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

Agents in some parts of the country may be able to make use of data from utilities comparison service uSwitch, which...

A mortgage service claims 46 per cent of buyers have had their prospective property down-valued by lenders - often forcing them...

The south of England is not the only region to benefit as city-dwellers search for more greenery and outdoor space, says...

A former healthcare executive is the latest convert to become an online agent with easyProperty, the company has announced. Richard Ayres has...

There’s no stopping our industry - whether it’s local lockdowns or early autumn storms, agents and suppliers continue doing great work for...

Online agency easyProperty has announced four new areas to its portfolio to build on its existing 41 locations - and it’s seeking...

Logjams in the mortgage, conveyancing and removal stages of house moving mean sales are taking much longer than usual, according to...

Almost a third of property sellers (29%) say they won't accept a lower offer for their property, according to new research. Online...

A disgraced former estate agent has paid his victims around £110,000 but must pay another £5,000 or so in the immediate...

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

A new agency called Eazy Agent has launched - it’s another online operation, this time with a starting price of £249. For...

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of PJT - we know some agencies are reshaping their structures and downsizing but this...

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

A property developer has set up an estate agency that charges no commission to sellers but instead levies a non-refundable reservation...

It’s hotting up out there as a beautiful summer’s weekend beckons - an ideal time for some fund-raising in the sun,...

Rightmove says a study of some 400,000 homes on its portal has revealed that those with a coveted south-facing garden have...

A vendor who suffered a fall-through on the sale of his five bedroom home in West Yorkshire is now trying to...

The latest monthly index suggests that the average asking price in England and Wales has jumped 1.5 per cent in the...

There are various reports of estate agencies closing branches - or not reopening them after lockdown - as they reduce the...

It’s a tough time for agents and our stories show a disturbingly high number of  branches closing - but there are...

In the latest of a recent flurry of consumer-facing research exercises by Rightmove, a league table of the most popular seaside...

A regional agency says the Coronavirus crisis was the opportunity for it to complete a takeover of a rival company in...

A successful property newspaper has collapsed after one of its former directors turned computer hacker and deliberately deleted over 5,000 files...

With most fund-raising involving organised runs, treks or mudders, we know how difficult it is right now to do great work...

Rightmove has given a regional breakdown in where  buyer demand is strongest in the past two weeks. It’s perhaps no surprise that...

There has been a huge surge in demand in some regions of the UK according to new data from Rightmove.  The portal...

All my recent Natters have been focused on one particular topic, the coronavirus crisis, for obvious reasons. But there has been...

Listings from an agent who ended his contract with Rightmove were not removed as he expected - instead, he is accusing...

The Property Ombudsman has announced the expulsion of eight agencies, all for contravening TPO codes of practice. Most of the expulsions were...

An economic consultancy predicts house prices will fall by a sixth as unemployment grows across Britain this year. The consultancy, Cebr, says...

A high-profile regional agency is “cracking on” with support for a hospice for children and young people that cannot raise funds during...

Industry…we salute you. We thought we may have no good deeds to pass on to readers this week because of the...

Hello and welcome to the end of the week…which must mean Agents Do Charity. There’s plenty to admire in this week’s entries;...

Hello and welcome to the start of a new week - and it’s been a frantic seven days since the last...

Hello and welcome to the latest PJT - your regular Monday fix of who’s moving where in our industry. As ever, a...

The  number of mortgage approvals rose 1.9 per cent in the final month of last year according to e.surv’s mortgage data...

Welcome to another Agents Do Charity, meaning it’s not just Friday but also a day to think about fund-raising 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...

There’s been a long-term trend of growing numbers of Londoners quitting the capital to afford a home elsewhere - and typically...

Hello and welcome to the first Property Jobs Today of 2020 - and we’ve plenty to report even with the New...

First time buyers reached an estimated 353,436 in 2019, the highest level since 2007. This is the fifth time in six years...

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

The next 12 months will be an opportunity to reassess the housing market according to property consultancy JLL. It says price growth...

Hello and welcome to Agents Do Charity’s final edition before this Christmas and the New Year. It’s been a terrific year for...

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

Congratulations from everyone at Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today to all those who triumphed at the Relocation Agent Network...

Hello and welcome to the final Property Jobs Today for November - the festive month of December is just around the...

Election time means setting out your stall and getting support - so how about a vote of confidence for those agents,...

The listings website Home, which conducts a monthly survey of asking prices and wider market monitors, is reporting a show 10...

