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Spicerhaart has held its first agent reward trip since the pandemic. The top performers at the independent agency group have enjoyed an...

Kent-based agent Miles & Barr has opened its 13th office in the region and is celebrating by offering to sell local...

OneDome has launched a new product to let pre-qualified buyers register their interest for properties with local estate agents. The Buyer Passport...

The government’s Fairer Private Rented Sector White Paper has initially caused some consternation and a strong adverse reaction from some within...

A new calculator has been launched to let homeowners compare how much their property has earned compared in a year and...

This question is not as flippant as it sounds because over recent years the status of the private landlord has taken...

There’s one message that’s come home to me loud and clear from my dealings with agents so far this year -...

OnTheMarket subsidiary teclet has integrated with digital e-signature offering Signable. The partnership will mean agents using teclet’s property management and customer relationship...

There are whispers in Whitehall about plans to encourage pensioners to downsize with a stamp duty tax break. The move, first reported...

A mobile phone may be a decent perk for agents and seen as essential for communicating while out on the road. But...

OnTheMarket has expanded its partnership with agency coaching brand Property Academy. The exclusive commercial relationship was agreed last year, giving full-fee paying...

Agency franchisees with brands such as Hunters, Martin & Co, Belvoir and EasyProperty are being given the chance to sign up...

Propertymark is urging restraint on the part of the Welsh Government as it moves to tackle what it sees as the...

It’s not an easy time for many renters (and homeowners). The cost of living is going up across the board for...

In this guest feature, Chris Mason, Operations Director at The Letting Partnership, outlines why agents might want to consider outsourcing client accounting. The...

Hello and welcome to the weekend, and another ADC - our chance to pay tribute to fundraisers throughout our industry. Want to...

An industry trade body wants the government to scrap the three per cent stamp duty surcharge on additional homes - and...

A rural body in Wales has hit out at the Welsh Government’s proposals for draconian new taxes on second homes.  Earlier this...

The Welsh Government has announced an increase to the maximum level of council tax premiums for second homes, as well as...

A lead generation platform that boasts Leaders, EweMove and Northwood amongst its clients says it’s expanding into mortgages. Rentround, now in its...

The UK property industry has long been a target of fraudsters due to the low levels of transparency and the fact...

Features often overlooked by agents and buyers now, such as double glazing and insulation, are likely to become high up on...

For an unregulated industry, agents have an awful lot of regulations to deal with. For example, there’s the mandatory membership of a...

A leading buying agency says that while prime central London’s property market shows clear signs of recovery, a weak area remains...

An estate agency is running a competition to encourage residents to photograph badly-located For Sale and To Let boards. The Basingstoke branch...

Owners of second homes who abuse a tax loophole by claiming their often-empty properties are holiday lets will be forced to...

A wealth tax on overseas owners of UK homes could raise £5 billion a year to help local people buy their...

The objective of estate agents in 2022 must be to cut their business costs and employ technology to replace - and...

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

Lenders’ umbrella group UK Finance has given its housing and mortgage market forecasts for 2022 and 2023 together, plus a year-end report for 2021. It estimates...

The chief executive of Propertymark says the number of homes on sale has fallen to an average of just 21 per branch. “Figures from...

Let’s begin with total transparency from this author: I believe there’s a place for Build To Rent in the wider portfolio...

There is pressure growing in Brighton for the city to hold a referendum giving residents the opportunity to ban new build...

A stamp duty surcharge which has been labelled ‘forgotten’ because of its low profile has nonetheless bagged £45m for HM Treasury in...

The Property Franchise Group, the agency industry’s largest franchise operation, has reported strong performance in recent months. Chief executive Gareth Samples has...

It’s been revealed that the government did consider a stamp duty RISE which would have been announced in this week’s Budget. The...

The proportion of properties selling above asking price has dipped according to Propertymark - a likely sign the market is softening at...

I’m going to declare upfront that, as an investor, I have a financial interest in the success of MovePal but I also need...

Hello and welcome to the end of the week - an opportunity for you to catch up with charity news from...

