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![Agents Do Charity - positive partnerships](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Special%20Logo's/AgentsDoCharity.png)
Welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity, our chance to salute those who do so much to help others. If your agency...
12 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Six Douglas Allen branches close in shift to ‘super hubs’](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Franchise-400x310.png)
Arun Estates has unveiled plans to close six Douglas Allen branches as it moves agents in the East London region to...
08 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity - heatwave helpers](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Special%20Logo's/AgentsDoCharity.png)
Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...
08 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Marketing expert: House of agency brands strategy is ‘inefficient’](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/BTR%20and%20affordable%20housing%20-%20By%20Andy%20Jones%20Property%20Investor%20Today%20BuildToRent-400x310.png)
An industry marketing expert has questioned the strategies of ‘house of brand’ agencies. Writing exclusively for Estate Agent Today, Simon Leadbetter, former...
01 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity - kindness towards the kids](/upload/images/Site%20logos/AgentsDoCharity-18-400x310.png)
Agents haven't let the festive season get in the way of supporting good causes, and there is a big focus on...
16 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity - singing superheroes](/upload/images/Site%20logos/AgentsDoCharity-NewLogo2-400x310.jpg)
From singing to dressing as superheroes, there are plenty of inspirational examples of agents raising money for good causes this week. Whatever...
09 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![OnTheMarket renews major agency contract deals](/upload/images/Logos/OnTheMarketLogo-New-2022-400x310.jpg)
OnTheMarket has secured contract renewals from several major agency brands as it reports a revenue boost for the first six months...
13 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity - down to earth fundraising](/upload/images/Site%20logos/AgentsDoCharity-NewLogo2-400x310.jpg)
From sky dives to golf days, here is how agents have been raising money for charity this week. If there are charitable...
02 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![100 and not out! Kent agency celebrates centenary year](/upload/images/Miscellaneous/Tom%20Ross-Bason%20and%20Sam%20Dalton_400x310.png)
A well-known local agency in Kent is turning 100 this year. Starting out in Gillingham in 1922, Wards is now based...
15 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity - boats, balls and bikes edition](/upload/images/Site%20logos/AgentsDoCharityNewLogo-400x310.jpg)
Agents and property professionals have been in boats, on bikes and even used football stars to help raise funds for charity...
08 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Will your agency dig deep? Plea for industry to donate to Ukraine](/upload/images/Locations/russia%20ukraine.png)
A prominent estate agency figure is urging the industry to dig deep to help the Ukrainian humanitarian effort. Arun Group managing director...
09 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity - and it’s not just the London Marathon this weekend…](/upload/images/Site%20logos/AgentsDoCharity-18-400x310.png)
Hello and welcome to the end of the week - another opportunity to see how our industry is doing great work...
01 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Property Jobs Today - who’s moving where, why and when](/img/default/eat.png)
Welcome to another working week and with it, our regular update on appointments and moves within our industry. Please let us know...
17 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![High profile agency chief steps down after 40 years in the business](/img/default/eat.png)
The group chief executive of south east England’s largest independent agency is retiring. David Lench of Arun Estates has revealed that he is...
07 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agents caught on camera - they call vendor’s house “disgusting”](/img/default/eat.png)
An estate agency has apologised unreservedly for “most regrettable” comments made by two members of staff who described a vendor’s property...
18 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Hundreds of agents sign up to free-to-list portal group](/img/default/eat.png)
Free-to-list portal group OneDome claims 425 estate agency branches joined its listing services last month, OneDome Group operates two portals, OneDome and...
30 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity … on Children In Need day…](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello and welcome to your regular Friday charity round-up from the industry - appropriately enough on the day of the latest...
13 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Free-to-list portal secures record visits in bid to rival Rightmove and Co](/img/default/eat.png)
OneDome, which operates two free-to-list property listing sites, says it’s had a record month as it strives to build an alternative...
27 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Anti-Rightmove agencies sign up to free-to-list challenger portal](/img/default/eat.png)
OneDome has released a list of High Street agencies that have signed up to its free-to-list portal and sister website Nethouseprices -...
