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The bid by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors to re-establish itself as a trusted body continues with the naming of...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is trying to win back respect within the property industry with new Rules of Conduct...

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

The governing council of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has issued a public apology to the whistle blowers whose actions...

Being able to show proof of funds in a quick, transparent and simple way is more crucial than ever to keep fall-throughs...

Welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity - another edition of good will and cheer generated by the industry’s fund-raising heroes. It’s...

A surprise statement from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says the stamp duty holiday, which goes on until the end...

A news conference today is expected to reveal more details of the governance scandal which has engulfed the Royal Institution of...

The chief executive of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Sean Tompkins, is in talks to step down according to an...

An agency claims that across the UK there have been very nearly 400,000 property transactions down valued in the last year...

There are some parts of the world, including in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, where estate agent isn’t seen as...

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

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

A company says it’s gathering £500m in funding to purchase properties for a “gradual home ownership” scheme - a variation on...

The independent QC asked to prepare a report into the financial conduct row at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has...

The market slowdown continues with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors reporting that new buyer enquiries have reduced for the first...

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

Students at a high school have been given an insight into the career opportunities in the property sector. The sixth formers from...

Remember the early days of lockdown when there was a general panic? Perhaps the hot demand for toilet rolls was a sign...

A leading agent says the supply of homes coming to the market is still insufficient to match demand. London estate agent Jeremy...

By any measure, the housing market has been unprecedently busy in recent months, fuelled not just by the stamp duty holiday...

Amro Partners, the Build to Rent and student accommodation operator, has launched a venture capital arm investing in PropTech and FinTech. Amro...

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

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says its monthly sentiment measure of house prices is at its highest level since 1988. A...

Hello and welcome to the latest Property Jobs Today, your chance to catch up with who’s on the move. Let us know...

The government is to answer a call made in an online petition for stamp duty to apply when contracts are exchanged,...

Digital marketing agency Angels Media and digital platform Gazeal have announced an exclusive strategic partnership to help improve and speed up...

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

Whilst it was once seen as a way to sell niche or run-down properties, auction is now a mainstream method of...

The independent review into the governance of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is calling for comments. Earlier this year RICS was the...

Propertymark is staging a webinar today tackling the challenging issue of conveyancing - just as the market is at its busiest...

A new petition has been launched asking the government to make the stamp duty holiday apply when contracts are exchanged, rather...

The shortage of supply compared to demand, which has characterised the housing market in recent months, could soon be a thing...

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

A new property board game called Gazumped aims to rival Monopoly but reflect a much more realistic view of how the house...

Unsurprisingly it’s been a busy few months in the property market so far this year, and a busy few months in...

The findings of the new ‘Thriving in a Pandemic’ report, recently published by tmgroup and mio, have highlighted that the market...

One of the biggest trends in recent times, as a direct result of the pandemic, is the concept of working from...

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

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says the market should prepare itself for a glut of new supply thanks to the...

Honesty is a concept that journalists will tell their readers is non-existent for estate agents. Yeah, right! But as the end...

The government has given details of two new taxes to provide funds to address the cladding problem on high rise tower blocks...

Some 100 new apprentice estate agents are to be recruited in London. Dexters, which has 70 offices across the capital including 12...

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

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

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors last night announced a dramatic U-turn in the controversy over a report by an independent...

The online petition calling for an extension to the stamp duty holiday is set to pass 100,000 signatures today. This means the...

The speed and success of the Coronavirus vaccine programme holds the key to the housing market rebounding in the second half...

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

The president of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors insists that the organisation is acting on recommendations of a probe into...

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

The Sunday Times has made new and detailed allegations regarding the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. For some weeks the newspaper has...

Hello and welcome to the first Property Jobs Today of 2021 - we’re less than a fortnight into the New Year...

Just a week ago, I thought it was all over. Christmas and New Year had gone, as had the passionate calls...

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

There’s growing optimism that an extension to the stamp duty holiday - thought to be off the agenda just days ago...

Agents have been outlining how they have beefed up their measures to combat the risk of Coronavirus, especially during property viewings. “We...

