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The founder of Zoopla has returned to the property market with a new proposal to disrupt how agents buy and sell homes. Alex...

Today is the day that non-essential retail reopens as part of the government's roadmap out of lockdown. For the majority of the...

The ESTAS Group has named a new headline sponsor for its 2021 Forum and Awards, taking over from Zoopla with immediate effect. It’s...

A leading conveyancing industry chief says the one factor that would help improve the slow house buying process today would be the...

With increasing numbers of portals battling for membership and revenue, Zoopla has revealed that all Carter Jonas’ residential branches will list until...

Boutique estate agency D S Churchill is to open a countryside office serving the Cotwolds, Oxfordshire and surrounding counties. D S Churchill...

The property market has performed strongly in recent months  as the impact of the pandemic has encouraged more people to move...

The UK property market is always evolving but never as quickly as it is now. Traditional estate agents are seriously questioning...

A surveyors group has launched a new ‘Home Review’ service which it claims will identify structural problems which create an immediate...

We are just over one year on from the day our lives truly changed, when the UK went into its first...

The Bruce brothers' new portal Boomin has launched a day early - and no, this isn't an April Fool. The site went live...

A new property board game called Gazumped aims to rival Monopoly but reflect a much more realistic view of how the house...

Annual house price growth remains strong but it has slowed significantly according to the Nationwide. Prices dropped 0.2 per cent on average...

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

A company in the German Axel Springer publishing empire - which also invested in Purplebricks in the past - has put...

A new survey says 80 per cent of homeowners believe the process of buying a house has remained largely the same or...

Agents who use cheap PropTech could end up spending a lot more than they expect, according to an industry expert. Anton Babkov,...

Unsurprisingly it’s been a busy few months in the property market so far this year, and a busy few months in...

Data from Rightmove suggests a sharp increase in the number of chain-free properties on the market because sellers are increasingly willing...

Stamp Duty receipts for the year to the end of February fell just six per cent despite the high profile SDLT...

Two of Britain’s largest house builders have reacted sharply to calls by Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick and the Competition and Markets...

There is growing speculation that a raft of tax proposals to be unveiled next week will include reform of Capital Gains...

The Competition and Markets Authority has written to two top house builders ordering them to change their leasehold terms. In September the...

A new estate agency says it aims to sell homes within 30 days - and dismisses the idea of a traditional...

There’s a warning this morning that possible tax reforms to be unveiled next Monday could wreak huge damage on the property...

An industry group charged with trying to make house buying simpler and quicker says it’s made a breakthrough on ‘upfront’ information...

A prominent estate agent has warned buyers and sellers about the perils of the controversial Modern Method of Auction. MMA is now...

Rightmove says the excess of demand over supply right now is bigger than at any time over the past decade -...

If it’s Monday, it’s jobs news day on EAT - welcome to the latest update. Want to be featured in our next...

Following the fluctuation of the property market during the UK’s first national lockdown, the industry was given a lifeline by the...

A PropTech firm says the public wants an easier way to buy and sell property.  A survey of 672 existing home owners...

Recently I heard the stat that over 50% of property is sold with the second agent, which was backed up by...

The property sector is in the middle of a boom and demand is high. Last week’s announcement that the stamp duty...

Automatically changing the main marketing photo on a portal listing can attract up to 40 per cent more traffic, it has...

One of the biggest TV hits of lockdown has been the Netflix show Call My Agent! It’s a surprise success, perhaps, because...

As a property agent, fancy marketing terminology such as ‘omnichannel’ might not hold too much interest for you right now. We’re in...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  Dan Muir, Area Sales Manager, LetsBid Property What is LetsBid and...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  Jake Field - Area Sales Manager What is lets bid Property...

In this week’s In Conversation Today, I speak with Anthony Payne, Managing Director and co-founder of LonRes, a data and network...

In this tips article, the experts at GoodMove provide expert insight into the remortgage process. Remortgaging is the process of changing your...

We know the industry-wide statistic that more than 50% of all vendors end up selling with the second (or sometimes third)...

