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Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Paul Halliwell and my VMC business card says “Executive...

Proper implementation of material Information across the estate agency sector could reduce the amount of lost or delayed commission due to...

Rightmove has revealed details of its latest anti-money laundering (AML) webinar. The next event, in partnership with FCS Compliance, is titled 10...

Prime London property sales are taking longer to go through once under offer, which is creating a vicious cycle of fall-throughs,...

Almost one in five vendors admit to having failed to disclose disputes with neighbours to prospective buyers when selling their home,...

Propertymark has urged the Land Registry to provide more accessible and affordable services to its members.  Responding to a call for evidence...

The ripple effect of a property sale that falls through is, without exception, one of the most frustrating and disappointing events...

Reading the news on Estate & Letting Agent Today every day (as I’m sure you all do, too), there appears to...

The Able Agent has launched the first ever general course about the structure of property – aimed at all types of...

Fall-throughs are estimated to have cost UK buyers and sellers £270m during the third of last year, research suggests. It marks the...

The Bank of England maintained interest rates at 5.25% yesterday, raising hope among agents that this would boost buyer confidence and...

New data from respected consultancy TwentyEA showed that the market is proving unexpectedly resilient - and in the case of new...

Property data in the UK is mined from a labyrinth of sources such as local authorities, various government departments and private...

Fortune favours the brave, as the saying goes. So, when you consider how upfront material information can and does make the...

Ever taken on a property where the sale has got tangled up in problems arising from the title register? It’s a...

Fall throughs are estimated to have cost UK estate agents £1.27bn in 2022, new research suggest. Upfront information provider Moverly looked at...

Agency feedback platform The ESTAS Group has launched a new tool designed to help estate agents by collecting vital insights from...

Upfront material information is now firmly on the property industry’s radar, with Trading Standards CPR regulations expected to move towards disclosing...

THE PROPERTY market continues to hold pretty firm - despite fears voiced by many that 2023 would herald a crash in...

The dreaded ‘C word’ – compliance – has been facing Estate Agents for years now and it’s not going anywhere. Looking ahead...

The number of fall-throughs declined during the final three months of 2022 but this trend may not last, new data suggests. Analysis...

According to the recent industry research report ‘Back to the Future’ from tmgroup, mio and CDS 40% of property transaction delays...

Proptech firm iamproperty has launched a new legal preparation module to its movebutler onboarding and sales progression platform. The aim is to...

Consumer demand for auction can no longer be ignored. Month after month this alternative method of sale sees increased uptake as...

The number of fall-throughs hit a five-year high during the third quarter of 2022, research suggests. Analysis of TwentyCi fall through data...

Happy New Year! I hope you’ve recharged the batteries and have a shiny list of resolutions to make 2023 as successful...

As economic signs increasingly point to a contraction in the property market, competition for new business will inevitably heat up. But...

Winkworth has predicted a sales demand rebound before the Christmas slowdown. A trading update from the agency franchise brand revealed that new...

The number of property sales falling through has increased for the first time since the height of the pandemic market boom...

Buyer demand has dropped by a fifth in the fortnight since the mini-Budget while supply has increased from worried homeowners, Zoopla...

Chain management tool, ViewMyChain has been integrated with agency software provider Reapit. The integration means Reapit users will have a single sign...

The relationship between estate agents and conveyancers is undoubtedly a complex one and has certainly had ‘its moments’ over the years,...

I look back on when my dad helped me buy my first car and shared his pearls of wisdom on what...

Buyer issues have been cited as the main cause of fall-throughs, according to new research. A survey of more than 940 agents,...

A survey of 700 borrowers by a high net worth lender suggest almost four out of 10 have lost a mortgage...

A prominent industry supplier has produced startling statistics about the numbers of fall throughs in just the first 10 weeks or...

Of the many industry buzzwords, I suspect “upfront information” was up there as one of the most widely used in 2021....

Fall throughs remain a significant problem with transaction collapses costing buyers and sellers a wasted £880m in 2021 according to new...

Agents are losing tens of thousands of pounds each - in some cases even more - because of the volume of...

The ESTAS Forum scheduled for March says its aim is to encourage agents and conveyancers to work more closely together.  “There doesn’t...

Rightmove is to try to help potential buyers get their finances in order much earlier in the transaction process, to reduce...

Agents are being urged to be more open to new methods of stopping deals falling through. HBB Solutions - a part exchange...

Boomin has launched a new tool - Chainmaker - which it claims cuts fall throughs and introduces agents to ‘hot buyers’. The software...

Property experts have joined forces to call for faster and more secure transactions.  The PropTech and conveyancing voices have united in warning...

Remarkably, just 11 per cent of property sales fell through in the third quarter of this year as buyers raced to beat...

The right technology can reassure agents that transactions will complete on time - vital to retaining business following the end of the...

A bulk quick buy company has surveyed purchasers who have been deterred from continuing their transactions to discover what the biggest...

The estate agents’ trade body has set out three ways conveyancers can further help the sales process. Propertymark has made the suggestions...

The already-high fall-through rate for transactions is likely to be supercharged by the impending end of the tapered stamp duty holiday...

