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Hamptons has appointed Chris Randall as regional sales director, overseeing the businesses South West and West London regions.  He takes over from...

Average asking prices for new property listings had their usual summer drop this month but Rightmove is predicting a busy Autumn. The...

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

The UK sales and lettings markets are in a state of flux, but an upcoming webinar from Reapit, the leading technology...

With a historic majority for Keir Starmer and the Labour Party, there can be no doubt over which party will be...

A variety of charities have received support from the property industry this week. If there are charitable endeavours you think the rest...

Housing minister Jacob Young recently scotched rumours that the property portal proposed in the Renters (Reform) Bill would remove the need...

Yesterday we covered the story of self-employed estate agency brokerage eXp revealing three new agencies to have taken on the corporate...

Only realistic sellers willing to negotiate prices are successful in the current market, says one of the country’s leading estate agents. The...

The ESTAS, the customer review and awards platform, has unveiled new headline partners for 2024. Reapit and PayProp will become the Headline...

Agents Giving says its Fundraising Champions of the Year Awards 2024 are now open for entries. You can enter the awards yourself...

A veteran PropTech figure with extensive experience of working at leading estate and sales agencies has told the government to act...

Borrowers are currently rolling off relatively favourable two-year fixed-rate deals agreed at the start of 2022, but the pain from higher...

A variety of charities have received support from the property industry this week. If there are charitable endeavours you think the rest...

London agent Martyn Gerrard has launched a new flagship office in Hampstead, expanding its presence across the capital. It follows the launch...

Following the disappointment of his Autmn statement, many property professionals were hoping for a kick-start to property sales in Jeremy Hunt’s...

A variety of charities have received support from the property industry over the past week. If there are charitable endeavours you think...

London agent Martyn Gerrard has acquired Palmers Green-based estate and lettings agent Range Homes.   The deal, worth almost £1m, will see the...

Savills has recruited Cory Askew to head up its newly established South West London Parks region. Askew joins from Chestertons having worked throughout...

As the world marches relentlessly forward to 2024, the government’s flagship legislation for the private rented sector (PRS) remains in limbo. This...

This year has seen an ongoing cost-of-living crisis, fluctuating mortgage rates, rising rents, and the threat of falling property prices. Although average...

Reapit has appointed Steve Richmond as general manager in charge of operations in its home market of the UK and Ireland. He...

The borough of Richmond upon Thames in London has been crowned the happiest place to live in Great Britain, according to...

Large language models, machine learning, artificial intelligence, artificial general intelligence, and 'the singularity' change everything, but there again, they change literally...

By Kevin Shaw, National Sales, Managing Director, Leaders Romans Group This year has seen an ongoing cost-of-living crisis, fluctuating mortgage rates, rising...

Interest rates were held for a second consecutive month yesterday, giving agents renewed hopes that the cost of borrowing has reached...

Off-market property platform Invisible Homes has added three more boroughs to its tool. Originally launched in 2018 by former prime London estate...

Savills has expanded its residential sales teams in south west London with the appointment of two associate directors. Oliver Morley joins as...

Estate agency has changed. No longer is it required to sit in a high street office working the old way. Provide a...

The term mixed-tenure development usually refers to residential developments where different residential tenures are provided on the same site. Typically, tenure was...

Success with your chosen CRM solution should not be a one-and-done package. Once you team up with a stellar CRM provider,...

It’s not a sentence that I thought I would be writing, but Housing Secretary Michael Gove has indeed finally done something...

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

CRMs can be superheroes for your business, but not all of them possess the necessary powers to save the day. As...

House prices are falling at their fastest rate in 12 years, dropping £7,500 on average over the past 12 months, according...

By adopting a top-notch Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution, you're not only opening doors to acquiring new customers and nurturing existing...

Rightmove has revealed details of a series of webinars throughout July for agents that are focused on legislation and compliance. A number...

The latest interest rate rise has heightened the risk of forced sales and buyers shying away from the market, agents have...

In simple terms, as you are probably aware, ‘lenders’ are the organisations who loan you something, in this case money to...

Annual house price growth dropped for the fourth month in a row in February and dropped further into negative territory on...

Fine & Country has welcomed a further London agency into the fold.  Property entrepreneur, Justin John, will soon be operating under the...

Estate agents have expressed hope that the latest interest rate rise is the last after the Bank of England increased the...

Black mould associated with condensation is becoming an increasing problem for homes in the UK and following the tragic death of...

We’re only in February and it’s already clear that this year will set the future direction of the private rented sector...

Lies, damned lies, and statistics this week. I don’t know about you, but sometimes I feel as though I’m being bombarded...

London agency Martyn Gerrard opened its latest new office last weekend. It is based in Winchmore Hill, expanding the agency’s established service...

Fewer first-time buyers got on the property ladder last year but there was an increase in people buying for business purposes,...

Winkworth has expanded further in the South West of England with a new office opening in the Bishopston area of Bristol. The...

The property industry often gets a bad rep, despite all the work that agents and others in the sector do for...

