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![Independent Surrey agent moves Woking office](/upload/images/shutterstock_310974485.jpg)
Seymours has relocated its Woking office to a new modern showroom office in the Victoria Place shopping centre. The independent 20-branch estate...
09 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Portal proptech aims to expand mortgage network](/upload/images/shutterstock_1620433420.jpg)
Proptech company OneDome’s mortgage advisory firm CMME is launching a new scheme exclusively designed for self-employed mortgage advisers. The brand wants to...
01 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Property professionals urged to rally together for Agents Giving Day](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
Industry charity Agents Giving is asking the property industry to rally together for local food banks this week and beyond. Agents Giving...
12 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Over 6,000 agency offices now serviced by growing PropTech supplier](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/PropTech-Agent-Hands-400x310.jpg)
PropTech supplier nurtur.group - which owns Fine & Country and the Guild of Property Professionals - has acquired Brief Your Market,...
07 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Achieve excellent sales and lettings performance with PropTech](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/PropTech-Agent-Hands-400x310.jpg)
MRI Software explores the use of PropTech to enhance the performance of the sales and lettings processes and how to select...
09 February 2022
From: Features
![Agency says it wants more women to take over branches](/upload/images/Logos/Winkworth-logo400x310.png)
A franchise for two agency offices in west London has been acquired by property professionals Faith Cook and Georgia Everton-Wallach –...
17 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![New Year Message - ‘Breaking Through in 22’](/upload/images/Seasonal%20%26%20Holidays/2022Plans-400x310.png)
The past two years have been a whirlwind of change, challenges and chance. The main catalyst has clearly been the pandemic...
08 January 2022
From: Features
![Retro desks, basic brick walls, bowler hat lights - a modern agency office](/upload/images/Miscellaneous/HatandHomeBen-400x310.jpg)
An independent estate agency with an eye to fashion has launched a second office in the Home Counties, just nine months...
16 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter – 5 ways estate agency has changed since May 2020](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s now over a year since the property market officially reopened after an unprecedented two-month shutdown at the height of the...
22 May 2021
From: Features
![Why the pandemic should not be the end for physical agency offices](/img/default/eat.png)
I was not surprised when I came across an industry article recently citing that over half of home buyers never visit...
24 April 2021
From: Features
![Agency offices in Wales to open again from next week](/img/default/eat.png)
Estate agency offices in Wales, closed for many weeks as part of that country’s lockdown, will reopen from next Monday, April 12. The...
06 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Ex-Reapit and ex-Boomin star joins Connells to spearhead tech drive](/img/default/eat.png)
Former Reapit chief Gary Barker is to join Connells Group, just as the company is taking over Countrywide. Barker - who last...
19 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Huge scandal of Business Insurance brush-off in defiance of court](/img/default/eat.png)
An agent is challenging the insurer Hiscox over its interpretation of whether to honour a Business Interruption Insurance policy. A standard letter...
15 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agent closes branches and demands stricter Coronavirus controls](/img/default/eat.png)
An estate agent has shut both branches of his business for safety reasons and wants tighter Coronavirus restrictions on the industry. ITV...
20 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Mandatory Covid risk assessments for some agency offices in Wales](/img/default/eat.png)
Estate agency offices in Wales with five or more staff will have to carry out a Coronavirus risk assessment under new...
18 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agents “forced and pressured” into unsafe viewings - claim](/img/default/eat.png)
An online petition wants all agents’ offices to close during the pandemic. Keeping them open means agents feel "forced and pressured" to conduct...
14 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Tier 4 Reminder: All agents can continue working under these restrictions](/img/default/eat.png)
Many agents have been operating under Tier 4 Coronavirus restrictions for some days, but today sees another 20 million residents in...
31 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agents back to work today after 17-day ‘fire break’ in Wales](/img/default/eat.png)
While England’s national lockdown exempts the housing market and allows agents to operate normally, it’s not been the same in Wales...
