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North East estate agency group My Property Box has welcomed Nicola Nicholson, Georgia Greenstreet and Georgia Richardson to its team following...

We’re now just 2 days away from the end of 2023 and what a year it’s been for the property industry....

The recent cyber attack on CTS left around 80 conveyancing firms across the country commercially paralysed as the harm to their...

Andrews Lettings Director Angharad Trueman has identified two priorities for her forthcoming term as President of the Association of Lettings Agents. Known...

The long-awaited Renters Reform Bill was finally introduced in Parliament in May, but is it really good news for tenants? Several...

Sleight of hand, optical illusion, card up the sleeve – we all love a good conjuring trick, don’t we? And they say...

I was delighted to read recently about the creation of the first ever ‘register of logbooks’ in the UK, which offers...

Deepak Chandrababu is no stranger to problem-solving. He’s been doing it for 25 years. As Chief Operating Officer of Technology Blueprint Ltd....

Zoopla’s homepage may look a little different from today. The portal is supporting homeless charity Crisis’s Christmas fundraising campaign with a homepage...

Automated rental payment specialists PayProp recently held a high-profile event in London - PayProp Connect - which included a number of...

The property industry often gets a bad rep, despite all the work that agents and others in the sector do for...

Many experts are predicting that house price growth will slow for the remainder of the year as the cost of living...

Zoopla has teamed up with homelessness charity Crisis to help campaign for reform of housing benefits and to tackle the affordable...

Facebook has been a platform which has opened the door to those looking to advertise their services in exceptional ways. Digital...

If you want to sex-up the Chancellor’s financial statement scheduled for lunchtime on Wednesday, you’d call it a Budget or a...

A lead generation platform that boasts Leaders, EweMove and Northwood amongst its clients says it’s expanding into mortgages. Rentround, now in its...

The head of one of Britain’s most successful agency groups says he is a big fan of PropTech - but it...

Rightmove is running a series of webinars this month focused on legislation affecting agents. Tomorrow the former ARLA Propertymark supreme David Cox...

The lettings sector looks set to steam ahead in 2022 after a record-breaking 2021, despite the financial and mobility challenges of...

In this guest feature, James Dilgul, Head of Marketing at Fixflo, the market-leading repairs and maintenance management software provider, looks at how...

The push for greater sustainability, energy efficiency and generally being ‘green’ has existed in the agency world for several years -...

Tech, as has been shown more than ever during the pandemic, can be a wonderful thing – bringing people closer together,...

The growing number of lettings sector rules is a hotly debated issue, while the sales sector has been seeing its own...

Our long-awaited ‘Freedom Day’ approaches. From Monday all of the restrictions, introduced since the Covid-19 pandemic made an impact across the...

With property fraud on the rise and an ever-increasing number of transactions taking place in the lettings sector, having strict anti-money laundering...

In a video interview for Letting Agent Today, Neil Cobbold, Chief Sales Officer of PayProp, speaks to property professional Chris Buckler...

With just two days to go, it's fair to say the property industry is eagerly awaiting Chancellor Rishi Sunak's Budget statement...

Pre-pandemic, virtual and video viewings were a nice little add-on for some agents, but they were far from universally used and...

It’s now more than a year since the government offered an additional £4 million to councils to combat rogue landlords. At the...

The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has changed the way we evaluate our lives and, looking more specifically at the property market, it...

A PropTech supplier says the conveyancing process is “antiquated” and buyers and sellers would be better served if they were ’shadowed’...

There’s been a flurry of recent activity involving agencies quoted on the London Stock Exchange: Hunters, The Property Franchise Group and...

As we approach the end of the year, there is no doubt that it has been a turbulent 12 months for...

The announcement of the Renters’ Reform Bill in the Queen’s speech last December caused a collective groan across the country from...

Tenant enquiries and property viewings unsurprisingly slowed this spring, due to the necessary government restrictions brought in to manage the pandemic....

A series of polls taken by Estate Agent Today suggest substantial numbers of agents remain uncomfortable about returning to trading even...

The coming week’s stories in the mainstream media - inevitably focused on Coronavirus - will be dominated by two things. Firstly there...

An industry stalwart has urged critics of Rightmove to fight for the portal to offer agents a fairer pricing system, not...

Hunters has expanded its online offering to improve its service to both the sales and lettings sectors - and it’s even...

Much like PropTech, Open Banking has been used as a buzzword in recent years. However, when it comes to the rental...

Last November, as part of the Conservatives’ general election campaign, Boris Johnson made a surprise announcement that his party would introduce...

Hello and welcome to the latest PJT, your weekly opportunity to catch up on who’s moving where and why across our...

A traditional property agent says critics of Purplebricks underestimate the beneficial impact the firm has had on the UK agency industry. And...

Hello and welcome to a new week - one with darker evenings and colder days. But there is still plenty of activity...

