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Leading UK property auctioneer Bond Wolfe has broken through the £100 million barrier for sales to date in 2024, with its...

Welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity, our chance to salute those who do so much to help others. If your agency...

Home buyers face paying up to £1m for top coastal properties although prices have dropped since 2022, research suggests. Research by Lloyds...

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

An analysis of Rightmove data shows that sale stock levels were up 9.2% across England during the first quarter of 2024,...

Would-be home-buyers are enjoying the highest level of spring-time choice of homes in five years says Zoopla. The portal claims that there...

If you want to hear of a tale for our industry’s times - featuring housing shortages, planning disputes, rampant  inflation and...

Savills has kicked off 2024 with two key external hires and an internal move into its country house team. James Toogood has joined...

South West estate agency network the Experts in Property has announced a change of chairmanship and appointed new directors to its...

Jackson-Stops has boosted its presence across the Cornish coast, with the hiring of three new directors, Richard Holder, Dean Lonergan and Daniel...

It’s no secret that sea levels are rising, leaving millions of homes at risk globally and according to a recent report,...

A lack of flexibility is causing recruitment issues in estate agency and could threaten the survival of firms, executives claim. Speaking on...

Hunters West Cornwall has announced a new initiative to celebrate the Cornish language. The agency brand has introduced new sales boards that...

A competition to track down as many golden estate agent boards placed around Leeds as possible has been won by Grace...

Sale stock levels have surged by 15% since the start of the year due to the ‘stagnant market,’ research claims. Quick-buy firm...

Lawyers are warning of a growing number of incidents of septic tank conveyancing negligence, which could prove costly for homebuyers. House buyers...

London has returned as the go-to destination for potential property buyers, Rightmove claims. The portal has revealed the most searched for locations...

There have been plenty of new jobs being started outside of Wesminster this month. Here are some of the latest moves that...

A buyers’ market, and a more challenging time for buyers and sellers, could be on the cards as a result of...

Seven adverts pushing the Government’s flagship levelling up policy have been banned. The advertising watchdog censured the Department for Levelling Up, Housing...

Property demand has dropped while price reductions have increased in recent weeks, data shows. Two separate pieces of industry data give new...

The current period of national solidarity over the death of Queen Elizabeth II has embraced the world of property as it...

Agents and property professionals haven't let the summer holidays slow down their fundraising efforts. If there are charitable endeavours you think the...

Estate agents have listed an average of 7.3 homes for sale per branch during 2022, research suggests- down 12.5% annually. Agency comparison...

Agents are currently achieving 99.4% of the asking price on listings, research shows.  The figure, calculated by agency comparison website GetAgent based...

Estate agency network the Experts in Property has expanded its geographical spread. The group of more than 65 independent estate agencies across...

More than a third of England’s regions have seen buyer demand fall over the previous quarter, research claims in the latest...

The number of areas where the average house sale price exceeded £500,000 has surpassed 15% of Great Britain for the first...

haart, part of the Spicerhaart estate agency group, has accused rival agencies of copying its hybrid working model. Spicerhaart group managing director...

The regional agency group Experts In Property is back in business with an online awards event.  Majoring on training, online marketing and...

The total value of all UK homes broke the £8 trillion barrier in 2021 according to Savills - and London is...

Owners of second homes who abuse a tax loophole by claiming their often-empty properties are holiday lets will be forced to...

A hybrid agency that charges no fees to vendors but instead relies on referral fees for income has officially rolled out...

Dog facilities - even separate rooms for them - are now a major factor on the ‘want list’ for growing numbers...

New data from Rightmove has analysed millions of supply, demand and pricing data points across the property market, to assess activity...

By the time I next write this column, we’ll be just days before the next Budget and Autumn Statement. So I’ll...

The self-employed partnership known as The Agency UK - founded by three refugees from Purplebricks - has announced a major expansion. The...

The government has been warned that its much-talked about levelling up agenda is ‘doomed to fail’ without major reform of the...

There are 19 new distinct £1m-plus property markets in the UK thanks to the soaring house prices of the past 15...

A prominent property consultancy is urging the government to ensure that holiday home owners pay more tax.  Colliers claims local authorities are...

A deep dive into Rightmove’s data by the portal itself has discovered that there’s one sector where homes sell 20 days...

The former leader of the Liberal Democrats is calling for a ban on family homes being used for holiday lets and...

A former estate agent has accused the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agent Team of trying to discredit him. Chris Wood,...

We’re about to enter August and second half of the Olympic Games - and fund-raising is happening at a Gold medal...

New research shows that the surge in house prices this year has taken homes in at least 25 areas of England...

Price renegotiations are underway between buyers and sellers in danger of missing Wednesday’s stamp duty holiday deadline, says Knight Frank. The agency...

The average price of a property in a British seaside town is now £265,978, a leap of 10 per cent -...

The end of the week is always charity day here on EAT, and this week we have a typical cross section...

A first-time-buyer couple in a part of the country renowned for its second homes and shortage of stock has praised a...

A company which was once an early adopter of using a central resource for self-employed agents working under its name, says...

