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

The construction and property industry has the second highest tenure in the UK, with employees remaining with a company for 4.4...

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

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

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

Extra paperwork, poorly-resourced solicitors and a lack of upfront material information have all been cited as factors contributing to delays in...

The Buying Solution (TBS) has promoted Will Watson as the new head of the buying agency. TBS is the independent buying consultancy...

Home-buying and property part exchange service Spring has partnered with developer McCarthy Stone. The partnership will enable Spring to offer its part...

Artificial Intelligence is now a part of all our lives, but my attention was grabbed recently by an AI critique of...

A veteran PropTech figure with extensive experience of working at leading estate and sales agencies has told the government to act...

The vast majority of negligence claims against conveyancers are for relatively low sums of money, but the financial and reputational costs...

The most expensive streets to buy a home in the UK has been revealed. Unsurprisingly, it is in London on Buckingham Gate...

2023 was the highest year on record for ‘rental scam’ searches in the UK, with an increase of 11% from 2022...

Vendors could end up spending hundreds of pounds more when selling their home due to Trading Standards material information rules guidance,...

Seller search interest for high street agents has dropped, while there has been a significant spike in searches for cheap fee...

LSL non-executive chairman David Barral has left the estate agency and property brand’s board after just 11 months in the role. Barral...

Searches on Rightmove for the region of Tuscany and the city of Lucca have soared recently, the portal suggests. It coincides with...

A new upfront information provider has launched, promising to shorten the homebuying and conveyancing process. Home Sale Pack has said it will...

Some agents still appear unaware about their material information responsibilities, conveyancers claim. The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team (NTSELAT)...

Redrow has today launched a nationwide quest to find the longest standing owner of one of its homes. As it celebrates its...

March was the most popular month for completions this year as sales took longer and buyers focused on affordability, analysis has...

Redbrik Estate Agents is celebrating exchanging on a transaction in just eight days. The milestone was achieved using its SecureMove service, which...

The private rental landscape has been undergoing a profound transformation, with technology playing a pivotal role in shaping the way tenancies...

It was actor Charlies Sheen who said: ‘I have one speed. I have one gear. Go!’ The same might not be said...

By Simon Shinerock At the time of writing, Rightmove had a market capitalisation of just under £4 billion, down almost 15% on...

A conveyancing services proptech firm claims to have sped up transactions and reduced fall-throughs in just its first 18 months of...

Mortgage searches on behalf of borrowers using gifted equity or making a concessionary purchase from a family member rose by 75%...

TM Group, a high profile provider of data and technology services such as tmconvey, mio, and tmconnect, has been sold to...

OnTheMarket this morning claims to be the first major UK property portal to use Artificial Intelligence natural-language technology. The controversial technology is...

An agency brand claims to have reduced its fall-through rate to just 8% by legally preparing properties for sale before they...

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

A property data firm claims to have evidence showing agents who fail to provide upfront information are more likely to suffer...

Homebuyers in Bolton are waiting as long as 21 weeks for local authority searches new research shows. Analysis by upfront information pack...

Online agents and outsourced conveyancing panels have been cited as factors delaying property sales in the UK. A trade body has warned...

Purchase mortgage searches fell by almost a fifth last month as the Easter period dampened property market activity and there are...

Conveyancing company AVRillo has pledged to further reduce transaction times after scooping a top innovation award. The conveyancer brand picked up the...

  It's not often that I have sympathy for our glorious leaders – those who set the rules by which we all...

A former estate agent-turned-online auctioneer has launched a new service that aims to speed up and secure sales. Stuart Collar-Brown, co-founder and...

First-time buyers are persisting with Help to Buy purchases as cut-off-point approaches for the housing support scheme. To be eligible for an...

The property industry's self-destructive, point-scoring way of working just doesn’t cut it. When low stock means low cash flow low, agents and...

OnTheMarket (OTM) has launched a range of new tools that aim to boost the user experience for consumer and also make...

Agency website designer and marketing provider is starting to use artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT in the products it provides agents. ChatGPT AI...

Next week may not be the best time for agents to chase conveyancers waiting for Land Registry information. The Public and Commercial...

Agents may be regularly debating increasing their fees but property buyers and sellers are already used to paying more for conveyancing,...

The rising price of fuel and the wider cost of living crisis are causing significant concern and stress for UK homeowners...

January was a record month for mortgage searches but mainly for remortgaging rather than home purchase, data from an industry software...

Proptech firm iamproperty has launched a new legal preparation module to its movebutler onboarding and sales progression platform. The aim is to...

Agents and property professionals are spreading plenty of charitable love ahead of Valentine's Day. See some of the inspirational examples below. Whatever the...

The level of new property listings and completions among agents were only slightly below 2019 activity during the fourth quarter but...

London has returned as the go-to destination for potential property buyers, Rightmove claims. The portal has revealed the most searched for locations...

Inside this short article, my goal is to simply highlight the four most common mistakes l see from reviewing agents' Google Ad...

