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There have been many articles about ‘digitising upfront information’, following the publication of DLUHC’s Levelling-Up white paper and National Trading Standards...

Annual house price growth figures returned to double digits in April but there are warnings that this could be as good...

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

The number of property transactions continues to rise despite the cost of living crisis and remain higher than pre-pandemic levels, HMRC...

Conveyancers have had their busiest year on record, industry data shows. Search Acumen’s latest Conveyancing Market for the first quarter of 2022...

Estate agents and sellers could be set to benefit from fewer fall-throughs this year but the costs of a collapsed sale...

Record numbers of homes are being sold off-market and for a premium due to the property supply shortage. Off-market sales are traditionally...

Why the urgency? Because the appetite is strong. Research by the Conveyancing Association reports that 98% of consumers are overwhelmingly in...

Buyer issues have been cited as the main cause of fall-throughs, according to new research. A survey of more than 940 agents,...

In this latest ‘Women in Property’ edition of the Natter, I check in with Collette Allen, who was recently appointed as...

For years, the issue of phone etiquette created tension between estate agents and the legal profession, the former claiming lawyers won’t...

Estate agents use property technology each and every day for residential property transactions, but is there more they can do with...

LSL has reported a 16% drop in estate agency residential exchange income but says it is sales pipeline is at record...

Oakfield Estate Agents is marking a quarter-century in business with a major rebrand and a pledge to donate £50 to a...

Belvoir has reported that group revenue is up 14% in the first four months of the year, helped mainly by its...

Property sales slumped in April but are still above the pre-pandemic average, HMRC data shows. Provisional UK property transaction figures from the...

Estate agents are being urged to reassess their fee structure and not be afraid to reflect the time and level of...

Agents have heralded the beginning of the house price slowdown. The latest Land Registry House Price Index yesterday showed values increased by...

Next month will see new rules around upfront Material Information for property sales and lettings come into force in the UK...

Referral fees, lack of trust and too much email have been identified as barriers to greater collaboration between conveyancers and estate...

There are signs that properties are starting to take longer to sell. A lack of stock in recent months has meant agents...

Many people in recent years will have become familiar with challenger banks such as Monzo, Starling and Atom. Many will have...

Agents may be gearing up for this year’s ESTAS Customer Service Awards but there is another accolade that you could aim for next...

London accounted for almost half of million-pound plus property sales over the past 12 months but the most active borough at...

Houses continued to be the preferred property type for prime London buyers last month as flat sales continue to struggle amid...

Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) has long been the bugbear of many property transactions. Even the very wealthy will lose interest...

In this guest piece, Colum Smith, a property expert at law firm Taylor Rose MW, sets out why speedier transactions could...

The property market could be set for further upheaval when the Bank of England makes its latest interest rate decision today. The...

The property supply shortage may be easing but Zoopla has warned it will still take some time for stock to be...

A third of first-time buyers have had to reduce their budgets as a result of recent interest rate hikes and the...

I attended a forum in London a couple of weeks ago, which for the first time brought estate agents and conveyancers...

April looks set to go down as the busiest month for house sales of the year.  And with record numbers of properties predicted...

Our inbox is regularly stuffed with exciting new industry developments and tools to help agents work better.  Here are some of the...

Accountancy terminology can be a turn off to many business owners, understandably so given that the majority aren’t working in lettings...

The number of complaints about estate and letting agents increased last year but fewer gripes were upheld. Data based on members of...

Record numbers of buyers are now purchasing homes chain-free research suggests. Analysis by Hamptons has found that an increase in the share...

In this Q&A, I catch up with Jesper With-Fogstrup, chief executive officer of Smoove (formerly ULS Technology until a very recent...

The latest trading update from Foxtons has revealed that sales revenue in the first quarter of this year was down 9%...

London’s prime sales market is set to underperform compared with 2021 but is still looking to be better than the pre-pandemic...

