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![Guild of Property Professionals launches second streamed seminar](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/BusinessTeam-400x310.png)
The Guild of Property Professionals has launched a second virtual event this Autumn following its inaugural streamed event earlier this year. Scheduled...
11 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Bring back Bruce? Sack Pindar? What’s next for Purplebricks?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
Purplebricks’ share price hit a new low last week after it announced a strategic review that could lead to the sale...
20 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Insight – what impact will the economic tug-of-war have on the property market?](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/_Kwasi%20Kwarteng_400x310.png)
With the Treasury and the Bank of England stepping in to try and calm the markets, talk of an emergency interest...
28 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Analyst suggests Boomin financial backing is more significant than branches](/upload/images/Logos/Boomin-Logo-400x310.jpg)
A property analyst has warned against comparing the number of branches on Boomin to Rightmove. Challenger portal Boomin revealed its first batch...
11 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![Markets shrug as Purplebricks awaits confirmation of new chief executive](/upload/images/Logos/PurplebricksLogo2020-400x310.jpg)
Purplebricks ended the trading day yesterday without being able to formally welcome its new chief executive but the markets appeared to...
05 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![Can Boomin be the portal to topple Rightmove? An analyst asks…](/upload/images/Logos/Boomin-Logo-400x310.jpg)
Housing market analyst and PropTech entrepreneur Anthony Codling says that the next few weeks will determine whether Boomin is the portal...
28 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![House prices rising £500 a week - how long can this last?](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/UK-Housing-1-400x310.jpg)
The level of house price growth is at a 17 year high at 11.2 per cent according to the Nationwide. The annual...
02 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Low fee agents like Purplebricks not right for mass market - analyst](/upload/images/Logos/Purplebricks-TeamGB-Board-400x310.jpg)
Low fee agents such as Purplebricks and some other online operators are generally not trusted by the public when selling their...
01 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rummage4 tech acquired by property marketing platform](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/PropTech-Toolshed-400x310.jpg)
PropTech firm CoreLogic UK has acquired the property search and marketing platform Rummage4. Rummage4 was founded in 2015 by agent Robert May...
21 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![First figures of 2022 show housing market returning to normal](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/HousingMarket-400x310.png)
The latest figures for mortgage approvals show demand as being relatively unchanged - a development welcomed by agents. House purchase mortgage approvals...
05 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks share price now under 7% of its all-time high](/upload/images/Logos/Purplebricks-2019Logo-400x310.jpg)
A torrid period for Purplebricks' share value means it opens stock market trading today with a price of just 33p. This is less...
08 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Who needs stamp duty holiday? Prices rise again in August](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/uk-housing400x310.png)
The first house price index for August suggests they rose 2.1 per cent in just a month - despite forecasts that the...
02 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Stamp Duty Holiday taper leads to reduced mortgage borrowing](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Stamp-Duty400x310.png)
Mortgage approvals declined over the last month as the tapering stamp duty holiday deterred home purchases, according to data from the...
01 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![They think it’s all over - is the housing boom at an end?](/img/default/eat.png)
The Halifax is reporting a 0.5 per cent monthly drop in house prices, plus a fall in the annual rate from...
08 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Surprise house price growth drop - a slowdown or a blip?](/img/default/eat.png)
Average house prices in the year to the end of April increased by 8.9 per cent according to the government’s Office...
17 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Mortgage lending soars as stamp duty buying boom goes on](/img/default/eat.png)
Mortgage lending has shown the biggest net increase on record according to the Bank of England. Mortgage borrowing in March rose by...
05 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Tax Day was just a damp squib says leading industry analyst](/img/default/eat.png)
The government’s highly-anticipated Tax Day was just a damp squib. That’s the view of leading analyst Anthony Codling, who says the almost complete...
24 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Market softens ahead of predicted stamp duty holiday resurgence](/img/default/eat.png)
The latest house price index from the Halifax suggests the market has softened ahead of the original scheduled end of the stamp...
08 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Foxtons “strategic step change” may pay off, says commentator](/img/default/eat.png)
A leading market commentator says the acquisition of London agency Douglas & Gordon represents “a strategic step change” for Foxtons -...