Propertymark has named a veteran industry figure as interim chief executive - and says it has a "new strategy." Nathan Emerson has some...

An agency says it now sells more prime London properties than any of its rivals. Chestertons makes the claim based on figures...

This week’s In Conversation Today interviewee needs no introduction. One of the property industry’s most recognisable names, she has been a...

Estate agents might be expert at advising on buying and selling properties on their books but when it comes to buying...

Agents should put as much emphasis on ensuring a house move actually happens as on winning the instruction to begin with,...

The government has given details of two new taxes to provide funds to address the cladding problem on high rise tower blocks...

One of the early operators of the self-employed agency model has launched a scheme under which its agents receive shares in the...

Property porn as a popular pastime is as big in the US as it is here, as fans of shows like Netflix’s...

Scams are rife in the quick house buying sector with many companies seeking to take advantage of sellers in desperate situations. That’s...

Pressure is building for widespread property tax reform beyond short term issues regarding stamp duty. Many MPs in this week’s 65-minute special...

This time out, I’m in conversation with one of the big three established portals. Since it was founded in 2007, Zoopla...

Property portals remain an essential marketing tool for estate agents and their value is clearly appreciated by consumers. However, with a...

Technology has advanced in leaps and bounds in recent years, undoubtedly improving many parts of the moving process for both estate...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I am the General Manager of Ravensworth, which is what...

It now looks likely that Hunters will be taken over by The Property Franchise Group after several months of talks, subject...

Homeowners staying at home during another lockdown are doing more than sharing memes of groundhog day or doing family quizzes on...

The last few months have seen property agents work hard to continue delivering quality client communications and maintain an increasingly digital...

A hybrid agency is appealing to corporate estate agents to jump ship and try its self employed business model. Mr & Mrs...

Another group of independent estate agents have launched a portal - a rival to a similar project launched by other agencies...

A new estate agency listing historic houses is to have “a select group of creatives and thinkers” that will assist in the...

A PropTech company has won a grant for a project to improve ID verification in the buying and selling process, via...

The Northern Research Group, which has the backing of over 50 Conservative MPs in the north of England, wants the Chancellor...

Propertymark, the overarching body aiming to bring five different associations (ARLA, NAEA, NAVA, ICBA and APIP) into a single brand, was...

An estate agency is being criticised for marketing properties as second homes in an area reportedly suffering a housing shortage. Local media...

A customer due diligence training webinar is being held for Rightmove members next week. This is the third anti-money laundering training webinar...

Just a week ago, I thought it was all over. Christmas and New Year had gone, as had the passionate calls...

To kick off 2021, we have a Q&A with one of the most high-profile – and, it has to be said,...

1. How would you say Century 21 franchisees have adapted to the challenges during 2020?  If someone had told me at the...

Countrywide’s former management seriously damaged the company’s share value and status by adopting a flawed business plan - and then executing...

Following a turbulent 2020 in which the property market and the professionals working within it excelled in the face of unprecedented...

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

Many agents have been operating under Tier 4 Coronavirus restrictions for some days, but today sees another 20 million residents in...

An auction house that's made a transition from ballroom operations to online streaming is to publish all fees for all lots -...

ZPG, parent company of Zoopla, is to buy another comparison website business, in addition to running its existing Uswitch service. Insurance group...

One of the country’s most exclusive agencies, UK Sotheby’s International Realty, was the subject of a Channel 4 documentary last evening. The...

High end agency Hamptons has quantified the trend of Londoners quitting the capital in the light of the pandemic. It says that...

Propertymark has told the government that it needs to introduce overarching regulation of agents now, because existing piecemeal provisions are unmanageable...

The largest company involved in the controversial Modern Method of Auction says it’s producing a “disruptive digital market campaign to address...

At the start of December 2020, a select handful of agents attended a private online event to see the latest news...

The proportion of sales that fell through at the worst point of this year was 52 per cent it’s been claimed. However...

Figures from Zoopla suggest there’s a Christmas present being unwrapped by agents across the country - a far busier housing market tha this...

The importance of marketing properties is something that is often undervalued. Big budgets are dedicated to selling everyday items such as...

