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

Higher mortgage rates will push more people than expected into poverty, research warns. Analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) highlights...

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...

As most of the regular readers of this column will know (and because I’m not shy about admitting it) – I’ve...

As the Group HR Director of LRG – an organisation of over 3,000 employees – and perhaps more importantly, as a...

Much of the focus may have been on the Spring Budget this week but a variety of charities have received support from...

The estate agency industry is being urged to do more to tackle the issue of gender jaws, it has been warned. The...

What will happen to house prices? Should I rent or buy? Will a Labour or Tory Government be better for homeowners....

Most weeks there are stories within the property sector that quietly slip under the radar - but which hold huge significance.  Last...

As electric vehicles increasingly populate our roads and the necessity for accessible charging grows, enquiries about electric vehicle chargepoints when buying...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...

It may be all change - again - at the Department of Levelling Up, Communities and Local Government if media speculation...

Recent tragic deaths of women walking home alone, notably Sarah Everard, have highlighted the need to address gender inequality in the...

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

A representative of major Purplebricks shareholder Axel Springer has stood down from the online agent’s board. It comes as the beleaguered brand...

According to Women Count 2022, an Insights report from The Pipeline, women still face entrenched systemic barriers on their route to...

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

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

The World Cup is set to kick off in Qatar this weekend and Estate Agent Today has compiled a team of...

Earlier this year, we ran a story asking whether agency would ever embrace a four-day week. This came ahead of the...

Double-think, for those who have not read George Orwell, is when people are expected to accept two conflicting beliefs as truth,...

In this latest ‘Women in Property’ edition of the Natter, I check in with Collette Allen, who was recently appointed as...

Two senior agency figures have suggested there is more work needed to level the playing field for women in the sector. The...

What a difference two months and some local elections make. Cast your minds back to March 9 and the annual report of...

An authoritative study on the housing market has shown that the big losers from the pandemic have been first time buyers. The...

In this week’s In Conversation Today, I am delighted to chat with Lucy Morton, Head of Residential Agency at JLL, about...

Zoopla employees have held a 'March for March' challenge to raise funds for The Captain Tom Foundation. This is a fine cause...

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

This week’s In Conversation Today interviewee needs no introduction. One of the property industry’s most recognisable names, she has been a...

As regular readers will know, the Natter kickstarted a series last time out zoning in on local independent agents – the...

Hunters has become one of the first major agencies to reveal the gender balance of its staff - and 60 per...

Innovate or Die. But What is Innovation? It Isn’t just PropTech A certain Mr Dick Whittington Esquire was once convinced that the...

With this summer marking forty years since Margaret Thatcher came to power, her legacy continues to invoke both celebration and consternation...

The minister at the centre of reforms to the estate and lettings industry sector has apologised for what she calls “inappropriate...

Theresa May’s ‘hostile environment’ policy that was implemented in 2012 was designed to make staying and residing in the UK as...

In the first Q&A Natter for a while, I catch up with Angelica Donati - CEO of Donati Immobiliare Group, PropTech...

By now we’ve all seen news about the long-term decline in property sales and competition from online alternatives leading to ‘more...

100 years ago, 90% of the UK population rented a home. Today, that figure has flipped, and over two thirds are...

Every week we carry reports of how great causes are helped by individual agents and other property professionals - this week...

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

After my article last week predicting that Agents’ Mutual would likely seek to raise external capital, including possibly on the public markets,...

When it comes to provoking anger in property professionals, taxation takes some beating. Press releases are still arriving berating the December...

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

Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his first Budget this week pledging extra funding for the NHS, transport in the Midlands and the...

Looking ahead to the Spring Budget this week, the Chancellor Philip Hammond will be obliged to face up to the implications...

London’s Labour mayor Sadiq Khan says some 270,000 homes in London have been granted planning permission but have not yet been...

A fantastic exclusive this week as I carry out a question and answer session with one of the leading names in...

The credit agency Standard & Poor’s has taken the radical line of accusing the Bank of England’s low interest-rate regime of...

In January readers of Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today were given the opportunity to give their views on proposed...

Diversity is a hot topic in offices across the UK as issues regarding the difference in pay and opportunities are being...

Stephen Moss, CEO of Pring.co.uk the UK’s leading property investment search engine, takes a look at the impact of ‘Corbynmania’ on...

Agents' Giving: No less than £20,000 has been raised at the Agents Giving Ball where Phil Spencer and 240 of the...