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The new Labour government has pledged to prioritise a ‘brownfield first’ approach to urban planning, as part of its promise to...

We welcome the thrust of the Deputy Prime Minister’s announcement this week on planning reform.  In particular, we support the return of...

The Chancellor’s plans to ‘get Britain building again’ are very significant for the property sector and property investment, specifically.  The plans...

Winkworth agents Shilpa and Ajay Bathija have extended their presence in North London – taking over the network’s Hendon office.  Ajay, who...

There’s a very important first step that needs to be taken in resolving the housing crisis: we need a greater understanding...

The debate over the Green Belt, and the newly branded ‘grey belt’, has made the headlines a lot recently and will...

Agency brand Anthony Pepe has announced the acquisition of Chamberlains Estates in Enfield. The former owners of the Chamberlains business, Andrew Ryde...

The process from a Local Plan allocation to a digger on site typically stretches beyond the length of a five-year political...

Should commercial properties be converted into homes? I think so. I don’t mean the upscale barns becoming large houses, or the fashionable...

We’re undergoing another heatwave at the moment, with the mercury rising above 30 degrees for five successive days before it breaks...

Essex-based estate agent Beresford Group has celebrated and thanked sales director Mike Sayers who is retiring from the company after 35...

Areas with the biggest house price growth of 2021 have seen the value of homes rise by three times the national...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has given a ringing endorsement to home ownership as a central part of the government’s levelling up...

A north London new homes agency is to rebrand as Connells-owned Hamptons. Lanes New Homes has been owned by Hamptons for some...

Home owners in England will be entitled to add up to two storeys to the height of their home via a...

“Let’s Zoom later”, “are we Zooming in the morning or afternoon?” “Yeah, I zoomed the client earlier” – variations on these...

The average British homeowner stays in their property for 20.8 years, according to new research by Zoopla. The property portal analysed the...

Further details of Countrywide's closure and consolidation programme, first revealed by Estate Agent Today on Friday, have emerged over the weekend. A...

Foxtons has revealed that its six branch closures announced towards the end of last year will save the company £3m in...

Instagram (or, as the younger generation would have it, Insta) is, by any measure, massive.  Only launched in October 2010, it’s a...

Foxtons has ruled out further branch closures as it continues to struggle against what it calls “the continued weakness” of the...

Hard not to mention two major breaking news stories of recent days; one directly affecting the property market and one which...

Foxtons has this morning confirmed that it has now closed six branches. There was high-level publicity given to the closure of its...

The independent Essex estate agency Beresfords is celebrating its 50th anniversary next week - and is doing so in style with...

Winkworth is a giant national agency franchise but this autumn it is marking a series of anniversaries for several of its...

So here it is … a very Merry Christmas from Estate Agent Today and Angels Media, with our very best wishes...

William H Brown, part of the Sequence UK network, has acquired Barnfields estate agents in Enfield, north London.    Barnfields was an independent...

The Advertising Standards Authority has upheld a complaint over a Purplebricks website statement featuring testimonials from clients; the complaint was made...

Two established independent estate agency brands have joined forces to create the Estate Agency Franchise Group and are looking to expand. The...

A row has broken out over council tax funds being used to pay 18 estate agencies to find homes for a...

Instant gratification is nothing new. It’s been around for millennia. It’s an in-built survival instinct for humans – that want, that...

2016 was quite a year – eventful, dramatic, shocking and impossible to predict. In no particular order, we saw Leicester winning...

As the wait goes on for the government’s White Paper on Housing, due this month, one funding organisation has suggested that...

Fine & Country is opening a new office specialising in villages in West Sussex.  The Downland Villages branch, situated in Henfield, will...

As we all know, Peter Redfern is critical to the future of the British housing market and.... What? Wait? You don’t know...

The police are investigating a theft from an independently run franchise in Northampton, according to a report in The Northampton Chronicle &...

There has been much debate in recent years about Britain’s desperate need for more housing stock. Demand has been outstripping supply...