Around half of all estate agencies selling homes for £5m or more have not even registered for anti-money laundering processes, and/or...

NAEA Propertymark has written to the Scottish Government demanding it extend the current Land and Buildings Transaction Tax holiday - the...

Described on this site as a ‘powerful disruptor’ in March 2020, few would deny that the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted on...

Hello - and here we are nearing the end of the strangest of years.  With agents and industry suppliers rushed off their...

The industry seems almost back to normal. Not the ‘new normal’ we spoke so much of a few weeks and months ago,...

A prominent London agency says cash buyers are securing substantial discounts in prime areas of the capital. The biggest cash discount currently...

A leading property consultancy is suggesting that a possible increase in Capital Gains Tax could end up losing money for the...

Who are you? Hi, I’m Richard Price, Managing Director at Dezrez. Who are Dezrez and what EACRM do you provide? At Dezrez we’re on...

Another day, another house price record as the bull market continues. The latest Halifax index shows prices surging 7.6 per cent to...

As we approach the most unusual of festive periods, many property professionals will already be thinking about the January market and...

‘Many are in complete denial about the time it takes and still think it’s eight to 10 weeks.’ I won’t tell you...

If this year has taught us anything, it's that estate agents need their software provider and specifically their CRM, to help...

It now takes an average 12 days longer to complete a sale in Britain compared to a year ago - but...

An alarming story has appeared in the mortgage trade press, highlighting an apparent pitfall in the house buying process that has...

Over 100 Zoopla member branches have signed up to the Modern Method of Auction system offered via the portal. Over the summer Zoopla...

One of the biggest supporters of the self employed estate agent business model admits there are risks and it’s not for...

Property sales take a seriously long time to complete. There are a number of reasons for this, although often delays are...

Connells Group has announced a major recruitment drive as it looks to create 250 new agents' positions - and it’s launched...

A survey of completion times for house sales over the past four years suggests that the worst performing local authority area...

Safety checks which are apparently now preventing thousands of owners selling flats are to be eased - but there is confusion...

Searches that are bound by the Search Code, protecting the seller, buyer and lender, are property and not client specific. As...

Tenants, landlords, agents, and house buyers all breathed a sigh of relief on Halloween when the government announced that home moves...

The founder of OneDome says a likely housing market slowdown is the perfect time for agents to optimise revenue by investing in PropTech. Babek Ismayil believes...

A leasehold group has written to Housing Minister Chris Pincher pressing for an update on the government’s approach to reform for...

Purplebricks has just appointed its new chief marketing officer, who was most recently global director of restaurants at a food chain. Ben...

One of the country’s top buying agents is advising purchasers and vendors to avoid online agencies and 'bucketshop' conveyancers. Edward Heaton - founder...

A regional wing of Fine & Country has reported a record month - and puts it down to the self-employed ‘associate’ business model...

The advertising watchdog has told the agency industry to clean up its act on four issues, with clarity over fees being...

Hello and welcome to the latest PJT, your opportunity to catch up on who’s moving where in the agency and supplier...

Asking prices are down for the first time in many months. It’s a small drop - an average of 0.5 per cent...

Residential People, one of many free-to-list platforms in the hectic portal marketplace, is set to launch which it calls its “AI...

One of the industry’s leading commentators says an unintended consequence of a possible Capital Gains Tax increase could be a bonus...

As we embark on another nationwide lockdown, the team at SDL Auctions are keen to help agents ride the storm, beat...

A former London estate agency owner and finalist on The Apprentice says he’s now returning to the sector to sell new-builds. Jamie...

Purplebricks recently launched a meditation service to help buyers and sellers manage stress. You might disagree with the idea, but moving...

Buyers in around 30 per cent of English cities are almost certainly already too late to complete a purchase by March 31...

A leading market analyst says the widespread belief that we are ‘safe’ in our homes may indirectly lead to the recent...

Recent figures emanating from the mortgage and housing market suggest that – since lockdown was ended in mid-May – transaction levels...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been told to avoid a stamp duty holiday cliff-edge next March at any price - because it...

