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The Buying Solution (TBS) has promoted Will Watson as the new head of the buying agency. TBS is the independent buying consultancy...

The great grandson of the founder of Jackson-Stops has returned to the sales side of the industry after running his own...

Female agents have shared their view on representation and opportunities in the sector to mark International Women’s Day. Industry data shows while...

Specialist buying agency Recoco Property Search has appointed former director of Strutt & Parker’s country house department Andrew Cronan to strengthen...

Prime buying agency Black Brick has seen cash buyers double this year. Data from the buying agent shows 66% of clients have...

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

A media agency that has worked with brands such as Toyota and TalkTalk has been appointed to revive Purplebricks' fortunes. Purplebricks has...

Newly established prime London property consultancy Tyburn, has reported the completion of multiple deals worth in excess of £60m in its...

The flat market in prime central London (PCL) is undergoing a resurgence, a buying agent claims. Residential and investment buying agency London...

Harding Green has welcomed its second franchisee. Benjamin Scrace, who joined the broker model estate agency Harding Green in July as a...

If there’s one thing that received a boost as a result of Covid and lockdowns, it’s podcasts – which reached whole...

Buying agency Stacks Property Search is reporting g rising buyer demand for wrecks requiring significant levels of renovation. The agency says that...

A leading buying agency says that while prime central London’s property market shows clear signs of recovery, a weak area remains...

Buying agency Middleton Advisors has made a commitment to go carbon neutral - and its method may be a template for...

A new league table of earnings by estate agents, based on basic salary and commission combined, suggests that UK agents earn...

Even at the height of summer (or the British wet season, as some call it) there are substantial numbers of job...

One of the country’s longest-standing independent buying agencies has rebranded. Haringtons, established in 2004 and covering both London and the country, has...

Books about property are, relatively speaking, commonplace - books by estate agents are far less so, hence the interest in The...

Buying agents level the playing field with estate agents according to Phil Spencer - the TV property expert who started his...

Welcome to another working week and with it, our regular update on appointments and moves within our industry. Please let us know...

One of the biggest TV hits of lockdown has been the Netflix show Call My Agent! It’s a surprise success, perhaps, because...

Pressure is building for widespread property tax reform beyond short term issues regarding stamp duty. Many MPs in this week’s 65-minute special...

Welcome to the start of another week and this catch up on the latest moves within the agency world. Everyone featured here...

The buying and property management service run by high profile agent Jo Eccles has changed its name. SP Property Group has now...

We are on the threshold in December with the pandemic still dominating but we’re delighted there is still positive jobs news...

One of the country’s top buying agents is advising purchasers and vendors to avoid online agencies and 'bucketshop' conveyancers. Edward Heaton - founder...

A highly-experienced former Savills agent has launched his own buying agency focusing on the prime country market in Surrey. The new company,...

A buying agency targeting what it calls the “prime and super-prime” London market is offering clients not only a sourcing service, but also...

A leading buying agency is warning sellers and buyers not to jump the gun and abandon London in the belief that...

Agents have spoken out angrily against any uncertainty in the market caused by government leaks about future stamp duty changes. In recent...

You know the old saying - a dog is an agent’s best friend?  Well that’s clearly true for this trio of agencies...

There’s a growing trend for estate agents to quit big-name corporates and either go independent or join US-style brokerages, a top...

A second prominent agent has broken cover to say Coronavirus is slowing the market. Jess Simpson - an ex-Savills and ex-Strutt and...

Buying agents are making waves about the hit on asking prices suffered by properties that have been flooded or are at...

Some buying agents have batted away the many signs of an improving housing market but one says the Boris Bounce is...

A new buying agency has launched, aimed at well-heeled purchasers and sellers.  Called Xander Prime it says it is “acting on behalf...

One of the legends of property journalism, Anne Ashworth, has left her position as editor of The Times’ highly regarded Bricks...

Prospective property buyers have been provided with several reasons why they should stop delaying purchasing decisions due to Brexit uncertainty. Buying agency...

A former sales agent with a historic property name and heritage has launched his own buying agency after becoming 'frustrated' with...

A new analysis of stamp duty suggests that a cut of around a third in SDLT could produce a 40 per...

Hello and welcome to the start of a new week and a new Property Jobs Today column, bringing you the industry’s...

One of the country’s most respected agents has advised the agency industry to treat Boris Johnson’s pledges with real caution. Black Brick buying...

Welcome to the latest edition of Property Jobs Today. It's the time of the week when you can catch up with...

Properties sold off market by a London agency found buyers more quickly, and for nearer the asking price, than those on the...

Hello - it’s that time of the week again when we celebrate the agency industry’s fantastic fund-raising. We were delighted that our...

Welcome back to the latest edition of Property Jobs Today (PJT) after a Bank Holiday break. Each week, we round up...