Belvoir has struck an innovative eight-year exclusivity agreement with Dacres, the 20 office estate agency network based in Yorkshire, to deliver...

Yopa – launched in 2015 as part of the new breed of hybrid operators seeking to shake up the industry –...

As the country nears a Brexit deal (maybe… perhaps… possibly) there’s time to reflect on a quite contrasting process - the no-nonsense...

Of all the UK properties for sale over the last year, 59% would have been exempt from any type of transaction...

All eyes are on Japan for the Rugby World Cup beginning this weekend…but there’s still time for our industry to raise...

There’s plenty of action in and around Westminster these days, but while the political temperature rises, the marvellous work of agents,...

One of the country’s largest regional estate and lettings agencies has now fully rejoined Zoopla. Yorkshire-based Dacre, Son & Hartley brings its...

It’s been two weeks since our last PJT, thanks to the Bank Holiday, so there’s plenty of news in today’s edition. If...

Some may say that we’re almost in the ninth month of the year but for many, August Bank Holiday heralds the...

A new analysis of privately owned homes with mortgages outstanding shows repossessions have risen in London - but they’re down in...

Online estate agency Housesimple has appointed a company to handle its public relations and social media as it rolls it its...

An estate agent has been jailed for 19 months and will have to be on the sex offenders’ register for the...

Rightmove says the number of homes stuck in what it calls “the legal log jam” is at its highest for over...

Brexit is not deterring first time buyers this year according to an analysis by the Yorkshire Building Society. It says that despite...

It’s that time again. Each year I take a look at newspaper readership - not from the angle of journalists, but...

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

Rising house prices and the gender pay gap means that there is no English region where a single woman on median...

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

Online estate agency EasyProperty has been acquired by a firm with the backing of Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou. easyProperty has been sold by the eProp...

Welcome to this week’s ADC…and what a week it’s been. Politics? No, hot air of a different kind - the weather.  Yet...

An estate agent who ruthlessly used his position as a prominent figure in the community to win the trust of vulnerable...

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

love2move, the online network which allows high street agents to offer a white-labelled hybrid service, has announced its latest partner. Peter David...

 – use technology to build a trusted brand as a people-focused custodian of client money Non-stop regulatory changes in the industry are...

Gazumping is alive and well in much of the country, despite the slowdown in the property market, according to new research...

It’s unlikely to bring out the violins but the number of properties sold for £1m or more in Britain rose only...

Online agency Housesimple has become the first in the UK to sell houses for free. It says that based on the average...

The number of cash buyers in London has recently plummeted by very nearly a fifth - and every other part of...

The weekend is over all-too-quickly but at least if it’s Monday, it’s Property Jobs Today - your weekly catch up with...

The latest asking prices data from Rightmove suggests that the national housing market is being dragged down by poor performance in...

A firm that offers a white-labelled online agency platform to traditional High Street agents has signed up a new customer. love2move was...

It's becoming increasingly difficult to sell a property, especially in those regions undergoing a price correction. That’s the verdict from Home, a...

Over 80 per cent of home owners say they expect house prices to rise in their area before the end of...

Hello and here’s another PJT to start the week: we hope it’s your first port of call when you want to...

House prices have remained roughly stagnant according to the latest figures produced by the Office for National Statistics and HM Land...

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

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

For the industry's football lovers, the notable achievements and never-say-die attitude of both Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur on the European stage...

Fresh analysis by Zoopla has revealed Britain's fastest moving property markets with the lowest number of average days for a seller...

Q: What does it say on your business card? Charlie Lancaster,  Managing Director, m: 07976 507107 e:charlie.lancaster@mybid4it.com,  Blake House, 18 Blake...

A mortgage firm claims that around a third of all those who have moved homes since 2016 have done so -...

Another new online auction company has launched and is bidding to woo traditional estate agents with the controversial ‘modern method of...

You can tell it’s the onset of spring by the fact that this weekend sees the start of the Formula 1...

Latest data from property platform Home suggests that instruction numbers across the UK as a whole are down four per cent...

Agency Express says that following a strong start to the year there’s a been a slowdown in the number of properties...

The number of movers has declined by around 50 per cent since the halcyon days of 2006, before the global financial...

A new survey claims the market is at its worst for eight years. The latest market snapshot from property platform Home says...

Government figures show the UK’s annual house price growth now being down to 2.5 per cent - the lowest rate since...

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

An estate agent in the north of England has been confronted by vigilantes who duped him into thinking they were underage girls.  The...

