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Proposals to resuscitate the self-build housing sector have been welcomed by the government. Conservative MP Richard Bacon has published an independent report...

A long-standing critic of OnTheMarket, who was once excluded from a presentation by the portal’s leadership, has spoken enthusiastically of the...

Hello and welcome to our final Property Jobs Today before the start of autumn - and it’s good to see people...

A  mortgage expert says surveyors should improve their standard services to cover the threat of climate change.  This comes after a summer...

An unexpected claim was made over the weekend - that the long-running stamp duty holiday was not, after all, behind the...

OnTheMarket’s new market appraisal guides - first announced some months ago - have this morning gone live.  In June OTM announced a...

An agent has gone on record saying how he has progressed from being a photocopier boy at a Connells branch to...

The housing market could be in for a financial boost of an unusual kind as a High Street bank plans to...

A housing expert says the psychology of a population coping with the pandemic lies behind the house moving frenzy of recent...

Agents are reporting fewer sales and fewer deals above the asking price, as summer and the tapering stamp duty holiday take...

The lack of progress on the much-anticipated government reforms of the leasehold system is leaving thousands of homeowners stranded, according to...

Bramleys says it’s to resume property auctions in October. The auction will be the first held since March 2020. Previous auctions have been...

Awful isn’t it? Where was that sunshine? Well, the clouds have parted when it comes to fund-raising as the industry continues...

Propertymark has issued a warning to agents following the fines imposed on three property agencies by HM Revenue & Customs for...

A company says it’s gathering £500m in funding to purchase properties for a “gradual home ownership” scheme - a variation on...

Average house prices increased by 13.2 per cent over the year to June - the highest annual growth rate since November...

One of the most effervescent figures in the industry has given his five top tips to becoming a great estate agent...

A director of Essex estate agency Beresfords has announced his retirement after 40 years with the company - and after being...

A bulk quick buy company has surveyed purchasers who have been deterred from continuing their transactions to discover what the biggest...

One of the country's largest independent regional agency groups has been formed through an acquisition announced today. Yorkshire estate agent, Manning Stainton,...

A Midlands property firm has quit its city centre premises after 25 years and says the pandemic has proved it can...

Estate agents have gone on the record to say the flow of purchasers from London to country and market town locations...

My neighbour had been seeking to move home for some time. Suggestions that he wanted to get away from his neighbours...

Fenn Wright, a prominent East Anglian independent agency, is to open its first office in Felixstowe this autumn, making this the...

A nationalist party has blasted a Labour government in one national region of the UK for its lack of intervention in...

Agents and developers are creating full-size show home-style properties overseas in a bid to woo wealthy foreigners who cannot travel to...

Three property agents feature on the latest list of businesses in trouble for failing to comply with money laundering regulations. The list...

A highly influential think tank says stamp duty should be scrapped for all house purchases once and for all. Alexander Hammond of...

The average size of homes in England has plummeted by over 10 per cent in the past four decades. Research from ElectricalDirect...

Sinclair Taylor, the first company to offer debt solutions to estate agencies, has been acquired by The Broadriver Group, a diverse...

House prices in Wales - where the equivalent of the stamp duty holiday has fully ended - rose to a new...

High end agency Strutt & Parker is doubling its prediction for this year’s house price growth. For the UK-wide mainstream market the...

An independent agency has signed up to an international property sales platform designed to place UK new build developments on the...

Connells-owned Hamptons says it’s calculated that no fewer the 117,500 sellers this year have chosen to rent before buying their next home.  The...

The average asking price, as recorded by Rightmove, has fallen for the first time this year. In another sign that the market...

The estate agents’ trade body has set out three ways conveyancers can further help the sales process. Propertymark has made the suggestions...

The largest player in the Modern Method of Auction sector has reported a record average number of bids per property. In July...

Over 55,000 households bought homes through the government’s Help to Buy equity loan scheme in the past financial year - a...

Almost £730 billion of equity is available in British homes - a record figure. The sum, assessed during the second quarter of...

An estate agency is celebrating its 21st anniversary by launching a new ‘realtor’ franchise model based on enhanced technology and personalised...

Representatives of Rightmove, Zoopla, OnTheMarket, Boomin and OneDome portals are to be quizzed in an industry Question Time session next month. Russell...

Two prominent estate agencies are amongst those piloting a new financial product that allows aspiring buyers to purchase property with just...

HM Revenue & Customs is reported to be targeting recent home buyers after a slump in income from property taxes during...

Yet another housing market snapshot is reporting the stock of property for sale plummeting further downwards.  Property website Home says that while...

Hello and welcome to another round-up of our industry’s wonderful work for good causes. Before we salute this week’s heroes, our usual...

The independent QC asked to prepare a report into the financial conduct row at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has...

An estate agent with stomach cancer faces a prison sentence after pleading guilty of defrauding an 80 year old pensioner out...

A new survey suggests the majority of vendors remain wary of allowing too many unknown people into their home during viewings. Some...

Referral revenues shared between agents in a major industry trade group has hit over £1.35m.  Daniel Pepperell, regional director at The Guild...

The market slowdown continues with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors reporting that new buyer enquiries have reduced for the first...

