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Cash buyers accounted for the highest percentage of market activity seen in the past decade and, so far this year, they’ve...

Competition from Dubai and concerns about taxation under the new Labour Government have led the world’s super-rich to spend less and...

Yopa is achieving almost £13,000 more than the average agent on a typical £450,000 home, the online agency brand claims. Using TwentyCi...

Verona Frankish has hit back at critics who claim fixed-fee agents who charge upfront fees have no motivation to sell. Frankish, chief...

Prominent housing and mortgage experts are downplaying the chance of an interest rate cut following the Bank of England monetary policy...

Industry partner the Estate Agent Content Club (EACC) has announced a new chief executive, replacing high profile founder Jerry Lyons. Amanda Bower...

A new analysis of the cost-of-moving suggests that the typical seller will incur expenses of £5,867 - and that rises hugely...

The average time it takes to sell a house from listing to completion has dropped by 0.7% in the past year,...

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

The Women in Estate Agency (WiEA) committee hosted its highly anticipated second annual conference last week. Held at The IET, Savoy Place...

A quarter of homebuyers have attempted to bribe sellers with everything from cash to kindness when trying to secure a property,...

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

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

Yopa has detailed a restructure of its business after chairman Grenville Turner mysteriously stepped down as a director. Companies House documents last...

Hundreds of properties are having their asking prices cut each day, new analysis reveals as agents and sellers continue to try...

Around half of homebuyers will continue to postpone plans to purchase a property after the Autumn Statement failed to provide sufficient...

You’ll know by now that I’m a fully signed up member of the PropTech fan club. And I’ve had an exciting...

The first Women in Estate Agency Award winners were announced at the ESTAS last week. The ESTAS Awards marked its 20th anniversary last...

The Women in Estate Agency (WiEA) group is launching a webinar series. The first will go live on Friday 13 October at...

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...

Experts are warning that the weekend’s better than expected economic news could indirectly hurt the housing market. The UK economy grew by...

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

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

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...

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

The gap between online and traditional high street agents has shrunk, the chief executive of Yopa has claimed. Speaking at the Propertymark...

Just because you don’t live in London - and of course the vast majority of people don’t - doesn’t mean you’ve...

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

Propertymark has released details of a panel featuring several industry heavyweights at its much anticipated conference in June. Founder of emoov-turned-property-pundit and...

Safety, support, health, wealth and happiness were the key firms of the inaugural Women in Estate Agency group conference last week. The...

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

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

When Winter stabs its icy fingers at us Brits our thoughts tend to turn to sun-kissed beaches, the lapping Mediterranean and...

Agents using Boomin have managed to convert more than 20% of SmartVal valuation requests into instructions. The challenger portal and lead generation...

Normally estate agents are rightly proud of their professional abilities to provide expertise to vendors when it comes to selling -...

A former Purplebricks chief is the new CEO of rival online company Yopa. Verona Frankish has been involved in the property industry...

There are many features and functionalities a website must have to be successful. Ultimately, the purpose of your website should be...

As you’ll know by now, I like to use the Natter to shine a light on independent agents doing things a...

An international property and residency consultancy claims the sold prices of homes in some prime London locations have collapsed by up to 40...

High profile agency owner Sean Newman is offering his entire self-employed team of 100 agents and mortgage advisors a chance for...

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...

Hello and welcome to the end of the week - Friday means charity day, with an update on our industry’s latest...

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

Tuesday mornings at 6am is usually my time to review all the latest PropTech news. This fires off ideas for my...

The only story that has come remotely close to pushing coronavirus – and its various knock-on effects – off the top...

The Bank of England has announced an emergency cut in the base interest rate to shore up the economy during the Coronavirus...

Another weekend, another storm: it’s hard to put a smile on your face when winter goes on this long but the...

OnTheMarket’s TV advert, promoting its ‘New & exclusive’ feature, will be back on screens from Boxing Day ahead of what it calls a...

The Australian agent is a very different beast to his or her British counterpart - no surprises there. And it’s not...

A high proportion of over-65s would consider moving to a bungalow and believe more properties should be designed exclusively for older...

OnTheMarket’s selective fee freeze for agents has been challenged by a new portal which asks agents: ‘Why pay at all?’ OTM revealed...

OnTheMarket TV adverts return on Monday with what the portal calls “a refreshed version” giving more prominence to its ‘new and...

An estate agent has been jailed for 19 months and will have to be on the sex offenders’ register for the...

A new global free-to-list property portal says it has secured 800 new property enquiries for estate agents in the last four...

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

All the most successful startups of recent years – from Airbnb and Uber to Just Eat and Deliveroo – have melded...

New free-to-list portals Residential People and Commercial People are aiming to secure one million property listings by Q4 2019. The portals -...

OnTheMarket will be “blanketing the commercial radio landscape” as well as engaging in sports and agency industry sponsorship programmes over the...

An estate agent who stole per £300,000 from an estate agency spent the money on designer goods and expensive holidays -...

In the past year it seems every other story has been about PropTech - the big stuff like Purplebricks and the...

Activists from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender movement are reported to have staged what they called a “queer kiss-in" outside...

In the first of an ongoing series exploring the people who make the property industry tick, I catch up with James...

We're almost a week into December and still images of agents’ offices arrive. We're grateful to all those who have sent...

As Trussle and Placester add to 2017s bonkers tally of PropTech investment, isn’t it time we end the conflict between Tech...

It seems prop-tech is exploding at a scary rate, and the latest brands are all trying to grab our attention by...

Annoying isn’t it. You take on a stunning property, agree a compelling asking price and your Vendor is desperate to get the...

A health service tribunal has found that a senior paramedic tried to sexually assault an estate agent as she prepared for...

The key lies in improving your customer experience through technology For Agents, the tremendous growth in online estate agents highlights a strong...

Two men who confessed to killing a British estate agent are being held in Turkish controlled northern Cyprus - although they...

What is Properstar? Properstar helps UK estate agents cross the chasm from local to global in respect of advertising their properties. Using...

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An international accountancy consultancy says mainland Europe levies some of the highest property purchase taxes in the world - and that...

Respected housing analyst Kate Faulkner is accusing campaigning charity Shelter of ignoring key facts and scaremongering about the alleged difficulties of...

An estate agent has spoken out about the threat of ‘abandoned sales’ if a completion bottleneck prevents purchases of properties going...

Who are you? Steve Gosney. What does it say on your business card? Managing Director of Kremer Signs. How long has Kremer Signs...

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

On Wednesday 21st October future and reality will collide. Back to the Future’s Marty McFly will arrive in the DeLorean to...

An out-spoken estate agent has claimed that first-time buyers in the North East of England will need to save deposits of...