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

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

The sales market is currently strong but the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has issued a warning about a slowdown next...

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

MPs lobbied by agents to extend the stamp duty holiday are staying firmly on the fence with standard answers and no...

A leading conveyancing sector spokesmen says some mortgage lenders are making the current delays in the house buying process worse. Rob Hailstone,...

Safety checks which are apparently now preventing thousands of owners selling flats are to be eased - but there is confusion...

Tenants, landlords, agents, and house buyers all breathed a sigh of relief on Halloween when the government announced that home moves...

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

A law firm wants the government to agree that properties that have exchanged but not yet completed can definitely benefit from the...

The latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors review of sales and rentals, often amongst the most pessimistic of analyses, says Covid 19...

The first monthly market monitor to show activity in the housing market tailing off has appeared - and it says momentum...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says its new Home Survey Standard will be implemented from March and will represent a...

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

While England’s national lockdown exempts the housing market and allows agents to operate normally, it’s not been the same in Wales...

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

Buyers in around 30 per cent of English cities are almost certainly already too late to complete a purchase by March 31...

The mandatory qualifications expected of agents have not been forgotten and will come into effect in two or three years. That’s the...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been told to avoid a stamp duty holiday cliff-edge next March at any price - because it...

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

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

Most agents' branches in Wales are expected to close for just over two weeks from 6pm this Friday, October 23 - moving...

In early September, mio achieved an industry first with the release of the mio chain view API. Now, all the parties...

National chartered surveyor firm Bruton Knowles has acquired long-established Herefordshire based John Amos & Co Ltd. The move is part of Bruton...

Consumer group Which? says the stamp duty holiday has cut more than £4,000 from the average cost of moving home -...

Figures drawn up by a property industry recruitment guru show that estate agents work only two thirds of the hours they...

Hello and welcome to the new working week. Here’s the latest information on key hires across our industry: if you have similar...

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...

The Residential Property Surveyors’ Association appears to be taking on the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in a battle for authority...

It’s no surprise the mainstream news remains dominated by coronavirus - not so much the actual effect of it right now,...

Research by Zoopla has revealed the scale of the mistakes by and regrets for disillusioned home buyers. For large numbers of people...

From December, the new RICS Home Survey Standard will become mandatory for all RICS professionals undertaking home surveys. The below article explains...

A specialist property lender says transactions are being delayed by key staff being furloughed. Gareth Lewis, commercial director of property lender MT...

It’s fair to say that UK estate agents don’t have the best of reputations, often featuring in the lists of the...

With access to finance being such a hot topic at the moment, more and more estate agents are turning to commercial...

The latest market snapshot by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors warns the current boom may not continue as government support measures...

One of the main points I’ve had reinforced to me from agent after agent over the last year of hosting a...

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

The hunt is on for a new boss of Countrywide according to news reports. Sky News says the company has recruited professional...

The new code of conduct for estate agents has been dismissed as “a waste of time” - and the senior industry...

Emma Vigus, managing director of sales progression platform mio, in discussion with key suppliers in the residential property industry on operating...

At a recent Conveyancing Association webinar focused on the provision of upfront information in the property sale process, there was a...

An estate agency is warning that the likely rush of transactions when the new stamp duty holiday ends next spring will...

There’s more confirmation this morning that the housing market is enjoying a short-term bounce - and that’s before the effect of...

Let’s face it sales progression is difficult and frustrating: 1)The process has never been properly joined up - the average chain has...

They are the names we hear about often, pushing for this or seeking clarifications on that. They are the representatives of...

A new estate agency Code of Practice is to be written by a group set up by the Royal Institution of Chartered...

Collaboration creates a bigger market Iain White, of the Innovation Collaboration Group “the Estate Agency industry must recognise that collaboration will...

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

The latest sentiment snapshot produced by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors confirms the trend that the market is still improving...

The housing market is set for long-term recovery, despite dips in the road on the way.  That's the message from the latest house...

PropTech supplier mio says it now has over 1,000 agency branches using its sales progression platform - and it’s recruited Countrywide...

