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Welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity, our chance to salute those who do so much to help others. If your agency...

I sometimes wonder just how far our national obsession with buying our own homes will stretch. First-time buyers are prepared to save...

Forget the Bank of Mum & Dad, now even siblings are chipping in to help brothers and sisters onto the property...

Connells group chief executive David Livesey has announced his intention to retire during 2024. Highly respected throughout the industry, Livesey joined Connells...

Spicerhaart’s non-executive chairman John Spence has received a special achievement award after announcing his retirement from the board after more than...

In simple terms, as you are probably aware, ‘lenders’ are the organisations who loan you something, in this case money to...

Skipton Building Society has unveiled details of the first 100% loan-to-value mortgage launched since the 2008 financial crisis. Aimed at renters, the...

100% mortgages are rumoured to be making a comeback. The products were blamed as a cause for the 2008 financial crash, with...

Connells Group chairman Stephen Shipperley is set to retire at the end of 2022. It comes as he marked his 45th anniversary...

The other day I read a story here on Estate Agent Today, which was both depressing and inspiring. It reported a study...

In the third part of this exclusive series with Homesearch’s chief operating officer, Sam Hunter, Angels Media’s Lee Dahill questions him...

First-time buyers have admitted to feeling overwhelmed or scared to talk to estate agents about the homebuying process. A study of 2,000...

The Skipton Building Society, which owns Connells estate agency, says the house-selling arm helped it reach a record profit pre-tax profit...

The man who engineered the takeover of Countrywide by Connells is leaving the agency’s parent company, the Skipton Building Society. David Cutter...

Hello and welcome to the first PJT of autumn - an update on who’s moving where right now. Please let us know...

Connells Group says it is the UK's largest estate agency group by market share - and that's before the Countrywide acquisition...

The acquisition of Countrywide by Connells might just be the deal of the century in the British estate agency industry. That’s the...

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

Connells, which already has the explicit support of a majority of Countrywide shareholders for its takeover of the company, has now...

Countrywide shareholders will next month have the opportunity to vote on the Connells bid to purchase the troubled estate agency group. The...

In a dramatic New Year’s Eve statement on the London Stock Exchange, Countrywide has agreed the terms of a recommended offer...

What’s the happiest place in Britain? Rightmove has the answer. In a new ‘Happy At Home’ index calculated by the portal and...

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

Purplebricks and Countrywide have each recently claimed to be the biggest agency group in the UK but now Connells says that...

Hello and welcome to the latest PJT - your regular Monday fix of who’s moving where in our industry. As ever, a...

Hello and welcome to the final Property Jobs Today for November - the festive month of December is just around the...

All eyes are on Japan for the Rugby World Cup beginning this weekend…but there’s still time for our industry to raise...

Hello and here’s another PJT to start the week: we hope it’s your first port of call when you want to...

OnTheMarket has revealed several agents have signed up to the portal on long-term contracts and stopped listing properties on Rightmove. The agencies...

Hello and welcome to Property Jobs Today, the regular Monday round-up of moves and changes in our industry. Do please let us...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today, our weekly feature on who’s moving where throughout our industry. And it’s...

Hello and welcome to Property Jobs Today; this is the latest of our weekly round-ups of key job moves within estate...

Hello and welcome to our first Property Jobs Today, a weekly round-up of key job moves within estate and letting agencies...