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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...

If you want to know whether buy to let, landlords and letting agents will be in the firing line for more...

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...

Property purchases for buyers requiring mortgages reached 50,000 in February, the highest level for the month since 2007.  The data, from mortgage...

  More details have emerged of the government’s proposals to enhance estate agency regulation, regulate referral fees, offer guides for buyers and...

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

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

At any given moment it’s difficult to say which issue dominates our marketplace, but I think it’s fair to acknowledge during...

So here’s another week’s great work being done by colleagues in our industry - and we’re very pleased to salute them. Everybody...

The switchback of house price indices and other data on the state of the market has taken a turn for the...

New analysis by Hometrack shows that large regional cities like Edinburgh, Birmingham and Manchester look set for a 20 per cent...

A 1.0 per cent interest rate rise would add £930 a year to the cost of servicing the average mortgage, according...

One of the industry’s largest sign makers has been spelling out its environmental credentials on the back of increased concern about...

A forecast suggests HM Revenue & Customs will rake in no less than £8.8 billion in Capital Gains Tax in 2018...

Welcome to the latest Agents Do Charity - your opportunity to let the rest of the industry know exactly what great...

Why I won’t buy Purplebricks shares and why if I had any, I’d sell fast… In its latest adverts, Purplebricks attempts to...

The printing industry is in the midst of a decline as digital products and services displace printed materials, which is why...

We seem to be getting more and more contact from agents and others in the industry who are doing great work...

Foxtons has this morning given details of a sharp fall in both profits and revenue, wirth sales significantly falling away and...

There was an excellent article, published last week, based around an interview with Chandra Dhandapani, CBRE’s chief digital and technology officer.  The...

The operators of a new website which earlier today claimed to have 500,000 property listings appear to have now removed the...

It’s traditional before Christmas to either review the year past or anticipate the one ahead - but I’m intrigued about what...

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

It’s been a trend developing in the past few months - estate agents increasingly flirting with the idea of selling homes...

A former Hamptons International and Savills agent is the first to join a ‘freelance agency’ set up in prime central London. In...

As Augmented Reality (AR) and Microsoft’s Hololens showcase the finest in modern architecture, it’s time for me to think again about...

Estate Agent Today understands that a high-profile online estate agency in the UK has approached Facebook with a view to operating...

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

British politics is extraordinarily volatile right now and the ongoing battle between austerity and anti-austerity, Leave and Remain, and Conservative and...

Belvoir has revealed that it has won the backing of a minority shareholder in The Property Franchise Group to resume merger...

A new website which completely by-passes all kinds of estate agents and allows vendors to upload details of their own properties...

An estate agent branded as "thoroughly dishonest" following a Gumtree scam has been jailed for 20 months, suspended for two years....

A new portal has been launched aimed at marketing ex-council properties for sale or to let through agencies.  Ex-Council.com says it is...

Savills has given a pessimistic outlook for the mainstream housing market for the next five years.  It says average house prices across...

As ours attentions turn from pumpkins to bonfires, a final thank you from all of us at Estate Agent Today for...

Central London’s housing market is showing a recovery from price falls which followed stamp duty changes in 2014 and 2016 according...

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

The fact is that most house hunters simply do not have the time, let alone the inclination, to trawl around properties...

Thanks so much for sending in more photographs of your branches as they prepare for Halloween. We have some here but want...

A breakdown of data from over 4,100 agents has revealed that it takes on average 201 days to move home, from...

Pressure is continuing to build on the government to reform stamp duty in next month’s Budget. Firstly a group of senior financial...

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

A company launching later this month, set up by an ex-Chestertons agent, wants to employ over 20 freelance associates who can...

An online platform that allows the public to compare the services and fees of traditional estate agents in their areas has...

Agents’ Mutual’s flotation will definitely go ahead following a meeting of the High Court today, at which the appropriate processes behind...

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

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

It’s not just the evenings drawing in that marks the approach of autumn - it’s also the return to work of...

The Property Ombudsman has expelled a London lettings and estate agency for a year and is warning that the firm may...

An estate agency that has just launched in south Devon says it is giving its customers the advantages of a 24-hour...

Almost half of all property purchase valuations last month were conducted on behalf of first-time buyers according to Connells - well...

A think tank says the penalties now levied against second home owners - such as the stamp duty surcharge and phasing...

Are you protecting your data right? This may sound like the sort of direct warning you get from cold callers or...

The price of houses in the UK will remain high because a “structural decline” means fewer homes are being sold and...

Black Brick says its turnover in 2016 tripled to £3m with new business so far this year focussing increasingly on owner-occupier...

