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![Battle of the Self-Employed Brokers - more recruits](/upload/images/shutterstock_2042381909.jpg)
Yesterday we covered the story of self-employed estate agency brokerage eXp revealing three new agencies to have taken on the corporate...
03 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Self employed brand reveals more agencies signing up](/upload/images/shutterstock_2197519793.jpg)
Self-employed agency brand eXp UK has named a second wave of estate agencies to adopt its new business model. The brand’s ‘brokerage’...
02 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Coup for Self-Employed Agency Brand as high flying agent joins](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Compliance-2-400x310.png)
An agent with 15 years experience at high end agencies Hamptons and Knight Frank has joined a self-employed brokerage brand. Sally Jane...
24 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![US agency crosses the pond to target British buyers](/upload/images/shutterstock_1939402885.jpg)
A US real estate brokerage is heading to the UK, with plans to target those looking for a holiday home across...
15 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Tyron Ash: Corporate agents are 'self-entitled'](/upload/images/shutterstock_1504571753.jpg)
High-end estate agent Tyron Ash has hit out at the “sense of entitlement” at corporate estate agencies who he said don’t...
10 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Is The Agency UK going to do ‘a Purplebricks?’](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
One of the founders of self-employed brand The Agency UK (TAUK) has set out hopes for the business to dominate the...
20 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Two high street agencies among first to join eXp brokerage model](/upload/images/shutterstock_2162718897.jpg)
Two estate agency businesses have already signed up to self-employed agency brand eXp’s new brokerage model just weeks after launch. Mackays, a...
18 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Self-employed agency brand reaches 500 agents](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/AgentsWorking-400x310.png)
Self-employed agency brand eXp UK is celebrating surpassing the 500 agent milestone. The latest announcement comes less than a year after the...
11 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![eXp UK launches brokerage model for ‘traditional agents’](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/AgentsWorking-400x310.png)
Self-employed agency brand eXp has launched a brokerage model for the UK market. Such a system is already common in the US...
04 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Join the future of estate agency, today.](/upload/images/adv-2021/sponsored-content/Moveli/360x.png)
Estate agency has changed. No longer is it required to sit in a high street office working the old way. Provide a...
12 September 2023
From: Sponsored Content
![New self-employed agency brand names high profile non executive director](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
Former Homesearch head of training and development Simon Gates has been appointed as a non executive director of Chris Buckler’s new...
22 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![OneDome on the lookout for more mortgage acquisitions](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Acquisition-400x310.png)
OneDome has signalled an intention to acquire more mortgage brokers as it reveals its HomeBuyer service has helped return triple-digit year-on-year...
20 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Self-employed agency network nears 100 partners](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/AgentHouseInHand_400x310.png)
The Agency UK’s (TAUK) nationwide team of self-employed estate agents has now reached 89 partners operating across 32 countries, with the...
17 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![LSL offloads mortgage and insurance brands in latest ‘simplification’](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/mortgage-400x310.png)
LSL has sold its mortgage, protection, and general insurance brokerage firms Embrace and First2Protect. The brands have been sold to Pivotal Growth,...
12 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Shuttlecocks to sales! Badminton ace becomes estate agent](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LearningAgents3-400x310.png)
Former youth Olympic Badminton player Grace King is one of first recruits in a campaign launched by hybrid agency Mr and...
25 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![LSL offloads new build brokerage firms in ‘group simplification’](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Developments/newbuild400x310.jpg)
Agency brand LSL has announced the sale of its new build mortgage and protection brokerage firms, Group First, which operates under...
16 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![OneDome plans more purchases after mortgage broker acquisition](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Acquisition-2-400x310.png)
Challenger portal and homebuying support platform OneDome has acquired broker CMME Mortgage and Protection from the private equity-backed CMME Group. CMME Mortgage...
12 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents shouldn’t discount US realtor model - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Property-forecast_400x310.png)
Agents should be using social media and their own US-style personal brand to promote listings regardless of the value of the...
05 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![US demand doubles for UK prime property](/upload/images/Locations/UK-US-Flags-400x310.jpg)
Demand for prime London property from Americans doubled between September and October due to favourable dollar exchange rates and increased investor...
17 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agency partnership brand launches roadshow for new recruits](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Acquisition-2-400x310.png)
Self-employed estate partnership brand The Agency UK (TAUK) has launched a series of roadshows to attract agents to its offering. The company...
03 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Educating agents – Propertymark sponsor announces £5,000 fund](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/AgentsWorking-400x310.png)
Gallagher, the insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has announced a £5,000 fund to help two businesses further their learning at...
