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As 2018 draws to a close, it is fair to say that stretched affordability and uncertainty over the Brexit negotiations has...

When renting a property out, letting agents and landlords recognise that it is important to take a deposit from the tenant...

Given that online property portals, dominated by a handful of websites, are by far the most popular home search method, it...

When you recruit a new member of staff, training should be one of your main priorities.  After initial training, ongoing training and...

If you want an engaging page-turner novel for cold winter evenings, my recommendation is Our House by Louise Candlish, a bestseller...

I don’t think I can add anything more to the excellent 2019 pieces we’ve seen on EAT in recent weeks –...

Thanks to vast improvements in processing powers, the use of virtual reality (VR) in some sectors is becoming more evident than...

To say legendary ZPG founder and CEO Alex Chesterman left big boots to fill when he stepped back from day-to-day operations...

How will things be done in the future? There’s no knowing, of course, given the many variables at play, but it’s...

It’s time, surely, for government to crackdown not just on rogue agents and landlords but on rogue councils that confuse the...

The demand for rural properties is high, and with 20.7% of England’s population in countryside areas, estate agents have a large...

Cast your minds back to the summer of 2014. It’s 9.55 am somewhere in east London ‘Sorry I’m late’ offers the...

With the home buying and selling process firmly on the news agenda of late – everything from a possible ban on...

“You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over,” is an oft-quoted saying of Richard...

A review of the housing market at present, particularly when it comes to purchase transactions, might not necessarily feel overly positive.  The...

Conveyancing regularly adds unnecessary and costly delays to the home buying process and improvement could be far quicker than any efforts...

It is a sobering thought that 40 years have slipped by since I first ran a tape measure across the inside...

You will notice that there is a new author for this regular column for Estate Agent Today. Last month I was...

The end of 2018 was a bit of a rocky time for online estate agents. Yet only a few years ago...

Competition for landlords will be fiercer than ever this year. Landlords are facing a raft of changes and will likely be...

Nobody likes change. It makes people feel threatened, undermines their confidence, and makes them worry about the future. But regardless of...

The road to opening up your own business can be a long one. If you’ve never done it before, there are...

Instagram (or, as the younger generation would have it, Insta) is, by any measure, massive.  Only launched in October 2010, it’s a...

There are many misconceptions about the franchising world but, whether we’re talking about estate agency franchises or fast food franchises, it’s...

Kit Malthouse has been making headlines this week, but – in keeping with his tenure as Housing Minister so far -...

Alongside hundreds of agents and suppliers, I recently attended the Guild of Property Professionals’ annual conference. As ever, it was a great...

Last week, the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government announced a number of measures aimed at further tackling homelessness, including...

The Deposit Protection Service (The DPS) keeps deposit money safe for letting agents, landlords and renters during the course a tenancy....

The dust may have settled on the government’s recent announcement regarding housing and property complaints, but opinion is still split on...

Barely a day goes by when we don’t read a new report on the unscrupulous practices of landlords; of the sub-standard...

Even with 2019 well underway, letting agents need to keep refining their long-term goals and business targets. For agencies with a...

Hello and welcome to 2019. These are less predictions and more expectations - developments following on from what’s happened in the past...