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Winkworth agents Shilpa and Ajay Bathija have extended their presence in North London – taking over the network’s Hendon office.  Ajay, who...

Sir Simon Clarke’s call for Rishi Sunak to be ousted from Downing Street may well express what many of his MP...

NatWest chairman Sir Howard Davies sparked fury on social media last week after claiming it isn’t difficult to get on the...

A high-profile agency brand has hit out at “cheerleader’ estate agents” who it claims encourage vendors to push up the asking...

A coroner says there is insufficient evidence to determine the cause of death of a 23-year-old estate agent found on a...

Hello and welcome to the end of the week - an opportunity for you to catch up with charity news from...

The Grenfell Tower disaster in June 2017 exposed the dangers of inflammable cladding on residential tower blocks, and what has come...

Another property company has announced its participation in the Kickstart scheme. The initiative is aimed at young people aged 16 to 24...

Estate agents might be expert at advising on buying and selling properties on their books but when it comes to buying...

The scores are in….and it looks like house prices are going to rise gently in 2020 according to forecasts from almost...

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

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

Hello, we hope you had a good weekend, and welcome to Monday - as ever, Property Jobs Today time, bringing you...

The number of new mortgages approved by banks fell to a six-month low in September - but the annual figure shows...

Of all the UK properties for sale over the last year, 59% would have been exempt from any type of transaction...

Average house prices in the UK increased by a mere 0.9 per cent in the year to June - the lowest...

The Competition and Markets Authority has provisionally found that four agencies broke competition law by taking part in a price fixing...

House prices rose slightly more rapidly in the first three months of the year but growth is likely to remain subdued...

Just when you thought it was all Brexit doom and gloom, a major index shows that house prices in February grew...

The latest Bank of England mortgage figures suggest that approvals for home buyers are running at more than a fifth below...

A slew of property experts and commentators have put the blame on Brexit for a surprise drop in house price growth...

One of the country’s most influential bodies says house price rises over 2019 will be limited to around two per cent...

House price rises are now the slowest they have been for six years according to the Halifax. Across the UK, property values...

It’s been nine years since we created a dedicated team of property receptionists to answer telephone calls on behalf of agents,...

Winkworth is a giant national agency franchise but this autumn it is marking a series of anniversaries for several of its...

The EY ITEM Club, regarded as one of the most influential groups of economists in the UK, says it’s still “dubious”...

The fast-expanding Spicerhaart group has launched its own in-house Property Marketing Academy and has secured a well-known industry trainer and coach...

The housing market “is clearly currently struggling to gain traction” and any real upturn ”will remain elusive over the coming months”...

The Advertising Standards Authority has intervened after receiving a complaint about a website and online advertisement for the Howard Cundey agency. The...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity - and just because it’s half term, don’t think the industry has...

Fewer mortgages were approved for home buyers last month than in the same month a year ago according to figures from...

The Ernst & Young ITEM Club - a group of economists highly regarded by politicians and some sectors of the property...

This year is going to be “challenging” for the housing market according to the influential Ernst & Young ITEM Club, a...

Howard Quirk, a prominent estate agent in the 60s, 70s and 80s, has passed away, aged 71. He was the senior partner...

Sajid Javid, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, has launched a consultation on proposals to reform the house buying...

New figures from UK Finance, the umbrella body for finance houses, show gross mortgage lending in September rose to £21.4 billion...

A major regional agency with offices in Kent, Surrey and Sussex says its new online service - Howard Cundey LIVE -...

Agents say the latest Nationwide index showing a surprise rise in house prices does not change the fact that it is...

Over 168,000 new homes were completed in the year to March 2016, according to data released by the government, over 15,500...

Devon & Cornwall police are appealing for information after an estate agents in the small town of Ashburton had its windows...

Despite Brexit and economic uncertainty, there is still confidence from many agencies that are expanding, opening and acquiring even this late...

Zoopla Property Group claims that in the past two weeks, over 40 agency branches have returned to listing on Zoopla and...

An eleven-branch estate agency has announced that it will stop listing with OnTheMarket and is returning to Zoopla Property Group (ZPG). Howard...

With the number of new homes being built across the UK still significantly below the level needed to meet demand, housebuilders...

This week, 25 years ago the world's first website went live to those of us who were around then.  Amazingly, despite the...

The firm which this week announced it had won a landmark money laundering appeal case says it's not all doom and...

A centre-right think tank founded by Tory former planning minister Nick Boles is urging a review of stamp duty to link...

There is one common denominator amongst the majority of those who dominate the latest Sunday Times Rich List, regarded as the...