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Mark Meyer, CEO, Meyers Estate Agents: “We’re on a mission to revolutionise the traditional concept of estate agency.   We don’t have...

There are many features and functionalities a website must have to be successful. Ultimately, the purpose of your website should be...

Face masks are legally required in estate and letting agents from today according to new government guidance released overnight. The guidance makes...

By the end of 2021, one in 16 homes will have changed hands, making it the busiest property market since 2007...

Boomin has revealed an upgrade to its SmartVal feature, which tries to blend real-time online valuations with local expertise from member...

Trust has always been vital for building and nurturing good relations between an agent and their customer. Maintaining trust will keep...

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

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

A new membership scheme aiming to increase the industry’s energy efficiency credentials is being launched next year by allAgents. The Sustainable Agent...

I’ve never written the three letters ‘EPC’ more often than I have in the past week. Law changes for the private rental...

Virtual tours are becoming an increasing necessity for agents when listing properties for sale or let. Covid has of course accelerated this...

A property media analyst claims Purplebricks has record-breaking website traffic thanks to its “relentless” and vast budget marketing. “Whether you like to...

A PropTech chief says agents are now competing with each other for substantially less stock on the market - meaning their...

We’ve probably all learned to be a little less cynical about politicians in recent weeks, given the tragic events. We perhaps...

We have all heard the terrible forecasts and listened to Sir David Attenborough’s speeches on the environment and the “we still...

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

A property specialist is warning about “modern day ambulance chasers” who try to convince buyers they have paid too much stamp duty.  “An increasing...

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

Spicerhaart - which is radically reshaping its structure to encourage hybrid operations and working from home as part of a new...

Propertymark’s chief executive - officially still in post on just an interim basis - is to face questions from a past...

2021 redefined what it meant to offer exceptional customer experiences for consumers across multiple industries, but particularly for the residential property...

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

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

It’s a truism that most property enquiries from buyers these days come through portals but there are several reasons why agents...

Propertymark has spoken out over the Pandora Papers leak scandal, which reveals many elite and super-rich buyers of properties in London...

A remarkable 37 staff promotions have been made by a national estate agency, Fisher German.  The agency - which has a substantial...

Prices in prime central London have risen for the past two quarters, prompting a tentative claim that the market may be...

Hamptons is to expand the provision of New Homes and residential development services across all of its 90 branches, after a...

The stamp duty holiday concluded at midnight, marking the end of the busiest period for the industry - all parts of...

Shareholders in Purplebricks have given overwhelming backing to the company’s remuneration policy - including substantial bonuses for senior executives which had...

Hello and welcome to the first PJT of autumn - an update on who’s moving where right now. Please let us know...

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

Affordability has always been a hot topic when it comes to the property market, and this is doubly true for first-time...

New figures from HM Treasury have revealed that businesses, including a number of major agencies, have returned £1.3 billion in furlough...

Boris Johnson's sudden and unexpectedly ruthless Cabinet reshuffle, which drew comparisons with Margaret Thatcher's 'purge of the wets' in 1981, ended...

In a day of unexpected drama, Boris Johnson carried out a surprisingly brutal and widespread Cabinet reshuffle which saw a number...

Robert Jenrick has been sacked from his post as Housing, Communities and Local Government Secretary. He was the third major name to...

Good property marketing photos have arguably never been more important in an increasingly visual and tech-led world. We saw just the...

2020 gave rise to an exodus from the city as work from home became the mandated norm for large swaths of...

The Victorian phrase “as safe as houses” well surmises the security of the housing market as, whether they are buying or...

Belvoir’s chief executive haas taken to Twitter to hail his company’s latest results as “superb” - with sales for the franchise agency...

Since the announcement of the Regulation of Property Agents (RoPA), an increasing amount of Principle, Partners and Directors (PPD) from the...

We are living in the age of information. Our working and personal lives are underpinned by software, data and technology to...

The Karma Club: An industry partner has celebrated its second birthday by reaching a landmark of more than £15,000 donated to...

The first house price index for August suggests they rose 2.1 per cent in just a month - despite forecasts that the...

A prominent London-focussed buying agent says she is seeing more foreign buyers returning to the UK capital - with more expected...

A career in property can be fun and rewarding, but it’s a busy world to live and work in. As we...

A new survey of online and hybrid agents claims that they are now taking a 13 per cent share of the...

A  mortgage expert says surveyors should improve their standard services to cover the threat of climate change.  This comes after a summer...

