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First things first, I have to mention the World Cup. The dream is over, football’s not quite coming home (not until...

Amid the headline-grabbing political manoeuvring over Brexit, a policy proposal which could have serious ramifications for private landlords, and those who...

An agent who is only 20 - and who set up his own firm when he was still a teenager -...

The new housing minister, Kit Malthouse, has made his first formal statement from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. It...

A leading agency chief says the frequent churn of housing ministers means there is only one answer if our industry wants...

Renting has long been characterised as a stepping stone onto the housing ladder for the younger generations. But in recent years,...

An insolvency firm claims 153 estate agencies have gone bust in the past year with more than 7,000 “showing signs of...

We’re lucky enough to interact with thousands of landlords and tenants every month. As a result, we get the chance to...

Savills has suggested that it may be time for a fundamental review of what’s left of the flagship policy of Margaret...

Letting agents are being advised to think seriously about how they can recoup costs to help compensate for the introduction of...

A London estate agency run by a brother and sister is trying something completely now - it pledges to use some...

Any letting agent appreciates the effort, dedication, and sometimes heartache, that comes with running a business yet equally knows that when...

Firstly, my sincere apologies - it has now been over a month since my last PropTech blog, doesn’t time fly!  In the...

100 years ago, 90% of the UK population rented a home. Today, that figure has flipped, and over two thirds are...

Sotheby's International Realty has launched what it claims to be the first 'real estate-branded' augmented reality (AR) app. 'Curate', which is now...

There is a common misconception that the private rented sector (PRS) is entirely made up of young professionals and students. While...

High-end London chain Marsh & Parsons, part of the LSL Property Services empire, has opened in 30th office in Chiswick.  “Chiswick’s wonderful...

Estate agents don’t necessarily have the most eco-friendly image as an industry - but here’s one who’s really making a statement...

The rise and fall - and perhaps rise again - of Countrywide has been of enduring interest to the agency industry...

Recent void statistics have had me wondering how agents can juggle client and consumer demands in the face of the impending...

How much more of it would you have if you could do all your month-end payments and reconciliations in a couple...

One of the three official redress bodies serving the estate and lettings agency industry has conducted a survey of complaints across...

Today is the day. 1,600 people will gather in London for FUTURE: PropTech, an event I have supported when there were...

Theresa May has appointed a controversial former Shelter executive as her new housing policy adviser working in Whitehall. Toby Lloyd was until...

Leading housing analyst Kate Faulkner says the current low transaction level is “a little scary” because with so few sellers, buyers...

In recent months, there’s been a notable move in the rental market towards deposit replacement products in place of traditional security...

I’m writing this a week into my instruction decision. It has been a fascinating journey to date. As I discussed last week,...

‘Respect’ is the new mantra for politicians: whether it’s about street gang leaders, social media trolls or those on either side...

Coming into force on May 25, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - which replaces the Data Protection Act 1998 -...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today, our regular Monday look at key moves inside our industry. Everyone mentioned here...

The Property Ombudsman, Katrine Sporle, is to hold a briefing on the government’s redress reform on Wednesday - five days before...

Floor plans are an essential marketing tool, which play an important part in helping an estate agent sell a home.  A floor...

Just like that, the Easter Bank Holiday has come and gone and I find myself now looking ahead to the Summer.  The...

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

You don’t have to look far to see an abundance of photo failures, just head to any property portal and they’ll pop...

Hybrid agency EweMove says it has seen four portfolio acquisitions and 29 new areas ‘purchased’ by franchisees since June 2017, taking...

Last week, a story was published by CNBC about a couple who sold their home, for above the asking price, without...

Have you noticed a new turf war going on on the fringes of the agency world? It’s not a high-profile battle like...

TV property expert Phil Spencer is launching an online advice service for buyers and tenants, including offering guidance on the specific...

Ombudsman Services, which recently announced it was quitting its role as one of three approved redress schemes for estate and lettings...

Welcome once again to Property Jobs Today, the notice-board for agents, suppliers and other property professionals moving within, out or in...

The troubled Countrywide group has this morning revealed its recovery plan to get - in its words - ‘back to basics’...

