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Hello and here’s another PJT to start the week: we hope it’s your first port of call when you want to...

We like a good video here at Estate Agent Today, and we know our industry can take a joke even if...

Average UK house prices rose 0.5 per cent in May according to the latest Halifax house price index as the long...

OnTheMarket claims monthly visits to its website hit a record 25.4m in May - but the portal’s latest update gives no...

A veteran of three online estate agencies has been named as the first UK head of a US real estate operation...

It's been another busy 24 hours for publicly-quoted estate agencies. Swiss investment bank UBS has increased its stake in the troubled London...

Subscription-based business-to-business prime London platform LonRes has launched a new service for retained agents.   The Retained Agent Buyer Alert enables buying agents...

A review website set up by a former estate agent says £1m of new funding will allow it to roll out...

With summer in full swing (will someone tell the weather?) we’re having bumper editions of Agents Do Charity, and this weekend’s is...

Beleaguered fund manager Neil Woodford, one of the first champions of Purplebricks, has reduced his stake in the troubled agency for...

A new service which aims to provide estate and letting agents with what it calls “game changing” access to property data...

Beleaguered fund manager Neil Woodford, one of the early champions of Purplebricks, has slashed his stake in the company from 28.9...

A portal specialising in prime and super-prime London property has turned perceptions of the capital’s housing market on their head -...

PropTech company Landmark has thrown its weight behind the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ new Home Survey Standard, which is now out...

Tributes are being paid to David Hall, a senior partner at an agency in the Midlands where he worked for a...

Demand for shared ownership properties will rise by over 15,000 units a year when Help To Buy comes to an end...

Purplebricks has announced that it is to give a trading update and the result of its review of its US activities on...

“You say tomato, I say tomato” is a line in a famous film score way back in the 1937 film Shall...

Rightmove says its data quality team is to conduct “a full review of the current customer” after an allegation about a...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is running a Certified Property Measurer course aimed at training agents and others in the...

A TV production company is looking for family-run estate agencies to be considered for a possible reality TV show. Curve Media -...

FirstHomeCoach, the brainchild of a former HSBC banker, has launched with the aim of providing “every service” a first time buyer...

Two of Britain’s largest and best known estate agencies have endured a day of turmoil at the hands of investors -...

Properties sold off market by a London agency found buyers more quickly, and for nearer the asking price, than those on the...

A writer for the influential financial publication Money Week says investors should “steer clear” of Foxtons - at least for now. Sarah...

Sharp-witted marketing advisers for Marsh & Parsons have done it again with a clever poster and social media campaign to mark...

Housing minister Kit Malthouse appears to have some difficulty being taken seriously as a candidate for Conservative party leader and Prime...

Talks are reported to have been held between Purplebricks leading shareholder, Neil Woodford, and the German publishing group Axel Springer about...

Purplebricks share price has risen over 10 per cent - at least temporarily - on news of a major expansion of...

Purplebricks’ most influential investor says there is “opportunity aplenty” for the company but says it would back the closure of the US...

Welcome to the latest Property Jobs Today - because last week there was a Bank Holiday, we have a bumper edition...

An estate agency in St Albans has rebranded as Fine & Country. JW&Co Langleys office in St Albans was acquired by Tom...

A volume house builder is launching a TV advertising campaign claiming its properties are a “premium alternative” to second hand homes...

The latest house price index shows very little happening in the market, with analysts expecting little significant movement until Brexit is...

It appears that at least three Countrywide brands are undergoing branch closures as the company’s cuts continue to bite. Estate Agent Today...

Traditional High Street estate agents have been given the thumbs up by sellers in a new survey of over 5,000 vendors...

Three ultra-high-value London properties cannot be sold while a money laundering investigation continues. The houses have not been identified but were most...

A London independent agency has joined the franchise network of Hunters. Regent 2000 Properties, which operates in Camden Town, is seeing its...

Hello - it’s that time of the week again when we celebrate the agency industry’s fantastic fund-raising. We were delighted that our...

Rumours continue to circulate about possible large-scale branch closures at Countrywide; its share price ended trading today at its lowest ever...

Countrywide’s shares took another battering yesterday as they plummeted below the psychologically-painful 5p mark - reflecting a 95 per cent loss of...

The Innovative Collaboration Group - a collection of high-profile tech suppliers to the agency industry - has unveiled a raft of new...

A recently-launched free-to-list portal says it’s uniquely positioned to attract overseas buyers and investors interested in purchasing in major UK cities. Residential...

Just 200 conveyancing firms control over 39 per cent of the market in England and Wales, wielding significant power over customers,...

Like many good agencies, Savills understands that selling a long-loved family home can be tough for a vendor. So it was with...

New figures released to Estate Agent Today show that a net total of 284 agents’ offices closed down in 2018. This number -...

NAEA and ARLA Propertymark have launched an initiative called Propertymark Inspire to promote training and compliance awareness amongst agents.  A statement says the...

One of my biggest concerns in all of my writing, speaking and influencing around PropTech is that for the people we...

The number of sales agreed per branch has increased for the first time this year, rising from an average of seven...

The number of mortgages approved by High Street banks increased 5.4 per cent to 44,000 in April. Data from trade body UK...

