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Day in, day out, I see how good estate agents really are.  Whether it’s in my day job on Location, Location, Location...

A regional estate agency is planning an expansion programme after undergoing a management buyout by a former Business Woman of the...

LSL Property Services - parent company of Your Move, Reeds Rains and Marsh & Parsons - has reported record figures as...

Boomin has revealed to Estate Agent Today the latest figures on agency branches signed up to its fledgling portal. It says it...

OnTheMarket, which is holding its shareholders’ annual general meeting today, says early figures show the success of initiatives introduced by chief...

Two of Britain's largest agency groups have sold their stakes in a property search firm. Both LSL and Connells have announced the sale...

Boomin says it’s added over 600 new agency branches during May, with the latest signing being the large Pattinson independent with...

Movebutler, the digital onboarding platform from online auction specialist iamproperty, says it has some 900 agency branches signed up. These include Martin...

An online platform claims each agency branch in the UK has benefited from the stamp duty holiday by over £120,000. WiggyWam says...

Rightmove is to roll-out two-factor authentication within Rightmove Plus to try to protect agents against attempts by fraudsters to steal leads and...

Boomin founder Michael Bruce says his new site has enjoyed a stronger start than any other portal in terms of visits, viewings,...

An increased focus on the provision of financial services has helped boost the trading figures released today by LSL Property Services,...

Today is the day that non-essential retail reopens as part of the government's roadmap out of lockdown. For the majority of the...

Estate agency offices in Wales, closed for many weeks as part of that country’s lockdown, will reopen from next Monday, April 12. The...

The launch of Boomin has been and gone with, perhaps, something less than its expected fanfare of publicity. Of course there are...

The Bruce brothers' new portal Boomin has launched a day early - and no, this isn't an April Fool. The site went live...

Here are the first three TV adverts for Boomin, the new property portal which launches on Friday.The new website launches early...

Fine & Country is opening a new branch in the Welsh capital, Cardiff. It covers the city and surrounding areas, the Vale...

Uncertain market means additional revenue streams are more important than ever The last year has been an uncertain period for many business...

A prominent estate agent has warned buyers and sellers about the perils of the controversial Modern Method of Auction. MMA is now...

A new service is offering agents free welcome boxes which can be passed over to buyers and tenants who move in. The...

At the back-end of last year and the start of this, the biggest news stories in town – besides debates over...

Propertymark, combining both the National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Letting Agents, claims to speak for the...

By any available metric, Belvoir had a good 2020. Already a well-known and well-established name, it was highly praised for its...

A property platform claims the current pipeline stock is so large that the average UK agency branch is waiting on £105,000...

Boomin has announced another 15 independents as members of the site, which is expected to launch in the near future. “The latest...

Fall throughs which could be avoided by Reservation Agreements have cost agency branches an average £10,000 per month. That’s the claim from digital...

The industry seems almost back to normal. Not the ‘new normal’ we spoke so much of a few weeks and months ago,...

One of the oldest portals in the UK, Mouseprice, has been bought by a service which describes itself as the country’s...

We’re off and running with our annual showcase of the decorations and festivities in agency branches and for those working from...

Free-to-list portal group OneDome claims 425 estate agency branches joined its listing services last month,  OneDome Group operates two portals, OneDome and...

The soon-to-launch Boomin portal has signed up a national firm and now claims to have recruited 40 per cent of the...

OnTheMarket has handed out more shares to agencies signing long-term agreements with the portal. It was almost three years ago that OTM, then...

The property market has bounced back with all of the expected resilience and flexibility that is its hallmark since it reopened...

There is no doubting that 2020 has been a challenging year for all industries, with the lettings market being no exception. Following...

The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the way every industry operates and the property sector is no exception. Following an enforced seven-week...

Some 713 estate agency branches have failed to reopen following the spring lockdown according to a business consultancy. TwentyCi says that is the...

Most agents' branches in Wales are expected to close for just over two weeks from 6pm this Friday, October 23 - moving...

OnTheMarket’s acting chief executive says the portal will embrace more social media and innovative marketing strategies in the coming period. Yesterday the...