The industry has long been critical of reports claiming house price movements are in some way uniform across the country, but...

EweMove, the hybrid agency owned by The Property Franchise Group, has announced five new franchisees - several of them are independent...

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

Yet another property raffle has had to be abandoned because it has been deemed illegal under Gambling Commission rules. A Yorkshire couple,...

As 2018 draws to a close, it is fair to say that stretched affordability and uncertainty over the Brexit negotiations has...

One of the country’s most detailed housing market forecasts for 2019 suggests house prices will fall in London and nearby regions...

Asking prices of homes coming to the market have fallen for the second month in a row - and Rightmove says...

Hello again and welcome to the latest display of agents’ Christmas decorations. We’d love to share your windows, trees, lights and even...

Yorkshire agency Linley & Simpson is on the acquisition trail yet again - and it’s revealed its eighth deal of the...

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

We all get an extra hour in bed this weekend, giving us more energy to fund-raise for good causes, right? That seems...

Price cutting is becoming the new norm as the market adapts to reduced interest from buyers, according to property listings platform...

Johnston Press, the company which owns the i national newspaper and some 200 local titles - many with property supplements carrying...

Google celebrated its 20th birthday last month. Yes, it might be hard to recall a time when it wasn’t integral in...

House prices grew two per cent year on year for September according to new figures - and a senior agency chief...

An estate agency trading under two different names has been expelled by The Property Ombudsman after refusing to refund a £2,000...

We’re well and truly back from summer with a flurry of fund-raising to report on this week: thanks to each and...

Rightmove is reporting a mini-boom as the autumn market gets into gear, with a surge in buyers and a one-month rise...

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

A property management company is warning that some areas of the UK could be in line for a price correction this...

There’s been another call for the government to reform stamp duty - and this time the request is that the duty...

Welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today - and as ever we have a breakdown of key moves within our industry. To...

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

Just as some estate agents are reported to be making plans to retrench if the housing market continues to be sluggish,...

Hello and welcome to Property Jobs Today, the regular Monday round-up of moves and changes in our industry. Do please let us...

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

Two high street estate agents have used the medium of the local press to come out fighting against the threat of...

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

Hello and welcome to this week’s celebration of the industry’s fund-raising activities. Remember it’s easy to get publicity and additional support for...

New data from a private bank shows a five per cent rise in the number of £1m-plus homes sold in 2017.  The...

The Guild of Property Professionals has launched a series of regional roadshows with a target of enhancing the success of independent...

The scores are in and the results announced for the 2018 ESTAS Awards - and the winner of the coveted Grand...

Manning Stainton, one of the major estate agency chains operating across North Yorkshire, is to return to listing on ZPG. It will...

Prices of new-to-the-market property rose by a modest 0.4 per cent over the past month says Rightmove - but that’s enough...

A website that monitors house prices says “red warning lights are flashing as market conditions in London and the South East...

Welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today, our regular look at key moves inside our industry. Next week there’s no PJT as...

So here’s another week’s great work being done by colleagues in our industry - and we’re very pleased to salute them. Everybody...

Crimestoppers is working with estate agencies and financial advisers as well as conveyancers in a bid to eliminate house buyers’ deposits...

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

House price falls have been recorded in London, the South East and the North East according to data from LSL Property Services,...

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

The death has been announced of Jim Horsley, a former chairman of Yorkshire agency chain Dacre Son & Hartley - and...

A senior figure in another regional estate agency group has expressed scepticism about the popularity of online choices for vendors. Last week...

Rightmove has revealed the top 10 locations outside London where asking prices grew most and where homes sold fastest - and...

Thanks so much, as ever, for all of the Christmas cheer you’ve sent our way over the past three weeks or...

Members of the Relocation Agent Network are celebrating after a successful annual awards event in London, combined with keynote conference sessions...

A new website which completely by-passes all kinds of estate agents and allows vendors to upload details of their own properties...

Hunters has another new office in its network, this time in the west Yorkshire town of Cleckheaton. The franchise group, which is...

Three hundred of the UK’s top conveyancers have celebrated the success of the industry at the first ever ESTAS Conveyancer Awards. The...

There’s a particularly heart-warming theme to Agents Do Charity this week...several of our heroic industry figures are raising funds for children and...

Conservative MP John Stevenson is the latest to throw his weight behind switching the burden of stamp duty from the buyer...

Agents’ charity fundraising obviously spans a wide range of genuinely good causes, but it’s noticeable that at the end of each...

The average cost of moving home in the UK has increased by £628 over the past year from £10,966 to £11,624...

