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Homebuyers are being gazumped due to lengthy property chains and delays in securing a mortgage, it’s been claimed. Research from Market Financial...

In the second of their Election Wishlist series, Leaders Romans Group turn the spotlight on the Private Rented Sector (PRS). Here, National...

Housing has finally made it onto the General Election campaign, albeit with a familiar policy. Labour has unveiled plans for a Freedom...

Fraud poses a significant challenge for residential conveyancers, with criminals often attempting to exploit the transaction process for money laundering purposes. The...

As you begin the process of property transactions in the UK, it's important to understand potential pitfalls that may result in...

LSL has hailed the benefits of switching to a franchise model for its estate agency brand. A trading update from the company...

Yopa’s latest accounts for 2022 have revealed a “material uncertainty” that the business could continue ahead of a restructure in 2023. The...

Fraud in the lettings industry is reaching unprecedented heights. Now, more than ever, there is a need for a revolution in...

Why professional indemnity claims are on the rise In today's volatile economic landscape, the uncertainty faced by landlords and tenants has reached...

Housing supply rather than the private rented sector (PRS) made the headlines during the Conservative and Labour Party conferences this year...

The National Association of Property Buyers (NAPB) and Gumtree have teamed up to help fightback against fraudsters, particularly when it comes...

A new report highlights levels of agency pay across the property sector. The figures, from Rayner Personnel’s latest Property Sector Salary Report,...

Agents and sellers are being warned against putting unsuitable properties up for auction. Stuart Collar- Brown, chief executive of online auctioneer platform...

More than a third of homes have declined in value over the past six months, Zoopla data shows. It comes despite the...

The past seven days have seen a string of stories across the media relating to the property sector.  Reports have revealed how...

Upfront material information is now firmly on the property industry’s radar, with Trading Standards CPR regulations expected to move towards disclosing...

Strike has fallen further into the red, its latest annual accounts show. The online agent’s financial statement for the 12 months to...

According to the recent industry research report ‘Back to the Future’ from tmgroup, mio and CDS 40% of property transaction delays...

House prices could drop by almost 25% ‘start-to-trough’ or by as much as 40% in severe circumstances, Lloyds Banking Group has...

Purplebricks’ share price has continued falling after it informed the markets that it is up for sale last week. The beleaguered agency’s...

Is it really just a year ago that we were nervously wondering whether yet another Christmas would be Covid-affected? Little did we...

The share of homeowners struggling to repay their mortgages could hit the same peak levels of the 2008 financial crisis by...

As I watched Liz Truss take to the stage at this week’s Conservative Party conference, my eyes were drawn to the sign behind her. “Getting Britain...

Keller Williams’ (KW) Warwick Market Centre has closed, prompting a blame game between its former owners and the franchise brand. KW Warwick has...

Agents are ‘wrongly’ relying on hard copies of identity documents to verify people’s identities in anti-money laundering (AML) checks, new research...

Hidden amongst the annual results released by Purplebricks on Tuesday – which saw revenue and profits down, as well as a...

The relationship between estate agents and conveyancers is undoubtedly a complex one and has certainly had ‘its moments’ over the years,...

Purplebricks has pushed back the publication of its annual accounts. The online agent’s full year results were due to be published on...

Estate agents could be losing thousands of pounds a year to missed calls. Communications platform YourBusinessNumber analysed data on the typical number of...

The government is being urged to expand and make the Treasury’s mortgage guarantee scheme permanent and compulsory on home loans above...

Purplebricks has revealed a drop in instructions so far this year. The online agency brand issued a trading update this morning for...

A lack of support to help people onto the property ladder has been highlighted as one factor for the Tory party’s...

In this Q&A, I catch up with Jesper With-Fogstrup, chief executive officer of Smoove (formerly ULS Technology until a very recent...

In this weekend feature, inventory expert and chair of the AIIC, Daniel Evans, sets out why rental reform changes will make...

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

As 2021 draws to a swift close, there is much speculation about what 2022 will have to offer. Despite the emergence of...

Hertfordshire agency Sewell & Gardner has cut the ribbon on a refurbished and extended office, which will incorporate two previously-separate branches...

The investment arms of Savills and the Daily Mail General Trust have pumped more cash into online agency Yopa which has...

A housebuilding-led mortgage indemnity scheme called Deposit Unlock has now been launched nationally with 17 major developers taking part. Nationwide is the...

Agents must have a robust plan in place in case they are subjected to a ransomware cyber attack, says the Guild...

A torrid period for Purplebricks' share value means it opens stock market trading today with a price of just 33p.  This is less...

In the UK, 3.5 million households — which is over one-third of UK households — are either privately or socially rented,...

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

You can always tell when Budget day is approaching. There’s lots of comment from every imaginable quarter about what the Chancellor of...

A housing market analyst says stamp duty, for all its unpopularity within the property industry, may not be so bad after...

It now looks likely that Hunters will be taken over by The Property Franchise Group after several months of talks, subject...

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

A £17.8m pre-tax loss has been reported by Yopa in its latest financial statement filed at Companies House. Figures lodged just before...

