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A leading agency says the stamp duty holiday is not a big influence on the current housing market frenzy - and...

House prices are 7.1 per cent above their level a year ago as the boom continues. The latest house price index, from...

Century 21 UK is the first agency in the country to white label an app which covers transaction components from property...

A think tank claims that ‘urban flight’ - when people leave cities and head for towns and villages - is merely a...

The independent review into the governance of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is calling for comments. Earlier this year RICS was the...

The anti-money laundering compliance service that is now part of data company LonRes is holding a training session for Rightmove member...

There’s a new warning that the estate agency industry may be in a more fragile financial condition than before the pandemic,...

Hertfordshire based agency Ashtons has acquired an independent agency operating in the same county, Aitchisons Residential. Aitchisons’ offices in St Albans and...

This time last year the industry was awaiting the launch of a new portal - the free to list public site...

The government has launched a formal consultation process on a new residential property developer tax which is to contribute towards cladding...

Online agency Strike has used specialist eye-tracking software to analyse what attracts a buyer’s attention when scrolling through homes online — and...

Hello and welcome to Agents Do Charity as we are on the threshold of May why not get on to the...

Britain’s second largest estate agency has outlined radical new plans to shift direction, making financial services and not sales or rentals...

Agents are being advised on what course of action they should take to safeguard their right to fees should they be dis-instructed...

In this week’s In Conversation Today, I chat with Fine & Country UK’s managing director Nicky Stevenson, one of the most...

The UK affiliated agency of Warren Buffett’s global real estate company has acquired a historic independent company operating in prime central...

One of the earliest London agencies to adopt a hub-style operation with self-employed agents working on a high commission basis, has...

Propertymark is staging a webinar today tackling the challenging issue of conveyancing - just as the market is at its busiest...

A former senior Foxtons and Douglas & Gordon agent has hit out at “the relentless key performance indicator culture” of some agencies. Matthew...

A new petition has been launched asking the government to make the stamp duty holiday apply when contracts are exchanged, rather...

Another major agency group has agreed to repay substantial sums it claimed under the government's Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, introduced to...

The Property Franchise Group’s hybrid agency EweMove more than doubled its income in 2020 to £5m, according to a statement to...

An increased focus on the provision of financial services has helped boost the trading figures released today by LSL Property Services,...

One in six properties sold for over the original asking price last month, higher than the proportion in February and another sign...

New Land Registry rules mean conveyancers and solicitors must have written evidence to show they have tried to resolve a request...

It’s hard to remember a time at any point in the last 20 years when agents have been looking for a...

The Property Franchise Group and LSL Property Services are linking up mortgage and related activity. This agreement means that LSL will be...

The estate agency industry is besotted with digital canvassing to try to win business - but that’s the wrong approach to take...

Independent estate agency Dacre, Son & Hartley plans to significantly grow its franchise network across Yorkshire and beyond. Dacres currently employs 125...

Software provider Rex has launched three new live dashboards for agencies, one of which covers agent performance. Rex says the dashboards -...

New figures from Zoopla today emphasise just how frenzied the housing market remains. Here are the figures: - so far in the first...

Rightmove and Zoopla have both made PropTech announcements as the scramble to retain and win agents continues. Rightmove’s draw-a-search tool has been...

A prime London estate agency is going global - not only with a new office in the UK capital but with...

Around 30 people spent all night queuing outside an estate agent ahead of 14 homes going on sale - the most...

If you’re worried the stamp duty holiday is denying the Treasury of much-needed income, think again. Stamp duty receipts soared to £1,196...

An estate agency is investigating how a swastika appeared in a photograph accompanying property details about a house on sale. The Grantham...

As London plays catch-up with the buoyant housing market seen in the rest of the country, two agencies have announced new...

The UK affiliated agency of Warren Buffett’s global real estate company has unveiled its new website. Berkshire Hathaway Homes Services (Kay &...

An estate agency is to link with a home set-up service and says it will give its referral fees to an...

A nationalist candidate in next month’s elections claims there is a second homes crisis which may create a “lost generation” of...

An insolvency specialist is warning that the real estate sector of the UK is seeing more firms in financial distress despite...

A leading buying agent says the phenomenon of ‘buying unseen’ is the most dramatic property trend to have emerged from the...

Controversial Foxtons chief executive Nic Budden is to pocket a bonus package of around £1m - despite a huge shareholder rebellion at...

Propertymark has shortlisted five of the 700 or so PropTech suppliers in the UK, as part of the trade body’s REACH...

LSL Property Services is to set up a mortgage brokerage called Pivotal Growth. The new brokerage - set up with Pollen Street...

The land and new homes division of Sequence has signed a deal to offer fully-funded part exchange and home buying services...

Hello and welcome to a sunny Friday and this week’s round-up of the industry’s good works. We’re keen to feature agents and...

International investment bank UBS has double-downgraded Purplebricks from ‘buy’ to ‘sell’ - and that could be good for independent agents, a...

A consumer financial service suggests it’s already too late for most buyers to meet the latest stamp duty holiday deadline of June...

Free-to-list portal OneDome has signed up the 55 branch agency network Chancellors. The agency will consequently list all of its residential sales...

