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Property marketing and communications software provider Nurtur is shifting its focus from agency networks to technology and artificial intelligence tools. It comes...

Detached homes in Wales are the slowest property types to sell across the UK and take an average of 92 days...

The market share of online and hybrid agents has continued to decrease this year but self-employed agency is growing. Data from Twenty...

Fall-throughs are costing estate agents an estimated £63m purely based on the cost of having to remarket a property and host...

A shift towards self-employed estate agency models has contributed to a decline in estate agency branches, research suggests. Analysis by property data...

Exchanges are on the rise but the amount of stock and level of properties going through conveyancing has dipped, new figures...

Digital transformation is now happening at a monumental pace, and dependence on technology is growing to new heights. In fact, the...

It’s a great time to be a homebuyer if purchasers can afford it, TwentyCi has claimed. It comes as the property data...

Mortgage lending has dropped and buyers are no longer stretching their affordability limits, UK Finance claims. New data from the banking trade...

There is uncertainty in the market but it is still moving, TwentyCi claims. It comes as figures from the property data company...

Open Property Group has carried out research which looks into where UK homeowners are moving to and if there is a...

The property market remains ‘resilient’ with more listings and homes going under, according to the latest TwentyCi data. It comes as figures...

‘Schools out for Summer’ as the Alice Cooper song goes and the kids are not the only ones looking forward to...

There is a sense of “cautious optimism” in the market with sales agreed on the rise despite the number of overall...

Agents could be giving up a “prospecting goldmine” if they effectively shut-up shop on their marketing in the run up to...

Online agents have failed to capitalise on the cost of living crisis and have seen their market share for exchanges drop...

Home-movers have been identified as one of the most attractive consumer groups during the cost-of-living crisis, contributing an estimated £29 billion...

Estate agents have brought more homes to market this month compared with January but February instruction figures are not as high...

Online agents increased their market share in 2022 but are struggling to break into higher value markets, new data has revealed. Data...

Agents are seeing more instructions as the year ends but fewer properties are selling, industry data shows. Figures from property data company...

I’ve just read an article saying that this is the time of the online estate agency. The time in question is, of...

Average property values have decreased for the third time in the past four months as Halifax warns of the end for...

Agency proptech supplier Muuvo has made new data available to help agents comply with impending Trading Standards upfront information requirements. The National...

The market share of hybrid and online agents increased slightly during the third quarter of 2022 but firms are still struggling...

The Government’s mini budget on September 23 was anything but ‘mini’ with several major announcements one of the most significant of...

Agents are getting more listings but it is taking longer for properties to go under offer, new figures show. The latest Homemover...

More stock is coming to the market but the number of sales agreed is slowing, new figures suggest. Property data company TwentyCi’s...

Asking prices for typical first-time buyer homes and equivalent rents have risen three times faster compared with the pre-pandemic years, Rightmove...

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

All regions of the UK have seen at least a 2% increase in property supply, TwentyCi claims. A June update from the...

Supply is slowly increasing but there are signs that buyers are now biding their time. Analysis by property data company TwentyCi shows...

In this Q&A, I catch up with Jesper With-Fogstrup, chief executive officer of Smoove (formerly ULS Technology until a very recent...

The average asking price across the UK is now £43,000 higher than it was in late 2019 according to data and...

Annual house price growth increased to 8.1 per cent in October according to the Halifax.  The average UK property price is now...

Like most industries, estate agency is changing. A general trend to a more hybrid model, accelerated by the pandemic has resulted...

Zoopla data has confirmed that buyer demand started to moderate in the months prior to the initial stamp duty holiday tapering...

The UK property market is always evolving but never as quickly as it is now. Traditional estate agents are seriously questioning...

In this week's Natter, I focus on the inspiring story of Clare Hughes, who has bounced back in the last 12 months...

You can always tell when Budget day is approaching. There’s lots of comment from every imaginable quarter about what the Chancellor of...

This time out, I’m in conversation with one of the big three established portals. Since it was founded in 2007, Zoopla...

Technology has advanced in leaps and bounds in recent years, undoubtedly improving many parts of the moving process for both estate...

Delays with the return of property searches is one key factor for sales taking longer to complete. As conveyancers start to warn...

Searches that are bound by the Search Code, protecting the seller, buyer and lender, are property and not client specific. As...

Newspapers are pushed through the door, whereas websites have to pull in visitors - it’s a simple but fundamental difference with vast implications...

Tenants, landlords, agents, and house buyers all breathed a sigh of relief on Halloween when the government announced that home moves...

Watching the government’s surprise press conference a couple of weekends ago the message was clear; we were heading into a gruelling...

A survey says many people under-estimate the costs of moving with conveyancing and mortgage fees often higher than expected. Some 54 per cent of...

