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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...

The Competition and Markets Authority - which yesterday announced it had disqualified two estate agency directors for their parts in a...

To most people, purchasing a home is the single most significant financial commitment made across a lifetime. Given the impact and...

OnTheMarket says in a trading statement this morning that as of May 31 only some 9,000 branches were on paying contracts...

National property auctioneer Pugh & Co is launching an initiative to partner with estate agents across the UK. Via a new network...

The only story that has come remotely close to pushing coronavirus – and its various knock-on effects – off the top...

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:...

Consumers are not as worried as they should be about conveyancing fraud, putting them at risk of losing life-changing sums of...

Over the last few years, there have been a number of high-profile court cases in which renters took action against letting...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick - accused by some of breaking the lockdown some weeks ago - is now in more hot...

Many of the leading advocates of the self-employed estate agent business model have talked about why many want new recruits with...

All my recent Natters have been focused on one particular topic, the coronavirus crisis, for obvious reasons. But there has been...

The fast-growing trade group for independent estate agents has launched a partnership with the soon-to-launch Homesearch portal. Of the various free-to-list portals...

An analysis of seven countries which underwent different forms of lockdown during the pandemic suggests the British and Italian housing markets...

Rightmove has taken the unusual step this weekend of issuing its usual monthly asking price index on a Saturday instead of...

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

An estate agency is running a series of five webinars aimed at helping agent discover new business strategies for the post-Covid...

A respected estate agency has revised downwards its price forecast for the housing market for the second time since the start...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick is expected to announce tomorrow that the housing market in England can resume with estate and letting...

The acting chief executive of OnTheMarket says the Coronavirus crisis could indirectly create a catalyst for change in the portals marketplace. Clive...

First details of the government’s programme to allow businesses to reopen have begun to emerge - with little comfort for estate...

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

A Labour council in London has come out against the government’s plan to offer 30 per cent discounts to first time...

There could be a wave of legal disputes as off-plan buyers seek to get out of purchase deals after the lockdown...

The Say No To Rightmove campaign has started buying social media advertising space in a bid to recruit agents. In a ‘promoted’...

The Haart estate agency chain has launched a portal called Off Market which it describes to sellers as being “a unique...

A major consumer survey of existing home owners and potential movers has resulted in a plea to government to allow house...

There’s a warning today that the housing market could face a wave of legal disputes if buyers of off-plan new builds...

Lockdown measures are still in place for another two weeks, at least, with the possibility of them being extended beyond that....

One of prime central London’s most respected estate agencies is warning that it could take until spring 2021 for the luxury...

One of the most important aspects of being a successful and profitable agent is selecting the right tenants. The industry manages this...

The government is being urged to allow estate and lettings agents to return to work as soon as possible when the...

A new analysis of the simmering Rightmove crisis says there is now “no clear downside” stopping agents leaving. The Financial Times says that Rightmove’s...

This month saw the introduction of the final stages of the Section 24 tax changes, first introduced in April 2017. Whereas buy-to-let...

A high number of agents across the country have been furloughed in recent weeks and are now at risk of losing...

The last five years have seen unprecedented changes to the property market and agents and their clients have never faced such...

Only half of the branches signed up to Zoopla have taken advantage of one or other of the discount offers made...

Hello, and welcome to Wednesday’s guidance and advice for agents and suppliers trying to find a way through the current crisis. If...

The government has been called upon by one of the industry’s most respected bodies to announce a stamp duty holiday to...

New temporary rules have thrown a lifeline to troubled agencies like Countrywide and Purplebricks which may need to raise additional funds...

As the impact of coronavirus unfolds, we are in constant conversations with customers to understand the challenges they’re facing and to...

Zoopla has confirmed that it’s to extend its ‘three months free’ plan to five months of free portal usage for agents...

On April 4, EAT published a piece titled: ‘It’s 2024: what will the industry look like, post corona-virus’. To me, this...

The NAEA and ARLA have jointly written to the government asking it to include agents’ commission in its plans to help those financially...

Industry operators who receive dividends as part of their monthly income are pressing the government to include this in its financial...

There’s a sense that we really are on the verge of a huge change in the industry. It’s too early to be...

Based on our historical data over twenty years of nationwide operation and a survey conducted in partnership with YouGov, we estimate...

Purplebricks Local Property Experts are asking sellers who are not allowing agents into their homes during the virus crisis to draw...

A leading human resources expert predicts that agents who are poorly treated by their employers now will wreak revenge and move...