03 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Stamp Duty may not be so bad after all, argues leading analyst](/img/default/eat.png)
A housing market analyst says stamp duty, for all its unpopularity within the property industry, may not be so bad after...
08 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![D-Day - will MPs back industry call for stamp duty holiday extension?](/img/default/eat.png)
Today’s the day when Parliament debates a possible extension to the stamp duty holiday beyond its March 31 cliff edge deadline...
01 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Stamp Duty Holiday: Did market need it? Have buyers really benefitted?](/img/default/eat.png)
A leading analyst is questioning whether buyers have benefitted from the stamp duty holiday because demand has purshed up prices far...
22 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Cliff-edge end to Stamp Duty Holiday will not hurt market, says analyst](/img/default/eat.png)
One of the housing market’s senior analysts says the end of the stamp duty holiday on March 31 would not be...
15 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Banks may not be able to cope with mortgage demand, warns agency](/img/default/eat.png)
New figures from the Bank of England show that mortgage approvals rose 7.0 per cent in November to reach 105,000 -...
06 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Brexit could be good for house prices predicts top market commentator](/img/default/eat.png)
Anthony Codling, the City analyst who made his name as a scourge of Purplebricks, says Brexit may be good news for the...
04 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![The year of Covid ends on a house price high](/img/default/eat.png)
House prices surged in December to post their fastest growth in six years, according to the Nationwide. Prices rose 7.3 per cent...
31 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Yes Purplebricks - but how many homes do you actually SELL?](/img/default/eat.png)
Mystery still surrounds the number of homes actually sold by Purplebricks, despite upbeat statements regarding the number of instructions it wins. The...
16 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Price rises overtake stamp duty holiday savings in many places](/img/default/eat.png)
It may make little difference to agents but a leading analyst suggests thousands of buyers have effectively lost money on their purchase...
23 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Capital Gains Tax hike is GOOD news for agents, insists top analyst](/img/default/eat.png)
One of the industry’s leading commentators says an unintended consequence of a possible Capital Gains Tax increase could be a bonus...
13 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Does being Covid-safe at home artificially lift house prices?](/img/default/eat.png)
A leading market analyst says the widespread belief that we are ‘safe’ in our homes may indirectly lead to the recent...
02 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![House price inflation at four year high but concern over virus](/img/default/eat.png)
House prices in September were 7.3 per cent higher than a year earlier – the highest house price inflation since June 2016. The Halifax...
08 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![It's a record! Latest index reports price rise after buoyant summer](/img/default/eat.png)
House prices rose again in August to reach a record high level according to Halifax, which is part of the Lloyds...
08 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Transactions - there’s good news and there’s bad news…](/img/default/eat.png)
The scale of the market bounce back after lockdown is made clear in new figures from HM Revenue & Customs. It registers...
24 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Stamp Duty cuts WON’T help the market - a contrary view](/img/default/eat.png)
An industry analyst is challenging the long-established agents’ view that reducing or temporarily scrapping stamp duty would help the market. On the...
08 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agents remain calm in the light of latest house price dip](/img/default/eat.png)
Agents have remained calm in the light of Nationwide’s house price index which shows the first annual fall for eight years...
02 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![PropTech Today: another attempt at solving a problem that doesn't exist?](/img/default/eat.png)
"New property website launches. Not immediately sure what it does differently, what its USP is or who will use it, but...
01 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks critic launches “agent-friendly” PropTech platform](/img/default/eat.png)
A former City analyst best known for his scathing criticisms of Purplebricks has launched a PropTech platform that he describes as...
30 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks’ biggest critic warns over housing market uncertainty](/img/default/eat.png)
The chief executive of a property information platform says now is a “dangerous time” to buy or sell homes because of...
22 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Portals slammed by PropTech start up promising to help agents](/img/default/eat.png)
A PropTech start-up led by a prominent commentator has become the latest part of the industry to take a pop at...
24 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![OnTheMarket should use virus stoppage to reset strategy - top analyst](/img/default/eat.png)
The current market crisis caused by Coronavirus should present OnTheMarket with an opportunity to pause its existing strategy, talk to agents...
18 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![What should OnTheMarket do now? An analyst wants to know...](/img/default/eat.png)
Prominent agency industry analyst Anthony Codling is asking agents whether the board of OnTheMarket did the right thing by firing Ian...