09 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Lettings in 2020 needs a gamechanger - could this be it?](/img/default/eat.png)
There is no doubting that 2020 has been a challenging year for all industries, with the lettings market being no exception. Following...
24 October 2020
From: Features
![Lockdown Announced - agency branches in Wales to shut for two weeks](/img/default/eat.png)
Most agents' branches in Wales are expected to close for just over two weeks from 6pm this Friday, October 23 - moving...
19 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Will agents and clients have to wear facemasks in branches?](/img/default/eat.png)
Wearing a face covering in shops and supermarkets is to be made mandatory in England. Anyone failing to comply with the order...
14 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![High-end agency reveals “shift towards digital” via management reshuffle](/img/default/eat.png)
A raft of changes in the senior management of Strutt & Parker is being heralded as part of a “shift towards...
24 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Ex-Purplebricks chief becomes MD of new ‘national agency brand’](/img/default/eat.png)
A former Purplebricks chief has become managing director of an agency aiming to be a national brand. Jim Harris - a former training...
01 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter - what happened when big lenders had their own estate agencies?](/img/default/eat.png)
All my recent Natters have been focused on one particular topic, the coronavirus crisis, for obvious reasons. But there has been...
23 May 2020
From: Features
![How is your office coping with safety and social distancing?](/img/default/eat.png)
For the coming Bank Holiday on Monday, we’d like to show images of how agency offices have adapted to cope with...
20 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Countrywide pleads to government to allow agents to return to work](/img/default/eat.png)
Countrywide has added its weight to the campaign asking the government to allow agents to get back to work - and...
04 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Say No To Rightmove launches social media recruitment drive](/img/default/eat.png)
The Say No To Rightmove campaign has started buying social media advertising space in a bid to recruit agents. In a ‘promoted’...
30 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![Automated Valuation leads to agents staying strong, says supplier](/img/default/eat.png)
One of the industry’s leading automated valuation services says it’s running at approaching 1,000 leads a day for agents even during...
03 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![Spicerhaart under fire for “inhumane” and “disgraceful” sackings](/img/default/eat.png)
There has been scepticism across the industry as to the motives behind an unspecified number of lay-offs and permanent branch closures...
23 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Embracing the self-employed model – an agent’s view](/img/default/eat.png)
The landscape of the estate agency market in the UK is evolving to reflect changes in the way we live our...
19 February 2020
From: Features
![Business rates: NAEA plea rebuffed by sacked government minister](/img/default/eat.png)
The government has dismissed a request from the NAEA and ARLA Propertymark to review business rates for agency offices on High...
18 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![Boris Bounce doubles number of leads generated for agents](/img/default/eat.png)
An online valuation service says the number of leads it generated for agents in January was over double the figure in...
17 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![We just LOVE Valentines - and here’s another great window display](/img/default/eat.png)
We’re delighted to be able to show another very charming Valentine’s Day window display - this one from Emma’s Estate Agents...
07 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agents can capture automated valuation leads even if they quit process](/img/default/eat.png)
The ValPal Network claims its new product allows agents to gather the maximum amount of information from customers using its automated...
21 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Video tribute to High Street is an agent's superb Christmas gift to us](/img/default/eat.png)
Today, with the festive break around the corner, we have another video from an agent - but this one is distinctly...
23 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Forget branches - Google and Feefo are go-to for today’s buyers](/img/default/eat.png)
A well known regional agent has closed one of its offices saying “the old shop window of an estate agency is...
23 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Free-to-list portal targets agents with plots for sale](/img/default/eat.png)
A new digital platform has been set up in a bid to provide a one-stop-shop for self-build enthusiasts - and it...
23 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![High street agency to offer fixed fee hybrid service through online network](/img/default/eat.png)
love2move, the online network which allows high street agents to offer a white-labelled hybrid service, has announced its latest partner. Peter David...
03 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Estate agents 'no longer biggest money laundering risks', report suggests](/img/default/eat.png)
A survey undertaken by the respected Economist Intelligence Unit and a risk solutions company suggests that estate agency may be one...