Getting your property marketing right is vital, and the starting point is with professional images.  With most buyers browsing the internet for...

Your buy-to-let investment is an extremely valuable asset and you need to know the income generated from it will be safely...

Firstly, a huge thanks to everyone who shared and commented on my first blog and for all those that emailed me...

Foxtons has reported its 2017 figures to shareholders and the City this morning and as expected they show sharp falls in...

The death of traditional TV – where viewers sit down together to watch shows at defined times – has been much...

Rightmove has reported another very large leap in revenue in 2017 and a modest rise in agency and new home customers...

Estate Agent Today can reveal that one of London’s best known agency chains has acquired one of the capital’s leading independent...

Coming into force on May 25, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - which replaces the Data Protection Act 1998 -...

The government has launched a surprise consultation on the creation of a new redress system for customers of agents and others...

City broker Jefferies is warning that Countrywide’s earnings as calculated through the EBITDA measure could drop to as little as £50m -...

This week I carry out a question and answer session with one of the most high-profile names in property. Isobel Thomson has...

A new year means new predictions for what’s to come in the letting industry. Sometimes things come to fruition as expected....

A range of factors - including fierce competition under the supplied housing market, rising property prices and political uncertainty – have...

It’s probably unwise to write too much about politics these days. The most fanciful predictions turn out to be less wild...

Last week’s news that the lettings fee ban is unlikely to materialise before next spring was perhaps to be expected. Ever since...

For a while now, property and technology have been combining seamlessly to offer the industry innovative solutions to often complex problems....

It’s no surprise that figures don’t always show the results or consequences we expect - even if they are entirely accurate. Look...

An online intermediary platform called OpenMoov has been set up which instructs agents on behalf of sellers and tenants - and...

A House of Commons committee has prepared a briefing document on areas of the UK residential and commercial properties sectors most impacted...

A major industry supplier has reminded estate and letting agents that they have to check their responsibilities and systems ahead of...

Another new year is nearly upon us and, once we’ve got the season of mince pies, mulled wine, pigs in blankets,...

Bitcoin has smashed into the headlines again recently with major news outlets describing the ever increasing worth of this wildly volatile...

The short let management company Lavanda - backed by Harry Hill, former chief of Rightmove and Countrywide - has launched software...

Landlords are being urged to step up and ensure that all rented properties and accommodation meet recent laws relating to carbon...

As we hurtle towards the end of 2017, it’s time to reflect on the year that’s just been.   Even better, this property-based...

Earlier this week, Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered the Autumn Budget with a strong focus on housing.  The decision to cut stamp duty...

The housing industry has set out a list of demands in advance of the government’s hotly anticipated Autumn Budget on Wednesday.  Despite...

It’s something of an understatement to say it’s been a busy fortnight for the industry in terms of announcements, consultations and...

The spread and sophistication of financial crime in the UK in recent years has been unprecedented.  Figures from UK Finance show that...

A former estate agent has teamed up with two interiors experts to offer a home staging rental service to dress properties...

An industry analyst says some agents may find it tough to survive in 2018 if they’re hit by a double whammy...

Another week, yet more consultations - the agency industry can’t complain about not being asked for its views recently. The latest were on...

They say presentation is key (something that Theresa May now knows all too well after her calamitous conference speech). But equally...

Like many of Labour’s recent policy proposals, its call for rent controls leaves more questions than answers.  There has been widespread criticism...

And so concludes another party conference season.  We’ve followed the great and the good (both terms are debatable) around Torbay, Bournemouth,...

Having launched 13 years ago, PayProp, part of Humanstate Group, an international private technology services group, has grown into a leading...

The UK is home to four million leasehold properties in private ownership, according to government figures. The majority of which require...

Every week we carry reports of how great causes are helped by individual agents and other property professionals - this week...

What does your role involve? As team manager for the property team, I make sure PAs and clients are happy and...

Labour’s shadow housing minister John Healey is reported to be one of a number of prominent front bench opposition spokespeople being...

Some good news is here for landlords and letting agents worried about the energy efficiency rating of their property – the...

Parliament is sitting again and the entire lettings industry is waiting with bated breath for more detail on the government’s proposal...

When a tenant failed to pay any rent after the first month his tenancy last year, the landlord did not expect...