OnTheMarket’s new market appraisal guides - first announced some months ago - have this morning gone live.  In June OTM announced a...

The housing market could be in for a financial boost of an unusual kind as a High Street bank plans to...

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

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

Sinclair Taylor, the first company to offer debt solutions to estate agencies, has been acquired by The Broadriver Group, a diverse...

Connells-owned Hamptons says it’s calculated that no fewer the 117,500 sellers this year have chosen to rent before buying their next home.  The...

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

Even at the height of summer (or the British wet season, as some call it) there are substantial numbers of job...

A survey suggests that almost half of first time buyers have at some time pulled out of deals because of environmental...

Zoopla has revealed that some 200 agents have joined its new Product Research Panel, testing new innovations introduced by the portal. First...

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

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

LSL Property Services - parent company of Your Move, Reeds Rains and Marsh & Parsons - has reported record figures as...

NAEA Propertymark says there’s no appetite that it can see amongst its representatives across the UK for charging people £30 for...

Well, we’re technically more than halfway through the year already, but we’ll let that slide. And what a year it’s been...

The platform behind a controversial proposal to charge prospective buyers and renters £30 or more to view a property on the...

The controversial ViewRabbit service, which proposes to charge prospective buyers and tenants for viewing properties, may seek international investment. The site has...

Regional hybrid agency Hortons says its repaid its £50,000 bounce back loan at the earliest opportunity - because the industry has...

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

High end agency Savills is conducting “a full investigation” into a racist tweet posted overnight. A Savills statement posted on Twitter this...

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

Foxtons’ chairman and longest-serving board member is to stand down at the end of this year at the latest, after a...

The second man to appear in a notorious video showing an estate agent accosting Professor Chris Whitty has now been charged...

From July 19 it is likely that business owners, including agencies and industry suppliers, will no longer have to ask staff...

It may be the height of summer but the industry is still super-busy and new appointments continue to come thick and...

The estate agent who accosted England's chief medical officer, Professor Chris Whitty, has been charged with common assault. Lewis Hughes, 23 and...

It doesn’t seem that long ago that 2D floorplans were considered cutting edge – but it’s safe to say they’re now...

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

There’s been a dramatic slump in instructions for online agencies, particularly Purplebricks, according to data produced by one online firm itself. 99Home...

A self employed franchise estate agent business model has been launched by one of the brands in The Property Franchise Group. Hunters...

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

It was never going to be easy for Scotland - and there was no sense of jeopardy for an already-through England. Yet...

The Oxfordshire-based PropTech founders and software developers of Openview, today announced they have welcomed Pattinson Estate Agents to their list of clients.   Peter Grant, Managing...

Welcome to the start of another week and as the housing market continues at full pelt, so does the movement of...

In an unusual move, HM Land Registry has issued guidance to agents to help them reassure jittery buyers and sellers ahead...

The property market is currently in a unique position where the number of house hunters looking for their next home is...

The Stamp Duty holiday has been very beneficial for hundreds of thousands of buyers looking to take advantage of savings, even...

Swiss investment bank UBS has advised investors to sell their Purplebricks shares as the market share for the controversial agency appears...

A home within 500 metres of a tube or railway station in London will carry a massive premium compared to a...

The government has dismissed a call for reform of the stamp duty system, which would have meant the tax would apply...

Prices in prime central London grew by 0.3 per cent in the year to May - tiny rise but a significant...

Figures released from the government show 19,400 people in the real estate sector are still on furlough - suggesting some agents have back...

Boomin says it’s going to “reinvent the YouTube channel for property.” The portal’s new YouTube channel has gone live with five unique...

Franchise agency giant Belvoir has acquired share capital in a small mortgage company. Nottingham Mortgage Services Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of...

Books about property are, relatively speaking, commonplace - books by estate agents are far less so, hence the interest in The...

A new survey of some 700 estate agency customers show that they want to get traditional services like High Street branches,...

An unusual price forecast based on conveyancing quotes suggests the housing market is to continue busy over the summer with more...

Free to list portal Residential People has launched a market intelligence platform called Prospr. This has been developed with the aim of...

A controversial league table of corporate agents’ market share is deliberately excluding Purplebricks and other online agencies.  This is despite Purplebricks this...

One of the men behind the defunct Emoov online estate agency has re-emerged as the head of a marketing service. The service...

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

Purplebricks has pulled off another publicity coup - it’s to sell the Rovers Return in Coronation Street. The hybrid agency, which already...

