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OnTheMarket has partnered with an automated social media service to help agents promote listings on Instagram, X, Facebook and more. Following a...

Whether you realise it or not, APIs have helped make your day possible.  Reflect on everything you’ve done today online. On your...

There is a sense of “cautious optimism” in the market with sales agreed on the rise despite the number of overall...

The Labour Party has outlined three ways it will help first-time buyers onto the housing ladder as it ramps up its...

A property consumer group has had its Twitter account suspended and its bid to be reinstated has failed - and it...

Lucy Frazer became the 13th Housing Minister to leave the role in the past decade yesterday after she was promoted to...

It seems as if optimism is out of fashion right now: just look at the headlines to see what I mean....

Happy New Year, to you all. Now that we’re all back in harness and Christmas feels like a long-distant memory, I...

Readers of a certain age may remember 1983. The Space Shuttle Challenger made its first flight, Neil Kinnock was elected Labour leader,...

New year, old worries: what’s happening in the housing market? We’ve asked experts and collated forecasts, 15 in total. On the one...

Agents should increase their fees in 2023 so the average reaches at least 2%, a senior industry executive claims. Adam Day, founder...

As we get ever closer to 2023, this final Natter of the year is dedicated to the five biggest property moments of...

Is it really just a year ago that we were nervously wondering whether yet another Christmas would be Covid-affected? Little did we...

I’ve just read an article saying that this is the time of the online estate agency. The time in question is, of...

A former Housing Secretary has outlined why the Conservative Party mustn’t abandon its commitment to housebuilding. It comes as some 47 Conservative...

Aside from all the news surrounding the Autumn Statement this week, which will have a significant bearing on the property market...

I’ve been on Twitter for a decade and have 23,500 followers - a gratifying number and of those a couple of...

And…breathe. For a while back there, the only certainty for the housing market was uncertainty. That isn’t to say the election of Rishi...

Housing Secretary Simon Clarke has left Cabinet after Rishi Sunak officially entered Downing Street as Prime Minister this morning. Clarke cited his...

A week-long race to be the next Conservative Party leader and the Prime Minister kicks off this week, or may already...

I can’t really write about anything else this week, can I? Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you will have...

How did the housing market transform from incredibly strong - almost too strong - early in the year, to a situation...

In tougher times – as is the case now, post-Covid, post-Brexit, cost-of-living crisis, war in Ukraine, etc – reputation and consumer...

Who would be in the shoes of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng? I don’t mean who would like their power, pay and...

Housing minister Lee Rowley is set to make one of his first official public appearances at a Conservative Party fringe event...

The level of price cutting on agency listings has started to hit new highs. Property Log, which is a Chrome extension that...

The worst cost-of-living crisis in generations is everywhere we look and agents – and the property industry more widely – are...

The current period of national solidarity over the death of Queen Elizabeth II has embraced the world of property as it...

First off, my own quick tribute to the Queen, who died on Thursday afternoon aged 96. Despite her age and declining...

Brand marketing and personal marketing very often work well together and with the help of a robust marketing strategy they can...

New Housing Secretary Simon Clarke may be an unknown entity to many agents but he has a track record of supporting...

Some people will say: What problem? But they are getting fewer as the detrimental effect of increasing numbers of short lets on...

Property professionals and commentators have begun pondering an official definition of a house price crash. It comes amid forecasts that house prices...

In this latest Day in the Life of...Natter, I get an insight into one of the most vital cogs of the...

We are only a fortnight away from having a new Prime Minister, following a contest in which housing has played a...

In a welcome return to a favourite series of mine - and a timely one at that, given the current back...

What do Tilly Ramsay and Kim Kardashian have in common? Other than both having well-known fathers, they’ve both also mastered the art...

Housing Secretary Greg Clark, who is also the Levelling Up Secretary, has been caught up in the storm surrounding Rishi Sunak...

Double-think, for those who have not read George Orwell, is when people are expected to accept two conflicting beliefs as truth,...

For some time, LinkedIn was seen – fairly or unfairly – as stodgy, dull, corporate and formal. The uncool uncle to...

When it comes to housing policy, the Conservative MPs have given their party a choice between Tweedle Dum and Tweedle DumDum. Rishi...

If there’s one thing that received a boost as a result of Covid and lockdowns, it’s podcasts – which reached whole...

A client called asking for advice on their social media marketing strategy. They’d thrown a lot of budget at it, but...

The ongoing debate about how to boost agent and conveyancer relations, and improve the homebuying system for all, continues to rage,...

It’s often fashionable to criticise trade bodies and official groups, but right now I think that’s absolutely inappropriate. In well over 20...

Agents need to use social media for more than just posting property listings, an industry digital marketing expert claims. Craig Vile, director...

Between you and me, dear reader, I had little to no idea about what the metaverse was before researching it for...

All regions of the UK have seen at least a 2% increase in property supply, TwentyCi claims. A June update from the...

This question is not as flippant as it sounds because over recent years the status of the private landlord has taken...