Agents spend their whole careers telling vendors and landlords why they will be able to achieve a better sale price or...

The property market, and therefore, estate agents have been accused of being the 'weak link' in the UK’s money laundering defences. This...

Independent agent uses innovative ‘feet up’ campaign to win business. An independent letting agency has invited landlords to put their ‘feet up’...

Generating leads is a crucial and age-old part of estate agency. Before the internet, lead generation was just as important to...

Staying on top of the numbers and figures in a constantly changing industry can be stressful. Changing property prices can be...

A new tool which identifies preferences of Facebook users and then targets them with ads for appropriate homes on sale, is...

Another attempt is being made to introduce property logbooks to the selling and buying process, and agents are invited to play a...

A reassessment of an independent agency’s activities during the Coronavirus crisis has led to it merging with a local franchise operation. Maison...

Purplebricks is the first estate agency in the country to launch a meditation service to ease “the emotional rollercoaster felt by...

One of the latest 10 agents joining the still-to-launch Boomin portal says it could be the go-to website for all property...

A new analysis of searches and leads to agents by Rightmove suggests buyers in London are deserting central locations in favour of...

Delays across the house buying sector mean those wanting to benefit from the stamp duty holiday need to begin the buying...

Conveyancers are sending a blunt message to estate agents: transactions will take longer than usual and don’t chase us with queries and...

2020 has definitely been a year of change. With little warning, the pandemic disrupted the day-to-day operations of almost every industry...

The latest agency recruits for online firm easyProperty are batting for the company in more ways than one - they are...

Online agency Purplebricks says an absence of technology in property details is one of the biggest turn-offs for potential buyers. A survey...

We all know that people can’t move to a new house without going through the Conveyancing process. However, with that said,...

A platform which signs up vendors and allocates their sale to a high-performing local agent says it sells property two months...

A new portal-style PropTech product has launched and wants to recruit estate agents to its fold - despite describing the way...

Many agents, certainly those in London, will have faced the difficult task of selling a flat with a shorter lease. A...

In July, here at Environet UK, we transferred 100% ownership of the company to our employees, in the form of an...

A former healthcare executive is the latest convert to become an online agent with easyProperty, the company has announced. Richard Ayres has...

An estate agent in Liverpool has adopted the unusual technique of urging vendors to sell now “before prices crash.” Clearly unworried about...

Customers must be told about third party referral fees when buying or selling a home says the National Trading Standards Estate...

A new online platform claims to be the first of its kind to speed up the private treaty sales process for...

A quick buy firm which typically purchases homes from sellers at below market levels has accused estate agents and the private...

The cross-sector group looking at reforming the sales process has agreed a new pledge which it says introduces greater transparency for...

New PropTech products continue to appear, many aimed at enhancing transparency in buying and selling, or helping agents adopt new ways of...

Vendors spend an average £41 a day for 144 days when selling their home - but some spend a remarkable £140 a...

Seller and landlord leads are what makes estate agency tick. Without them, new business is nowhere to be seen and you...

Figures drawn up by a property industry recruitment guru show that estate agents work only two thirds of the hours they...

Logjams in the mortgage, conveyancing and removal stages of house moving mean sales are taking much longer than usual, according to...

A quick buy firm boasting it has ‘sold’ a home within six days also says it now takes 140 days on...

Despite the recent effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, there is still much opportunity in the market for letting agents to grow...

I’m sure I speak for most in the property industry when I say that back in March and April I had...

When it comes to the future of the property market in the wake of Covid-19, there are two main schools of...

Property sellers are twice as likely to find a buyer for their property if the original asking price does not change,...

The strong performance of the auction market in recent months has been reinforced by the latest figures from iamsold, the UK's...

Ahead of the launch of a new iBuyer platform later this year, agents are being invited to attend two webinars hosted...

For a number of years now, predictions have been made that one of the major tech giants will eventually enter the...

Another US real estate agency wants to follow Keller Williams, Berkshire Hathaway and others by opening in the United Kingdom. Nest Seekers International...

NAEA Propertymark has thrown its weight behind a Competitions and Markets Authority investigation into whether consumer protection law has been broken...