OnTheMarket says it’s going to issue its next trading statement one week today on October 13. This will cover the first six...

New PropTech products continue to appear, many aimed at enhancing transparency in buying and selling, or helping agents adopt new ways of...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that all retail staff will be obliged to wear masks when working - and it's now...

The battle between portals is hotting up again with Zoopla repeating its offer of free listings until January for agents committing...

Fine & Country has revealed its latest branch - a West Wales office opening for business on Tuesday. It will initially cover...

Estate agents’ offices have been explicitly mentioned by the Scottish Government as locations where face masks must now be worn by...

Almost all estate agents are still saying Yes to Rightmove, according to figures produced by the portal this morning. Membership numbers for...

A statement by OnTheMarket this morning reveals that as of the end of last month it had a record 14,000 advertisers...

Zoopla has entered into a partnership with an online platform to promote the so-called Modern Method of Auction option to estate...

More than 24 hours after the government's announcement about the compulsory wearing of facemasks by shoppers in England, and there is...

Six agency branches are being closed as a result of a partnership between franchise giant Belvoir and the Nottingham Building Society. Under...

The industry’s first virtual awards event has taken place with hundreds of agents participating courtesy of YouTube. Winners of the prestigious ESTAS...

Rightmove and OnTheMarket have announced that they are extending their cut-price fees deals, introduced because of Coronavirus. This morning Rightmove says: "We have...

PropTech supplier mio says it now has over 1,000 agency branches using its sales progression platform - and it’s recruited Countrywide...

The fast-growing trade group for independent estate agents has launched a partnership with the soon-to-launch Homesearch portal. Of the various free-to-list portals...

For the coming Bank Holiday on Monday, we’d like to show images of how agency offices have adapted to cope with...

“A lot of people have learned that they can work at home, or that there’s other methods of conducting their business......

Some 2,500 estate agency branches have expressed an interest in a new portal, Homesearch, launching next month.  Although the Homesearch website lists...

LSL Property Services says one of its measures to “rightsize” the organisation during the Coronavirus crisis will be to put agents...

Training operator The Able Agent is to include a module on the Modern Method of Auction in its future programme.  Charlotte Jeffry-Campbell,...

Rightmove has released another stonking set of results - but there are signs that some agents are defecting from the ever-more-expensive...

The NAEA and ARLA have written a joint letter to government on the impact of business rates on High Street agency...

Humberts is the latest estate agency to announce that it’s going to offer customers the controversial Modern Method of Auction option. The...

The big question for the industry at the moment is the cost and future of portals.  This is especially key for agents...

A well known regional agent has closed one of its offices saying “the old shop window of an estate agency is...

In the old days an agent would procure clients based upon their position in the high street, the size of the...

Hello and welcome to the final PJT before September - yes that means summer is almost over.  Yet even during the holiday season...

iamproperty, parent company of IAMsold, says it now works with 2,500 estate agency branches nationwide and has sold over 16,500 properties...

With the often negative portrayal of agents in the media and popular culture, you might ask yourself why anyone would want...

Have you asked yourself why technology is so important in letting agency today? Just look around and you will know why. Almost...

Rightmove’s half year figures this morning continue to show strong growth in profits and revenue - but there are the first...

One of the earliest property websites, nethouseprices.com, has been acquired by fledgling property portal OneDome.  Nethouseprices was set up in 2004 and...

The price of property coming to market fell by 0.2 per cent or an average of £656 in the past month...

Zoopla has taken a swipe at OnTheMarket by conducting a poll of sellers’ views about having properties listed exclusively on just...

Welcome to the latest Property Jobs Today - because last week there was a Bank Holiday, we have a bumper edition...

As we move closer to the halfway point of 2019, property market conditions for agents and their clients remain challenging. Brexit may...

More than 800 property transactions fall through daily, which can have repercussions both practically and financially, as agents fail to get...

This article was originally written for City AM in response to an article it published attacking letting agents. See more here.  A...

The influential Treasury Select Committee says estate agents should be more closely monitored to ensure they abide by anti-money laundering regulations. In...

