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The predictions game can be tricky. Sometimes you just don’t know whether to stick or twist. As reported in Estate Agent Today...

The real estate industry is one of the industries hardest hit by falling numbers of self-employed, having seen the third-largest decline...

The number of home sellers entering the market increased by almost a quarter in the two weeks following the Bank of...

Welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity, our chance to salute those who do so much to help others. If your agency...

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

In this latest article from the team at Iceberg Digital, they discuss the annual Estate Agency X event, titled 'Mastering the...

In today's rapidly evolving property market, the focus on reducing transaction times for individual properties is at an all-time high. Various...

Rightmove is launching a new national marketing campaign to coincide with what is hoped to be a busy autumn selling season. The...

Self-employed agency brand eXp UK has surpassed the 600 member agent threshold. It comes after recruiting a further 100 agents since the...

Agency stock has hit a seven-year high but realistic pricing is essential, Zoopla warns. The portal’s latest House Price Index for August...

Savills has strengthened its senior team with the appointment of Tommy Newbigging to lead its new homes department across Essex and parts...

Knight Frank has left the door open to revise its house price forecasts after the chancellor’s first Budget in October. Chancellor Rachel...

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

Propertymark’s regional conferences are returning in November, promising to help members keep up with the latest legislative changes. As part of the...

With Labour’s election victory, a new EPC target has been announced. In mid-July, the new Secretary of State for Energy Security and...

Estate agents working with international individuals can face a significant risk of encountering money laundering activities. The complex nature of cross-border...

The construction and property industry has the second highest tenure in the UK, with employees remaining with a company for 4.4...

The Housing Scotland Bill must be changed to reflect reality. Following a recent report by the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA) which...

Welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity, our chance to salute those who do so much to help others. If your agency...

As the property market gets ready for a busy autumn market, ESTAS has launched its Summer of Success Stories. This is an...

Movemnt is targeting getting half of Alto’s client base to use its property onboarding and sales progression platform by the middle...

In the current rental market, where legislative changes and tax reforms loom large, many landlords are expressing doubt about the viability...

Propertymark has issued a reminder to agents about anti-money laundering (AML) compliance as HMRC declared fines of more than £1.6m for...

Savills has expanded its residential sales team with two new appointments in South Buckinghamshire. Adam Harris and Sophie Male have joined the...

Northern Ireland portal PropertyPal has announced a strategic merger with Propertynews, uniting two of the country’s leading property websites.  Both brands will...

Estate agency CRM Alto has been given a mobile upgrade. Alto on mobile already lets agents view their calendar, manage their diary...

Average asking prices for new property listings had their usual summer drop this month but Rightmove is predicting a busy Autumn. The...

Estate agents have more work to do when it comes to customer service and securing leads, a mystery shopping exercise has...

Industry figure Charlie Lamdin is set to launch a new crowd-sourced Public House Price Index as he declares war against property...

More than half of mortgaged first-time buyers received support from the Bank of Mum and Dad in 2023, the highest proportion...

More than 20 property organisations and professionals have been named as finalists in the upcoming 2024 Variety North West PROPs awards. The...

Agents can now access pre-populated material information forms through iamproperty. Users of iamproperty’s movebutler platform can use the feature, helping save time...

I have been an agent for 25 years and have represented a large corporate agency and Anderson Rose (my own independent...

Welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity, our chance to salute those who do so much to help others. If your agency...

When I first started working as an estate agent there was one thing I never saw coming… and that was having...

Leaders Romans Group (LRG) has acquired Milton Keynes brand Alan Francis Estate Agents. The estate agency was founded in 1999 by Jeremy...

An exciting new collaboration between TVPN, EstateApps and Paul Long is set to transform the way you advertise your property listings...

An online travel agent has come to the rescue for an estate agent’s fundraiser to give a local road sweeper a...

You won’t need me to tell you, but transactions are taking a l-o-n-g time right now. Figures from a digital information service...

A cross-industry collaboration aims to showcase how working horizontally across key stages of the home-buying and selling journey can positively impact...

Luxury estate agent Daniel Daggers, aka #MrSuperPrime, has been named as the keynote speaker for the Propertymark Trust’s PropX fundraising event. Daggers,...

Fine & Country has been recognised as the most recommended national estate agency brand for the second consecutive year.  YouGov research among more...

An estate agent’s kind attempt to raise money for a local road sweeper to have a much-deserved holiday have been derailed...

A new estate agency in Hampshire is celebrating expansion after securing more than £40m of property listings in its first half...

Councils are warning agents to abide by the rules following complaints from residents and businesses about the positions of For Sale...

Rightmove is to be the headline sponsor of ITV’s music show The Voice UK, starring veteran crooner Tom Jones. The portal says...

The director of a London estate agency claims a buyer needs an income of £100,000 a year to purchase a home...

Now that a new government has been elected and interest rates appear to be on their way down, many buyers who...

Google estimates that 70% of a customer’s buying decision is made online before they contact you for the first time. And who...

A prominent westcountry agent has joined Moveli, which operates the self-employed broker model. Jonathan Mowday, previously of Stags in Devon, has joined...

A prominent financial analyst is warning that the hopes for a housing market resurgence over the autumn could be derailed by...