A family-run agency has reinvented the For Sale board by removing all of the usual visual cues and traditional words -...

Agents are being advised to go above and beyond the legal requirements for anti-money laundering requirements.  Paul Offley, compliance officer for The...

It’s been revealed that HM Revenue & Customs scours the listings on both Rightmove and Zoopla to assess whether property investors...

Agent wages have been in the news this week, with boastful claims from a number of self-employed businesses about the sums...

A service that sells properties and elements of joint venture schemes to investors says it’s seeking to expand after completing on...

A leading agency says the new normal likely to establish itself in the housing market after the end of the stamp...

As virtual tours start to get even more popular, and in some cases become the norm for the majority of letting...

Agents are always on the lookout to save time and money wherever they can, to improve, streamline and enhance their business. And...

Business intelligence is paramount to companies looking to gain a competitive edge, particularly in saturated markets like estate agency. Each client...

Few political policies have such a ring of the past as rent controls - they were last seen in this country...

360 tour technology company Made Snappy has grown rapidly over the past 18 months and whilst many agents have grasped the...

Hello, and here’s the bad news to get it over with - this is the final Bank Holiday weekend before…Christmas. Now that’s...

An estate agency is to launch its third branch, this time in a seaside location. Stoneridge Estate Agents’ new Brightlingsea town centre...

The Property Ombudsman says there’s been a big increase in enquiries to its service in recent months, despite the pandemic.  In its...

The controversial proposal by a PropTech start up to charge potential viewers of properties to let or for sale has been...

It’s a great sign of our slow but reassuring return to normality when much-missed fundraising events make a welcome comeback -...

Trust the process: subscribe your landlords and tenants to Task Plans and receive automated prompts when it’s the right time to...

The stamp duty holiday came and went with much fanfare. For many buyers it represented a rare opportunity to make some...

Around 2.66 million landlords were operational in Great Britain in 2019, according to data estimations previously released by Hamptons International. Of those...

A new service launched over the weekend, proposing to charge buyers £30 for a “guaranteed” viewing, has split opinions amongst estate...

Spicerhaart - which is increasingly shifting its activities towards agents operating away from traditional branches - has redesigned its boards in...

Our long-awaited ‘Freedom Day’ approaches. From Monday all of the restrictions, introduced since the Covid-19 pandemic made an impact across the...

There’s no need for excuses if you’re not fund raising for good causes on Saturday evening - tens of millions will...

For many, paying money to use an estate agent is primarily because that company has a database of buyers or tenants....

The debate over For Sale and To Let boards continues apace with some local councils wanting to make it difficult or...

As agents, we’ve finally got used to the word PropTech - some of us even like it! What’s more, PropTech has,...

The possible introduction of higher levels of Capital Gains Tax for the sale of buy to let, holiday homes or even...

An estate agent has been accused of charging prospective clients to view a property. The claim has been made on Twitter by...

A council cracking down on the increase of illegally positioned estate agent boards. Agents are required, under Planning and Highways legislation to...

Banking has gone through radical changes in the past few years, in step with technology and the sheer amount we can...

A report by the Office of Tax Simplification on Capital Gains Tax has called for a series of changes. They include extending...

Some sellers are suffering cash flow issues as a result of glitches in the Capital Gains Tax reporting system, according to...

In a return to a favourite series of mine, as it gives an excellent insight into the very many facets of...

The last property event I attended in person – and I think the last physical property event held all told –...

Licensing of the short-term lets sector in Scotland was due to be introduced next month. However, it was recently announced that...

There is growing speculation that a raft of tax proposals to be unveiled next week will include reform of Capital Gains...

Purplebricks has unveiled changes to its For Sale and To Let boards to reflect its continuing sponsorship of Team GB and...

There’s a warning this morning that possible tax reforms to be unveiled next Monday could wreak huge damage on the property...

Hello and welcome to this edition of Property Jobs Today, a chance to catch up with who’s moving where in the...

Leaders Romans Group is to use only fully recycled material to create its sales and lettings boards across all of its...

