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Property taxes in Scotland raised almost £640m over the past twelve months, according to analysis of the latest statistics by agency...

Lower mortgage rates have slowed the exodus of first-time buyers from London ,research suggests. Analysis by Hamptons for the first half of...

Increasing numbers of homebuyers are taking out bridging loans to prevent a chain from collapsing. The latest Bridging Trends industry report shows...

The latest prime London market snapshot from Knight Frank suggests muted activity so far this summer and warns of possible hesitancy...

The wife of a jailed banker has agreed to forfeit a house in Knightsbridge worth approximately £14m and a golf club...

A little known family-run agency - Griffin Property Co - says it is finally relaunching as Emoov. The purchase of the Emoov...

A building society is calling for stamp duty reforms to incentivise downsizing. A statement from the Suffolk Building Society says it believes...

A lack of new investment rather than landlords selling-up is causing rental market supply issues, research suggests. The latest Hamptons Lettings Index...

The new Government’s plan to ‘Get Britain Building’ is ambitious, to say the least.    And it is central to their mission, not...

Agents are being urged to prepare for a surge in enquiries following the General Election this week Many agents have reported that...

A new senior figure in Purplebricks claims the agency has much in common with selling broadband.  Nick Gunga is the new chief...

The majority of buyers planning to move home say the election will not affect their plans, research suggests. A survey by Rightmove...

Is there such a thing as an online estate agency any more? A decade ago, about the time I started editing Estate...

The proportion of buy to let properties purchased in Southern England fell to a record low last year, continuing a trend...

Strutt & Parker has appointed Kraig Butler as director and head of residential saes in the consultancy’s Gerrards Cross office. It comes...

Savills has strengthened its residential sales team in Hertfordshire with the appointment of a new director to lead its Rickmansworth office. Steven...

To commemorate PayProp’s 20th year in business, Estate Agent Today’s Lee Dahill took a walk down memory lane with Neil Cobbold,...

Homeowners, particularly those in larger homes are staying put for longer, research shows. Analysis of Land Registry data between 2019 and 2022...

Outsourced property viewings and inspections provider Viewber is celebrating completing more than half a million appointments. Launched at the end of 2016...

Average asking prices have grown on an annual basis for the first time in six months but properties are taking longer...

Five years ago, Lettings expert, Tim Lawler, wrote an article for Estate Agent Today charting his early experiences of setting up...

Gascoigne Halman founder John Halman is marking 50 years in estate agency. Halman entered estate agency in 1973 and, demonstrating a natural...

Reapit has appointed Steve Richmond as general manager in charge of operations in its home market of the UK and Ireland. He...

Buyer demand for homes in England has hit its lowest recorded levels since 2015, according to the latest House Builders’ Survey...

Foxtons shareholders are reportedly putting the board under pressure to put the agency brand up for sale Two shareholders who own a...

Demand for residential property remains fragile despite a pause in interest rate rises, Knight Frank claims. While the number of new prospective...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...

Clive Humby of Dunn Humby (the Mega Minds behind the Tesco Clubcard) declared that "Data is the new oil" in 2006....

A pioneer of the so-called City Living movement, trying to create more residential units in city centres, is returning to the...

Since the Bank of England base rate started making large jumps around the middle of last year, mortgage rates have increased...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...

The net housing supply in England could be set to fall to decade lows, builders have warned. New analysis by the Home...

Higher mortgage rates have replaced the 'race for space' as the primary reason for buying outside of London this year, research...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...

Purplebricks ended its life on the stock market with a share price of 0.30p. It comes as the controversial online brand officially...

It’s no secret – 2023 is a difficult year for the property industry. While rising rents should lead to increased income...

The proportion of new homes sold off-plan across England & Wales has slipped to the lowest level since 2013, new data...

For just over a decade, the Government has operated ‘Help to Buy’ schemes in England. The first of these, ‘NewBuy’, which...

Lawyers are warning of a growing number of incidents of septic tank conveyancing negligence, which could prove costly for homebuyers. House buyers...

Sellers resistant to cutting asking prices may soon be left with little choice if the mortgage market remains depressed, a broker...

International buyers appear to slowly be returning to the prime central London (PCL) market, according to Hamptons data. Figures released by the...

Black mould associated with condensation is becoming an increasing problem for homes in the UK and following the tragic death of...

We’re only in February and it’s already clear that this year will set the future direction of the private rented sector...

Record energy bills and the cost-of-living crisis has prompted a surge in downsizing activity over the past 12 months, new research...

Almost 155,000 home sellers could be impacted by a drop in house prices but it may only last for  a couple...

Readers of a certain age may remember 1983. The Space Shuttle Challenger made its first flight, Neil Kinnock was elected Labour leader,...

Hatched founder Adam Day has drawn on his experiences of running the online agent during the 2008 financial crisis to advise...

Fewer buyers are leaving London to purchase property elsewhere, research suggests. Analysis by Hamptons has found that the share of Londoners purchasing...

The number of homebuyers putting a Help to Buy Isa towards their property purchase looks set to hit a five-year low. The...

Scotland may face “serious labour shortages” due to its relatively high property buying taxes compared with in England, a leading agent...

