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A best-selling author and ex-military wellness culture revolutionary have been named as headliners for this year’s NAEA Propertymark conference. Dr Andy Cope...

Industry charity and mentoring group Agents Together is planning to help firms prioritise mental wellbeing. It has developed a checklist that agents...

You can tell that spring is in the air as this week's Agents Do Charity is full of outdoor fundraising pursuits...

A high profile London estate agency has appointed two so-called Wellness Ambassadors to look after the mental health and wellbeing of...

Hello and welcome to the latest Agents Do Charity, our weekly round-up of who’s-doing-what-good-deeds in our industry. Want to be involved? Well...

A leading conveyancing expert says the traditional rivalry between his profession and estate agents has abated in 2021. Lloyd Davies - managing director and...

One of the founders and leading figures in the Agents Together industry charity says one silver lining of the pandemic has...

With the business model for self-employed agents hotly debated within the industry, new data has suggested that most freelance professionals are...

It really is beginning to look a lot like Christmas – just a week to go now. Presents all wrapped and...

An agency has won one of the most prestigious ‘gongs’ of the season - it’s been named Employer of the Year...

We’re building up towards both Christmas and the Awards season right now, and that gives plenty of opportunities for fund raising,...

A property company is offering its employees in the UK and overseas a day’s leave later this month to mark World...

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

West London agency RiverHomes is rebranding in what it describes as a bid to more closely reflect its unique expertise on...

A London agency has launched a Wellbeing At Work initiative to help agents and other staff as they return to the...

London’s housing market may be distinctly lacklustre compared to much of the rest of the UK right now but one development...

Hello and we’re at the end of another week celebrating all those in our industry who do great work. And this...

The pandemic and lockdowns have made over a third of those aged 18 to 34 want to move house according to...

New data shows no let-up on the pressure on the conveyancing sector as the stamp duty holiday and the broader economic...

An agency says sellers should improve the attractiveness of their properties for sellers - so it's linked with a florist to offer...

Mental health – and the importance of good mental health – has become a vital thing for all of us in...

Boomin co-founder Kenny Bruce says the UK economy should now be opening up thanks to the success of the Coronavirus vaccines. In...

The events of the last 12 months have potentially shaped the future of our sector for years to come. There has been...

Hello and welcome to the end of another week - and a step in the right direction towards the easing of...

A conveyancing organisation has launched an initiative called Be Kind We Care to promote kindness and wellbeing within the property industry. The...

Hello, welcome to our latest charity roundup, and as the weather improves and the vaccine roll-out lifts the spirits, so we...

This time out, I’m in conversation with one of the big three established portals. Since it was founded in 2007, Zoopla...

An online petition has been started by an independent estate agent seeking a radical overhaul of how homes are sold in...

As we now find ourselves in the UK’s third national lockdown in 10 months, what tenants want, and need from their...

A new working group on mental health in the agency industry is being set up following a poll revealing 62 per cent...

A survey conducted by charity Agents Together suggests a large majority of industry people would like to see more focus on...

Solicitors’ leaders say members of their industry are suffering mental health problems as a result of the workload to meet the...

It’s no secret that the recent pandemic has forced more businesses to operate remotely, but the shift for estate agents has...

A new report funded by high profile consumer champion Martin Lewis says the government must do more to help ‘mortgage prisoners’. These...

It’s Halloween time, and while this year’s festivities may be muted there’s plenty to celebrate as far as agents’ good deeds...

They’ve got it covered - the charitable arm of Propertymark is offering free face coverings to member agents. The Arbon Trust is...

Shorter days and darker nights deflate the spirits, especially in today’s challenging circumstances, but there’s some bright news - a large...

Agents Together, the wellbeing and mentorship service which came into existence earlier this year, is launching what it calls a Redundancy...

A health business is offering a free support package to estate agencies with between three and 100 employees, to help staff...

Connells Group has announced its trading statement for the first half of 2020 - and its support for its staff is...

What work did I do through lockdown? I went to work for a company who provide Domiciliary care for the vulnerable and elderly...

Hello and welcome to our latest ADC, with more evidence that fund-raising goes on even with communal activity at a premium...

Industry veteran Harry Hill, a former chairman of Countrywide and founder of Rightmove, has now become a mentor at the new...

The brothers who founded Purplebricks - Michael and Kenny Bruce - have returned to the agency industry for the first time...

A mystery group, believed to consist of high-level former agents and suppliers, is asking the industry for its feedback on current...

Housing Minister Chris Pincher and Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick stayed well clear of the Dominic Cummings row over the weekend -...

** This Bank Holiday Monday both Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today look at how agencies have modified offices and protocols...

The fallout from Covid-19 has hit everyone hard. With breaking news today that agents are able to look at how to...

Three more property players have been in touch to share what they're doing to help their staff during lockdown - there...

Lockdown measures are still in place for another two weeks, at least, with the possibility of them being extended beyond that....

Hunters has expanded its online offering to improve its service to both the sales and lettings sectors - and it’s even...

Just a month ago our homes felt, for many of us, to be a mere pitstop on a centrifuge of work,...

There’s a sense that we really are on the verge of a huge change in the industry. It’s too early to be...

The government has launched a competition to attract what it calls “the best and brightest talents of the housing industry” to...

Countrywide and LSL Property Services have this morning confirmed that talks are underway about a possible mega-merger. This confirms the speculation yesterday that...

Hello and welcome to the end of the week, which always means a round-up of our industry’s good work for charity....

Here at sales progression and communication tool mio, we recently caught up with Sarah Edmundson, co-director of The AllStars Group, the...

If you haven’t noticed, it’s November already - a month where it’s increasingly popular for men to grow moustaches for charity....

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

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

So far in our contribution to the campaign to replace leasehold with commonhold we have outlined the stories of some of...

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

Welcome to another ADC, the weekly round-up each Friday of agents’ great fund-raising work.  This week we show the diversity of charitable...

This month’s MIPIM conference in Cannes once again played host to the final round of the much coveted MIPIM Startup Competition.  The...

A survey by the Centre for Ageing Better recently showed that 72% of people want to see every new home built...

With the year in full swing we have some more heroic fund-raising and grant-giving stories to tell this week. Thanks so much...

As we end an especially tragic week, it is heart-warming to remember how our industry - along with so many other...

The East of England, which takes in areas from Hertfordshire to Norfolk, has recorded the biggest hike in property prices over...

Forget a machine injury, a nasty fall or even being stabbed in the back by a jealous colleague, a death in...

An estate agent selling a home says he has been shocked by an incident in which a female prospective buyer fell...

So this weekend some of us will see our first snow of the season. Harsh weather, Christmas adverts and winter generally...

This week RICS reported a further drop in the number of people putting their homes up for sale; new instructions fell...