Savills has declined to comment on whether it will follow in the footsteps of LSL Property Services and write down its...

LSL Property Services, the parent company of Your Move and Reeds Rains, has substantially 'written down' its investment in online estate...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, your regular catch-up on key appointments news in our industry. It’s been a difficult seven...

OnTheMarket says it now has listings agreements with more than 12,500 estate and lettings agency branches. In a statement to shareholders and...

Shares in OnTheMarket hit another new low of 75.7p yesterday, dropping over nine per cent on the day and falling well...

When renting a property out, letting agents and landlords recognise that it is important to take a deposit from the tenant...

OnTheMarket chief executive Ian Springett has told an agents’ conference of the strategy for his service - including a prediction that...

New figures from the British Independent Retailers Association suggest that there are now 135 fewer independent estate agency branches than at...

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

Keller Williams, the US agency which allows agents to work from hub-like ‘market centres’, says it now has 130 freelance agents in this...

A firm which links with agents to operate online auctions has hit back at a consumer group's allegations that this growing sector...

Perhaps it’s been our pre-occupation with Brexit, or on the other hand maybe we’re bored with politics, but this year’s Budget...

Not so long ago, the best estate agents were those who did the best work for their clients and therefore built...

An agent in the Guild is launching a ‘hub’ style operation from December 1 and says the concept of traditional estate...

Industry supplier Mid West Displays has drafted in students from the University of Wolverhampton to design future estate agency branches. The company...

Hunters and Fisher German are the latest agencies to offer online auctions to vendors. An announcement from PropTech property auction company Bamboo...

OnTheMarket has signed up an estate and lettings agency firm run by a family and with 11 offices across west Devon...

OnTheMarket has seen another increase in listings to more than 10,500 offices, but it is repeating a warning that its free...

OnTheMarket has signed up 12-office regional agency Robert Oulsnam and Company.  The firm, which handles sales and lettings, has 12 offices in...

‘Up’ is the key word in Rightmove’s figures for the first half of 2018, released to the City and to shareholders...

OnTheMarket has now signed listing agreements with UK estate and letting agents with a total of over 10,000 offices - but...

The new owner of Humberts is to ultimately close many of the traditional branches and move to what he is calling...

Another four existing estate agency branches have rebranded as Hunters. In the westcountry three branches of Heritage4homes - at Yatton, Nailsea and...

Estate Agent Today is 10 years old this weekend. We hope you’ll agree that’s a cause for celebration and a great...

OnTheMarket now has listing agreements with over 9,000 estate agency branches - that's another 500 or so since its previous release...

Property portal OnTheMarket has announced that it now has listing agreements with over 8,500 estate and letting agency branches.  It says that...

Several agencies operating under different brand names in south east England have been retitled under just one, called Alexander & Co.  This...

Just like that, the Easter Bank Holiday has come and gone and I find myself now looking ahead to the Summer.  The...

OnTheMarket says estate agencies with some 1,000 offices have joined the portal in the five weeks since it floated on the...

Alice Hickmott is the perfect advertisement for apprentices in estate agency - especially as we are now in National Apprentice Week.  Essex...

New figures released by ZPG suggest increasing numbers of agents are listing on three portals. Amongst the latest agencies to renew long...

Connells Group - which includes Connells, Sequence and other brands - says it recorded over 9,000 new homes sales in 2017. This...

The UK’s largest property franchise group, Belvoir, says it is reaping rewards from its acquisition of Brook Financial Services and its...

PropTech start up OneDome, which supplies online booking and mapping tools, has teamed up with live chat service provider Yomdel in...

LSL Property Services - which has high street brands including Your Move, Reeds Rains and Marsh & Parsons - has signed...

Currell is defying any gloomy predictions about the capital's housing market by opening a new office at Hackney Wick Fish Island. Currell...

ZPG says that the number of estate agency branches that left to join OnTheMarket but have now returned has reached over...

An analysis conducted by estate agency comparison website GetAgent has for the first time attempted to calculate how ‘local’ agencies' local property...