Software platform Alto Marketplace says it now has no fewer than 16 integrations across 13 categories including anti-money laundering, buyer onboarding...

There’s nothing more frustrating than losing a sale at the last minute due to details that could have been disclosed upfront....

The share price of Rightmove dropped some 6% yesterday on the back of an announcement that it was terminating the listings...

An agency that’s been part of a community for 55 years has been snapped up by a rival firm. Reed Evans &...

New figures from Connells suggest the company remains Britain’s biggest estate agent, handling one in 10 transactions. And in its latest report...

Estate agents are being asked to do too much when it comes to material information rules but there appears to be...

Research from Zoopla shows that two-bed terraced homes are the fastest-selling property type in England and Wales, with a sale agreed...

One of Spicerhaart’s top performers has been rewarded with promotion to the estate agency director role covering Essex. Dan Augustin had previously...

At last! Well, they say small is beautiful and, if you’re in the property sector right now, you’d better believe it! The...

Estate agents are braced for a busy Autumn selling season after the first interest rate cut since March 2020. The Bank of...

Self-employed agency brand eXp UK has agreed a listings deal with OnTheMarket (OTM), claiming that the CoStar-backed portal will overtake Rightmove...

Industry bodies are seeking agent views on material information rules. Propertymark, together with TDS, The Guild of Property Professionals, Property Redress Scheme,...

Welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity, our chance to salute those who do so much to help others. If your agency...

Fine & Country is holding a recruitment open evening in its flagship office on Park Lane in Mayfair, London next month.  The...

Fewer sales than usual were registered by HMRC for June, official figures show. The latest property transactions statistics from the taxman - based on...

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

The majority of UK adults find buying a home more stressful than selling but many are unaware of who an estate...

By Mike Bilboe, Face For Business Buying or selling a home can be one of the most stressful and uncertain times for...

Lomond has acquired one of North Yorkshire’s oldest independent agencies, Joplings The deal will see Lomond’s Linley and Simpson brand take over...

Foxtons’ market share for exchanges rose by 30% in the first half of the year as the London agent revealed double-digit...

Fine & Country has expanded further into North Yorkshire and County Durham with a new team headed up by property duo James...

Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered property app Jitty has surpassed 75,000 users since its launch earlier this year. Jitty, coined the ‘Instagram for homes,’...

The UK housing market is heating up, with buyers now agreeing to pay 96.8% of asking price, Zoopla claims. The figure is...

The number of mortgage approvals for house purchase fell for the third consecutive month in June but property professionals remain optimistic...

Estate agents remain largely split on whether Labour’s General Election win will be positive for the housing market.  A survey of almost...

An increase in agents, fees and rising take-up of its extra packages contributed to a 6% annual rise in average revenue...

Agents pocketed record amounts of fees from auction with iampropety during the second quarter, research suggests. It comes as iamproperty’s Online Auction...

“The housing crisis will be solved using technology.” Or so I read somewhere this week. This notion that technology is the panacea...

The Law Society may have seen-off a no-confidence vote but disgruntled solicitors have vowed to keep up the pressure on the...

IT’s very difficult to predict anything in the property sector. But one thing I can predict with total certainty is we will...

Welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity, our chance to salute those who do so much to help others. If your agency...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Paul Halliwell and my VMC business card says “Executive...

Further consumer education is needed to remove the stigma of auction property sales, iamproperty co-founder Jamie Cooke claims. Cooke has suggested TV...

OnTheMarket (OTM) owner CoStar has reiterated its aim to help the portal displace Rightmove. Regulatory filings from CoStar Group in the US,...

With more than 25 years’ experience as an estate agent, Liza Daniels heads up our outsourced call service, Managed MovePal. She...

A vote of no-confidence in the Law Society over material information rules has failed. The Property Lawyers Action Group (PLAG), had arranged...

Self-employed agency brand eXp UK has unveiled a buyer representation programme, spearheaded by industry trainer Richard Rawlings. Its agents will be able...

A lack of cashflow is stopping agents from adopting technology to boost their business, it has been claimed. Proptech firm iamproperty recently...

The total value of the UK residential housing market is now worth £8.67 trillion, according to Savills, with the value of...

According to Landmark Information Group’s recent Insights Report, both sales and purchases have seen substantial increases in the time taken from...

Moverly’s upfront information services have been integrated with technology platform Reapit.  Agents using Reapit can now access Moverly's comprehensive material information solution,...

LSL Estate Agency Franchising is home to one of the UK’s best-known estate agent brands - Your Move. There are several...

HMRC and the Treasury have been urged to improve guidance on anti-money laundering (AML). Agency trade body Propertymark has suggested that while...

Zoopla has invested in new online content and personalised emails using artificial intelligence to drive demand for estate agents. The portal said...

In this latest article from the team at Iceberg Digital, they uncover the common challenges faced by Estate Agency owners at...

Manning Stainton has committed to nurturing the rising stars of the property industry in Yorkshire through a summer training academy with...

Lead instruction generation tool Spectre has added social media marketing capabilities to its platform. It is being delivered through an exclusive partnership...

Two years of rising interest rates, the withdrawal of first-time buyer support, planning delays and a string of broken promises has...

Complete guidance on Material Information parts A, B and C has been live in the property industry since last November. While...