Sales and lettings board provider Agency Express has launched a strategic partnership with The Key Safe Company. The partnership provides a bolt-on...

There has been plenty of movement in the property jobs market this month. Here are some of the latest moves that took...

Unless you have been living under a rock since the end of last year, you won’t need to be told about...

Fine & Country has made its latest move in the metaverse with the launch for a second non-fungible token (NFT) linked...

In this article, the team at Iceberg Digital highlight how one agent has benefitted from using software that has enabled him...

London accounted for almost half of million-pound plus property sales over the past 12 months but the most active borough at...

Buyers are being urged to act now to secure decent mortgage pricing as interest rates hit a 13-year high yesterday. The Bank...

Savills has opened its 10th office in south west London. It takes its London presence to 42 residential branches and 132 across the country...

Law firm Taylor Rose MW has acquired a stake in proptech firm SlothMove in an effort to help combat property fraud. SlothMove...

An estate agency has revealed which London boroughs have been the busiest in terms of the number of homes sold as...

Rightmove claims to have found the happiest place in the UK - and it’s in Northumberland. The market town of Hexham has...

The latest market snapshot of prime London by estate agency Benham and Reeves shows demand up 5.8 per cent annually for...

First-time buyers are £25,000 worse off thanks to the stamp duty holiday, according to estate agent comparison site GetAgent. The website revealed...

Rightmove claims to have identified the dream home for buyers. A survey of more than 2,000 visitors to the portal’s website has...

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

Independent estate agency Dacre, Son & Hartley plans to significantly grow its franchise network across Yorkshire and beyond. Dacres currently employs 125...

A study by estate agency Coulters has revealed which areas of the country make the biggest savings courtesy of the stamp...

Hello and welcome to the first Property Jobs Today of 2021 - we’re less than a fortnight into the New Year...

With the Government announcement this week of another national lockdown across England amid the surging coronavirus infections, it once again puts...

Recent debate about urgent need for reform and better collaboration within the property industry, has once again come under the spotlight...

Back in September, Westminster Council launched a new strategy to help 'protect tenants' and 'ensure they live in good-quality and well-managed...

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

It’s been an unexpected year for the property market, shaped by the effects of the pandemic. We didn’t quite anticipate the...

A businessman with links to serious criminals has lost his vast investment property empire worth nearly £10m after a National Crime...

Recent Natters have explored the differences between the UK and American models of agency, and why Purplebricks failed to make a...

Fine & Country has announced it signed a string of agencies to its brand during lockdown. Most F&C agents members are High...

Purplebricks has instructed a new legal firm to support its sales and lettings activities. Business Insider reports that the commercial team at...

London estate agency Benham & Reeves says there’s been a sharp fall-off in demand for ultra-expensive homes in prime suburbs of...

There’s been an explosion of anger about Rightmove’s pledge to undertake its biggest-ever marketing campaign - while at the same time...

Hello and welcome to Property Jobs Today - our first for some weeks as the coverage has previously been dominated by...

Hello and welcome to Conquering Corona, our bid to help agents through the crisis. If you have appropriate advice to share with...

Due to the current Coronavirus pandemic, we are all being told to stay at home as much as possible to contain...

Estate Agent Today understands that the Knight Frank agency has been hit by a large number of branch office heads quitting...

By now, most letting agents and landlords will have heard about the draft legislation laid in Parliament concerning a mandatory minimum...

The average time it took a home to sell last year - measured from its first day listed on a portal...

We’re nearing the end of another year in which many agents have faced challenging times and a frustrating market hit by...

Foxtons is reported to have closed four more branches across London, backing up widespread industry speculation that the agency is retrenching further in...

Hello and welcome to PJT: even with little more than a fortnight before Christmas it seems there are still plenty of...

It’s been clear for a while that the additional regulation landlords and agents are facing has helped professionalise the private rental...

Data from an agency comparison website reveals that in the current market it takes well over a year for a home...

It may only be October 4, but temperatures have already started to drop this week as preparations for winter begin. As we...

Hello and welcome to the latest PJT, your weekly opportunity to catch up on key moves within the industry. Everyone mentioned here...

Nicky Stevenson has had a very varied and interesting career in property. She started out as a lettings negotiator for Nicholas...

GetAgent, the comparison estate agency business, has secured £2.2m in investment from a consortium of investors including Channel 4. The backers are...

It’s time, surely, for government to crackdown not just on rogue agents and landlords but on rogue councils that confuse the...

Competition for landlords will be fiercer than ever this year. Landlords are facing a raft of changes and will likely be...

Barely a day goes by when we don’t read a new report on the unscrupulous practices of landlords; of the sub-standard...

A property platform that has chronicled the London sales market’s problems in recent years says the recovery will start in 2020...

How will things be done in the future? There’s no knowing, of course, given the many variables at play, but it’s...

Amidst all the Brexit chaos let’s remember that it’s Children In Need day...always a time when Britons’ generosity raises the spirits,...

There was a drop in the number of new listings across the UK last month, suggesting that the usual autumn rush to...