One of the biggest issues for agencies at the moment is furloughing - a safety net being offered by the government...

Over the last two weeks we’ve seen the country come to a standstill and the property market effectively put on ice...

Welcome to the latest edition of our daily service dedicated to advice and guidance on how agents can best cope with...

In response to the current coronavirus pandemic, which is having such an impact on all parts of life, including the property...

It’s time to draw a line in the sand and condemn our rival portals for their current charging structure. Little will...

The key figure behind the Say No To Rightmove campaign says the fight for more realistic fees goes on - and...

It’s been reported that the government is talking with banks and building societies about putting the housing market ‘on ice’ during the...

We'd hoped it was good news but in fact it's just good-news-yet-to-come. The Savills office in Wuhan, the epicentre of the Coronavirus crisis in...

Although all bets are off as to what the housing market will be like after the Coronavirus subsides, there is now...

Advice to removal companies from their main trade body has put a stop to most transactions not already at a very...

Purplebricks is anticipating “a prolonged period of low activity” during the Coronavirus crisis with 25 instructions a day according to a...

While controversy swirls around the approach and motives of the sackings and branch closures at Spicerhaart, other agents are showing how...

The extraordinary past week of anger over portals’ fees plus early-warning statements like that from Foxtons indicate the anxiety in the...

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

In an ominous and unexpected trading statement this morning, Foxtons says it will take “all necessary steps” to remain in business. It...

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

One of Britain’s most outspoken and high profile agents has quit Rightmove in spectacular fashion, using an open letter to the...

The former director of customer experience at Purplebricks has been announced as a new partner in a Keller Williams franchise. Sarah Downes,...

Countrywide shares fell by just over 30 per cent yesterday as the stock market blood-letting continued for property stocks. The value fell 30.86...

Property expert Phil Spencer will soon be sharing his unique insight into Move iQ’s engaged consumer audience alongside advice from other...

Purplebricks faces an imminent takeover bid following the collapse of its share price, predicts a leading industry analyst. Andrew Stanton has already...

The lightbulb moment for LonRes was born out of sheer frustration. I’d just missed out on a deal and the postman...

There has been broad support and relief amongst property industry players following announcements from several lenders that they would grant mortgage...

OnTheMarket has announced this morning that it has given notice to its chief executive, Ian Springett, with immediate effect. The troubled portal's...

An agency has repaid a £6,000 reservation fee to someone who thought they had purchased a property for £83,000 but was later...

The author of dramatic reform proposals for estate agents has given a clear message to ministers - Get On With It!  Lord...

Hello and another Monday means PJT Day, your regular update on movers in the industry. You know the drill by now: if...

Hello and because it’s Friday there are two pieces of good news: it’s nearly the weekend and it’s the day for...

Increasing numbers of reports suggest that the government will use next week’s Budget to confirm a three per cent stamp duty...

By now, most letting agents and landlords will have heard about the draft legislation laid in Parliament concerning a mandatory minimum...

There’s a growing trend for estate agents to quit big-name corporates and either go independent or join US-style brokerages, a top...

There are fears that the so-called Boris Bounce which saw a surge in activity after the General Election may be hitting...

The Trading Standards report on the future of referral fees is almost completed and will be sent to government next week. However, James...

Future complaints about property raffles by individual home owners seeking to avoid estate agency fees will in future be handled by...

Both Countrywide and LSL Property Services have submitted early online paperwork to The Panel on Takeovers and Mergers, an independent body...

What an interesting few days it’s been. I don’t think the topic of this week’s column is doing anything good for our...

An estate agent who has himself made the move from the High Street to a hybrid operation has urged anyone in...

Sky News claims that Countrywide and LSL Property Services are discussing a merger to become a £500m super-agency.  In an exclusive it...

Hello and welcome to the end of the week…which must mean Agents Do Charity. There’s plenty to admire in this week’s entries;...

It’s been revealed that the branch closure programme by Your Move and Reeds Rains last year resulted in 460 lost jobs...

A legal challenge by HM Revenue and Customs has stopped a bid to secure a stamp duty discount on a property. The...

Savills has smoked out another money-making opportunity with a new enterprise which it claims has “enormous growth potential.” The property consultancy is teaming...

The 2010s were a good decade for disrupters. Early on, Airbnb and Uber shook up the holiday lettings/hospitality and traditional black...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Joanne (Jo) Tattum. Channel Manager - Property What is Moneypenny and...