The Competition and Markets Authority is today opening enforcement cases focusing on the sale of leasehold homes by four leading housebuilders. They...

Rightmove is warning of a conveyancing log-jam that may delay sales, despite the ongoing frenzy of activity and faster transactions for...

For many agents it’s been a big week…not because of the surge of buyers, but because their children have returned to...

Estate agents are increasingly using low-key ‘grey’ marketing to avoid too many prospective buyers swamping them when homes go on sale. That’s...

A south coast estate agency which has been operating since the 1980s has opened its seventh office.  Jacobs Steel’s latest branch is...

From December, the new RICS Home Survey Standard will become mandatory for all RICS professionals undertaking home surveys. The below article explains...

One of the victims of a notorious estate agency price fixing cartel has spoken out against one of the offenders.  Christina Davis...

It’s fair to say that UK estate agents don’t have the best of reputations, often featuring in the lists of the...

Figures from Zoopla quantify how Coronavirus is changing the market, with houses selling significantly faster than flats. The latest market report from...

Data from Rightmove shows that demand is up 61 per cent compared to the same period last year - and the...

The supply of homes coming to the market could struggle to meet the demand from buyers shown in recent weeks, with...

An online agency says it’s offering its customers a kind of ‘fall-through insurance’ after over 100 deals collapsed between mid-March and...

A new agency called Eazy Agent has launched - it’s another online operation, this time with a starting price of £249. For...

An unusual property sales concept, which signs up vendors and then effectively sub-contracts their sales to strongly-performing local estate agents, has...

One of the country’s highest-profile mortgage lenders, HSBC, is restricting loans on apartments from today. Only buyers of flats who have a...

In my last Natter, I explored the differences between estate agency in the UK and the US with the help of...

A leading expert on estate agency and the housing market in Australia has lifted the lid on how Purplebricks failed down...

I want to talk to you about new ways to sell homes. Let's not encourage people to sell but just swap...

A property developer has set up an estate agency that charges no commission to sellers but instead levies a non-refundable reservation...

The share of owners putting their homes on the market within five years of buying is rising again according to an...

The Sequence Group is to be the sole selling agent for RoyaleLife, the country’s largest builder of bungalows, exclusively aimed at...

Property raffles are a legal minefield and many are too good to be true, according to a leading lawyer. There has been...

It must have been a close thing on Friday as to whose faces were looking the most glum - those at...

House raffles and similar competitions have become mired in controversy in recent years, thanks to some of them failing to abide by...

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

We have had a special relationship for many years and are bonded as countries in many ways – historically, politically and...

“Many hands make light work” – Does John Heywood’s old English proverb from the 1300s apply to modern approaches on how...

The debate over whether For Sale boards remain a valuable source of publicity has been in the headlines of late -...

A new website that describes itself as an estate agency says it wants to “empower people to sell their own home”...

National Crime Agency officers working as part of a Paramilitary Crime Task Force have searched a home in Belfast and have...

Tens of billions of pounds of new taxes should be levied through a Capital Gains Tax imposed on main homes, not...

A PropTech platform that aims to lock-in sellers and buyers via a mutually agreed reservation agreement system is being offered free...

Difference should be celebrated. But in our industry it rarely is. I was on the board of a large corporate where...

The long-awaited proposals for leasehold reform produced by the Law Commission suggests giving owners the right to extend their lease for...

Speculation is mounting that Capital Gains Tax could for the first time be applied to gains made when owners sell first...

Emma Vigus, managing director of sales progression platform mio, in discussion with key suppliers in the residential property industry on operating...

Hello and welcome to the end of the week and the prospect of a sunny weekend. We appreciate fund-raising is difficult with...

Purplebricks is selling its Canadian business. The sale comes little over a year after the troubled agency closed both its failed Australian and...

A London estate agent has broken ranks with much of the industry and instead of welcoming the stamp duty holiday has...

A major agency is warning that the current stamp duty holiday could leave the housing market in a state of lethargy...

Two companies that persuaded property investors to pay as much as £25,000 for a parking space have been wound up in...