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

Agents and property professionals are travelling far and wide to raise money for charity, plus there is a new way to...

In retrospect, it was perhaps inevitable that the infamous dead cat would come into the debate over government housing targets and...

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

What a difference two months and some local elections make. Cast your minds back to March 9 and the annual report of...

The property industry is fortunate in including many great people, doing great work across a range of businesses – from traditional agency...

It’s easy to overestimate the importance of something in one’s own industry or work, but there seems good reason for believing...

For the record, this isn’t my last Industry Views for Estate Agent Today, although by the time you read this I'll be...

If you want to sex-up the Chancellor’s financial statement scheduled for lunchtime on Wednesday, you’d call it a Budget or a...

This week, you will have all seen the sad news that Graham Norwood is stepping down as editor of Estate Agent...

As regular readers will know, I like to use this column to shout out about the independent agents who are the...

The UK government appears to have given sanctioned Russian property owners a get-out-of-jail card valid for six months.  It’s been confirmed that...

Almost exactly a decade ago I wrote a blog on the back of a spate on mainstream news stories about prime...

Until a few years ago, you would have been forgiven for not knowing who or what Coadjute was. But the company, founded...

If the UK and its allies have been played by Russia over the Ukraine ‘invasion’, and it’s beginning to look that...

Property events and functions are now back in full swing, with 2022 likely to be the first ‘normal’ year for this...

The estate agent known to his thousands of followers on Twitter as Mayfair Guru is predicting a ‘Roaring 2020s’ for the...

Location Location Location co-presenter Kirstie Allsopp has fought back after her comments on first time buyers were sharply criticised oil social...

Outspoken TV property expert Kirstie Allsopp has told first time buyers they may have to sacrifice lattes, Netflix and gym membership...

Here’s the odd thing about interest rates - we all care about them, but they don’t directly affect that many people...

Our Agents Do Charity column each Friday does a fantastic job of highlighting the amazing charitable work of agents up and...

Purplebricks’ decision to de-list a property after the Christian vendors made anti-gay comments has won widespread support from industry figures, including...

Will he stay or will he go? You don’t need me to say who ‘he’ is - it’s the only story...

As this is the first Natter back since the Christmas break, I should like to first wish all our readers a...

At the risk of mixing my metaphors, any mention of energy has become something of a blue touch paper in the...

The team at Estate Agent Today and our publisher, Angels Media, wish all agents a very prosperous New Year.  Thank you for your...

We’ve had a terrific display of agency and supplier videos running every weekday since late November - a wonderful lead-in to...

It really is beginning to look a lot like Christmas – just a week to go now. Presents all wrapped and...

We all know what did happen in 2021 - Covid and more Covid, the stamp duty holiday frenzy, a soaring rental...

In a first for the Natter, this week's interview is a video affair, with me posing the questions to Stephen Brown,...

The last 18 months have been full of ups and downs, but the property market has coped remarkably well during the...

Let’s begin with total transparency from this author: I believe there’s a place for Build To Rent in the wider portfolio...

Well it’s about time isn’t it? We mean winter - it’s here at last, with white, wintry weather that gets us...

In this latest Natter piece zoning in on independent agents doing things differently, following on from the one I did with...

With the conveyancing crisis at the Simplify Group now approaching two weeks old, it appears Purplebricks has been the worst affected...

A PropTech platform is urging agents to keep in touch with clients on their databases to increase their chances of future...

I’ve never written the three letters ‘EPC’ more often than I have in the past week. Law changes for the private rental...

PropertyHeads, a platform describing itself as a social network for house buyers and sellers, has a new PropTech partnership. It’s linked with...

A few weeks ago the ESTAS took place at the Grosvenor House hotel in London - the first chance for many...

We’ve probably all learned to be a little less cynical about politicians in recent weeks, given the tragic events. We perhaps...

As a character from a fairly well-known TV show once said, winter is coming and we’re all contemplating where 2021 has...

Leading politicians operating in the housing industry have paid tribute to murdered backbencher Sir David Amess. Housing Secretary Michael Gove tweeted: “David...

Within weeks the focus of the industry will be on the White Paper to be issued on rental reform before Christmas. Let’s...

Agent wages have been in the news this week, with boastful claims from a number of self-employed businesses about the sums...

By the time I next write this column, we’ll be just days before the next Budget and Autumn Statement. So I’ll...

As we motor towards the next major global climate change conference – the UN’s COP26 being held in Glasgow from 31...

In a day of unexpected drama, Boris Johnson carried out a surprisingly brutal and widespread Cabinet reshuffle which saw a number...

Robert Jenrick has been sacked from his post as Housing, Communities and Local Government Secretary. He was the third major name to...

Good property marketing photos have arguably never been more important in an increasingly visual and tech-led world. We saw just the...

The police investigation into the Savills agents who allegedly racially abused England players on Twitter after the Euros 2020 final is...

Belvoir’s chief executive haas taken to Twitter to hail his company’s latest results as “superb” - with sales for the franchise agency...