House price growth hit a five-month high in February, according to Land Registry data but there are warnings that this will...

Law firm Taylor Rose MW has acquired a stake in proptech firm SlothMove in an effort to help combat property fraud. SlothMove...

Increasingly cautious mortgage lending could dampen the property market and cause more sales to fall-through, it has been warned. Recent house price...

In this week’s Natter, I carry out a Q&A with Lisa Knight, who has taken the impressive journey from barmaid to...

Foxtons, Chancellors and Douglas & Gordon have been named among the first paid-up agency brands on Boomin. The challenger portal, launched by...

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has said it may consider complaints about ‘misleading SSTC listings’ on portals but suggests it may...

An estate agency is shutting for good today following the shock death of its young owner. Last week we reported that Ciaran...

One of the country’s leading estate agents has played down the significance of the latest house price index which at first...

John D Wood - which along with Hamptons is regarded as the prime end of the suite of agency brands now...

One of the most valuable assets to any company is the data it stores. According to a recent study completed by...

In a new column, solicitor Colum Smith, an expert in combating fraud at Taylor Rose MW Solicitors, explains why those looking...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a dramatic future income tax cut, changes to National Insurance thresholds and scrapping VAT on more...

House sales in February were around a fifth lower than the same month in 2021, according to HM Revenue and Customs...

A prominent industry supplier has produced startling statistics about the numbers of fall throughs in just the first 10 weeks or...

An estate agency says London’s sales market is now at its busiest since the Brexit referendum in mid-2016. Douglas & Gordon, sold by...

Sales agreed per Propertymark member branch are now running at eight per month - the highest figure since last October according...

The LSL Property Services group - which is increasingly focussing activities in the mortgage and personal finance world - has issued...

PropTech solutions have continued to ingratiate themselves in both the forefront of an agency within advertising mediums and in the backend...

The long-standing commitment of London-focussed agency Dexters to expand through acquisitions is continuing apace. Over the weekend it was announced that the...

The OneDome group websites - OneDome itself and nethouseprices - are launching their largest ever advertising campaign. It will target buyers and...

Foxtons has this morning launched a £3m share buy back programme, representing a major windfall for its investors. A statement from the...

The time it takes to complete a transaction is beginning to drop according to an analysis by comparison website GetAgent. The average...

Almost exactly a decade ago I wrote a blog on the back of a spate on mainstream news stories about prime...

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

Agents are being told by a trade body to conduct more frequent risk reviews and check purchaser identities against up to...

Yesterday we reported on how the Chartered Institute of Taxation was warning of problems with new HMRC stamp duty rules to...

HM Revenue & Customs has been warned by financial experts that its latest crackdown on stamp duty abuse could make the...

Some agents say they have as many as one in 10 vendors taking their properties off the market and seeking to...

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

In the last two years digital Property Logbooks for our homes have moved from concept to reality with almost a quarter...

The overwhelming majority of vendors do not choose their estate agent based on fees, but on wider market expertise. That’s the finding...

Industry figures have come out in favour of the long-term programme of new compulsory information to be contained on property listings. From...

Fall throughs remain a significant problem with transaction collapses costing buyers and sellers a wasted £880m in 2021 according to new...

An Australian PropTech platform called PEXA aims to break into the UK property industry this year, claiming to improve transaction processes. PEXA...

Connells-owned Countrywide has announced a major deal in which 49 of its brands will use the ESTAS customer review platform. The deal...

Stamp duty statistics show that the introduction of a two per cent surcharge on residential properties by overseas buyers, means HM...

The majority of homeowners and homebuyers believe Stamp Duty Land Tax is outdated and needs reform. The mortgage lender Butterfield commissioned an...

The government’s call for a pack of property information to be made available upfront during the sales process has been welcomed...

The Property Ombudsman should ban agents from using so-called exclusivity agreements on sales, claims a law firm.  Donal Blaney, founder of Griffin...