The ESTAS Group says it will combine its awards events for agents, conveyancers and mortgage brokers in one ceremony in May...

The threshold at which Scotland’s Land and Buildings Transaction Tax is paid by purchasers is to be raised from £145,000 to...

At a recent Conveyancing Association webinar focused on the provision of upfront information in the property sale process, there was a...

In the second of a series of articles, Emma Vigus, Managing Director of mio, the Estate Agents Sales Progression platform, explores...

There’s no doubt that Covid-19 has had a huge impact on the UK’s property market, after hundreds of thousands of house...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak - and the agency industry - will no doubt be delighted to know that visits to Rightmove soared...

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak has announced that there will be no stamp duty on homes selling for £500,000 or...

Have you ever wondered how industry-specific software and property portals have influenced the typical estate agency of today? A new book, which...

Agents have spoken out angrily against any uncertainty in the market caused by government leaks about future stamp duty changes. In recent...

The property market has been reopen for almost eight weeks now and during that time demand from prospective buyers has soared. Rightmove...

The industry’s first virtual awards event has taken place with hundreds of agents participating courtesy of YouTube. Winners of the prestigious ESTAS...

They are the names we hear about often, pushing for this or seeking clarifications on that. They are the representatives of...

Businesses across all sectors have struggled to adapt to the changes brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. One group that have bucked...

A former City analyst best known for his scathing criticisms of Purplebricks has launched a PropTech platform that he describes as...

With three months of lockdown behind us, commission income is vital, and sales progression is more important than ever. Emma Vigus, Managing...

Hello - Friday already so that means another Agents Do Charity, marking the wonderful work of our industry even in these...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Emma Vigus, Managing Director of sales progression platform mio You’ve never...

The chief executive of a property information platform says now is a “dangerous time” to buy or sell homes because of...

“Let’s Zoom later”, “are we Zooming in the morning or afternoon?” “Yeah, I zoomed the client earlier” – variations on these...

The phrase ‘game-changer’ has been hugely overused. But when applied to how Covid-19 is changing the way estate agents will work...

The property market is used to change, and I’m confident it will bounce back from any lockdown effects. Despite being acutely aware...

Rightmove has given a regional breakdown in where  buyer demand is strongest in the past two weeks. It’s perhaps no surprise that...

A company promoting a Blockchain platform with promises to speed up the buying and selling process claims the pandemic has proved...

A hybrid agency which set a target of rivalling Purplebricks when it launched has announced a recruitment drive and expansion in...

Two estate agency directors have been disqualified by the Competition and Markets Authority after taking part in an illegal price fixing...

A working party of property professionals is being set up to look at whether and how property logbooks could help speed...

To most people, purchasing a home is the single most significant financial commitment made across a lifetime. Given the impact and...

It’s official – the property market is back open for business. Estate agents have started to unfurlough staff and many are...

The only story that has come remotely close to pushing coronavirus – and its various knock-on effects – off the top...

There’s no doubt we’re in a less-than-rosy phase of the property cycle. This, however, is not another doom and gloom piece:...

How prime London has changed. In 2002 work began on The Knightsbridge. Located within a stone’s throw of Harrods and a near-neighbour...

Now that it’s June it’s officially summer (as if we didn’t realise that from the sudden drop in temperatures). With good...

Lets Bid works in partnership with a variety of Estate Agents across the Uk from big franchise brands like Winkworth /...

A taxation institute is urging the government to delay Capital Gains Tax changes relating to housing transactions until the virus crisis...

The man who has been Rightmove’s head of innovation for the past five years has joined an online agency. Hannes Buhrmann has...

A well-known saying in estate agency is that first-time buyers are the sellers of the future. If we believe this to...

Although the shake-out in the industry is ongoing - online agency Settled and established new-build agency Cushman & Wakefield have both...

A group representing 600 tax experts working in UK legal and accounting firms is warning buyers not to purchase a new...

The government is jeopardising the success of the housing market relaunch through the inflexibility of the furlough scheme, claims a group...

All my recent Natters have been focused on one particular topic, the coronavirus crisis, for obvious reasons. But there has been...