Tax experts suggest the widely expected reform of Capital Gains Tax is unlikely to be announced in tomorrow’s Budget - at...

Pre-pandemic, virtual and video viewings were a nice little add-on for some agents, but they were far from universally used and...

A new study suggests that the end of the stamp duty holiday should not significantly dent the purchasing pattens of buy...

Being a letting agent today means keeping up to date with the long list of rules and regulations governing how a...

The high-end housing market on Jersey has been rocked by a plan from the island’s government which may ban foreign investors from...

REACH, a programme encouraging start-ups in the property world, has released a list of UK companies that will feature in its...

A group that last year floated the concept of a one-off wealth tax - which would include taxing main homes as...

Labour and Conservative MPs have expressed a unanimous view on their desire to see an extension of the stamp duty holiday...

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

The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has changed the way we evaluate our lives and, looking more specifically at the property market, it...

As we now find ourselves in the UK’s third national lockdown in 10 months, what tenants want, and need from their...

A leading mortgage broker is warning that over half the lenders in a key segment of the market are already unable...

The Financial Conduct Authority is extending the ban on repossessions by two months until April 1, in light of the pandemic. The...

Sir Kier Starmer has told the government it should look again at whether estate agents’ viewings of properties for sale and...

1. How would you say Century 21 franchisees have adapted to the challenges during 2020?  If someone had told me at the...

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

There’s a call this morning for estate and letting agents to regard the physical viewing of any property on sale or...

Firstly, Happy New Year – here’s to 2021 being less chaotic than the last! In the final part of our series on...

The shock and almost immediate increase in stamp duty on additional homes in Wales has prompted one question in the industry...

Moving home is emotionally fraught. Buyers and sellers will get upset and unfortunately some people will take it out on you....

A high-profile publicity campaign has culminated in the launch of a new CRM which calls itself as “a transformative new technology, empowering...

A mortgage technology platform has released figures suggesting the housing market remains strong, with high numbers of searches by buyers for...

The Home website, which publishes a detailed monthly snapshot of the market, has raised the alarm over London because of a...

Property is considered to be a safe investment. The buy-to-let market is booming, fuelled by a generation unable to get on...

One of the industry’s leading commentators says an unintended consequence of a possible Capital Gains Tax increase could be a bonus...

As lockdown – Season 2, the sequel no one asked for – gets underway in England, landlords, tenants and agents will...

The UK lettings market is no stranger to technology. But only a few of the early initiatives have remained, and landlords...

Letting agents and landlords have faced huge change and uncertainty this year, with Covid-19 the major driver. But even before the...

Independent agent uses innovative ‘feet up’ campaign to win business. An independent letting agency has invited landlords to put their ‘feet up’...

A new portal-style PropTech product has launched and wants to recruit estate agents to its fold - despite describing the way...

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

We all know what the problem is, but what’s the solution? The problem is that landlords, thinking they offer a valuable service...

The latest government rules combined with the Prime Minister’s recent address to the nation is clear – tougher measures are required...

Are agents swimming upstream against the Electrical Safety Regulations? 3 months on from the introduction of the ‘Electrical Safety Standards in the...

Despite the recent effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, there is still much opportunity in the market for letting agents to grow...

I’m sure I speak for most in the property industry when I say that back in March and April I had...

For a mixture of reasons, I now only write this column every two weeks. At first, I missed the weekly consideration...

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

It’s fair to say that UK estate agents don’t have the best of reputations, often featuring in the lists of the...

A new portal launches today with 100,000 listings and a pledge to target buyers largely ignored by established websites - investors. It’s...

Agents are being advised to operate an appointments-only system if they have offices with only one person on duty during the...

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

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has confirmed that the First Homes scheme will provide newly built homes at a 30 per cent...

What do General Electric, IBM, Microsoft, and WhatsApp have in common? Yes, they are American companies that boasted revenues of $50...

There’s been a very large rise in the number of complaints submitted by consumers to the Property Redress Scheme. This is partly...

Can technology bring about the lasting change needed to the property industry? The industry has felt the effect of lockdown and...