The government’s Levelling Up White Paper, released today, contains an unexpected and shock commitment - to create a new 'lite' version...

The level of house price growth is at a 17 year high at 11.2 per cent according to the Nationwide. The annual...

Agents are losing tens of thousands of pounds each - in some cases even more - because of the volume of...

The total value of all UK homes broke the £8 trillion barrier in 2021 according to Savills - and London is...

A stamp duty loophole in one part of the UK is likely to be closed later this year. Until now buying a...

There’s been huge sale price inflation in the rarified high-end country estate market according to a buying agent. Jess Simpson, who runs...

The market share of hybrid and online agents has fallen again, this time to 6.7 per cent. That figure - taken at...

The lettings sector looks set to steam ahead in 2022 after a record-breaking 2021, despite the financial and mobility challenges of...

With the drastic changes enacted on the industry over the past two years thanks to the pandemic and political events such...

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

Imagine a world where you, as an agent, could focus on what you do best. Building and managing relationships, showing properties,...

A law firm is warning that one of the key risks facing that industry this year revolves around professional negligence claims against...

An estate agency has revealed which London boroughs have been the busiest in terms of the number of homes sold as...

London’s super-prime residential market has recorded its strongest year since 2013, according to high end agency Savills. In total, there were 522...

Estate Agent Today understands that the civil servant who has been at the heart of plans to reform the house buying...

The conveyancing technology firm Search Acumen has launched what it calls “an end-to-end solution” in a bid to abolish “antiquated” ways...

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

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

Mortgage lenders serving the housing market are set for a quieter 2022 after the unprecedented levels of activity seen in 2021,...

A leading accountant is warning of a possible stamp duty change affecting residential property this year. HMRC is currently consulting on a...

The housing market boom of 2021 has given rise to an increasing number of £1m-plus deals.  Government statistics analysed by mortgage firm...

A survey of agents suggests the majority believe the process of buying and selling residential properties will be fully digital or...

An extensive online training programme has been devised to help properly professionals identify and treat Japanese Knotweed. A programme of 15 videos...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur with a lengthy pedigree as an estate agent says agents should use more technology in a bid...

For the first time since before the global financial crisis of 2008, the number of first-time buyers is estimated to have...

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

House prices in the UK have ended the year of yet another record high. The Nationwide says annual house price growth increased...

Government regulation and reform of house buying should see the process made faster and easier in 2022, it’s been predicted. Lloyd Davies - managing...

A webinar in mid-January will help agents get an edge on securing leads and ensuring transactions are not lost. That’s the claim...

A housing market forecast based on conveyancing instructions says average prices will dip this month. Average prices will fall by 1.1 per...

As we slide into Christmas, with the busiest levels of house buying since 2006 and activity still buoyant, I don’t think...

Only one in eight sellers use the estate agent through which they purchased their home to begin with. That’s a staggering loss of...

UK house prices have reached an all time high - but 2022 will see a more normalised housing market thanks to...

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

Christmas - time for a much-needed rest for our industry after getting through a workload which reached almost unprecedented levels in...

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

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...

In this article, the team at Lifesycle outline why agents are increasingly turning to their CRM. Unless you have been living under...

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

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

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on all aspects of our lives, but undoubtedly one major negative side effect...

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

I’ve worked in financial crime for the past seven years, beginning my career as a white collar crime litigator in a law firm. I know that the...

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

HM Revenue & Customs is consulting on how it can clamp down on property professionals and buyers who allegedly try to...

Annual house price growth hit 10.0 per cent last month - and is now tracking close to the level seen before...

Coadjute, the PropTech platform that aims to slash the length of property transactions, has announced a further £6m investment. Coadjute is a blockchain...

Despite the progress made in so many areas, particularly in terms of leasehold reform – although we are calling upon the...

A long-standing estate agency with three major branches has shut after 27 years of trading - blaming online competition and ‘race...

Rightmove claims to have found the happiest place in the UK - and it’s in Northumberland. The market town of Hexham has...

