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Estate agents are braced for a busy Autumn selling season after the first interest rate cut since March 2020. The Bank of...

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 over the past week. If there are charitable endeavours you think...

Dorset-based Oliver Miles Estate Agents has been acquired by another local brand. Its founder Oliver Miles has retired and sold the business...

Lomond has strengthened its foothold in the Midlands with its 50th acquisition since launching just three years ago. Through its John Shepherd...

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,...

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

New analysis from Rightmove claims to reveal the cheapest UK city for a first time buyers to get on the property...

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

Next week may not be the best time for agents to chase conveyancers waiting for Land Registry information. The Public and Commercial...

Independent estate agent DM & Co. Homes has launched a weekly update on the regional housing market presented by managing director...

A West Midlands estate agent has backed Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s plans to reverse cuts to Stamp Duty, claiming they should never...

The last week has been dramatic even by the standards of UK politics, with a Cabinet and junior minister rebellion bringing...

In this piece, the team at Iceberg Digital look at whether the first cracks are appearing in the portals. For the last...

Rightmove has created a league table to identify where new buyer competition is hottest across the UK housing market. Across the country...

As debate rages over levelling up and a north/south property divide, in the first of a new monthly column, property expert...

Halifax has revealed the UK’s most expensive streets in 2021 - and it’s no surprise that the very dearest examples are...

A regional estate agency that markets homes without charging the vendor is set to expand next year. Midlands-based Chosen Home explains its...

Since 2017, The DPS has used the data we collect to track the rental values of properties across all regions of...

Hello and welcome to Agents Do Charity as we are on the threshold of May why not get on to the...

Fixflo’s webinar on February 9 saw an industry panel debate 2021’s threats and opportunities for letting agents. The panel discussed a range...

Welcome to part three of our ongoing series on local independent agents, as we seek to give this all-important part of...

The Property Ombudsman has announced that it will postpone its annual conference, which was to have been on June 18, until...

Sellers in the past 12 months accepted an average of 96 per cent of their asking price according to new research. Comparison...

The 2010s were a good decade for disrupters. Early on, Airbnb and Uber shook up the holiday lettings/hospitality and traditional black...

An estate agency that won a major property award only 18 months ago has shut after trading for 40 years. The Marlborough...

A rugby star has signed a deal to operate the easyProperty franchise in his home town area. Castleford Tigers prop forward Liam...

Hello and welcome to a new week, and a new edition of PJT. If you’re on the move or your firm has...

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

Purplebricks claims it actually sells - not just lists - three times more than the UK’s next largest estate agency.  The claim...

Two very different views on Brexit have come forward in the past 24 hours from different players in the industry. First off,...

A sales and lettings agency which has entered insolvency is reported by a local newspaper to have offered vendors cut-price fees...

No less than 56 per cent of properties across the UK are in areas that are affordable for first time buyers...

 – use technology to build a trusted brand as a people-focused custodian of client money Non-stop regulatory changes in the industry are...

The Property Ombudsman’s annual conference is to hear from the chair of the government’s ‘Property Agents Working Group’ - just days...

An estate agent in the north of England has been confronted by vigilantes who duped him into thinking they were underage girls.  The...

With Christmas less than four weeks away (yes, really) the countdown to the festive season begins tomorrow when December begins. Charity...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity - it’s our weekly round-up of good work done by the industry. Everyone...

Traditional estate agent fees average just 1.1 per cent across the UK according to research from an agency comparison website -...

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

One of the industry’s best-known software suppliers Reapit has announced that it’s acquired Pocket Size Media - a firm that provides...

An online agency says it knows exactly when a home should be marketed in order to sell in the optimum timeframe.  And...

Stephanie Slater died last week, aged 50. Whilst she died from cancer (tragically, only 11 days after diagnosis), it’s the events...

Remember when August used to be quiet with not much news? This year, whether it’s industry upheavals at Countrywide, Purplebricks and Agents’...

Network Auctions has added 19 additional estate agency offices to its network so far this year.  They include three offices of Chaffers...

There’s been a bumper mailbag sent to press@estateagenttoday.co.uk this week to mark what must be the height of the fund-raising season...

The Olympics are inspiring us, the summer is distracting us, and then there’s the day job of working too. Yet despite all...

An estate agent has been ordered by a court to pay more than £7,500 after admitting advertising holiday homes as permanent...

A small estate agency is spelling out why it has taken the unusual step of scrapping its established High Street office...

It’s not just organised charity fund-raising that our industry throws its weight behind - it’s also individual acts of kindness and...

Let Mid West Displays get your window in shape! Never underestimate the power of high street presence. Image is everything, and what...

Newham in London recorded the biggest percentage rise in house prices among major UK towns and cities over the past year,...

New property listings on Rightmove plummeted by 21.5 per cent across the UK in November according to an analysis made by...

Hull estate agency Beercock Wiles and Wick has amended the wording of a regional press advertisement following a complaint to the Advertising...

If you think house price indices are confusing, just look at affordability indices. As recently as Monday BBC TV news reported that,...

A new analysis of rising property values measured in price per square metre, suggests one location has risen 773 per cent...