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Buyers are getting less square foot for their money when buying a property. Research by insurer Churchill has found that the average...

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

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

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

Over a fifth of properties have risen in value by more than the average salary according to a calculation made by...

London-focussed agency Winkworth - which has around 60 of its 100 franchise branches in the capital - has now opened another...

The youngsRPS agency now has a fifth branch in the north of England - it’s in Darlington and will cover the...

House prices have soared 10.9 per cent in the past year - the highest level since 2014 - according to the...

An analysis of over 1.6m listings by Rightmove shows a big return to normality - demand for smaller city centre properties...

A think tank claims that ‘urban flight’ - when people leave cities and head for towns and villages - is merely a...

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

The launch of Boomin has been and gone with, perhaps, something less than its expected fanfare of publicity. Of course there are...

One year on from the UK’s first stay-at-home order, London has been overtaken as the most searched-for location on Rightmove, according...

Uncertain market means additional revenue streams are more important than ever The last year has been an uncertain period for many business...

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

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

A new estate agency listing historic houses is to have “a select group of creatives and thinkers” that will assist in the...

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

London and other urban areas dominate the league table of locations seeing the biggest house price rises of 2020. This is despite...

The design quality of new homes and neighbourhoods across the UK remains stubbornly low, according to a new report by academics.  The...

Another day, another house price record as the bull market continues. The latest Halifax index shows prices surging 7.6 per cent to...

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

We’re just a few days from December so why not get into the festive spirit a little early and get some...

The soon-to-launch Boomin portal has signed up a national firm and now claims to have recruited 40 per cent of the...

What’s the happiest place in Britain? Rightmove has the answer. In a new ‘Happy At Home’ index calculated by the portal and...

The Home website, which publishes a detailed monthly snapshot of the market, has raised the alarm over London because of a...

Just when you thought the housing market was beginning to calm down... along comes a likely vaccine for Coronavirus. One of the country’s...

Hello and welcome to your regular Friday charity round-up from the industry - appropriately enough on the day of the latest...

Some 713 estate agency branches have failed to reopen following the spring lockdown according to a business consultancy. TwentyCi says that is the...

A prominent housing market analyst is warning that in 14 years of studying prices and transactions he has never seen the...

The only certainty at the moment is ongoing uncertainty. It’s something we’ve got used to in 2020, but it’s still not...

The regional agency group which master-minded the Say No To Rightmove campaign has made a big commitment to the future of...

When it comes to the future of the property market in the wake of Covid-19, there are two main schools of...

In the week the Nationwide recorded the UK’s highest ever average house price, high-end agency Savills has forecast that prime markets...

Data from Rightmove shows that demand is up 61 per cent compared to the same period last year - and the...

Asking prices are up again for a third consecutive month in all English regions and across Scotland and Wales.  The measurement, from...

It has been three months since the property market was given the green light to reopen. During this time, we have...

It’s probably not a surprise but new research has revealed where people want to move to - as well as where...

Zoopla says while there may be speculation about people fleeing London and big urban areas for the countryside, the evidence suggests...

Businesses across all sectors have struggled to adapt to the changes brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. One group that have bucked...

Hello and welcome to a new week, and a new edition of PJT. If you’re on the move or your firm has...

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...

Data scientists have released a study into the characteristics of homes and how they give away the likely voting intentions of...

A few weeks ago, I came across a couple of really interesting articles which I immediately thought worth writing a piece...

This is stating the obvious to estate agents but the government has revealed that homes near parks, gardens, playing fields and...

If you thought - perhaps hoped - that five weeks of prorogued Parliament meant a break from politics, think again: the...

A £3.6 billion Towns Fund to support towns across England to build prosperous futures through innovative regeneration is a perfect chance...

A leading figure in urban design is urging new Prime Minister Boris Johnson to stand up for the pioneering space standards...

Two of the highest profile independent estate agencies in the north of England have merged following a spectacular acquisition. Linley & Simpson...

With this summer marking forty years since Margaret Thatcher came to power, her legacy continues to invoke both celebration and consternation...

This week, I want to take a look at the Israeli startup, Venn, an urban revitalisation firm which has recently received...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is running a Certified Property Measurer course aimed at training agents and others in the...

While media attention has been on Theresa May, Brexit and the Tories, chatter in the agency industry has been about what...