17 May 2019
From: Breaking News
![Over 40 jobs at risk as agency chain plans to shut four branches](/img/default/eat.png)
Local media in the east Midlands report that four estate agency offices operated by the Nottingham building society are to close...
29 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![Over 1,200 agency offices shut in a year, claims newspaper](/img/default/eat.png)
A newspaper claims that 1,228 estate agent branches closed on Britain’s High Streets last year. The Mirror’s business editor, Graham Hiscott, says the...
21 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![Countrywide fine 'shows agents not taking anti-money laundering seriously'](/img/default/eat.png)
The huge £215,000 fine levied on Countrywide for failing to abide by anti-money laundering procedures is a demonstration that estate agents...
06 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![Pioneering PropTech system 'allows High Street agents to fight the onliners'](/img/default/eat.png)
A new bespoke Customer Relationship Management system developed by The Property Franchise Group claims to enable High Street agents to fight...
22 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![40 agency offices shortlisted for Guild's annual awards](/img/default/eat.png)
The shortlist has been announced for the annual Guild of Property Professionals Awards to be held on January 17 in London. The...
31 December 2018
From: Breaking News
![Ho Ho Ho - two more agencies’ festive photographs today...](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello, and the wind-down to the Big Day continues with more pictures of your agency offices. Thanks so much, firstly, to Becky...
19 December 2018
From: Breaking News
![Christmas agency offices - we've a dog contest and terrific trees](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello and welcome to a new week - the last before Christmas. We’ve got more of your wonderful office pictures and videos...
17 December 2018
From: Breaking News
![Branch closures - 135 fewer independent agency offices](/img/default/eat.png)
New figures from the British Independent Retailers Association suggest that there are now 135 fewer independent estate agency branches than at...
22 November 2018
From: Breaking News
![Who comes out on top in the battle of the property portals?](/img/default/eat.png)
Given that online property portals, dominated by a handful of websites, are by far the most popular home search method, it...
17 November 2018
From: Features
![Branch closures: 211 agency offices shut during first half of 2018](/img/default/eat.png)
Shocking figures from the Local Data Company, a consultancy monitoring the health of High Streets, show that 211 estate agency offices...
12 November 2018
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter: estate agency on a bus](/img/default/eat.png)
No, I haven’t lost the plot. Such a thing exists – and if you’re familiar with North London, there is a...
20 October 2018
From: Features
![OnTheMarket to reveal first six months 'float' figures tomorrow](/img/default/eat.png)
OnTheMarket plc, the company which operates the OTM portal, gives its first formal stock market figures tomorrow morning, for the six...
10 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![OTM branch total hits 11,000 - but founder pushes 'three portals' idea](/img/default/eat.png)
OnTheMarket has this morning announced that it now has signed listing agreements with more than 11,000 estate agency offices - over...
02 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![Property Jobs Today - the latest moves amongst agencies and suppliers](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello and welcome to our weekly catch-up on the major moves within our industry. Remember, you can let the rest of the...
01 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![Coup for Yopa as ex-Knight Frank man joins to lead London agents](/img/default/eat.png)
Yopa - the online agency with huge financial backing from Savills - has attracted a Knight Frank agent to become its...
27 September 2018
From: Breaking News
![Fire-damaged agency makes a splash as it reopens after eight months](/img/default/eat.png)
A branch of Andrews estate and lettings agency, damaged by water as a result of a fire eight months ago, is...
04 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![Agency display supplier offers 'acrylic scrappage' scheme](/img/default/eat.png)
A company which creates interior displays for agency offices and other players in the property industry have introduced a so-called scrappage...
28 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Cotswolds-based agency expands to second office - and plans more](/img/default/eat.png)
A Cotswolds-based agency has expanded to a second office and says it has plans to develop further in the region. Move was...
08 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity: fund-raising and grant-giving for great causes](/img/default/eat.png)
With the year in full swing we have some more heroic fund-raising and grant-giving stories to tell this week. Thanks so much...
