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HSBC UK has joined forces with the Open Property Data Association (OPDA) to help improve the homebuying process through the sharing...

It’s so good to see housing at the top of the government’s agenda for change. Finally! The housing crisis has been met...

We’ve probably all had enough of people campaigning in recent weeks but I have to admit to one disappointment with the...

A mixture of buyer reluctance to take on high mortgage rates, the availability of home loans and inefficiencies in the homebuying...

Homebuyers are being gazumped due to lengthy property chains and delays in securing a mortgage, it’s been claimed. Research from Market Financial...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak yesterday confirmed a date for the General Election. Voters will go the polls on 4 July, meaning the...

The task of obtaining material information is more difficult than it appears for estate agents, Rightmove has warned. The portal revealed in...

Purplebricks has launched launched a mortgage divison, known formally as Purplebricks Mortgages Limited This will see a team of more than 150...

In this latest article from the team at Iceberg Digital, they discuss how the digital realm is transforming Estate Agency.   The...

A veteran PropTech figure with extensive experience of working at leading estate and sales agencies has told the government to act...

The jargon and complicated house moving process is deterring as many as 2.2m owners from entering the market, claims Zoopla.  The portal...

The Home Buying and Selling Group (HBSG) has arranged a new pilot scheme for a group of lawyers and conveyancers to...

When we talk in general terms about the UK housing market, we tend to draw a picture of generality. Facts and figures...

OneDome has launched a new advertising campaign along the theme of  '#PaperbagorOneDome'.  The campaign will feature mini campaigns that aim to humorously...

Northern Ireland property portal Propertynews.com has launched a bespoke artificial intelligence assistant to improve the homebuying process for both buyers and...

The ripple effect of a property sale that falls through is, without exception, one of the most frustrating and disappointing events...

Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) has become the latest member of the Open Property Data Association (OPDA), committing to help speed up...

In my last Natter, I recounted the story of how Angels media bounced back from the 2008 financial crisis by launching...

Most agents agree that providing upfront information at the very start of the homebuying process would improve the buying and selling...

After years of saving, hard work, and market watching, being able to view and make an offer on a property is...

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

A new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered property portal has launched its app with an initial focus on Bath. The brand, called Jitty, aims...

The recent cyber attack on CTS left around 80 conveyancing firms across the country commercially paralysed as the harm to their...

Visits to Rightmove have fallen by 18% in the past year as high mortgage rates hit the national market from the...

It was actor Charlies Sheen who said: ‘I have one speed. I have one gear. Go!’ The same might not be said...

The Autumn Statement ended up being silent on Stamp Duty reforms and direct housing market stimulus but there were some nuggets...

The conveyancing process has been highlighted as a key pain point among buyers in the property transaction process. Research by anti-money laundering...

The Labour Party has announced it will be hosting an emergency mortgage summit this week. The summit, happening in London tomorrow, is...

When it comes to the usage, and benefits of, providing upfront material information to all those involved in the home buying...

At the recent Home Buying & Selling Group UFI Roadshow in London, it was gratifying to note that panel members and...

Yes it should….and we’re getting closer. Where there’s no chain involved, here at AVRillo, we can be ready to exchange contracts in...

Taking a proactive approach with viewing generation can increase foot flow through properties and generate more offers, and ultimately close more...

  It's not often that I have sympathy for our glorious leaders – those who set the rules by which we all...

Collaborative Conveyancing has won an Innovate UK grant in partnership with the Hartree Centre research facility and completed a fundraising round...

Surveying is traditionally a male-dominated profession, and many women who have worked in the profession for many years report that at...

Is it really just a year ago that we were nervously wondering whether yet another Christmas would be Covid-affected? Little did we...

Here at Angels Media towers, we’re always keen to get the biggest names in the business on board for interviews. And that...

A report earlier this month warned that conveyancing firms should stress test their businesses for a sharp decline in work volumes. These businesses...

With reform of the home buying and selling process as crucial as it's ever been, and disrupters like Coadjute and PEXA...

The Government is being urged to take the lead on homebuying reform as conveyancers warn that recruitment issues and lawyer burn-out...

Zoopla chief executive Charlie Bryant has revealed aspirations for the portal to play a key role in the home buying process. Speaking...

The Land Registry has set out ambitious plans to automate up to 70% of all updates to its register by 2025...

July was the most active month for home sales so far this year but agents acknowledge that a slowdown is coming. The...

Conveyancing software provider Smoove is set to rollout a new flagship estate agency product following a successful trial phase. Smoove Start was...

We are only a fortnight away from having a new Prime Minister, following a contest in which housing has played a...

Thanks to a relentless market, the property market has enjoyed a purple patch over the past few years. But now that...

Stipendium, the platform that simplifies life’s complex events, has compiled a guide to submitting an offer and exchanging contracts, to help buyers...

The other day I read a story here on Estate Agent Today, which was both depressing and inspiring. It reported a study...

