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Parents are willing pay 25% extra to live in the right catchment area for a top state primary school, research suggests. New...

Bloor Homes, the UK’s largest non-listed housebuilder has signed a 12-month contract Zoopla.  All Bloor Homes' 80 developments across all nine regions...

Buyer demand levels climbed significantly between the first and second quarters of this year, research suggests. GetAgent’s Hotspots Demand Index monitors quarterly...

A newly-launched upmarket agency network has attracted two former Fine & Country agents. James Cooper and Alia Khan are the latest top-flight...

Knight Frank says it’s opened six new offices over the past two years, and hired 14 new partners, as part of...

Buyer demand has continued to climb during the first quarter (Q1) of the year, research suggests. Analysis by agency comparison website GetAgent...

Keller Williams UK’s (KWUK) new chief executive Mark Readings has outlined a new strategy for the self-employed agency brand. Speaking at KWUK’s...

Keller Williams UK (KWUK) is set to hold its largest ever UK event.  The KWUK Megacamp will take place at the VUE cinema in...

The team behind regional agency brands Simpson & Partners and Simpson and Weekley is developing a hybrid franchise model. Andrew Simpson and...

Eight agents were excluded from The Property Ombudsman (TPO) scheme during the first quarter of 2023 including collapsed online brand Doorsteps for...

New 2023 research from Open Property Group found that just 41% of homes in England meet the recommended Energy Performance Certificate...

Next week may not be the best time for agents to chase conveyancers waiting for Land Registry information. The Public and Commercial...

Midlands-based land and property company Sheldon Bosley Knight (SBK) has kicked off the new year by snapping up another business. Coventry sales...

New research has uncovered the most densely populated areas for estate agency branches. Agency comparison website GetAgent’s internal data tracks the number...

Seven adverts pushing the Government’s flagship levelling up policy have been banned. The advertising watchdog censured the Department for Levelling Up, Housing...

Agency franchise brand Keller Williams UK (KWUK) held its largest ever UK event at the Vue cinema in London’s Leicester Square...

Property demand has dropped while price reductions have increased in recent weeks, data shows. Two separate pieces of industry data give new...

The Agency UK – which was set up by three ex-employees of Purplebricks – has strengthened its team with the arrival...

NB Estate Agents has added a royal touch to its branch window display.  The Loughborough-based independent agent, which covers Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire,...

Adoption of virtual tours among estate agents remain low but new data suggests they could boost sales. Industry analysis shows just 4%...

A former chairman of challenger bank Monzo has joined OneDome’s board. Tim Brooke Thom has been appointed as non-executive director of the challenger...

The sales arm of independent Leicester agency Fothergill Wyatt has been sold to fast-growing local business Hortons. Fothergill Wyatt was established in...

Buyers typically pay 10.8 per cent extra for chain-free properties than for similar homes with chains, according to new research. Website GetAgent...

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

The police have been called in to investigate the ongoing cyber-security incident which has led to many firms in the Simplify...

Hello and welcome to the first PJT of autumn - an update on who’s moving where right now. Please let us know...

A Midlands property firm has quit its city centre premises after 25 years and says the pandemic has proved it can...

Online estate agency Strike - which used to be HouseSimple - is expanding its sell-for-free service out across the Midlands and...

Despite the vast amount of publicity given to the concept of virtual viewing, a survey suggests relatively few properties on sale...

It might be tempting during the pandemic to focus simply on the business, yet many agents have been turning their attention...

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

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

A new league table shows how many listings exist per agency in 23 different cities across the UK.  The analysis looks at the...

For many agents it’s been a big week…not because of the surge of buyers, but because their children have returned to...

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of PJT - we know some agencies are reshaping their structures and downsizing but this...

Government guidelines regarding future Leicester-style local lockdowns suggest that branches can remain open and viewings can continue. However auction houses must shut. So...

The return of non-essential businesses to lockdown in Leicester as a result of a localised spike in Coronavirus cases is a...

A woman claims she had no idea that her husband stole almost £1.5m from two high-profile employers - one of them...

Zoopla’s Hometrack data research arm says the start of 2020 has seen buyer demand up 26 per cent compared to the...

A hybrid estate agency which set a target of rivalling Purplebricks when it launched says it aims to recruit 25 agents...

Century 21 UK, the British arm of the US-based franchising agency, is to open three new offices in the New Year.  The...

The average age of a first-time buyer in the UK is 27, according to research from Nested.com. The online estate agency says...

Robert Anderson, Branch Manager at William H Brown in Leicester shares how sales progression and communication tool, mio, has created a...

A Leicestershire estate and lettings agent has expanded after buying Barrow Upon Soar-based Strawberry Lettings and Sales.  Berkley Estate & Letting Agents...

New research has identified those local housing market potentially worst hit by the planned changes to Help To Buy in 2021,...

Seven in 10 agents fail to use video or YouTube to assist in their marketing according to an analysis by free-to-list...

Hello and welcome to this latest edition of PJT, your regular weekly column giving all the key appointments news in the...

The average British homeowner stays in their property for 20.8 years, according to new research by Zoopla. The property portal analysed the...