Rightmove data released this morning shows that the average asking price of a detached house has risen literally 10 times the...

A report claims the flurry of transactions over recent months has been down mostly to families moving into larger homes and...

Self-employed agents working for Purplebricks who want to resist the instruction to become fully employed are being wooed by a Midlands...

Michael Bruce says the new SmartVal automated valuation system he is this month introducing on Boomin will be the most accurate...

Apart from a buoyant market, high transaction levels, and consumer confidence in the property market, one considerable additional benefit which has...

Purplebricks’ chief executive says a £4m marketing blitz scheduled for the autumn will go ahead despite the upheaval caused by the...

Savills has revised its price forecasts for prime property market across the UK, but when it coms to prime central London...

Tim Balcon, who lasted just four months in the role of Propertymark chief executive before a mystery resignation, has now become...

The chief executive of Purplebricks says he wants to move his agency’s 600 Local Property Experts from self-employed to employed status...

Purplebricks has this morning confirmed that it’s ending its self-employed Local Property Experts operation and is moving to “a fully employed model...

The controversial proposal by a PropTech start up to charge potential viewers of properties to let or for sale has been...

Propertymark says confusion over new stamp duty rules has led to a surge in fall-throughs. Since April 1 homes bought in England...

A major agency is predicting that the imbalance between supply and demand, which has characterised the housing market for all of...

A company says it will fund first time buyers’ bids to get on the property ladder by matching them with property...

Transaction volumes in prime London fell in July according to data from LonRes. Transactions were down 22 per cent compared with July...

Viewings are in the news right now and with good reason.  As the impact of the stamp duty holiday fades, and transaction...

The House of Commons Library has published what may be the definitive record of estate agency regulations issued in recent years...

Even at the height of summer (or the British wet season, as some call it) there are substantial numbers of job...

House prices in July rose after falling in June, according to the Halifax. They were 0.4 per cent higher than in June,...

Propertymark says the supply of homes on the market has dwindled almost continuously since the start of the year, with 40...

A survey suggests that almost half of first time buyers have at some time pulled out of deals because of environmental...

A leading tax expert is advising investors to “plan your disposals” after new Capital Gains Tax figures have raised speculation of...

Purplebricks has hired another creating PR agency to work on its consumer campaign. Taylor Herring - part of the larger Publicis group...

A prominent property consultancy is urging the government to ensure that holiday home owners pay more tax.  Colliers claims local authorities are...

Zoopla has revealed that some 200 agents have joined its new Product Research Panel, testing new innovations introduced by the portal. First...

A deep dive into Rightmove’s data by the portal itself has discovered that there’s one sector where homes sell 20 days...

It’s a great sign of our slow but reassuring return to normality when much-missed fundraising events make a welcome comeback -...

Zoopla has issued a data-heavy statement on its services for agents - just days after Boomin criticised it for being over...

Savills has reported a bounce back after the Covid-hit performance in 2020. The agency has substantial overseas and commercial property and consultancy...

A young franchisee with hybrid agency EweMove is expanding into another area just over nine months since launching his agency. Chris Wells,...

Thirty-five years after London estate agent Suzy Lamplugh disappeared, the trust that bears her name is calling for action to address...

If you were hoping for a summer lull during August, think again. That’s the messages from Nicky Stevenson, managing director of Fine...

As the Tokyo Olympics draws to a close this weekend, the Nationwide Building Society has analysed long-term capital appreciation in locations regenerated...

Volume house builder Taylor Wimpey has announced a pre-tax profit for the first half of this year of £287.5m - and...

LSL Property Services - parent company of Your Move, Reeds Rains and Marsh & Parsons - has reported record figures as...

The former leader of the Liberal Democrats is calling for a ban on family homes being used for holiday lets and...

A bank which a year ago told investors to sell Rightmove shares has now changed its tune - radically. In August 2020...

The Crown Prosecution Service has joined in the criticism of unemployed estate agent Lewis Hughes, who last week admitted a count...

The UK government will not achieve its pledge of delivering 300,000 new homes a year until 2028, according to analysis from...

Here’s a new way to encourage house moves - pay the potential vendor £50,000. The Scottish Government is launching an official consultation...

A former estate agent has accused the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agent Team of trying to discredit him. Chris Wood,...

Boomin has revealed to Estate Agent Today the latest figures on agency branches signed up to its fledgling portal. It says it...

Belvoir has issued another upbeat trading report, saying its revenue for the first six months of the year is up 53...

New data shows the strongest quarter for new build home registrations since 2007.  According to NHBC, the new home warranty and insurance...

The Fine & Country network has added another agency to its network - this one in the west country city of...

Londoners purchased over 60,000 homes outside of the capital in the first half of 2021 - and many of those buyers...

An estate agency has calculated precisely how much residential property has been sold so far this year, fuelled by the stamp...

The number of Energy Performance Certificates issued for new build homes in England rose 16 per cent in the year to...

NAEA Propertymark says there’s no appetite that it can see amongst its representatives across the UK for charging people £30 for...

The head of Boomin has attacked Rightmove for the fees it currently charges agents, the likelihood of higher fees to come,...