19 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Your Festive Offices - three more agencies featured today...](/img/default/eat.png)
We have images from three more agency offices to show you today as the pictures keep rolling in - thanks so...
12 December 2017
From: Breaking News
![Some customers feel like 'prey' in traditional agency offices](/img/default/eat.png)
Some customers dislike entering traditional estate agency branches, occasionally feeling 'like prey' for sales staff when they enter. This is one of...
07 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![Countrywide: architect of 'online option' is latest to leave](/img/default/eat.png)
Sources within Countrywide say the latest senior management figure to leave the company is Sam Tyrer, who under her title of...
17 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Two weeks to go before annual estate agency 'call chaos day'](/img/default/eat.png)
You might have thought the week after Christmas or the day after Easter would be when agents receive the most calls...
15 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Why the stock market likes disruptors](/img/default/eat.png)
The stock exchange seems to be on everyone’s lips at the moment. There’s Agents’ Mutual seeking to float on the Alternative Investment...
12 August 2017
From: Features
![London agent defies downturn by opening new office next month](/img/default/eat.png)
Marsh & Parsons will be opening a new office in Islington on September 4 - defying many analysts who say the...
07 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Independent network launches campaign against 'call centre agents'](/img/default/eat.png)
A network of almost 80 independent estate agency offices has launched what it calls a hard-hitting campaign against 'internet-based call centre...
15 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Agency group uses funding package to open third office](/img/default/eat.png)
An estate agency group operating from two offices close to Heathrow airport has announced it is to open a third, ultimately...
24 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Another 19 estate agency branches link with growing auction house](/img/default/eat.png)
Network Auctions has added 19 additional estate agency offices to its network so far this year. They include three offices of Chaffers...
09 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![What's in a name? RH & RW Clutton is very much alive and well](/img/default/eat.png)
The three-office RH & RW Clutton agency has issued a statement to say it’s alive and well - and unaffected by...
08 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Strutt & Parker: local offices outside London 'may not be part of sell-off'](/img/default/eat.png)
A well-informed industry article on the possible sale of Strutt & Parker to French bank BNP Paribas suggests that the deal,...
21 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Agency basement reopens 16 months after devastating flooding](/img/default/eat.png)
Work has been completed on the £300,000 refurbishment of the lower ground floor of city living specialist estate agency Morgans in...
19 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Global agency to open offices across London and the UK](/img/default/eat.png)
A Cincinatti-based international property agency, Barnes, has acquired a majority stake in the high end consultancy Hanover Private Office. “We believe there...
05 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Mine's bigger than yours: Agency changes 'largest office' publicity](/img/default/eat.png)
A branch of Martin & Co is changing the wording it uses on a leaflet following a complaint from a rival...
29 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Top industry trainer promises to 'rattle industry cages' on tour](/img/default/eat.png)
One of the country’s leading estate agency consultants and trainers, Richard Rawlings, this week embarks on a six-week tour of the...
16 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![Number of agency offices in London increases, despite downturn](/img/default/eat.png)
New research suggests there has been a slight increase in the total number of estate agency offices in Greater London this...
21 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![Those Christmas agency pictures - another sleigh-full has arrived...](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s Christmas-Central in the estate agency business if your photographs are any indicator - and we’re very grateful that you continue...
09 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![It's December! Can your office match this stunning Christmas window?](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s December - and as agents near the end of an exhausting and unpredictable year, there’s no excuse not to let...
01 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![Another key Countrywide move + other agency expansion news](/img/default/eat.png)
Pete Wallace, appointed as Countrywide's retail performance director just a year ago and a long-standing employee of the group before that...
10 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Shock horror - there are too many estate agents in Islington!](/img/default/eat.png)
It's enough to make the typical Islington resident splutter over their breakfast muesli, or perhaps feel too nervous to drive their...