The income required for first time buyers to purchase in the three most expensive UK cities has fallen slightly according to...

Welcome to the latest Property Jobs Today - because last week there was a Bank Holiday, we have a bumper edition...

1989 was a significant time for the property industry: it marked the beginning of the end of a period of unprecedented...

House prices in 20 UK cities analysed by Zoopla show an average 1.7 per cent increase over the 12 months to...

It’s been revealed that Countrywide has been hit with a £215,000 fine as part of a swoop by HMRC cracking down...

The industry has long been critical of reports claiming house price movements are in some way uniform across the country, but...

A hybrid estate agency with ambitions to rival Purplebricks has revealed that it has significantly expanded its current footprint, with ambitions...

Traditional estate agent fees average just 1.1 per cent across the UK according to research from an agency comparison website -...

An insurance company is launching a policy which it says will protect consumers with comprehensive cover in the event of a...

The income first-time buyers need to purchase a home in the UK’s largest cities has shot up by 18 per cent...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today, the latest weekly catch-up with moves within and across our industry. A quick...

House prices in a quarter of the UK’s largest cities are struggling to recover to the level they were at during...

If World Cup 2018 appeared to be low profile at the start, it didn’t last long. Following this week’s Harry Kane goals...

Last time out I looked at the growing importance of content, social media and design – but these should only form...

Property sellers in the South of England are having to accept asking reductions in order to achieve a sale.  Data from Hometrack...

House price growth in London has hit a seven year low according to Hometrack, with prices actually down across 42 per...

Lloyds Bank has revealed a league table of the cities which have seen the highest price growth over the past decade...

What a year it’s been! Back in 2016 we had Brexit, a new prime minister, Donald Trump’s election, and so when...

Here are two more of your terrific images from your offices - they have really given us a feeling of Christmas...

International property analyst Mike DelPrete has queried the suggestion that Countrywide's online sales option is drawing in additional business to those...

Horton Estate Agents - a hybrid agency which nonetheless claims to have ‘offices’ - says it will expand into 15 new...

It’s been quite a week, much of it concerning the technology that increasingly underpins our industry.  A glut of fund-raising and relaunching...

Countrywide says the roll out of its online sales and lettings service is on schedule to reach 50 per cent of...

We take a break from the relentless election coverage to look at the great fundraising work being carried out by our industry. Once...

The latest measure of house price rises in key UK cities by the property consultancy Hometrack shows house price in many...

The recent rise in consumer complaints against sales and letting agents suggests that there is a general lack of trust and...

It’s that time of year again – peak conference/event season. And, while Brexit and a shock snap general election are dominating...

Contrary to some reports suggesting London’s housing market may be recovering, new data from Hometrack reveals the capital’s performance is still...

Propertymark, the new brand umbrella for the National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Letting Agents, is to...

The trading standards team of a county council has taken the unusual step of challenging the sales claim of an estate...

The East Midlands, which consists of several areas including Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, and much of Lincolnshire, has an ancient...

2016 was quite a year – eventful, dramatic, shocking and impossible to predict. In no particular order, we saw Leicester winning...

Countrywide’s controversial hybrid estate agency business has produced “fantastic results” according to Sam Tyrer, the group’s Managing Director, Retail & London. In...

The founder of one of the largest independent agencies in the East Midlands is to step down, over 27 years after...

What a mad, bonkers year it’s been. We’ve had, in no particular order: Trump, Brexit, Leicester winning the Premier League, a...

It is fair to say that 2016 is a year full of surprises. Anyone who had the foresight to predict Britain...

An online agency called DoorStepAgents.com claims to have set up a service which is both the cheapest and ‘best value’ sales...

Auction rooms across the UK are filled with people looking to buy property, from bargain hunters to seasoned investors, ensuring that...

It’s been another very busy week for the excellent fund-raising champions of our industry - and the good causes are encouraging...

An agent from Leicester-based firm James Sellicks has become the Lewis Hamilton to floor plan drawing, thanks to his dramatic sub-three...

The government's most publicised measure of housebuilding excludes around a fifth of all new build completions each year, according to a...

The National Association of Estate Agents says a huge shortage of bricks and the possible consequences of Brexit are two reasons...

Countrywide has given Estate Agent Today some early details of how its mix of online and traditional agency services will roll-out...

Countrywide has confounded its critics with an upbeat performance in the first six months of the year, growing revenues by nine...

The joke doing the rounds last week still seems to be just as relevant this week: “the only man with a...

Countrywide is to offer vendors and buyers a choice of using an online service, a traditional high street branch or a...

Countrywide's retail chief says the group's new hybrid joint online and traditional project has involved training agents to change the way...

There’s been a glut of fundraising events surrounding the 90th birthday celebrations for HM The Queen - and we salute those...

We may all be reeling from the surprise Autumn Statement stamp duty shocker but estate agents still find time to do...

Up Estates, an online estate agency operating chiefly in Coventry, Nuneaton and Hinckley, says it will next year open a string...

An independent estate agent based in Leicestershire has urged agents to play a more active and altruistic role in their community. William...

The Advertising Standards Authority has given its backing to an estate agency using Rightmove data to claim it had the most...