Humberts, a member of Agents’ Mutual, is today launching an online-only option and claims it can list online-only properties on OnTheMarket. Such...

A Hampshire property investor who failed to declare Capital Gains Tax from the sale of properties evading £157,725, has been jailed...

As the mainstream mortgage market braces itself for yet another clampdown on buy-to-let lending, a growing number of property investors are...

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

First time buyers have finances stretched beyond their means, buy to let is attracting fewer investors because of taxes, and affordability...

Former RICS residential chief Jeremy Leaf says he is not downcast by the latest Halifax house price index which shows prices...

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

One of the industry’s leading analysts says Countrywide’s figures for the first half of 2017 are likely to be tough -...

The Council of Mortgage Lenders’s buy to let forecast for 2017 and 2018 has been revised down from previous expectations at...

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...

One of the biggest choices you can make in regards to the logistics of your estate agency can be picking a...

The Wallington branch of Andrews Property Group recently contacted a local resident – but not to book a valuation or organise...

In years to come, students of political history might come to look at the 2017 General Election campaign with some interest....

Barclays Bank has given an optimistic view of the housing market over the next five years, with a prediction that across...

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

Since we last spoke, the ESTAS – the biggest and best property awards ceremony in the UK – has been and...

Customers really dislike leaving voicemail messages. This may not be surprising, there may be many times when you have been faced...

The proportion of mortgage products available for investor buyers operating through limited companies has risen by over 50 per cent in...

Asking prices of homes coming to the market have now been rising for five consecutive months says Rightmove.  Asking prices rose 2.0...

The Liberal Democrats have set a building target of 300,000 new homes a year, have pledged to scrap housing association Right...

Given that around 95% of property searches now start online, it is more important than ever that an agent has an...

HMRC says there has been a five per cent drop on the number of transactions attracting stamp duty in the first...

Property transactions rose marginally in March this year, up 0.5 per cent on February’s total according to figures from HM Revenue...

The Financial Conduct Authority says it is to review lenders offering solely interest-only mortgages to home owners. In its business plan for...

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

More than three quarters of developers want to see the government go into reverse on its stamp duty and mortgage interest...

Savills is warning that while low interest rates will probably keep house prices relatively static, transaction volumes are likely to remain...

In recent years the mortgage industry has gone through some testing times. Recession and regulation have led to more stringent lending...

A London council has issued 49 fines to estate and letting agents in the first two months of a crackdown that...

The average asking price rise for homes coming to the market in the last month has been a chunky 1.3 per...

Manchester-based sister firms Sequre Property Investment and Sequre International have extended their office space thanks rising demand for UK buy to...

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

Estate agents are angry that Chancellor Phillip Hammond made no attempt in his first Spring Budget to reform stamp duty -...

The rapid growth in popularity of buy-to-let in recent years, fuelled in part by the failings of the pensions industry, has...

Connells Group’s mortgage services wing has recorded a 10 per cent increase in the number of mortgages in 2016 and has generated...

The East Midlands, which consists of several areas including Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, and much of Lincolnshire, has an ancient...

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

The number of properties taken into possession last year declined by almost 25 per cent and has hit the lowest level in 35...

Fund-raising is vitally important to so many organisations as one of our agency contributors this week shows - but as other...

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

An analysis by Savills shows that so-called ‘additional homes’ - that is, those carrying a three per cent stamp duty surcharge...

Hybrid agency EweMove is rapidly expanding its network footprint this year and will be a “challenger brand” deliberately designed to be...

A controversial scheme in a London borough, limiting the size and duration of letting and estate agents’ boards on display, comes...

The south’s seaside resorts are stealing the headlines for all the wrong reasons and at the heart of the troublesome issue...

A number of local authorities are now serving £100 or £120 fixed penalty notices on estate agents who display For Sale...

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

A new report from the NatWest Bank nips in the bud any speculation that rising inflation may end the current cheap...

Rightmove’s web traffic between Boxing Day and the end of last week is up five per cent on the same period...

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

There is no doubt that 2016 managed to catch the world by surprise on more than one occassion.  But will 2017 be...

Peter Rollings, the well-known former managing director of Foxtons, has taken a stake in Viewber, the recently-launched outsourced viewing service.  Viewber allows...

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

This is the final Estate Agent Today until Tuesday January 3 2017, so everyone at Angels Media sends all good wishes for...

Data from HM Revenue & Customs shows that the sale of residential properties rose a marginal 0.8 per cent last month...

As the Christmas break begins to loom larger, there’s no let-up with pics from your offices - and those amazing Christmas...

New figures from the Council for Mortgage Lenders add weight to the argument that the housing market is gently slowing.  Home-owners borrowed £10.5...