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Mortgaged buyers have continued to drive the property market even in the two years since mortgage rates peaked, research suggests. Property brand...

Plymouth has been named as the fasted location to sell a home in a new index. OnTheMarket has unveiled a new monthly...

New research has revealed the areas where sellers have the best chance of finding a cash buyer. Analysis by My Home Conveyancing...

Gary Hersham, the founder of high-end London-focussed agency Beauchamp Estates, has been given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the property data...

Almost half of properties sold in prime central London (PCL) this year had a price reduction, research suggests. The latest data from...

Yesterday we covered the story of self-employed estate agency brokerage eXp revealing three new agencies to have taken on the corporate...

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

Our latest research has revealed London’s six best performing boroughs when it comes to positive property price growth. But a wider trend...

From medieval castles to Elizabethan manor houses, Georgian townhouses and Victorian terraces, the UK’s historic buildings are central to our country’s...

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

Five years ago, Lettings expert, Tim Lawler, wrote an article for Estate Agent Today charting his early experiences of setting up...

Momentum within London’s £5m-plus residential market slowed in 2023, according to Savills, but sales remain well above the pre-pandemic average. Research across...

London agent Maskells has expanded further into the capital. Having opened its second office in Kensington and Notting Hill in 2021 to...

Prime buying agency Black Brick has seen cash buyers double this year. Data from the buying agent shows 66% of clients have...

Chestertons has launched a new initiative with its e-Bike partner Forest that it hopes will get 5,000 of its customers and...

Savills has appointed Mark Redfern to head its Notting Hill sales department. Having worked in the prime central London property market for...

London’s troubled sales market has turned a corner and is set to end the year on a high according to one...

Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices London has opened a new office on Sloane Avenue. It will service Knightsbridge, Belgravia, Chelsea and South Kensington. The agency...

Foxtons has regained its position as London’s number one agent in Guy Gittins’ first year as chief executive. Former Chestertons boss Gittins...

Almost a third of homes sold across Britain have been purchased by a cash buyer, new research shows. Analysis of the latest...

Chestertons has announced its second acquisition in six weeks and third of the year. The London agent has acquired boutique Chelsea agency...

Market analysis by estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk, reveals that Homebuyers can buy a fort for the same price as a...

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

It has been a mixed year for prime London markets, with some areas faring better than others when it comes to...

Hamptons’ branches have been getting into the Christmas spirit with some lovely festive window displays that include plenty of tasting-looking properties. Staff...

The boundaries of prime central London are expanding, new research claims. The PCL market is generally described as the exclusive districts of...

Relocation Agent Network (RAN) has announced a change in date for its annual RANCON conference. Taking into account the national rail and...

A high-profile London estate agency has been chided by iconic Hollywood actor Sir Michael Caine for using his image and one...

Property sales are currently taking 15 weeks on average to complete, new research claims. Challenger portal and property platform OneDome has launched...

New Prime Minister Liz Truss wasn’t the only person taking on a high-profile role yesterday. Guy Gittins has officially taken the helm at...

Savills has released a revised five-year forecast for the UK’s prime housing markets, to reflect the strong levels of activity in...

It’s the fifth anniversary of the Grenfell fire tragedy, but are high rises any safer today than they were then? On 14th...

House price growth may be slowing but there is still plenty of movement in the property jobs market. Here are some of...

Many people in recent years will have become familiar with challenger banks such as Monzo, Starling and Atom. Many will have...

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

The property supply shortage may be easing but Zoopla has warned it will still take some time for stock to be...

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

Welcome to the latest edition of Property Jobs Today, your chance to catch up with who’s going where and why in...

A new analysis has revealed those areas of England and Wales with the largest numbers of Russian-owned homes. Credas Technologies analysed Land...

It appears that new controls on property ownership may feature in future sanctions against Russia in response to its aggression in Ukraine. Prime...

The London agency that was at the forefront of introducing the ‘serviced office hub’ concept of working for self-employed agents has...

This is our first Property Jobs Today column of 2022 and it’s testimony to how busy our industry is right now...

The Nationwide has released data listing the most and least affordable locations in Britain - background information for agents. Some entries are...

An estate agency has revealed which London boroughs have been the busiest in terms of the number of homes sold as...

House prices are up by as much as £100,000 on this time last year according to a mortgage company. Research by the...

The housing market boom of 2021 has given rise to an increasing number of £1m-plus deals.  Government statistics analysed by mortgage firm...

This year, Londoners purchased 112,780 homes outside the capital, the highest number since 2007. New data, from Connells-owned agency Hamptons, shows that...