Increasingly rigorous Money Laundering Directives have made regulations in the property industry more stringent than ever, and Estate Agents have a...

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

A family franchise agency that prides itself on saving costs associated with traditional High Street premises has nonetheless opened a new office...

The Treasury has enjoyed a record period for stamp duty income. In England from April to October this year - so almost entirely...

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

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

Agents are being urged to be more open to new methods of stopping deals falling through. HBB Solutions - a part exchange...

It’s been a busy and arguably fruitful year for the property market, with an eager consumer base pushing forwards with their...

The phrase ‘time is money’ is particularly pertinent for estate agents. Since the stamp duty holiday ended, the forecast drop in...

As we all know, the sector is constantly evolving and as we start to get to grips with the changes, another...

Cluttons has given its market snapshot for the sales market in central London - and it’s echoing the familiar story of...

The latest LonRes market snapshot for prime London carries mixed messages in terms of transaction volumes.  Overall, for the month of October,...

Boomin has launched a new tool - Chainmaker - which it claims cuts fall throughs and introduces agents to ‘hot buyers’. The software...

The latest update on the prime central London market from agency Knight Frank warns that it’s still not business as usual,...

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

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

Strutt & Parker has revealed where it believes the housing market will see the largest demand in 2022, outside of London. The...

Property experts have joined forces to call for faster and more secure transactions.  The PropTech and conveyancing voices have united in warning...

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

In the Autumn Budget on Wednesday 27 October, very few impending tax hikes were revealed by the Chancellor Rishi Sunak –...

The average price of a house in the UK has hit £250,000 for the first time as the  market shows no...

The average time for home-movers to get through the conveyancing process has dropped by 27 days since the summer, according to Rightmove.  The...

In this op-ed, Warwick Haycock, accounting software specialist at The Access Group, looks at how the use of tech can empower...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget did not ignore Capital Gains Tax after all.   For those selling UK residential property the deadline to file...

Foxtons has given an upbeat trading update to shareholders this morning. It says so far this year sales revenue is a huge...

There’s been another step to make house sales more secure and speedier, with a pilot scheme starting next month. Five major identity...

The housing market is on track to record its strongest year since 2007 for transactions and house price inflation says Zoopla.  The...

The ESTAS – often known as the property world’s version of the Oscars – returns as an in-person event this Friday...

There is no denying that managing properties is labour intensive. As real estate agents you are responsible for administering and addressing...

A business once called “the UK’s poshest estate agent” has revealed that it’s under new management. Bective - formerly called Bective Leslie...

In this thought leadership article, Videosign CEO Steven Tallant looks at electronic signatures and conveyancing and whether the time is nigh for the...

Remarkably, just 11 per cent of property sales fell through in the third quarter of this year as buyers raced to beat...

OnTheMarket figures for the first half of this year show stronger revenue and improved profits. Agency numbers have increased modestly since January...

The existence of online agencies means some consumers believe real life estate agents are unnecessary in a deal - but the rest of...

House prices rose by the most in almost 15 years in September ahead of the end of the stamp duty holiday.  The...

I recently took part in a webinar hosted by ICG (The Innovation Collaboration Group) – titled ‘New estate agency revenue streams...

An interesting demand has been made of Chancellor Rishi Sunak - to consider reforming stamp duty with thresholds revised to reflect...

The right technology can reassure agents that transactions will complete on time - vital to retaining business following the end of the...

A leading market commentator is warning that transactions and prices will fall without the stimulus of the stamp duty holiday. Karen Noye,...

Rightmove has estimated how many people benefitted from the holiday and the estimated total saving in England. It says some one million...

House prices rose by just 0.1 per cent in September - but they are still increasing by 10 per cent a...

A video interview claims to spill the beans on how sales progression can be accelerated by three to four weeks. Estate agent...

As we move into the autumn of 2021, what the coming year has in store for estate agents is something we...

