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Average house prices and mortgage approvals hit new highs during the summer months, in a positive sign for the property market. Nationwide...

The number of property sales registered with HMRC rose in July but remains below pre-pandemic levels, official data shows. HMRC property transactions...

Countrywide Land & New Homes has been appointed by Harcourt to market Tobacco Warehouse, a major redevelopment of the world’s largest...

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

Uncertainty triggered by the new Labour Government and taxation concerns that await the 30th October Autumn Budget, have made many wealthy...

Shortly after the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act was granted Royal Assent in May, we surveyed members of the Association of...

The number of home sellers entering the market increased by almost a quarter in the two weeks following the Bank of...

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

Arun Estates has introduced a new profit-share scheme for its staff. The profit share scheme is offered across all four of the...

Property taxes in Scotland raised almost £640m over the past twelve months, according to analysis of the latest statistics by agency...

In this latest article from the team at Iceberg Digital, they discuss the annual Estate Agency X event, titled 'Mastering the...

In today's rapidly evolving property market, the focus on reducing transaction times for individual properties is at an all-time high. Various...

Rightmove is launching a new national marketing campaign to coincide with what is hoped to be a busy autumn selling season. The...

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

Self-employed agency brand eXp UK has surpassed the 600 member agent threshold. It comes after recruiting a further 100 agents since the...

Local authority searches are taking up to 60 days in some parts of the country - holding up the sales process. Analysis...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has warned this October’s Budget will be “painful.” Speaking as MPs return to Parliament next Monday, he warned...

Savills has strengthened its senior team with the appointment of Tommy Newbigging to lead its new homes department across Essex and parts...

Marketing consultancy We Are Unchained has unveiled details of its autumn masterclass tour. The brand’s highly acclaimed "30 Years of Marketing in...

Knight Frank has left the door open to revise its house price forecasts after the chancellor’s first Budget in October. Chancellor Rachel...

The 90-minute commute continues to flourish for family homes, it has been claimed. Speaking on the Winkworth’s latest Property Exchange podcast, the...

With Labour’s election victory, a new EPC target has been announced. In mid-July, the new Secretary of State for Energy Security and...

Estate agents working with international individuals can face a significant risk of encountering money laundering activities. The complex nature of cross-border...

HSBC UK has joined forces with the Open Property Data Association (OPDA) to help improve the homebuying process through the sharing...

Spicerhaart is reigniting its acquisition strategy with a multi-million pound investment in its estate agency and lettings businesses after posting a...

Chestertons Global has agreed a strategic collaboration with Romanian real estate agency Top Estate Team.  Established in 2018, Top Estate Team has...

House price forecasts have improved in just one month and significantly from a year ago, analysis shows. The Treasury regularly compiles independent...

Coventry Building Society has joined calls for Stamp Duty reform. The lender has urged Chancellor Rachel Reeves to address the controversial property...

Hamptons has appointed Chris Randall as regional sales director, overseeing the businesses South West and West London regions.  He takes over from...

Fewer than 50,000 mortgages have been completed with the support of the Mortgage Guarantee Scheme, official figures show. The scheme was launched...

Movemnt is targeting getting half of Alto’s client base to use its property onboarding and sales progression platform by the middle...

In the current rental market, where legislative changes and tax reforms loom large, many landlords are expressing doubt about the viability...

Northern Ireland portal PropertyPal has announced a strategic merger with Propertynews, uniting two of the country’s leading property websites.  Both brands will...

Humberts, one of the UK’s oldest agency brands, has announced plans for its first international expansion with the opening of a...

Mortgaged buyers have continued to drive the property market even in the two years since mortgage rates peaked, research suggests. Property brand...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has pledged £90,000 to the Chartered Surveyors Student Bursary Programme to support new entrants...

The UK has the slowest home moving timeline among 12 global nations, research suggests. Upfront information provider Moverly has analysed the average...

Spicerhaart has appointed former Countrywide sales manager Victoria Kelly to lead its Land and New Homes division in the Midlands.  She has...

Industry figure Charlie Lamdin is set to launch a new crowd-sourced Public House Price Index as he declares war against property...

More than 20 property organisations and professionals have been named as finalists in the upcoming 2024 Variety North West PROPs awards. The...

Agents can now access pre-populated material information forms through iamproperty. Users of iamproperty’s movebutler platform can use the feature, helping save time...

The expected dip in mortgage rates following the Bank of England’s base rate cut continued this week with NatWest’s lowest price...

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

I have been an agent for 25 years and have represented a large corporate agency and Anderson Rose (my own independent...

The new Labour government has pledged to prioritise a ‘brownfield first’ approach to urban planning, as part of its promise to...

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

When I first started working as an estate agent there was one thing I never saw coming… and that was having...

Leaders Romans Group (LRG) has acquired Milton Keynes brand Alan Francis Estate Agents. The estate agency was founded in 1999 by Jeremy...

Demand for new-build homes in London eased in the run up to and just after the General Election but more recent...

Bloor Homes, the UK’s largest non-listed housebuilder has signed a 12-month contract Zoopla.  All Bloor Homes' 80 developments across all nine regions...