Research from the Centre for Economics and Business Research has shown that the cost of the average rental deposit is expected...

Historically, short-term rentals have been an unattractive business for the majority of estate agents and property managers. Scarcity of demand from tenants...

Three agencies have been expelled from membership of The Property Ombudsman for two or more years, after failing to pay awards...

Foxtons has reported its half-year figures for the six months to the end of June and, as expected, they show how...

You may have heard that Airbnb and property management company, Lavanda has closed a £1 million angel investment round.  Backers include Purplebricks...

That the private rental sector has become the government’s whipping boy for housing problems - landlords in particular, letting agents almost...

For those of us working within the property sector, we’re in the very midst of what, for generations, has been one...

Wimbledon finals and the British Grand Prix await us this weekend and The Open begins a few days later, completing what...

Estate and letting agents are being urged to prepare for new data protection legislation coming into effect next year - but...

Living next to inconsiderate neighbours can be a nightmare, but letting to bad tenants can prove costly, especially when issues, which...

How many property professionals are truly happy with their revenue? High levels of competition from new market entrants is a significant...

As an agency business, how much are you spending on professional body memberships? Perhaps it’s time to question how much you...

Our recent roundtable on the government’s proposed ban on letting agent fees charged to tenants generated ten tips for growing your...

Mark Goddard was the founder and CEO of The Property Software Group (PSG), a property software solutions firm established in 2007,...

The Queen’s speech to the British parliament this week was a scaled-back affair, which was unsurprising given the Grenfell Tower fire,...

The detailed paperwork accompanying the Queen’s Speech includes the Conservative party manifesto pledge to streamline house buying - but gives no...

A cluster of conveyancing and legal experts, known as the Legal Sector Group, has published a raft of proposals on leasehold...

The managing director of lettings at Foxtons says Brexit and domestic political uncertainty have become ‘the new norm’ in the London...

The popularity of property auctions in the UK has increased enormously in recent years, supported by popular TV shows such as...

The industry’s three government-approved redress schemes have this week issued an updated version of their Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The MOU is...

It has been announced that Uber, the taxi company, has teamed up with build to rent firm, Moda Living, to ‘revolutionise renting’.    This...

The recent rise in consumer complaints against sales and letting agents suggests that there is a general lack of trust and...

The banning of letting fees levied on tenants has dominated the industry headlines in recent months but this election campaign suggests...

Student accommodation is positively luxurious compared with the drafty digs of my student days. En-suites, studio flats, even cinemas in halls...

ZPG has published its half-year figures this morning showing a six per cent rise in the number of agents and a...

Baroness Diana Warwick (below right) has been appointed chair of The Property Ombudsman scheme’s independent council. A life peer for the past 18...

The best estate and letting agents in the UK were recognised at the prestigious ESTAS luncheon and ceremony, which was held...

In November 2016 when the Autumn Statement was delivered by Chancellor Philip Hammond, the announcement was made to ban letting agent...

The Conservatives have this morning announced a reform of the house buying process in the party’s manifesto for the June 8...

Viewber, the outsourced property viewing service and brainchild of high-profile former estate agent Ed Mead, says its network of 'Viewbers' now...

The Guild of Property Professionals, which has over 800 agent members across the country, has this week launched a new website.  The...

An investigation by the BBC has revealed that councils are spending million buying back homes they sold at a discount under...

Odds are that you use TripAdvisor when you book a restaurant or hotel; perhaps you scroll down Amazon before clicking ‘buy...

I was recently contributing to whitepaper by a major bank about the future of the property industry and, as I was...

There’s no sign yet that the snap General Election is distracting our industry from continuing its fine record of doing good...

It’s never more obvious how important good communication is for letting agents than in times of bad weather. Havoc caused by...

In this Natter we have an exclusive interview with David Cox, CEO of ARLA Propertymark and one of the best-known figures...

Ten years ago this month (April 2007) tenancy deposit schemes were first introduced in England and Wales.  You need to go a...

Agents should remember to target overseas buyers and tenants according to the head of a business management system aimed at maximising international...

The property market in northern England, supported in part by the Northern Powerhouse concept, has attracted a lot of media attention,...

