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Rightmove claims to have identified the dream home for buyers. A survey of more than 2,000 visitors to the portal’s website has...

Picky buyers are walking away from property deals after realising the internet connection at a property is poor, research claims. A poll...

Auction house iamsold has marked its best summer yet. The auction service said it sold £196m worth of property under the hammer...

The Property Franchise Group (TPFG) – the umbrella property brand which incorporates well-known names such as EweMove, Ellis & Co, Martin...

Scotland and the south west of England have been identified as cash buyer hotspots. Analysis by Barrows and Forrester, found 27 per...

Veteran retail chief executive John Browett is joining home setup service Just Move In as chairman. Browett has been chief executive of...

A soap star has swapped scripts for property sales. Actor Marc Silcock was involved in one of ITV soap Emmerdale’s biggest storylines,...

The property market is unlikely to enter a last-minute rush before the final stamp duty holiday ends in October, research claims. Analysis...

Property values may seem high in the UK but spare a thought for buyers in other countries such as Israel, Switzerland...

Warwick Estates has revealed the most in-demand features for new-build buyers. The firm has analysed Rightmove data and found that those buying...

Implementing measures recommended in an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) could boost the sales price of a property for a vendor, the...

Demand from buyers is set to be strong for the rest of 2021 as the stamp duty holiday unwinds but uncertainty...

An online conveyancer is on the hunt for a mansion tester. My Home Move Conveyancing is seeking a mansion tester who will...

A Midlands estate agency has come up with a solution to avoid confusion over property offers. Forget poor connections or bad handwriting that...

Forget London, Scotland is now the fastest-moving market for million-pound properties. Analysis by Rightmove has found that million-pound homes are selling 25...

The government is reportedly planning to abandon its next stage of planning reforms. The proposals, previously under consultation, would have given councils...

The independent QC leading a review into the governance scandal at the RICS says there was “no fraudulent or criminal misbehaviour”...

The independent review into the RICS scandal of recent months and how the governance of the body failed, has thrown up...

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

The UK’s biggest property auctioneer is considering whether to bring its sales back into the auction room in the near future. Managing...

The police investigation into the Savills agents who allegedly racially abused England players on Twitter after the Euros 2020 final is...

Welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity - another edition of good will and cheer generated by the industry’s fund-raising heroes. It’s...

The Savills member of staff who allegedly racially abused England players online after the Euros 2020 final has been sacked. The Metro...

A surprise statement from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says the stamp duty holiday, which goes on until the end...

Purplebricks says it’s beginning interviewing this week for roles at three key levels where there were not enough ‘switchers’ willing to...

An estate agency says it’s analysed the housing market’s long term cycles and forecasts that house price rises will continue -...

A news conference today is expected to reveal more details of the governance scandal which has engulfed the Royal Institution of...

Franchise giant Winkworth says it has backed the start up of a commercial company advising on investment in retail or business...

Exchanges of properties in prime central London, following the end of the largest part of the stamp duty holiday, suggest the...

The chief executive of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Sean Tompkins, is in talks to step down according to an...

Lost in the noise of yesterday’s social care announcements, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has named October 27 as his next Budget Day...

The Federation of Independent Agents has passed the key milestone of 50 member branches covering in excess of 200 exclusive postcode...

The Property Franchise Group - the UK's largest property franchisor, which owns EweMove and other brands - has acquired 80 per...

The lifestyle changes triggered by the pandemic are likely to have a lasting effect on the housing market, pushing property prices permanently...

A survey conducted by a bank suggests that over half of the self-employed sector of the economy believes its financial position...

Independent agency chain haart is opening what it calls a new ‘property centre’ in Aylesbury later this month.   Tim Wardley, managing...

Estate agents are being urged to future-proof and diversify by linking with retirement developers via part-exchange services. Property investment service HBB Solutions...

In this article, the team at Iceberg Digital outline why agents should consider attending the Estate Agency X event as well...

Purplebricks says its aim to move 650 staff from self-employed status to employed has had a 95 per cent success rate. It...

A prominent prime London estate agent has been awarded £180,000 by a compensation panel following her victory earlier this year in...

Does this photo drive you mad? Do you see it everywhere (including on Estate Agent Today stories)?  Who are these people and...

Belvoir’s chief executive haas taken to Twitter to hail his company’s latest results as “superb” - with sales for the franchise agency...

Newly instructed properties across the country dropped by 10 per cent in August compared to July’s numbers, according to Homesearch. The company,...

More buyers in prime central London are choosing larger properties - a function of the pandemic and the race for space. That’s...

Jackson-Stops, which currently has 42 branches across the UK, has revealed it’s going to have another 20 by the end of...

Day in, day out, I see how good estate agents really are.  Whether it’s in my day job on Location, Location, Location...

There is a report that the private equity owner of Leaders Romans Group has appointed bankers to work on a ‘strategic...

Spicerhaart - which is increasingly shifting its activities towards agents operating away from traditional branches - is investing more than £6m...

A TV advertising campaign begins today to promote SmartVal, its real-time valuation tool available on the Boomin portal. The advertisements will start...

Media reports over the weekend suggest the government is preparing a triple whammy - three measures which may reduce the number...

A new forecasting model from a consumer website is predicting that house prices will rise by an average 30 per cent...