A leading industry trade body is warning that remote-working agents and smaller independent agencies are particularly vulnerable to the growing threat...

Zoopla has issued a statement saying it’s entering into a long-term partnership with the Leacders Romans Group, which will be “curated...

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

London-based estate agency Orlando Reid is opening an additional office in Manchester - the start of a long-term growth programme for...

Local elections rarely set the pulse racing and this year’s poll on Thursday faces a similar problem. But this time, it’s a...

Another major agency group has agreed to repay substantial sums it claimed under the government's Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, introduced to...

Software provider Rex has launched three new live dashboards for agencies, one of which covers agent performance. Rex says the dashboards -...

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

An insolvency specialist is warning that the real estate sector of the UK is seeing more firms in financial distress despite...

International investment bank UBS has double-downgraded Purplebricks from ‘buy’ to ‘sell’ - and that could be good for independent agents, a...

A consumer financial service suggests it’s already too late for most buyers to meet the latest stamp duty holiday deadline of June...

Two leading agencies and an agent network have signed up to the UK’s first dedicated portal for those finding, researching, buying...

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

OnTheMarket is to release its full year performance figures to shareholders on June 8. This will be for its trading year to January...

A hybrid agency which until now has been active only in London is launching new hubs in Manchester and Brighton. Agent &...

For many, the funeral of HRH Prince Philip will be a solemn affair, while for some it will also be a...

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

Our recent state of the property nation survey, which yielded nearly 350 responses from directors to junior negotiators, and many others...

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

Today is the day that non-essential retail reopens as part of the government's roadmap out of lockdown. For the majority of the...

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

Winkworth says Covid and its aftermath will not derail plans to open five offices a year.  In a trading statement to shareholders...

The annual report of a major estate agency has revealed that its chief executive took two large cuts to bonus payments...

A surveyors group has launched a new ‘Home Review’ service which it claims will identify structural problems which create an immediate...

There’s been a drop of no less than 16,000 in the number of physical viewings over the past year thanks to just...

Estate agents play a key role in identifying tax savings that can benefit all parties. If a purchaser can benefit from...

The Bruce brothers' new portal Boomin has launched a day early - and no, this isn't an April Fool. The site went live...

Mental health – and the importance of good mental health – has become a vital thing for all of us in...

A company in the German Axel Springer publishing empire - which also invested in Purplebricks in the past - has put...

Yopa has instructed two companies to help with its brand building as it battles with other major online players. It’s appointed M.i. Media...

As an indication of the frenzied property market, this may take some beating - an agent has had 18 viewings on...

As you’ll know by now, I like to use the Natter to shine a light on independent agents doing things a...

Normal life still seems far away so there hasn’t been the usual spotlight on a good-news-feeling that comes every year on...

A new licensee at Fine & Country is taking the brand into a new territory with a sales patch 170 miles wide...

Purplebricks has removed advertising claims which suggested it sold homes for a higher sum, on average, than rival agencies. The Advertising Standards...

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

Boomin co-founder Kenny Bruce says the UK economy should now be opening up thanks to the success of the Coronavirus vaccines. In...

Will Rightmove still be the dominant portal by 2030? Will Boomin really shake up the industry as Purplebricks did before it?...

London’s residential market appears to be showing renewed signs of life thanks to the rollout of the government roadmap and vaccine...

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

A Sheffield estate agency is pioneering a new form of branch office - one that sells homes at the same time...

A prominent estate agent has warned buyers and sellers about the perils of the controversial Modern Method of Auction. MMA is now...

If it’s Monday, it’s jobs news day on EAT - welcome to the latest update. Want to be featured in our next...

Following the fluctuation of the property market during the UK’s first national lockdown, the industry was given a lifeline by the...

Transactions and house price forecasts for the mainstream housing market are being revised upwards by Savills following the Budget. The new predictions follow an...

Automatically changing the main marketing photo on a portal listing can attract up to 40 per cent more traffic, it has...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  Dan Muir, Area Sales Manager, LetsBid Property What is LetsBid and...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  Jake Field - Area Sales Manager What is lets bid Property...

In this week’s In Conversation Today, I speak with Anthony Payne, Managing Director and co-founder of LonRes, a data and network...

OnTheMarket has hit out at a newspaper claim that it is just “limping along.” Patrick Hosking, a prominent financial columnist at The...