A year ago, we were days away from the introduction of a 3% stamp duty surcharge on second homes – a...

In a week that I am recovering from the exuberance of MIPIM (I didn't want to focus on it in this...

We’re almost nine months on from the EU Referendum and yet the issue remains the big divide across the nation: an...

Dust off your black tie and grab a tissue as we’re entering a period of mourning. It’s a bold claim, but...

Former clients of a Scottish estate and letting agency and mortgage company are being asked by a corporate insolvency firm to...

This week I’m lucky enough to be out here in Cannes as a PropTech Ambassador for MIPIM, the international real estate...

Wales is the latest part of the UK to formally scrap the policy which was once the flagship of Margaret Thatcher’s...

Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his first Budget this week pledging extra funding for the NHS, transport in the Midlands and the...

Former Conservative minister Michael Portillo has made an outspoken attack on his former party over its switch of housing policy emphasis from...

Looking ahead to the Spring Budget this week, the Chancellor Philip Hammond will be obliged to face up to the implications...

With tax relief changes, a rise in Stamp Duty for second homes and strict mortgage affordability checks now in place, it...

There has been some really interesting talk recently of the relationship between FinTech (Finance Technology) and PropTech (Property Technology). A few...

Over the past two decades, investing in buy-to-let has been a relatively easy way to make money, which is why so...

We’re used to stories on how the buying and renting of ‘formal’ accommodation - flats and houses - has become increasingly...

Excuse the puntastic (or not) title, but as you’ve no doubt already deciphered I took a trip northwards a couple of...

If you work in lettings, I’ll already have a pretty good idea on how you feel about the current Conservative Government.  The...

The government has set out 29 key points in its Housing White Paper.   Introducing it in the Commons this afternoon, Communities Secretery Sajid...

Welcome to February! It means that 2017 is well under way and we’re edging closer to Spring – a time when...

Legal firm Kirwans have released shocking statistics which state that 70% of eviction notices issued by landlords to tenants may be...

The East of England, which takes in areas from Hertfordshire to Norfolk, has recorded the biggest hike in property prices over...

The stock market appears to be continuing its love affair with Purplebricks, as the hybrid agency share price rose once again...

The story of the week has been the first steps of a trade body to represent independent estate agents - as...

The end of 2016 saw the launch of 30,000 new build-to-rent (BTR) projects in London alone. With market growth projected to...

The government appears to have slipped back on two deadlines concerning measures key to the property industry. Firstly the consultation on the...

2016 was quite a year – eventful, dramatic, shocking and impossible to predict. In no particular order, we saw Leicester winning...

As the wait goes on for the government’s White Paper on Housing, due this month, one funding organisation has suggested that...

The rental market has had to face a raft of changes over the past year, including the introduction of the 3% stamp...

A post-Christmas treat this week, as I carry out a Q & A with one of the leading figures in property,...

If you provide a service, you expect to be paid for it. Sound fair? But with the forthcoming ban on tenant...

Campaigning charity Shelter predicts as many as four in 10 owners or renters in one part of the UK would struggle...

The government has announced that its next Budget will be on March 8 next year. Until recently, Budgets and their ‘mini-me’ Autumn...

Forecasts are so last year: who anticipated Bowie, Brexit or Balls for example? Quotes, on the other hand, really ARE last year...

Only a week to the Christmas break and still our industry goes above and beyond the call of duty to raise...

Boris Johnson, Donald Trump, Jeremy Corbyn, Phillip Hammond, Tony Blair and Bob Geldof, all in one image...is this truly the nightmare...

The government has launched an official consultation process on a package of measures to crack down on what it calls ‘rogue...

Next year is likely to be a challenging time for letting agents, following a raft of changes introduced by the government...

Carpe diem, seize the day – whatever you call it, it’s something all of us in the property industry should be looking...

With effect from the 1st December 2016, amendments to the Immigration act 2014 were made through the Immigration Act 2016.    The soundbite...

Let me set out my stall from the beginning. Firstly with two buy to lets managed by an agency, I understand and...

What a mad, bonkers year it’s been. We’ve had, in no particular order: Trump, Brexit, Leicester winning the Premier League, a...

