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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...

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

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

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...