Regional property portal MoviNorth says it plans to secure additional investment to expand its coverage by the end of 2017. The portal...

With party conference season around the corner and the next Budget just a couple of months away, more industry players are...

Stephanie Slater died last week, aged 50. Whilst she died from cancer (tragically, only 11 days after diagnosis), it’s the events...

For the second successive week the Advertising Standards Authority has banned an online estate agency’s advertisement.  Last week it was HouseSimple and...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says more women should enter estate agency and other property sectors across the land and...

Countrywide has issued forecasts for the housing market over the next two years amidst a warning that Brexit volatility is the...

An interview in an online magazine aimed at the small business sector lifts the lid on some of the structure surrounding...

Regional agency Manning Stainton has completed its second acquisition in the last four months with the purchase of independent agency Clear...

The head of a regional portal in the north of England has welcomed the likely demise of the controversial One Other...

New figures produced by estate agency Carter Jonas show that the long-term consequences of the credit crunch have exacerbated the historic...

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

Purplebricks has released more details of expansion plans to recruit hundreds of additional Local Property Experts. The recruitment drive was launched yesterday...

National average house price growth bounced back in April after a slow March, according to official figures. The latest UK House Price...

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

June marks the start of what professional weather folk call summer - and even if the temperatures are a little variable,...

Barclays Bank has given an optimistic view of the housing market over the next five years, with a prediction that across...

The recent rise in consumer complaints against sales and letting agents suggests that there is a general lack of trust and...

Home ownership has halved for young families across some parts of the UK according to a charity.  The Resolution Foundation says its...

This might just be one of the busiest Agents Do Charity columns we’ve ever had with many firms having a mixture...

Auctions are a great way to sell property competitively, with a wide range of homes often selling under the hammer, and...

Pole-axed by politics? Bored of ballots? Well, this is where you can escape from pledges, promises and politicians and instead read...

An online estate agency which says it could be the next Purplebricks says prejudice against internet property transactions is waning  “With Neil...

It’s been a week dominated by an embarrassing U-turn in political circles. But when it comes to fund-raising, agents aren’t for...

Propertymark, the new brand umbrella for the National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Letting Agents, is to...

There was nothing doing in the Budget - no stamp duty reform, no second look at mortgage interest tax relief changes,...

I had a very interesting chat with the man behind a new portal the other day. He was John Dixon, the portal...

An estate agent and a building society have both advocated radical moves to reform stamp duty - and want Chancellor Phillip...

A new regional property portal aiming to sign up 80 per cent of agencies in Yorkshire says it is unconcerned about...

There's bad news for the government in the form of house building targets on the eve of its long-awaited Housing White...

A former Countrywide director is joining estate and lettings agency franchise group Homexperts as its operations director. Mike Gowland, who originally qualified...

The rental market has had to face a raft of changes over the past year, including the introduction of the 3% stamp...

Three members of staff are celebrating 25 years with the same company this month.  Gail Shepherd, Frances Slocombe and Cath Bradbury all...

Christmas is here - feet up, mulled wine ... a well-deserved break. As we know, however, it’s not just selling and letting houses...

There’s been a bumper mailbag sent to press@estateagenttoday.co.uk this week to mark what must be the height of the fund-raising season...

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

It may be Halloween but here at Estate Agent Today we’re not getting distracted from honoured our heroic industry’s efforts to...

Jonathan Morgan, who operates Leeds city centre specialist agent Morgans, has won an lifetime achievement award. The award, made at the Yorkshire...

Confidence amongst ‘second steppers’ - those aiming to sell up to move to larger homes - is improving according to a...

Available stock levels across Greater London, the east of England, plus the south east and the south west are now 16...

This week we have the Head Shepherd of EweMove, Glenn Ackroyd, in the hotseat. He’s been co-owner of EweMove Sales and Lettings,...

The UK's largest independent estate agency chain – Spicerhaart – has a fund of £26 million to be spent on acquisitions. The...

As we approach another autumn weekend, the country's estate agents and property professionals have not taken their foot off the pedal...

A mortgage lender has called on the government to reform stamp duty so that it is paid by property sellers instead...

With the number of new homes being built across the UK still significantly below the level needed to meet demand, housebuilders...

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

The Olympics are inspiring us, the summer is distracting us, and then there’s the day job of working too. Yet despite all...

Britain’s gathering Olympics medal haul is heart-warming, but our heroes in Rio are not the only ones doing great work and...

