Chesterton Humbert is claiming to be the first – and only – national estate agent to offer a property search function on Facebook. The firm has relaunched its Facebook profile with a new property search function that allows users to remain on the Facebook site while browsing properties...

Winkworth has signed its first new office of the year, in Canterbury. Coutts Byers has now become part of the Winkworth franchise network, trading as Winkworth Canterbury...

In a telling sign of the times, a high street pawnbroker has announced plans to open 50 new shops this year, creating 300 new jobs. The Money Shop said it has been having its busiest January ever, with rising demand for its services...

A new business which sets out to be the future of estate agency in the UK, with ambitions to be the biggest inside three years, is backed by the actress Lynda Bellingham...

A successful agent has complained that 17 apparently malicious reviews on Allagents have resulted in his firm coming 8,367 out of 8,385 estate agents...

Serious concerns have been raised about the Green Deal, amid fears of a repeat of the scandal whereby thousands of DEAs handed over huge sums for training, only to find that neither the work nor the lucrative earnings ever materialised...

Insolvencies in property businesses rose by just over 17% last year, Experian reported today. Its figures come as new HMRC figures show that house sales fell by just over 1% last year, with only 890,000 completitions...

Footfall – or its lack – into agents’ shops continues to be a fraught talking point, but the issue is not stopping some businesses from investing heavily in the look of their offices...