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Under the strain of a housing crisis, the UK faces a severe shortage of affordable homes. This is further emphasised by...

Businesses in the real estate sector have seen one of the biggest rises in sick leave over the past year, research...

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

Calling all self-employed property professionals! With only one week to go until the 31 January self assessment deadline, the 3.8 million people...

Agents are being invited to respond to a new survey on the state of the industry.  Former Fine & Country boss Simon...

The estate agency industry is being urged to do more to tackle the issue of gender jaws, it has been warned. The...

In this latest article from the team at Iceberg Digital, they discuss their series of ground-breaking innovations announced at their annual...

In this latest article from the team at Iceberg Digital, they review the valuable guidance and innovation offered by Estate Agency...

The UK real estate industry faces a “particularly precarious” situation in the near to medium term, according to analysts at the...

Property market analyst and chair of The Home Buying and Selling Group Kate Faulkner was given an OBE in the New...

Online and Americanised models of self-employed agency have deterred new agents from entering the sector amid a wider decline of professionals...

HMRC has fined estate agents over £500,000 for anti-money laundering (AML) breaches in the past two months. Yet despite property managers...

The UK’s real estate sector is set to lose some 127,320 jobs by 2030, according to a new report by Arden...

Amid a cost-of-living crisis, not to mention the uncertainty of a post-Covid economy, real estate businesses across the UK don’t have...

One of the UK’s leading property companies has appointed marketing firm alan. agency to launch a crucial annual report.    Knight Frank...

Estate agents use property technology each and every day for residential property transactions, but is there more they can do with...

New figures from HM Treasury have revealed that businesses, including a number of major agencies, have returned £1.3 billion in furlough...

Figures released from the government show 19,400 people in the real estate sector are still on furlough - suggesting some agents have back...

There’s a new warning that the estate agency industry may be in a more fragile financial condition than before the pandemic,...

An insolvency specialist is warning that the real estate sector of the UK is seeing more firms in financial distress despite...

The property sector is set to lead the UK out of its Covid slump according to Ernst & Young’s latest forecast....

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

A slight change to the normal column this week. I was very fortunate to be given the virtual floor at the...

The number of jobs advertised as available in the UK real estate sector plummeted from 14,000 at the end of the...

There’s a record number of property industry companies, including agencies, in financial distress according to the latest Red Flag alert monitor. The...

Have you ever wondered how industry-specific software and property portals have influenced the typical estate agency of today? A new book, which...

This month saw the introduction of the final stages of the Section 24 tax changes, first introduced in April 2017. Whereas buy-to-let...

Hello - it’s Monday and so it’s PJT, where you can catch up on the industry major moves of recent days. Please...

Estate agency Chestertons has named the new chief operating officer for the roll out of its UK and Europe franchising operation. Some...

A survey suggests that 15 per cent of people who work in the real estate sector feel unsafe at work. This figure...

Hello and welcome to your regular Monday PJT, the essential guide to who’s moving where in our industry. Everyone mentioned here got...

I feel I am in a fortunate position. I have been central to the PropTech movement for a number of years,...

A survey undertaken by the respected Economist Intelligence Unit and a risk solutions company suggests that estate agency may be one...

The property industry is making “important strides” towards gender balance according to a new report - and it says more respect...

Purplebricks has this morning warned investors its foreign activities are not going as well as predicted - although it insists it is...

An insolvency firm is warning that the real estate sector of the economy is showing a growing number of businesses defined...

The managing director of troubled estate agency Humberts says he has been “inundated” with prospective buyers since news broke over last...

The UK’s real estate sector, embracing estate agencies as well as other aspects of the property industry, has been facing “increased...

The UK property sector has been a hotbed for financial crime in recent years, with many criminals seeing it as an...

Two UK online estate agencies have been named in a list of the world’s top 50 real estate start-ups to watch...

Hands up if you’ve read all of the property reports that have been published in the past week or so? Forever...

It has been a busy week for investment in PropTech businesses and no doubt you have already got reading fatigue about...

A data consultancy says it will shortly release the findings of an online survey on estate agents’ concerns over how their...

With the new Formula One season now well underway, we delve into the fast lane to take you on a whirlwind...

I’m sure I’m not the only estate agent confused by the Government’s approach to residential property ownership. Many of the current ministerial...

A report from anti-corruption campaign group Transparency International says British estate agents reported only 179 suspicions of money laundering in a...

Up Estates, an online estate agency operating chiefly in Coventry, Nuneaton and Hinckley, says it will next year open a string...