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Hamptons has announced a new international partnership that will launch the brand ‘in association with Hamptons’. The deal is with Italian agency...

Competition from Dubai and concerns about taxation under the new Labour Government have led the world’s super-rich to spend less and...

London based presenter and property expert Elizabeth Warburton has partnered with Fine & Country as one of the hosts of the...

There will be many of us working in the property sector who will have raised a glass and toasted seeing the...

Who are you, and what does it say on your business card? I'm Ashley Day, the Director of Bristol Property Centre.   What is...

Analysis by professional cash buyer and portfolio landlord, Landlord Buyer (part of Open Property Group), has revealed what costs make up...

Companies that own UK residential properties have under a month to revalue and tell HMRC if any are worth more than...

In this guest piece, Andy Jones, Corporate & Build To Rent Director at LRG, looks at whether commercial property can help solve...

Have you ever noticed that it is much easier to fix other people's problems than your own? Whether it is resolving a friend's...

Interim rental inspections have taken a hit over the past two years and letting agents are now wading through their backlogs...

As the mass student exodus from rented accommodation begins throughout the UK, Richard Abbots of Inventory Hive offers advice on how...

National estate agency and advisory company Fisher German has merged with commercial property consultancy Matthews & Goodman. The merger creates one of...

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

Although Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak’s Spring Statement did not include many announcements regarding housing, it did provide a good...

A new analysis has revealed those areas of England and Wales with the largest numbers of Russian-owned homes. Credas Technologies analysed Land...

The self-employed partnership known as The Agency UK - founded by three refugees from Purplebricks - has announced a major expansion. The...

As the high-street sees a dramatic increase in footfall1, a trend that is set to continue, agents are elevating their window...

It’s been quite a week for the rental sector. Lettings agents and landlords have had such a torrid time in recent years...

The biggest news story in town this last week – which has brought people who don’t usually like or watch football...

Welsh independent agency Nuttall Parker has been snapped up by Cardiff-based property business Seraph Group. Newport-centred Nuttall Parker is Seraph Group's second...

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

The secure Conservative victory in the 2019 General Election meant the property market in the sunlit uplands was set for a...

Firstly, let’s get the obvious out of the way. Lockdown 2, as it’s being known, is now with us, but fortunately...

Hello and welcome to Property Jobs Today - our first for some weeks as the coverage has previously been dominated by...

The last five years have seen unprecedented changes to the property market and agents and their clients have never faced such...

Hello and welcome to this week’s list of good work - yes, despite the virus lockdown.  Earlier this week we featured many...

Hello and welcome to PJT: even with little more than a fortnight before Christmas it seems there are still plenty of...

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

Until now General Election pledges of stamp duty reforms were restricted to the Conservatives - but now a tax consultancy says...

Enhanced customer care strategies, relationship-building schemes, cost-cutting measures and new revenue streams can’t help the lettings industry if the fundamental underlying...

So far in our contribution to the campaign to replace leasehold with commonhold we have outlined the stories of some of...

It has been a long time coming, but the tenant fees ban, which forbids landlords and letting agents in England from...

Recent years have seen tighter regulation and new legislation hit the lettings industry. Combined with the fee ban, there is no...

It’s safe to say that the majority of agents will be glad to see the end of the past two years....

As 2018 draws to a close, it is fair to say that stretched affordability and uncertainty over the Brexit negotiations has...

Thanks to vast improvements in processing powers, the use of virtual reality (VR) in some sectors is becoming more evident than...

It’s the most obvious visual medium high street agents have at their disposal, and for many decades has been absolutely pivotal...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today, our weekly feature on who’s moving where throughout our industry. And it’s...

Just like that, the Easter Bank Holiday has come and gone and I find myself now looking ahead to the Summer.  The...

Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his first Budget this week pledging extra funding for the NHS, transport in the Midlands and the...

Not many of us have a multi-million property portfolio, so the results of the MSCI / IPD UK property index for...

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

1) Who are you? Kevin Ward – Director and founder of Agentlocator.co.uk 2) For those not familiar with Agent Locator, can you explain...

2016 was quite a year – eventful, dramatic, shocking and impossible to predict. In no particular order, we saw Leicester winning...

It may still be too early to start compiling a Christmas wish list, but it is the right time to provide...

easyProperty has exchanged contracts on a £35 million property portfolio, which it claims to be the largest deal carried out by...

Fergus and Judith Wilson, at one time considered to be Britain’s biggest private landlords, have sold off an estimated 400 of...

Beresfords, which describes itself as the largest independent estate agent in Essex and Greater London, is strengthening its country property portfolio...

Property has long been a safe investment. Before the downturn in 2008, sellers were able to gain a healthy capital return.  Post-economic...

I want to take this opportunity to share some findings from the National Landlord Association’s latest Quarterly Landlord Panel. The first is...

Who are you? Steve Gosney. What does it say on your business card? Managing Director of Kremer Signs. How long has Kremer Signs...

LSL Property Services plc has announced another lettings acquisition, this time in Elgin and Inverness. The agency they have bought, PHP Lettings,...

There is still no word on when a police investigation will report on alleged irregularities said to involve the buy to...

Introduce your properties to over 500,000 investors, increase sales and management stock... WHAT IS PRING Pring.co.uk is the largest investment property portal...

Estate agents want systems that deliver power, speed and mobility. Increase efficiency, reduce admin, offer a personalised service and increase your income...

OK, you’re being spoilt. This column is now going to be on a bi-weekly rather than monthly basis. You lucky people,...

Some companies pride themselves on being able to accommodate customers of all kinds. “No job too big or too small,” they...

A little over four weeks ago I was here musing what impact the impending general election might have on the property...

With pension reform, council licensing changes and a General Election on the horizon, many are anticipating a boom in the buy-to-let...