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Estate Agent Today provides daily industry, Estate Agency, Property Market, Housing, Moving Home, and Online Estate Agent News updates for the UK's letting agent community. Explore the Big Issues, New Innovations, Industry Perspectives, and more Developments reported straight.
Estate Agent Today
9h ago
IT’s very difficult to predict anything in the property sector. But one thing I can predict with total certainty is we will be talking and writing a lot more about AI, tech and robots in the future. The recent CrowdStrike outage underlined, again, the hold technology has on all of our lives. From ..read more
Estate Agent Today
9h ago
Higher mortgage rates will push more people than expected into poverty, research warns. Analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) highlights that many households remortgaging or taking out new mortgages since 2022 have experienced sharp falls in their disposable income as higher interest rates have pushed up housing costs. The thinktank ..read more
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9h ago
There has been a dip in new energy performance certificates (EPCs), suggested falling home sales and property supply Government data shows 458,000 EPCs were lodged on the Register for both domestic and non-domestic properties in England and Wales during the second quarter of 2024, a 6% annual drop. Meanwhile, the total number ..read more
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9h ago
Zoopla users can now filter their property search by leasehold and freehold. In a move welcomed by leasehold campaigners, the portal said a new filter has been released that lets users narrow their property search by leasehold, freehold and share of freehold. The National Leasehold Campaign (NLC) said it was “better late ..read more
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9h ago
The Law Society may have seen-off a no-confidence vote but disgruntled solicitors have vowed to keep up the pressure on the professional body. The Property Lawyers Action Group (PLAG), had arranged the no-confidence vote against the Law Society this week, claiming material information is being imposed on the property sector without ..read more
Estate Agent Today
9h ago
Welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity, our chance to salute those who do so much to help others. If your agency is doing something charitable that we should bring to the attention of the industry, please email press@estateagenttoday.co.uk - and we’ll do the rest! Agents Giving: There’s not long to wait until the Agents ..read more
Estate Agent Today
20h ago
Further consumer education is needed to remove the stigma of auction property sales, iamproperty co-founder Jamie Cooke claims. Cooke has suggested TV shows such as the BBC’s Homes Under The Hammer have affected the image of auctions. He warned that the programme focuses on a buyer getting an auction deal, renovating a ..read more
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20h ago
Mortgage rates are dropping faster than many expected, Rightmove claims. Nationwide unveiled a 3.99% five-year fix for home purchases this week – the first sub-4% mortgage for months. The reduction comes amid hopes of an interest rate cut by the Bank of England at its upcoming Monetary Policy Committee meeting on 1 ..read more
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20h ago
OnTheMarket (OTM) owner CoStar has reiterated its aim to help the portal displace Rightmove. Regulatory filings from CoStar Group in the US, as part of its second quarter results, state that it is investing in OnTheMarket (OTM) to make it the UK’s number one portal. The filings show that OTM’s average monthly ..read more
Estate Agent Today
20h ago
Eluned Morgan is set to be named First Minister of Wales in a move backed by estate agency trade body Propertymark. Morgan became Welsh Labour leader yesterday after Vaughan Gething stepped down last week after a few months in the role following a political scandal and cabinet resignations. She is set to ..read more