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Of all the stories I read over the past week, there was one which really stopped me in my tracks.   It revealed...

The predictions game can be tricky. Sometimes you just don’t know whether to stick or twist. As reported in Estate Agent Today...

Parents are willing pay 25% extra to live in the right catchment area for a top state primary school, research suggests. New...

Almost two-thirds of first-time buyers have got on the property ladder using help from the Bank of Mum and Dad but...

The ‘UK Seniors Housing Market Update Q2 2024’ from Knight Frank brings positive news that the supply of new seniors housing...

Welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity, our chance to salute those who do so much to help others. If your agency...

A variety of charities have received support from the property industry this week. If there are charitable endeavours you think the rest...

An agency bond says Labour’s plan to slap VAT on private school fees will have a positive effect on pricing of...

Family run agency brand The Good Estate Agent has welcomed the next generation of the team in the shape of Tom...

The new financial year is often an opportunity to get organised for the year ahead. For self-employed property professionals who are...

The jargon and complicated house moving process is deterring as many as 2.2m owners from entering the market, claims Zoopla.  The portal...

A variety of charities have received support from the property industry this week. If there are charitable endeavours you think the rest...

A variety of charities have received support from the property industry this week. If there are charitable endeavours you think the rest...

As the Group HR Director of LRG – an organisation of over 3,000 employees – and perhaps more importantly, as a...

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

When the Chancellor stood up to deliver the Spring Budget on Wednesday, those of us in the property business could be...

A variety of charities have received support from the property industry over the past week. If there are charitable endeavours you think...

Almost 2m aspiring homeowners do not think they will be able to follow in the footsteps of their parents by owning...

A variety of charities have received support from the property industry over the past week. If there are charitable endeavours you think...

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

It usually takes a scandal or a reshuffle to remove a Government minister so it came as a bit of a...

After months of negative messaging and anti-development sentiment, espoused both nationally by the Government, and locally during May’s local election campaigning,...

Welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity, our chance to salute those who do so much to help others. If your agency...

Only a tenth of first-time buyers have managed to get on the property ladder without additional support, a survey has revealed. Comparison...

One of the most heart-warming parts of my job is having the privilege to be the patron of Agents Giving, the...

There’s growing evidence that wider family members - not just Mum and Dad - are stumping up cash to help younger...

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

OneDome has added new functionality to its portal to let users search for properties by their proximity to selected schools. Buyers can now...

Savills has launched a new multi-media advertising campaign focusing on the role of emotion in moving home whatever the life stage. The...

Forget the Bank of Mum & Dad, now even siblings are chipping in to help brothers and sisters onto the property...

The managing editor of The Good Schools Guide has outlined the measures that some families take to secure a place at...

Property guru and TV presenter Phil Spencer has paid tribute to his parents after they died in a car crash at...

After months of negative messaging and anti-development sentiment, espoused both nationally by the Government, and locally during recent local election campaigning,...

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

Parents are compromising their own financial situation to help their children cope with the cost of living crisis, research shows. The latest...

It’s a tough old road for today’s first-time buyers, with house prices and mortgage interest rates much higher than they were...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s first Budget yesterday failed to include any specific measures to boost the housing market but a mortgage broker...

It was a busy 2022 for the so-called Bank of Mum and Dad and 2023 could be more manic for parents,...

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

The growth of the short term rentals sector has helped to create an economy featuring several new types of jobs that...

Zoopla has launched a property inheritance calculator to help children work out what support they could get from the Bank of...

Plenty of inspirational examples of fundraising activities by agents and property professionals have been coming in from the end of 2022. Whatever...

There may be plenty of debate about going live with listings on Boxing Day but Hamptons has chosen the national holiday...

The other day I read a story here on Estate Agent Today, which was both depressing and inspiring. It reported a study...

There’s talk of 50-year mortgages being introduced, loans that, along with the property they finance, could be passed to the next...

Long-term 50-year mortgages that can be passed on by parents to their children appear to be the latest idea from the...

A group of mortgage advisers has proposed a range of reforms to reduce barriers to home ownership for first time buyers. The...

Between you and me, dear reader, I had little to no idea about what the metaverse was before researching it for...

First-time buyers are now facing up to a nine-year wait to save enough of a deposit to get on the property...

In this exclusive for Estate Agent Today readers, video supremo and property expert Chris Watkin conducts an interview with the Bruce...

Peta Milne, founder of Instagram growth and PR service Monimo, and a content writer at Choices Estate Agents, recently sat down...

