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Price premiums on waterside properties are at their lowest in five years, according to Jackson-Stops’ annual Waterside Review.  While waterside homes in...

Online digital valuation service The ValPal Network (TVPN*) is expanding after creating a reservoir of what it calls “sufficient quality data.” It’s...

TV property guru, Move iQ founder and Estate Agent Today columnist Phil Spencer to be a keynote speakers at Propertymark One...

Borrowers are currently rolling off relatively favourable two-year fixed-rate deals agreed at the start of 2022, but the pain from higher...

The UK’s housing stock offers the worst value for money of any advanced economy, new research suggests. Analysis by the Resolution Foundation...

The landmark deal between The Property Franchise Group (TPFG) and Belvoir was ‘inevitable’ and more acquisitions could be on the card,...

The chief executive and chief financial officer of Belvoir will lose their jobs if the brand’s merger with The Property Franchise...

Welcome back to the second instalment of our blog series on social media marketing tips for estate agents! In part one,...

Estate agency has changed. No longer is it required to sit in a high street office working the old way. Provide a...

The term mixed-tenure development usually refers to residential developments where different residential tenures are provided on the same site. Typically, tenure was...

Kendal’s Arnold Greenwood Estate Agents has expanded with the launch of a new south Cumbria branch. Estate agency services at the new...

There is much debate about energy efficiency right now and about expected changes to minimum EPCs for private rental properties and...

Success with your chosen CRM solution should not be a one-and-done package. Once you team up with a stellar CRM provider,...

CRMs can be superheroes for your business, but not all of them possess the necessary powers to save the day. As...

By adopting a top-notch Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution, you're not only opening doors to acquiring new customers and nurturing existing...

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

LSL Property Services’ share price hit a six-month high during trading yesterday after it announced its entire estate agency network would...

Property consultancy JLL has rebranded its residential China division to the APAC Desk. JLL’s residential China Desk was established in 2012 when...

Two well-known East Yorkshire estate agents have joined forces to merge their businesses with a new name and branding. Stanifords and Grays...

Black mould associated with condensation is becoming an increasing problem for homes in the UK and following the tragic death of...

Two of the biggest challenges facing the property industry right now are fraud and money laundering. The scale of these activities is...

Lies, damned lies, and statistics this week. I don’t know about you, but sometimes I feel as though I’m being bombarded...

Lead consolidation platform Callwell has signed a new long-term agreement that sees functionality extended throughout the enlarged Connells Group network including...

In this guest feature, Dillon Darbar, counter fraud manager at Network Homes, sets out why estate agents need to be aware...

The boundaries of prime central London are expanding, new research claims. The PCL market is generally described as the exclusive districts of...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will have a go at balancing the nation’s books today and the main thing agents seem to want...

As uncertainty, apprehension and anxiety increasingly infiltrates every aspect of our professional and personal lives, to ‘keep calm and carry on’...

Troubled agency Purplebricks is set to face further litigation from the group which is already preparing to bring a class action...

The Government was 120,000 homes short of its own new-build targets last year, research claims. Analysis by new-build sales optimisation platform Unlatch...

Agency trade bodies have backed the “clarity” provided by Trading Standards after it deemed “price on application” listings unlawful. It comes as...

The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team (NTSELAT) deemed yesterday that the use of POA or “price on application”...

The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team (NTSELAT) has deemed that the use of POA or “price on application”...

Surveyors have revealed the key issues coming up in reports that could stifle sales or reduce offers. The most common issues over...

The property recruitment market seems to be moving as fast as house prices. Here are some of the latest moves that took...

The Skipton Building Society, which owns Connells estate agency, says the house-selling arm helped it reach a record profit pre-tax profit...

Research by new homes sales service Unlatch has revealed how much cheaper energy bills are for new-builds, saving as much as...

The current ratings of the Energy Performance Certificate are under review according to the Department for Business, Energy and Industry Strategy. A...

The number of locations where average house prices still stand at below £150,000 has shrunk by 28 per cent in recent...

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

A leading agency says the new normal likely to establish itself in the housing market after the end of the stamp...

Boris Johnson's sudden and unexpectedly ruthless Cabinet reshuffle, which drew comparisons with Margaret Thatcher's 'purge of the wets' in 1981, ended...

In a day of unexpected drama, Boris Johnson carried out a surprisingly brutal and widespread Cabinet reshuffle which saw a number...

Robert Jenrick has been sacked from his post as Housing, Communities and Local Government Secretary. He was the third major name to...

Rightmove claims to have identified the dream home for buyers. A survey of more than 2,000 visitors to the portal’s website has...

Welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity - another edition of good will and cheer generated by the industry’s fund-raising heroes. It’s...

The work of the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team is “vital” it claims - and the case of the...

A banned West Midlands estate agent has today been sentenced to a custodial sentence of six weeks, suspended for two years, and fined £4,000 at Wolverhampton Crown Court after pleading guilty...

One of the country's largest independent regional agency groups has been formed through an acquisition announced today. Yorkshire estate agent, Manning Stainton,...