The stamp duty holiday which finally ends later this week might have a lasting legacy - encouraging more agents to use...

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

The first agency to give its market forecast for 2022 and beyond has suggested an upbeat performance next year.  Hamptons says the...

The recent stamp duty holiday and the subsequent conveyancing logjam this triggered has acted as a wakeup call for the industry....

In this guest editorial, experienced property solicitor Lorraine Richardson argues that reservation agreements - designed to reduce the number of fall-throughs in...

Our story yesterday on whether agents should continue to dress formally post-pandemic seemed to relight the fire on a long-time debate...

The government has been warned that its much-talked about levelling up agenda is ‘doomed to fail’ without major reform of the...

Industry-wide adoption of Unique Property Reference Numbers could be one step closer after an announcement by a major trade body. The Conveyancing...

Being able to show proof of funds in a quick, transparent and simple way is more crucial than ever to keep fall-throughs...

What estate agency is going to look like in the post-pandemic world, and what the role of the physical branch will...

Blockchain network Coadjute has announced new partnerships with software firms. Coadjute launched in July and claims it will halve the time it...

An agency claims that across the UK there have been very nearly 400,000 property transactions down valued in the last year...

It may be the final day of August but Propertymark has first out of the blocks with advice for agents to...

House sales slumped nearly two thirds last month as the main deadline for the stamp duty holiday passed.  HM Revenue and Customs...

The Guardian has sharply criticised Chancellor Rishi Sunak for introducing and then extending the stamp duty holiday - because helping estate...

An unexpected claim was made over the weekend - that the long-running stamp duty holiday was not, after all, behind the...

I’m sorry to break this to you but in 10 days’ time it will be autumn - and we will have...

A housing expert says the psychology of a population coping with the pandemic lies behind the house moving frenzy of recent...

Average house prices increased by 13.2 per cent over the year to June - the highest annual growth rate since November...

A bulk quick buy company has surveyed purchasers who have been deterred from continuing their transactions to discover what the biggest...

My neighbour had been seeking to move home for some time. Suggestions that he wanted to get away from his neighbours...

House prices in Wales - where the equivalent of the stamp duty holiday has fully ended - rose to a new...

The estate agents’ trade body has set out three ways conveyancers can further help the sales process. Propertymark has made the suggestions...

Following a month in which the number of property transactions was the highest since records began, it might seem a little...

HM Revenue & Customs is reported to be targeting recent home buyers after a slump in income from property taxes during...

A report claims the flurry of transactions over recent months has been down mostly to families moving into larger homes and...

Transaction volumes in prime London fell in July according to data from LonRes. Transactions were down 22 per cent compared with July...

House prices in July rose after falling in June, according to the Halifax. They were 0.4 per cent higher than in June,...

There’s already plenty of talk about autumn - depressing huh? - with agents pondering how the housing market will respond to...

Savills has reported a bounce back after the Covid-hit performance in 2020. The agency has substantial overseas and commercial property and consultancy...

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

Annual house price growth remains above 10 per cent despite a small monthly dip in July according to the Nationwide. A 0.5...

An estate agency which at one time hoped to be operating nationwide this year has now revised its target. Hortons says it...

One of the leading housing market analysts says some of the extreme house price rises seen this year could unwind during...

The already-high fall-through rate for transactions is likely to be supercharged by the impending end of the tapered stamp duty holiday...

London’s super prime residential market has recorded its strongest half year in volume and value terms since the rush to beat...

There’s gathering momentum to do ‘something’ about the unfairness of council tax and stamp duty. This isn’t new in principle. Agents have...

Zoopla data has confirmed that buyer demand started to moderate in the months prior to the initial stamp duty holiday tapering...

Remember the early days of lockdown when there was a general panic? Perhaps the hot demand for toilet rolls was a sign...

Knight Frank’s network of residential sales offices in London had a record month in June as the end of the main...

