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If you’re thinking about becoming an Estate Agency franchise or converting your existing estate agency business to a franchise, here we...

The Federation of Independent Agents (FIA) has set a date for its annual conference. It will take place on 12 July 2024...

Liz Morrell meets Women in Estate Agency’s co-founder Liana Loporto-Browne Liana Loporto-Browne, managing director of LB Residential, fell in love with the...

The Guild of Property Professionals honoured its top agents last week. The network held its annual conference and awards at the QEII...

The Women in Estate Agency (WiEA) committee hosted its highly anticipated second annual conference last week. Held at The IET, Savoy Place...

Forget the Oscars, the biggest even in town last week was the Fine & Country International Annual Conference and Awards Gala. The...

Fine & Country is gearing up to host its International Annual Conference and Awards Gala titled ‘Dare to be Iconic’.  The event...

A variety of charities have received support from the property industry over the past week. If there are charitable endeavours you think...

UK property professionals should look to Norway when assessing how to improve the home buying process, a housing minister has claimed. Speaking...

The Guild of Property Professionals has set a date for its Annual Conference and Awards Ceremony on 22 March 2024. It will...

The Property Energy Professionals Association (PEPA) has opened its annual conference in Derby to estate agents and conveyancers for the first...

The Labour Party has committed to introducing the Regulation of Property Agents (ROPA) rules if it wins next year’s General Election. Shadow...

Home ownership has become a “luxury for the few rather than a privilege for the many”, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer...

The Women in Estate Agency (WiEA) group is launching a webinar series. The first will go live on Friday 13 October at...

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has announced Post Partner as its latest affiliate member. Post Partner offers a range of document management tools...

Fine & Country has welcomed its first Cypriot agency to the upmarket network. Purple International, which was established in September 2007, is...

Hundreds of property professionals from international premium estate agency Fine & Country gathered in London for the brand’s annual conference and...

Consolidation and industry challenges are among the key themes to be tackled at The Conveyancing Association’s (CA) annual conference next month...

The Conveyancing Association has set a date for its 2023 Annual Conference. It will take place in London on 7 February 2023...

The chair of the Council of Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) has warned firms that it shouldn’t be seen as a ‘light-touch’ regulator. Speaking at...

Housing minister Lee Rowley is set to make one of his first official public appearances at a Conservative Party fringe event...

Property expert Kate Faulkner has been announced as the host of this year’s Society of Licensed Conveyancers’ annual conference. The event is...

Propertymark’s partnership with MoveIQ has already attracted attention from more than 250,000 consumers and potential property buyers and sellers. The agency trade...

Spicerhaart’s annual conference and awards ceremony returned earlier this month after a three-year hiatus caused by the pandemic. The company’s two day...

Some 86 Bronze, Silver, Gold and Special Awards have been presented to agents in the Guild off Property Professionals at its...

The coming annual conference of Fine & Country, being held next month, is to have Boris Johnson’s brother as a keynote...

The annual NAEA Propertymark national conference is back in 2022. “The NAEA Propertymark National Conference is such an exciting event where property...

The Relocation Agent Network has given awards to its winning agents, at a black tie dinner at its annual conference in...

The Relocation Agent Network has unveiled its speakers for its national conference and exhibition early next month. Called RAN Live! 2021 it...

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has hinted for the second time that he is looking towards property to help fund his...

Conferences, events and awards dinners are a hugely important part of the property calendar, bringing the great and the good of...

They are the names we hear about often, pushing for this or seeking clarifications on that. They are the representatives of...

The Property Ombudsman has announced that it will postpone its annual conference, which was to have been on June 18, until...

In the last few Natters I’ve focused on the slow death of local newspaper advertising, and how many agents are now...

Trials of reservation agreements for buyers and sellers have been delayed until the late spring. Statements last year from the Ministry of Housing, Communities...

The annual conference of the National Association of Estate Agents takes place on February 27 - the date when the future...

Lord Sebastian Coe is to be the keynote speaker at the Fine & Country annual conference in February. Known most recently for...

Last winter, Agents Giving had a fantastic response to our Winter Coat Drive, which saw the collection of more than 1,500...

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

With Easter now upon us (happy Easter, by the way, and hope you’re enjoying the long weekend, the Easter eggs and...

OnTheMarket will be “blanketing the commercial radio landscape” as well as engaging in sports and agency industry sponsorship programmes over the...

The head of an online agency has accused the National Association of Estate Agents’ conference of being “a sea of old...

Every staff member at a branch of the Connells-owned William H Brown agency has been promoted, after it was voted one...

The Property Ombudsman’s annual conference is to hear from the chair of the government’s ‘Property Agents Working Group’ - just days...

Kit Malthouse has been making headlines this week, but – in keeping with his tenure as Housing Minister so far -...

When it comes to letting a property, it is important that landlords and renters have faith in their agent. The more...

Alongside hundreds of agents and suppliers, I recently attended the Guild of Property Professionals’ annual conference. As ever, it was a great...

Politicians and officials are studying a ‘model’ two page reservation agreement drawn up by a law firm as a possible way...

Fine & Country has revealed that it is the fastest-growing premium agency in the UK. Quoting research from TwentyCi - the business...

It’s been revealed that the National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team is to deliver new guidelines to agents for referral fees...

The government policies and enforcement plans for anti-money laundering measures are set to take centre stage at next month’s annual conference...

The civil servant leading work to reform the house buying has revealed key areas of government thinking - with a ban on...

The man who is leading the government’s efforts to reform the house buying process will be one of the speaker at...

Fine & Country’s annual conference in the New Year is to have former England rugby player Matt Dawson MBE as the...

The man responsible for defining John Lewis’ legendary customer service, and preserving its Never Knowingly Undersold pledge, is to address the...

Sales of holiday homes could be hit as a result of a new £560m tax proposal put forward by Labour.  Under the...

Last time out I looked at the growing importance of content, social media and design – but these should only form...

The death of traditional TV – where viewers sit down together to watch shows at defined times – has been much...

Welcome to the latest Agents Do Charity - your opportunity to let the rest of the industry know exactly what great...

Thanks once again for your contributions to this weekly round-up of agents’ good works; we love covering these stories which show...

NAEA Propertymark is to introduce bursaries designed to support novice staff deemed to be showing exceptional potential to attend the association’s...

A large part of the DCLG’s Call for Evidence on the home buying and selling process focuses on the role of...

The Guild of Property Professionals is partnering with the ESTAS to introduce greater customer service elements into its 2018 awards. Gold and...

One thing that can be guaranteed in the property world each year is a range of conferences and awards dinners. Very...

Excuse the puntastic (or not) title, but as you’ve no doubt already deciphered I took a trip northwards a couple of...

Housing minister Gavin Barwell says the government will provide “substantial investment” to ensure more transparency in leasehold tenure. “We are determined to...

They say you can prove anything with statistics, and 115% of the time I suspect they’re right – that was an...

I write this during the week that David Cameron resigned as an MP – it is quite startling how quickly politics...

The Conveyancing Association is setting up a working group to consider how to increase transparency, cut unnecessary delays and costs, and...

Tomorrow, June 8, is the closing date for submissions to the Labour Party’s latest consultation on housing policy: it is seeking...

It’s nearly June – June! – already. Seriously, where has this year gone? This means summer is nearly upon us, with a...

At the end of January I was one of the many people stood listening to the presentation that our co-founder Rachel...

We’ve enjoyed a bit of an Indian summer this week. Not sure it makes up for one of the coldest and...