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Manning Stainton has committed to nurturing the rising stars of the property industry in Yorkshire through a summer training academy with...

A new house price forecast by peer-to-peer real estate investment platform, easyMoney, reveals that recent optimism in the UK property market could...

If you’re thinking about becoming an Estate Agency franchise or converting your existing estate agency business to a franchise, here we...

Female agents have shared their view on representation and opportunities in the sector to mark International Women’s Day. Industry data shows while...

“I like finance. I find it intellectually interesting – there’s lots of numbers and that’s great.” That sentence coming out of the...

Estate agency recruitment expert and mentor Ian Dobrin has joined property data firm Addland. He will initially focus on further building the...

Former England footballer turned TV pundit and property expert, Dion Dublin, is to headline the South East Property Expo.   The centre...

Agents have been showing there is more to being charitable than just donating money. This weeks charitable exploits have a big focus...

Spicerhaart’s non-executive chairman John Spence has received a special achievement award after announcing his retirement from the board after more than...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...

Industry veteran Michael Day is marking 20 years since setting up his Integra Property Services consultancy and training business. The brand now...

Industry charity Agents Together is celebrating reaching new mentorship and volunteering milestone. It has revealed that 800 free mentorships have now been...

A trio of estate agents have setup an LGBTQ+-focused mentoring, learning and networking group. Founded by James Hummerstone-Pope, Danielle Andrews and Caren...

There have been plenty of heart-warming examples of agents supporting their local communities and charities this week, from sleep-outs to donations. Whatever...

Self-employed estate partnership brand The Agency UK (TAUK) is to host its first industry exhibition. Titled Grow your Agency in 23, the...

Given their leading role in the recent upfront information revolution, interest in the work of the National Trading Standards Estate &...

We are dedicating today's round-up to two important cause that agents are being called on to get behind. Agents are being urged...

Agents are being invited to help shape and be part of the future of the proptech sector. Propertymark is hosting proptech investment company...

Estate agency brands have begun reaching out to school leavers as students received their A and T-Level grades yesterday. Top grades for...

The Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners (ALEP) has announced the schedule for its annual Conference. The event returns to its traditional in-person format this year,...

For some time, LinkedIn was seen – fairly or unfairly – as stodgy, dull, corporate and formal. The uncool uncle to...

In this latest ‘Women in Property’ edition of the Natter, I check in with Collette Allen, who was recently appointed as...

Industry charity and mentoring group Agents Together is planning to help firms prioritise mental wellbeing. It has developed a checklist that agents...

A three-branch agency in the south west has launched a franchise model which it says should appeal “to those wanting a...

Michael and Kenny Bruce have for the first time given their views on what went wrong for Purplebricks during their time...

The path from agent to developer is not easy, but it is a relatively straightforward one, if you are willing to...

A national newspaper has lifted the lid on what it alleges to be the backgrounds of high-end self-employed agents who feature...

It’s often said that agency is a people business, and I can see no reason to disagree - agents dealing face-to-face...

One of the founders and leading figures in the Agents Together industry charity says one silver lining of the pandemic has...

It really is beginning to look a lot like Christmas – just a week to go now. Presents all wrapped and...

In a first for the Natter, this week's interview is a video affair, with me posing the questions to Stephen Brown,...

OnTheMarket has signed an exclusive commercial partnership with business coaching specialists, Property Academy.  OTM will provide full fee-paying customers with free access...

One of the property market's leading names has welcomed young people into its company for work experience through a partnership with...

Good property marketing photos have arguably never been more important in an increasingly visual and tech-led world. We saw just the...

Hello and welcome to another Property Jobs Today, your chance to see the latest moves in our industry. Why not be a...

A former England international is an early graduate of a new estate agency academy in Yorkshire. Rebecca Rayner, a former England under-18...

Around 18 months ago, just a few months before the pandemic hit, I did a Natter with the team at software...

Kerfuffle founder Simon Whale has given Estate Agent Today readers three top tips for improving their performance. The trio of suggestions -...

Hello and we’re at the end of another week celebrating all those in our industry who do great work. And this...

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

Sarah Edmundson, the chief executive of the Agents Together charity - set up by the Bruce brothers, Michael and Kenny -...

It’s now over a year since the property market officially reopened after an unprecedented two-month shutdown at the height of the...

Propertymark has shortlisted five of the 700 or so PropTech suppliers in the UK, as part of the trade body’s REACH...

Hello and welcome to a sunny Friday and this week’s round-up of the industry’s good works. We’re keen to feature agents and...

The last property event I attended in person – and I think the last physical property event held all told –...

Mental health – and the importance of good mental health – has become a vital thing for all of us in...

Boomin co-founder Kenny Bruce says the UK economy should now be opening up thanks to the success of the Coronavirus vaccines. In...

This week’s interviewee in the ‘In Conversation Today’ hotseat is a man better placed than most to shed some light on...

One of the biggest trends in recent times, as a direct result of the pandemic, is the concept of working from...

Propertymark has set out a four point strategy for the future of the organisation. The body - which encompasses the National Association...