It’s a new index but it tells an old story - how prime central London prices have dropped significantly since their...

A design and renovation business has set up a property sourcing business which will find homes requiring renovation. What’s more, it claims...

A house in Mayfair that was sold for £19.175m in 2014 and put on the market this year at £25m has...

A London buying agent has called for a second referendum on Britain’s EU membership, suggesting that it would give more certainty...

Hello and welcome to a new working week, which means your chance to catch up on the key moves in our...

“Do we really need another tax?” - that’s the question from a new buying agency, querying why the government wants to...

A buying agency says it has secured a prime London property for one of its clients at almost 40 per cent...

The former head of Humberts’ country house department, who has spent 30 years selling homes, has switched to buying. Jeremy Campbell-Harris was...

Data from the buying agency Black Brick reveals just how big an impact has been made by the additional homes stamp...

A leading buying agency is warning about asking prices that are higher than those acceptable to mortgage companies who therefore down-value...

Wary buyers reluctant to risk buying a premium-priced property in the volatile prime central London market are adopting a perhaps-surprising tactic...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity - and just because it’s half term, don’t think the industry has...

London-focussed Buying agency Black Brick has launched a specialist service to cater for divorcing couples. The company - increasingly regarded by some...

A central London buying agent says she was once offered a bribe by an estate agent to try to persuade a...

A leading buying agency says the Brexit transition deal will help central London’s fragile sales market. Caspar Harvard-Walls, a partner in the...

As the Easter sales weekend kicks off, the head of a prominent buying agency says estate agents confuse the true valuation...

TV property expert Phil Spencer is launching an online advice service for buyers and tenants, including offering guidance on the specific...

High-profile buying agency Black Brick has highlighted the scale of reductions now being made by sellers of some trophy properties in...

The well-respected buying agency Black Brick has revealed the scale of discounts it secures on prime properties being sold for different...

Respected buying agency Black Brick says there is evidence that prices in prime central London may be stabilising and transactions volumes...

Regional property portal MoviNorth says it plans to secure additional investment to expand its coverage by the end of 2017. The portal...

Black Brick says its turnover in 2016 tripled to £3m with new business so far this year focussing increasingly on owner-occupier...

Every week we remain in awe of the charity fund-raising undertaken by our industry - and often forgotten by those who...

The buying agency Black Brick says 38 per cent of its transactions the first half of the year were off market...

Being a leading world-class city comes at a price – they are the most expensive for occupiers and the most lucrative...

The aftermath of Easter and shock announcement of a snap General Election have done little to stop the industry making plenty...

Property Vision, one of the country’s oldest and most respected buying agencies, has added its voice to those saying that stamp...

A new regional property portal aiming to sign up 80 per cent of agencies in Yorkshire says it is unconcerned about...

A leading buying agency says there might be at least one upside to having The Donald in the White House -...

Another agency says price reductions of 10 per cent or more are often found in some prime central London areas such...

It is fair to say that 2016 is a year full of surprises. Anyone who had the foresight to predict Britain...

Estate agents and market analysts have spent 24 hours expressing their nervousness over the repercussions of Donald Trump's victory in the...

An agency that has opened a new office in the controversial Nine Elms area of London has published research claiming that...

Stacks Property Search & Acquisition has become the first independent buying agency to become a member of the Royal Institute of...

Housebuilder St Modwen has been forced to write down the value of the landmark Nine Elms regeneration scheme because “recent transactional...

A leading London buying agency is warning that some areas of prime central London could face a downturn following the Brexit...

One estate agency leader - you’d all recognise his name - described the victory of the Leave camp in the referendum...

One of the country’s leading high-end buying agencies says it has ‘mystery shopped’ Purplebricks - with mixed results. For while it found its...

The stamp duty increases introduced in late 2014 are still having an impact on prime areas of London and have heralded...

A newspaper article claims that Rightmove and Zoopla are “awash” with what it calls “the unofficial resales of flats in developments...

The latest government house price index from the Office for National Statistics shows that house prices across the UK rose by...

It’s time to take a pause, to reflect and put into context—and what a year it has been for our industry...

Two of London’s highest profile buying agency operations have announced new team members. Prime Purchase - the buying arm of Savills -...

The recent changes in stamp duty means some investors in high value locations like London are splitting their purchases to reduce...

Within 12 hours of Greece defaulting on repayment of part of a loan to the International Monetary Fund, a prime central...

Jonathan Hopper, the managing director of Garrington Property Finders - the search agency originally founded by Phil Spencer - has joined...

Stacks Property Search, one of Britain’s largest buying agencies, has entered the debates over portals and the use of DIY house...

One of the UK’s best-known buying agencies has launched a recruitment drive to boost its London operation.  Stacks Property Search, the UK’s...