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Three members of the Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners take a brief look at some of the trials and tribulations awaiting...

After years - indeed a decade - of anti-rental sector policy and rhetoric it’s difficult not to see recent days as...

The Government is facing calls to resurrect the Help to Buy Equity Loan scheme. The housing support scheme, which provided a Government-backed...

Like most parts of the UK, the one I live in has a bit of a beef about parking. More precisely,...

Propertymark has called for Stamp Duty incentives and wider funding to make homes more energy efficient. It comes as Chancellor Jeremy Hunt...

People in prominent positions in the housing industry aren’t always perfect role models. After all, Chris Pincher was housing minister for...

It’s often fashionable to criticise trade bodies and official groups, but right now I think that’s absolutely inappropriate. In well over 20...

You will hopefully have seen that the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act 2022 has now received its Royal Assent, meaning it...

For an unregulated industry, agents have an awful lot of regulations to deal with. For example, there’s the mandatory membership of a...

Propertymark has appointed an insider to the key role of policy adviser - effectively the position vacated last month by industry...

The policy and campaigns team at Propertymark, headed by Mark Hayward, has been expanded after what it calls “a number of...

In this week’s In Conversation Today, I am delighted to chat with Lucy Morton, Head of Residential Agency at JLL, about...

In an industry which is faced with constant changes in day-to-day practices and even more so given the Covid terrain which agents...

Propertymark - still reeling over two senior resignations in less than a week - says its lobbying sessions with politicians are...

There is no scientific formula, no list of must-have elements in a successful campaign. That’s especially the case for a campaign involving...

The government is keeping everyone guessing about the stamp duty holiday but one comment by a senior minister suggests movement towards a...

Well, what a start to 2021! None of us thought things would change as the clock struck midnight on New Year’s...

Mark Hayward, who was scheduled to retire at the end of this month, is to stay on at NAEA Propertymark as...

The leader of the Say No To Rightmove campaign has revealed to Estate Agent Today that he has lobbied the portal...

Housing minister Chris Pincher has now been named in media investigations into allegations concerning his political boss, Robert Jenrick, and the...

There’s been a furious response to the agent who appears to have breached government rules by opening his branch to the...

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

Home owners on Corbyn Road in a Midlands town are seeking a name change because they fear house prices will plummet. The...

A trade body has sharply criticised HM Land Registry for its slow progress on digitising local searches after a promising start...

Trade bodies and property firms have strongly welcomed the recommendations for root and branch reform of the agency industry - and...

On the face of it, this year’s Budget was not what you could describe as ‘housing heavy’ in terms of the...

An accountancy trade body has revealed that last year it briefed MPs - including the Prime Minister and Housing Minister of...

You will perhaps have seen recently that the Government has decided to boost funding to the regulator, the National Trading Standards...

Estate Agent Today is 10 years old this weekend. We hope you’ll agree that’s a cause for celebration and a great...

To say this is a turbulent time for UK politics would be something of an understatement. As I write, the Brexit...

At any given moment it’s difficult to say which issue dominates our marketplace, but I think it’s fair to acknowledge during...

The housing industry has set out a list of demands in advance of the government’s hotly anticipated Autumn Budget on Wednesday.  Despite...

British politics is extraordinarily volatile right now and the ongoing battle between austerity and anti-austerity, Leave and Remain, and Conservative and...

A Conservative council in London says it is to be the first local authority in the UK to levy a voluntary...

An estate agent who is campaigning for boards to be banned in his local area says they should be 'confined to...

Without wishing to blow our own trumpet at this time, we did say at the start of the year that 2017...

To give you a nice distraction from the post-election madness, here’s an interview with Charlie Wright, founder of CIELA (or The...

As we approach Thursday's General Election, more property professionals have criticised stamp duty and called for the Government to make changes...

Think ‘fake agents’ are no threat to your business? Think again. The rise of online agents - dubbed by some as...

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

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

We’re almost nine months on from the EU Referendum and yet the issue remains the big divide across the nation: an...

The housing market has not been short of a White Paper over the last few months, and while you might just...

Let me set out my stall from the beginning. Firstly with two buy to lets managed by an agency, I understand and...

Phillip Hammond has delivered his first Autumn Statement, tackling amongst other things, what he called “the housing challenge.” The speech made no...

Estate agents have spent the weekend finalising their wish-list and lobbying MPs and government ahead of Wednesday’s Autumn Statement. Top of the...

It may still be too early to start compiling a Christmas wish list, but it is the right time to provide...

Forecasts are a tricky business. And as I wrote in a recent Industry Views opinion piece, any prediction in the current...

Working relationships between estate agents and conveyancers can be mutually beneficial with the referral of work between parties. However, they are missing...

A mortgage lender has called on the government to reform stamp duty so that it is paid by property sellers instead...

With the number of new homes being built across the UK still significantly below the level needed to meet demand, housebuilders...

The influential lobbying group the HomeOwners’ Alliance wants estate agents to quote the price per square foot of properties to allow...

The Financial Times says London Mayor and new Conservative MP Boris Johnson is lobbying the government in a bid to persuade...

If the first few hours of the new government’s approach to housing are anything to go by, it could be a...

If the first few hours of the new government’s approach to housing are anything to go by, it could be a...

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...