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‘Workers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains’. So is written on the tombstone of the father...

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...

LSL Property Services, parent firm of Your Move and Reeds Rains, says the company’s branch closure programme was a success with profits...

The head of EweMove, the hybrid agency operated by The Property Franchise Group, says he applied for the top job in...

The London Marathon may be just one of literally thousands of fund-raising events but we know it’s a favourite with many...

Hello and welcome to the regular Monday edition of Property Jobs Today. Everyone here contacted us on press@estateagenttoday.co.uk to espresso the word;...

Prices have dropped 0.5 per cent in the past year according to LSL Property Services, the parent company of Your Move...

Family-run Chelsea agency Russell Simpson is marking 40 years of business by expanding for the first time in its history, opening...

LSL Property Services, the parent company of Your Move and Reeds Rains, has substantially 'written down' its investment in online estate...

Your Move and Reeds Rains have confirmed that 39 branches are to be taken over by David Newnes and an existing...

The beleaguered Your Move estate agency insists there was no breach of customer privacy after an ex-employee reportedly took confidential data...

Formal consultations have started concerning the job losses and branch closures for Your Move and Reeds Rains, revealed yesterday by their...

A major restructuring of LSL Property Services has just been announced to shareholders, with substantial numbers of branch closures. The statement says...

LSL Property Services - parent company of Your Move, Reeds Rains and London agency Marsh & Parsons - has given a...

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

A new portal which had branded itself as “the UK’s first decentralised property listing database” appears to have had a setback...

House prices are flatlining with the rate of annual growth having fallen continually since August according to LSL Property Services, which...

The latest Your Move house price data confirms what a wide range of indices have shown recently - slowing price growth and,...

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

Reapit’s popular former sales manager Peter Fenwick is today formally launching as an independent PropTech consultant. Fenwick, whose departure from Reapit was...

A new ‘robo-adviser’ mortgage service which is backed by LSL Property Services has won another £3.8m in funding from investors.  Robo-advisers provide...

Yopa - the online agency enjoying large-scale financial backing from Savills and LSL Property Services, the owner of Your Move -...

The parent company of Your Move, Reeds Rains and other agency brands has succeeded where Foxtons yesterday did not - in...

Welcome back to Property Jobs Today - EAT's weekly roundup of all the big moves going on in our industry. If you...

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

Average house prices rose 0.5 per cent in February, making it the biggest rise in five months according to the latest...

LSL Property Services - parent company to 12 brands including Your Move, Reeds Rains and London’s Marsh & Parsons - has...

The death of traditional TV – where viewers sit down together to watch shows at defined times – has been much...

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

HM Land Registry has revealed how major house price indices are compiled - showing the huge variation in transactions behind the headline figures. The critique,...

LSL Property Services - which includes Your Move, Reeds Rains and other high street estate agencies - batted away any housing...

LSL Property Services - which has high street brands including Your Move, Reeds Rains and Marsh & Parsons - has signed...

Your Move and Reeds Rains, both part of LSL Property Services, are the latest agencies to admit a slowdown in house...

Annual house price inflation is 1.3 per cent according to Your Move - even though prices dipped 0.1 per cent in...

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

Property has been changing hands for centuries, but when did estate agents as we know them today – with their branches,...

LSL Property Services - owners of Your Move, Reeds Rains and Marsh & Parsons amongst estate agency brands - has enjoyed...

LSL Property Services does not report its figures for the first half of 2017 until August 1, but even so it...

Your Move says the surprise General Election and the creation of a weaker minority government has exacerbated the slowdown in the...

The chief executive of eProp Services Ltd - the company formed by a merger between easyProperty and GPEA Ltd (the parent...

Analysis of over 120,000 sales valuations has revealed some of the UK's most expensive and cheapest property regions. Central London's 'W' postcode...

An estate agent who was offered a sex act by his boss if he hit sales targets has won a sex...

Theresa May's decision to call a snap election in June has so far had 'little effect' on the property market, according...

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

Your Move’s latest house price index shows that the average house price in England and Wales is now £301,278 after a...

