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Concerned homeowners and gardeners are frequently mistaking common garden plants such as bindweed, dogwood and lilac for highly invasive Japanese knotweed,...

Reducing gas and electricity bills is trumping environmental and regulatory concerns for buyers seeking more energy efficient homes, research suggests. Knight Frank’s...

Agents should consider risk-scoring buyers and refocus on customer experience in the face of the more challenging housing market, a senior...

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

There’s been a flurry of recent activity involving agencies quoted on the London Stock Exchange: Hunters, The Property Franchise Group and...

With a new President elected and the old one reluctant to move out, this is a good time to see how...

Hunters chairman and Conservative MP Kevin Hollinrake has hit out at allegedly false claims made by Donald Trump and Nigel Farage. Trump’s...

Savills says the shape and size of the housing market in the coming months will be determined by the capacity of conveyancers...

There’s no doubt we’re in a less-than-rosy phase of the property cycle. This, however, is not another doom and gloom piece:...

Just a month ago our homes felt, for many of us, to be a mere pitstop on a centrifuge of work,...

“It appears conveyancers either aren’t too concerned with PropTech right now, or they don’t yet have all the information needed to...

Yes, believe it or not, we’ve nearly reached the end of a whole decade. And what an eventful decade it’s been. We’ve...

Purplebricks’ recent strong share price rise is not a good sign for the agency but an indication that it may be...

Speculation is growing about the future of online agency Yopa. This follows a key resignation from Yopa’s board and one expert’s analysis...

Esther McVey is to be the new housing minister - one of the most seasoned politicians to take the job in...

A high-end estate agency is reporting a dramatic rise in the number of US buyers in London as they have taken...

Sharp-witted marketing advisers for Marsh & Parsons have done it again with a clever poster and social media campaign to mark...

For my final EAT contribution of 2018, I’ve put together a list of Christmas gifts that you could buy your PropTech-loving...

No, I haven’t lost the plot. Such a thing exists – and if you’re familiar with North London, there is a...

From where I’m standing there’s a lot in common between the debate between online and traditional agents, and the argument over...

Why do we choose to engage with one application more than another, or find ourselves returning to the same piece of...

As you probably know, I have been no fan of OnTheMarket (OTM) over the years. You may see this admission as...

Highly regarded industry figure Simon Whale, who quit his role as head of sales at Reapit on Friday, took to the...

Cast your mind back to July 2008 – Gordon Brown was Prime Minister, the Euros were in full swing in Austria/Switzerland...

We have the presidential seal of approval for our Agents Do Charity this week - well, sort of, but we don’t mean...

The other day I met with two agents who have 30 years of property sales experience between them, and yet also...

Housing minister Dominic Raab took to Twitter to make a Trump-style criticism of trade magazine The Negotiator and its editor, the...

Claims by President Donald Trump that the US got a bad deal by selling its prime central London embassy and building...

New analysis by credit and comparison service Totally Money has revealed the districts where the controversial Help To Buy initiative is...

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

What a year it’s been! Back in 2016 we had Brexit, a new prime minister, Donald Trump’s election, and so when...

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

In this week’s Natter I’m going to get all political. Don’t worry, I won’t be giving my opinions on Brexit, Trump...

Without wishing to blow our own trumpet at this time, we did say at the start of the year that 2017...

High end estate agency Savills says the credit crunch - roughly 10 years old next month - is still having an...

We’re already more than halfway through 2017 and, against all the odds, it’s pushing 2016 close in terms of eventfulness and...

After a year of turbulence thanks to Brexit and the consequences of stamp duty changes, prime central London’s housing market appears...

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

A leading buying agency says there might be at least one upside to having The Donald in the White House -...

Following the election of Donald Trump, there has been a rise in the number of United States investors searching for property...

There’s plenty to occupy our thoughts these days, including the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th US President - yet...

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

Following a strong start to 2016, particularly in the lower to middle range of the UK housing market, that lasted up...

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

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

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

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

It is fair to say that 2016 is a year full of surprises. Anyone who had the foresight to predict Britain...

There is really only one topic of debate and forensic analysis at the moment and that’s the ascendency of Donald Trump...

Countrywide's regional director Martin Coombes has quit the company, having worked for it since the early 1990s. A statement to Estate Agent...

It's been quite a week in the world but no matter how big the changes, one thing remains constant - our...

Estate agents and market analysts have spent 24 hours expressing their nervousness over the repercussions of Donald Trump's victory in the...

The latest forecast for the housing market in 2017 and beyond includes a warning that Brexit uncertainty will create a slowdown...

Some sectors of the industry have been giving their initial reactions to the shock Donald Trump victory in the US presidential election.  Camilla...

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

As America goes to the polls after one of the most cantankerous, aggressive and abusive campaigns since...well, our own Brexit vote in...

It’s all been kicking off in recent weeks, hasn’t it? Marmite wars, the endless Trump v Clinton debate, Samsung phones blowing...

One of the great events of the agency year is the Agents Giving Ball, hosted a few days ago at The Lancaster...

The sense of gathering momentum for the Leave campaign ahead of the upcoming EU referendum is causing high levels of uncertainty...

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

Right, so it’s one more week till Christmas and two more weeks until we head face first into 2016. Both these...

I’m writing this from the brand spanking new Center Parks in Woburn Forest. Set within 365 acres of lush Bedfordshire forest,...

The Resort Group, the developer of the all-suite Llana Beach Hotel and Spa, which is due to open in 2016, has...