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

Members of the Relocation Agent Network (RAN) are to get access to Crux Careers' specialised recruitment and training programmes as part...

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...

Thousands of people will be invited to take part in new research to help provide information on why one particularly badly...

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

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

A team of seasoned industry professionals with a combined experience of more than 140 years is set to launch a new...

Propertymark is hosting two important webinars this week to keep agents informed of important industry regulations. The agency trade body is hosting...

The end of the year is always a time of reflection around careers and whether we should pursue pastures new. I...

Winkworth has launched a talent drive to find rising stars to build a career and a business within the franchise network.  The...

Spicerhaart has been awarded the Ministry of Defence’s Silver Award in its Employer Recognition Scheme. The agency brand has achieved the title...

In this latest article from the team at Iceberg Digital, they review the valuable guidance and innovation offered by Estate Agency...

Spicerhaart has received a Silver Award in the Ministry of Defence Employer Recognition Scheme which acknowledges the agency group’s commitment to...

Sustainability has become a watch word for businesses the world over but there’s one element of this equation that is too...

Next month’s much-anticipated Propertymark One conference is set to go out with a bang, the trade body has said – and...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. Thomas Morris Sales & Lettings: Last week...

Female estate agents have shared the highs and lows of working in the property industry to mark International Women’s Day (IWD). The...

Safety, support, health, wealth and happiness were the key firms of the inaugural Women in Estate Agency group conference last week. The...

Hunters has welcomed two new franchise partners who have acquired the Hunters Scarborough, Bridlington and Filey businesses. Sam Lakin and Pete Croft have...

By the Co-founders of Freehold; David Mann MBE, Partner at Tuffin Ferraby Taylor and Saleem Fazal MBE, Real Estate Partner at...

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

Customer review platform ESTAS has partnered with the Women in Estate Agency Group (WIEA) to promote the health, wealth, and empowerment...

Details of the first Women In Estate Agency (WiEA) conference have been revealed. The group, founded by senior agency figures Liana Loporto-Browne...

With the sudden rise in energy prices in the last few months, many tenants will be feeling the pinch. Combine this...

A 31-year old chartered surveyor has become one of the youngest to achieve RICS Fellowship status. James Brook, founder of Novello Chartered...

OnTheMarket has partnered with The Able Agent to provide agents with access to online training courses at discounted rates. As part of...

One of the particular characteristics of the property market is how it brings contrasting professions together. From estate agents to conveyancers,...

Spicerhaart has opened its doors for ex-armed forces personnel and reservists to consider estate agency as a career. The agency brand has...

For years now estate agents have been on a journey from digital infancy to digital maturity. But what does the future...

For some time, LinkedIn was seen – fairly or unfairly – as stodgy, dull, corporate and formal. The uncool uncle to...

Agents have shown their support for helping junior staff with the cost of living crisis. The rate of inflation hit 9.4% during...

When it comes to housing policy, the Conservative MPs have given their party a choice between Tweedle Dum and Tweedle DumDum. Rishi...

NAEA Propertymark’s new president Stephen McCarron has said he intends to focus on making agency an attractive option for school leavers...

A rewards and recognition programme has been launched at an agency chain, with claims that it will enhance staff careers and...

Property events and functions are now back in full swing, with 2022 likely to be the first ‘normal’ year for this...

For an unregulated industry, agents have an awful lot of regulations to deal with. For example, there’s the mandatory membership of a...

This is our first Property Jobs Today column of 2022 and it’s testimony to how busy our industry is right now...

Leasehold, quite rightly, remains not just an emotive topic given what has happened over the past decade, but it’s very much...

An agency has won one of the most prestigious ‘gongs’ of the season - it’s been named Employer of the Year...

In this latest Natter piece zoning in on independent agents doing things differently, following on from the one I did with...

A website called The Changing Face of Property has been launched to encourage young people planning their careers to consider our...

In this op-ed, Warwick Haycock, accounting software specialist at The Access Group, looks at how the use of tech can empower...

The Women In Property group claims talented females are being lost to the industry due to the menopause.  It says panic attacks,...

