8.1 per cent in the second quarter of...

Anyone working in residential property knows it is taking longer and longer to get from SSTC (sold subject to contract) to...