The Nationwide Building Society has launched a product which, controversially, allows some first time buyers to borrow 5.5 times their income. From...

The average UK house price has risen 8.6 per cent - that’s typically £20,000 - in the past year. This is the...

Two leading agencies and an agent network have signed up to the UK’s first dedicated portal for those finding, researching, buying...

Momentum is building for agents to provide more information on property details and portals - not wait until a prospective buyer...

Some 45 per cent of people who had their home valued by an agent or sold it in the past three years discovered it...

OnTheMarket is to release its full year performance figures to shareholders on June 8. This will be for its trading year to January...

Iamsold, the company best known for its Modern Method of Auction online platform, has won top spot in an auction league...

A major agency is reporting a “frenzy” with branches inundated with enquiries as soon as homes are listed. Nicky Stevenson, managing director of...

Research by an estate agency comparison service has revealed which type of road address produces the highest average price.  GetAgent has analysed...

National Trading Standards wants agents, portals and industry groups to come up with ways to provide basic essential material information ‘upfront’.  The National...

The veteran estate agent who led criticism of Countrywide’s former management is turning his glare on Foxtons. The London estate agency has...

A hybrid agency which until now has been active only in London is launching new hubs in Manchester and Brighton. Agent &...

The market share of hybrid and online agents has remained at eight per cent, according to property industry consultancy TwentyCi. This figure...

Some 80 per cent of the property market will remain free of stamp duty for first-time buyers, even after the current...

A leading analyst has told Knight Frank that the end of furlough this autumn is unlikely to kill off the housing...

A leading agent says that for every house he puts on the market, he has over 40 requests for viewings -...

Zoopla today begins a new marketing drive - the latest move in the fierce battle between Rightmove, Zoopla, OnTheMarket and Boomin. Zoopla is...

Agents are being urged to push through their pipelines before the upcoming stamp duty deadlines. The plea comes from Simply Conveyancing, which...

Hello and welcome to another working week, and the latest on jobs and staff movement across our industry. You can be part...

From today buyers will be able to purchase properties worth up to £600,000 with just a five per cent mortgage, under...

Another week begins, another record tumbles - Rightmove this morning reports a monthly price surge of 2.1 per cent has propelled...

There’s been a surge in activity in London’s prime housing market according to LonRes. The property data company says that new instructions in March...

Jason Tebb, the ex-Foxtons agent who is now chief executive of OnTheMarket, has given his first in depth public interview since...

An analysis of the average time taken for properties from 10 leading estate agency brands to complete shows a significant increase...

The UK government has been told it should make the stamp duty cut permanent to encourage investment and make it easier...

Rightmove’s new Modern Method of Auction service launches on Monday.  The service - which Rightmove calls Online Conditional Auctions - will involve...

A PropTech firm says its new tool allows comprehensive upfront property information to be shared instantly with all parties in a...

New research shared with Estate Agent Today suggest that in areas of the country almost four in 10 homes for sale...

It’s Friday so it’s Charity day of course, and today we get to the root of the issue of lockdown easing...

Zoopla has unveiled a subtle rebranding plus new features and functionality - and says it wants to be number one, not...

This time out, I speak to one of the industry’s biggest-hitters. Adrian Gill may have retired from frontline agency, having had...

Foxtons is facing another shareholder revolt over the bonus being given to its chief executive despite taking £7m in state Covid...

An online agency that already operates in the lettings field is spreading into sales - and pledges to give most of...

One housing market index suggests that average house prices in England and Wales have risen by 9.8 per cent in the...

Foxtons has reassured investors that 2021 has started well and the agency is on the road to recovery after the Coronavirus...

Michael Bruce has been promoted from the role of executive chairman of Boomin to group chief executive officer. This is within two...

An agent in part of the UK with the strongest seller’s market claims the stock shortage is the worst he’s seen...

Rightmove has so far this year recorded 20 of its busiest ever days for visits to the site as the current...

Our recent state of the property nation survey, which yielded nearly 350 responses from directors to junior negotiators, and many others...

A survey of 5,000 agents suggests the slow house selling and buying process is one of the biggest challenges facing the...

The latest Moneyfacts monitor of the mortgage market suggests a significant number of new 95 per cent products - even without the...

Sky News is reporting that new portal Boomin is to announce the former chief executive of Sir Richard Branson’s business empire...

The founder of Zoopla has returned to the property market with a new proposal to disrupt how agents buy and sell homes. Alex...

One of the industry’s leading consultants has calculated staff turnover rates at the country’s leading estate agencies. Christopher Watkin, the consultant who...

An estate agency has apologised after a bogus employee posted offensive comments about Prince Philip on a newly-created fake Facebook account. This...

Another property company has announced its participation in the Kickstart scheme. The initiative is aimed at young people aged 16 to 24...

A leading agency claims the stamp duty holiday has actually had a minimal impact in the mainstream market, despite many suggestions...

One in three property sales in England and Wales fell through before completion in the first quarter of 2021. The 32 per...

Today is the day that non-essential retail reopens as part of the government's roadmap out of lockdown. For the majority of the...

The ESTAS Group has named a new headline sponsor for its 2021 Forum and Awards, taking over from Zoopla with immediate effect. It’s...