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20 December 2023
From: Breaking News
The cities of Liverpool, Nottingham and Manchester have enjoyed the biggest house price rises since pre-Covid. Despite interest rates at a 13-year...
06 September 2023
From: Breaking News
Savills and the Daily Telegraph newspaper have combined to produce a league table of what they claim to be Britain’s 50...
11 July 2023
From: Breaking News
Taking a proactive approach with viewing generation can increase foot flow through properties and generate more offers, and ultimately close more...
28 March 2023
From: Sponsored Content
Considering the cost it takes to get a lead – from advertising to PR to relationship building – could you be...
28 March 2023
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I wasn’t completely surprised to read here on Estate Agent Today that our industry remains near the bottom of the league...
06 December 2022
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Regional agent Redbrik is celebrating a string of successes as it approaches its 10-year anniversary in January. The South Yorkshire and North...
15 November 2022
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Rightmove has created a league table to identify where new buyer competition is hottest across the UK housing market. Across the country...
01 April 2022
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The UK is reported to have dropped down the league table of governments that secure vast amounts of income from property...
04 January 2022
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A new league table of earnings by estate agents, based on basic salary and commission combined, suggests that UK agents earn...
18 November 2021
From: Breaking News
A torrid period for Purplebricks' share value means it opens stock market trading today with a price of just 33p. This is less...
08 November 2021
From: Breaking News
PropTech industry giant epropservices has acquired Property Technology Ltd, better known to agents as marketing platform LeadPro. epropservices is the parent company of...
07 October 2021
From: Breaking News
PropTech platform Agent Response has just released its latest league table for conversion stats relating to the first two weeks of...
27 August 2021
From: Breaking News
Average house prices increased by 13.2 per cent over the year to June - the highest annual growth rate since November...
19 August 2021
From: Breaking News
A bulk quick buy company has surveyed purchasers who have been deterred from continuing their transactions to discover what the biggest...
19 August 2021
From: Breaking News
A controversial league table of corporate agents’ market share is deliberately excluding Purplebricks and other online agencies. This is despite Purplebricks this...
20 May 2021
From: Breaking News
The number of properties coming on the market is still not meeting the huge demand from buyers, but the level of...
14 May 2021
From: Breaking News
A league table of the most important issues facing vendors places the scale of estate agents’ charges at the bottom - and this...
11 May 2021
From: Breaking News
Iamsold, the company best known for its Modern Method of Auction online platform, has won top spot in an auction league...
21 April 2021
From: Breaking News
New research shared with Estate Agent Today suggest that in areas of the country almost four in 10 homes for sale...
16 April 2021
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An agent in part of the UK with the strongest seller’s market claims the stock shortage is the worst he’s seen...
14 April 2021
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One of the industry’s leading consultants has calculated staff turnover rates at the country’s leading estate agencies. Christopher Watkin, the consultant who...
13 April 2021
From: Breaking News
A report drawn up by a software firm analyses sales, lettings and valuation leads from agents listing on Rightmove, Zoopla and...
22 February 2021
From: Breaking News
London still dominated the league table of locations with the highest volumes of sales by value in 2020, despite the apparent...
18 February 2021
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Purplebricks has been rated as only the 10th best online agency in the country in a controversial new league table. The list...
02 February 2021
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London and other urban areas dominate the league table of locations seeing the biggest house price rises of 2020. This is despite...
31 December 2020
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OnTheMarket is to undergo a revamp under its new chief executive, former Foxtons agent Jason Tebb - who has been given...
15 December 2020
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New research attempts for the first time to identify the most lucrative property markets in the country - with surprising results...
19 November 2020
From: Breaking News
The country producing the largest number of buyers of prime London properties is not China, nor from north America or the...
20 October 2020
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London’s properties are “over-valued” according to a leading bank. UBS, which has what it calls a Global Real Estate Bubble Index, says...
