Property Place, the new Facebook property platform, has released details of its deals for agents. It is charging £50 per month per agency (not branch), and will fix its fees for two years...

New estate agent review site Meet My Agent has launched a consumer campaign aimed at generating consumer reviews and increasing public awareness of the site...

PropertyLive, the NFoPP website, more than doubled traffic last year. Members have also been told that the number of property listings significantly increased...

It is not often that an estate agent gets commended in court, so congratulations to ‘have a go’ hero Sam Woodward. The Birmingham agent was praised after he tackled a mugger who had just knocked an 82-year-old woman to the ground and grabbed her handbag...

Countrywide’s Sotheby’s International Realty brand has opened its second London office, in Chelsea. The new office will work alongside its Mayfair office, which opened in 1998, to increase its coverage of the capital and respond to the international market’s demand for prime luxury property in fashionable Chelsea, Kensington, Fulham and Knightsbridge...

The founder of the first Facebook app to market property has issued an abject apology to agents after finding itself at the centre of a row over a press release which said in its headline that ‘No one likes Estate Agents’...

The boss of Hunters estate agents – which, since its acquisition of the Bairstow Eves franchised businesses from Countrywide, has become the largest independent estate agency franchise operator in the UK – is calling on the Government to delay reintroducing Stamp Duty for properties under £250,000...

New warnings have been issued about properties at risk of flooding which could be both uninsurable and un-mortgageable within months. It follows a damning report from a group of MPs into the state of Britain’s flood defences...