House prices grew at their fastest pace for 12 months in February, with average values increasing 0.6 per cent -  that’s...

LSL Property Services - which owns high street agency brands Your Move, Reeds Rains and Marsh & Parsons - is the...

A survey of 5,000 people by agency chain Your Move reveals that 80 per cent of buyers view three or more...

The market got off to a strong start in 2017 with prices growing 0.3 per cent in January to push the...

LSL Property Services has named Helen Buck as executive director of its estate agency business.  Buck has been a non-executive director at...

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

LSL Property Services has sold its remaining stake in Zoopla Property Group according to a City report. LSL - which includes High...

Data from Your Move suggests annual house price movements in London boroughs range massively from +16.4 per cent to -16.5 per...

Buy-to-let landlords may have failed in their recent legal battle against planned government tax relief changes for buy-to-let homes set to...

The huge rush to acquire buy-to-let property in the first quarter of the year ahead of the stamp duty change deadline...

Speculation continues to grow within the industry over a potential merger involving Connells and the newly-combined agencies of Leaders and Romans.   Connells...

LSL Property Services - which owns agency brands including Your Move, Reeds Rains and Marsh & Parsons - has reported strong...

House prices in Scotland rose 0.9 per cent in May, taking the average value to £172,119 - still down on a...

Data from Your Move and Reeds Rains - for May, so well before the EU referendum result - suggests average prices slumped 0.4...

There has been an 11 per cent increase in sales in Scotland over the past year - and one major agency...

Property sales slowed dramatically in April as the market readjusted following the frenzy of buying before the stamp duty surcharge deadline...

The latest price index from LSL Property Services suggests that the average home in Greater London has risen in price by...

Rayner Personnel is increasing its firepower in the key south east of England recruitment market with the announcement that husband and...

It’s unlikely that this is what George Osborne wanted when he announced his stamp duty surcharge but its deadline for introduction...

The numbers of households purchasing their first home has grown by almost seven per cent annually, despite the surge in buy...

The number of property sales in Scotland during January was the highest recorded since 2008, according to figures from Your Move. The...

Ivy Gate, the start-up hybrid estate agency which won investment from TV Dragon James Caan three years ago, has announced its...

In the latest of many mixed signals from the housing market, a survey by agents Your Move and Reeds Rains suggests...

Your Move claims the higher end of the Scottish housing market is recovering from the introduction of Land and Building Transaction...

A major estate agency chain’s price index says average house prices in England and Wales have grown 6.6 per cent in...

Your Move has announced what it claims to be “a major integrated marketing and media campaign which aims to raise brand...

Property sales in Scotland for first-time buyers and home movers are increasing three times faster than the rest of the UK...

The director of two major agencies says George Osborne’s stamp duty surcharge and stock at an “historically low level” will force...

The number of first time buyer transactions in October stood at 28,100 - a drop on previous months despite the fact...

Negativity. There’s a lot of it about in the lettings industry right now. Where you might see barriers, hurdles and more...

LSL Property Services plc has announced another lettings acquisition, this time in Elgin and Inverness. The agency they have bought, PHP Lettings,...

Another house price index has suggested a strong mainstream housing market but a struggling one at the high end. The latest LSL...

In a new sign that the housing market is strengthening, mortgage lending increased in August by the largest amount since 2008. Data...

The police are investigating a theft from an independently run franchise in Northampton, according to a report in The Northampton Chronicle &...

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

LSL Property Services, owner of Reeds Rains and Your Move amongst other high street chains, says last month’s sales market was the...

This year saw the lowest May for first time buyer completions in three years according to data from Your Move and...

A review of 30 prominent property sales websites undertaken by a digital marketing company demonstrates, perhaps predictably, a huge lead for...

Scottish house prices have seen their sharpest fall in six years as the ‘transaction tax boom’ has come to an end...

Average house price growth is slowing and is now just a third of what it was this time last year according...

The true impact of the election on the housing market has been revealed as the latest government figures on house transactions...

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