In a revival of the Natter’s day in the life of series, I catch up with Rajeev Nayyar, managing director of...

With Boris Johnson winning the Conservative leadership election and becoming Prime Minister, he has spent his first few days in office...

Hello and welcome to this latest edition of PJT, your Monday catch-up on all the key appointments news in the industry. Please...

A trading statement this morning from beleaguered agency group Countrywide reveals that its revenue is down again - but it insists...

The Property Franchise Group says its online/hybrid agency EweMove traded profitably throughout  last year and will show “a significant improvement” over...

The government has this morning set out wide-ranging changes to redress systems for agents, the sales and lettings sectors, and other...

A property platform that has chronicled the London sales market’s problems in recent years says the recovery will start in 2020...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly important role in our lives – from virtual assistants such as Amazon’s Alexa and...

For any business, regardless of size, age or industry, operating efficiently is fundamental to your success. When faced with challenges like we...

It seems a lifetime ago but in fact we’re approaching just the first anniversary since the government triggered its Call for...

A decade ago we were still years away from Purplebricks, Countrywide was a colossus in the industry, no one had thought...

Hello - if it’s Monday, it must be Property Jobs Today, your chance to see a snapshot of the key moves...

Having recently attended FUTURE: PropTech in London, it struck me just how far the integration of property and technology has progressed...

If you want to know whether buy to let, landlords and letting agents will be in the firing line for more...

The sun has finally returned to ours skies and you’re on the lookout for a little bit of summer reading. As...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today - our regular Monday look at who’s moving where within our industry. You...

‘Respect’ is the new mantra for politicians: whether it’s about street gang leaders, social media trolls or those on either side...

Welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today, our regular look at key moves inside our industry. Next week there’s no PJT as...

This week I carry out a question and answer session with one of the most high-profile names in property. Isobel Thomson has...

Estate Agent Today understands that a high-profile online estate agency in the UK has approached Facebook with a view to operating...

Like many of Labour’s recent policy proposals, its call for rent controls leaves more questions than answers.  There has been widespread criticism...

More than three quarters of developers want to see the government go into reverse on its stamp duty and mortgage interest...

In this Natter we have an exclusive interview with David Cox, CEO of ARLA Propertymark and one of the best-known figures...

The south’s seaside resorts are stealing the headlines for all the wrong reasons and at the heart of the troublesome issue...

One of Britain’s most prominent property data companies says homes near London Underground tube stations with 24-hour trains will see a...

Share prices for both Foxtons and Countrywide took a significant tumble yesterday as news of the ban on letting agents’ fees...

Despite Brexit and economic uncertainty, there is still confidence from many agencies that are expanding, opening and acquiring even this late...

The Property Redress Scheme, one of three official redress schemes for the sales and lettings sector, has now signed its 5,000th...

Countrywide says there will “almost certainly” be no more acquisitions of agencies or other firms for the group over the rest...

It’s over. A win is a win, whichever side you backed. It’s true that everyone seems a lot less happy than...

One estate agency leader - you’d all recognise his name - described the victory of the Leave camp in the referendum...

George Osborne has been busy over the last year. First came the General Election which had everyone on tenterhooks until the...

Countrywide’s chief executive, Alison Platt, has been named as one of the 50 most powerful people in Britain’s property industry by...

Countrywide is to lead a group including Connells and Zoopla in a partnership with the proptech company Fixflo, currently best known...

Countrywide is going to announce “in the very near future” that it is taking a stake in two tech start-up companies...

It’s time to take a pause, to reflect and put into context—and what a year it has been for our industry...

With a raft of new legislation introduced recently now will be the ideal time to think about whether staff are up...

The chief executive of Countrywide, Alison Platt, has hinted her firm may invest in, or acquire, an internet start-up company to...

The party's over. It's probably the best double entendre in the world of politics right now. For centre or right-leaning Labour...

The first annual report from Property Redress Services, one of the three government-approved redress schemes applying to both the sales and...

Rightmove, which for many years has published a heavily-publicised monthly monitor of asking prices of homes on sale, is now extending...

The annual RESI conference, usually dominated by developers and debates over housebuilding totals, is this year to include a discussion on...

Watch the latest weekly video roundup of news from Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today, featuring stories on complaints lodged...

Watch the latest weekly video roundup of news from Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today, featuring stories on complaints lodged...

After the passing of the Deregulation Act deposits deadline this week, Richard Price, Executive Director of UKALA, is in a contemplative...

This month has marked a real change in the way the private lettings sector is perceived - and it’s a perception...

So, a sigh of relief.  Most agents will be pleased with the election result - even if they are not Tory supporters...

It is to the credit of our political parties - and our own industry’s lobbying - that so many housing-related matters...

There was a whopping 42 per cent rise in referrals to The Property Ombudsman last year according to the annual report...