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

One of the property market's leading names has welcomed young people into its company for work experience through a partnership with...

A long-standing agency says it’s proud that some of its most successful recent recruits have absolutely no industry experience. Felicity J Lord...

One of the biggest trends since Covid, in the property world and elsewhere, has been a shift towards more hybrid, flexible...

Self-employed agents working for Purplebricks who want to resist the instruction to become fully employed are being wooed by a Midlands...

Students at a high school have been given an insight into the career opportunities in the property sector. The sixth formers from...

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has revealed that what it calls its “second HQ” will be in Wolverhampton,...

This time out, I speak to one of the industry’s biggest-hitters. Adrian Gill may have retired from frontline agency, having had...

Agencies and suppliers today mark International Women’s Day with events and declarations shining a light on the achievements of female colleagues and...

Some 100 new apprentice estate agents are to be recruited in London. Dexters, which has 70 offices across the capital including 12...

A London estate agency chief executive says agents "have become good at pretending that they are qualified and regulated when the...

Agents spend their whole careers telling vendors and landlords why they will be able to achieve a better sale price or...

Connells Group has revealed seven appointments to its board of directors which it links directly with a target to grow presence and...

In my last Natter, I explored the differences between estate agency in the UK and the US with the help of...

There’s a warning today to agency chiefs to keep in touch with their staff as lockdown eases across England in a...

As residential sales and lettings professionals we are conditioned to adapt to change, it’s the nature of the profession. However, developments...

2020, the start of a new decade. Looking back, 2010 feels like such a long time ago, and looking forward to...

Our mental health affects how we think, feel and act. It affects how we handle anxiety, relate to others and impacts...

US-based Keller Williams is going to open its next market centre in West Sussex - the latest example of what it...

In a new video interview, Steve Carroll, director of industry relations at Real Estate Group, tells industry commentator Christopher Watkin why...

Hello and welcome to the regular Monday Property Jobs Today feature, your chance to catch up with who’s moving where in...

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

The Liverpool Echo says housing minister Esther McVey, who was born in the city, is now ”reviled” there following comments about poor families. According...

With the often negative portrayal of agents in the media and popular culture, you might ask yourself why anyone would want...

Estate agents are amongst the workers to suffer the worst fall in wages over the past 10 years according to shock...

The Innovative Collaboration Group - a collection of high-profile tech suppliers to the agency industry - has unveiled a raft of new...

One of my biggest concerns in all of my writing, speaking and influencing around PropTech is that for the people we...

It’s an eye-catching combination - former professional rugby players turn estate agents, set up in converted shipping containers, and promise in time-honoured fashion...

Many of the industry’s best known and widely respected suppliers have set up a new group which they say offers agents...

There are many misconceptions about the franchising world but, whether we’re talking about estate agency franchises or fast food franchises, it’s...

New research by TheAdvisory consultancy, shared exclusively with Estate Agent Today, reveals exactly how fees have fallen for traditional agents in...

A branch of EweMove - which operates from a traditional High Street office - claims to have generated £140,000 income in...

Howard Quirk, a prominent estate agent in the 60s, 70s and 80s, has passed away, aged 71. He was the senior partner...

The notion of a North-South divide in the UK has been around for as long as I can remember – certainly...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says more women should enter estate agency and other property sectors across the land and...

Earlier this week it was Dads4Daughters Day – a campaign that strives to promote gender equality in the workplace.  I have three...

A new recruitment business for the property industry in general and agents in particular is offering a phased-fees system for clients...

The East Midlands, which consists of several areas including Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, and much of Lincolnshire, has an ancient...

Fund-raising is vitally important to so many organisations as one of our agency contributors this week shows - but as other...

For young people the length and breadth of the UK, Thursday of this week meant that the waiting was over and...

Who are you? Iain White, Business Consultant and, most importantly, father to 4 boys.  I travel frequently with work so to...

One Direction may be about to split up but this cloud might just have a silver lining for our industry -...

The Royal Institution for Chartered Surveyors says it supports a call by housing minister Brandon Lewis for personnel retiring from the...