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Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) has become the latest member of the Open Property Data Association (OPDA), committing to help speed up...

Home-moving platform the GoTo Group has been announced as a key partner of the Relocation Agent Network (RAN). RAN agents will gain...

LSL has hailed the benefits of switching to a franchise model for its estate agency brand. A trading update from the company...

Property professionals have called for the Government to allocate its promised £3m towards improving the home buying and selling process to...

In this latest article from the team at Iceberg Digital, they discuss Uzair, an industry-specific artificial intelligence (AI). Iceberg Digital, the creators...

Moneypenny has partnered with CRM provider Street.co.uk to help simplify lead management for estate agents. The integration means calls answered by the...

The United Kingdom stands on the precipice of a historic overhaul in property ownership. With the King's speech unveiling the anticipated...

Agency media brand Made Snappy 360 has launched a free smartphone photography course for estate agents. It claims to bring industry photography...

Introduced to Parliament in May, the Renters (Reform) Bill seeks to improve the private rental sector for both tenants and landlords....

The share price of LSL Property Services dropped around 16 per cent at one point yesterday following a profits warning given...

Propertymark has given its backing to simplifying how firms are regulated under anti-money laundering (AML) rules. The Treasury is currently consulting on...

Have you heard of the Pareto Principle…? Named after economist Vilfredo Pareto, it describes the imbalance of most work-related events -...

Tackling economic crime is part of the day job for estate agents. But how can the latest digital ID tools help...

Fortune favours the brave, as the saying goes. So, when you consider how upfront material information can and does make the...

A coalition of businesses from across the property industry have united to call on the Government to do more to speed-up...

Around 30 people will lose their jobs as a result of LSL’s switch to a fully franchised model, the brand has...

LSL Property Services’ share price hit a six-month high during trading yesterday after it announced its entire estate agency network would...

Search Acumen has announced a new partnership that aims to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in conveyancing Property data, insight...

The Home Buying and Selling Group (HBSG) has announced a new update to the Leasehold Property Enquiries (LPE1) form, which it...

Move with Us and Moving Made Easy have been awarded the New Homes Quality Board (NHQB) accreditation for their part-exchange and...

A conveyancing firm has put the popular artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT to the test to see if it can rival legal...

Conveyancers have outlined ways they believe the property transaction process could be improved including shutting down or improving “dabblers” and getting...

Agency brand LSL has announced the sale of its new build mortgage and protection brokerage firms, Group First, which operates under...

In tougher times – as is the case now, post-Covid, post-Brexit, cost-of-living crisis, war in Ukraine, etc – reputation and consumer...

A new Code of Practice for builders and an independent Ombudsman for consumers in the new-build sector went live this week. Customers...

Transforming your living room into an eco-friendly space not only benefits your health and wellbeing, but the planet too. It can...

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) recently published a list of firms that have received penalty notices for failure to meet their...

New rules on leasehold homes came in this week, banning ground rents on new leases but a property expert warns this...

Renewed calls are being made for an “urgent review” of stamp duty as research shows rising house prices mean first-time buyers...

Elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly are due to be held on 5 May and agents are hoping that housing remains...

PayProp’s recent Rental Confidence Index survey polled property professionals about their biggest concerns for 2022. Unsurprisingly, new regulations were a top...

Foxtons chief executive Nic Budden is to take up the work of the chief operating officer too. In a statement to shareholders...

Ben Ridgway and Jamie Cooke, co-founders of iamproperty Group brought together industry leaders in a recent roundtable to discuss the challenges...

For all sales and letting agents, accelerating your business to new heights is a number one priority. You can’t be losing time...

The controversial conveyancing firm at the centre of an apparent cyber attack has hit back at newspaper claims that it did...

I’m sure most readers would agree with me that cyber-security is vitally important for almost any business, particularly those businesses like...

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

Buyers typically pay 10.8 per cent extra for chain-free properties than for similar homes with chains, according to new research. Website GetAgent...

As this is the first Natter back since the Christmas break, I should like to first wish all our readers a...

Work patterns and the employee experience have changed dramatically because of Covid, with a substantial rise in home, flexible and hybrid...

A warning has gone out to estate agents that “more and more” reports are being filed about cyber attacks on agencies...

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

A consultancy specialising in data protection issues has sharply criticised the Simplify Group for its ongoing lack of communications over its...

It really is beginning to look a lot like Christmas – just a week to go now. Presents all wrapped and...

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

We all know what did happen in 2021 - Covid and more Covid, the stamp duty holiday frenzy, a soaring rental...

A petition is being started, urging the government to ban the payment of referral fees to estate agents. It’s reported to have...

The last 18 months have been full of ups and downs, but the property market has coped remarkably well during the...

The price of new build homes could soar if developers are expected to pay for additional energy efficiency measures not necessarily...