The gap between average asking prices and average selling prices has increased in recent months according to Zoopla. Its latest study of...

In a surprising announcement overnight, housing minister Kit Malthouse says he is standing to become the Conservative party leader and next...

New research suggests it takes, on average, six months and 24 days to buy a home. The study, for PropTech virtual tours...

New data from respected property consultancy LonRes shows that prices in prime central London fell 9.7 per cent in the 12...

The head of the Property Redress Scheme is urging agents to prepare for yet more regulation and legislation changes likely to...

There’s been a mixed response to the government’s surprise announcement that it would make permanent the right of home owners to...

Homeowners will be able to extend properties more easily instead of moving home. In a surprise announcement this morning - less than...

The Property Ombudsman says its members must in future disclose referral fees in a bid to make previously-hidden costs open and...

A firm supporting leaseholders across the UK says the ongoing Competition and Markets Authority probe should “punish” what it calls “rip off...

Ultra slow broadband speeds could knock a quarter off the value of a property according to research undertaken by online agency...

Retired homeowners are increasingly using property wealth to clear unsecured debts and mortgages to strengthen their later life finances, a new...

Hello there and we’re at the start of another Bank Holiday weekend - but no rest for you lot, working hard...

Zoopla is today unveiling what it calls “a new direction” for its software division and the creation of “market-leading agency CRM...

An outspoken building society chief has taken the unusual step of calling for stamp duty to be replaced by capital gains...

House prices have remained roughly stagnant according to the latest figures produced by the Office for National Statistics and HM Land...

Estate Agent Today has been named Property Trade Magazine of the Year 2019 at the annual Property Press Awards. It fought off...

An agent with over 29 years of experience has taken over as  chief executive officer at Humberts - just as the...

Purplebricks’ share price yesterday plunged to 90.5p at one point - well below the 100p level at which the company originally...

A homeowner in London has won a legal case against a chartered surveyor who failed to identify Japanese knotweed during a...

One of the capital’s most outspoken estate agents at the upper end of the market has given eye-watering statistics to show...

We’ve reached the final instalment of my market transformation do’s and don’ts.  In previous articles, we’ve looked at: Do encourage, don’t deter;...

A new sales progression tool that claims to have been hugely successful over an 18-month pilot is being rolled out across...

The number of residential property transactions across the UK fell very slightly last month according to new figures from HM Revenue...

The Annual General Meeting of Foxtons shareholders in London has seen a dramatic rebellion against bonuses for senior management. There were 14 resolutions put...

An IT firm says small and medium-sized estate agencies without the infrastructure of large corporates are putting themselves and their customers...

Purplebricks, which recently admitted that it had been over-ambitious in its overseas expansion, says it will give “a further update” on...

Might the central London market gloom be broken by just a sliver of light? London Central Portfolio, an investment consultancy, has recently...

Foxtons has warned shareholders and the City that sales volumes are at a “record low” and that the agency suffered another fall...

New data from property consultancy The Advisory shows that the top 10 online estate agents now have a combined market share...

A Parliamentary committee has claimed that 160 properties in the UK are owned by “high corruption-risk individuals” and wants more to...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, the destination where you can catch up with the key moves announced in the...

Rightmove’s latest house price statistics reveal that asking prices for newly-marketed property are on average 0.9 per cent higher than a...

It appears almost certain that there will be another new housing minister named when a new Conservative leader - and thus...

A survey undertaken by the respected Economist Intelligence Unit and a risk solutions company suggests that estate agency may be one...

A law firm says it’s made legal history by integrating the automated voice-activated platform Alexa into its system. Customers of Simply Conveyancing...

The National Association of Estate Agents has welcomed the commitment by the Competition and Markets Authority to investigate the mis-selling of...

The founder of franchise giant Belvoir, Mike Goddard, has now stepped down as chair of the company, two years after quitting...

Agents have reacted gloomily to the release of figures showing that the number of new mortgages offered to both movers and...

Hello and welcome to this week’s ADC - yet more examples of stupendous fund-raising by our industry (and a lot of...

An expert who has invested in an online agency in the past has slammed Purplebricks’ business model. James Max, who presents the...

Reforms to the house buying process in England and Wales to bring it more into line with Scotland could slash the...

The average time on the market for a property is soaring across the UK thanks to Brexit uncertainty, according to the...

The trade body representing so-called quick sale companies is marking five years in business with two feathers in its cap. Firstly the...

Franchise giant Hunters is to be the subject of a Channel 4 TV show on air this evening at 8pm.  When I...

“I’m Russell Quirk, and I’ve failed” - with those words, the former chief executive of Emoov has begun to explain how...

John D Wood has announced that Nick Taylor, the agency’s managing director and a well-known figure in the industry for four...

An estate agent in the north east of England has been told he will face prison after admitting two counts of...

It was long awaited, much anticipated and, thankfully, incredibly well attended. FUTURE PropTech 2019 was a big hit and a truly global affair. For...

The fledgling independent agents’ trade group, the Federation of Independent Agents, has signed another partnership deal with a high-profile industry supplier...

North East England regional agency chain Bradley Hall has amended details for a property listed on its website following a complaint...