Listening to all the coverage of the tenant fee ban, all I hear is consumer groups talking about how some agents...

Chancellor Philip Hammond caught the lettings industry unaware with an incredulous Autumn Statement.  The buy-to-let sector took a bashing earlier in 2015...

A trading update released by Countrywide this morning shows a 29 per cent slump in London exchanges in the third quarter...

Share prices for both Foxtons and Countrywide took a significant tumble yesterday as news of the ban on letting agents’ fees...

In case you missed it yesterday, here’s a summary of everything relating to property that was in Chancellor Phillip Hammond’s Autumn...

Phillip Hammond has delivered his first Autumn Statement, tackling amongst other things, what he called “the housing challenge.” The speech made no...

It may still be too early to start compiling a Christmas wish list, but it is the right time to provide...

Forecasts are a tricky business. And as I wrote in a recent Industry Views opinion piece, any prediction in the current...

There were some absolutely brilliant figures released recently by telephone answering specialist, Moneypenny.  The highest call volumes diverted from agents to Moneypenny occurred between 10am-11am...

A debate discussing how online and traditional estate agency would develop in the future, organised by City investment consultancy Jefferies, has...

Media reports over the weekend suggest that the government is to introduce a 'buy as you go' system in the Autumn...

When a tenant paid his initial one month’s rent in addition to a tenancy deposit in exchange for the keys to...

The Independent Network of Estate Agents is running a survey to collate agents' responses ahead of the closure of the official...

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

A Labour MP says a deal is now on the cards for an estate to be purchased after months of controversy,...

Online reviews play an increasingly vital role in shaping the decisions of customers. Practically everyone using the internet to compare estate...

Buy-to-let landlords may have failed in their recent legal battle against planned government tax relief changes for buy-to-let homes set to...

Suzy Lamplugh was just 25 years old when she disappeared whilst working as an estate agent in London in 1986. She’d...

When marketing a property for sale, there are a number of attributes that buyers and sellers today expect ‘as standard’, but...

Barely a week goes by without an announcement relating to the latest player entering the online agency world and when they...

Several agencies have refused to market properties on a social housing estate which was bought by private investors in January. The Mirror...

More estate agents are using – or at least considering using – virtual reality viewings as part of their services. But what...

Given the uncertainty that shrouded the immediate build up to, and aftermath of, the EU referendum, the current lettings market in...

A new website has launched with the aim of providing vendors, landlords, buyers and tenants with an easy way of registering...

The key lies in improving your customer experience through technology For Agents, the tremendous growth in online estate agents highlights a strong...

The huge rush to acquire buy-to-let property in the first quarter of the year ahead of the stamp duty change deadline...

In the capital, people will pay a premium to live near great transport links, and as we’ve seen from Crossrail and...

For many people buy-to-let continues to look an attractive income investment at a time of low saving rates and stock market...

Foxtons has removed its listing for the sale of a property on an estate in Walthamstow after concerns expressed by nearby...

Rentplus, a business providing Rent To Buy homes, has announced that it has new funding of £20m - on top of...

If you want an indicator that the United Kingdom isn’t so united any more, have a look at Right To Buy. The...

Councils have started replacing just one sixth of the number of homes sold under Right To Buy in England in the...

Wales has confirmed that it is to scrap the former flagship Thatcherite policy of Right To Buy. Since 1980, 138,423 homes have been...

Over 37 per cent of prospective buyers are worried that concern over Brexit will trigger a housing market crash according to...

Right To Buy - the controversial sell-off of council and housing association homes initially introduced as a flagship of Margaret Thatcher’s...

Barely a week goes by without news of the latest disastrous AirBnB experience suffered by an unsuspecting landlord.   Whether it’s damage...

I’m indebted to one of the most enthusiastic estate agents I’ve had the pleasure of meeting for suggesting the subject of...

‘Digital technology in the property industry is here to stay’ was very much the opinion drawn from the recent FUTURE: PropTech...

A man has been prosecuted for fraudulently attempting to purchase a Right To Buy council property from one of the local...

No Letting Go have won Bronze at the Lettings Agency of the Year 2016 Awards.   They have been accredited with the Bronze...