Are landlords following the law? To answer this question, the Government grouped answers from its English Private Landlords Survey 2022 according...

Regional estate agency Bradley Hall has undergone a rebrand as it looks to expand its presence beyond the North East and...

OnTheMarket (OTM) is not currently aiming to overtake Rightmove or Zoopla but has succeeded in reducing listing fees for agents across...

From sky dives to golf days, here is how agents have been raising money for charity this week. If there are charitable...

July was the most active month for home sales so far this year but agents acknowledge that a slowdown is coming. The...

Fewer than 20% of Scots homeowners paid more than 83% of all house purchase tax north of the border, according to...

A property expert has claimed that it remains to be seen where housing will feature in the upcoming political agenda. Nicky Stevenson,...

Earlier this year, we ran a story asking whether agency would ever embrace a four-day week. This came ahead of the...

Double-think, for those who have not read George Orwell, is when people are expected to accept two conflicting beliefs as truth,...

Rightmove’s average revenue per agent has reached record levels as firms continue to spend more on the portal’s services. The property website...

Purplebricks’ share price hit a record low during trading yesterday after an activist investor upped its stake and called for the...

Estate agency trade body Propertymark is hoping to “maintain momentum” with newly appointed Housing Secretary Greg Clark. He replaces Michael Gove, who...

Greg Clark has been named as the new Housing Secretary. Clark will replace Michael Gove who was sacked by Prime Minister Boris...

Former Countrywide boss Bob Scarff has warned that estate agents have become too reliant on alerts, emails and text messages for...

Propertymark has rebranded its charitable arm. Its members charity Arbon Trust unveiled a new identity and vision at the trade body’s national...

It’s the fifth anniversary of the Grenfell fire tragedy, but are high rises any safer today than they were then? On 14th...

New data suggests the prime London market has a new lease of life as buyers and sellers look to beat the...

Conveyancers have had their busiest year on record, industry data shows. Search Acumen’s latest Conveyancing Market for the first quarter of 2022...

Record numbers of homes are being sold off-market and for a premium due to the property supply shortage. Off-market sales are traditionally...

A former chairman of challenger bank Monzo has joined OneDome’s board. Tim Brooke Thom has been appointed as non-executive director of the challenger...

Many people in recent years will have become familiar with challenger banks such as Monzo, Starling and Atom. Many will have...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently announced that he is considering extending Margaret Thatcher’s Right-to-Buy scheme, that gives council tenants the chance to...

What a difference two months and some local elections make. Cast your minds back to March 9 and the annual report of...

Buyer demand has rebounded in prime areas of the capital and there is also talk of a return to competitive bidding. The...

One of the biggest names in agency has been appointed as chairperson of the board at BidX1, one of Europe’s leading...

Following a series of unexplained delays, Helena Marston has now finally been confirmed as the new chief executive of beleaguered agency...

A former UK national sales director at Purplebricks has been reunited with the online agent’s founder Michael Bruce at Boomin. Paul Vickerstaff,...

Franchise giant Belvoir has snapped up one of the earliest British estate agencies to adopt the model of using self-employed or...

Almost exactly a decade ago I wrote a blog on the back of a spate on mainstream news stories about prime...

These are undeniably darker days as news comes through of a humanitarian crisis in Ukraine - we have the first agency...

The hot topic of rent controls has remerged in recent weeks, with passionate voices on both sides of the argument speaking...

No matter how dark the news, there’s light in our industry thanks to so many agents and suppliers doing good deeds....

If the UK and its allies have been played by Russia over the Ukraine ‘invasion’, and it’s beginning to look that...

A company that sold a record 465 homes in 2021 has invested in a new office which it claims will “redefine...

Only 6.8m homes in England now have mortgages, just 28 per cent of the overall market and about two per cent...

Seven years after it launched on the London Stock Market, speculation continues that Purplebricks may be about to de-list and return...

Was Purplebricks right to delist a property from its website when it discovered the vendors - a Christian couple - were opposed...

Propertymark has appointed an insider to the key role of policy adviser - effectively the position vacated last month by industry...

PropTech firm CoreLogic UK has acquired the property search and marketing platform Rummage4. Rummage4 was founded in 2015 by agent Robert May...

An online auction company executive has been appointed to the National Association of Valuers and Auctioneers committee for Propertymark. Stuart Collar-Brown, co-founder...

A franchise for two agency offices in west London has been acquired by property professionals Faith Cook and Georgia Everton-Wallach –...

Strong house price growth since the pandemic began has boosted seller gains with the typical vendor who bought two decades ago...

Just as city centre traffic is reminiscent of life before the pandemic, the rental market in central zones of UK’s largest...

In this article, the team at The Lettings Hub - which aims to offer tech-driven solutions for the rental market - outline...

The ValPal Network has won the ESTAS’ Supplier Awards – Best in Sector: Online Valuation Tool prize for the fifth year...

Rightmove is warning that it’s “highly likely” interest rates will rise in the near future. The portal believes this now seems inevitable...

There were 13 new buyers for every property listed for sale in the UK in September according to Knight Frank.  Over the...

We’re not sure if agents will agree with this but a high profile consumer group has come up with the final...

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

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