A small survey commissioned by a PropTech firm appears to show that a majority of respondents believe estate agents lack expertise...

The former group marketing director at Countrywide has been appointed as global chief executive of Fine & Country. Simon Leadbetter has also...

Blockchain network Coadjute has announced new partnerships with software firms. Coadjute launched in July and claims it will halve the time it...

Homebuyers are suffering huge delays in receiving responses to their search requests to council according to a study of local authorities. Consumer...

A regional estate agency is planning an expansion programme after undergoing a management buyout by a former Business Woman of the...

The Karma Club: An industry partner has celebrated its second birthday by reaching a landmark of more than £15,000 donated to...

Chestertons, the London high-end estate agency chain, is reported to be looking for a buyer. Sky News says it’s hired Deloitte, the...

The man who admits he was “the acceptable face of Foxtons” in its golden period says he finally left because it...

A PropTech operator claims that agents currently pay around £250 per lead, averaging costs of different sources ranging from Google Ads...

The first house price index for August suggests they rose 2.1 per cent in just a month - despite forecasts that the...

Knight Frank has sold homes collectively valued at over £100m on just one exclusive estate so far this year alone.  The Wentworth...

A plea has been made to the government to help small companies and stop letting online firms off the hook. The Federation...

Scotland was the first UK nation to scrap the equivalent of its stamp duty holiday, yet already the official economic monitor...

Many Britains are apparently under-estimating the impact of furlough on their ability to get a mortgage and buy a property. A new...

Parts of Britain are so short of homes for sale they have only half the number of listings to be expected...

The growing number of lettings sector rules is a hotly debated issue, while the sales sector has been seeing its own...

Mortgage approvals declined over the last month as the tapering stamp duty holiday deterred home purchases, according to data from the...

A prominent London-focussed buying agent says she is seeing more foreign buyers returning to the UK capital - with more expected...

Zoopla-owned software company Yourkeys and mortgage, insurance and wealth management broker SPF Private Clients have integrated. Yourkeys’ software provides buyer and seller...

A long-standing agency says it’s proud that some of its most successful recent recruits have absolutely no industry experience. Felicity J Lord...

A new survey shows that there’s just a 1.7 per cent house price premium on homes with EPC ratings A or...

An agency claims that across the UK there have been very nearly 400,000 property transactions down valued in the last year...

The chairman of the Commons housing, communities and local government committee has criticised the institutional bulk-buying of existing homes for denying...

An agent promoting self-employed business models has launched a course showing how estate agents can earn £100,000 per year. The set of...

It may be the final day of August but Propertymark has first out of the blocks with advice for agents to...

The work of the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team is “vital” it claims - and the case of the...

PropTech platform Agent Response has just released its latest league table for conversion stats relating to the first two weeks of...

A broker claims the high profile return of the 95 per cent mortgage has actually made little impact on the housing...

The entrepreneur behind the live chat service Yomdel is to retire from the business.  Andy Soloman, the founder of the managed chat...

Rural-focussed agency Brown&Co has acquired Lincoln-based agency JH Walter - the merged operation formally begins on October 1.  Brown&Co opened its Lincoln...

Hello, and here’s the bad news to get it over with - this is the final Bank Holiday weekend before…Christmas. Now that’s...

A banned West Midlands estate agent has today been sentenced to a custodial sentence of six weeks, suspended for two years, and fined £4,000 at Wolverhampton Crown Court after pleading guilty...

The very strong housing market seen throughout this year is set to extend into 2022 as a stock shortage is forecast...

An estate agent says the housing market now has a hidden characteristic - an absence of homes that are friendly for...

Zoopla-owned Proptech platform Yourkeys has launched what it calls a first-of-its-kind sales progression service for new-build shared ownership properties. It works like...

An estate agency is to launch its third branch, this time in a seaside location. Stoneridge Estate Agents’ new Brightlingsea town centre...

A sentiment survey amongst wealthy international buyers suggests the affluent sector of the western world is seeing similar house buying frenzy...

An estate agency comparison website has conducted research into how much it costs to simply keep an average home in a...

House sales slumped nearly two thirds last month as the main deadline for the stamp duty holiday passed.  HM Revenue and Customs...

A date has been set for Purplebricks’ shareholders to give their verdict on a controversial remuneration package given to the agency’s...

Media reports suggest the government is considering offering grants to local authorities to purchase private family houses which are larger than...

Two former Local Property Experts at Purplebricks have set up their own hybrid agency, offering an upfront fee or a no-sale-no-fee...

The Guardian has sharply criticised Chancellor Rishi Sunak for introducing and then extending the stamp duty holiday - because helping estate...

Auction service Iamsold says a small-sample survey it conducted of agents suggests that increasing numbers are looking favourably on auctions as...

A new survey of online and hybrid agents claims that they are now taking a 13 per cent share of the...

There are 19 new distinct £1m-plus property markets in the UK thanks to the soaring house prices of the past 15...

The Property Ombudsman says there’s been a big increase in enquiries to its service in recent months, despite the pandemic.  In its...

Politicians in one of the most exclusive property enclaves are complaining after average house prices have risen around £100,000 in just...

A PropTech entrepreneur is advising agents not to settle for simply having their websites up and running, and instead using CRM...