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A senior agency industry figure has criticised the lack of homebuilding targets after the latest Government data showed a drop in...

Agency software provider Alto is set to share an update with agents on what it has delivered in 2023 in a...

London and the Home Counties have topped the list of ‘hotspots’ for potential house sales, according to a new Pre Mover...

Alto has rolled out a range of new features to its software for agents. It takes the number of improvements to the...

Zoopla parent company ZPG’s property division, which includes the portal and agency software provider Alto, is to be renamed as Houseful. Business...

Hometrack has launched a property listings data product for agents to help analyse their local market. Powered by Zoopla data, the product...

Zoopla is set to unveil a new 16-week marketing campaign on Bank Holiday Monday, aiming to capitalise on the traditionally busier...

Here at Angels Media towers, we’re always keen to get the biggest names in the business on board for interviews. And that...

Estate agency veteran Robin Paterson has joined new ‘quick buy” service UPSTIX. Paterson, a former chief executive of Hamptons and managing director...

A new ‘quick buy’ service has been announced which would mean that sales could be completed in a week, providing a...

Bank of England figures reveal that in February there were 87,700 mortgage approvals - down from a peak of 103,700 in...

This time out, I’m in conversation with one of the big three established portals. Since it was founded in 2007, Zoopla...

Mortgage approvals decreased slightly in December but remain well above pre-Covid levels thanks to the continuing incentive of the stamp duty...

Connells Group, now on the threshold of taking the ailing Countrywide empire under its wings, has signed a five year partnership...

The housing market may be slowing as we enter December but the latest snapshot suggests there’s still momentum with mortgage approvals...

Staying on top of the numbers and figures in a constantly changing industry can be stressful. Changing property prices can be...

Only half of the branches signed up to Zoopla have taken advantage of one or other of the discount offers made...

The impact of the Coronavirus crisis is going to reduce agents' revenue into the third quarter finishing in late September warns a leading...

One of the country’s leading housing market research experts has been poached from Knight Frank to join Zoopla. Gráinne Gilmore - a...

Zoopla’s Hometrack data research arm says the start of 2020 has seen buyer demand up 26 per cent compared to the...

Yes, believe it or not, we’ve nearly reached the end of a whole decade. And what an eventful decade it’s been. We’ve...

Zoopla has this afternoon announced a massive growth programme for 2020 with 120 new staff and expansion in most of its...

The latest market snapshot from the National Association of Estate Agents continues to show how political uncertainty is dampening sentiment and...

The controversial former Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, is to be the keynote speaker at a property industry...

Hello and welcome to PJT, breaking you in to the working week every Monday with news of the movers and shakers...

The income required for first time buyers to purchase in the three most expensive UK cities has fallen slightly according to...

Over a third of homes across Southern England are at risk of suffering price falls as the housing market slowdown extends...

Hello and here’s another PJT to start the week: we hope it’s your first port of call when you want to...

Mark Witherspoon, well known in the agency industry as the former data services director of Zoopla, has joined the TwentyCi company.  TwentyCi...

House prices in 20 UK cities analysed by Zoopla show an average 1.7 per cent increase over the 12 months to...

Zoopla’s Hometrack index of 20 major UK cities shows that London property prices are starting to stabilise after a three year...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT.  Everyone here let us know about their jobs news by emailing press@estateagenttoday.co.uk - please do...

The monthly index of house price changes in Britain’s major cities, for many years operated under the Hometrack banner, has been...

House price inflation across the UK has slowed to a six-year low of 2.6 per cent thanks to falls in London...

Purplebricks’ global chief executive Michael Bruce has taken a swipe at the property and mainstream media for being too London-centric in...

Zoopla claims a new Property Valuation Report being trialled in nine areas will win more leads for agents.  The PVR will use...

The ‘new broom’ owners of Zoopla have revealed that Gary Bramall is to be the firm’s new chief marketing officer charged with...

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

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

New data from Barclays Mortgages suggests Britons are now likely to stay in their homes for almost 19 years between house...

An early sign of a possible recovery in the London housing market may be appearing, according to data consultancy Hometrack.  It’s just...

The income first-time buyers need to purchase a home in the UK’s largest cities has shot up by 18 per cent...

Zoopla Property Group's founder and chief executive, Alex Chesterman, is to step back from day to day operations at the end...

House prices in a quarter of the UK’s largest cities are struggling to recover to the level they were at during...

The latest transaction figures from HM Revenue and Customs make depressing reading - a three per cent drop between May and...

The debate over alleged ‘down-valuing’ by mortgage lenders has flared again with one leading agent claiming that surveyors are just “covering...

Hometrack says other cities are now closing the gap on London in terms of house prices and market value. The latest Hometrack UK...

ZPG’s sell-off of the Australian arm of housing data company Hometrack to REA Group, a multinational digital firm specialising in portals and...

Property sellers in the South of England are having to accept asking reductions in order to achieve a sale.  Data from Hometrack...

There's been a shock announcement that ZPG - operator of Zoopla, PrimeLocation and Hometrack, as well as uSwitch - has accepted a £2.2...

The UK chief executive of Purplebricks says his company has ambitions to roll out its business model all over the world. Lee...