An exciting new collaboration between TVPN, EstateApps and Paul Long is set to transform the way you advertise your property listings...

An online travel agent has come to the rescue for an estate agent’s fundraiser to give a local road sweeper a...

Leaders Romans Group (LRG) has unveiled redesigned estate agency boards to promote its carbon-neutral status. In collaboration with supplier Kremer Signs, the boards...

You won’t need me to tell you, but transactions are taking a l-o-n-g time right now. Figures from a digital information service...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has appointed Victor Olowe as the chair of its new Valuation Assurance Committee (VAC).  Olowe...

Plymouth has been named as the fasted location to sell a home in a new index. OnTheMarket has unveiled a new monthly...

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

Fine & Country has been recognised as the most recommended national estate agency brand for the second consecutive year.  YouGov research among more...

An estate agent’s kind attempt to raise money for a local road sweeper to have a much-deserved holiday have been derailed...

A new estate agency in Hampshire is celebrating expansion after securing more than £40m of property listings in its first half...

Homeowners are becoming more concerned about property fraud, research suggests. A freedom of information request has shown a 26% increase in the number...

Rightmove is to be the headline sponsor of ITV’s music show The Voice UK, starring veteran crooner Tom Jones. The portal says...

The slump in housing market transactions is beginning to translate into a fall in the number of conveyancing companies. A study by...

The latest prime London market snapshot from Knight Frank suggests muted activity so far this summer and warns of possible hesitancy...

IT was the day the world malfunctioned.  From airport lounges to the reception areas of GP surgeries, the CrowdStrike IT Outage caused...

A prominent westcountry agent has joined Moveli, which operates the self-employed broker model. Jonathan Mowday, previously of Stags in Devon, has joined...

UK Finance’s latest data shows the percentage of mortgaged properties taken into possession has risen, but the trade body insists this...

Savills has produced a strong ‘half year report’ to shareholders - but with an interesting take on how it’s operating in...

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

A prominent financial analyst is warning that the hopes for a housing market resurgence over the autumn could be derailed by...

The UK’s largest multi-brand property franchise business, TPFG, says a brace of acquisitions in the past six months have been “transformational”. Since...

Software platform Alto Marketplace says it now has no fewer than 16 integrations across 13 categories including anti-money laundering, buyer onboarding...

The wife of a jailed banker has agreed to forfeit a house in Knightsbridge worth approximately £14m and a golf club...

Six out of the UK’s top 10 conveyancers are now aboard a new transactions platform that aims to speed up property...

A little known family-run agency - Griffin Property Co - says it is finally relaunching as Emoov. The purchase of the Emoov...

There’s nothing more frustrating than losing a sale at the last minute due to details that could have been disclosed upfront....

The share price of Rightmove dropped some 6% yesterday on the back of an announcement that it was terminating the listings...

A building society is calling for stamp duty reforms to incentivise downsizing. A statement from the Suffolk Building Society says it believes...

Some 74% of developers believe that the government setting targets for councils would be the key to unlocking planning issues faced...

An agency that’s been part of a community for 55 years has been snapped up by a rival firm. Reed Evans &...

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

Home buyers, movers, and existing owners making energy-saving improvements to their properties can now get up to £2,000 cashback from a...

A poll of surveyors shows strong support for the idea of pre-sale surveys. When asked whether the new Government should introduce mandatory...

New figures from Connells suggest the company remains Britain’s biggest estate agent, handling one in 10 transactions. And in its latest report...

Estate agents are being asked to do too much when it comes to material information rules but there appears to be...

Knight Frank has launched a strategic partnership with a legal technology firm that aims to transform the way properties are sold. The...

One of Spicerhaart’s top performers has been rewarded with promotion to the estate agency director role covering Essex. Dan Augustin had previously...

SINCE the new Labour government was elected in early July, one phrase has been circulating more than any – grey belt....

Throughout the general election campaign, the Green Belt was central to the debate about the housing crisis. The new Labour government...

Changes were made to Class MA commercial to residential permitted development rights in February which mean that there has never been...

Estate agents are braced for a busy Autumn selling season after the first interest rate cut since March 2020. The Bank of...

Self-employed agency brand eXp UK has agreed a listings deal with OnTheMarket (OTM), claiming that the CoStar-backed portal will overtake Rightmove...

Industry bodies are seeking agent views on material information rules. Propertymark, together with TDS, The Guild of Property Professionals, Property Redress Scheme,...

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

Fine & Country is holding a recruitment open evening in its flagship office on Park Lane in Mayfair, London next month.  The...

Fewer sales than usual were registered by HMRC for June, official figures show. The latest property transactions statistics from the taxman - based on...

Small and medium-sized housebuilders are the key to delivering more new homes, according to Winkworth. Adam Stackhouse, head of developments and commercial investments...

By Mike Bilboe, Face For Business Buying or selling a home can be one of the most stressful and uncertain times for...

Lomond has acquired one of North Yorkshire’s oldest independent agencies, Joplings The deal will see Lomond’s Linley and Simpson brand take over...

Fine & Country has expanded further into North Yorkshire and County Durham with a new team headed up by property duo James...