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Savills has strengthened its senior team with the appointment of Tommy Newbigging to lead its new homes department across Essex and parts...

A cross-industry collaboration aims to showcase how working horizontally across key stages of the home-buying and selling journey can positively impact...

Six out of the UK’s top 10 conveyancers are now aboard a new transactions platform that aims to speed up property...

Home moving platform Movemnt has announced an exclusive partnership with conveyancing services provider LMS. The partnership makes use of LMS’ wider panel...

The Guild of Property Professionals is trying to encourage more networking between its members.  A series of local meetings are being hosted...

This week I reached the point of maximum political saturation. We’re now four weeks into the campaign with less than a...

Last week, the UK’s leading conveyancing services provider, LMS, announced a five- year strategic partnership with software, data and insight business,...

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 this week. If there are charitable endeavours you think the rest...

Forget baubles and tinsel, one estate agent has taken a different approach to festive branch window decorations, Christmas films. The Wirral and...

The Open Property Data Association (OPDA) has expanded its executive committee with the appointment of Nick Chadbourne from conveyancing panel provider LMS. The...

Fine & Country Chelmsford’s managing directors Ed Casson and Simon Pelling have expanded further into the region, taking on the licence...

Mortgage rates could be set to finally fall below 5%, brokers claim. The pricing of home loans has rocketed this year amid high...

A new analysis of the housing market has assessed 50 cities in the UK to establish which is best for first...

Industry figure Sean Newman has named seven additional speakers for the Estate Agent Success Summit, with 50% of tickets already sold. The...

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...

If we turn the clock back only twenty years, the concept of managing our lives from a handheld device was within...

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...

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

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...

HSBC has announced a new round of branch closures but an estate agent suggests there may be a positive side for...

With the sudden rise in energy prices in the last few months, many tenants will be feeling the pinch. Combine this...

Buyer demand is cooling but the property sector still remains in a sellers’ market for now, new analysis claims. The latest National...

There is a staggering £117 billion worth of property currently up for sale across the UK property market, according to new...

Regional agent Dacre, Son & Hartley is expanding into York and has appointed experienced estate agent, Nick Udovicic, to head up...

Sales and lettings board provider Agency Express has launched a strategic partnership with The Key Safe Company. The partnership provides a bolt-on...

A popular and respected estate agent in Essex, who also campaigned nationally against homelessness, has died just days after bing diagnosed...

The supply of new properties coming to the market is up on this time last year in every single region of...

With Remembrance Sunday this weekend, the nation and our industry will remember those who fell. Yesterday on Estate Agent Today we featured one...

Southend on Sea, soon to be designated a city out of respect for murdered MP Sir David Amess, is to see...

The stamp duty holiday concluded at midnight, marking the end of the busiest period for the industry - all parts of...

LSL Property Services - parent company of Your Move, Reeds Rains and Marsh & Parsons - has reported record figures as...

A prominent advocate of a reformed transaction process says more secure moving systems can help agents maintain high business levels when...

Two of Britain's largest agency groups have sold their stakes in a property search firm. Both LSL and Connells have announced the sale...

So, who would have thought it? England finally beat Germany in a knockout game at a major competition - and it...

An agency says two thirds of its sales valuations in London in the first quarter of the year have been conducted...

LSL Property Services, owner of Reeds Rains and Your Move agencies, has sold its holding in conveyancing panel management firm LMS...

Welcome to Agents Do Charity, the weekly fund-raising catch up - as ever, even during challenging times, it’s great to see...

One of the biggest TV hits of lockdown has been the Netflix show Call My Agent! It’s a surprise success, perhaps, because...

Hello and welcome to Friday, the day when we highlight agents’ great work to raise funds for good causes despite the continuing...

With the Government announcement this week of another national lockdown across England amid the surging coronavirus infections, it once again puts...

Hello and welcome to our latest doffing of the cap in honour of those in our industry fund-raising for great causes....

Recent debate about urgent need for reform and better collaboration within the property industry, has once again come under the spotlight...

A conveyancing firm is blaming councils for delays in transactions. Conveyancers have themselves been sharply criticised in recent weeks as the sharp...

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

Estate Agent Today can reveal that a string of Countrywide offices across the country have been closed in recent weeks - but...

Another US real estate agency wants to follow Keller Williams, Berkshire Hathaway and others by opening in the United Kingdom. Nest Seekers International...

Hello and welcome to the end of the week and the prospect of a sunny weekend. We appreciate fund-raising is difficult with...