02 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Rising number of High Street agency offices despite online 'threat'](/img/default/eat.png)
Despite the much-publicised 'threat' of online estate agency there were more high street offices opened in the first half of this year...
26 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![New survey reveals scale of buyer reliance on online communications](/img/default/eat.png)
A survey by the Nottingham Building Society - owner of Harrison Murray estate agency - reveals the reliance of buyers on...
28 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - list of Countrywide branches to close in the near future](/img/default/eat.png)
Estate Agent Today has received a list of around 60 Countrywide Group estate agency offices expected to close in the next...
02 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![OnTheMarket reveals latest total of estate and letting agencies listing](/img/default/eat.png)
OnTheMarket has announced that it now has more than 6,400 estate and letting agency offices listing on its site - a...
31 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Agencies announce expansions across UK and across all sector](/img/default/eat.png)
Several agencies have unveiled expansion plans despite the EU referendum, economic uncertainty and fears of a major downturn in the London...
19 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Agency group rolling out new look across all 55 branches this year](/img/default/eat.png)
Andrews Property Group, which this year celebrates its 70th anniversary, has rebranded its offices and online presence. It says its new look...
08 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![High-end agency's new branch pledges to expand into new-builds](/img/default/eat.png)
Jackson-Stops & Staff has opened a new branch in in Blandford, Dorset, expanding the agency’s west country presence to nine offices. Simon...
05 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Apprentice star scales back agency as London market worsens](/img/default/eat.png)
Haus Properties, the high-profile London estate agency started almost five years ago by Apprentice star Jamie Lester, now appears to be...
20 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![High-end agency's office marks expansion in West Midlands](/img/default/eat.png)
Fine & Country is opening a new office in Shrewsbury later this month, marking the brand’s expansion in the West Midlands. The...
15 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![Unpicking the new world of estate agency](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s official; the estate agency business is tougher than ever. Contrary to perceptions that may exist amongst observers and even clients, the...
24 June 2016
From: Features
![The current state of play in the property portal market](/img/default/eat.png)
With more house-hunters than ever now starting their search for a new home by typically looking online on one of the major...
17 June 2016
From: Features
![Foxtons wins green light despite opposition to latest branch proposal](/img/default/eat.png)
Foxtons has won planning consent for an office in the south London suburb of Peckham after another controversy involving opposition from...
06 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![OnTheMarket's agent tally hits 7,000 including letters of intent](/img/default/eat.png)
OnTheMarket says it now has the support of over 7,000 estate and letting agency offices. This includes those formally contracted now and...
09 May 2016
From: Breaking News
![Another new branch opening for fast-growing franchise agency](/img/default/eat.png)
Century 21 has announced another new office, this time in Stafford. The office - led by local husband and wife team Andrew...
22 March 2016
From: Breaking News
![Jumper to it! The latest Christmas office photos are here...](/img/default/eat.png)
We’re absolutely delighted with the response to EAT’s appeal for photographs of agency offices and teams deocrated for Christmas - you’ve...
10 December 2015
From: Breaking News
![Anger over CHAPS change that will force agents to open longer](/img/default/eat.png)
The little-publicised extension of the CHAPS settlement day - taking the closure up to 6pm from next summer - has received...
07 December 2015
From: Breaking News
![Caught on video - THAT funeral march provoking a complaint to Sir Stelios](/img/default/eat.png)
We've caught the apparent death of the high street estate agent on video - or at least that's what online estate...
30 September 2015
From: Breaking News
![What do portals really cost?](/img/default/eat.png)
There has long been the assumption and contention in the industry that portals are expensive. This, however, is not the case. Along...
07 August 2015
From: Features
![Third office for growing London estate agency](/img/default/eat.png)
North London estate agency Anthony Pepe is to open its third sales and lettings office in early September. Anthony Pepe & Co...
23 July 2015
From: Breaking News
![Advertising fees row: Property Centre still awaits CMA contact](/img/default/eat.png)
The property centre in the middle of the latest controversy surrounding the Competition and Markets Authority says it is still waiting...