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Rightmove’s decision to return £100m to its shareholders has been called into question. The property portal giant announced in its recent half-year...

There’s been a significant rise in the number of so-called Suspicious Activity Reports concerning money laundering and the agency industry. Suspicious Activity...

A senior agency industry figure has criticised the lack of homebuilding targets after the latest Government data showed a drop in...

The last thing you want as we rake through the dying embers of 2023 is a journalist’s prediction of what’s going...

The estate agency industry is being urged to do more to tackle the issue of gender jaws, it has been warned. The...

The factor most likely to influence the housing market next year is entirely outside the industry’s control: the General Election. Knight Frank...

In this latest article from the team at Iceberg Digital, they discuss their series of ground-breaking innovations announced at their annual...

The Women in Estate Agency support group has unveiled details of its latest conference. The event will take place at The IET...

Fine & Country has launched a marketing campaign centred around becoming the most recommended national estate agency brand among consumers. The campaign...

Have you heard of the Pareto Principle…? Named after economist Vilfredo Pareto, it describes the imbalance of most work-related events -...

It’s the start of what promises - perhaps ‘threatens’ is a better word - to be a challenging second half of...

Here’s the news you don’t normally get to hear about - the agency industry in full swing doing good work. If you’ve...

Whether you know them as sold-in-your-area campaigns, sold-on-your-road postcards or 20:20s, the practice of prospecting 20 doors up and 20 doors...

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

Industry charity Agents Together is celebrating reaching new mentorship and volunteering milestone. It has revealed that 800 free mentorships have now been...

In this latest article from the team at Iceberg Digital, they review the recent Estate Agency X 8, 2023 On 23rd March, the...

In this latest article from the team at Iceberg Digital, they preview Estate Agency X 8, 2023 Estate Agency X is back and better...

Former youth Olympic Badminton player Grace King is one of first recruits in a campaign launched by hybrid agency Mr and...

The Relocation Agent Network (RAN) has been sold to a company featuring respected estate agency industry figures. RAN’s owner Dwellworks has completed...

Agents have been showing there is more to being charitable than just donating money. This weeks charitable exploits have a big focus...

Most agents are falling foul of anti-money laundering (AML) rules by accident but the sector could face more compliance-related fines by...

In tougher times – as is the case now, post-Covid, post-Brexit, cost-of-living crisis, war in Ukraine, etc – reputation and consumer...

The worst cost-of-living crisis in generations is everywhere we look and agents – and the property industry more widely – are...

For years now estate agents have been on a journey from digital infancy to digital maturity. But what does the future...

People in prominent positions in the housing industry aren’t always perfect role models. After all, Chris Pincher was housing minister for...

Technology developed for the estate agency industry has advanced and expanded seismically over the past decade as software vendors develop their...

For the record, this isn’t my last Industry Views for Estate Agent Today, although by the time you read this I'll be...

A veteran estate agent who set up his own business in one of Britain’s most popular locations is being mourned after...

An analysis of anti-money laundering compliance shows the estate agency industry as one of the UK’s worst performing sectors. And the expert...

Some agents say they have as many as one in 10 vendors taking their properties off the market and seeking to...

PropTech supplier tmgroup is to hold a six-part webinar series called Achieving Change: Think tomorrow, act today. The webinars - from linked...

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

The most senior Trading Standards officer policing the agency industry says he hopes the public will ask about referral fees in...

New research suggests that the estate agency industry has bucked the nationwide trend of business liquidation that he plagued other sectors...

Could estate and letting agents sell their branch office window space for third party advertising, above and beyond promoting the properties...

The online agency Strike - which has a business model selling homes for free and relying on referral fees for revenue...

Purplebricks share price collapsed by another 9.6 per cent on Friday. This means the agency has lost half of its share price...

I’ve never written the three letters ‘EPC’ more often than I have in the past week. Law changes for the private rental...

The Property Franchise Group, the agency industry’s largest franchise operation, has reported strong performance in recent months. Chief executive Gareth Samples has...

A recruitment expert says the estate agency industry has joined those sectors suffering from a shortage of staff. And in the case...

Pressure appears to be building for the recommendations of the Regulation of Property Agents working party finally to be implemented. It’s now...

PropTech industry giant epropservices has acquired Property Technology Ltd, better known to agents as marketing platform LeadPro. epropservices is the parent company of...

The man who admits he was “the acceptable face of Foxtons” in its golden period says he finally left because it...

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

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

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

One of the best known faces in estate agency has launched his own podcast - and is giving Estate Agent Today...

Students at a high school have been given an insight into the career opportunities in the property sector. The sixth formers from...