A buyers’ market, and a more challenging time for buyers and sellers, could be on the cards as a result of...

Estate agents need to concentrate on quality marketing more than ever before as mortgage interest rates rise and lenders become ever...

One of the biggest frustrations people have with the home buying and selling process is the amount of time it takes...

After two years of extraordinary activity in the housing market there are signs that the clouds are gathering as RICS reports...

Home hunters are increasingly searching for eco-friendly homes amid concerns about rising energy bills, figures suggest. New data from Legal & General...

Forget large driveways and gardens, it turns out agents need to advise their sellers to add air conditioning units to their...

Agency stock has reached its highest level for 12 months, OnTheMarket claims. The portal’s latest Property Sentiment Index revealed that there has...

Homeowners are getting as much as 16% extra on average when selling their properties if the energy performance certificate (EPC) rating...

Agents using Zoopla have already seen an increase in valuation leads just a month after the portal launched a new marketing...

The number of transactions progressing to completion is being hit by the cost of living crisis and rising interest rates, new...

Online searches for property portals have declined, in another suggested sign of the slowing market. Analysis of data from AdWords and Google Trends...

I look back on when my dad helped me buy my first car and shared his pearls of wisdom on what...

Energy efficiency, gardens and garages as well as speedy sales are top of buyer’s wishlists, Zoopla claims. The portal has published the...

In this latest ‘Women in Property’ edition of the Natter, I check in with Collette Allen, who was recently appointed as...

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

Next month will see new rules around upfront Material Information for property sales and lettings come into force in the UK...

Buyers are being urged to ditch their laptops and hit the streets to find a property. The property market is currently hampered...

Many people in recent years will have become familiar with challenger banks such as Monzo, Starling and Atom. Many will have...

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

A new survey by interior experts Hammonds Furniture has outlined how important interior style is to potential buyers, with 40% of...

Mortgage search platform Twenty7Tec is predicting there could be one million searches for home loans this month. The technology company, which lets...

A government aim to improve the home buying process by making Local Land Charge search results instantly available is well underway,...

Those aficionados of the Sound of Music will recognise the tag line above. It came to my mind when thinking about...

Property searches are not showing up some new road schemes because they are classified by local councils as planning consent for...

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

The number one portal is making a big marketing and research push to get reluctant owners to put up the For...

With the drastic changes enacted on the industry over the past two years thanks to the pandemic and political events such...

The conveyancing technology firm Search Acumen has launched what it calls “an end-to-end solution” in a bid to abolish “antiquated” ways...

Could estate and letting agents sell their branch office window space for third party advertising, above and beyond promoting the properties...

Government regulation and reform of house buying should see the process made faster and easier in 2022, it’s been predicted. Lloyd Davies - managing...

Despite the progress made in so many areas, particularly in terms of leasehold reform – although we are calling upon the...

The conveyancing IT crash plaguing the Simplify Group of companies continues into its ninth day; however there is an update for...

We have been speaking with many agents over the past months and the story appears the same with them all. There...

A property media analyst claims Purplebricks has record-breaking website traffic thanks to its “relentless” and vast budget marketing. “Whether you like to...

An online intelligence platform has started ranking agencies in terms of their SEO and Google searches. The platform - Industry Alerts, which...

Another market snapshot has identified low supply as the chief characteristic of the sales landscape this autumn. Landmark Information Group’s latest Property...

The convicted murderer and rapist John Cannan, who is the prime suspect in the still-unsolved murder of estate agent Suzy Lamplugh,...

Rightmove is at the centre of a revolutionary advertising initiative involving Channel 4’s Location, Location, Location. Using Artificial Intelligence technology, a digital...

As we move into the autumn of 2021, what the coming year has in store for estate agents is something we...

In this guest editorial, experienced property solicitor Lorraine Richardson argues that reservation agreements - designed to reduce the number of fall-throughs in...

Industry-wide adoption of Unique Property Reference Numbers could be one step closer after an announcement by a major trade body. The Conveyancing...

Homebuyers are suffering huge delays in receiving responses to their search requests to council according to a study of local authorities. Consumer...

A bulk quick buy company has surveyed purchasers who have been deterred from continuing their transactions to discover what the biggest...

The estate agents’ trade body has set out three ways conveyancers can further help the sales process. Propertymark has made the suggestions...

Purplebricks’ chief executive says a £4m marketing blitz scheduled for the autumn will go ahead despite the upheaval caused by the...

The already-high fall-through rate for transactions is likely to be supercharged by the impending end of the tapered stamp duty holiday...

It’s a big ask to expect anyone to suddenly change what they have always done, particularly if their results have proven...

Purplebricks is to launch an extensive marketing campaign after this summer’s Olympics to emphasise the local knowledge of its 600 agents...

Free to list portal Residential People has launched a filter allowing users to sort properties by EPC rating.  The new ‘Energy Efficiency...