A challenger portal says agents should reduce their reliance on the likes of Rightmove and Zoopla by using smaller rival portals...

Another weekend, another storm: it’s hard to put a smile on your face when winter goes on this long but the...

Boris Johnson is considering introducing a mansion tax for high value homes according to a Sunday newspaper. The Telegraph - citing two...

Not for the first time, a government policy on housing ends up begging more questions than it provides answers - but...

Coutts has identified areas of London where house prices are still below peak. Although the wealth manager and private bank says there...

An outspoken industry commentator says some of the country’s leading agencies are failing because they’re not actually run by experienced agents. Russell...

Hello and welcome to the last day of January, Brexit Day and - perhaps most importantly - the latest edition of...

'It's a recipe, not a menu' is a mantra championed by a host of Keller Williams' millionaire estate agents. But what are...

Suddenly Brexit Day is nearly here. It may have taken three and a half years from the Referendum but the UK will,...

Property portals generate revenue from estate agents regardless of the outcome of the transaction. This relationship has resulted in a fundamental...

A new website called Silver Sharers says it’s chief objective is to help older home owners remain in their properties without...

An agent is defying attempts by a property portal to get him to pay subscriptions for two branches - because he...

Another hub-based agency has launched in the capital, following in the footsteps of operations like Harding Green, Orchards and Keller Williams. Mariel...

He’s a young and very wealthy up-and-coming MP in his 30s, a Cambridge graduate who also studied in the US and...

The Property Franchise Group - which operates five High Street agency brands and the EweMove hybrid - has set up a...

A property portal says that it’s going to remain free to list for estate and letting agents - and that pledge...

Multi-national financial institution UBS says there could be a cut in the Bank of England base rate as early as May...

A veteran agent says the new government’s Budget, expected in the next few weeks, should not provide too much help to...

Annual UK house price growth exceeded one per cent for the first time in 12 months in December according to the...

A warning has been issued by a prominent industry figure that more bricks-and-mortar High Street agents will go under in 2020,...

Analysts are putting a surprise surge in mortgage approvals from banks down to a spike in applications ahead of the General...

The financial consultancy advising OnTheMarket says the portal company will be in profit by Easter next year. “We now expect OnTheMarket to...

This is our last edition of Estate Agent Today until Friday December 27 and everyone at Angels Media, EAT and the...

It’s one of the most crucial aspects of the homebuying and selling process but is too often bogged down by frustrating...

A law firm has spoken out about two possible problems in the government’s much-publicised idea of considering Reservation Agreements as a...

An estate agent in London claims he did £53m of property deals within hours of the Conservative victory in the General...

The Council of Property Search Organisations has named three industry figures as members of its newly-formed compliance committee, set to regulate...

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...

Outsourcing important business functions such as marketing, HR and IT to attract cost savings, leverage expertise and gain greater competitive advantage is...

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

Agents who join the fast-growing Federation of Independent Agents will have full access to the new Homesearch mine of data. Homesearch debuted...

The portals say they are ready and willing to play their part in changes approaching the industry, ranging from new agency...

Humberts' experiment rejecting branches and promoting a supposedly one-stop-shop for property related services has failed with reports that the firm is likely...

With Brexit still unresolved, the domestic agenda has been pushed from the headlines by the seemingly overwhelming public and political discord...

A new portal claims it will do what OnTheMarket failed to do, and offer an agent-led operation charging every agency branch...

Here at sales progression and communication tool mio, we recently caught up with Sarah Edmundson, co-director of The AllStars Group, the...

No one would argue that unfair fees and practices by rogue landlords is a problem that should be ignored, but the...

Properties worth a combined £8.1m have been surrendered to the National Crime Agency following a tax probe. The properties included 16 homes...

Homesearch, the data service which launched this year as free-to-use with a subscription model launching in 2020, has announced it’s introducing...

A prominent regional agent says the industry owes it to vendors to try competing marketing outlets for property, and not to...

Pressure is building on the Conservative party to honour its previous commitment to reform stamp duty for British buyers and sellers...

Hello and welcome to the regular Monday Property Jobs Today feature, your chance to catch up with who’s moving where in...

As we know, the world’s moving very fast and how we communicate now is drastically different to even 10 years ago....

Fledgling online estate agency Emoov - now owned by PropTech firm Mashroom - has removed reviews and endorsements from its website...

Rightmove has been given the green light to continue using the claim that “every second someone contacts an estate agent about a...