In the third part of this exclusive series with Homesearch’s chief operating officer, Sam Hunter, Angels Media’s Lee Dahill questions him...

First-time buyers have admitted to feeling overwhelmed or scared to talk to estate agents about the homebuying process. A study of 2,000...

Why the urgency? Because the appetite is strong. Research by the Conveyancing Association reports that 98% of consumers are overwhelmingly in...

In this Q&A, I catch up with Jesper With-Fogstrup, chief executive officer of Smoove (formerly ULS Technology until a very recent...

You’re probably up to your neck at the start of a busy spring market but I’d hope there’s one thing most...

A government aim to improve the home buying process by making Local Land Charge search results instantly available is well underway,...

The overwhelming majority of buyers want the gazumping to be made illegal, a poll shows. Some 89 per cent think it’s wrong...

The OneDome group websites - OneDome itself and nethouseprices - are launching their largest ever advertising campaign. It will target buyers and...

Yesterday we reported on how the Chartered Institute of Taxation was warning of problems with new HMRC stamp duty rules to...

HM Revenue & Customs has been warned by financial experts that its latest crackdown on stamp duty abuse could make the...

The government’s Levelling Up White Paper, released today, contains an unexpected and shock commitment - to create a new 'lite' version...

Agents are losing tens of thousands of pounds each - in some cases even more - because of the volume of...

Will he stay or will he go? You don’t need me to say who ‘he’ is - it’s the only story...

A survey suggests that an overwhelming proportion of estate agents believe the government should make the provision of upfront property information...

Estate Agent Today understands that the civil servant who has been at the heart of plans to reform the house buying...

A survey of agents suggests the majority believe the process of buying and selling residential properties will be fully digital or...

Government regulation and reform of house buying should see the process made faster and easier in 2022, it’s been predicted. Lloyd Davies - managing...

Zoopla’s chief operating officer says the portal has made progress for agents in 2021 but recognises there’s more to do next...

EAT readers may have seen a piece in Friday’s property section of The Times about the long-running Simplify saga, which has...

We all know what did happen in 2021 - Covid and more Covid, the stamp duty holiday frenzy, a soaring rental...

I’ve worked in financial crime for the past seven years, beginning my career as a white collar crime litigator in a law firm. I know that the...

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

PropTech has seen a surge in uptake over the last few years for several reasons – be it the Covid-19 pandemic...

A prominent law expert is claiming that a high profile case of property fraud, reported earlier this week, involved a “devastating...

If there is one thing that modern consumers have come to expect, it’s convenience. As a nation, we’re driven by on-demand...

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

The right technology can reassure agents that transactions will complete on time - vital to retaining business following the end of the...

Propertymark has spoken out over the Pandora Papers leak scandal, which reveals many elite and super-rich buyers of properties in London...

A video interview claims to spill the beans on how sales progression can be accelerated by three to four weeks. Estate agent...

Zoopla-owned software company Yourkeys and mortgage, insurance and wealth management broker SPF Private Clients have integrated. Yourkeys’ software provides buyer and seller...

It may be the final day of August but Propertymark has first out of the blocks with advice for agents to...

My neighbour had been seeking to move home for some time. Suggestions that he wanted to get away from his neighbours...

The House of Commons Library has published what may be the definitive record of estate agency regulations issued in recent years...

A prominent advocate of a reformed transaction process says more secure moving systems can help agents maintain high business levels when...

In this week’s In Conversation Today, we have another industry big-hitter and one of the most high-profile female leaders in property...

A new Home Buyer App has been launched by the Mortgage Advice Bureau in a bid to educate first time buyers...

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

The race to complete home sales before the stamp duty holiday came to an end on June 30 has created what...

The government has thrown its weight behind the concept of Unique Property Reference Numbers as a way of speeding up transactions. UPRNs...

Despite the vast amount of publicity given to the concept of virtual viewing, a survey suggests relatively few properties on sale...

The growth of the internet and technology has transformed virtually every aspect of our lives, including how we approach the property...

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

Digital marketing agency Angels Media and digital platform Gazeal have announced an exclusive strategic partnership to help improve and speed up...

A new home buying platform set up by a challenger portal will donate £100 to charity for every transaction it fails...

Propertymark is staging a webinar today tackling the challenging issue of conveyancing - just as the market is at its busiest...

With property transactions taking longer than ever and many people operating at capacity, it is easy to overlook the progress made,...

A survey of 5,000 agents suggests the slow house selling and buying process is one of the biggest challenges facing the...

A leading conveyancing industry chief says the one factor that would help improve the slow house buying process today would be the...

The UK property market is always evolving but never as quickly as it is now. Traditional estate agents are seriously questioning...

A surveyors group has launched a new ‘Home Review’ service which it claims will identify structural problems which create an immediate...

A new property board game called Gazumped aims to rival Monopoly but reflect a much more realistic view of how the house...

A new survey says 80 per cent of homeowners believe the process of buying a house has remained largely the same or...