Speculation is mounting that Capital Gains Tax could for the first time be applied to gains made when owners sell first...

A London Labour council has won draconian powers to effectively ban For Sale and To Let boards in several parts of...

Tuesday of this week was the busiest day of the year so far for searches for mortgages - widely seen as...

The threshold at which Scotland’s Land and Buildings Transaction Tax is paid by purchasers is to be raised from £145,000 to...

In the second of a series of articles, Emma Vigus, Managing Director of mio, the Estate Agents Sales Progression platform, explores...

There’s been another increase in the number of mortgage products available to buyers and landlords - a sign of all aspects...

What work did I do through lockdown? I went to work for a company who provide Domiciliary care for the vulnerable and elderly...

As we adjust to a life post-Covid-19, letting agents, landlords, and tenants are thinking - ways to speed up the process...

Online sector veterans Russell Quirk and Kenny Bruce have used social media to call for a temporary scrapping of all stamp...

It’s official – the property market is back open for business. Estate agents have started to unfurlough staff and many are...

Last week was Mental Health Awareness Week, and there is a great deal of positive things to be said about a...

The Bank of Ireland UK is the latest mortgage lender to resume physical valuations of properties in England, subject of course...

A series of polls taken by Estate Agent Today suggest substantial numbers of agents remain uncomfortable about returning to trading even...

It’s back to work today for England’s estate agents and the housing market - but it’s the start of a new...

There’s been a substantial 20 per cent rise in formal complaints about agents taken up by The Property Ombudsman.  The figures refer...

The demand for mortgages in April was scarcely a quarter of what it was in March - but the figures show...

A property tax specialist is warning that sellers of buy to lets or holiday homes may have to estimate their own...

Good morning and welcome to today’s edition, helping agents find a way through the Coronavirus crisis by sharing information with the...

Much like PropTech, Open Banking has been used as a buzzword in recent years. However, when it comes to the rental...

Hello and here’s the latest daily update to help the industry through these unprecedented times.  If you have any appropriate advice you...

Hello: so much has happened since the last Conquering Corona column . Before we get on with it, a reminder to...

The two major portals have unveiled their discounts and deals for agents facing a dramatic loss of business because of the...

Hello - here we are with Friday’s help and advice.  A reminder, if you need it, that we want to share your...

A second prominent agent has broken cover to say Coronavirus is slowing the market. Jess Simpson - an ex-Savills and ex-Strutt and...

The property management industry is evolving at a rapid pace, thanks almost entirely to the rise in PropTech. Hundreds, if not thousands...

The landscape of the estate agency market in the UK is evolving to reflect changes in the way we live our...

Predictions that landlords are not buying properties to let out because of tougher rental taxes and regulations appear to be short...

The ‘on-demand’ economy is reshaping our world. The way we order food, get around, and even access healthcare has changed irreversibly...

Hello - if it’s Monday it’s PJT day, so welcome to the latest update on key moves within our industry. Let us...

Hello and welcome to a new week, and a new edition of PJT. If you’re on the move or your firm has...

The scores are in….and it looks like house prices are going to rise gently in 2020 according to forecasts from almost...

When looking back on the property market this year, the main message we can take is that it has remained extremely...

Hello again and welcome to more festive fun from agents who have kindly shared their office decorations and parties with our...

The public are being asked to inform the authorities if they know of agents operating fee-fixing cartels. The request - from the...

It’s a substantial Tory government for the next five years: what does this mean for estate agents, property and the market? We have...

Yes, you can promise yourself that you won't eat all the mince pies, or yet another roast potato, nor drink as...

There’s been a new warning to estate agents to check they are fully compliant with GDPR regulations following a European case...

An online agency which is free to list for vendors says it wants prospective buyers to stay in the property they...

Zoopla is advising agents to prepare for a festive rush of leads. The portal says it expects a 60  per cent month-on-month increase...

The latest figures from investment consultancy London Central Portfolio suggests new build sales have plummeted in prime areas of the capital...

The head of a new property portal is urging agents to forget about spending money on For Sale and To Let...

