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The news in September that Birmingham City Council (‘Europe’s largest local authority’) had been forced to issue a Section 114 notice...

Agency brands Knight Frank and Savills are among 12 of the largest real estate consultancies in the UK behind a new...

A new analysis of the housing market has assessed 50 cities in the UK to establish which is best for first...

New 2023 research from Open Property Group found that just 41% of homes in England meet the recommended Energy Performance Certificate...

Agents have been busy expanding and rebranding this week. Regional agent Preston Baker is expanding its service area with the creation of...

A reluctance by property firms to hire individuals to focus on innovation is leaving the sector behind when it comes to...

The Bruce brothers’ new portal Boomin has given its first statistics regarding usage following the launch of a new marketing campaign...

Referral revenues shared between agents in a major industry trade group has hit over £1.35m.  Daniel Pepperell, regional director at The Guild...

Independent estate agency Dacre, Son & Hartley plans to significantly grow its franchise network across Yorkshire and beyond. Dacres currently employs 125...

Delays with the return of property searches is one key factor for sales taking longer to complete. As conveyancers start to warn...

A conveyancing firm is blaming councils for delays in transactions. Conveyancers have themselves been sharply criticised in recent weeks as the sharp...

Although the shake-out in the industry is ongoing - online agency Settled and established new-build agency Cushman & Wakefield have both...

Cushman & Wakefield has pulled out of direct sales of homes in the UK. The firm has closed its UK new homes department...

Agents and senior industry figures fear Coronavirus may derail the strong start to the  2020 housing market. One of the country’s leading...

House prices have risen 2.3 per cent in the past year - the strongest rate of inflation for property since July...

The threat of Coronavirus is beginning to make an impact in the world of property. The Cushman & Wakefield agency announced overnight that...

[Estate Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise...

Savills, Knight Frank, Cushman & Wakefield and JLL are the main estate agencies now working with a review website allowing buyers...

New research has identified those local housing market potentially worst hit by the planned changes to Help To Buy in 2021,...

A review website set up by a former estate agent says £1m of new funding will allow it to roll out...

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

It’s been revealed that Countrywide has been hit with a £215,000 fine as part of a swoop by HMRC cracking down...

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

A review website has launched that describes itself as “a new and powerful research and marketing tool in the residential property...

There’s a distinctly northern flavour to some of the great fund-raising this week - and in particular Yorkshire. This isn’t the only...

Hunters has continued its expansion in the north of England with two new branches in Yorkshire and Lancashire.  The Pontefract branch becomes...

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

The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...

If it’s Monday it must be Property Jobs Today, your round up of the industry’s key moves. Are you changing jobs yourself?...

Another eight EweMove franchisees have been appointed in just one month - but controversially, some of them have no estate agency...

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

With the weather scheduled to get a little cooler this weekend, fund-raising is clearly still a hot topic in the industry...

New analysis by credit and comparison service Totally Money has revealed the districts where the controversial Help To Buy initiative is...

What a year it’s been! Back in 2016 we had Brexit, a new prime minister, Donald Trump’s election, and so when...

The residential research associate director of Cushman & Wakefield says there is now evidence that the Help to Buy equity loan...

Experts in Property - the network of independent estate agencies across Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Bristol - has revealed two...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an advertisement which suggested that the firm behind it had “a physical office ... in...

Another senior industry analyst says the time is fast approaching for Rightmove to either shift its focus to take account of...

Since the seventies, housing starts and completions across England and Wales have been on a downward trajectory. The long run average...

An investigation by the BBC has revealed that councils are spending million buying back homes they sold at a discount under...

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

Three prisoners have been convicted of a prison attack on Jeremy Green, the former army lieutenant jailed for life for the...

A new Fine & Country branch is claiming interest in high end property in its patch is now at pre-recession levels...

Yorkshire estate agency Linley & Simpson is launching a fee structure linked directly to what it calls the “customer experience.” Linley &...

Hybrid estate agency EweMove has announced five new branches bringing its total to 62 - with more to come, it claims.  The...