Rightmove has so far this year recorded 20 of its busiest ever days for visits to the site as the current...

One year on from the UK’s first stay-at-home order, London has been overtaken as the most searched-for location on Rightmove, according...

London still dominated the league table of locations with the highest volumes of sales by value in 2020, despite the apparent...

One of the country’s most popular tourist destinations may ban the sale of new builds to second home buyers. The council in Padstow -...

Hello and welcome to Agents Do Charity, the regular round-up of industry good work. Whatever the cause, it’s great to publicise agents’...

The BBC says some buyers are taking advantage of lockdown rules to travel hundreds of miles to view homes. The story suggests...

Firstly, Happy New Year – here’s to 2021 being less chaotic than the last! In the final part of our series on...

Zoopla has revealed precisely how much house prices have risen over the course of 2020. Across the UK as a whole prices...

A new family-run estate agency in Cornwall claims to be the first in the county to focus on green thinking, championing...

Welcome to part three of our ongoing series on local independent agents, as we seek to give this all-important part of...

What’s the happiest place in Britain? Rightmove has the answer. In a new ‘Happy At Home’ index calculated by the portal and...

New research attempts for the first time to identify the most lucrative property markets in the country - with surprising results...

Sales of £1m-plus homes have surged since lockdown as affluent buyers seek more space and lifestyle changes.  An average of 868 £1m-plus...

A league table drawn up by a quick buy property firm claims that some estate agents' average commission has hit 2.32 per...

Two reports this morning suggest that activity in the most expensive sectors of the housing market is doing as well as...

Over £73,000 has been stolen from a Countrywide branch by two admin staff making false travel claims and issuing fake invoices. The crimes...

The Sequence Group is to be the sole selling agent for RoyaleLife, the country’s largest builder of bungalows, exclusively aimed at...

In the second of a series of articles, Emma Vigus, Managing Director of mio, the Estate Agents Sales Progression platform, explores...

An estate agent has been awarded over £41,000 by an employment tribunal - after her offer to settle for £10,000 was...

Hello - Friday already so that means another Agents Do Charity, marking the wonderful work of our industry even in these...

The John Bray agency based at Rock in Cornwall typically deals with some of the most expensive real estate in the...

The Police and Crime Commissioner for an area with thousands of holiday homes wants their owners to make them available to...

There’s a sense that we really are on the verge of a huge change in the industry. It’s too early to be...

Hello and welcome to this week’s list of good work - yes, despite the virus lockdown.  Earlier this week we featured many...

Another westcountry town may ban new-build homes being sold as holiday properties, even though the idea has backfired elsewhere. Fowey in Cornwall -...

Hello and welcome to the end of the week…which must mean Agents Do Charity. There’s plenty to admire in this week’s entries;...

Over the past decade, the short-term rental industry, now eponymised by Airbnb, has experienced meteoric growth. This has been driven by the...

A new study by the London School of Economics suggests that a high profile ban on the sale of new homes...

An independent estate agency has committed its future to the high street by moving one of its offices to a more...

Two former directors of Savills in Cornwall have set up their own agency based near the county capital, Truro. Shore Partnership has been...

A bid to ban the building of new homes for out-of-town buyers has backfired on a Cornish community - and now...

Here’s an unusual story, describing the work of one of Purplebricks’ Local Property Experts who was with the company for around...

A maverick estate agent pictured wearing a yellow vest has threatened to mount what he calls a “civil protest” if Brexit...

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

OnTheMarket has signed up an estate and lettings agency firm run by a family and with 11 offices across west Devon...

A maverick Cornish estate agent who falsely gave the impression to customers that his business was highly successful has been hit...

The estate agent who is refusing to abide by a decision of the Advertising Standards Authority is now demanding details of...

The big story to break this week in the property world was the announcement by the new owner of Humberts that...

There’s a new twist in the row between a Cornish agent and the Advertising Standards Authority. The row revolves around a tweet...

The Advertising Standards Authority says its compliance team is considering its next steps following the refusal of estate agency PDQ Estates...

An agent from Cornwall who has waged a long-running campaign against online agencies in general and Purplebricks in particular has been...

Just as some estate agents are reported to be making plans to retrench if the housing market continues to be sluggish,...

There’s been a landslide vote to ban new-build second homes in another tourist hotspot. Some 90 per cent of those who voted...

It is understood that an estate agent from Cornwall is to face trial over allegations that he misled potential customers over...

Holiday home sales in one of the country’s most popular tourist destinations are holding up, despite stamp duty and the age...

Welcome once again to Property Jobs Today, the notice-board for agents, suppliers and other property professionals moving within, out or in...

The consumer affairs correspondent of The Times has savaged High Street estate agents because of the commission they charge when compared...

It’s been quite a week, much of it concerning the technology that increasingly underpins our industry.  A glut of fund-raising and relaunching...

Properties located directly on the seafront attract a price premium of 33%, according to new research. A study of 30 prime seaside...

Experts in Property - the network of independent estate agencies across Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Bristol - has revealed two...