30 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Independent agency owner makes it to Sunday Times Rich List](/img/default/eat.png)
Veteran estate agency owner Paul Rooney has again featured as the most wealthy individual agency owner in the annual Sunday Times...
18 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Property TV ads – the winners and losers revealed](/img/default/eat.png)
Due to the current Coronavirus pandemic, we are all being told to stay at home as much as possible to contain...
04 April 2020
From: Features
![Agency rebrand even includes new ‘corporate sound’](/img/default/eat.png)
Part of the Arun Estates Group has rebranded - by dropping the ‘& Partners’ element of its name. The agency formerly known...
15 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity - a huge it's-nearly-Christmas edition...](/img/default/eat.png)
So this is (almost) it. Next week may be a quiet one for business as vendors and landlords alike begin to...
14 December 2018
From: Breaking News
![Agency's Property Marketing Academy to offer training across nine brands](/img/default/eat.png)
The fast-expanding Spicerhaart group has launched its own in-house Property Marketing Academy and has secured a well-known industry trainer and coach...
18 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![Property Jobs Today - all the latest industry moves ...](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello - if it’s Monday, it must be Property Jobs Today, your chance to see a snapshot of the key moves...
18 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![Another key Countrywide figure returns to the company](/img/default/eat.png)
One of the best known and respected country agents has returned to Countrywide after 12 months working with Arun Estates. Jill Bennetts...
15 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![Create a ‘plan’ of action to help sell more properties](/img/default/eat.png)
Floor plans are an essential marketing tool, which play an important part in helping an estate agent sell a home. A floor...
07 April 2018
From: Features
![Exclusive: Countrywide announces first major returnee to the fold](/img/default/eat.png)
The long haul back for Countrywide appears to have begun with the first major name who left during the Alison Platt...
12 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Agency unveils radical 'low-cost traditional High Street business model'](/img/default/eat.png)
Arun Estates has launched what it describes as “a major new departure” - a fully-staffed High Street office but covering a...
09 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Another regional chain says it's sceptical of online agency popularity](/img/default/eat.png)
A senior figure in another regional estate agency group has expressed scepticism about the popularity of online choices for vendors. Last week...
08 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Agency group says No to online but backs TV ads and PropTech](/img/default/eat.png)
Arun Estates says his group’s four main operating companies are to become ‘premium brands’ through a mixture of marketing and PropTech...
05 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity - the just-two-weeks-to-go edition](/img/default/eat.png)
Just a fortnight today we’ll be packing our bags and preparing for a well-deserved but all-too-short festive break...but until then, there’s...
08 December 2017
From: Breaking News
![New OnTheMarket contract ‘imposes restriction on acquisitions’](/img/default/eat.png)
The new contract for firms joining or re-signing to OnTheMarket is reported to have a restriction on acquisitions. It is said to...
05 December 2017
From: Breaking News
![Ex-Ladbrokes boss puts a bet on Agents' Mutual and OnTheMarket](/img/default/eat.png)
Chris Bell, a former chief executive of bookies’ organisation Ladbrokes, has been named as the non-executive chairman of Agents’ Mutual as...
03 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - exactly how 'local' are local property experts?](/img/default/eat.png)
An analysis conducted by estate agency comparison website GetAgent has for the first time attempted to calculate how ‘local’ agencies' local property...
27 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![Agency earns £350,000 in commission from 'disgruntled' online sellers](/img/default/eat.png)
Arun Estates reports that it has netted an additional £350,000 in fees thanks to a scheme designed to woo vendors using online...
06 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity - the bit-in-the-middle edition...](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s that strange period - the bit-in-the-middle between Christmas and New Year, when most agents are back in the office for...
30 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity - and it's getting cold out there...](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s perhaps appropriate that we kick off this week’s Agents Do Charity with an appeal for winter clothing for the homeless...
18 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Another Countrywide refugee moves to senior post in rival firm](/img/default/eat.png)
The former ‘retail director’ of Countrywide’s south east operations, Keith Knight, has left the troubled agency group and has returned to...