10 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Online estate agents and digital malfunction](/img/default/eat.png)
It never rains but it pours. And that’s certainly been the case for the online estate agency sector in the last...
03 October 2019
From: Features
![Speculation grows about Yopa’s future as LSL chief quits board](/img/default/eat.png)
Speculation is growing about the future of online agency Yopa. This follows a key resignation from Yopa’s board and one expert’s analysis...
22 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks ex-CEO hits out at untrue claim that agency sold only 50%](/img/default/eat.png)
The former chief executive of Purplebricks UK says the agency completes on over 80 per cent of the homes it lists...
25 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![LSL writes down value of Yopa stake as it pins faith in High Street branches](/img/default/eat.png)
LSL Property Services, the parent company of Your Move and Reeds Rains, has substantially 'written down' its investment in online estate...
05 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter: will the real Housing Minister please stand up?](/img/default/eat.png)
Kit Malthouse has been making headlines this week, but – in keeping with his tenure as Housing Minister so far -...
02 February 2019
From: Features
![Review – what did we learn from the Guild Conference?](/img/default/eat.png)
Alongside hundreds of agents and suppliers, I recently attended the Guild of Property Professionals’ annual conference. As ever, it was a great...
26 January 2019
From: Features
![Purplebricks' top critic explains why High Street agents 'win every time'](/img/default/eat.png)
Former City analyst Anthony Codling - who is now the front-man for a new property portal - has set out why...
21 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![The top 10 property personalities of 2018](/img/default/eat.png)
There’s nothing new about identifying 10 figures who have helped shape an industry over the past year, but that doesn’t mean...
28 December 2018
From: Features
![New portal signs up Countrywide and 30 agencies ahead of 2019 launch](/img/default/eat.png)
A new portal is launching next year with Countrywide and some 30 other estate agency groups signed up, as well as...
03 December 2018
From: Breaking News
!['Brexit smog' blamed for long-term slump in Foxtons' share price](/img/default/eat.png)
The investment bank Jefferies says Foxtons’ long-running share price slump is a reflection of Brexit uncertainty “until we find out what...
14 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks the largest UK estate agency: 'So what?' says stock market](/img/default/eat.png)
The stock market and at least one City analyst have shrugged their shoulders at the claim by Purplebricks that it is...
06 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks: ‘We want to grow our business model around the world’](/img/default/eat.png)
The UK chief executive of Purplebricks says his company has ambitions to roll out its business model all over the world. Lee...
03 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Future:PropTech hits 1,200 delegates with new speakers and launches announced](/img/default/eat.png)
The Future: PropTech conference takes place in under a fortnight’s time on May 2 and over 1,200 delegates have now been...
20 April 2018
From: Breaking News
![It's Purplebricks vs Jefferies at the Future:PropTech event in May](/img/default/eat.png)
The Future:PropTech event on May 2 is now under six weeks away and more details have been released about speakers and...
26 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Countrywide's own broker cuts agency’s forecast for 2018 and 2019](/img/default/eat.png)
Jefferies - the City consultancy which has in the past worked with Countrywide - has cuts its forecasts for the troubled...
09 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter – a property invasion on our tellies](/img/default/eat.png)
The death of traditional TV – where viewers sit down together to watch shows at defined times – has been much...
24 February 2018
From: Features
![Purplebricks sells 51.6% of homes within 10 months, new analysis shows](/img/default/eat.png)
An analysis of one month’s listings on Purplebricks by City consultancy Jefferies concludes that it sold 51.6 per cent of its...
01 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks: Estate Agent Today's experts look behind the latest figures](/img/default/eat.png)
Here it is - the industry’s verdict on the latest set of figures from Purplebricks. The agency doesn’t play by any of...
15 December 2017
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks says it's more transparent than almost any other agency](/img/default/eat.png)
Purplebricks has told Estate Agent Today it is more open about its business than almost any other agency and stridently rejects criticism about...
19 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![What now for Agents’ Mutual?](/img/default/eat.png)
Agents’ Mutual (oops, that name might need to change…read on) has been touting its recent legal victory and is about to...