Propertymark has named a veteran industry figure as interim chief executive - and says it has a "new strategy." Nathan Emerson has some...

High profile agency owner Sean Newman is offering his entire self-employed team of 100 agents and mortgage advisors a chance for...

One of the country’s most experienced estate agents has spoken out about mental illness in the industry and his own condition...

The industry seems almost back to normal. Not the ‘new normal’ we spoke so much of a few weeks and months ago,...

The ESTAS awards service and the Agents Together foundation are entering into a partnership. That means all ESTAS customer agents will be...

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

As many in the industry will know, Ian Westerling passed away last week at the age of 51: he was a...

The National Association of Estate Agents is inviting members to join a panel reviewing new PropTech produced as a result of...

A self-employed agent has gone public to lavish praise on the mentoring scheme which is part of the Agents Together charity. Cameron Carter,...

A founder of Purplebricks, Michael Bruce, suggests there was nothing wrong with the controversial Commisery TV ads that contributed to making...

One of the industry’s leading trainers and consultants has launched a range of 15 new online training modules covering sales skills,...

NAEA Propertymark is partnering with a service called REACH UK, to promote selected PropTech start ups to agents who may need...

Industry veteran Harry Hill, a former chairman of Countrywide and founder of Rightmove, has now become a mentor at the new...

The brothers who founded Purplebricks - Michael and Kenny Bruce - have returned to the agency industry for the first time...

A survey of estate agents conducted through trade publications has revealed that market uncertainty and the handling of transactions within government...

A mystery group, believed to consist of high-level former agents and suppliers, is asking the industry for its feedback on current...

A specialist legal advisory service is urging conveyancers to use the reopening of the housing market as an opportunity to increase...

Hello and another Monday means PJT Day, your regular update on movers in the industry - and it’s March already. If there...

Hello and welcome to the end of the week, which always means a round-up of our industry’s good work for charity....

This line is one that I use a lot in my speeches and presentations, often as part of the final slide. I...

Hello and welcome to PJT, breaking you in to the working week every Monday with news of the movers and shakers...

Nicky Stevenson has had a very varied and interesting career in property. She started out as a lettings negotiator for Nicholas...

All the most successful startups of recent years – from Airbnb and Uber to Just Eat and Deliveroo – have melded...

Property developing is an incredibly diverse and exciting career choice, and something that many people aspire to do in the UK.  I...

The Innovative Collaboration Group - a collection of high-profile tech suppliers to the agency industry - has unveiled a raft of new...

NAEA and ARLA Propertymark have launched an initiative called Propertymark Inspire to promote training and compliance awareness amongst agents.  A statement says the...

John D Wood has announced that Nick Taylor, the agency’s managing director and a well-known figure in the industry for four...

One of the largest investors in Purplebricks has now joined forces with an off-shoot of luxury car firm Porsche to launch...

Many of the industry’s best known and widely respected suppliers have set up a new group which they say offers agents...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today - the every-Monday round-up of key moves within the industry. Let us know...

Keller Williams, the US agency which allows agents to work from hub-like ‘market centres’, says it now has 130 freelance agents in this...

The first signs of a seasonal slowdown are appearing according to some agents in touch with EAT, but there are still...

Increasingly cash-strapped traditional estate agencies should consider abandoning their High Street offices and work from serviced offices or similar lower-profile and...

Industry supplier Mid West Displays has drafted in students from the University of Wolverhampton to design future estate agency branches. The company...

After gaining my MBA qualification from Edinburgh Business School in 2005, I took careful consideration over my career moves and prospective...

  Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT - a thinner than usual edition as the industry enjoys the last of the...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today, our weekly feature on who’s moving where throughout our industry. And it’s...

Mike Day, one of the best known and most popular figures in the agency business, is celebrating 15 years as one...

Alice Hickmott is the perfect advertisement for apprentices in estate agency - especially as we are now in National Apprentice Week.  Essex...

One of the largest investment firms in the United States has taken a stake in the London-based venture capital firm Pi...

Keller Williams UK is launching its third office in the UK. It’s in Glasgow and the new market centre - the term...

Iain White, the ex-Romans managing director and former Countrywide director, has come out strongly against the demutualisation proposal from Agents’ Mutual...

Now we hate to spoil a long weekend but for much of the UK this is the final Bank Holiday before......

No one can say Agents’ Mutual has failed to provoke debate within the industry. The project was the centre of fierce argument...

Our recent roundtable on the government’s proposed ban on tenant fees generated 10 tips for growing your business. Since then, we’ve been...

June marks the start of what professional weather folk call summer - and even if the temperatures are a little variable,...

This actually happened - the names of the guilty have been withheld to protect the innocent. I live in Spain, Marbella actually,...

For my latest Property Natter I have sought the opinions of two well-known property consultants - Michael Day, managing director of...

Earlier this week it was Dads4Daughters Day – a campaign that strives to promote gender equality in the workplace.  I have three...

Spicerhaart has signed what it describes as one of the world’s top estate agency mentors to work with its teams across...