The old and eternal debate over whether or not tenant fees should be banned continues to rumble on. It’s a major concern...

Let’s face it - the biggest distraction for many estate agents in the coming weeks may well be the Euro 2016...

As we have just passed the 6 month half way point of 2016 we thought it would be a good idea...

It's great to hear how new proptech is being embraced by a number of front line agents in order to network...

Property portal OnTheMarket has announced that it has signed up five branch estate agency Meller Braggins.  The firm, which is based in...

It’s nearly June – June! – already. Seriously, where has this year gone? This means summer is nearly upon us, with a...

Use of the term ‘generation rent’ has grown beyond all measure in recent years, but it’s not always quoted in the...

So what is it with young people failing to stand up for themselves and not making the most of their money...

Running a business is not easy, but sometimes it becomes harder because we are expected to modify our behaviour due to...

Q: What does it say on your business card? Director of Business Development Q: Who are PayProp? PayProp is an automated payment and reconciliation...

The new mayor of London Sadiq Khan has pledged to do all in his power to help make London “better” after...

Here are the top letting agents in Britain who go above and beyond to help their customers, as voted for by...

The race to replace London Mayor Boris Johnson has entered its final few days, and like never before, housing is the...

Winners’ reactions and views from a fantastic day of celebration! The Kings Group scooped the gold award for Best Estate Agent in...

This week, as the title suggests, I turn my attentions to the world of deposit protection schemes. Landlords have been legally obliged...

We’re all talking about second home stamp duty, changes to tax relief and the Prudential Regulation Authority’s suggestion that banks should...

We talk about the unstoppable rise of buy-to-let and forget that it was only as recently as the early 1970’s that...

Storm Katie (makes it sound so harmless when they give it a name like that, doesn’t it?) might have given the...

Forget the gloomy stamp duty news, or the prospect that a new house price index might revalue house prices downwards, or...

Government figures claim almost 50,000 households in council and other forms of social housing have taken up their Right To Buy...

Property has long been a safe investment. Before the downturn in 2008, sellers were able to gain a healthy capital return.  Post-economic...

George Osborne has been busy over the last year. First came the General Election which had everyone on tenterhooks until the...

There is widespread misunderstanding within agency concerning money laundering obligations.  The first thing to note is that contrary to popular belief the...

Bungalows are likely to be sold-off as a by-product the government’s plans to extend Right To Buy, but are unlikely to...

London estate agency Douglas & Gordon, one of the firms which founded Agents’ Mutual, has launched a new website with a...

What are we going to do about Generation Rent? Only as recently as February 2016 did tenants steal the headline away...

Shelter has been tirelessly campaigning for longer tenancies for the last few years.  The charity has led the case for change and...

We’ve been facing some pretty adverse weather recently. Gales, storms and terrible flooding in parts of the country have upturned the...

A two bedroom apartment with an asking price of £125,000 has sold for £140,000 despite - or perhaps because - its...

The estate agency industry has been ticked off by an official watchdog for the way many of its businesses handle clients'...

Public relations used to be a minor part of estate agency, something only ‘the big boys’ paid for and with little...

A letting agency that has been the subject of a BBC investigation and has gone into liquidation in controversial circumstances has...

In January readers of Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today were given the opportunity to give their views on proposed...

With a little over two months to go until changes to Stamp Duty are introduced that will impact purchasers of second...

It is no secret that Prime Central London lettings offerings vary from the exquisite to the plain and ugly.  The exquisite boasting...

South of England agency chain Andrews has launched a new app and website as part of its brand-refreshing programme for 2016.  The...

It’s time to take a pause, to reflect and put into context—and what a year it has been for our industry...

It was an end of an era in the property world this week. Christopher Hamer stepped down as the Property Ombudsman...

You might recall a collective sigh of relief emitted by stakeholders in the housing market and private rental sector back in...

Once you go beyond the industry’s anger about the Chancellor’s three per cent stamp duty surcharge – and that’s an anger...

- From April 2016 buy to let landlords and people buying second or holiday homes will have to pay an additional...

George Osborne has announced a shock additional 3.0 per cent stamp duty on second homes and buy to let properties. Details are...

