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

Yopa is achieving almost £13,000 more than the average agent on a typical £450,000 home, the online agency brand claims. Using TwentyCi...

Single first-time buyers need to save for almost 6.5 years or 76 months to raise a 10% deposit and cover moving...

UK estate agents receive the lowest sales commission across eight of the world’s biggest property markets, new research suggests. The analysis suggests...

Rising numbers of property owners are dropping the asking price of their homes in a bid to secure a quick sale.  Latest...

A third of those opting to move home in the current market are downsizers, research claims. However, it’s not the increased cost...

We all want more transactions - the Holy Grail when it comes to agencies’ bottom lines - but an interesting aspect...

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

The level of sales agreed has fallen below its normal market trend for this time of year but the “right-priced” properties...

Asking prices have fallen on a monthly basis at this time of year for the first time since June 2017 as...

It’s a tough old road for today’s first-time buyers, with house prices and mortgage interest rates much higher than they were...

The average age of a UK home mover has dropped but the number of actual moves has hit a record low,...

Cooling house prices are resulting in the average estate agent losing around £441 of per month, research suggests. Hybrid agent Nested has...

Estate agents across Britain sold 5.3 homes on average each month in 2022, new research suggests. Analysis by Nested has found there...

A Keller Williams agent has revealed how he gets clients to happily pay 2% and he is calling on others to...

Estate agents are charging movers fees of 1.4% on average to sell their homes, new research claims. An article by consumer watchdog...

Despite all the recent speculation surrounding the housing market after the badly-received mini-Budget and regular talk of a possible slowdown, new...

Purplebricks has launched a new advertising campaign that brings back its controversial “save yourself from commisery” slogan. The new radio and TV...

The average age at which someone buys their first home has risen to 32, up from 29 in 2011 and is...

A regional estate agency that markets homes without charging the vendor is set to expand next year. Midlands-based Chosen Home explains its...

There’s been a dramatic 48.4 per cent fall in the number of property sales between September and October, reflecting the end...

A comparison website dealing with estate agency charges says commission varies hugely across 20 major cities of the UK.  GetAgent looked at...

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

Agent wages have been in the news this week, with boastful claims from a number of self-employed businesses about the sums...

An agency says individual agents operating as self-employed can earn up to £64,000 more per year than fully-employed counterparts. Nested says the average UK...

A new forecasting model from a consumer website is predicting that house prices will rise by an average 30 per cent...

Rightmove has reported a dramatic bounce back in its fortunes - and it’s making more money from agents even than before...

Our long-awaited ‘Freedom Day’ approaches. From Monday all of the restrictions, introduced since the Covid-19 pandemic made an impact across the...

A supplier of virtual viewings claims physical viewings cost £233 of an agent’s time on average - and that’s without fuel...

Estate agency comparison website GetAgent has calculated the typical fees charged to vendors in different parts of the country. It says agents...

I recently saw a fly-through video for a home on sale for well over £2m. The imagery was good (made better by...

It’s 12 years since we opened our doors with the Fine and Country estate agency in Drayton on April 1 2009. The...

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

A quarter of agents say they intend to recruit new staff in the next 12 months, following on from the surge...

An open letter from Boomin chief executive Michael Bruce shows how fierce the competition is going to be in the portal field...

The number of people moving home dropped by almost a third in the first half of 2020, as the global pandemic...

Agents’ declining income - the result of the lockdown and the collapse in transaction volumes - has been revealed for the...

A well-known saying in estate agency is that first-time buyers are the sellers of the future. If we believe this to...

New research of the buying habits of first-time buyers in the UK we’ve undertaken here at reallymoving.com shows that Shared Ownership...

What an interesting few days it’s been. I don’t think the topic of this week’s column is doing anything good for our...

Two very different views on Brexit have come forward in the past 24 hours from different players in the industry. First off,...

Young homebuyers want tech-savvy, astute and attentive estate agents who are able to handle their complex requirements via a range of...

The average age of a first-time buyer in the UK is 27, according to research from Nested.com. The online estate agency says...

A recent survey conducted by comparison website GetAgent found that traditional high street agents have been given a firm thumbs up...

In recent years, estate and letting agents have been faced with a series of tough challenges to absorb and react to. There...

As we move closer to the halfway point of 2019, property market conditions for agents and their clients remain challenging. Brexit may...

Equity release, seen by many agents as a reason why fewer older homeowners are downsizing these days, has reported more growth...

Purchasing a property. It’s a key life goal that so many Millennials aspire to - yet one that has become frustratingly...

The head of a For Sale By Owner website claims that some agents are making “vast amounts” of up to £7,000...

New figures from the Mortgage Advice Bureau give an insight into the changing demographics of home buyers and buy to let...

Almost one in five online sales valuations generated by The ValPal Network over a two-year period resulted in a completion with...

Young adults rather than the older generations are driving demand in the waterside living market, according to Strutt & Parker. The agent's...

A survey suggests that the average fine incurred by estate agents for apparent non-compliance with anti-money laundering regulations is £11,842. Research by...

A major industry supplier has reminded estate and letting agents that they have to check their responsibilities and systems ahead of...

Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of...

The average cost of moving home in the UK was £9,472 in 2016 according to a survey by the Centre for...

This actually happened - the names of the guilty have been withheld to protect the innocent. I live in Spain, Marbella actually,...

There are more first-time buyers (FTBs) finding a way on to the property ladder than at any time since the Financial...

Lots of people buy new-build due to the perceived lack of hassle with maintenance, as they are built to the latest...

The housing market ended 2016 on a positive note, according to the latest report from the National Association of Estate Agents...

The head of a new ‘disruptive’ online mortgage service says 2017 will see more major estate agency and other property businesses...

Listening to all the coverage of the tenant fee ban, all I hear is consumer groups talking about how some agents...

A conveyancing firm says the buyers at former retirement hotspots such as seaside towns are getting younger because mainstream purchasers are obliged to...

The average cost of moving house now is £10,996 after an alleged 26 per cent rise in typical estate agency fees...

Access to labour is a continuing problem for the construction industry and may worsen if Britain leaves the European Union, according...

One of the candidates for the deputy leadership of the Labour Party says she wants pensioners to invest in bonds which...

Haart estate agency claims average UK property prices have risen 5.6 per cent annually and 0.9 per cent in March, to...