Some customers dislike entering traditional estate agency branches, occasionally feeling 'like prey' for sales staff when they enter. This is one of...

Sources within Countrywide say the latest senior management figure to leave the company is Sam Tyrer, who under her title of...

Speculation is growing that one of the most senior executives in the Countrywide management team may be leaving the organisation. Countrywide and...

Jackson-Stops & Staff has opened a new branch in Reigate, Surrey, taking its national network to 45 offices. The branch augments nearby...

Haus Properties - the estate agency set up by former Apprentice finalist Jamie Lester, who quit the company suddenly last year...

ZPG says the number of estate agency branches to have quit OnTheMarket and rejoined Zoopla over the past two years has...

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

Network Auctions has added 19 additional estate agency offices to its network so far this year.  They include three offices of Chaffers...

Badger Holdings, owner of 26 agency branches operating under the Townends and Regents Estate Agent brands, has signed a multi-year deal...

The industry magazine Estates Gazette is reporting that Cluttons, the residential and commercial agency, has been bought out of pre-pack administration...

Only one in nine customers of estate agents regard face-to-face contact as the most important element of the process to determine...

OnTheMarket has swatted away the latest criticism from a long-term critic, online estate agency head Russell Quirk - although it has...

A sales progression tool claims to have reduced the average transaction time for a property from around 94 days to around...

Connells Group’s mortgage services wing has recorded a 10 per cent increase in the number of mortgages in 2016 and has generated...

Zoopla Property Group says that in the last three months alone over 100 estate agency branches have returned to its portal...

Countrywide chief executive Alison Platt has told Estate Agent Today the transformation she wishes to see within the group may take...

The former Apprentice runner-up Jamie Lester, who at one time ran four London estate agency branches under Haus Properties, says he...

When a tenant paid his initial one month’s rent in addition to a tenancy deposit in exchange for the keys to...

A new automated sales progression tool being launched today promises to require fewer resources from agents in return for ensuring faster...

Zoopla Property Group claims that in the past two weeks, over 40 agency branches have returned to listing on Zoopla and...

One of the great events of the agency year is the Agents Giving Ball, hosted a few days ago at The Lancaster...

A firm called Proper Local has launched, insisting it is offering “a new model” for estate agency, somewhere between a traditional...

A property analytics company has devised a method of calculating the ‘best’ locations in which to work as an estate agent,...

The Property Professionals Support Centre, set up earlier this year to provide compliance advice and training, has launched a free compliance...

Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward has expanded its network of branches in central London with the launch of new offices in Clerkenwell,...

Over 40 separate estate agencies have agreed to join forces to fund litigation against Agents’ Mutual, parent company of OnTheMarket. The firms represent...

Agency software company Dezrez says the jury is out on whether Zoopla’s acquisition of the Property Software Group will be considered...

Zoopla Property Group has confirmed its conditional agreement to buy The Property Software Group, which it calls the UK’s market-leading provider...

Leaders has acquired another agency just weeks after absorbing another agency in the same region.  Tudor Estates was founded in 1959 and...

Countrywide is to lead a group including Connells and Zoopla in a partnership with the proptech company Fixflo, currently best known...

Hunters is expanding its London presence with a new branch in Willesden Green - and the promise of more openings in...

One of the best known figures in estate agency consultancy, Richard Rawlings, has written to OnTheMarket urging it to drop the...

Keller Williams, the US-originated franchise agency with three ‘market centre’ offices in the UK says it aims to expand that number...

Zoopla has added another 146 UK estate agents to its membership since July, taking the total of UK agents now to...

OnTheMarket has made a defiant response to news that Zoopla is growing both its estate agent membership and its property listings...

Zoopla is back in business with its trading update to the City this morning revealing that it has a net growth...

Zoopla is set to announce its latest total of agent members later this week. Back in May Zoopla revealed that it had...

Q: Tell us about Kristina Grimes. I am the Sales Director of Dezrez, one of the leading providers of estate agency software....

Zoopla remains unbowed by its loss of 23 per cent of its UK agents and says it has new statistics proving...

Zoopla says it has lost 16 per cent of its global members in the year to the end of March -...