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Regional agency Mundys has snapped up a sales business, taking its branch total to five. It currently has two offices in Lincoln...

A well-known Surrey estate agent has rebranded. Burns & Webber is rebranding to adopt its parent company’s name Curchods. The four Burns &...

Knight Frank has entered a redundancy consultation process with staff. The agency and property brand has said up to 3% of roles...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...

  It's not often that I have sympathy for our glorious leaders – those who set the rules by which we all...

OnTheMarket has revealed it is expanding the scope and scale of its successful Town Hall initiative in response to growing demand...

A former senior partner of the Fenn Wright agency has died at the age of 82. Roger Dennis, who died on Boxing Day,...

Hello and welcome to our latest fantastic festive display from an agency - this time, Dawsons. The agency’s senior partner Chris Hope...

Knight Frank has reported a record pre-tax profit and has reimbursed staff who sacrificed some salaries during the pandemic. The agency - which has...

A remarkable 37 staff promotions have been made by a national estate agency, Fisher German.  The agency - which has a substantial...

Rural-focussed agency Brown&Co has acquired Lincoln-based agency JH Walter - the merged operation formally begins on October 1.  Brown&Co opened its Lincoln...

Welcome to the start of another week and as the housing market continues at full pelt, so does the movement of...

Propertymark is staging a webinar today tackling the challenging issue of conveyancing - just as the market is at its busiest...

A new name is to appear at the top of Knight Frank from next spring - and he is charged with bringing...

At the back-end of last year and the start of this, the biggest news stories in town – besides debates over...

The secure Conservative victory in the 2019 General Election meant the property market in the sunlit uplands was set for a...

Hello and welcome to PJT, our Monday feature giving you the inside track on major moves in and across our industry. Let...

Knight Frank is furloughing agents and other staff with the company topping up the taxpayers’ funding to ensure employees get 100...

Hello and another Monday means PJT Day, your regular update on movers in the industry. You know the drill by now: if...

I don’t want this to be a long piece. I want this to be short and sharp. I want it to...

Hello and welcome to PJT, breaking you in to the working week every Monday with news of the movers and shakers...

Tributes are being paid to David Hall, a senior partner at an agency in the Midlands where he worked for a...

Hello, it’s that time of the week again when we look at the latest recruitment and appointment news in the industry. Just...

South east agency RH & RW Clutton is marking its 275th year in business, with the claim that it is thought...

Howard Quirk, a prominent estate agent in the 60s, 70s and 80s, has passed away, aged 71. He was the senior partner...

Andy Martin, the popular and respected senior partner at Strutt & Parker from 2009 to earlier this year, has been appointed...

Strutt & Parker has revealed its new board following the takeover by the real estate arm of French bank BNP Paribas.  The...

The real estate division of French bank BNP Paribas has exchanged on the acquisition of Strutt & Parker, bringing together some...

The Financial Times is reporting this afternoon that BNP Paribas, the largest bank in France, is in talks to acquire high-end...

OnTheMarket is to advertise across 40 channels this month, in the build up to its second anniversary at the end of January. The...

Strutt & Parker has seen a fall in revenue and profits for the year ending April 30 - and it puts...

As we approach another autumn weekend, the country's estate agents and property professionals have not taken their foot off the pedal...

Agents have been giving their reaction to the shock Brexit referendum result - and their comments have ranged from the gloomy...

I have spent the last 20 years working within the conveyancing business, alongside estate agents and I can’t help feeling a...

Two initiatives appear to show efforts by the conveyancing industry to make its house transaction processes quicker and more appropriate to...

A Strutt & Parker senior partner has dismissed speculation that the residential arm of his agency is about to be taken...

There are just three weeks before Christmas (and a well-deserved break for agents).  But in the meantime there are plenty of opportunities...

When it comes to the regulation of the conveyancing industry, this question is a topic of open and ongoing debate. Licensed conveyancers...

We have reached an interesting point in what has been a most unusual year for the property sector.  The latest figures from...

We’re all familiar with 'gazumping' – most us have been 'gazumped' or indeed been the perpetrators of this practice, for it...

We’ve had a flurry of data for all of us involved in the property sector to mull over on our sun...

This week the Chancellor, George Osborne, delivered the first Conservative Budget for almost 20 years. While Mr Osborne claimed that it marked...

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has embarked on a mission to engage with the lender community with a view to initiating a...

A number of UK estate agents have announced further expansion and investment. Lincolnshire agency Pygott and Crone, winner of Sunday Times Estate...

The new Lawline operated for the National Association of Estate Agents appears so far to be concentrating on calls about employment...

Poldark, a period drama recently on the BBC, has inspired a new trend dubbed the 'Poldark Effect'.  Rather than an increase in...