There was an increase in the number of first time buyers getting on the property ladder in September compared to the...

Foxtons has revealed that the chair of the troubled agency’s remuneration committee has stood down with immediate effect. This are also unconfirmed...

Troubled London estate agency Foxtons says it has rewritten its remuneration policy for its senior management following a shareholder revolt at...

A London council wants government backing for a borough-wide Section 7 direction - effectively banning all agents’ boards being erected without...

Until now General Election pledges of stamp duty reforms were restricted to the Conservatives - but now a tax consultancy says...

Hello there and welcome along to the latest PJT, your weekly catch-up on who’s moving where in agency, amongst suppliers and...

A tax expert is urging owners of second homes, as well as property investors and existing landlords, to seek independent financial...

A small online agency which in six months of trading has secured around 140 sales says it’s on course to be...

A former 10 Downing Street adviser says stamp duty on house sales should be scrapped or at least slashed in order...

There are fewer ‘accidental landlords’ - vendors who resort to letting out their homes because the sales market is difficult. That’s the...

We know that the tenant fee ban has cost letting agents dearly, with an estimated loss of £300 million paid to...

Cash buyers have fallen in 90 per cent of major UK cities over the past three years according to a Zoopla...

There’s a clear change of mood music in the country now regarding environmental issues. You don’t need to be old to remember...

Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, who earlier this month told a newspaper that he wanted to introduce a Right To Buy policy for...

An estate agent is linking a drop in transactions of as much as 20 per cent with the stamp duty increases...

A hybrid estate and lettings agency operating currently in Manchester, Liverpool and others parts of the north of England has told...

First time buyers will constitute the largest single group of purchasers in 2019, despite the apparent difficulties of deposits and securing...

A new PropTech online platform called BestAgent Property Marketplace is to launch next year following a series of 12 meetings this autumn. It...

A leading London estate agent has written to The Times dismissing MPs who have been squabbling over Brexit and a possible...

They will be the doctors, lawyers, teachers, thinkers, leaders and captains of industry of the not too distant future, but is...

Hello and welcome to the final PJT before September - yes that means summer is almost over.  Yet even during the holiday season...

A record £8.2 billion was paid in Capital Gains Tax in 2017/18 - over £1 billion more than the year before.  The...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Lino Goncalves – Area Sales Manager What is Lets bid property...

Have you asked yourself why technology is so important in letting agency today? Just look around and you will know why. Almost...

Estate and letting agents will for the first time be able to use WhatsApp to respond to leads on a 24/7...

Seemingly-endless uncertainty over Brexit and now speculation over whether there will be an easing of stamp duty on transactions is making...

1. Win More Listings For estate agency in the UK, the number one task is to get new properties to market. However,...

Hello and welcome to the start of a new week and a new Property Jobs Today column, bringing you the industry’s...

Seven in 10 agents fail to use video or YouTube to assist in their marketing according to an analysis by free-to-list...

Sometimes having prior knowledge of a stressful event can be more stressful than the event itself, just look at Brexit for...

In a marketplace as competitive as the property industry, you may think that generating leads is the most important focus for...

The introduction of technology to an industry can be daunting, due to changes in executing daily tasks, and also a fear...

Online estate agency Yopa is warning of price falls ahead in London and south east England - although price rises elsewhere...

Conservative Party leadership contender Boris Johnson has expressed an interest in switching the stamp duty burden from buyers to sellers. Until now Johnson’s comments on...

Welcome to the latest edition of Property Jobs Today. It's the time of the week when you can catch up with...

I want to take the time this week to look at an area of PropTech and real estate which is seeing...

Britain lives in fundamentalist black-and-white times - all the more surprising when the country's most divisive point of contention sits on...

When employing a new member of staff there are a lot of checks and balances put in place by any business...

Some 10 per cent of Britons now own a second home, a buy to let or an overseas property according to...

Sorry about the weather everyone…miserable isn’t it, and the summer is supposed to be well underway? But we’re not allowing our fund-raising...