“Multiple”members of the new trade body, the Federation of Independent Agents, are considering cancelling their subscriptions to Rightmove. FIA founder Graham Lock...

ESTAS, the national customer service award scheme which recognises estate and letting agents,  conveyancers and mortgage advisors, has now fully launched...

The Property Ombudsman scheme is increasing its fees in January for the first time in six years - and it’s implementing...

OnTheMarket’s share price slumped to an all-time low just before the end of trading last week. The price fell to 69.0p during trading on...

An estate agency has been fined £30,000 for waiting until minutes after the sale of a flat was completed to tell...

A new study by the London School of Economics suggests that a high profile ban on the sale of new homes...

OnTheMarket will on Wednesday of this week issue over a million shares to agents who have signed new long-term listing agreements...

Foxtons' latest trading statement shows another fall in sales revenue - but this time lettings income is down too. In an announcement...

Troubled online agency Yopa has launched an in-house subsidiary to sell mortgages and other financial services - and not just to Yopa...

There are many adjectives that can be applied to Boris Johnson, probably very few of them complimentary, but there’s one that...

Enhanced customer care strategies, relationship-building schemes, cost-cutting measures and new revenue streams can’t help the lettings industry if the fundamental underlying...

Yopa – launched in 2015 as part of the new breed of hybrid operators seeking to shake up the industry –...

Controversy and Purplebricks have gone hand in hand since the agency was first launched in 2012, through its float on the...

The US-based real estate firm Keller Williams says it is aiming to be this country’s leading agency training organisation. Ben Taylor, who...

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

A yet-to-launch estate agency comparison site is nearing its crowdfunding target of £50,000. Invite Agents, which is crowdfunding on crowdcube, had, as...

Prospective property buyers have been provided with several reasons why they should stop delaying purchasing decisions due to Brexit uncertainty. Buying agency...

Hybrid agency Yopa has announced that its chief executive, Ben Poynter, will be standing down at the end of October to...

Purplebricks - which is at the centre of a string of controversies - has joined the growing campaign for stamp duty...

The German-based Alex Springer publishing company, which is already the largest single investor in Purplebricks, has acquired a prominent online estate...

Briefings from the Conservative Party to The Sun newspaper suggest that the party will this week announce further relaxation in planning...

One of the first so-called ‘hub’ hybrid estate agencies using self-employed freelances instead of staff says it’s moving to bigger premises...

Earlier this year, the Regulation of Property Agents (RoPA) working group announced the initial details of plans for mandatory qualifications and...

There are those who say that PropTech is at risk of becoming a bubble market, and others who say bubbles don’t...

Continuing political uncertainty over Brexit and now a significant chance of an autumn or winter General Election makes the case for...

A PropTech start-up says its service allows investors from anywhere in the world to buy property in the UK which can...

A comprehensive report into the changing complexion of the High Street suggests that some 143 estate agents’ offices closed in the...

One of the biggest changes seen in the property market over the last decade is technology growth. With the likes of Rightmove...

Purplebricks has spent £26.7m on marketing in the past year - that represents £382 per instruction.  The figures, revealed in the agency’s...

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

Hunters chairman Kevin Hollinrake, who is also a Conservative MP, has given notice that he would resign the party whip if...

Three former online estate agency founders - including the controversial Russell Quirk - are going into mainstream full fee agency. They are...

It’s been six years since the Help to Buy scheme was launched, with the honourable intentions of helping more people onto...

A survey claims that millions of potential sellers would use online estate agents - and bizarrely, this includes an online agency...

The number of new property listings in the UK fell by a whopping 13.2 per cent in August according to online...

A PropTech firm is marketing anti-money laundering audit checks for agents to help the industry comply with tighter regulation. Identity verification business...

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

No less than 56 per cent of properties across the UK are in areas that are affordable for first time buyers...

It’s been quite a week for news so you might have missed this story - there is yet another boost for...

A new service which launched in June and pledged to provide estate and letting agents with “game changing” access to property...

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

Recently a number of politicians and charities have been calling for the introduction of rent controls or rent freezes in the...

One of the country’s leading estate agents is leading the calls on Chancellor Sajid Javid to sort out the government’s stamp...

Prime London subscription-based property platform LonRes has launched an off-market service for its subscribers. It says that as transactions across prime London...

A newspaper claims that a crowdfunding site used by some estate agencies and other property industry companies has suspended trading on...