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A cross-industry collaboration aims to showcase how working horizontally across key stages of the home-buying and selling journey can positively impact...

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

The Home Buying and Selling Group (HBSG) has arranged a new pilot scheme for a group of lawyers and conveyancers to...

The Property Franchise Group (TPFG) has been trialling property blockchain network Coadjute’s digital property data pack and smart forms and has...

The UK Residential division of agency and property brand Knight Frank has won the ‘Best Customer Satisfaction Strategy Award’ at the UK Customer...

Property professionals have called for the Government to allocate its promised £3m towards improving the home buying and selling process to...

Outsourced property viewings and inspections provider Viewber is celebrating completing more than half a million appointments. Launched at the end of 2016...

The intellectual property of collapsed online agency brand Doorsteps has sold for just £3,666. Begbies Traynor, the liquidator for Doorsteps, sought offers...

The 2023 Autumn Budget, amongst its considerable 110 growth measures, contained an important announcement for the property sphere, with £3 million...

Estate agents remain among the least trusted professions, the latest Ipsos Veracity Index has revealed – but there is a silver...

The Autumn Statement ended up being silent on Stamp Duty reforms and direct housing market stimulus but there were some nuggets...

It's emerged that Homes England and HMRC have explored possible fraud within the Help to Buy Equity Loan Scheme. This formed part of...

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has launched a new document to help firms benefit from the range of digital services available to...

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

OnTheMarket has launched a new nurturing service to help estate agents generate fresh revenue from their existing database and win more...

When it comes to the usage, and benefits of, providing upfront material information to all those involved in the home buying...

Industry veteran Tim Main has issued a challenge for agents in the latest attempt to speed up sales and reduce fall-throughs. Main,...

Providing material information upfront could help agents charge higher fees and even reduce their carbon footprint, while those not complying could...

A year-long pilot of using upfront material Information by conveyancer Thomas Legal and search provider Conveyancing Data Services, a part of...

Strike chief executive Sam Mitchell has blamed uncertainty since the September mini-Budget and rising mortgage rates for making the market more...

The Government has unveiled a pilot scheme aimed to help more flat owners whose homes have become unsafe and, in some...

Barclays is piloting a new reward scheme for homeowners who are keen to make green improvements to their home but are...

Conveyancing software provider Smoove has revealed that 30 branches across 18 firms have so far signed up to its new flagship...

Tenants are becoming more discerning – not just about the properties they choose to rent but who they rent from too. With...

Zoopla is rolling out a migration tool for all agents looking to shift from its Jupix software system to Alto. It follows...

Conveyancing software provider Smoove is set to rollout a new flagship estate agency product following a successful trial phase. Smoove Start was...

Earlier this year, we ran a story asking whether agency would ever embrace a four-day week. This came ahead of the...

Anti-money laundering (AML) platform Thirdfort has secured funding from three high profile estate agents. Knight Frank, Chestertons and Savills’ proptech subsidiary Grosvenor...

The government’s new Right to Buy policy for housing association tenants appeared to unravel last night after the Housing Secretary said...

Zoopla is piloting a new data migration tool to quickly transfer agent data from its Jupix to Alto software brand in just...

The government is being urged to go further with its clampdown on fake reviews. A government announcement aimed at protecting consumers last...

In this Q&A, I catch up with Jesper With-Fogstrup, chief executive officer of Smoove (formerly ULS Technology until a very recent...

In June, the biggest pilot scheme of a four-day working week anywhere in the world will begin in Britain, with more...

The international reviews service Trustpilot has batted away criticism from a property website that it ignores breaches of its guidelines. Last week,...

The war of words between various property review platforms continues apace. The latest accusation concern comparison website GetAgent, and specifically reviews of...

A row has broken out over a company which has made allegations about Trustpilot reviews of OnTheMarket. A company called KwikChex says...

Until a few years ago, you would have been forgiven for not knowing who or what Coadjute was. But the company, founded...

Timothy Douglas, Head of Policy and Campaigns at Propertymark, analyses the impact that the lack of available data is having on...

‘Knowledge is power’ goes the old saying, and one variation on that theme is a quote from academic, Robert Boyce, who...

Strike, formerly known as Housesimple, is the latest online agency to claim it’s going to secure a 10 per cent market...

If 2020 was the year of survival, then 2021 was about the post-Covid boom. The impact of the pandemic on the...

Reviews website Trustpilot has hit back after being attacked by property website allAgents.  allAgents chief Martin McKenzie is calling for Trustpilot chief...

A long running dispute between reviews website allAgents and Purplebricks has come back to life - with a new twist. In 2017...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I can’t remember the last time I had a business...

The agency that last year was showcased in the one-off Channel 4 show Britain's Most Expensive Houses is now to star...

A pilot scheme has been announced to test ways of limiting second home ownership and reducing the impact additional properties have...

In this latest Natter piece zoning in on independent agents doing things differently, following on from the one I did with...

There’s been another step to make house sales more secure and speedier, with a pilot scheme starting next month. Five major identity...

Agent wages have been in the news this week, with boastful claims from a number of self-employed businesses about the sums...