A writer for the influential financial publication Money Week says investors should “steer clear” of Foxtons - at least for now. Sarah...

Welcome to the latest Property Jobs Today - because last week there was a Bank Holiday, we have a bumper edition...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, the destination where you can catch up with the key moves announced in the...

Agents have reacted gloomily to the release of figures showing that the number of new mortgages offered to both movers and...

Franchise giant Hunters is to be the subject of a Channel 4 TV show on air this evening at 8pm.  When I...

The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) has launched its long-awaited ‘How to sell a home’ and ‘How to...

An estate agency has contacted the police after 26 of its boards disappeared since September 2018.  Manor Estate Agents, an all-female agency...

A London sales and lettings agent has revealed to Estate Agent Today some of the tactics used by his rivals in...

A new and comprehensive analysis of the housing market shows a jaw-dropping collapse in stamp duty revenue going to the Treasury...

New figures from HM Revenue and Customs suggest that stamp duty receipts have fallen by no less than £1 billion. The drop...

A top London estate agent says the humble For Sale board remains the cheapest and most effective marketing tool - even...

A solicitor handling cases involving Japanese Knotweed say the problem could devalue the prices of affected houses by as much as...

Low risk letting is everyone’s aim, but unless legitimate guidelines are followed it’s difficult to know if a tenant will prove...

An ex-housing minister and ex-Brexit secretary says he wants to radically change taxes on buy to let capital appreciation to help...

It has been a long time coming, but the tenant fees ban, which forbids landlords and letting agents in England from...

With next Friday being Easter, this is the last ADC for a fortnight - so it’s our chance to honour those...

Some branches of one of London’s largest agencies, Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward, have returned to Zoopla after dropping it just over four...

Welcome to another ADC, the weekly round-up each Friday of agents’ great fund-raising work.  This week we show the diversity of charitable...

As the clock ticks down and Britain’s future gets ever more difficult to predict, one of the few certainties to cling...

The topic of introducing rent controls in London crops up time and time again in our industry. But it’s been hitting...

Figures released this morning show a surge in first time buyers securing mortgages in recent months, despite the market showing continued signs...

A slew of allegations have been made against agents and sometimes even by agents, over alleged misdemeanours over property listings as...

Hello and here we go with yet another Agents Do Charity, the weekly opportunity to herald the unsung efforts of our...

A new sales portal has launched with a radically different business model, aiming to pay agents to list on it. It’s the brainchild of...

Cast your minds back to the summer of 2014. It’s 9.55 am somewhere in east London ‘Sorry I’m late’ offers the...

After several days of gloomy market news, here's something more optimistic - there were 370,000 new first time buyer mortgages completed in...

A London council is considering a borough-wide ban on agents’ boards of all kinds. Labour-controlled Camden already has a ban for a...

The average prices of flats and maisonettes bucked the trend by falling very slightly in the year to December, according to...

The Property Ombudsman’s annual conference is to hear from the chair of the government’s ‘Property Agents Working Group’ - just days...

If former Chancellor George Osborne thought his 2014 stamp duty reform would produce more income for the government, it appears he...

When it comes to letting a property, it is important that landlords and renters have faith in their agent. The more...

Every day thousands of estate agency boards are erected across the UK. Even in the digital age the board remains one...

One of Britain’s foremost property consultancies has given a relatively upbeat prediction for the UK housing market over the next five...

A hybrid estate agency which uses freelance agents operating from a central hub is now expanding from London into the Home...

It’s safe to say that the majority of agents will be glad to see the end of the past two years....

Hello and welcome to 2019. These are less predictions and more expectations - developments following on from what’s happened in the past...

As 2018 draws to a close, it is fair to say that stretched affordability and uncertainty over the Brexit negotiations has...

Six directors have been banned from office after misleading over 300 people who bought new build homes in the north of...

A bid by online property platform TheHouseShop to raise £500,000 investment via crowdfunding appears to be flatlining. TheHouseShop - until 2015 known...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT - and while it may be just days to Christmas, there’s still plenty of...

When renting a property out, letting agents and landlords recognise that it is important to take a deposit from the tenant...

