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The Competition and Markets Authority says it has pushed Facebook into taking new action to combat fake reviews - an issue...

The Chancellor’s decision to extend the stamp duty holiday has “put a spring in the step" of the housing market according...

Chancellors today opens its 56th and newest branch with what it calls its most generous ever offer to potential customers. The office...

The Property Franchise Group, which earlier this year completed a buy out of franchise rival Hunters, has expanded its senior management...

Purplebricks is this summer starting a £7m campaign in a bid to to increase market share, using a new media partner. The...

A leading conveyancing industry chief says the one factor that would help improve the slow house buying process today would be the...

A new survey suggests 53 per cent of buyers never actually visit an estate agent’s office during the course of their...

A mortgage firm specialising in high net worth clients says the stamp duty holiday cliff edge will not impact the most expensive...

Winkworth says Covid and its aftermath will not derail plans to open five offices a year.  In a trading statement to shareholders...

The shortage of supply compared to demand, which has characterised the housing market in recent months, could soon be a thing...

Hello and welcome to this week’s ADC - and it’s a special look at plans for this year by our own...

The annual report of a major estate agency has revealed that its chief executive took two large cuts to bonus payments...

Data from agency Knight Frank suggests the number of UK exchanges last month was the highest in 10 years - well above...

With increasing numbers of portals battling for membership and revenue, Zoopla has revealed that all Carter Jonas’ residential branches will list until...

Boutique estate agency D S Churchill is to open a countryside office serving the Cotwolds, Oxfordshire and surrounding counties. D S Churchill...

An agency has analysed sold prices since the first lockdown in March 2020 and February this year - and has found...

A portal says it’s the most significant challenger to the Big Three of Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket. OneDome says it bases this on...

A surveyors group has launched a new ‘Home Review’ service which it claims will identify structural problems which create an immediate...

A new name is to appear at the top of Knight Frank from next spring - and he is charged with bringing...

There’s been a drop of no less than 16,000 in the number of physical viewings over the past year thanks to just...

One of the most outspoken campaigners against stamp duty has been fined for avoiding tens of thousands of pounds in … stamp...

The sizes and numbers of gardens in London are reducing because stamp duty is encouraging more extensions as an alternative to moving. That’s...

While lengthy lockdowns have caused many to re-evaluate their homes, the apartment lifestyle remains an ambition for many. That’s the view of...

Agents have contacted Estate Agent Today to say they fear the new MatchMaker service on the Boomin portal could be used...

The MP leading a new parliamentary committee on the housing market says a radical reform of tax would help more people move...

A high flying agent with experience at a string of top end companies has set up an online business with his...

First time buyers are now saving more than £800 a year in comparison with tenants, new analysis suggests.  The Halifax says the...

The stamp duty holiday has backfired and buyers almost everywhere are paying more for homes, rather than less. StripeHomes analysed house price...

Estate agency offices in Wales, closed for many weeks as part of that country’s lockdown, will reopen from next Monday, April 12. The...

Late last year Hamptons launched ‘Relay around the World’… a fundraising initiative to raise money for Cancer Research’s Stand Up To...

The managing director of Fine & Country Cardiff, Dan Thomas, has wasted no time with his fundraiser - starting as soon...

First off, happy Good Friday to all our readers. Here’s to a great, if still slightly different, long Easter bank holiday...

Propertymark has chosen YoungMinds as its charity partner of the year.  YoungMinds is dedicated to ensuring every young person gets the mental...

Zoopla employees have held a 'March for March' challenge to raise funds for The Captain Tom Foundation. This is a fine cause...

Reeds Rains is once again fundraising for the wonderful Cash For Kids - and this time there’s a twist. In previous years...

The Bruce brothers' new portal Boomin has launched a day early - and no, this isn't an April Fool. The site went live...

A new property board game called Gazumped aims to rival Monopoly but reflect a much more realistic view of how the house...

Mental health – and the importance of good mental health – has become a vital thing for all of us in...

Annual house price growth remains strong but it has slowed significantly according to the Nationwide. Prices dropped 0.2 per cent on average...

A prominent London agency says today’s new two per cent stamp duty surcharge imposed on most overseas buyers will not dampen...

Welsh independent agency Nuttall Parker has been snapped up by Cardiff-based property business Seraph Group. Newport-centred Nuttall Parker is Seraph Group's second...

A company in the German Axel Springer publishing empire - which also invested in Purplebricks in the past - has put...

OnTheMarket has signed a big media deal with the UK’s largest news publisher. The deal is with Reach, which owns nine national...

Here are the first three TV adverts for Boomin, the new property portal which launches on Friday.The new website launches early...

Two property directors have been banned from holding company office for a total of 25 years after abusing £7.7m taken from...

Yopa has instructed two companies to help with its brand building as it battles with other major online players. It’s appointed M.i. Media...

A new survey says 80 per cent of homeowners believe the process of buying a house has remained largely the same or...

First the good news - estate agents are trusted more than politicians and no less than bankers. Now the bad news:...

A controversial property crowdfunding platform, criticised in the past on TV's Dragon’s Den, has gone into administration.  The House Crowd was launched...

Buyer behaviour has changed over the past year of the pandemic and it’s up to estate agents to calculate how to...

Conveyancers should consider the provision of electric vehicle parking and charging in transactions according to a legal company. Law firm says that...