Here’s a new way to encourage house moves - pay the potential vendor £50,000. The Scottish Government is launching an official consultation...

London’s housing market may be distinctly lacklustre compared to much of the rest of the UK right now but one development...

Welcome to our second Euros Agent Match Report, when we get leading agents’ and suppliers’ takes on the matches featuring England and Scotland.  Today...

There are now more mortgage products available than at any time since the start of the pandemic in March 2021. Data from...

We’re only a little over a week away from the Euros, happening at last a year later than scheduled because of...

The UK affiliated agency of Warren Buffett’s global real estate company has acquired a historic independent company operating in prime central...

OnTheMarket is to release its full year performance figures to shareholders on June 8. This will be for its trading year to January...

Winkworth says Covid and its aftermath will not derail plans to open five offices a year.  In a trading statement to shareholders...

The sizes and numbers of gardens in London are reducing because stamp duty is encouraging more extensions as an alternative to moving. That’s...

Knight Frank is investing an undisclosed sum in a venture capital firm specialising in PropTech. The money is going into a European...

The UK is only the eighth most popular country for Asian investment buyers, and accounts for just three per cent of...

The extraordinary consolidation in the estate agency industry continues apace today with two of the biggest deals reaching critical points. Firstly Hunters’...

In this week’s In Conversation Today, I speak with Anthony Payne, Managing Director and co-founder of LonRes, a data and network...

The high-end housing market on Jersey has been rocked by a plan from the island’s government which may ban foreign investors from...

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

The housing market remains open in Scotland, despite tighter restrictions announced yesterday by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. The only significant difference specific...

In the not-too-distant future, it will be possible to order a driverless car to collect you and then drive you to...

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

Recent debate about urgent need for reform and better collaboration within the property industry, has once again come under the spotlight...

It’s been an unexpected year for the property market, shaped by the effects of the pandemic. We didn’t quite anticipate the...

The troubled Countrywide group has announced a £90m investment by Alchemy Partners, a private equity company that specialises in investing in...

The stamp duty holiday running until March next year has triggered a surge in interest in UK property from Hong Kong...

The number of Hong Kong buyers looking at property in London has doubled in just five weeks according to an agency...

National Crime Agency officers working as part of a Paramilitary Crime Task Force have searched a home in Belfast and have...

They are the names we hear about often, pushing for this or seeking clarifications on that. They are the representatives of...

Government figures show the 218,975 properties within Greater London have Chinese owners - and two agents say there will be more...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick - currently at the centre of a planning controversy - could be sacked in a September Cabinet reshuffle. The...

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

Beleaguered Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick is under growing pressure to explain his part in a planning decision - now deemed illegal...

How prime London has changed. In 2002 work began on The Knightsbridge. Located within a stone’s throw of Harrods and a near-neighbour...

The Metropolitan Police says it’s “assessing” the controversial surrounding the Housing Secretary, Robert Jenrick, and a planning decision over which he...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick - accused by some of breaking the lockdown some weeks ago - is now in more hot...

A high profile and widely-respected estate agent is predicting a huge demographic change to one of the country’s wealthiest enclaves -...

“It appears conveyancers either aren’t too concerned with PropTech right now, or they don’t yet have all the information needed to...

In the field of conveyancing, there’s a new dynamic at play. And that dynamic is customer-driven and customer-focused, using digital technology...

There used to be a consolation for some estate agents at this time of year - while it was wintry and...

Properties worth a combined £8.1m have been surrendered to the National Crime Agency following a tax probe. The properties included 16 homes...

We know that the tenant fee ban has cost letting agents dearly, with an estimated loss of £300 million paid to...

Two prominent estate agency chiefs, both members of the Conservative Party, have both tweeted their opposition to some of the policies...

The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined a London estate agency £80,000 for leaving 18,610 customers' personal data exposed for almost two years. The security...

“You say tomato, I say tomato” is a line in a famous film score way back in the 1937 film Shall...

The topic of introducing rent controls in London crops up time and time again in our industry. But it’s been hitting...

The UK’s two leading conveyancing groups have merged to form what they call a “powerhouse” to be called Simplify. My Home Move...

A London council is considering a borough-wide ban on agents’ boards of all kinds. Labour-controlled Camden already has a ban for a...

When it comes to letting a property, it is important that landlords and renters have faith in their agent. The more...

There’s nothing new about identifying 10 figures who have helped shape an industry over the past year, but that doesn’t mean...

There is a perfect storm brewing in the lettings market, and as the saying goes, “you can’t change the direction of...

The market is now over-supplied with homes to sell while at the same time demand is dipping and there are widespread...

It’s now almost a month since the government introduced new rules on Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO), as part of its...

Almost all buyers of new build houses who purchased a leasehold regret doing so, and the vast majority say they definitely wouldn't...

The number of property transactions in July fell 3.2 per cent on the same month last year according to seasonally adjusted...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - which replaces the Data Protection Act 1998 - has now become effective and is...