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Marketing consultancy We Are Unchained has unveiled details of its autumn masterclass tour. The brand’s highly acclaimed "30 Years of Marketing in...

Consultancy We Are Unchained is expanding its 30 Years of Marketing in One Day course across the country. It follows successful marketing...

A high-profile South West branch of national sales and lettings agency Martin & Co is under new family ownership. Martin & Co...

Winkworth has opened its fifth office in Devon – with what it describes as a prime spot in an affluent area...

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

Winkworth has revealed that it has not renewed franchises on offices “where our standards were not being met and results were...

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

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

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

Keller Williams (KW) UK has shifted around responsibility for its market centres amid speculation of closures. The self-employed agency brand’s Aspire market...

New 2023 research from Open Property Group found that just 41% of homes in England meet the recommended Energy Performance Certificate...

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

In this latest Day in the Life of...Natter, I get an insight into one of the most vital cogs of 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...

Recent months have seen interest rates rise from historic lows back closer to pre-financial crisis levels as the Bank of England...

The new owner of Century 21 UK, the British arm of the US-based franchising agency, has set his sights on rivalling...

Welcome to the latest edition of Property Jobs Today, your chance to catch up with who’s going where and why in...

Netflix’s period romantic comedy Bridgerton appears to have registered with Asian property buyers - and as a result they want to...

One of the country’s leading agencies says the recent and expected interest rate rises, and the surging inflation, will not blow...

It’s feared one of the country’s oldest estate agencies may have entered receivership. The Drew Pearce company of agents and chartered surveyors...

Knight Frank has appointed David Lewis as head of rural sales for Devon and West Somerset. Lewis’s career in residential property began...

Franchise giant Winkworth says at least eight new offices will open next year, following an upbeat performance in 2021. In a trading...

Fine & Country has opened another office - this time in Exeter, one of the most popular locations to which people...

Forget en-suites and garden rooms, could you boost viewings with the postcode of a property? Research by comparison website Money.co.uk has identified...

A bankrupt builder from Devon persuaded pensioners to pay him £271,000 to construct a home - but his poor workmanship has...

London-focussed agency Winkworth - which has around 60 of its 100 franchise branches in the capital - has now opened another...

In a trading statement this morning Foxtons has revealed that following a 49 per cent increase in sales revenue in the...

Hello and welcome to another working week, and the latest on jobs and staff movement across our industry. You can be part...

The industry seems almost back to normal. Not the ‘new normal’ we spoke so much of a few weeks and months ago,...

Agents in some parts of the country may be able to make use of data from utilities comparison service uSwitch, which...

Two agencies have announced the opening of offices in out-of-town-centre locations with easy parking. In Loughborough, well-known local agency Andrew Granger &...

As last Friday was the VE Day Anniversary bank holiday we have a bumper bundle of fund-raising activities to report on...

You wouldn’t expect the good folk at Strutt & Parker to have anything less than a superlative set of home offices...

It may be that we’re facing another year - make that yet another year - of disruption in the housing market. Coronavirus...

Local media in the south west are reporting that a Torquay estate agent took his own life after telling his partner...

It’s that time again. Each year I take a look at newspaper readership - not from the angle of journalists, but...

New research has identified those local housing market potentially worst hit by the planned changes to Help To Buy in 2021,...

The weekend is over all-too-quickly but at least if it’s Monday, it’s Property Jobs Today - your weekly catch up with...

The Guild of Property Professionals' regional roadshow for existing and potential members, resumes its activities next week with a visit to...

An estate and lettings agency that has been trading in the centre of Exeter for 12 years has ceased trading and...

Hello and welcome to another PJT, your regular Monday update on who’s moving where within our industry. Please keep us informed of...

The Property Ombudsman scheme has taken action against another six rogue agents in recent days, bringing the total number expelled this...

Hello and welcome to a new week - the last before Christmas. We’ve got more of your wonderful office pictures and videos...

Zoopla claims a new Property Valuation Report being trialled in nine areas will win more leads for agents.  The PVR will use...

An estate agency is moving from its traditional branch to new city centre serviced offices as it expands. East of Exe -...

The former head of Humberts’ country house department, who has spent 30 years selling homes, has switched to buying. Jeremy Campbell-Harris was...

The new owner of Humberts says he would consider acquiring or working alongside existing agencies who want to be part of...

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

The new owner of Humberts is to ultimately close many of the traditional branches and move to what he is calling...

As we move towards another Bank Holiday Weekend, there is no shortage of phenomenal fundraising efforts from those in our industry.  If...

The Guild of Property Professionals has launched a series of regional roadshows with a target of enhancing the success of independent...

It’s London Marathon weekend and it’s set to be hot, hot, hot for those agents and other brave industry folk running...

Lloyds Bank has revealed a league table of the cities which have seen the highest price growth over the past decade...

Agents and even the Labour Party have backed the government’s scrapping of stamp duty for first time buyers’ purchases up to...

An estate agent branded as "thoroughly dishonest" following a Gumtree scam has been jailed for 20 months, suspended for two years....

Westcountry estate agency Wilkinson Grant is standing  by its opposition to a ‘joke’ about dead bodies made by Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson...

The roadshow of presentations of Agents’ Mutual’s plans to float on the stock market have just passed the half-way mark. Remaining sessions...

OnTheMarket is this month holding 20 meetings for member agents to explain “progress and plans” for the portal.   The meetings - sometimes...

Major westcountry agency Wilkinson Grant has told the Advertising Standards Authority it will not re-use wording following a complaint from a...

The recent rise in consumer complaints against sales and letting agents suggests that there is a general lack of trust and...

On the day when hundreds of agents descend on the capital to celebrate the great and good of the industry at...

Is it the Brexit triggering of Article 50, the snap General Election or the cold weather we have had until recently?...

The Guild of Property Professionals is holding its annual regional meetings next month at 10 sporting venues across the UK under...

I had a very interesting chat with the man behind a new portal the other day. He was John Dixon, the portal...

A high street agency has turned the online sector’s advertising technique on its head. Instead of a seller revealing ‘saved’ fees by...

Richard Addington has switched from being Savills’ head of office in Exeter to joining Jackson-Stops & Staff’s branch in the same...

Thanks for your continuing enthusiasm sending in your office photographs as we continue the countdown to Christmas. We’ll be publishing more next...

Thanks so much for a bumper selection of charity deeds this week - as an industry we can be proud of...

We’re used to remarkable changes in just a short time - a week ago, who would have thought Theresa May would...

An estate agent who says he lost his job after being accused of rape has been cleared of the offence after...

I started work in 1966 in Exeter with Fox & Sons then moved to a local company in Honiton soon after....

It’s been another busy week for charitable good works from our industry. We ran this example of a particularly public-spirited agent earlier...

Who are you?  Chris Rundle, What does it say on your business card? Managing Director of GK Signs.  How long has GK Signs...

An agency that offers both traditional and online sales and lettings services to clients has opened a new office - in...

An estate agent is going on trial concerning allegations that he defrauded people of over a quarter of a million pounds. Russell...

Wind back the clock a few years and the working relationships I had with most estate agents was productive, beneficial and...

A High Street estate agent has branded the latest guidance to the industry on Consumer Protection Regulations as “a complete mess”...

A High Street estate agent has cautioned others within the industry against being tempted to go down the route of charging...

A jealous estate agent has been jailed for two months after dousing the bed of his ex-partner with diesel fuel and...

Hunters is reported to be confirming its intention to float on the stock exchange today, after a series of high-profile expansions...