Whether you love or hate it, Purplebricks has undoubtedly left its mark since arriving on the scene in 2015 – much...

During our school days, most of us did that task where we imagined and drew the homes of the future, but...

Hello and here we go with yet another Agents Do Charity, the weekly opportunity to herald the unsung efforts of our...

A couple of weeks ago, SoftBank’s Vision Fund led a whopping $200 million investment injection into Clutter, the US-based on-demand storage...

Online estate agent Emoov failed to tell crowdfunding investors it was losing £3m a month before its collapse, a Sunday paper claims. The...

At the end of January the Asian PropTech company PropertyGuru announced the imminent launch of beta-phase testing of its cutting-edge new product, PropertyGuru Lens. This...

A think tank is suggesting that micro-homes could be the answer to London’s shortage of available homes for first time buyers. The...

It’s time to think about planning the 2019 events calendar. This year, there are more PropTech conferences scheduled than ever before,...

Another year is nearly done – and what an eventful year it’s been. We’ve had more than our fair share of breaking...

So this is (almost) it. Next week may be a quiet one for business as vendors and landlords alike begin to...

A Newcastle-based property company says it has acquired the listings of Emoov and Tepilo. It has emailed and texted vendors to say...

A crowdfunding bid to Emoov’s staff to win financial help over the Christmas period has flopped badly with a paltry £30...

It is now known that at least 32 formal complaints have been received by the crowdfunding platform that helped Emoov raise...

Estate Agent Today has been given details of responses made by administrators to an enquiry about the possible acquisition of some...

The Times reports that crowdfunding investors are considering legal action following the collapse of Emoov. The investors in question appear to be some of...

Investment platform Crowdcube has told Estate Agent Today that defunct online estate agency Emoov revised down its company valuation from £104m...

A statement by the administrators appointed by Emoov says there are prospective buyers for the listings on the online agency and...

The demise of Emoov, Tepilo and lettings platform Urban raises question marks over the long-term viability of online agencies according to...

The circus surrounding the fate of online agency Emoov has taken an unexpected turn. Yesterday Sky News revealed that the company was...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has launched a new guide in a bid to end what it calls inconsistencies and...

Time appears to be running short for the sale of troubled online agency Emoov. An Emoov insider has told Estate Agent Today...

A leading property consultancy has called out Manchester as the location which has seen the highest urban price growth of anywhere...

An online agency launched by a traditional high street agent to ward off competition says the online business model might have...

Hello and welcome to our latest edition of Property Jobs Today, a weekly run-through of the key job moves within our...

One of Emoov’s agents in the field has contacted Estate Agent Today to give an insight into how the agency has...

Fresh details have emerged about the financial difficulties suffered by Emoov, its search for a buyer and its possible sale price. A...

Sky News says Emoov is to be sold, just months after the controversial online agency merged with Sarah Beeny's Tepilo and the...

Bored with Brexit? Baffled by the backstop? Troubled by the transition period?  Well here’s a promise - there’s no mention of the...

Sales of holiday homes could be hit as a result of a new £560m tax proposal put forward by Labour.  Under the...

The chief executive of the newly-expanded Emoov group has been giving details of the merger with Tepilo and the possibility of...

My eye was caught yesterday morning by news that PropTech company, Agent Software, is claiming that ‘some agencies deliberately over-value properties...

Emoov’s latest crowdfunding campaign has now gone well over £1.5m, making it already 50 per cent over-funded already from its original...

First things first, I have to mention the World Cup. The dream is over, football’s not quite coming home (not until...

Emoov has launched a crowdfunding campaign giving investors, it says, “a final chance” to put their money into the hybrid agency...

The UK arm of the US-based estate agency Keller Williams says it is making a specific bid to recruit more women...

A major hybrid agency says there is a huge ‘reality gap’ between the typical asking price of homes on sale and the...

Hello - if it’s Monday, it must be Property Jobs Today, your chance to see a snapshot of the key moves...

The young entrepreneur behind Doorsteps, the estate agency that deliberately avoids the huge marketing razzamatazz of other online companies, says his...

Russell Quirk, chief executive of Emoov, says his agency is now one of the top seven in the UK following its...

A London estate agency run by a brother and sister is trying something completely now - it pledges to use some...

TV property expert Sarah Beeny says she expects online agencies to take 70 per cent market share in the future -...