07 October 2020
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A league table drawn up by a quick buy property firm claims that some estate agents' average commission has hit 2.32 per...
30 September 2020
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Figures drawn up by a property industry recruitment guru show that estate agents work only two thirds of the hours they...
23 September 2020
From: Breaking News
A new league table drawn up by a property advice website may be the most authoritative yet for first time buyers...
21 September 2020
From: Breaking News
The irrationality of Britain’s council tax system has been laid bare in a new league table drawn up by estate agency...
21 September 2020
From: Breaking News
A new league table shows how many listings exist per agency in 23 different cities across the UK. The analysis looks at the...
08 September 2020
From: Breaking News
A new analysis of corporate estate agencies’ social media followings and websites shows the big winners to be Savills, Foxtons and...
28 July 2020
From: Breaking News
In the latest of a recent flurry of consumer-facing research exercises by Rightmove, a league table of the most popular seaside...
24 June 2020
From: Breaking News
An international comparison of how major portals have discounted their charges to agents show Rightmove and Zoopla making “deeper and longer...
26 March 2020
From: Breaking News
Rightmove has seen one of the best returns on investment of any company in the FTSE indices according to an investment...
06 March 2020
From: Breaking News
UK estate agents are amongst the worst paid in any country in the world according to new data. Digital marketing firm Yell...
13 January 2020
From: Breaking News
In six years of editing Estate Agent Today, some of my most dramatic moments have been covering the troubles - some...
11 January 2020
From: Features
The year just ending was when the North-South divide in house prices and capital appreciation slammed into reverse gear according to...
31 December 2019
From: Breaking News
Connells has confirmed that it has closed two branches in Dorset in the south west of England, in addition to the...
20 December 2019
From: Breaking News
An unknown website called EA League Tables has issued a list of agencies and agency-groups which it claims shows their order by...
19 December 2019
From: Breaking News
Zoopla has revealed the most searched-for property terms on its portal in the past 12 months with ‘garage’, ‘parking’ and ‘garden’...
21 November 2019
From: Breaking News
A new league table of High Street agents’ charges published over the weekend reveals the locations where agents charge an average...
28 October 2019
From: Breaking News
A survey suggests that 15 per cent of people who work in the real estate sector feel unsafe at work. This figure...
24 October 2019
From: Breaking News
Online estate agency Housesimple has appointed a company to handle its public relations and social media as it rolls it its...
21 August 2019
From: Breaking News
Sellers across England and Wales achieve an average 95.94 per cent of their asking price according to research from estate agency...
01 August 2019
From: Breaking News
A high-end estate agency is reporting a dramatic rise in the number of US buyers in London as they have taken...
18 June 2019
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New figures released to Estate Agent Today show that a net total of 284 agents’ offices closed down in 2018. This number -...
29 May 2019
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A new analysis suggests that sales of more than four out of five homes in the UK are taking at least...
02 May 2019
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Savills has been named the winner of the real estate agents/advisor league table in the UK Business Superbrand list for the...
12 April 2019
From: Breaking News
Purplebricks has been named one of Britain’s ‘most relevant’ brands to consumers. The agency came in 13th in a list of...
09 April 2019
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There’s more bad news for Purplebricks: after a shock 80 per cent downgrading of its stock value by a bank on...
08 April 2019
From: Breaking News
Outsourced auction provider IAMSold says it is the top independent auctioneer for residential property lots sold in 2018, according to the...
05 March 2019
From: Breaking News
The online publication aimed at London’s high-rolling property professionals, Prime Resi, has named what it believes to be the capital’s 10...
31 January 2019
From: Breaking News
Purplebricks has increased its listings by an eye-opening 44 per cent in the past two weeks according to an updated analysis...
24 January 2019
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A new report from Zoopla claims very nearly a third of buyers want to know the street - or even the...
24 January 2019
From: Breaking News
Last year it was ‘disruptor’ and before that came ‘exclusive’ - now, according to one estate agency at least, the over-used...
