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The smart home movement has been gathering pace for some time and connected living should be top of the agenda for...

Homebuyers are spending an average of £51,784 to move home in the current market, although this climbs as high as £86,000...

The majority of buyers planning to move home say the election will not affect their plans, research suggests. A survey by Rightmove...

UK house prices may be broadly static but sales volumes are up 12% year on year according to Zoopla data out...

OneDome has launched a new advertising campaign along the theme of  '#PaperbagorOneDome'.  The campaign will feature mini campaigns that aim to humorously...

Compared with a decade ago, today's first-time buyers are older, more likely to buy with a partner and more likely to...

Compared with a decade ago, today's first-time buyers are older, more likely to buy with a partner and more likely to...

Go back a hundred years and property transactions were a much simpler affair. A group of people could get together in...

Zoopla is warning that there will be further house price falls in 2024 on top of the 4.5 per cent drop...

A third of those opting to move home in the current market are downsizers, research claims. However, it’s not the increased cost...

Independent estate agency Hat and Home has released a sneak peak of its 2023 brand marketing campaign.  Renowned for its distinctive advertising...

A house removal specialist and a consumer property group reckon they’ve discovered the busiest day of the year for moving. It’s Friday...

Having just had an appointment popped into my diary by my car as it apparently told the garage it’s due a...

The cost of living crisis in the UK has majorly impacted thousands of peoples’ plans to move home, with mortgage lending...

Being owned by Google, YouTube is the world’s 2nd largest search engine, you can find all the logical reasons online, just...

Property transaction volumes hit their highest level for five years during the third quarter of 2022, conveyancers claim. It comes amid a...

I’ve just read an article saying that this is the time of the online estate agency. The time in question is, of...

First-time buyers and homeowners seeking to sell alike are worried and confused about the current state of the housing market. With the average...

Despite the nation feeling the pinch of living costs, the number of home moves are actually rising as TwentyCi reports a...

The confirmation of an immediate Stamp Duty cut last week may have meant delayed sales could complete, but there are concerns...

Homeowners and prospective buyers considering a move before Christmas should act quickly to increase their chances of a smooth relocation, as...

The latest research from Rightmove has revealed that the price of property coming to the market has witnessed its first fall...

The latest house price index from Zoopla has suggested the market remains resilient in the face of the cost-of-living crisis, but...

Agents and property professionals haven't let the mini-heatwave stop them sweating and stepping up for charity. Here are some of the sector's...

The government’s Fairer Private Rented Sector White Paper has initially caused some consternation and a strong adverse reaction from some within...

Fewer sellers have cut prices over the past months but agency instructions have dropped, figures suggest. Analysis by property data and estate...

For years, the issue of phone etiquette created tension between estate agents and the legal profession, the former claiming lawyers won’t...

I attended a forum in London a couple of weeks ago, which for the first time brought estate agents and conveyancers...

I’m sure most readers would agree with me that cyber-security is vitally important for almost any business, particularly those businesses like...

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

At the risk of mixing my metaphors, any mention of energy has become something of a blue touch paper in the...

A hybrid agency that charges no fees to vendors but instead relies on referral fees for income has officially rolled out...

A conveyancing company is asking clients to set their own fee - with some strings. Zen Move Solicitors is a year-old digital...

Rightmove claims to have found the happiest place in the UK - and it’s in Northumberland. The market town of Hexham has...

The prospect of higher mortgage interest rates mean the housing market may get tougher soon despite another set of upbeat house...

The average cost of buying and selling a home in England this year has soared from £6,877 before the end of...

The Modern Method of Auction (MMoA), also known as Conditional auction, can sometimes get a bad rap. However, much of the...

The stamp duty holiday concluded at midnight, marking the end of the busiest period for the industry - all parts of...

Blockchain network Coadjute has announced new partnerships with software firms. Coadjute launched in July and claims it will halve the time it...

My neighbour had been seeking to move home for some time. Suggestions that he wanted to get away from his neighbours...

Channel 4 Ventures is one of a number of investors who have collectively put the equivalent of £11m into the online...

A leading agency in the capital says it’s seen its strongest ever half year of trading. According to Chestertons’ latest market analysis,...

easyJet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou has given his personal backing to the newest recruit of online agency easyProperty - even though...

As the property market continues to boom, competition between portals such as Zoopla, Rightmove, OnTheMarket and Boomin has been hotting up...

One housing market index suggests that average house prices in England and Wales have risen by 9.8 per cent in the...

Unsurprisingly it’s been a busy few months in the property market so far this year, and a busy few months in...

Residential transactions totalled 147,050 last month according to HMRC - that’s 23 per cent higher than the previous month and an...

London’s residential market appears to be showing renewed signs of life thanks to the rollout of the government roadmap and vaccine...

Much of the agency industry has reacted with delight at the extension of the stamp duty holiday deadline until June. Rightmove estimates...

This time out, I’m in conversation with one of the big three established portals. Since it was founded in 2007, Zoopla...