ZPG has sold the Australian arm of housing data company Hometrack to REA Group, a multinational digital firm specialising in portals and...

New figures from Hometrack show that a typical home in Greater London now takes 17 weeks to find a buyer -...

Estate Agent Today can reveal that one of the industry’s best known research experts, Johnny Morris, has left Countrywide.  Morris joined Hamptons...

House price growth in London has hit a seven year low according to Hometrack, with prices actually down across 42 per...

New analysis by Hometrack shows that large regional cities like Edinburgh, Birmingham and Manchester look set for a 20 per cent...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today. If you haven’t caught this feature before, it’s a regular Monday opportunity...

The managing director of property data consultancy Hometrack, Charlie Bryant, is to lead a reorganised property marketing, software and data division...

Homes for sale in some parts of inner London are seeing price discounts of up to 10 per cent says Hometrack...

ZPG says it anticipates a strong 2018 according to a trading statement ahead of the company’s annual general meeting today. The firm...

What a year it’s been! Back in 2016 we had Brexit, a new prime minister, Donald Trump’s election, and so when...

The property consultancy Hometrack says London is facing “a drawn-out period during which there will be a slow re-alignment of house...

Data from Hometrack shows that the gap between average earnings and house prices has reached an all-time high in London.  The price...

As we hurtle towards the end of 2017, it’s time to reflect on the year that’s just been.   Even better, this property-based...

News agency Reuters says a top five shareholder in price comparison service GoCompare says the firm should respond “positively” if ZPG...

The fact is that most house hunters simply do not have the time, let alone the inclination, to trawl around properties...

London house prices are stuck in neutral according to the latest figures from property consultancy Hometrack, which says values in the...

UBS says London's housing market still faces the risk of becoming a bubble - although that risk has marginally eased over...

One of the most thorough analyses of property portals ever undertaken shows that Rightmove is the world’s most profitable portal company...

ZPG - which already owns and operates Zoopla, PrimeLocation, Hometrack and the price comparison website uSwitch - has acquired the financial...

Property consultancy Hometrack says London’s 12 month market slowdown has bottomed out with the annual growth rate rising to 2.8 per...

The latest figures from business consultancy Hometrack shows that house price inflation in the UK’s major cities is likely to reach...

The managing director of ZPG Property Services says his firm will never ‘go around’ an agent in order to directly work...

Mark Goddard was the founder and CEO of The Property Software Group (PSG), a property software solutions firm established in 2007,...

ZPG, owner of digital platforms including Zoopla, uSwitch, PrimeLocation, Hometrack and Property Software Group, has been cleared by the Competition and...

The steep drop in price growth for homes across London is beginning to bottom out according to Hometrack, which says values...

The latest measure of house price rises in key UK cities by the property consultancy Hometrack shows house price in many...

ZPG has published its half-year figures this morning showing a six per cent rise in the number of agents and a...

House price inflation in London continues to slow and has now reached 4.9 per cent year-on-year according to Hometrack. London is now among...

Senior members of the fledgling Charter for Independent Estate and Letting Agents group are meeting today to discuss how independents can...

The Competitions and Markets Authority is reviewing the acquisition of Expert Agent by ZPG, parent company of Zoopla and PrimeLocation. A statement...

The property market in northern England, supported in part by the Northern Powerhouse concept, has attracted a lot of media attention,...

Contrary to some reports suggesting London’s housing market may be recovering, new data from Hometrack reveals the capital’s performance is still...

Zoopla has acquired Expert Agent - the latest of a string of acquisitons by the portal. This follows the portal company's...

Hometrack data suggests that annual house price inflation in London has fallen to 6.4 per cent, the lowest level since June...

The first week of February has seen some extraordinary goings on in the property sector, from which two stories particularly stand out...

The Independent Press Standards Organisation has ruled that a Daily Express newspaper story - “EU Exit Boosts House Prices” - was...

It’s over. Done. The only ones interested are those with too much time on their hands. For God’s sake - behind...

A City consultancy has issued a note to investors backing Zoopla Property Group’s acquisition of data company Hometrack, suggested there is...

Zoopla Property Group’s £120m purchase of Hometrack, announced yesterday evening, is part of its aim to create “the UK’s most valuable...

Zoopla Property Group is buying Hometrack, one of the country’s leading property market business consultancies. Established in 1999, Hometrack is one of...

The latest assessment of major UK cities’ housing markets by property consultancy Hometrack shows more locations overhauling London in terms of...

Following a strong start to 2016, particularly in the lower to middle range of the UK housing market, that lasted up...

House prices in London are now rising at 7.6 per cent per year - the lowest figure for 39 months according...

Housing data consultancy Hometrack says the disparity between average earnings and house prices is reaching record levels in certain parts of...

As many northern cities struggled to recover from the 2008 global financial crisis, the north-south divide returned to plague the British...

I hate to be a party-pooper, but one of the agency industry’s coming-up-to-Christmas traditions is going to be particularly hard to undertake...

The latest Hometrack cities index suggests that London house prices in the last quarter recorded the lowest growth for 20 months...

Annual house price growth in 20 UK cities dipped to 8.2% last month, according to the latest figures from Hometrack. The research...

A campaign has been launched to make Bristol the colour capital of the UK by ensuring that more homes are painted...