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

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

In this latest article from the team at Iceberg Digital, they discuss how the digital realm is transforming Estate Agency.   The...

Estate agent earnings remain behind other salary and incentive based professions despite helping with sales of such an expensive asset when...

Propertymark has launched a project to boost LGBTQ+ inclusion in the estate agency sector. The trade body conducted a series of workshops...

The Property Franchise Group (TPFG) has posted record revenues for the first half of the year despite the subdued market. An interim...

Energy performance certificates (EPC) make little difference to property sales and the Government should consider replacing them with more effective green...

Residential estate agents are the lowest-paid professionals in the real estate industry, new research claims. Analysis of real estate salary data from...

There’s one message that’s come home to me loud and clear from my dealings with agents so far this year -...

A prominent independent production company is looking for property professionals for a new television programme idea to be filmed in the...

Plymouth independent estate agency Alan Cummings & Co has been acquired by Julian Marks Estate Agents. With more than 16 staff and...

New research suggests estate agents earn some of the lowest basic salaries of all sales professions.  Nested, an online agency promoting the...

Purplebricks says its aim to move 650 staff from self-employed status to employed has had a 95 per cent success rate. It...

One of the biggest trends since Covid, in the property world and elsewhere, has been a shift towards more hybrid, flexible...

Purplebricks has this morning confirmed that it’s ending its self-employed Local Property Experts operation and is moving to “a fully employed model...

OnTheMarket has completed its purchase of PropTech firm Glanty - a deal which began 15 months ago.   OTM took an initial 20...

Over a fifth of key businesses say they do not trust any element at all of automated anti-money laundering checks and...

There’s been a substantial 20 per cent rise in formal complaints about agents taken up by The Property Ombudsman.  The figures refer...

The Property Ombudsman has announced the expulsion of eight agencies, all for contravening TPO codes of practice. Most of the expulsions were...

Business consultancy TwentyCi is the latest to try to put a value on the potential losses to the property industry and...

Agents are consistently being told that they need to get on board with change. And one could quite easily make the...

When is a property really off-market? There may be many answers to that question but it’s likely that few would consider...

A former sales agent with a historic property name and heritage has launched his own buying agency after becoming 'frustrated' with...

The Property Ombudsman says its members must in future disclose referral fees in a bid to make previously-hidden costs open and...

Consumer habits have changed massively over the past few years, and regardless of which market you operate in, being able to...

Online estate agents have seized on the recent national newspaper article accusing estate agents of over-valuing properties to earn higher fees. The...

Lucie Hirst and Delphine Colombo, two of Prime Central London’s most high profile sales agents, have combined forces to set up Hirst...

The UK division of US-based estate agency Keller Williams says agents need access to internal training if service levels across the...

The dream may be over but the return to reality can at least be staged in the spirit of an England...

A decade ago we were still years away from Purplebricks, Countrywide was a colossus in the industry, no one had thought...

The Property Ombudsman has issued its annual report for 2017 and there’s good news for the estate agency side of the...

A central London buying agent says she was once offered a bribe by an estate agent to try to persuade a...

The government has announced further measures which will, in its words, “professionalise” house buying and the estate agency business. In yet another Sunday...

Labour MP Justin Madders is working on a Private Members' Bill creating leasehold reform in a bid to help leaseholders who, he...

Despite the fact that eight out of 10 statistics are reportedly made up (if you can believe that figure), I bet...

The Property Ombudsman’s office has defended a change to its code of practice which, according to a national newspaper, means agents...

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

There is a substantial amount of misunderstanding over this question, which needs clarifying.   In general terms, the Money Laundering Regulations require...

The Property Ombudsman, the largest and longest-established of three official redress schemes for agents, has recorded a significant rise in membership...

The Resort Group, the developer of the all-suite Llana Beach Hotel and Spa, which is due to open in 2016, has...

The Resort Group are looking for sales agents to help sell our 5-star property developments in Cape Verde. With a proven...

Countrywide, the UK’s largest agency group, is teaming up with the National Association of Estate Agents in what both sides call...

The Conservatives’ election victory came as a surprise, so much so that television pundits spent all night after the vote rubbishing...

Two rival redress schemes applying to sales and lettings agents are claiming increased business.  A press release from the Property Redress Scheme...