With most fund-raising involving organised runs, treks or mudders, we know how difficult it is right now to do great work...

Rightmove has given a regional breakdown in where  buyer demand is strongest in the past two weeks. It’s perhaps no surprise that...

A former chief executive of Countrywide has issued a string of extravagant claims about the lockdown success of the online agency...

Just a month ago our homes felt, for many of us, to be a mere pitstop on a centrifuge of work,...

Hello and as it’s Monday it’s PJT Day - and there are plenty of people moving jobs in our industry even...

A hub-style agency says it’s achieved what it calls a mega-sale - and claims it’s the largest ever by a hub...

Reapit has joined a consortium attempting to make the long-anticipated end-to-end digital home buying process a reality. It’s joined the IPN Consortium,...

First things first, a big happy New Year to everyone. Welcome to 2020! It looks set to be another interesting year...

The year just ending was when the North-South divide in house prices and capital appreciation slammed into reverse gear according to...

Hello and welcome to your regular Monday PJT, the essential guide to who’s moving where in our industry. Everyone mentioned here got...

Three former online estate agency founders - including the controversial Russell Quirk - are going into mainstream full fee agency. They are...

We daren’t mention it but this is the final Bank Holiday before…well, Christmas.  Let’s hope agents and suppliers have an opportunity to...

It’s another Friday so it’s another Agents Do Charity - of course! It’s August and the height of the holidays but as...

Hello - it’s that time of the week again when we celebrate the agency industry’s fantastic fund-raising. We were delighted that our...

A new analysis suggests that sales of more than four out of five homes in the UK are taking at least...

The end of the snow has given way to warmer weather, and while it’s a little early to speak of spring...

The former chief executive of Emoov says he has the answer to Foxtons’ current downbeat performance - it should exploit its...

Peter Knight, co-founder and public face of Agents Giving, is stepping down as the charity’s chairman. He is to be succeeded by...

London estate agency JOHNS&CO, which specialises in new homes, has opened its seventh office in the capital - the announcement came...

New data reveals that new property listings have fallen for three successive months - and that includes a huge 17.1 per...

The creative agency behind the new round of Purplebricks Commisery TV advertisements have been explaining the philosophy they brought to the...

As housing market stakeholders we’ve all had a month or so to try and digest the government’s own response to its...

Four estate agencies have opened new branches, either as a result of expansion or because of acquisitions. Homes4u has opened a futuristic...

Alice Hickmott is the perfect advertisement for apprentices in estate agency - especially as we are now in National Apprentice Week.  Essex...

The other day I met with two agents who have 30 years of property sales experience between them, and yet also...

Claims by President Donald Trump that the US got a bad deal by selling its prime central London embassy and building...

With an average house price of £252,896 and trains to London taking as little as 24 minutes, Luton has been named...

A local news outlet in Essex is reporting that a Chelmsford agent claims he crashed his car whilst driving drunk following...

Chris Bell, a former chief executive of bookies’ organisation Ladbrokes, has been named as the non-executive chairman of Agents’ Mutual as...

A new firm has launched in Surrey describing itself as “the premium hybrid estate agency” with an innovative presence on the...

In this week’s Natter I’m going to get all political. Don’t worry, I won’t be giving my opinions on Brexit, Trump...

Since the seventies, housing starts and completions across England and Wales have been on a downward trajectory. The long run average...

It’s been another busy week of fund-raising for agents across the industry, sparing time to do good works despite the market...

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

Marsh & Parsons has expanded its Residential Development & Investment team - just one of a number of agencies to announce...

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

Thanks so much for your enthusiastic response to our request for pictures of your fabulous office windows and decorations - they’re...

Some sectors of the industry have been giving their initial reactions to the shock Donald Trump victory in the US presidential election.  Camilla...

Another agency has opened an office in the troubled Nine Elms scheme in central London - this time the new entrant...

We are now less than a month away from Philip Hammond’s first Autumn Statement to the nation, depending of course on...

Knight Frank has launched its 30th London residential office having opened the doors of its new branch in Victoria.  The agency says...

The government has revealed that its £2 billion accelerated construction fund will be used to guarantee housing schemes, including deals to...

An agency that has opened a new office in the controversial Nine Elms area of London has published research claiming that...

Fears raised over the UK housing market in the wake of the Brexit vote have so far proved to be ‘wide...

Some of London’s ailing new homes schemes may have been thrown a lifeline by the decision of technology giant Apple to occupy...

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

Square foot prices at one of central London’s most controversial new developments - Nine Elms - are down eight per cent...

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