Rightmove estimates that 1.3m buyers have benefitted from the stamp duty holidays across Great Britain since they were announced in July...

The leading reason for property sales falling through is gazumping, according to new research from Comparethemarket. Over the past year, nearly two-fifths of...

In an unusual move, HM Land Registry has issued guidance to agents to help them reassure jittery buyers and sellers ahead...

Agents should prepare for a surge in fall throughs and collapsed sales thanks to the first stamp duty holiday period expiring...

With property transactions taking longer than ever and many people operating at capacity, it is easy to overlook the progress made,...

One in three property sales in England and Wales fell through before completion in the first quarter of 2021. The 32 per...

Emoov’s new 'guaranteed offer' service means fall-thoughs and chain-related delays are effectively eliminated, the agency claims. Emoov - now owned by a firm...

The head of a PropTech platform wants financial penalties on conveyancers if transactions miss deadlines. “The only way to accelerate the current...

An estate agency is this month launching packs of up-front information for buyers in a bid to speed sales and reduce fall-throughs.  Miles...

A leading agent says the worst thing that could happen with Wednesday’s Budget is if the Chancellor does not deliver on...

New research from Propertymark suggests a typical fall through costs an agent £4,123.  The association says that if the stamp duty holiday...

Some 12 per cent of buyers will pull out of their transaction if it does not complete in time for their stamp...

The Chancellor’s rumoured six week extension to the stamp duty holiday has been backed by Rightmove. Over last weekend the Daily Telegraph,...

Agents and conveyancers are expressing doubt over whether a possible six week extension to the stamp duty holiday will be enough...

The Chancellor is considering extending the stamp duty holiday for a short period according to a newspaper report this morning. The Daily...

An estate agency says 10 per cent of its sellers have already dropped their asking prices to keep buyers on board,...

The latest Rightmove analysis shows it now takes 126 days from the time an offer is accepted until legal completion -...

The online petition calling for an extension to the stamp duty holiday is set to pass 100,000 signatures today. This means the...

The proportion of sales that fell through at the worst point of this year was 52 per cent it’s been claimed. However...

Fall throughs which could be avoided by Reservation Agreements have cost agency branches an average £10,000 per month. That’s the claim from digital...

Estate agents can stand out from the crowd and help consumers through lockdown by providing a more secure sales process, a...

In early September, mio achieved an industry first with the release of the mio chain view API. Now, all the parties...

It’s about this time of year, pandemic or not, that agents may be asked one particularly awkward question by a vendor...

A quick buy firm which typically purchases homes from sellers at below market levels has accused estate agents and the private...

New PropTech products continue to appear, many aimed at enhancing transparency in buying and selling, or helping agents adopt new ways of...

If you’re in any way connected to estate agency all it takes is a quick glance at Facebook or LinkedIn to...

An online agency says it’s offering its customers a kind of ‘fall-through insurance’ after over 100 deals collapsed between mid-March and...

“Many hands make light work” – Does John Heywood’s old English proverb from the 1300s apply to modern approaches on how...

Emma Vigus, managing director of sales progression platform mio, in discussion with key suppliers in the residential property industry on operating...

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

Let’s face it sales progression is difficult and frustrating: 1)The process has never been properly joined up - the average chain has...

In the first of a series of articles, Emma Vigus, managing director of mio, the estate agent sales progression platform, explores the...

Collaboration creates a bigger market Iain White, of the Innovation Collaboration Group “the Estate Agency industry must recognise that collaboration will...

As we emerge from lockdown, quickly progressing sales to completion is vital to replace lost commission income.  What role can mio...

A working party of property professionals is being set up to look at whether and how property logbooks could help speed...

PropTech big names Reapit and ViewMyChain are joining up to try to accelerate transactions when the lockdown finally ends and the...

The National Association of Estate Agents is urging its members to use the lockdown as an opportunity to train on its...

Rightmove and Knight Frank are today both calling for a series of government incentives to kick-start the market after the Coronavirus...

If it’s really the case that estate agents’ offices could be in the category of High Street premises first allowed to...

New sales agreed have already plummeted by 15 per cent and over the next three months there’s going to be a...

Almost exactly one quarter of house sales in England and Wales fell through prior to completion according to new figures. In the...

[Estate Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise...

Reservation Agreements are the subject of the moment in the agency industry. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is to...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  Jason Wilson, mio Account Manager What is mio and what does...

Buyers and sellers changing their minds lie behind almost a third of fall-throughs - the single biggest reason why transactions collapse,...

Almost inevitably on Halloween, there’s a report today on the horror stories that deter buyers - but it may well be...

Another estate agency has come out in favour of reservation agreements. High-end agency Chestertons says transactions currently fall through too frequently and the...

A London agency has told Estate Agent Today that it makes some of its buyers pay upwards of £5,000 in Reservation...

There has been a surprise, but small, increase in the market share of online estate agents according to the latest survey. Business...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Phil Smith - mio Account manager What is mio and what does...

A new survey claims that 28 per cent of those who have put their home up for sale in past five...