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

The average first-time buyer’s home across Britain has increased in price by approaching £9,000 a year for the past decade. FTBs are...

Knight Frank has appointed David Lewis as head of rural sales for Devon and West Somerset. Lewis’s career in residential property began...

Hello and welcome to a new week - and even as Christmas approaches there remains plenty to report about people moving...

A business once called “the UK’s poshest estate agent” has revealed that it’s under new management. Bective - formerly called Bective Leslie...

Hello and welcome to the latest PJT, your chance to catch up with who’s moving where in our industry. If you have...

The total value of homes in Britain has risen 20 per cent - that’s £1.6 trillion – in the past five...

A new Rich List of the most expensive streets has been revealed by Zoopla.  Kensington Palace Gardens in London holds the title...

Jonny Dyson, a leading London estate agent and the former regional director of John D Wood & Co., has joined Winkworth...

First-time buyers are £25,000 worse off thanks to the stamp duty holiday, according to estate agent comparison site GetAgent. The website revealed...

Buyers are getting less square foot for their money when buying a property. Research by insurer Churchill has found that the average...

A much higher than usual proportion of homes on sale in the current market have successfully found a buyer, according to...

In this week’s In Conversation Today, we have one of the most familiar names in agency on board for a Q&A....

London’s housing market may be distinctly lacklustre compared to much of the rest of the UK right now but one development...

Independent agents come in all shapes, sizes and looks, many with their own USPs and little quirks. It is this variety...

The number of transactions is scheduled to reach 1.52 million this year - way above the norm of between 1.0 and...

The Prime Central London pain throughout the pandemic can be seen by new figures just released by an investment consultancy, showing...

The UK affiliated agency of Warren Buffett’s global real estate company has acquired a historic independent company operating in prime central...

Hello and welcome to this edition of Property Jobs Today, a chance to catch up with who’s moving where in the...

A study by estate agency Coulters has revealed which areas of the country make the biggest savings courtesy of the stamp...

London still dominated the league table of locations with the highest volumes of sales by value in 2020, despite the apparent...

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

London’s largest independent estate agency, Dexters, suggests that the stamp duty holiday ending in 12 weeks time will have relatively little...

Zoopla has revealed precisely how much house prices have risen over the course of 2020. Across the UK as a whole prices...

We are on the threshold in December with the pandemic still dominating but we’re delighted there is still positive jobs news...

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

Countrywide, which is thought to have closed over a fifth of its branches in recent years, has opened a new office...

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

Sales of £1m-plus homes have surged since lockdown as affluent buyers seek more space and lifestyle changes.  An average of 868 £1m-plus...

Hello and welcome to the start of a new week and a new edition of Property Jobs Today, your chance to...

Countrywide’s high-end brand John D Wood and Co has launched a new country house department, to take advantage of growing demand...

A woman who bought a London house in 2012 is now suing the conveyancers that worked for her at the time...

A league table drawn up by a quick buy property firm claims that some estate agents' average commission has hit 2.32 per...

With the UK officially in what has been described as the single worst national recession in the world, one agency has...

The proportion of the asking price achieved on average in the past year is 95.8 per cent according to a new survey. Comparison...

A major agency is warning that the current stamp duty holiday could leave the housing market in a state of lethargy...

Government figures show the 218,975 properties within Greater London have Chinese owners - and two agents say there will be more...

The death has been announced of Colin Lowman, a veteran south London estate agent who had a 64 year career in...

The popular and well respected ex-Knight Frank partner Tom Tangney has joined Rose & Partners, a boutique property firm serving prime...

Over Easter we carried stories of good deeds done by agents and how firms were coping with working from home -...

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

Hello and another Monday means PJT Day, your regular update on movers in the industry. You know the drill by now: if...

Estate Agent Today understands that three senior figures have departed from a key central London branch of Knight Frank. Each of them was...

The landscape of the estate agency market in the UK is evolving to reflect changes in the way we live our...

Yes, believe it or not, we’ve nearly reached the end of a whole decade. And what an eventful decade it’s been. We’ve...

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

[Estate Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise...

London’s specialist mews estate agency, Lurot Brand, is opening a new office in the capital.  Established in 1971 and widely regarded as...

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

The number of prime residential housing transactions has increased rapidly in the past two decades and even in the past five...

The price premium paid by purchasers for a freehold property rather than a leasehold is at its highest for eight years. An...

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

Hello and welcome to the latest PJT, your weekly opportunity to catch up on key moves within the industry. Everyone mentioned here...