Latest News

Let’s start with a gorilla playing the drums. In 2007, Cadbury aired a 90-second ad featuring a man in a gorilla suit hammering out Phil Collins’ In The Air Tonight — and not a single mention of chocolate. But it didn’t…

Mark Hinkins, commercial director at Rex Software CRM platform Rex Software has announced the launch of Rex Hub, a way for agents to provide vendors real-time, self-serve access to information regarding their home-selling process. Humanising the digital-first experience, Rex Hub…

Martin’s Properties has been seeing strong rental uplifts as it announces completion of 22 residential leasing deals across its Chelsea portfolio. The borough has retained its “enduring appeal to an increasing rental dynamic”, the company said. 66% of the lettings…

The Welsh government (Llywodraeth Cymru) has released its latest figures for Land Transaction Tax, for the period of April-June 2025. The quarterly Welsh Revenue Authority (WRA) statistics for Land Transaction Tax (LTT) includes data on the number of transactions, tax…

TwentyEA is already hailing “exceptional news for estate agents” based on continued growth in supply and demand and its prediction of a total of 1.18m transactions in 2025. The analytics firm scrutinised the data to find that around 791,000 sales…

Sarah Bush, Cheffins’ head of residential, is preparing to jump out of an aeroplane at 10,000 ft as part of the agency’s target of raising some £200,000 for a children’s charity. The firm has pledged to give at least £100,000…

Companies House Hamptons has analysed Companies House data and found that one in five (20%) buy-to-let companies set up in the UK so far this year are owned by non-UK national shareholders, with the others owned by UK shareholders. It’s…

Knight Frank has issued its analysis of London’s sales and lettings markets in the year to July 2025 and found the biggest gulf in price performance eight years – but has some optimism for the rest of the year. The…

The latest Goodlord Rental Index reports that last month, the average cost of rent in England reached an all-time high. The index has tracked new tenancy contracts across the country since January 2019 and its July 2025 figures show a…

CPS Property Group has expanded with the acquisition of Donnybrook Estate Agents, a practice in Londonderry. Founder and director of Armagh-based CPS, Art O’Hagan, described the deal as a “significant milestone in our shared growth”. Donnybrook Estate Agents was founded…