HM Revenue & Customs has warned of what it calls the “negative impacts” of the pandemic on the latest property transactions...

A new online forum wants to unite estate agents and conveyancers, and ditch the traditional rivalry between the two professional disciplines. It’s...

OnTheMarket, which until now has lagged behind the leading two portals in terms of consumer-facing housing market information, has today launched...

Anyone working in residential property knows it is taking longer and longer to get from SSTC (sold subject to contract) to...

Coadjute, the long-awaited real-time network which uses Blockchain technology to sell a property, is launched today with its first property deal...

The Halifax is reporting a 0.5 per cent monthly drop in house prices, plus a fall in the annual rate from...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Jamie Cooke, Co-Founder and Managing Director of iamsold, part...

Several estate agencies have reported record months of business thanks to the rush of transactions ahead of the main stamp duty...

By any measure, the housing market has been unprecedently busy in recent months, fuelled not just by the stamp duty holiday...

Knight Frank claims that the number of UK property transactions in June is on track to be the highest on record.  Although...

A third of owners would consider moving more regularly if the stamp duty holiday on the first £500,000 of a purchase...

The leading reason for property sales falling through is gazumping, according to new research from Comparethemarket. Over the past year, nearly two-fifths of...

A new analysis claims Help To Buy has improved building volumes and has not been a drain on taxpayers. The scheme which...

The frenzy of activity in the housing market thanks to the stamp duty holiday shows the need for automated processes to...

The government has thrown its weight behind the concept of Unique Property Reference Numbers as a way of speeding up transactions. UPRNs...

London property is still a draw for the wealthiest in the world according to Knight Frank. Despite international travel restrictions, the number...

Over the last 15 months (basically since the ‘c’ word entered our daily vocabulary) agent websites has become more crucial than...

There may well have been times in recent weeks when any agent would have been forgiven for wanting a break -...

Around 18 months ago, just a few months before the pandemic hit, I did a Natter with the team at software...

Knight Frank says it will be September at the earliest before the current frenzy of housing market activity will stabilise. The agency’s...

Amro Partners, the Build to Rent and student accommodation operator, has launched a venture capital arm investing in PropTech and FinTech. Amro...

Right now it seems that another day means another house price record, an all-time high for transactions, and a conveyancing log-jam...

An industry supplier is urging agents to dust off old prospects to build their pipeline and keep the market boom going...

An app that promotes both on- and off-market homes to prospective buyers has linked up with a moving service PropTech platform.  Houso...

Over 500,000 homebuyers in England are set to benefit from the stamp duty holiday to the tune of £3.4 billion, according...

Despite the vast amount of publicity given to the concept of virtual viewing, a survey suggests relatively few properties on sale...

The Law Society has published new guidance for what it calls “under-pressure conveyancing solicitors” as the stamp duty deadline of June...

The editor of the legal publication the Law Gazette has taken an estate agent to task for daring to suggest that...

New data shows no let-up on the pressure on the conveyancing sector as the stamp duty holiday and the broader economic...

A new home buying platform being set up by a challenger portal has revealed details of its mortgage offer to users. OneDome...

Tech is a fantastic enabler but should never be a complete replacement for the human interactions that add real value to...

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

An agency says two thirds of its sales valuations in London in the first quarter of the year have been conducted...

The number of transactions is scheduled to reach 1.52 million this year - way above the norm of between 1.0 and...

One of the country’s leading estate agents claims some solicitors are charging exorbitant fees on transactions as they near the latest...

The head of one of the UK’s largest conveyancing legal practices is warning the property market could “fall off a cliff...

With property fraud on the rise and an ever-increasing number of transactions taking place in the lettings sector, having strict anti-money laundering...

London agency Benham and Reeves says a new analysis it’s conducted of the capital’s property market since last summer shows a...

An online platform claims each agency branch in the UK has benefited from the stamp duty holiday by over £120,000. WiggyWam says...