Last week was Mental Health Awareness Week, and there is a great deal of positive things to be said about a...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has revised its Anti-Money Laundering guidance in the light of Coronavirus. It says the scale of...

The Bank of Ireland UK is the latest mortgage lender to resume physical valuations of properties in England, subject of course...

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

The online estate agency Settled appears to have ceased trading with its customers refunded. It was launched in 2014 by former Google...

A large majority of property professionals polled by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors say a stamp duty holiday would be...

Domestic cleaners can now re-enter private homes under new Coronavirus return-to-work guidelines - the very guidelines which appear to stop estate...

Housing minister Chris Pincher is drawing up guidelines which could allow agents to return to something like normal working in the near...

Business consultancy TwentyCi is the latest to try to put a value on the potential losses to the property industry and...

A property law firm is the latest to back a call for a stamp duty holiday to help kick-start the housing...

A regional agency has thrown its weight behind an independent report which says estate and lettings agents could lead the economy...

House sales edged down only slightly in March compared with February according to HM revenue & Customs, despite the lockdown in...

Another body is calling for a stamp duty holiday to help resuscitate the housing market following the Coronavirus standstill. The Royal Institute...

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

A leading estate agency says it has observed that some banks previously opposed to accepting remote and desktop valuations have started...

One of Britain’s leading agents says online viewing and interest in videos for homes on sale continues to be relatively strong...

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...

The boss of controversial estate agency Dexters has hit out at social media reports and press articles about company staff working...

The government has at last issued extensive advice on home moving and the activities of estate agents during the continuing Coronavirus crisis. This...

A mortgage broker that’s just become a partner of OnTheMarket is warning that house prices are likely to fall 10 per...

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

A surveyors’ firm has been wound up after courts declared that it had misled clients over the success of its core...

Estate Agent Today is launching a daily service to help agents facing the Coronavirus threat. This is where you’ll find news, advice...

Sales in February grew, for the third consecutive month, according to the latest market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered...

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 head of a firm that has been creating digital property log books for well over a decade says the house-moving...

Two agencies are looking to the future with optimism, and striking new deals for their own premises. Vickers & Barrass is reported...

For several years the regular monthly RICS market snapshot has made depressing reading - now, for there second month in a...

The Law Society is telling prospective house purchasers to probe flood risks in the light of a new practice note it...

Rightmove and Zoopla have been working with key figures from government and the agency and conveyancing industries on how to reform...

It is possible that agents and their business partners in the conveyancing, mortgage and survey industries could be obliged to have...

A buyer is apparently suing a London estate agent over a discrepancy in a property description. The Mirror newspaper reports that the...

In the field of conveyancing, there’s a new dynamic at play. And that dynamic is customer-driven and customer-focused, using digital technology...

The annual conference of the National Association of Estate Agents takes place on February 27 - the date when the future...

Reapit has joined a consortium attempting to make the long-anticipated end-to-end digital home buying process a reality. It’s joined the IPN Consortium,...

Whisper it quietly but the housing market could be significantly stronger in 2020 than in recent years. Two key indicators in the...

Hello and welcome to the first PJT of 2020 - a new decade and, for many, a time of new opportunities. We’re always...

The new government has announced that its first Budget is to be held on Wednesday March 11 - and it’s giving...

The scores are in….and it looks like house prices are going to rise gently in 2020 according to forecasts from almost...

It's been two years since the SDL Group launched its franchise block management business, SDL Property Partners, the first of its...

The new mood of apparent political stability promoted by supporters of Boris Johnson and Brexit appears to have failed to win...

A former residential chairman of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has posed key questions for the government to answer over...

Government figures from the Office for National Statistics show that house prices across the UK rose by a mere 0.7 per...

As part of its commitment to promoting and enforcing high standards, RICS has launched its Home Survey Standard, which will become...

The latest snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows that the UK housing market is still on hold, pending...

The Australian agent is a very different beast to his or her British counterpart - and it’s not just because we...

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

A conveyancing company has thrown its weight behind reforms to surveys outlined by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. As Estate Agent Today...

