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

Independent Kent agent Miles & Barr took a musical approach to an office relocation last weekend. Miles & Barr, which has 12...

Many agents working in the industry, whether for large corporates or smaller independents, might one day have ambitions to branch out...

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

Changes to the way the property market operates over the last year - with increased flexibility and remote interactions - has...

A leading industry supplier says there’s been a jaw-dropping 495 per cent year-on-year increase in digital spend from agents - and that...

International investment bank UBS has double-downgraded Purplebricks from ‘buy’ to ‘sell’ - and that could be good for independent agents, a...

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

A high flying agent with experience at a string of top end companies has set up an online business with his...

epropservices - parent company of The Guild and Fine & Country - has made another significant PropTech acquisition, its second in three...

Two mothers have launched a new estate agency using a virtual office - and they have overcome personal challenges to achieve their...

We’re now in Lockdown 3.0 and most of us have become used to juggling home-working, home schooling and a million and...

Over the last 20 years, the growth of online property portals – including Zoopla, Rightmove and PrimeLocation – has transformed the...

So, we’re back to where we were in the spring, more or less. England is in a national lockdown again to...

The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the way every industry operates and the property sector is no exception. Following an enforced seven-week...

Life as we know it has changed – for everybody – and what tenants want, need and expect in this post-pandemic...

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

The ESTAS has launched a new tool which it says will help agents get in pole position for when the market...

A well known regional agent has closed one of its offices saying “the old shop window of an estate agency is...

In the old days an agent would procure clients based upon their position in the high street, the size of the...

When you think of the best ad campaigns – from moustachioed opera singers and talking meerkats to millions of bouncing balls...

To get the absolute most from your estate or letting agency business, it’s vital that you partner with the right software...

The end of 2018 was a bit of a rocky time for online estate agents. Yet only a few years ago...

Given that online property portals, dominated by a handful of websites, are by far the most popular home search method, it...

It’s the most obvious visual medium high street agents have at their disposal, and for many decades has been absolutely pivotal...

Several agents have asked me whether they should consider ditching their high street offices and move to an out of town...

What is the biggest challenge in estate agency today? At the risk of sounding flippant, selling houses! It’s a unique industry...

As promised a few weeks ago, this week’s Natter concentrates on the importance of content, design and social media, three easily...

In the modern marketplace – where people live their lives on their smartphones and tablets, social media has a bigger influence...

An estate agency has started a petition to get bollards erected outside its branch after two accidents, in each of which...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an advertisement which suggested that the firm behind it had “a physical office ... in...

For my latest Property Natter I have sought the opinions of two well-known property consultants - Michael Day, managing director of...

In the world of property and estate agency, competition is always fierce. It’s the same when it comes to your website....

All estate and letting agents now have a website – but just how effective is yours? Your 'virtual shop window' is now...

An estate agency in Kent is having to replace its shopfront for the second time in a year. Last week, the shopfront...

A few of our Industry Views pieces this week focus on the upcoming EU referendum. I don’t think I can add...

A protest march in London's fashionable Shoreditch area turned nasty when the windows of a Marsh & Parsons estate agency branch...

An estate agent who co-presented BBC programme Living in the Sun has opened a hybrid estate agency with what he calls...

OK, you’re being spoilt. This column is now going to be on a bi-weekly rather than monthly basis. You lucky people,...

Vandals seeking to ‘reclaim Brixton’ have used a road sign to smash the windows of a Foxtons branch on the high...