RVU - the ZPG-owned company that already owns Zoopla and independently-run price comparison and financial services - has acquired online mortgage broker Mojo...

Channel 4 Ventures is one of a number of investors who have collectively put the equivalent of £11m into the online...

Like many of you, I have watched a lot of football recently and I’ve enjoyed every minute. It has been an...

It may be the height of summer but the industry is still super-busy and new appointments continue to come thick and...

Peter Everett - a veteran High Street estate agent with a quarter of a century at LSL and a decade at...

For a match between two great rivals, the England-Scotland 0-0 draw on Friday may have brought both nations together. After all it’s...

A leading agent has been in touch with EAT to vent his frustration at the government for extending most of the...

As the high-street sees a dramatic increase in footfall1, a trend that is set to continue, agents are elevating their window...

In this week’s In Conversation Today, I am delighted to chat with Lucy Morton, Head of Residential Agency at JLL, about...

Sarah Edmundson, the chief executive of the Agents Together charity - set up by the Bruce brothers, Michael and Kenny -...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Purplebricks is now part of the mainstream landscape of British estate agency. There - I said it. An agency whose whispered name...

In a video interview for Estate Agent Today, property professional Chris Buckler speaks to Ed Mead,  all-round property guru and founder...

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

The extraordinary consolidation in the estate agency industry continues apace today with two of the biggest deals reaching critical points. Firstly Hunters’...

Agencies and suppliers today mark International Women’s Day with events and declarations shining a light on the achievements of female colleagues and...

Rarely do Budgets produce positive sentiments from the agency industry but Chancellor Rishi Sunak appears to have won widespread support for...

A leading market commentator says the acquisition of London agency Douglas & Gordon represents “a strategic step change” for Foxtons -...

A prominent conveyancer has hit out at the extension to the stamp duty holiday, which is now ending in late June and...

Much of the agency industry has reacted with delight at the extension of the stamp duty holiday deadline until June. Rightmove estimates...

The acquisition of Countrywide by Connells might just be the deal of the century in the British estate agency industry. That’s the...

When it comes to communications, Propertymark could do with a lot fewer confidentiality agreements and a lot more transparency. And I...

The new chief executive of Propertymark has declined to answer questions relating to the resignation of the NAEA president only half...

The deadline to complete the purchase of a home under the current Help to Buy scheme in England has been extended...

As the official advice over holidays descends into farce - can we go this year? if so at home or away?...

Scams are rife in the quick house buying sector with many companies seeking to take advantage of sellers in desperate situations. That’s...

Some 100 new apprentice estate agents are to be recruited in London. Dexters, which has 70 offices across the capital including 12...

You can watch the Parliamentary debate on a possible Stamp Duty Holiday extension here, using the streaming link at the bottom of...

A new working group on mental health in the agency industry is being set up following a poll revealing 62 per cent...

A trade body is warning that increased home working triggered by Coronavirus makes the agency industry more vulnerable than ever to...

Hello and welcome to the end of a busy, busy week for agency news.  It’s easy to assume the agency business is...

A survey conducted by charity Agents Together suggests a large majority of industry people would like to see more focus on...

MPs lobbied by agents to extend the stamp duty holiday are staying firmly on the fence with standard answers and no...

Mark Hayward, who was scheduled to retire at the end of this month, is to stay on at NAEA Propertymark as...

The agency industry may look back on this year and say: “Well...to be honest we didn’t really see it coming.” No, no,...

One of the highest profile figures in the agency industry - and a past critic of Purplebricks - has come out as a vociferous...

The agency industry’s new leaders for the coming year have expressed strong support for reform recommendations promoted by the Regulation of...

Hello and welcome to the end of the week - Friday means charity day, with an update on our industry’s latest...

The advertising watchdog has told the agency industry to clean up its act on four issues, with clarity over fees being...

One of the industry’s leading commentators says an unintended consequence of a possible Capital Gains Tax increase could be a bonus...

A former London estate agency owner and finalist on The Apprentice says he’s now returning to the sector to sell new-builds. Jamie...

As you may have seen over the weekend, the long-running Property Natter column – penned by Angels Media chief executive, Nat...

Your Move is to become the English Football League’s official Communities Supporter for the coming season. The agency is already an Official...

New guidance spells out how leniency can be exercised on agencies or individuals who inform on anti-competition cartels of the kind that...

The ESTAS awards service and the Agents Together foundation are entering into a partnership. That means all ESTAS customer agents will be...

“I’ve got 47 years of experience as an agent. Do I still have to get a qualification?” asked one attendee at...

The mandatory qualifications expected of agents have not been forgotten and will come into effect in two or three years. That’s the...