Maybe it’s the Brexit Blues but something is making the industry excel itself this year when it comes to celebrating Christmas....

Every other advert on the TV is featuring Santa Claus, snowmen or reindeer, the tinsel, trees and decorations are out in...

The Deposit Protection Service (The DPS) keeps deposit money safe for letting agents, landlords and renters during the course a tenancy....

A platform that allows individual private sellers and landlords to list their properties alongside those from professional agents says it’s not...

It’s Children In Need in just a few days’ time on Friday, November 16 - it’s one of the biggest fund-raising...

A first-time agent who has previously owned a retail franchise and some buy to let units, has bought the Century 21 franchise...

A business rates tax break which benefits holiday home owners is to be reviewed by ministers, who have now launched a formal...

The head of a controversial property portal says agents can by-pass some GDPR marketing restrictions by using his service’s social network. Ben Davis,...

Savills has issued its forecast for the housing market for the next five years, and while it highlights some bright spots...

New figures from the Mortgage Advice Bureau give an insight into the changing demographics of home buyers and buy to let...

It’s Budget day and the government is once again on the receiving end of a blast from one of the country’s...

An open rental market, where neither landlord nor tenant is in a dominant position, enables rents to rise and fall, which...

Few things anger the industry more than the effect of stamp duty and other costs on property transactions (well, maybe Purplebricks...

Figures from the mortgage lenders’ umbrella group, UK Finance, suggest the government desire to see more first time buyers and fewer...

We’re sorry to be starting the week with more evidence of the housing market in the doldrums, but Rightmove’s latest index...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an advertisement for a new development in London after complaints over claims about the yields...

Figures released by HMRC over the weekend show another huge rise in stamp duty going to the Treasury - and that’s...

Yieldit, an online agency that specialises in selling investment houses and apartments with tenants in situ, is claiming a strong quarter...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, your chance to catch up on the major moves in the agency industry over...

Data from the buying agency Black Brick reveals just how big an impact has been made by the additional homes stamp...

When Oakland A’s, a small-market team, stunned the baseball world 16 years ago by transforming itself into world-beaters on a shoestring-budget,...

There’s been another drop in mortgage arrears and possessions for owner occupiers - although an increase for some elements of the...

With all the recent change and upheaval in the rental sector it may be time to consider how letting agencies will...

Japanese Knotweed remains a major problem for a property sale - and that’s despite a recent study suggesting that the growth...

The Advertising Standards Authority has today issued a three-point guidance note for estate agents, including controversial interpretations of what constitutes a...

As any agent will know, the task of ordering, erecting and maintaining boards can be time- consuming and cumbersome. While ultimately working...

Auction House says the number of lots it sold in the first half of 2018 was some 3.8 per cent up...

Hello, and welcome to this week’s regular Monday summary of all the major jobs moves in our industry.  Despite summer and the...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Tom Cummuskey Sales & Marketing Manager … Fast approaching double...

The head of London’s largest estate agency brand has hit back at a council in the capital which wants enhanced powers...

A London council is seeking widespread powers to ban For Sale and To Let boards which it claims are seen by...

The For Sale board is one of the oldest marketing tools available to agents, but it is still considered one of...

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

A poll of housing market experts suggests London house prices are likely to fall this year as a result of Brexit...

Is there really any true value to an estate agent in our current climate? Will there be a role for traditional agents...

One of the country’s leading experts on the housing market says first time buyers are still hampered from purchasing homes despite...

A new online platform claims agents can now offer people a chance to buy a property with, literally, just one click...

In an era when we are never far away from our phones, tablets or laptops, buying and selling property is benefitting...

Well last week was interesting. The column about my decision to put the property on with a letting agent went viral.  This was...

A service that tracks different types of mortgage demand reveals that remortgaging is on the rise while borrowing for new purchases...

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

The housing market may have seen some depressing figures of late but there’s good news about mortgage arrears - they’re at...

New online auction house BidX1 says it has raised £2,087,000 from its second UK auction, posting a 70 per cent success...