The head of a PropTech platform wants financial penalties on conveyancers if transactions miss deadlines. “The only way to accelerate the current...

A leading market commentator says the acquisition of London agency Douglas & Gordon represents “a strategic step change” for Foxtons -...

New research from Propertymark suggests a typical fall through costs an agent £4,123.  The association says that if the stamp duty holiday...

Much of the agency industry has reacted with delight at the extension of the stamp duty holiday deadline until June. Rightmove estimates...

Agency websites supplier Property Webmasters has secured a substantial but undisclosed cash injection to expand internationally. The investment comes from Net Ventures...

Zoopla says it has so far delivered almost £80,000 in agent fees through its access to the Modern Method of Auction. MMA...

The online petition which prompted a debate by MPs has now won the support of around 150,000 signatures. Typically public support for...

Wild speculation about the sale of Dexters yesterday turned out to be plain wrong - and instead the company has landed substantial investment. Oakley Capital, a...

This week’s In Conversation Today interviewee needs no introduction. One of the property industry’s most recognisable names, she has been a...

Hello - another Monday dawns but the good news is that we can update you on the industry’s latest appointments. Everyone here...

Rightmove is the latest portal to forge a link with the controversial Modern Method of Auction service being offered to agents. A...

As we move towards the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the first lockdown, it is a good time to reflect...

Estate agents might be expert at advising on buying and selling properties on their books but when it comes to buying...

As the official advice over holidays descends into farce - can we go this year? if so at home or away?...

A leading agency chief suggests there will have to be substantial bargaining between buyers and sellers as the stamp duty holiday cliff...

Experts are warning that buyers rushing to complete before the March 31 cliff edge for the stamp duty holiday may miss...

There is no scientific formula, no list of must-have elements in a successful campaign. That’s especially the case for a campaign involving...

This time out, I’m in conversation with one of the big three established portals. Since it was founded in 2007, Zoopla...

Estate agents have kept up the pressure on the Westminster government to consider some kind of tapered ending to the stamp...

The government is keeping everyone guessing about the stamp duty holiday but one comment by a senior minister suggests movement towards a...

Almost a year ago the government announced that estate and lettings agencies were to be included in the business rates relief...

A property industry body representing developers wants the government to think again about making it easier for redundant High Street shops...

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

Today’s the day when Parliament debates a possible extension to the stamp duty holiday beyond its March 31 cliff edge deadline...

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

Technology has advanced in leaps and bounds in recent years, undoubtedly improving many parts of the moving process for both estate...

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

A large majority of estate agents fear a surge in 'failed sales’ as the stamp duty holiday cliff edge gets ever-closer. The latest National...

Despite the booming housing market the whole property sector - a key indicator of the economy's performance - has seen 11,000...

Countrywide shareholders will next month have the opportunity to vote on the Connells bid to purchase the troubled estate agency group. The...

By any available metric, Belvoir had a good 2020. Already a well-known and well-established name, it was highly praised for its...

London buyers have been by far the biggest winners from the stamp duty holiday according to new research. The Keller Williams UK...

Propertymark, the overarching body aiming to bring five different associations (ARLA, NAEA, NAVA, ICBA and APIP) into a single brand, was...

Countrywide and Foxtons have thrown their weight behind an idea to identify every single UK residential property with a unique number. The...

An appeal has gone out to agents wanting to jump from being employees to running their own businesses - and there are...

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

With the Government announcement this week of another national lockdown across England amid the surging coronavirus infections, it once again puts...

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

New figures from the Bank of England show that mortgage approvals rose 7.0 per cent in November to reach 105,000 -...

A trade body has called on House Secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene over the growing problem of delays in councils providing...

Connells has revealed that it’s to keep the existing Countrywide branch structure and staff headcount when the acquisition process is completed...

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

Zoopla has revealed precisely how much house prices have risen over the course of 2020. Across the UK as a whole prices...

The pandemic has reignited the flagging country house market and boosted demand for larger homes with gardens, claims Savills. Larger country houses...

He’s gone from Downing Street but the legacy of Dominic Cummings lives on in Rightmove’s top searches of 2020. Barnard Castle -...

One of the founder agencies of the new Boomin portal, scheduled to launch in the New Year, has also rejoined Zoopla. Farrell...

The proportion of sales that fell through at the worst point of this year was 52 per cent it’s been claimed. However...

Well, what a year it has been for everyone, including the property market. I don’t think there’s anyone out there who...