A south coast estate agency which has been operating since the 1980s has opened its seventh office.  Jacobs Steel’s latest branch is...

Zoopla has entered into a partnership with an online platform to promote the so-called Modern Method of Auction option to estate...

Analysts are putting a surprise surge in mortgage approvals from banks down to a spike in applications ahead of the General...

Rightmove predicts that the price of property coming to market in Britain will rise by two per cent next year. The portal...

There was an increase in the number of first time buyers getting on the property ladder in September compared to the...

There's good news for the market in at least one sector - mortgages offered to first time buyers. Latest figures from the...

Fox and Sons goes digital and improves their sales progression with mio Lucy Luxton, Branch Manager at Fox and Sons, Tiverton (Devon)...

They will be the doctors, lawyers, teachers, thinkers, leaders and captains of industry of the not too distant future, but is...

Carl Hemming, Director from Ginger in Balsall Common explains how mio has quickly proven to be a cost-effective way to simplify...

When an industry disruptor enters a marketplace the impact on existing operators can be significant. It has been seen most notably...

Matt Nicholson, Sales Progressor at Edwards & Co in Rhiwbina, Cardiff, explains how adopting sales progression and communication tool, mio, has...

Welcome to this week’s ADC…and what a week it’s been. Politics? No, hot air of a different kind - the weather.  Yet...

There’s more bad news for online estate agencies this morning as a survey reveals that they have only a seven per cent...

  Who are you and what does it say on your business card?             Becky Howes, mio Account Manager What...

In the second part of my exploration of startups, I talk to a number of people with lived experience of creating...

It may well seem that the government is pre-occupied with one issue, and one issue alone. While preparations for Brexit take up a...

A new sales progression tool that claims to have been hugely successful over an 18-month pilot is being rolled out across...

Mark Witherspoon, well known in the agency industry as the former data services director of Zoopla, has joined the TwentyCi company.  TwentyCi...

Thinking about the state of communication across residential property chains is enough to induce a severe migraine. We work in a world...

After several days of gloomy market news, here's something more optimistic - there were 370,000 new first time buyer mortgages completed in...

The share of the market taken by online agencies in the final quarter of 2018 slipped from last summer’s high of...

New figures from the Mortgage Advice Bureau give an insight into the changing demographics of home buyers and buy to let...

Fresh data from a PropTech firm suggests that 'conveyancer absenteeism' is causing severe delays to property transactions. When You Move reports that...

If World Cup 2018 appeared to be low profile at the start, it didn’t last long. Following this week’s Harry Kane goals...

Three weeks has flown by (I missed an early deadline last week - apologies) and I find myself writing the next...

The comparison site Reallymoving, which allows users to get online quotes for conveyancers, surveyors and removal firms, has acquired the property...

The number of owners selling up and moving home is at its highest level since 2007 with one exception - London.  The...

A breakdown of data from over 4,100 agents has revealed that it takes on average 201 days to move home, from...

It appears activity in the housing market in 2017 will be around 15% down on 2016. The number of housing transactions...

The average cost of moving home in the UK has increased by £628 over the past year from £10,966 to £11,624...

It’s been quite a week, much of it concerning the technology that increasingly underpins our industry.  A glut of fund-raising and relaunching...

The number of existing home owners moving house fell two per cent in the first six months of 2017 compared with...

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

Excuse the puntastic (or not) title, but as you’ve no doubt already deciphered I took a trip northwards a couple of...

There were an estimated 354,000 homemovers in 2016, a fall of 4% compared to the 367,000 recorded the previous year. Analysis by...

No fewer than 174,000 people moved home in the first six months of 2016 - a rise of nine per cent...

With more house-hunters than ever now starting their search for a new home by typically looking online on one of the major...

It’s nearly June – June! – already. Seriously, where has this year gone? This means summer is nearly upon us, with a...

On Tuesday we managed hail, snow, rain, sun and a chilly wind all in one day. Whatever you want to say...

Publicity-conscious online estate agency eMoov claims vendors in London have spent £861.5m on traditional estate agents’ fees in 2015.  eMoov accuses agents...

Right, so it’s one more week till Christmas and two more weeks until we head face first into 2016. Both these...

Homes in the South East, South West and London change hands much more frequently than those in other parts of England.  Analysis...

Over 64,000 property purchases over the last year involved the buyer relying on a gift of cash for all or part...

OK, you’re being spoilt. This column is now going to be on a bi-weekly rather than monthly basis. You lucky people,...

Hello and welcome to my brand new blog! Every month I’ll be giving you an insight into the varied, exciting and...

Homeowners have saved £701million in the six months since the stamp duty system was reformed last December.   Research carried out by...

The government has allegedly ruled out any regulation of estate agents for fear that it would lead to higher fees and...