The controversial demands of Trading Standards for more “material information” to be provided upfront in property details have been criticised by...

Over the next few years, the property sector is set to change for the better – all thanks to PropTech. While the...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Christopher Keen and Company Director  What is ‘company name’ and what...

Thousands of sales are at risk because slow searches by councils may prevent deals completing by the next stamp duty deadline. With just under...

A new home buying platform set up by a challenger portal will donate £100 to charity for every transaction it fails...

It’s not just housing transactions that signal a red-hot market - the mortgage landscape is at its strongest for some time...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Ben Ridgway, Group Managing Director at iamproperty. What is iamproperty...

The current crisis has led to many of us to re-evaluate our lives to ensure that we put ourselves in the...

The Prime Central London pain throughout the pandemic can be seen by new figures just released by an investment consultancy, showing...

The UK affiliated agency of Warren Buffett’s global real estate company has acquired a historic independent company operating in prime central...

Propertymark is staging a webinar today tackling the challenging issue of conveyancing - just as the market is at its busiest...

The private treaty process has been in need of modernisation for a long time. When we open an account with a...

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

The biggest news story in town this last week – which has brought people who don’t usually like or watch football...

I was not surprised when I came across an industry article recently citing that over half of home buyers never visit...

Propertymark has shortlisted five of the 700 or so PropTech suppliers in the UK, as part of the trade body’s REACH...

The land and new homes division of Sequence has signed a deal to offer fully-funded part exchange and home buying services...

The average UK house price has risen 8.6 per cent - that’s typically £20,000 - in the past year. This is the...

As the property market continues to boom, competition between portals such as Zoopla, Rightmove, OnTheMarket and Boomin has been hotting up...

Research by an estate agency comparison service has revealed which type of road address produces the highest average price.  GetAgent has analysed...

National Trading Standards wants agents, portals and industry groups to come up with ways to provide basic essential material information ‘upfront’.  The National...

Agents are being urged to push through their pipelines before the upcoming stamp duty deadlines. The plea comes from Simply Conveyancing, which...

The UK government has been told it should make the stamp duty cut permanent to encourage investment and make it easier...

Rightmove’s new Modern Method of Auction service launches on Monday.  The service - which Rightmove calls Online Conditional Auctions - will involve...

We’re officially transitioning to summer – marked by the clocks going forward and warmer weather – just as restrictions start to...

A survey of 5,000 agents suggests the slow house selling and buying process is one of the biggest challenges facing the...

The founder of Zoopla has returned to the property market with a new proposal to disrupt how agents buy and sell homes. Alex...

A leading agency claims the stamp duty holiday has actually had a minimal impact in the mainstream market, despite many suggestions...

One in three property sales in England and Wales fell through before completion in the first quarter of 2021. The 32 per...

Data from agency Knight Frank suggests the number of UK exchanges last month was the highest in 10 years - well above...

The UK property market is always evolving but never as quickly as it is now. Traditional estate agents are seriously questioning...

We are just over one year on from the day our lives truly changed, when the UK went into its first...

Conveyancers should consider the provision of electric vehicle parking and charging in transactions according to a legal company. Law firm says that...

NAEA Propertymark says a record number of transactions are taking four months to move from offer to exchange. The organisation says this...

The Chancellor’s recent announcement that the stamp duty holiday would be extended for another three months was undoubtedly great news for...

Emoov’s new 'guaranteed offer' service means fall-thoughs and chain-related delays are effectively eliminated, the agency claims. Emoov - now owned by a firm...

Residential transactions totalled 147,050 last month according to HMRC - that’s 23 per cent higher than the previous month and an...

Zoopla has crunched the numbers for the continuing stamp duty holiday in England and Northern Ireland, calculating 500,000 buyers will have...

The Conservatives have promised that first time buyers would not pay tax when buying a home in Wales if the party wins...

Later this year, on October 22, the ESTAS 2021 will take place in London. The glittering ceremony will welcome property professionals...