British homebuyers take an average of 25 seconds to decide whether a house is right for them, according to Purplebricks. As a...

A nationalist party has blasted a Labour government in one national region of the UK for its lack of intervention in...

Two prominent estate agencies are amongst those piloting a new financial product that allows aspiring buyers to purchase property with just...

Since 2017, The DPS has used the data we collect to track the rental values of properties across all regions of...

The platform behind a controversial proposal to charge prospective buyers and renters £30 or more to view a property on the...

Coadjute, the long-awaited real-time network which uses Blockchain technology to sell a property, is launched today with its first property deal...

Foxtons shareholders will today give their verdict on the company’s plans to ‘go national’, revealed at the start of the weekend. On...

You could make about 65 more cold calls, or hold 13 more viewings, or you could take a power-nap every day...

Licensing of the short-term lets sector in Scotland was due to be introduced next month. However, it was recently announced that...

Yopa has instructed two companies to help with its brand building as it battles with other major online players. It’s appointed M.i. Media...

Emoov’s new 'guaranteed offer' service means fall-thoughs and chain-related delays are effectively eliminated, the agency claims. Emoov - now owned by a firm...

The Law Society is to pilot upfront conveyancers’ information for home buyers and sellers. This will involve the TA6 form which contains...

Purplebricks is now part of the mainstream landscape of British estate agency. There - I said it. An agency whose whispered name...

Scams are rife in the quick house buying sector with many companies seeking to take advantage of sellers in desperate situations. That’s...

Purplebricks has been rated as only the 10th best online agency in the country in a controversial new league table. The list...

Purplebricks - which for some years has been the focus of controversies over reviews - has been given a prestigious award...

Purplebricks founder Michael Bruce has batted away a stinging attack on him made by allAgents, a review website. allAgents has set up...

A PropTech platform that says it halves the time taken for transactions has just completed a multi-million pound investment round. Coadjute - which...

Here is a quick read focusing on 5 things you can check your business is doing while on your tea break....

There is no doubting that 2020 has been a challenging year for all industries, with the lettings market being no exception. Following...

Zoopla has linked with a PropTech company led by the former boss of Purplebricks to offer agents free virtual viewings services. The...

It’s no surprise the mainstream news remains dominated by coronavirus - not so much the actual effect of it right now,...

The agency affiliation group Relocation Agent Network is linking with HBB Solutions, a part exchange and ‘guaranteed purchase’ operator.  HBB says a...

The Federation of Independent Agents has announced its latest partnership - this time with a live-streaming viewing service called Gavl. The platform...

    Purplebricks says changes to its fees structure - possibly becoming less reliant on controversial upfront charges - has been delayed until...

At a recent Conveyancing Association webinar focused on the provision of upfront information in the property sale process, there was a...

What work did I do through lockdown? I went to work for a company who provide Domiciliary care for the vulnerable and elderly...

Arguments over the alleged gaming of reviews by and for some estate agencies have waged ferociously in recent years, and now...

The Competition and Markets Authority has launched an investigation into fake and misleading online reviews. The announcement from the watchdog does not...

If it’s really the case that estate agents’ offices could be in the category of High Street premises first allowed to...

Let me start by wishing everyone well in these uncertain and precarious times. I truly hope you, your families, friends and...

In response to the current coronavirus pandemic, which is having such an impact on all parts of life, including the property...

When Wolverhampton estate agency Thomas Harvey opened its doors more than 50 years ago, mortgages weren’t really part of the equation...

The National Association of Estate Agents has launched its Sales Protocol Toolkit, in a bid to reduce fall-throughs and dramatically improve...

Now we’re well into the second month of the year, we have reached a crucial point in the ongoing plans to...

  Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Catherine Shinerock - ARO Account Manager What is your ‘company name’...

The war of words between estate agency review website allAgents and consumer review service Trustpilot continues apace. Trustpilot has hit back, describing allAgents’...

The estate agency review site allAgents claims some of Trustpilot’s reviews “could be dubious.”  A statement from allAgents repeats an allegation made last...

The Law Society has announced that there will be a new TA6 Property Information Form launching next week, on Friday February...

The group charged with pioneering Reservation Agreements in the house buying process admits both the industry and the public are split...

There have been two developments on the controversial subject of online reviews. One concerns the online agency Emoov, which three months ago...

It’s one of the most crucial aspects of the homebuying and selling process but is too often bogged down by frustrating...

It’s been revealed that Countrywide is involved in a pilot exercise to help the creation of a so-called ‘affordability hub’ for...

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

The dispute between controversial online estate agency Emoov and the Advertising Standards Authority is rumbling on.  In the first half of November...

In just over two weeks, the UK population will head to the polls for the fourth general election since 2010. Of course,...

It’s easier than you might think. For any agent the challenge of making a business successful is hard work with the focus...

An online estate agency which last week claimed it had resolved a dispute over reviews it showed on its website is...

Fledgling online estate agency Emoov - now owned by PropTech firm Mashroom - has removed reviews and endorsements from its website...

Reservation Agreements are the subject of the moment in the agency industry. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is to...

Buyers and sellers changing their minds lie behind almost a third of fall-throughs - the single biggest reason why transactions collapse,...