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

A new Home Survey Standard is being launched today in a bid to improve and speed up the house moving process. The...

This morning’s new market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors confirms the worst - that the market is in...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  Jason Wilson, mio Account Manager What is mio and what does...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has today published the paperwork behind the recent Countrywide £10m accounting controversy. Published on the RICS...

Hello there and welcome along to the latest PJT, your weekly catch-up on who’s moving where in agency, amongst suppliers and...

Countrywide’s ever-patient investors appear to have been unfazed by the company’s latest compliance issue, which has led to a £100,000 fine...

It’s now emerged that Countrywide has to pay a £100,000 fine to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors after breaching guidelines...

Countrywide has this afternoon released a statement suggesting it has, in its eyes, settled the controversy over unclaimed lettings funds being...

Countrywide has declined to comment on circumstances surrounding today’s Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors disciplinary meeting about diverted funds. One of RICS’...

The Australian agent is a very different beast to his or her British counterpart - no surprises there. And it’s not...

Agents have expressed quiet optimism that the market may be over the worst as it continues to show resilience in the...

Case study: Connells reaping the time-saving benefits of new sales and communication tool Since adopting mio in September 2018, Josh Lally, Senior...

The reform of the buying process is to take centre stage at a special conference called Bold Legal LIVE! taking place...

Hello and welcome to your regular Monday PJT, the essential guide to who’s moving where in our industry. Everyone mentioned here got...

A quick move company claims that the general public underestimate estate agents’ fees by around £6,000.  A survey of 2,000 home owners...

A property MOT being launched by Countrywide and described as “game changing” for the house buying process will include survey and...

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

The government has issued a revised version of its official How To Buy and How To Sell documents, aimed at consumers...

Countrywide’s surveying division says it’s found a “knowledge gap” in existing surveys after a study involving over 15,000 buyers. The agency group...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Phil Smith - mio Account manager What is mio and what does...

What a credit to the industry so many agents, surveyors and suppliers are: this week’s ADC shows the diverse range of...

The latest survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests that last month’s optimistic assessment of the housing market has...

Hello and welcome to PJT, breaking you in to the working week every Monday with news of the movers and shakers...

It’s another Friday so it’s another Agents Do Charity - of course! It’s August and the height of the holidays but as...

Seemingly-endless uncertainty over Brexit and now speculation over whether there will be an easing of stamp duty on transactions is making...

Hello and welcome to this latest edition of PJT, your regular weekly column giving all the key appointments news in the...

Trade bodies and property firms have strongly welcomed the recommendations for root and branch reform of the agency industry - and...

Theresa May arrived in Downing Street some three years ago - but her premiership has not been a smooth ride. As she...

  Who are you and what does it say on your business card?             Becky Howes, mio Account Manager What...

Hello and welcome to both this week’s PJT and welcome to July. It may be summer and Wimbledon time, but there’s no...

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of Property Jobs Today - the Monday slot where you can catch up with...

A PropTech firm has repeated claims it first made in March about allegedly inaccurate floorpan measurement and says a new initiative...

PropTech company Landmark has thrown its weight behind the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ new Home Survey Standard, which is now out...

Tributes are being paid to David Hall, a senior partner at an agency in the Midlands where he worked for a...

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

Hello there and we’re at the start of another Bank Holiday weekend - but no rest for you lot, working hard...

A homeowner in London has won a legal case against a chartered surveyor who failed to identify Japanese knotweed during a...

The number of residential property transactions across the UK fell very slightly last month according to new figures from HM Revenue...

An expert who has invested in an online agency in the past has slammed Purplebricks’ business model. James Max, who presents the...

Two PropTech suppliers have this week announced new partnerships and products with the aim of helping estate agents.  Firstly, sales progression and...

1989 was a significant time for the property industry: it marked the beginning of the end of a period of unprecedented...

There’s a silver lining to another set of stodgy housing market figures - at least one sector, for those buying their...

The London Marathon may be just one of literally thousands of fund-raising events but we know it’s a favourite with many...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says house price sentiment improved by a small amount last month for the first time...