A man has been banned from going near an estate agency office or its staff after he swore at one of...

After helping more than 40,000 people move home in the past 20 years, a Yorkshire estate agency is itself in new...

Plans for the Northern Powerhouse scheme, designed to rival London and the South East as the main driver of economic growth...

Another former Countrywide director is in the news, this time for launching a specialist property recruitment, training and consultancy business.  Mike Gowland,...

Property prices were at the forefront of the EU debate in the run-up to the referendum, with the now former Chancellor...

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

An estate agent has been ordered by a court to pay more than £7,500 after admitting advertising holiday homes as permanent...

London house prices have fallen by 1.1 per cent in the past month - mostly since the Brexit vote on June...

In case you were wondering, it appears that the Labour party has still to find someone to replace John Healey as...

No fewer than 555,000 would-be first time purchasers have opened Help To Buy Individual Savings Accounts - HTB Isas - since...

Well, the Euros have turned into a nail-biter for the home teams - but that appears not to be deterring you...

Former Knight Frank agent Tim Waring has joined regional company Dacre, Son & Hartley as a director specialising in selling top...

As we approach another Bank Holiday weekend, estate and letting agents across the country have again been raising thousands of pounds...

It's become the sensation of Rightmove and it's being described as the ultimate cameo made in a house sale video by a...

It’s the Bank Holiday and an extra-long weekend - although many agents will be making the most of sales, lets, open...

Large proportions of younger people want to own a home but increasingly feel they simply cannot afford to buy - and...

The Budget's over, Easter is a week away, and agents are preparing for the busiest time of year - whatever the...

A new portal, New Home Finder, has agreed a contract with Redrow to market its entire UK portfolio, including forthcoming developments,...

As we know, the property market in London is notorious for sitting a long way outside the conventions of the wider UK...

New research shows that the north-south divide over house prices is not only continuing but is getting significantly worse.  High-end agency Savills,...

The number of UK properties worth at least £1m is expected to more than triple between now and 2030. A report from...

We’ve been facing some pretty adverse weather recently. Gales, storms and terrible flooding in parts of the country have upturned the...

Miller Metcalfe Surveyors is a centre of excellence, with accreditation from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors for residential surveys and...

Zoopla has confirmed that its next date for announcing its agency membership totals - part of its ongoing rivalry with OnTheMarket...

Both Zoopla and OnTheMarket have ramped up their long-standing rivalry. As we reported yesterday afternoon, Zoopla has revealed what it calls a...

With the portal wars ratcheting up ahead of OnTheMarket’s first anniversary, Zoopla has revealed what it calls a “record number” of...

The average property value in England and Wales at the start of 2016 is £186,325 according to the Land Registry.  Its data...

More than half of the new homes being built today are not big enough to meet the needs of the people...

High-end agency Savills has announced that it has sold Wentworth Woodhouse - reported to be Britain’s largest residential property - to...

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

Franchise agency chain HomeXperts is expanding as a result of a £250,000 loan.  HomeXperts has 27 franchisees in England from Thirsk in...

A couple behind a new online estate agency want to establish what they describe as a US or Australian-style franchise system...

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

A Yorkshire agency has announced the opening of its 19th branch this week. Manning Stainton's latest office, which was formerly occupied by...

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

The boss of online hybrid estate agency EweMove has hit back at what he calls “skullduggery” in comments about his firm’s...

An analysis of homes on sale six months after the scrapping of the ‘slab’ system of stamp duty has revealed a...

Data for June from the Land Registry shows that the annual price increase of 5.4 per cent takes the average property...

Data from the estate and letting agency answering service Moneypenny appears to confirm what we have been thinking for some weeks...

If it’s true, this could be depressing for agents and the housing market alike - fewer people are planning to move...

This month, July, see the 150th anniversary of local estate agency William H Brown - one of the best known names...

The average property price in England and Wales reached £179,817 in April, according to the Land Registry. The latest data shows that...

Hunters founder and new Conservative MP Kevin Hollinrake says he supports the Tory policy of extending Right To Buy to housing...

UK house price growth accelerated to an annual rate of 9.6 per cent in the year to March, according to the...

Hunters has added another 23 franchised offices to its empire with the acquisition of Home Counties estate and letting agency Country...

A Yorkshire-based online estate agency has launched a crowdfunding campaign to pay for its new marketing plans.  MyHouseAdvert.co.uk, formed in 2011, says...

An estate agency has been rescued out of administration and restructured after being hit by financial difficulties thanks to an expansion...