03 August 2017
From: Features
![Purplebricks told to slow growth and get its house in order by City analyst](/img/default/eat.png)
After a roller-coaster day on the Stock Exchange yesterday, Purplebricks has sought to defend itself against further possible share price losses...
03 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Could Rightmove really increase charges to agents again?](/img/default/eat.png)
A City analyst has fuelled speculation that Rightmove has a goal to increase its monthly average revenue from each agency from...
31 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Speculation grows over Countrywide's 2017 performance to date](/img/default/eat.png)
Speculation is growing over whether figures to be released by Countrywide on Thursday may prompt another fall in the troubled company’s...
25 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Foxtons to face tough second half of 2017 says City analyst](/img/default/eat.png)
Foxtons - a company seen by many as a barometer of the London housing market - is likely to face a...
10 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Countrywide poised for stronger second half of 2017 says analyst](/img/default/eat.png)
One of the industry’s leading analysts says Countrywide’s figures for the first half of 2017 are likely to be tough -...
07 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks: nothing divides estate agency more than this](/img/default/eat.png)
Few things provoke argument within the industry more than the online v traditional agency debate - and within that debate, nothing...
30 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Would you ‘let’ a property go under the hammer?](/img/default/eat.png)
The popularity of property auctions in the UK has increased enormously in recent years, supported by popular TV shows such as...
17 June 2017
From: Features
![Rightmove 'may go easy on fee increases to agents' claims City analyst](/img/default/eat.png)
City investment consultancy Jefferies has suggested that Rightmove ‘may go easy’ on increasing its charges to agent customers, because of the...
31 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Tracking exercise to reveal 'which agents are best at selling'](/img/default/eat.png)
A City consultancy has noted every property advertised on Rightmove in recent months and will track them throughout 2017 in a...
24 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![LSL the latest firm expected to enter 'digital' market](/img/default/eat.png)
LSL Property Services - which owns high street agency brands Your Move, Reeds Rains and Marsh & Parsons - is the...
08 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![City consultancy says Zoopla to enjoy 'big upside' with Hometrack](/img/default/eat.png)
A City consultancy has issued a note to investors backing Zoopla Property Group’s acquisition of data company Hometrack, suggested there is...
02 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![Trump wins: industry reacts but agency share prices generally stable](/img/default/eat.png)
Some sectors of the industry have been giving their initial reactions to the shock Donald Trump victory in the US presidential election. Camilla...
09 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Online v High Street: enemies no more, possibly converging...](/img/default/eat.png)
A debate discussing how online and traditional estate agency would develop in the future, organised by City investment consultancy Jefferies, has...
09 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks: Weaknesses ahead over completions, warns financial analyst](/img/default/eat.png)
An equity specialist has warned that shareholders may now choose this is the time to sell their stakes in Purplebricks because...
06 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![YOPA launches TV ads starring The Village People](/img/default/eat.png)
Hybrid estate agency YOPA is today launching a nationwide TV advertising campaign starring The Village People, the band best-known for the...
16 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks blasted over sales totals and speed of completions](/img/default/eat.png)
City consultancy Jefferies has made a blistering attack on Purplebricks’ sales performance and finances, saying “the arithmetic…still does not add up.” Last...
22 July 2016
From: Breaking News
!['PSG yet to stretch its legs' – analysts report on Zoopla figures](/img/default/eat.png)
Several stock market analysts have published reports on Zoopla's half-year trading statement released yesterday. Anthony Codling of Jefferies – the firm which...
26 May 2016
From: Breaking News
!['Major agency has cut fees to 0.5% on referendum fears' - claim](/img/default/eat.png)
A City investment consultancy says one leading private agency chain has slashed its fees to 0.5 per cent in order to...
27 April 2016
From: Breaking News
![More of the same expected this year from ‘profit hunter’ LSL](/img/default/eat.png)
LSL, the UK’s second largest estate agency division, has received a glowing endorsement from two property market analysts. In a note issued...
14 March 2016
From: Breaking News
![Rightmove and Zoopla now fighting different battles says City analyst](/img/default/eat.png)
The analyst who has claimed that Rightmove may be seeking to ‘embed’ itself into estate agencies’ day-to-day management has now told...