More than 800 property transactions fall through daily, which can have repercussions both practically and financially, as agents fail to get...

An owner who enhanced the price of his property by illegally hacking branches off a tree has ordered to pay back...

The latest RICS survey has one key message - 77 per cent of surveyors participating in the study say Brexit uncertainty...

The end of 2018 was a bit of a rocky time for online estate agents. Yet only a few years ago...

Maverick Cornish estate agent Chris Wood has quit the industry with a stinging attack on those who have “taken their toll”...

The proliferation of big data is paving the way to improving our economy on almost every front as entrepreneurial digital companies...

The influential Treasury Select Committee says estate agents should be more closely monitored to ensure they abide by anti-money laundering regulations. In...

Hello and welcome to this half-term week’s PJT, your regular Monday opportunity to catch up with the key personnel changes in...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, your regular catch-up on key appointments news in our industry. It’s been a difficult seven...

An annual study of transaction charges shows that house moving costs are now at a record average high of almost £10,000...

North east England regional chain Bradley Hall Chartered Surveyors and Estate Agents has launched a new office in Hexham as its...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says the housing market outlook over the next three months is the worst for 20...

Hello and welcome to another PJT, your regular Monday update on who’s moving where within our industry. Please keep us informed of...

A new portal called YourMoov and describing itself as “the UK’s first decentralised property listing database” is to launch shortly. In an...

A new website is offering to contact owners of homes that are not for sale, on behalf of people who would...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT - and while it may be just days to Christmas, there’s still plenty of...

Hard not to mention two major breaking news stories of recent days; one directly affecting the property market and one which...

Zoopla claims a new Property Valuation Report being trialled in nine areas will win more leads for agents.  The PVR will use...

House price rises are now the slowest they have been for six years according to the Halifax. Across the UK, property values...

Property analysts say ‘flippers’ - those who buy new homes and sell them quickly, hopefully for a profit - are losing...

House prices showed an unexpected pre-Christmas boost last last month but worries about Brexit remain foremost for buyers according to the...

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

A digital conveyancing platform says a lack of transparency in the house moving process - particularly regarding legal costs - is...

The government has told the estate agency industry that it has a “moral” obligation to report suspicions about potential money laundering. Figures...

It is a sobering thought that 40 years have slipped by since I first ran a tape measure across the inside...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says it wants to simplify the system of surveys by scrapping the three current options...

The government has unveiled a new body which, it claims, will raise agency standards. There is a long-standing commitment from the government...

The latest market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests the number of properties on estate agents’ books is now nearing...

It seems a lifetime ago but in fact we’re approaching just the first anniversary since the government triggered its Call for...

As the property market gears up for a busy autumn period, agents and property firms have been equally busy bolstering their...

A warning to people selling their homes to beware of internet-based scams offering cut-price surveys has been sounded by a leading...

The redress scheme which formally quit the housing sector admits some estate agencies may have missed its deadline - and are thus...

Outspoken property commentator and buying agent Henry Pryor has made a scathing attack on some of the main house price indices. In...

Data prepared for the BBC and shared with Estate Agent Today gives a snapshot of how estate agencies, lettings agencies and...

A leading buying agency is warning about asking prices that are higher than those acceptable to mortgage companies who therefore down-value...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, the place where you find all the key agency industry moves over recent days. Please...

The debate over alleged ‘down-valuing’ by mortgage lenders has flared again with one leading agent claiming that surveyors are just “covering...

Another day, another housing minister – at least that’s what it feels like! The resignation of the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson...

A disciplinary investigation by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has blown the lid on the infamous fee-fixing cartel scandal involving estate...

The manufacturers of a new PropTech tool claims it produces “the most accurate measurement of floorplans on the market” and has...

It may not be a good idea for a journalist to be personal about a politician, so I write about our...

Hello, and welcome to this week’s regular Monday summary of all the major jobs moves in our industry.  Despite summer and the...

One of the country’s best know estate agents, Marc Goldberg, has joined London agency Dexters. Goldberg spent some 30 years at Countrywide’s...

House prices rose at their slowest annual rate in five years in June according to the latest indicator of this summer’s...