We are now over four weeks in to our third national lockdown in the UK. Although the property market remains open,...

Technology has advanced in leaps and bounds in recent years, undoubtedly improving many parts of the moving process for both estate...

The Financial Conduct Authority is extending the ban on repossessions by two months until April 1, in light of the pandemic. The...

With the Government announcement this week of another national lockdown across England amid the surging coronavirus infections, it once again puts...

Agents and the housing market in England are still in business even during the third national lockdown which begins on Wednesday and...

The government is considering stricter tier structures for the coming weeks as the number of Coronavirus infections continues to rise. There is...

An agency operating in the new Tier 4 area has abandoned viewings and visits to homes until New Year, even though the...

The Westminster government has published extensive guidance on the operation of the new Tier 4 Coronavirus restrictions in England. This includes a...

The housing market is to stay open across the UK, including in the new Tier 4 areas of England. An announcement from Housing Secretary...

As we approach the most unusual of festive periods, many property professionals will already be thinking about the January market and...

Watching the government’s surprise press conference a couple of weekends ago the message was clear; we were heading into a gruelling...

An unidentified estate agency has been threatened with prosecution by a local council after opening its office to the public during...

What are the best ways for a letting agency to generate additional revenue and stay ahead of the competition? Management fees are...

The housing market is to remain open in the four week lockdown in England. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government...

A new tool which identifies preferences of Facebook users and then targets them with ads for appropriate homes on sale, is...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is taking credit for saving thousands of agency jobs through increased transactions prompted by the stamp duty holiday. A...

One of the industry's senior agency leaders says it would be a mistake for agents to be stopped from working in...

Most agents' branches in Wales are expected to close for just over two weeks from 6pm this Friday, October 23 - moving...

The government claims its stamp duty holiday has supported nearly 750,000 jobs thanks to the ripple effect in the economy. A statement from HM...

From December, the new RICS Home Survey Standard will become mandatory for all RICS professionals undertaking home surveys. The below article explains...

Agents have long been the victim of a poor public reputation, from scoring highly in most disliked profession polls to being...

One of the possible stamp duty options floated by Chancellor Rishi Sunak could mean 89 per cent of sales would be...

Zoopla’s head of research says a stamp duty holiday could encourage more home owners to move which in turn could help...

It’s back to work today for England’s estate agents and the housing market - but it’s the start of a new...

A study by Rightmove suggests that 94 per cent of buyers and sellers currently in the market are determined to go...

A mortgage broker that’s just become a partner of OnTheMarket is warning that house prices are likely to fall 10 per...

Unfortunately for consumers, buying and selling properties is rarely plain sailing. But fortunately for agents, this provides you with an opportunity to...

Estate agents who deliberately over-value properties in order to win instructions are effectively committing fraud according to a prominent industry figure. Russell...

A new tie-up between Coadjute, a network for decentralised workflow and data sharing within the property industry, and banks including NatWest...

[Estate Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise...

A blog for the British Property Federation has come up with three radically different proposals for stamp duty, providing food for...

The typical estate agency fee paid by a seller has actually fallen one per cent in the past year according to...

The new chief executive of Purplebricks believes hybrid agents could win '20-30% market share' in the UK. Vic Darvey, who replaced Michael...

High Street estate agents should re-define themselves in today’s competitive market by becoming Residential Property Experts offering a wide range of...

New research by comparison website GoCompare suggests almost a million house sales have been lost because of Brexit.  The study claims that...

A mortgage firm claims that around a third of all those who have moved homes since 2016 have done so -...

It’s no secret that the UK’s housing sector is in crisis. Headlines scream about the shortage of new-build homes. TV pundits...

Over the last few years, there have a number of changes to the stamp duty land tax (SDLT) regime, which have...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Marco Ferrara, Director of Tili What is Tili and what does...

Amid the headline-grabbing political manoeuvring over Brexit, a policy proposal which could have serious ramifications for private landlords, and those who...

Letting agents are being advised to think seriously about how they can recoup costs to help compensate for the introduction of...

Gross mortgage lending is set to reach its highest level since 2007 despite Brexit, says the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association. But its...

Connells Group - which includes Connells, Sequence and other brands - says it recorded over 9,000 new homes sales in 2017. This...

A survey suggests that over 10 per cent of existing homeowners have been deterred from selling thanks to the recent interest rate...

A breakdown of data from over 4,100 agents has revealed that it takes on average 201 days to move home, from...

Let’s face it - summer seems to be on holiday itself, if the weather in the UK is anything to go...

Today we’re publishing what we think is our longest-ever list of charitable activities being conducted by agents and their supporters -...

New research gives an insight into the difficulties that older home owners have coping with their properties - and highlights the...

Pole-axed by politics? Bored of ballots? Well, this is where you can escape from pledges, promises and politicians and instead read...

Even some of the most successful professionals from other professions fail to grasp the most important point when it comes to...