Down valuations could leave some surveyors liable to professional negligence claims, a law firm says. Nelsons law firm says down valuations have...

According to the annual Property Week PropTech survey, almost 48% of property businesses had tested new technology because of the COVID-19...

The Stamp Duty Land Tax holiday has been a hot topic of conversation for many in the residential property industry –...

2020 has definitely been a year of change. With little warning, the pandemic disrupted the day-to-day operations of almost every industry...

Agents Together, the wellbeing and mentorship service which came into existence earlier this year, is launching what it calls a Redundancy...

One of the country’s major regional agencies has unveiled a ‘super hub’ structure which began life as a lockdown measure but...

The first leading agency to make a 2021 forecast says the market should be stable next year - so long as...

The pandemic and the way the government has reacted to the private rental sector (PRS) has got me thinking about the...

Record house prices recorded this week by the Nationwide index are set to go higher still according to a leading agent. Nationwide...

With access to finance being such a hot topic at the moment, more and more estate agents are turning to commercial...

An investment adviser says Purplebricks remains “far too risky” for investors even though it now has “a fighting chance of survival”. Rodney...

OnTheMarket has confirmed it is “considering” making redundancies - the second of the large portals to be in this position. Rumours have been...

Purplebricks’ sale of its Canadian operation for some £35m begs the question - where can it now recoup some of its losses...

The investment bank UBS says it’s forecasting that Rightmove revenues will be down £53m in the first half of this year. “The...

The Andrew Grant regional estate agency brand is “very much alive” despite the firm which bore the name losing 54 jobs...

Over 50 jobs have been lost as a result of a Midlands regional estate agency falling into administration. The Shropshire Star reports...

A successful property newspaper has collapsed after one of its former directors turned computer hacker and deliberately deleted over 5,000 files...

Consumers are not as worried as they should be about conveyancing fraud, putting them at risk of losing life-changing sums of...

Although the shake-out in the industry is ongoing - online agency Settled and established new-build agency Cushman & Wakefield have both...

All my recent Natters have been focused on one particular topic, the coronavirus crisis, for obvious reasons. But there has been...

An analysis of seven countries which underwent different forms of lockdown during the pandemic suggests the British and Italian housing markets...

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

Business consultancy TwentyCi is the latest to try to put a value on the potential losses to the property industry and...

Agents and in some cases their brokers continue to do battle with insurers in a bid to secure pay-outs on their...

There’s a warning today that the housing market could face a wave of legal disputes if buyers of off-plan new builds...

The company at the centre of a controversy over estate agents’ business interruption insurance says its core package does NOT cover...

One of the biggest issues for agencies at the moment is furloughing - a safety net being offered by the government...

It’s time to draw a line in the sand and condemn our rival portals for their current charging structure. Little will...

The property franchise company Belvoir Lettings has laid off 15 workers from its Grantham headquarters - and warns there may be...

The lightbulb moment for LonRes was born out of sheer frustration. I’d just missed out on a deal and the postman...

The Bank of England has announced an emergency cut in the base interest rate to shore up the economy during the Coronavirus...

It’s been revealed that the branch closure programme by Your Move and Reeds Rains last year resulted in 460 lost jobs...

After a challenging period for the UK property market, recovery is very much on the cards and the end to uncertainty...

Suddenly Brexit Day is nearly here. It may have taken three and a half years from the Referendum but the UK will,...

Here it is - the start of a new decade, a moment for resolutions and remembrance, and the last Bank Holiday...

For the stock market generally, 2019 has been a positive year - but a few high profile agencies and associated companies...

It's been two years since the SDL Group launched its franchise block management business, SDL Property Partners, the first of its...

Our mental health affects how we think, feel and act. It affects how we handle anxiety, relate to others and impacts...

Purplebricks is to give its next trading update on General Election day, December 12, when it will tell shareholders the details...

Reservation Agreements are the subject of the moment in the agency industry. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is to...

Purplebricks has this morning released a brief and relatively downbeat trading statement to the City and its shareholders. The statement applies to the...

OnTheMarket will on Wednesday of this week issue over a million shares to agents who have signed new long-term listing agreements...

A tax expert is urging owners of second homes, as well as property investors and existing landlords, to seek independent financial...

The former chief of an online estate agency says the top three surviving firms in the sector must merge if they...

OnTheMarket is delivering agents “a higher marketing yield than Rightmove” according to an investment consultancy which works with OTM. Investors appear to...

The Guardian has revealed that small investors lured into putting money into TV property guru Kevin McCloud’s eco-friendly housing projects -...

The former Countrywide chief executive Grenville Turner says it is an option for online estate agency Yopa to go to an...

In a trading statement this morning, Countrywide says it has “a new covenant package with lenders provides the financial flexibility to...

Our own industry’s upheaval over recent years has been no less dramatic than the turmoil at Westminster. The political earthquake has seen...

Shareholders at today’s annual general meeting of OnTheMarket will hear the latest conversion figures showing how many agents on free or...

It’s been reported that a Cheshire estate agent and auction house has gone into administration putting 130 jobs at risk. Around 40...

Figures released from OnTheMarket this morning suggest that its conversion programme for agents shifting from free deals to paid membership is...