The popular and well respected ex-Knight Frank partner Tom Tangney has joined Rose & Partners, a boutique property firm serving prime...

A food packaging manufacturer is re-shaping its production line to make PPE equipment which it is selling to estate and letting...

The online estate agency Settled appears to have ceased trading with its customers refunded. It was launched in 2014 by former Google...

Over the past few weeks, estate agents have been forced to close high street branches and adapt to working from home,...

EweMove is this week hosting a webinar in a bid to win recruits to its hybrid model from agents who may...

An instant valuation service has launched a new tool aimed at helping agents prioritise leads through prospective vendors uploading photographs to...

There could be a wave of legal disputes as off-plan buyers seek to get out of purchase deals after the lockdown...

Buying and selling a house is often referenced as being one of the most stressful life experiences that we can go...

NAEA Propertymark has today launched a campaign for the government to introduce what it calls a Property Sector Support Package. This would...

The online agency network love2move has won a new agency client despite the Coronavirus lockdown. Pinkerton - which covers the North Down,...

We all know the world has gone digital—nothing new there. Every time you jump online, you’re one of 4.5 billion internet...

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

There’s a warning today that the housing market could face a wave of legal disputes if buyers of off-plan new builds...

The government is being urged to allow estate and lettings agents to return to work as soon as possible when the...

If it’s really the case that estate agents’ offices could be in the category of High Street premises first allowed to...

With a lengthy lockdown already behind us one might think that fund-raising was a step too far - but not for...

Hello and welcome to Conquering Corona, our bid to help agents through the crisis. If you have appropriate advice to share with...

Hello - we hope you had as good an Easter as possible in these unusual circumstances, and welcome back to work. Now...

Independent agency Nicol & Co is donating £100 to the NHS for every new instruction signed up by April 21. The agency...

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

Due to the current Coronavirus pandemic, we are all being told to stay at home as much as possible to contain...

Based on our historical data over twenty years of nationwide operation and a survey conducted in partnership with YouGov, we estimate...

Hello and here’s the latest daily update to help the industry through these unprecedented times.  If you have any appropriate advice you...

Over the last two weeks we’ve seen the country come to a standstill and the property market effectively put on ice...

Where else to start? Since my last Natter two weeks ago, all our lives have changed more than we could ever...

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

New research of the buying habits of first-time buyers in the UK we’ve undertaken here at reallymoving.com shows that Shared Ownership...

A PropTech start-up led by a prominent commentator has become the latest part of the industry to take a pop at...

The extraordinary past week of anger over portals’ fees plus early-warning statements like that from Foxtons indicate the anxiety in the...

The head of the longest-established agency personnel consultancy in the UK says caution should be exercised over the use of Artificial...

There is no doubt that the BBC News article in early February caused something of a stir within the Deposit Free...

Nested is the latest online agency to base a marketing campaign around criticism of established estate agents.  In three 30-second TV ads...

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

Your business may be growing quicker than you could ever imagine which is great when it comes to raising brand awareness....

Prominent agency industry analyst Anthony Codling is asking agents whether the board of OnTheMarket did the right thing by firing Ian...

The agency behind a poll showing one in six buyers putting plans on hold because of Coronavirus is warning that if...

The coronavirus outbreak has highlighted once again how fragile and interconnected our societies have become. We don’t know yet how dangerous Covid-19...

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

A survey shows over a sixth of buyers and sellers have already been deterred because of Coronavirus - and that figure...

A second prominent agent has broken cover to say Coronavirus is slowing the market. Jess Simpson - an ex-Savills and ex-Strutt and...

The right wing political magazine that Boris Johnson used to edit has called on him to cut stamp duty. The Spectator says...

Purplebricks banked more than £18m in fees for thousands of homes it did not sell last year according to this morning’s...

Hello and another Monday means PJT Day, your regular update on movers in the industry - and it’s March already. If there...

There’s been a broad welcome from agents and other industry organisations for the latest report from the Competition and Markets Authority...

More than 18 months on from the acquisition of ZPG for £2.2 billion by Silver Lake Partners, a US private equity...