30 November 2018
From: Breaking News
Traditional estate agent fees average just 1.1 per cent across the UK according to research from an agency comparison website -...
26 October 2018
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Few things anger the industry more than the effect of stamp duty and other costs on property transactions (well, maybe Purplebricks...
19 October 2018
From: Breaking News
The chief executive of the newly-expanded Emoov group has been giving details of the merger with Tepilo and the possibility of...
17 August 2018
From: Breaking News
Locations in the capital dominate a league table of locations where the largest numbers of so-called ‘high risk’ mortgages are taken...
11 July 2018
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Russell Quirk, chief executive of Emoov, says his agency is now one of the top seven in the UK following its...
08 June 2018
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TV property expert Sarah Beeny says she expects online agencies to take 70 per cent market share in the future -...
05 June 2018
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The annual report from the Advertising Standards Authority and the Committees of Advertising Practice, out today, shows that the estate and...
04 May 2018
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House prices have taken a spring leap in the north of England as the market improves - but it’s a different...
19 March 2018
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Lloyds Bank has revealed a league table of the cities which have seen the highest price growth over the past decade...
02 February 2018
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The government has given its support to Land Registry proposals to increase the digitalisation of its services, with changes coming into...
29 January 2018
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A new league table showing how long it takes homes to sell on average in different postcodes across England and Wales...
19 January 2018
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The Society of Licensed Conveyancers says it is worried that HM Land Registry’s decision to publish details of apparent errors in...
03 January 2018
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With an average house price of £252,896 and trains to London taking as little as 24 minutes, Luton has been named...
03 January 2018
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HM Land Registry says it’s consulting with the legal industry on a proposal to publish a league table of conveyancers who...
02 January 2018
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Rightmove has revealed the top 10 locations outside London where asking prices grew most and where homes sold fastest - and...
21 December 2017
From: Breaking News
A new book written by a PropTech expert and assessing the state of the industry has hit the Amazon best sellers’...
15 December 2017
From: Breaking News
London house prices are stuck in neutral according to the latest figures from property consultancy Hometrack, which says values in the...
25 October 2017
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UK estate agency commission levels are amongst the lowest in the world according to a league table compiled by an international...
03 October 2017
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A new survey commissioned by a property firm suggests that 31 per cent of people feel uncomfortable about the idea of...
25 August 2017
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Barclays Bank has given an optimistic view of the housing market over the next five years, with a prediction that across...
30 May 2017
From: Breaking News
Average asking prices in London have fallen, while the majority of regional markets are performing strongly, according to the latest index...
12 May 2017
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The HomeOwners' Alliance says it has identified what it describes as "the UK's best performing agent" based on how much it...
26 April 2017
From: Breaking News
The market got off to a strong start in 2017 with prices growing 0.3 per cent in January to push the...
13 February 2017
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High-end estate agency Knight Frank says prime central London prices are down as much as 14.0 per cent in the year to...
07 February 2017
From: Breaking News
The East of England, which takes in areas from Hertfordshire to Norfolk, has recorded the biggest hike in property prices over...
28 January 2017
From: Features
Each year the London Stock Exchange lists 1,000 firms in a league table entitled ‘Companies To Inspire Britain’ and for the...
15 December 2016
From: Breaking News
A property analytics company has devised a method of calculating the ‘best’ locations in which to work as an estate agent,...
05 September 2016
From: Breaking News
Estate agents and journalists don’t always have a lot in common but in a new opinion poll they rank side-by-side in...
25 January 2016
From: Breaking News
Shepherd Direct Limited - best known for owning the Century 21 UK franchise business which has 50 operators across England -...
08 January 2016
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New research from Countrywide suggests that the growth of the private rental sector and the higher number of mortgages means far...
02 November 2015
From: Breaking News
A review of 30 prominent property sales websites undertaken by a digital marketing company demonstrates, perhaps predictably, a huge lead for...