Down valuations could leave some surveyors liable to professional negligence claims, a law firm says. Nelsons law firm says down valuations have...

A prominent London agency says cash buyers are securing substantial discounts in prime areas of the capital. The biggest cash discount currently...

Connells has this morning made a dramatic improvement in its bid to takeover Countrywide. It has increased its cash offer from 250p...

As we approach the most unusual of festive periods, many property professionals will already be thinking about the January market and...

Here at Giraffe360, the PropTech startup, we have raised a £3.5 million funding round to further accelerate our product development and...

Recent debate about urgent need for reform and better collaboration within the property industry, has once again come under the spotlight...

The private equity company which wants to take control of Countrywide has issued a statement saying it now has the support...

It’s that time of year again. Black Friday has been and gone and the run-up to Christmas is well and truly...

The secure Conservative victory in the 2019 General Election meant the property market in the sunlit uplands was set for a...

Property tax rises and falling house prices look as if they are on the way according to the small print accompanying...

So, we’re back to where we were in the spring, more or less. England is in a national lockdown again to...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has resisted changing any property taxes in the short term, but has used his Spending Review statement to...

Today sees the government’s Spending Review, with Chancellor Rishi Sunak taking centre stage as he presents a 12 month spending plan to...

Connells has increased the temperature in its bid for Countrywide with a surprise statement this morning outlining risks run by Countrywide if...

Estate agents can stand out from the crowd and help consumers through lockdown by providing a more secure sales process, a...

The advertising watchdog has told the agency industry to clean up its act on four issues, with clarity over fees being...

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

The Competitions and Markets Authority is to probe the proposed merger of two crowdfunding sites used by numerous property industry companies. Crowdcube...

A new report funded by high profile consumer champion Martin Lewis says the government must do more to help ‘mortgage prisoners’. These...

The six brands that make up The Property Franchise Group are the latest signings for yet-to-launch portal Boomin. TPFG’s brands are national...

A relaunched home buying service says it wants to partner with agents to unlock sales if the housing market deteriorates. The service...

Your Move is to become the English Football League’s official Communities Supporter for the coming season. The agency is already an Official...

New guidance spells out how leniency can be exercised on agencies or individuals who inform on anti-competition cartels of the kind that...

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

A new survey has been launched by the Residential Property Surveyors Association. The RPSA - which wants to rival the RICS as...

Boomin is to levy a traditional monthly fee for estate and letting agents listing on the site, in line with other...

The national lockdown beginning on Thursday makes the case for an extension to the stamp duty holiday, according to a tax...

An extensive culling of branches and staff continues apace at Countrywide as it significantly reduces the size of both its office...

The so-called hub model of estate agency adopted by a growing number of firms appears to be part of a wider...

A developer operating in prime central London is offering buyers a deferred-payment scheme. K10 Group says it’s doing this because of the...

It’s been an unexpected year for the property market, shaped by the effects of the pandemic. We didn’t quite anticipate the...

Agents spend their whole careers telling vendors and landlords why they will be able to achieve a better sale price or...

Here is a quick read focusing on 5 things you can check your business is doing while on your tea break....

Hello and welcome to a new week - and evenings that get darker earlier.  As winter approaches we’re continuing to bring you...

A health business is offering a free support package to estate agencies with between three and 100 employees, to help staff...

Countrywide’s high-end brand John D Wood and Co has launched a new country house department, to take advantage of growing demand...

The latest review by the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team into referral fees places the outdated practice of...

House prices in September were 7.3 per cent higher than a year earlier – the highest house price inflation since June 2016. The Halifax...

A new survey of the market share split between High Street and online agencies shows that Purplebricks remains the digital market...

London’s properties are “over-valued” according to a leading bank. UBS, which has what it calls a Global Real Estate Bubble Index, says...

One of the country’s major regional agencies has unveiled a ‘super hub’ structure which began life as a lockdown measure but...

Property technology company OneDome, which operates two portals - OneDome and Nethouseprices - has raised another £5m in funding.  It says it...

Hello and at the start of another working week, welcome to our regular jobs slot announcing who’s moving where within the...

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has encouraged people to complain if they are unhappy about working conditions and thousands of complaints...

The Times has revealed new allegations concerning the behaviour of Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick. The Cabinet member has been under the spotlight...

With no clear end in sight and conflicting Government advice as to whether we should work from home or go to...

Propertymark, which will from later this year combine both the National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Letting...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that all retail staff will be obliged to wear masks when working - and it's now...

