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The Able Agent has launched a white label training platform for firms to provide more branded and personalised content. The product, In-House...

Over the last two years, the property industry has experienced unprecedented change through shifting market conditions and new regulations around compliance. To...

The market is a long way off crashing but sellers are becoming more realistic, a senior agent has claimed. It comes as...

The digital transformation of the property industry is not a new chapter, but an ongoing journey in which the winners are...

A leading business consultancy is warning that supply chain shortages as a result of Brexit and the pandemic will push up...

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

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

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

Conveyancing volumes rose 27 per cent in just one month as the sector attempts to cope with huge demand prompted by...

The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, better known as the furlough scheme, was introduced by the chancellor Rishi Sunak in March to...

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

The property management industry is evolving at a rapid pace, thanks almost entirely to the rise in PropTech. Hundreds, if not thousands...

Data from HM Revenue & Customs has revealed that residential property transactions have increased by 4.3 per cent year-on-year. In October 2019...

Agents have interpreted the latest house price figures as evidence that the market is in limbo waiting for the Brexit -...

The annual rate of growth of UK house prices has slowed to its lowest level since September 2012. Official government data from...

Here’s an unusual story, describing the work of one of Purplebricks’ Local Property Experts who was with the company for around...

The civil servant leading work to reform the house buying has revealed key areas of government thinking - with a ban on...

PropTech has been mainstream for a few years now, and as more agents are familiar with the range of products and...

Rather like doctors, estate agents are present at critical points in our lives – moving in together, bidding farewell to a...

The outsourced viewing service Viewber says it has now conducted over 20,000 viewings on behalf of agents and has secured another...

Government figures suggest house prices are still rising by 5.1 per cent a year, with the average property value in the...

It’s traditional for estate agents to support each other when they come under attack from the press or public. After all,...

In this Natter we have an exclusive interview with David Cox, CEO of ARLA Propertymark and one of the best-known figures...

The importance of overseas buyers in underpinning increasing elements of the capital’s housing market and won support from an unlikely quarter...

As I sit and write this piece, even with the FTSE 100 back up and sterling having recovered some of its...

An investment consultancy has issued a note to investors, advising them not to buy shares in Purplebricks.  Jefferies – the firm which...