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I was chatting to a genuine city gent the other day (someone who has enjoyed a career in suits, ties, shares...

A senior estate agent has described the Government’s pledge to compel councils to cut red tape in favour of development as...

As much of the country battened down the hatches for the first storm of the season, there may have been a...

The Bank of England is facing calls to hold off on raising interest rates this week. Its Monetary Policy Committee is set...

In his latest column Jonathan Rolande explains why estate agents shouldn’t be distracted by the latest house price index figures. Nobody reading...

In his latest column, Jonathan Rolande, founder of House Buy Fast, explains how those working in the sector can beat the...

Annual house price growth dropped for the fourth month in a row in February and dropped further into negative territory on...

For the third year running, mio, tmgroup and Conveyancing Data Services (CDS) are inviting property professionals to share their successes and...

I look back on when my dad helped me buy my first car and shared his pearls of wisdom on what...

The Bank of England raised interest rates for the fifth consecutive month yesterday. The cost of borrowing is now at a 13-year...

Estate agents are being urged to reassess their fee structure and not be afraid to reflect the time and level of...

The changes to the business models of agents have been turbo-charged by the pandemic - and that makes the industry ripe...

Rightmove says the level of business owners enquiring about leasing office space has now surpassed even pre-pandemic levels in January. Demand is...

Mortgage lenders serving the housing market are set for a quieter 2022 after the unprecedented levels of activity seen in 2021,...

The past two years have been a whirlwind of change, challenges and chance. The main catalyst has clearly been the pandemic...

The last 18 months have been full of ups and downs, but the property market has coped remarkably well during the...

In this piece, Tom Davis, press officer at Propertymark, explores the debate surrounding a locked or open-door policy, and whether the...

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

Working from home used to get a bad rap. With the phrase mocked as ‘shirking from home’, homeworkers were often seen...

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

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Jack Reid Founding Director of Orlando Reid  In your experience,...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Ben Ridgway, Group Managing Director at iamproperty. What is iamproperty...

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

Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  Dan Muir, Area Sales Manager, LetsBid Property What is LetsBid and...

Honesty is a concept that journalists will tell their readers is non-existent for estate agents. Yeah, right! But as the end...

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

As part of our third PayProp Special Report on COVID-19 rental arrears in the UK, we surveyed over 600 agents, tenants...

Propertymark, the overarching body aiming to bring five different associations (ARLA, NAEA, NAVA, ICBA and APIP) into a single brand, was...

It is the end of my column for another year, my 4th if I am not mistaken.  This year has seen a...

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

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

If this year has taught us anything, it's that estate agents need their software provider and specifically their CRM, to help...

So, we’re back to where we were in the spring, more or less. England is in a national lockdown again to...

2020 has been a testing year right from the start. With Storms Ciara and Dennis causing £184m+ worth of damage to...

The property market has bounced back with all of the expected resilience and flexibility that is its hallmark since it reopened...

Across the UK and Europe, lockdown measures are changing and the markets are kicking back into life as we grow accustomed...

It’s fair to say that UK estate agents don’t have the best of reputations, often featuring in the lists of the...

Life as we know it has changed – for everybody – and what tenants want, need and expect in this post-pandemic...

There are various reports of estate agencies closing branches - or not reopening them after lockdown - as they reduce the...

The return of non-essential businesses to lockdown in Leicester as a result of a localised spike in Coronavirus cases is a...

As we adjust to a life post-Covid-19, letting agents, landlords, and tenants are thinking - ways to speed up the process...

The phrase ‘game-changer’ has been hugely overused. But when applied to how Covid-19 is changing the way estate agents will work...

The property market is used to change, and I’m confident it will bounce back from any lockdown effects. Despite being acutely aware...

A market commentator says it will take up to three months before the housing market stabilises into the ‘new normal’ after...

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

The housing market is set for long-term recovery, despite dips in the road on the way.  That's the message from the latest house...

The Guild of Property Professionals says “a remarkable number” of agencies has joined it during the lockdown. Some 27 agencies signed up...

Rupert and Annabel Wakley - both long-time stalwarts of Knight Frank’s country department - have moved over to the rival Jackson-Stops...

The combined market share of agencies in the Guild of Property Professionals is now higher even than it was at the...

** This Bank Holiday Monday both Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today look at how agencies have modified offices and protocols...

Rightmove has suggested there may be massive changes underway in buyers’ priorities as the housing market resumes and the country begins...

Rightmove has taken the unusual step this weekend of issuing its usual monthly asking price index on a Saturday instead of...

Details being presented to Parliament today may include information on how agents can return to work in some sort of ‘new normal.’ A 50...

There has been much speculation about when agents will be allowed back to work, and what the new office working environment...

Rightmove says it’s to launch its biggest ever national marketing campaign in a bid to kick-start the market once lockdown eases. The...

Since my last column in April, one could argue that very little has changed for agents in terms of the market...

Lockdown measures are still in place for another two weeks, at least, with the possibility of them being extended beyond that....

We are still living in highly extraordinary times, perhaps evidenced best by the fact that the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, was...

As the impact of coronavirus unfolds, we are in constant conversations with customers to understand the challenges they’re facing and to...

On April 4, EAT published a piece titled: ‘It’s 2024: what will the industry look like, post corona-virus’. To me, this...

There’s a sense that we really are on the verge of a huge change in the industry. It’s too early to be...

Much like PropTech, Open Banking has been used as a buzzword in recent years. However, when it comes to the rental...

Where else to start? Since my last Natter two weeks ago, all our lives have changed more than we could ever...

For complete transparency, I write this column first thing on a Tuesday morning and have done for a couple of years...

House prices increased 0.5 per cent in November, which was the strongest monthly rise since April according to the Nationwide.  However, annual...

With somewhere in the region of 1.2 million property sales transactions being completed each year, and 16,500 estate agents actively vying...

Average UK house prices rose 0.5 per cent in May according to the latest Halifax house price index as the long...

Another new year is nearly upon us and, once we’ve got the season of mince pies, mulled wine, pigs in blankets,...

And so summer draws to a close. The slow, lazy months of July and August have come to pass and the...

One of the country’s leading buying agents says over six million people are living in the wrong property because they are...

The rapid growth in popularity of buy-to-let in recent years, fuelled in part by the failings of the pensions industry, has...

It is fair to say that 2016 is a year full of surprises. Anyone who had the foresight to predict Britain...

Those working within the UK housing market would have felt considerable worry about the immediate impact of the vote to leave...

The summer term – rounders, cricket and hayfever. It's also the last dash before the housing market supposedly closes down for...