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

Now that a new government has been elected and interest rates appear to be on their way down, many buyers who...

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

Institutional investors and "for-profit" registered providers are set to play an increasingly vital role in tackling the UK's affordable housing crisis,...

And so we wait. The election, still only a week old and with almost five left to go, has served up main...

A variety of charities have received support from the property industry this week. If there are charitable endeavours you think the rest...

After a difficult 2023, the property market has been buoyed by a triple-boost in the early days of 2024.  According to the...

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

Home sales and house prices may have struggled in 2023 but more affluent buyers and sellers may not have noticed. Analysis by...

The number of Londoners leaving the capital to move elsewhere in Great Britain has fallen back this year but first-time buyers...

Rightmove is forecasting a Boxing Day bounce this festive period. Analysis by the portal suggests that the number of new properties coming...

By Alan Siggins, indoor ventilation expert and Managing Director of Airflow. Whilst the UK’s focus on Net Zero and green efforts may...

Leading digital compliance firm SmartSearch has launched an innovative new solution to help professionals working within the UK property sector to...

Build to Rent (BTR) is the UK’s fastest-growing sector and this trend looks set to continue throughout 2023 and beyond. The...

Funny how time flies faster as you get older and I’m reminded that next week, (23rd September, to be precise) it...

OneDome has signalled an intention to acquire more mortgage brokers as it reveals its HomeBuyer service has helped return triple-digit year-on-year...

Almost half of home buyers would pay a premium for more energy efficient properties, research suggests. Analysis by Barclays found 47% of...

Agents have plenty of ways to market properties, from pictures to 3D tours and videos but few, thankfully, have tried their...

International buyers appear to slowly be returning to the prime central London (PCL) market, according to Hamptons data. Figures released by the...

A promise to sell homes for £1 by Scottish Labour has been labelled as a “politically led housing gimmick” by estate...

The flat market in prime central London (PCL) is undergoing a resurgence, a buying agent claims. Residential and investment buying agency London...

The property market has been warned to expect fewer sales and more expensive mortgages after interest rates were raised for the...

Self-employed estate partnership brand The Agency UK (TAUK) is to host its first industry exhibition. Titled Grow your Agency in 23, the...

Barclays is piloting a new reward scheme for homeowners who are keen to make green improvements to their home but are...

Forget the ‘race for space’ or room for an extension, should agents start highlighting the green features of a vendor’s property...

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

Temperatures are soaring and it’s only going to get hotter this week. Electric fans will be on full blast and cold...

A typical comment accompanying news of the UK heatwave is that our homes are not built for 40-degree heat. Many residential homes...

Connells-owned Countrywide has announced a major deal in which 49 of its brands will use the ESTAS customer review platform. The deal...

A new survey by Leaders Romans Group shows a significant majority of buyers wanting homes to be more energy efficient -...

Fledgling portal Boomin says its new SmartVal tool has received over 10,000 requests since launching in early September. SmartVal is powered in part by...

Zoopla has calculated how much the average house price has risen every single day since the start of the pandemic in...

Media reports over the weekend suggest the government is preparing a triple whammy - three measures which may reduce the number...

Chestertons, the London high-end estate agency chain, is reported to be looking for a buyer. Sky News says it’s hired Deloitte, the...

A leading tax expert is advising investors to “plan your disposals” after new Capital Gains Tax figures have raised speculation of...

A leading agency in the capital says it’s seen its strongest ever half year of trading. According to Chestertons’ latest market analysis,...

The distribution of home ownership across different generations has been a cause of strife according to a think-tank. The Resolution Foundation’s latest...

An authoritative study on the housing market has shown that the big losers from the pandemic have been first time buyers. The...

Brexit means that the UK’s anti-money laundering laws are no longer governed by the European Union (EU), but any estate agents...

Zoopla has unveiled a subtle rebranding plus new features and functionality - and says it wants to be number one, not...

If your house is anything like mine, the postman has a path beaten to your door over the last nine months. In...

Ever since the initial ripples of innovation in the 1990s, PropTech has proceeded to reshape our market beyond recognition; going on...

The caveat emptor of buying a new house is ‘Let The Buyer Beware.’ This is especially the case for homes that have an ageing boiler.  Before...

The last few months have been tough for the property sector, and the pressure will continue as estate agents across the...

Tuesday of this week was the busiest day of the year so far for searches for mortgages - widely seen as...

A London agency says it’s seen over 30 new agents join its hub franchise operation during the lockdown, taking the total...

Purplebricks is starting a new wave of TV advertisements today, continuing its theme from earlier this year as a sponsor of...

Rightmove has taken the unusual step this weekend of issuing its usual monthly asking price index on a Saturday instead of...

The Financial Conduct Authority is reported to be considering offering homeowners up to 12 month’s mortgage holidays. Currently 1.2m mortgage payment holidays...

Ed Mead, co-founder of outsourced viewing service Viewber and a high profile agent for over 30 years, has had his closest...

Over 1.2m mortgage payment holidays have been offered by lenders to customers impacted by the Coronavirus crisis - that’s equivalent to...

Purplebricks today launches its media campaign as ‘The Official Estate Agent of Team GB’ for this summer’s Olympic Games. Today’s PR onslaught...

OnTheMarket has started 2020 as it ended 2019 - with an attack on Rightmove via an agency which urges others to...

A Labour proposal to dramatically improve energy efficiency in almost every British home would cost an estimated £60 billion. The upgrades would...

There may be lots of agents giving time this weekend to see England at the Rugby World Cup final and Lewis...

It’s been quite a week for news so you might have missed this story - there is yet another boost for...

During our school days, most of us did that task where we imagined and drew the homes of the future, but...

Monthly mortgage payments as a proportion of income have dropped to 31 per cent now from 43 per cent a decade...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT.  Everyone here let us know about their jobs news by emailing press@estateagenttoday.co.uk - please do...

There is a perfect storm brewing in the lettings market, and as the saying goes, “you can’t change the direction of...

A housing academic claims that while popular belief has it that homes are getting smaller, the typical living space in England...

Councils across England will have new powers to charge dramatically more council tax on homes left empty for many years following...

A new free-to-list portal is to be launched - and it is to be ‘voice led’.  The PropTech firm Triplerr says it...

The World Cup may be entertaining us for the next few weeks but whatever England’s fate may be, one thing is...

Black Brick says its turnover in 2016 tripled to £3m with new business so far this year focussing increasingly on owner-occupier...

A new report reveals how clients’ reviews and star ratings - used by many online estate agents in particular - are...

An American investment analyst has used the Motley Fool online city column to give a glowing endorsement to one of the...

Agency review website RaterAgent has listed its top 50 agents for 2016 based on customer reviews posted in the year to...

I wish it were otherwise, but there’s a crisis just beginning to sweep over newspapers – with, a bit beneath the...

The raterAgent website is to use an automatic email generating service to encourage more reviews. raterAgent has teamed up with Reapit to...

The number of UK properties worth at least £1m is expected to more than triple between now and 2030. A report from...

Unbelievable transformation from start to finish Harper & Woods Estate Agents approached Fairfield Displays with an idea of creating a stylish and...

The Centre for Economics and Business Research, a leading consultancy, says the drought in properties on the market is pushing up...

The rising phenomenon of agent-rating and review websites is a topic that seems to have caused considerable division and controversy among...

Search the internet and you will find a multitude of articles claiming that upgrading a property with green improvements can add...

Moneypenny, the telephone answering firm handling 1.2m calls a year for 850 estate and letting agents – has unveiled designs for...