11 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![New TV show reveals ‘grit and glamour’ of luxury property sales](/upload/images/Miscellaneous/WorkFromHomeDesk-400x310.jpg)
Property brokerage and estate agency Nest Seekers International is set to reveal the highs and lows of luxury property sales in...
21 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Self-employed firm welcomes new Partner to strengthen network](/upload/images/Miscellaneous/TeamSelection2-400x310-min.jpeg)
The Agency UK – which was set up by three ex-employees of Purplebricks – has strengthened its team with the arrival...
15 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![High profile self-employed agency snapped up by Belvoir](/upload/images/Logos/BelvoirNEWESTLogo400x310.jpg)
Franchise giant Belvoir has snapped up one of the earliest British estate agencies to adopt the model of using self-employed or...
11 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![LSL Property Services latest acquisition cements move into finance](/upload/images/library/PropertyPuzzle-400x310.jpg)
The finance arm of LSL Property Services - known as Pivotal Growth - has snapped up a specialist mortgage and insurance...
11 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![RAN 2021! Conference and Awards tomorrow in Birmingham](/upload/images/Logos/RANlogo-400x310.jpg)
Tomorrow sees the Relocation Agent Network’s first in-person conference since 2019. The event, at the Metropole Hilton in Birmingham, will focus...
02 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Relocation Agent Network ponders global options for growth](/upload/images/Logos/RANlogo-400x310.jpg)
Relocation Agent Network, the network of primarily independent agencies, says it’s looking at global options for growth thanks to its relationship...
26 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Surveys must show climate change risks to buyers, says mortgage chief](/upload/images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/EnvironmentallyFriendly-400x310.jpg)
A mortgage expert says surveyors should improve their standard services to cover the threat of climate change. This comes after a summer...
23 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![LSL is NOT selling off mortgage brokerage in near future](/upload/images/Logos/LSL-Property-Services400x310.png)
LSL Property Services has told Estate Agent Today that the company did not agree to a potential sale of its mortgage arm at...
26 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Top Agency’s New Idea - selling houses is NOT the top priority](/img/default/eat.png)
Britain’s second largest estate agency has outlined radical new plans to shift direction, making financial services and not sales or rentals...
29 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![LSL chairman Embley steps down to head new finance operation](/img/default/eat.png)
LSL Property Services is to set up a mortgage brokerage called Pivotal Growth. The new brokerage - set up with Pollen Street...
23 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Walk-ins to High Street branches “more a liability than an advantage”](/img/default/eat.png)
The rise and rise of portal listings and changing consumer habits during the pandemic may mean the death of the High...
12 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agents offered shares as incentive to go self-employed](/img/default/eat.png)
One of the early operators of the self-employed agency model has launched a scheme under which its agents receive shares in the...
10 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Warren Buffett’s estate agency launches UK television ad campaign](/img/default/eat.png)
The UK outlet of Warren Buffett's estate agency empire is launching its first TV advert in this country. Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Kay &...
08 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Major Countrywide shareholder demands “bold action to save company](/img/default/eat.png)
One of Countrywide’s biggest shareholders has written a second letter to the company to demand bold action to save the agency...
19 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter - what are the differences between UK and US agents?](/img/default/eat.png)
We have had a special relationship for many years and are bonded as countries in many ways – historically, politically and...
01 August 2020
From: Features
![Celebrating the different side of estate agency](/img/default/eat.png)
Difference should be celebrated. But in our industry it rarely is. I was on the board of a large corporate where...
22 July 2020
From: Features
![Corporates lose more and more agents to self-employment - claim](/img/default/eat.png)
There’s a growing trend for estate agents to quit big-name corporates and either go independent or join US-style brokerages, a top...
04 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![48 hours with...the largest estate agency in the world](/img/default/eat.png)
'It's a recipe, not a menu' is a mantra championed by a host of Keller Williams' millionaire estate agents. But what are...
25 January 2020
From: Features
![PropTech Today: Mortgage brokers vs robo advisers - who will win?](/img/default/eat.png)
“Give me 100 leads and I will make five-times more good appointments than any AI you put me up against,” stated...
22 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Reapit takes another step towards end-to-end digital home buying](/img/default/eat.png)
Reapit has joined a consortium attempting to make the long-anticipated end-to-end digital home buying process a reality. It’s joined the IPN Consortium,...
20 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Each Purplebricks customer costs £375 for agency to acquire](/img/default/eat.png)
A leading analyst says Purplebricks has clearly plateaued and will not reach its own target of a 10 per cent market...
14 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks’ biggest investor buys online agency ahead of Euro roll-out](/img/default/eat.png)
The German-based Alex Springer publishing company, which is already the largest single investor in Purplebricks, has acquired a prominent online estate...