Outspoken TV property expert Kirstie Allsopp has told first time buyers they may have to sacrifice lattes, Netflix and gym membership...

Almost exactly two thirds of buyers questioned by Savills say their choice of home to purchase was a case of ‘love...

As agents return to work after the Christmas break, here’s an insight into possible new instructions. A quarter of owners apparently think...

An estate agency owner who is also a qualified independent mortgage adviser has hit out against the suggestion that lenders may...

A London agency has undergone what it calls a ‘genteel’ rebrand with a subtle change of name - but a major...

The head of a small hybrid firm that describes traditional agencies with offices as “antiquated” says property professionals working for corporates...

A website called The Changing Face of Property has been launched to encourage young people planning their careers to consider our...

Propertymark says more buyers are now looking at online auctions, making this a more viable route to sale than before. The latest...

The Women In Property group claims talented females are being lost to the industry due to the menopause.  It says panic attacks,...

It’s a truism that most property enquiries from buyers these days come through portals but there are several reasons why agents...

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

Our long-awaited ‘Freedom Day’ approaches. From Monday all of the restrictions, introduced since the Covid-19 pandemic made an impact across the...

An authoritative study on the housing market has shown that the big losers from the pandemic have been first time buyers. The...

Zoopla says just over half of current home owners say they are stuck in a property that’s unsuitable for their needs...

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

Parts of the UK property market face a supply shortage with a quarter fewer properties listed for sale in England and...

As you’ll know by now, I like to use the Natter to shine a light on independent agents doing things a...

Sir Kier Starmer has told the government it should look again at whether estate agents’ viewings of properties for sale and...

A TV advert for Rightmove first screened in 2018 has been cleared of gender stereotyping. A complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority...

For many agents it’s been a big week…not because of the surge of buyers, but because their children have returned to...

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

Recent speculation that the so-called Bank of Mum and Dad would be playing a reduced role in the housing market has...

One of the country’s highest-profile mortgage lenders, HSBC, is restricting loans on apartments from today. Only buyers of flats who have a...

Agents Do Charity - as the summer heat is on… It’s hotting up outside and while this is set to be a...

In the second of a series of articles, Emma Vigus, Managing Director of mio, the Estate Agents Sales Progression platform, explores...

Housing Minister Chris Pincher and Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick stayed well clear of the Dominic Cummings row over the weekend -...

There’s been a huge change in the way estate agencies operate in recent years, with far more focus on marketing properties...

A survey suggests that 77 per cent of first time buyers do not purchase their initial property in the same town...

The Atlantic Ocean is a vast space – some 4,000 miles eastwards across from the USA until land is met again....

Another weekend, another storm: it’s hard to put a smile on your face when winter goes on this long but the...

There are reasons to be optimistic that a majority government will improve the housing market, simply by ending political and economic...

Recent Zoopla reports stating that first-time buyers are deciding against purchasing one-bedroom flats came as no surprise to me, or I’m...

There has been a real wind of change in estate agency and over the last 18 months we have seen the...

The latest figures from Halifax show annual house price growth has dipped to a six-year low. Average property price growth in...

Around one person in seven in England are living in unaffordable, insecure or unsuitable accommodation. The claim comes from the research produced...

First time buyers will constitute the largest single group of purchasers in 2019, despite the apparent difficulties of deposits and securing...

There’s plenty of action in and around Westminster these days, but while the political temperature rises, the marvellous work of agents,...

The chief executive of the Suzy Lamplugh Trust, set up to commemorate the murdered estate agency, has died at the age...

The Bank of Mum and Dad is now officially one of the 10 biggest mortgage lenders according to data from Legal...

They will be the doctors, lawyers, teachers, thinkers, leaders and captains of industry of the not too distant future, but is...

In the run up to his appointment as Prime Minister, Boris Johnson suggested that he might cut Stamp Duty Land Tax...

The Liverpool Echo says housing minister Esther McVey, who was born in the city, is now ”reviled” there following comments about poor families. According...

An estate agent has been jailed for 19 months and will have to be on the sex offenders’ register for the...

Akshay Ruparelia, the 21 year old who founded the online agency Doorsteps while he was still in sixth form, has called for...

An online agency has struck out against the conventional wisdom that it’s tougher than ever before for first time buyers to...

1. Win More Listings For estate agency in the UK, the number one task is to get new properties to market. However,...

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

Welcome to this week’s ADC…and what a week it’s been. Politics? No, hot air of a different kind - the weather.  Yet...

If it’s Friday it’s Agents Do Charity day - and we’ve got another bundle of good work for you this week,...