So this weekend some of us will see our first snow of the season. Harsh weather, Christmas adverts and winter generally...

LSL Property Services plc has announced another lettings acquisition, this time in Elgin and Inverness. The agency they have bought, PHP Lettings,...

I make no apologies for returning to Build To Rent, the institutional investment in building and managing blocks of flats to...

Estate agent Butters John Bee based at Nantwich in Cheshire has won the latest ESTAS Agent of the Month title.   The...

Someone told me the other day that it’s now only seven Mondays till Christmas. Now there’s a scary thought. Best get...

It’s hard not to have been influenced by the Rugby World Cup over the past month and a half – while...

With a raft of new legislation introduced recently now will be the ideal time to think about whether staff are up...

A reader of Industry Views is unlikely to need converting to the virtues of buy to let, but anyone involved in...

The chief executive of Countrywide, Alison Platt, has hinted her firm may invest in, or acquire, an internet start-up company to...

next2buy Property Retailers has scooped the September ESTAS Estate Agent of the Month title.   The Tyne & Wear based agency won...

It would seem that now is a better time than ever for investors to join the buy-to-let market.  The Royal Institute of...

The government is telling councils to produce local plans for new homes in their area by 2017 – or Whitehall will...

The party's over. It's probably the best double entendre in the world of politics right now. For centre or right-leaning Labour...

It’s been nearly a year since all lettings and property management agents have been legally required to join a redress scheme...

This month it was announced that Landbay mortgage lenders will release a new rental Index, alongside Zoopla and data-modelling experts MIAC.  The...

So housing made itself top of the list of questions by the new Leader of the Opposition’s first PMQs on Wednesday...

If there’s one thing that looks like a good move right now, it’s becoming a letting agent.  Whereas some years ago we...

Labour’s newly-elected candidate for next year’s London mayoral election says he will name and shame rogue landlords and create a public...

We’ve enjoyed a bit of an Indian summer this week. Not sure it makes up for one of the coldest and...

You can't help but notice that it's back to school time – the shops are full of school uniforms and pencil...

It’s become almost obligatory for start-ups in many industries – frequently online agents in the selling and letting business – to...

This month analysis by the Office for National Statistics revealed that the average home in England and Wales cost a record...

Stories of migrants attempting to make their way to the UK are now a daily feature in our news bulletins and...

The Bank Holiday weekend heralds the end of August and the return to a more normal sales and lettings market for...

A new website has been launched to fight back against the attack George Osborne made in the Summer Budget on the...

Public relations is big business these days. Whole companies are set up purely to provide this service. Major corporations have in-house...

Estate agency Romans has claimed that it is the 'strongest property brand' in the Thames Valley.  The Romans Group recently commissioned a...

Three agents have been announced as winners of The ESTAS Agent of the Month competition - with Butters John Bee the...

A new campaign says it’s not just the buy to let sector that will be penalised by changes to landlord tax...

I received a call from a prominent agent known to many in the industry this week, asking an unexpected question: he wanted...

Labour leadership front-runner Jeremy Corbyn says he would vote for a complete end to all forms of Right To Buy and...

Roy Fuller Managing Director at Everything Lettings says: By having in place an Out Of Hours help line such as we...

The House of Lords has set the cat amongst the pigeons on the government proposal to give housing association tenants the...

Consider the scene. It is July 8th and new Chancellor, Ed Balls, stands at the Dispatch Box giving his first Budget...

Many Councils are now introducing Landlord Licensing within different boroughs, for those that have one of the requirements is a 24...

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

The Chancellor, George Osborne, has announced a series of measures impacting on the property industry, including:   Mortgage interest relief for buy-to-let homebuyers...

The government says it will publish an action plan this week to explain how it is going to implement some of...

I don't think there is one person in lettings and property management who isn't alarmed at the scenes just over the...

The Financial Times says London Mayor and new Conservative MP Boris Johnson is lobbying the government in a bid to persuade...

In today’s highly competitive market place, no company can afford to miss a business opportunity. Roy Fuller Managing Director at Everything Lettings...

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

This month has marked a real change in the way the private lettings sector is perceived - and it’s a perception...

Given that I wrote my last article on the day of the General Election but well before the result was known,...