30 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![PropTech Today: New technology can make agents more valuable than ever](/img/default/eat.png)
A story from America caught my eye this week. It’s about a company called Curbio partnering with another called The Keyes...
25 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Branch closures: Large number of offices quit the High Street](/img/default/eat.png)
A comprehensive report into the changing complexion of the High Street suggests that some 143 estate agents’ offices closed in the...
12 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks’ US boss seeks UK backing for new online agency](/img/default/eat.png)
Former Purplebricks US chief executive officer Eric Eckardt is seeking some £6m in funding from across the world for his latest...
04 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![PropTech Today: why are the wrong people driving our innovation agenda?](/img/default/eat.png)
I wrote last week about Keller Williams and how their leader, Gary Keller, is doing an admirable job of driving innovation through...
07 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Property Jobs Today - all the latest industry moves and news](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello and welcome to this latest edition of PJT, your Monday catch-up on all the key appointments news in the industry. Please...
15 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Property Jobs Today - who's moving where in our industry?](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello and here’s another PJT to start the week: we hope it’s your first port of call when you want to...
10 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![Online ‘veteran’ to lead virtual estate agency launching in UK](/img/default/eat.png)
A veteran of three online estate agencies has been named as the first UK head of a US real estate operation...
07 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![US franchise network owned by Warren Buffett enters London market](/img/default/eat.png)
A well-known London estate agency says it signing up to a US-based real estate franchise network run by billionaire Warren Buffett. From...
10 September 2018
From: Breaking News
![Countrywide loses its Mojo in mortgage brand name tussle](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s not just the bosses’ pay incentives that have been a problem for Countrywide’s senior management - it appears the company...
21 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Countrywide: could it really be snapped up by Foxtons or Connells?](/img/default/eat.png)
Rumours abound over the future of Countrywide, which lost further share value on Friday, closing very slightly down on the day...
13 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![PropTech Today: What do Rightmove and WeWork have in common?](/img/default/eat.png)
There have been two stories dominating the PropTech headlines over this past week. As WeWork places a gentle arm around the...
01 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks announces major expansion of its US business](/img/default/eat.png)
Purplebricks is expanding its US activities by entering the markets of Las Vegas, Nevada and Phoenix, in the state of Arizona. A...
15 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![The future for Countrywide - Paul Creffield interview](/img/default/eat.png)
The rise and fall - and perhaps rise again - of Countrywide has been of enduring interest to the agency industry...
12 May 2018
From: Features
![Exclusive: UK estate agent fees 'are the lowest in the world'](/img/default/eat.png)
Here’s some good news to take into the Bank Holiday weekend. Research undertaken by Estate Agent Today suggests that fees charged by...
04 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![LSL's agency brands reveal growth in past year despite market woe](/img/default/eat.png)
LSL Property Services - parent company to 12 brands including Your Move, Reeds Rains and London’s Marsh & Parsons - has...
06 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Branding - game, set and match to the onliners?](/img/default/eat.png)
According to The Branding Journal, a brand is “a name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one seller's...
20 January 2018
From: Features
![RICS Blue Book: latest guide for ethical and professional agency launched](/img/default/eat.png)
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has launched a comprehensive guide to what it calls “the responsibilities of residential property agents...
12 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![PropTech Today: Are we doing enough to protect property’s core values?](/img/default/eat.png)
Supporting the adoption of technology does not mean we have to stop protecting the core values of the property industry. In...
05 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![PropTech Today: Is Zoopla about to make a push for agents’ jobs?](/img/default/eat.png)
Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of...
07 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks to be 'biggest UK agency by 2019' with 'share price up 50%'](/img/default/eat.png)
A London investment broker says Purplebricks’ share price - currently around 300p - could rise another 50 per cent or more...
25 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![James Dearsley: Trussle and Revolut bring FinTech and PropTech together](/img/default/eat.png)
News was released this week of a new PropTech partnership: banking disrupter Revolut has joined up with mortgage brokerage, Trussle, to offer...
20 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![James Dearsley: Carrying PropTech forward with visual stimulation](/img/default/eat.png)
This week, it would be very easy for me to focus on the startling figures that easyProperty logged with Companies House...
05 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Estate agents 'receive relatively few word-of-mouth recommendations'](/img/default/eat.png)
People are more likely to give word-of-mouth recommendations for handyman services than recommend estate agents, according to a controversial poll. The survey...
03 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![What can we learn from the Property Week Awards PropTech shortlist?](/img/default/eat.png)
So, Property Week has announced its Property Awards shortlist for 2017. Looking at the entries for PropTech Company of the Year, I'm surprised...
22 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter – Big Data and a different kind of mortgage](/img/default/eat.png)
A few of our Industry Views pieces this week focus on the upcoming EU referendum. I don’t think I can add...