Summer is traditionally the time of the year when the property market slows down, with people going away on their holidays...

Letting agents are being advised to think seriously about how they can recoup costs to help compensate for the introduction of...

Breakdowns within property chains are the most common cause of fall throughs, according to a new study. Over the last ten years,...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is consulting members on the creation of a personal statement which they must sign to...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today, our weekly feature on who’s moving where throughout our industry. And it’s...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Ben Robinson, Director of Agency Services at Landmark What is Landmark...

Given the level of resource and energy being put behind upping the number of first-time buyers in the UK, you might...

A new study reveals precisely how little first time buyers apparently understand about the buying process.  In a survey of 500 people...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, the regular Monday update on who’s moving where within our industry. Let us know what’s...

The latest mortgage snapshot from e.surv has reinforced recent claims from other sources that London’s housing market remains the most difficult...

Demand is down for the 12th successive month according to the latest market survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. New...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today, our regular Monday look at key moves inside our industry. Everyone mentioned here...

The government has announced further measures which will, in its words, “professionalise” house buying and the estate agency business. In yet another Sunday...

With reports continuing to focus on a slowing property market and an understanding that not enough properties are being marketed for...

For part two of the 'Day in the life of' series, I spoke to Peter Kavanagh, who first joined Romans in...

The comparison site Reallymoving, which allows users to get online quotes for conveyancers, surveyors and removal firms, has acquired the property...

Figures just released assessing February’s mortgage borrowing show that approvals are 1.25 per cent lower than in January, and are down...

Have you noticed a new turf war going on on the fringes of the agency world? It’s not a high-profile battle like...

  Chancellor Phillip Hammond claims over 60,000 first time buyers have already benefitted from the stamp duty relief he announced at his...

An estate agent and former chairman of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says the government’s latest drive to build new...

When it comes to property, ‘Japanese knotweed’ are the two words most homeowners and prospective buyers do not want to hear.  With...

Representatives from estate and lettings agencies as well as professional organisations have formed The Home Buying And Selling Group with a...

Hello and welcome to the latest Property Jobs Today, our round-up each Monday of key job moves within estate and letting...

“Are we there yet?” In the same way that these words can drive you to distraction (any parent who has endured the...

Hello and welcome to Property Jobs Today; this is the latest of our weekly round-ups of key job moves within estate...

The housing market has started 2018 as it ended 2017 according to the RICS, with new buyer enquiries, instructions and sales...

One of the three government-approved redress schemes for estate and letting agents says it’s quitting the sector this year - but...

Hello and welcome to our first Property Jobs Today, a weekly round-up of key job moves within estate and letting agencies...

Home owners seeking lease extensions may now have to pay more as a result of a controversial judgement handed down by...

For a while now, property and technology have been combining seamlessly to offer the industry innovative solutions to often complex problems....

An overwhelming 86 per cent of RICS members questioned in a survey claim they have seen no increase in interest from...

The Court of Appeal is today expected to rule on a legal battle which may be critical in determining the value...

While there is a distinct market for flats held on particularly short leases, there is a middle ground where flat owners...

A website called Roofoveryourhead has launched which threatens to bypass estate agents and allow vendors to sell for free. The site uses language similar...

The housing market remains flat as it heads towards 2018 according to the latest snapshot survey by the Royal Institution of...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has issued a downbeat snapshot of the current housing market with "subdued sales trends" across...

Mortgage approvals are well above last year's levels despite concerns about the health of the housing market.  There were 66,185 mortgage applications...

A recent National Association of Estate Agents press release suggesting solar panels were among the “top things” to devalue a home...

An industry analyst says some agents may find it tough to survive in 2018 if they’re hit by a double whammy...

There has been a wide range of views from trade bodies and individual agents on the government’s surprise ‘call for evidence’...

David Westgate, group chief executive at Andrews Property Group, has been presented with a long service award in recognition of his...

This is a final call for estate and letting agents to have a say on what may be one of the...

As we outlined in our EAT and LAT stories earlier this week, we (Angels Media) are seeking responses from estate and...