Agents who use cheap PropTech could end up spending a lot more than they expect, according to an industry expert. Anton Babkov,...

NAEA Propertymark says a record number of transactions are taking four months to move from offer to exchange. The organisation says this...

Bank of England figures reveal that in February there were 87,700 mortgage approvals - down from a peak of 103,700 in...

Fine & Country is opening a new branch in the Welsh capital, Cardiff. It covers the city and surrounding areas, the Vale...

As an indication of the frenzied property market, this may take some beating - an agent has had 18 viewings on...

Hello, and as we near the first Bank Holiday of the year (and a little light at the end of the...

A business that calls itself the UK’s first 24/7 home-based estate agency has announced a new franchisee.  Dorset-based Meyers Estate Agents was...

With just days before the launch of new portal Boomin, Rightmove says it’s hit a record 9.1m visits in a 24...

It’s costing taxpayers £750,000 just for the government to update its IT systems to handle the stamp duty holiday.  In a document...

Liverpool - where commissioners have been ordered by Whitehall to run part of the council following corruption allegations - is the...

Emoov’s new 'guaranteed offer' service means fall-thoughs and chain-related delays are effectively eliminated, the agency claims. Emoov - now owned by a firm...

You can’t blame agents for trying to get the highest possible price for their vendor’s property, but Purplebricks probably wins the...

A new campaign to urge whistleblowers to come forward with evidence of wrongdoing has been launched by the Financial Conduct Authority. This...

The stamp duty holiday frenzy has reduced the gap between asking and sale prices according to new research. Before the start of...

Data from Rightmove suggests a sharp increase in the number of chain-free properties on the market because sellers are increasingly willing...

Normal life still seems far away so there hasn’t been the usual spotlight on a good-news-feeling that comes every year on...

Nathan Emerson, the new chief executive of Propertymark, says his mission is to make the organisation more transparent - and to...

On Monday, we launched our state of the property nation survey – a 14-question poll designed to give estate and letting...

Another house price index shows a super-charged housing market with prices rising 7.5 per cent in the year to January according...

New data from The ValPal Network suggests 57 per cent of leads are generated outside office hours, putting the emphasis on...

A new licensee at Fine & Country is taking the brand into a new territory with a sales patch 170 miles wide...

Agency marketing platform BriefYourMarket has acquired live chat and customer experience provider Yomdel.  BriefYourMarket says the addition of Yomdel to its offer...

The Guild of Property Professionals says it’s had a strong response to the launch of its Ofqual-accredited Level Three Agency Qualification. It...

Purplebricks has removed advertising claims which suggested it sold homes for a higher sum, on average, than rival agencies. The Advertising Standards...

Residential transactions totalled 147,050 last month according to HMRC - that’s 23 per cent higher than the previous month and an...

The government’s highly-anticipated Tax Day was just a damp squib.  That’s the view of leading analyst Anthony Codling, who says the almost complete...

The London housing market is enjoying the end of the lull before the storm, according to a leading buying agent. Sara Ransom...

The Building Societies Association says there’s been a surge in consumer confidence in the housing market following the Budget. Some 37 per...

Knight Frank is investing an undisclosed sum in a venture capital firm specialising in PropTech. The money is going into a European...

Some 30 tax documents have been released by HM Treasury this afternoon - a mix of responses to past consultations, proposals...

Zoopla has crunched the numbers for the continuing stamp duty holiday in England and Northern Ireland, calculating 500,000 buyers will have...

The Law Society is to pilot upfront conveyancers’ information for home buyers and sellers. This will involve the TA6 form which contains...

PropTech firm Sprift has entered into a deal with The Guild of Property Professionals. The partnership means that Guild member agents have...

The Conservatives have promised that first time buyers would not pay tax when buying a home in Wales if the party wins...

Boomin co-founder Kenny Bruce says the UK economy should now be opening up thanks to the success of the Coronavirus vaccines. In...

Energy Performance Certificates ought to be scrapped because they are outdated and not fit for purpose. That’s the view of an influential...

Will Rightmove still be the dominant portal by 2030? Will Boomin really shake up the industry as Purplebricks did before it?...

OnTheMarket has completed its purchase of PropTech firm Glanty - a deal which began 15 months ago.   OTM took an initial 20...

Stamp Duty receipts for the year to the end of February fell just six per cent despite the high profile SDLT...

One year on from the UK’s first stay-at-home order, London has been overtaken as the most searched-for location on Rightmove, according...

Two of Britain’s largest house builders have reacted sharply to calls by Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick and the Competition and Markets...

The total value of the UK’s housing stock has hit a record £7.56 trillion despite the pandemic. The calculation - by Savills,...

There is growing speculation that a raft of tax proposals to be unveiled next week will include reform of Capital Gains...

The Competition and Markets Authority has written to two top house builders ordering them to change their leasehold terms. In September the...

The Guild of Property Professionals is to offer a formal agency qualification as it goes increasingly on the offensive in a...

London’s residential market appears to be showing renewed signs of life thanks to the rollout of the government roadmap and vaccine...

On Monday next week, Estate Agent Today will launch its state of the property nation survey, a 14-question poll for UK...

A new estate agency says it aims to sell homes within 30 days - and dismisses the idea of a traditional...

Welcome to Agents Do Charity, the weekly fund-raising catch up - as ever, even during challenging times, it’s great to see...