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Local authority searches are taking up to 60 days in some parts of the country - holding up the sales process. Analysis...

Winkworth has expanded into the West Midlands with its first office in Warwickshire. The agency franchise brand has setup in the Regency...

Knight Frank has announced a significant promotion in its London residential sales business.  Chelsea Whelan has been appointed regional partner for North,...

Winkworth has extended its North London presence with the opening of a new office in fashionable Stoke Newington. This will be the...

Artificial intelligence-powered property search app Jitty has gone live across central London as it accelerates its expansion across the UK. The app,...

Hamptons has made three strategic appointments aimed at fortifying its prime central London offering.  Craig Tonkin, Mark Cullen, and Mark Breffit have...

What a waste. Islington council announced in recent days that it will buy back 310 ex-council houses this winter, to add to...

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

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. Chestertons: London agent Chestertons has added two...

An index of prime London properties suggests buyers standing back as economic uncertainty reaches the upper levels of the market. The Prime...

Supply and demand is rising but there is still a shortage of larger properties for buyers, Chestertons claims. An update from the...

A new property platform aiming to help homeowners sell off-market properties has attracted 10,000 registered buyers in its first few months...

It has been a busy start to the year for job moves. If you want your jobs or appointments news to feature...

Who would be in the shoes of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng? I don’t mean who would like their power, pay and...

Agents and property professionals are travelling far and wide to raise money for charity, plus there is a new way to...

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

Savills suggests that London is returning to its role as the dominant element in the high end housing market in the...

Typical stamp duty paid by property purchasers now is actually 84 per cent more than before the pandemic and the SDLT...

Savills has welcomed its first intake of residential apprentices with seven individuals hired by the business to study and work within...

An estate agency that launched in 2018 saying that High Street offices were dead…has now opened its second physical branch in...

One of the country’s leading buying agents has set out what’s hot and what’s not in London’s housing market as it...

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

New research suggests that the number of owners enquiring to sell across Greater London has increased by 68 per cent since...

Price renegotiations are underway between buyers and sellers in danger of missing Wednesday’s stamp duty holiday deadline, says Knight Frank. The agency...

Welcome to another working week and with it, our regular update on appointments and moves within our industry. Please let us know...

A company in the German Axel Springer publishing empire - which also invested in Purplebricks in the past - has put...

Normal life still seems far away so there hasn’t been the usual spotlight on a good-news-feeling that comes every year on...

London and other urban areas dominate the league table of locations seeing the biggest house price rises of 2020. This is despite...

It may make little difference to agents but a leading analyst suggests thousands of buyers have effectively lost money on their purchase...

New research attempts for the first time to identify the most lucrative property markets in the country - with surprising results...

Hello, and if it’s the start of a new week it’s time for Property Jobs Today, giving you the inside track...

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

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

Coutts has identified areas of London where house prices are still below peak. Although the wealth manager and private bank says there...

Estate agents concerned over security breaches will be closely analysing what happens with a case concerning a London firm’s compromised email...

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

He portrays himself as a scourge of the Remoaner elite and a champion of the people, but when it comes to...

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

An estate agent is linking a drop in transactions of as much as 20 per cent with the stamp duty increases...

A dramatic slump in the supply of homes being put on sale in London means that parts of the capital now...

A high-end estate agency is reporting a dramatic rise in the number of US buyers in London as they have taken...

Whether you love or hate it, Purplebricks has undoubtedly left its mark since arriving on the scene in 2015 – much...

Thousands of homeowners listed their properties for sale in the days following the latest Brexit delay on April 12, new research...

With Easter now upon us (happy Easter, by the way, and hope you’re enjoying the long weekend, the Easter eggs and...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT - and while it may be just days to Christmas, there’s still plenty of...

Savills has snapped up an independent London estate agency in what is likely to be one of the last deals of...

Communities have missed out on more than 10,000 affordable homes in the past three years as a result of government rules...

London agency chain Portico has signed up to OnTheMarket.  The 17 branch firm, which handles both sales and lettings, has offices in...

Thanks so much for sending in more photographs of your branches as they prepare for Halloween. We have some here but want...

Marsh & Parsons will be opening a new office in Islington on September 4 - defying many analysts who say the...

An investigation by the BBC has revealed that councils are spending million buying back homes they sold at a discount under...

A new statement by Countrywide’s John D Wood & Co says its now-completed merger with Faron Sutaria has had the effect...

The much-discussed merger of Countrywide’s John D Wood & Co with Faron Sutaria brands - with the latter’s name apparently disappearing...

It's enough to make the typical Islington resident splutter over their breakfast muesli, or perhaps feel too nervous to drive their...

A 24-unit block of apartments designed by the company behind the Yo! Sushi chain has been given consent to be constructed...

An estate agency has been fined by a local authority for putting up a 'Sold' board outside a house more than...

Anarchist activists are organising what they call “the decisive battle against gentrification” - and it appears Foxtons is in the firing...

Countrywide has started the formal process of merging and rebranding some of its existing local chains, beginning with London.  John D Wood...

Two graffiti attacks on a London estate agency office in just one week have involved the slogans “F*** gentrification” and “Kill gentrifiers”...

Research from a residential investment consultancy throws light on the extraordinary large pipeline of new homes to be built in central London,...

There’s bad news today for Labour members living in homes valued at £1m or more - one of their own MPs...

Prime Central London’s residential values have risen 4.3 per cent over the past 12 months and now average £2.3m per property...

Prime Central London’s housing market will stagnate with no price growth at all next year, warns Savills. Even in 2017 price growth...

It’s been nearly a year since all lettings and property management agents have been legally required to join a redress scheme...

Labour leadership front-runner Jeremy Corbyn says he would vote for a complete end to all forms of Right To Buy and...

Islington’s Labour-controlled council has adopted pioneering new planning measures that require new homes in the borough to be regularly occupied in...

Zoopla Property Group has appointed Vin Murria as an independent non-executive director. Murria, who left her role as chief executive of AIM-listed...

A number of UK estate agents have announced further expansion and investment. Lincolnshire agency Pygott and Crone, winner of Sunday Times Estate...