Agents must have a robust plan in place in case they are subjected to a ransomware cyber attack, says the Guild...

The Simplify Group’s latest statement on the ongoing IT problem suggests a gradual improvement in services to agents and other clients. It...

The police have been called in to investigate the ongoing cyber-security incident which has led to many firms in the Simplify...

With the conveyancing crisis at the Simplify Group now approaching two weeks old, it appears Purplebricks has been the worst affected...

The conveyancing IT crash plaguing the Simplify Group of companies continues into its ninth day; however there is an update for...

Conveyancing firms in the Simplify Group, hit by a massive systems crash for much of this week, say they are working...

There’s been an update this morning on the dramatic systems crash that has hit the conveyancing services operated by the Simplify...

A few weeks ago the ESTAS took place at the Grosvenor House hotel in London - the first chance for many...

A part of the Connells Group is telling the new Housing Secretary that he and his government “must do more” to...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? As Chief Business Development Officer I am responsible for Simplify’s...

Over the last three years there has been a quiet revolution in the tenant referencing market. Starting with the 2019 tenant...

A PropTech entrepreneur is advising agents not to settle for simply having their websites up and running, and instead using CRM...

Guided by our philosophy of being open and connected, at MRI we are constantly evolving and developing relationships and partnerships with...

Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, technology has proven to be the answer for many problems faced by sectors across...

Two of Britain's largest agency groups have sold their stakes in a property search firm. Both LSL and Connells have announced the sale...

Purplebricks has addressed its critics on house sales by pledging to return vendors’ upfront fees if the agency fails to find...

Movebutler, the digital onboarding platform from online auction specialist iamproperty, says it has some 900 agency branches signed up. These include Martin...

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

The government has set up a committee to push forward ideas on the collective form of homeownership known as commonhold. Housing Secretary...

With property transactions taking longer than ever and many people operating at capacity, it is easy to overlook the progress made,...

Have you found yourself asking the question: “what is the difference between an API and an App?” No doubt we are all...

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

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

Leading leasehold experts have sharply criticised the much-hyped reforms announced by the government last week. The Leasehold Group of Companies - formerly led by...

A mortgage lender says it will now accept ‘no-search indemnity insurance’ for residential purchases in a bid to speed up the...

January presents an opportune time for agency leaders to resolve and plan for resilience, performance and growth in 2021. With most of...

Conveyancers have considered whether the long-standing ‘caveat emptor’ or buyer beware principle in a property purchase should be replaced by ‘vendor...

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

The only certainty at the moment is ongoing uncertainty. It’s something we’ve got used to in 2020, but it’s still not...

There will not be a single business within the property sector that did not start the year in vastly different circumstances...

Hefty increases in taxes on the purchase and sale of holiday homes and buy to let properties are expected in the...

Since June 1, under The Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020, landlords in England have been...

Three of the highest profile industry suppliers and house moving services have given government a four-step plan to restart the housing...

The Law Commission has set out three ways to cut the cost that leaseholders have to pay to buy the freehold...

In the firmest sign yet that PropTech has entered the mainstream, Housing Minister Esther McVey recently launched an expert advisory council...

A new tie-up between Coadjute, a network for decentralised workflow and data sharing within the property industry, and banks including NatWest...

With Brexit still unresolved, the domestic agenda has been pushed from the headlines by the seemingly overwhelming public and political discord...

A new Home Survey Standard is being launched today in a bid to improve and speed up the house moving process. The...

As we know, the world’s moving very fast and how we communicate now is drastically different to even 10 years ago....

A PropTech company that monitors search times for transactions says only just over two thirds of them are now completed in...

A trade body has sharply criticised HM Land Registry for its slow progress on digitising local searches after a promising start...

The German-based Alex Springer publishing company, which is already the largest single investor in Purplebricks, has acquired a prominent online estate...

Hello and welcome to your regular Monday PJT, the essential guide to who’s moving where in our industry. Everyone mentioned here got...

Carl Hemming, Director from Ginger in Balsall Common explains how mio has quickly proven to be a cost-effective way to simplify...

The city of Norwich has become the sixth part of the UK to switch from council Local Land Charges to digital...

MyBid4It is an online auction platform which has been developed to partner with Estate Agents and revolutionise the way properties are...

No, this isn’t about Brexit. But as the saga of leaving the EU is likely to bring about the downfall of...

It’s a testing time for the property industry, amid Brexit fears, a slowing market and the looming tenant fees ban.  There’s no...

More than 800 property transactions fall through daily, which can have repercussions both practically and financially, as agents fail to get...

Over the last few years, there have a number of changes to the stamp duty land tax (SDLT) regime, which have...

Many of the industry’s best known and widely respected suppliers have set up a new group which they say offers agents...