NAEA Propertymark has written a letter to Housing Minister Christopher Pincher, asking what measures the government is taking to get more...

For a number of years now, predictions have been made that one of the major tech giants will eventually enter the...

Rightmove, which recently posted a 37 per cent drop in revenue for the first six months of 2020, has lost almost...

The estate agency industry is still under the spotlight for possible illegal price fixing cartels according to the Competition and Markets...

A leading agent says the government’s new Coronavirus clampdown from Monday will push more home owners to sell. Caspar Harvard-Wills, a partner at...

Hybrid agency EweMove has outperformed its traditional sister companies within The Property Franchise Group over the past six months. That’s the clear...

Rightmove is warning of a conveyancing log-jam that may delay sales, despite the ongoing frenzy of activity and faster transactions for...

A self-employed agent has gone public to lavish praise on the mentoring scheme which is part of the Agents Together charity. Cameron Carter,...

An overview of the global PropTech sector is often what I am asked to cover at conferences around the world. This generally...

Some 275,000 subscribers have signed up for the latest Zoopla email education programme under the Zooploma banner. This one is aimed at...

Zoopla has been awarded £50,000 of premium ad space with the Telegraph Media Group in recognition of a campaign to help the UK...

One of Countrywide’s biggest shareholders has written a second letter to the company to demand bold action to save the agency...

If anyone thought the days of Purplebricks bosses making millions were in the past,  think again. The chief executive and chief finance...

An unusual property sales concept, which signs up vendors and then effectively sub-contracts their sales to strongly-performing local estate agents, has...

Swiss bank UBS has upgraded its investment rating on Purplebricks, raising its price target and urging investors to buy. In a note...

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

HM Land Registry customers - including agents and conveyancers - can now manage all of their applications and correspondence including notices,...

It must have been a close thing on Friday as to whose faces were looking the most glum - those at...

OnTheMarket has confirmed it is “considering” making redundancies - the second of the large portals to be in this position. Rumours have been...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s stamp duty holiday means prime property in the UK now enjoys lower tax rates than most European countries. Buyers...

Purplebricks has revealed that its new board member is one of the world’s leading digital executives.  Dr Stephanie Caspar is the new...

HM Land Registry is now accepting witnessed electronic signatures on documents for the  transfer of ownership of property, the creation of...

Do you want to run the newly-merged Propertymark, embracing both the National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Letting...

If a week is a long time in politics (an old phrase, for younger readers), then a year is a very long...

Earlier this month, it was revealed that property industry bodies have joined a new Code of Practice Steering Group to enact...

Purplebricks’ sale of its Canadian operation for some £35m begs the question - where can it now recoup some of its losses...

The latest monthly index suggests that the average asking price in England and Wales has jumped 1.5 per cent in the...

Purplebricks is selling its Canadian business. The sale comes little over a year after the troubled agency closed both its failed Australian and...

The investment bank UBS says it’s forecasting that Rightmove revenues will be down £53m in the first half of this year. “The...

You have to feel for Rishi Sunak - well, at least a little. Leave to one side that he carries more presentational...

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

The Black Lives Matter debate has reached the property industry with some agents dropping the term ‘Master bedroom’ from descriptions. The Times...

A London agency says it’s seen over 30 new agents join its hub franchise operation during the lockdown, taking the total...

A survey of 2,000 prospective movers by Zoopla shows the vast majority still intent on buying - but younger purchasers’ plans...

Propertymark is calling in the government for agents to be trained in the use of software operating the Unique Property Reference...

The estate agency group spearheading the Say No To Rightmove campaign has signed its 36 branches up to new portal Homesearch. The...

Buyer demand for new-build property has bounced back 66 per cent in the six weeks since the resumption of the housing...

One of the key members of the Purplebricks board has stood down after two years. Andreas Wiele joined the Purplebricks board in...

Over 50 jobs have been lost as a result of a Midlands regional estate agency falling into administration. The Shropshire Star reports...

A regional agency in the east of England says the Coronavirus lockdown working environment has made it rethink its structure -...

Midlands regional chain Andrew Grant, which last year closed some branches as it moved to a ‘hub’ structure, appears to have...

“Let’s Zoom later”, “are we Zooming in the morning or afternoon?” “Yeah, I zoomed the client earlier” – variations on these...

A hybrid agency which set a target of rivalling Purplebricks when it launched has announced a recruitment drive and expansion in...