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Five years ago, Lettings expert, Tim Lawler, wrote an article for Estate Agent Today charting his early experiences of setting up...

Savills has recruited Cory Askew to head up its newly established South West London Parks region. Askew joins from Chestertons having worked throughout...

Savills has expanded its residential sales teams in south west London with the appointment of two associate directors. Oliver Morley joins as...

An index of prime London properties suggests buyers standing back as economic uncertainty reaches the upper levels of the market. The Prime...

Supply and demand is rising but there is still a shortage of larger properties for buyers, Chestertons claims. An update from the...

The acquisition will boost the group’s presence in South London, and both branches will be re-branded to Portico. John Chase, director at...

There is a staggering £117 billion worth of property currently up for sale across the UK property market, according to new...

Off-market property platform Invisible Homes has accelerated its expansion by moving into three London boroughs earlier than expected. Originally launched in 2018...

There has been plenty of movement in the property jobs market this month. Here are some of the latest moves that took...

London accounted for almost half of million-pound plus property sales over the past 12 months but the most active borough at...

A lack of support to help people onto the property ladder has been highlighted as one factor for the Tory party’s...

The creator of a local social network app acquired by US company Nextdoor is marking a year in prime estate agency...

A new analysis has revealed those areas of England and Wales with the largest numbers of Russian-owned homes. Credas Technologies analysed Land...

An estate agency has revealed which London boroughs have been the busiest in terms of the number of homes sold as...

The latest market snapshot of prime London by estate agency Benham and Reeves shows demand up 5.8 per cent annually for...

A leading planning consultancy has claimed that ‘the myth’ that housing developers are hoarding land after gaining planning consent in order...

Keller Williams now boasts 377 estate agency partners across the UK - agents that have set up and run their own...

One of the earliest London agencies to adopt a hub-style operation with self-employed agents working on a high commission basis, has...

A company in the German Axel Springer publishing empire - which also invested in Purplebricks in the past - has put...

London still dominated the league table of locations with the highest volumes of sales by value in 2020, despite the apparent...

In the six months to November there’s been a 79 per cent increase in sales of homes priced £5m to £10m says Knight...

New research attempts for the first time to identify the most lucrative property markets in the country - with surprising results...

With the UK officially in what has been described as the single worst national recession in the world, one agency has...

Hello - yes it’s Friday in case you lost track, and that means it’s Agents Do Charity day: and once again...

Welcome to the first February PJT. As the year progresses the industry embarks on more appointments, especially with a market that’s...

Bristol is the location outside London most searched for on Rightmove this year, by both buyers and renters. The average asking price...

The London market has “plummeted” because almost a third of vendors have cut their asking prices in anticipation of Brexit. Using data...

It’s that time of the week again when we focus on the great work done by the industry, usually without much...

Amidst all the Brexit chaos let’s remember that it’s Children In Need day...always a time when Britons’ generosity raises the spirits,...

I remember renting flats when I was a 25-year-old negotiator at Foxtons. Many of you will remember my love for the...

Locations in the capital dominate a league table of locations where the largest numbers of so-called ‘high risk’ mortgages are taken...

The head of London’s largest estate agency brand has hit back at a council in the capital which wants enhanced powers...

A London council is seeking widespread powers to ban For Sale and To Let boards which it claims are seen by...

New figures from Your Move suggest that average house prices across England and Wales barely moved in 2017, increasing just 0.2...

More price falls have been recorded across areas of prime London according to Savills.  The pattern is not uniform - the agency...

The latest data from Your Move reveals London as still being the area of England and Wales with the lowest house...

An estate agent who is campaigning for boards to be banned in his local area says they should be 'confined to...

With several agent partner programmes available across the country, estate agents can often increase business by offering sales by auction, with...

Haus Properties - the estate agency set up by former Apprentice finalist Jamie Lester, who quit the company suddenly last year...

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

A London estate agency’s analysis of the latest Land Registry data suggests transactions in the capital are the lowest ever recorded.  Land...

The highest number of 'risky' mortgages issued during 2015 was in South West London, according to new analysis of the latest...

A number of local authorities are now serving £100 or £120 fixed penalty notices on estate agents who display For Sale...

It’s been a heartening few weeks for those of us who thought that protest was dead – or, more precisely, that...

An estate agency has been ordered to pay a £400 fine after dumping a load of rubbish in a London street.   Wandsworth...

Haus Properties, the high-profile London estate agency started almost five years ago by Apprentice star Jamie Lester, now appears to be...

Data company Propcision has quantified the scale of asking price reductions on some prime central London properties, with many dropping by...

An online agency claims that for the second year running London’s traditional estate agents have charged well over £1 billion in...

Here are the top letting agents in Britain who go above and beyond to help their customers, as voted for by...

Agents in a London borough have been warned that the local council now has new powers to fine the firms behind...

An analysis of homes on sale in every borough of London shows up to a third of properties in some areas...

A local council is banning estate and letting agents’ boards after it has been handed legal powers to ‘prevent their spread’. Agents...

Research from a residential investment consultancy throws light on the extraordinary large pipeline of new homes to be built in central London,...

In January readers of Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today were given the opportunity to give their views on proposed...

Publicity-conscious online estate agency eMoov claims vendors in London have spent £861.5m on traditional estate agents’ fees in 2015.  eMoov accuses agents...

No agent reading this will be under any illusions that the agency market is a particularly competitive sector to operate in.  I...