The so-called ‘merger’ of Emoov, Tepilo and a lettings firm is actually an acquisition by Emoov of the other two companies. That's...

The long-awaited merger of Tepilo and Emoov is reported to have been confirmed this afternoon and in with them goes online lettings...

The sun has finally returned to ours skies and you’re on the lookout for a little bit of summer reading. As...

Andy Martin, the popular and respected senior partner at Strutt & Parker from 2009 to earlier this year, has been appointed...

Hands up if you’ve read all of the property reports that have been published in the past week or so? Forever...

An estate agency that started its life at a kitchen table in 1997 is now celebrating 20 years in business. City living specialist...

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...

“When an industry is new, still finding its feet, finding its purpose, the tendency is for those few people within it...

Historically, short-term rentals have been an unattractive business for the majority of estate agents and property managers. Scarcity of demand from tenants...

A research report compiled by Strutt & Parker in partnership with Octopus Healthcare has revealed what the baby boomer generation expects...

Two established independent estate agency brands have joined forces to create the Estate Agency Franchise Group and are looking to expand. The...

It has been announced that Uber, the taxi company, has teamed up with build to rent firm, Moda Living, to ‘revolutionise renting’.    This...

The latest measure of house price rises in key UK cities by the property consultancy Hometrack shows house price in many...

Winkworth’s annual figures for 2016 reveal a franchise turnover drop of six per cent and a pre-tax profit fall of 25.6...

Hometrack data suggests that annual house price inflation in London has fallen to 6.4 per cent, the lowest level since June...

The guys at Which? are at it again, all over estate agents like a rash for “over valuing” properties so they...

The chronic shortage of housing supply in the UK relative to demand has been a national issue for decades. The Government...

First details of the long-awaited Housing White Paper have emerged in stories in newspapers frequently used by government to float ideas. The...

Over 168,000 new homes were completed in the year to March 2016, according to data released by the government, over 15,500...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s aim of creating a 24-hour city is one step closer with the appointment of London’s first Night...

As many northern cities struggled to recover from the 2008 global financial crisis, the north-south divide returned to plague the British...

Countryside Properties and Telford Homes are the latest housebuilders to report good trading conditions following the result of the EU referendum. Countryside,...

It’s easy to forget, but there was a time when the internet didn’t exist. When the idea behind the world wide...

Sheffield in South Yorkshire, which was once one of the leading industrial cities in Britain and is still recognised for its...

London’s rising supply of homes on sale and relatively low level of transactions are “pointing to slower house price growth in...

An estate agency owned by Countrywide has relaunched with what it calls “an innovative, premises-free business model that seeks to redefine...

Hometrack is the latest property organisation to forecast that the referendum result will impact turnover far more than house prices in...

Knight Frank says the prices of so-called ‘prime’ country houses are still on average 13.6 per cent below their peak, despite...

The summer term – rounders, cricket and hayfever. It's also the last dash before the housing market supposedly closes down for...

So this is Easter - a busy time for many agents although once again the industry has shown its compassionate side...

The sale of country houses - already tough as buyers increasingly want to live on the edge of market towns and...

Fine & Country this week opens a new London office in Bow, coinciding with the imminent start of its TV advertising...

The chief executive of Countrywide says there’s “no change of course” after a 37 per cent slump in operating profits were...

Some 51 per cent of postcodes within Greater London now have average property prices of £500,000 or more according to one...

Surely people will start moving again soon. The employment rate for the last quarter of 2015 is likely to be the...

It’s time to take a pause, to reflect and put into context—and what a year it has been for our industry...

A new agency called Sphere Estates will launch next month following a management buy-out of high end overseas property agency Abercrombie...

Hometrack says its index of house price growth in major cities is already 9.4 per cent per annum and looks set...

This month analysis by the Office for National Statistics revealed that the average home in England and Wales cost a record...

LSL Property Services, owner of Reeds Rains and Your Move amongst other high street chains, says last month’s sales market was the...

John D Wood & Co is launching an international department, promising properties ranging from urban pieds-à-terre to Caribbean beach houses, from...

There has been much debate in recent years about Britain’s desperate need for more housing stock. Demand has been outstripping supply...

A pressure group says cities across England and Wales - including mid-size cities as well as the big urban conurbations -...

About ten years ago, I was working as the branch manager of an estate agency based in an affluent part of...