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A new body which says it will “champion better outcomes for buyers” is described as independent but is to be chaired...

Upcoming portal Boomin has written to its founder agents inviting one of them to take up a seat on the main...

Purplebricks has named a new non-executive director - and currently she has 36 other company directorships or partnerships to her name. Elona...

Rightmove’s shareholders appear to have been generally unmoved by the string of protests against the portal in recent weeks. At the portal’s...

OnTheMarket’s share price dropped again yesterday, ending down 2.4 per cent. This was despite the portal announcing a share giveaway to encourage new agents...

OnTheMaket has this morning announced a raft of what it calls ‘mitigating measures’ to help it survive the Coronavirus crisis. These include...

News broke last weekend of a further online estate agency casualty as letting agent Upad announced on its website that it...

Emoov has this afternoon appointed administrators as a result of not being able to secure a buyer - the move had...

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If Countrywide thought its fortunes would immediately improve following the departure of chief executive Alison Platt, it has to think again...

There was an excellent article, published last week, based around an interview with Chandra Dhandapani, CBRE’s chief digital and technology officer.  The...

It is being reported that staff at Countrywide have been told that embattled chief executive Alison Platt is leaving the agency...

Countrywide appears to be in turmoil with Sky News reports that board members are discussing trying to get rid of controversial...

Sky News is this evening reporting that Alison Platt, the chief executive of the troubled Countrywide agency, may soon be leaving...

The roadshow of presentations of Agents’ Mutual’s plans to float on the stock market have just passed the half-way mark. Remaining sessions...

Countrywide has taken the highly-unusual step of announcing that it will reveal key performance indicators every six months, come rain or...

A riposte to Paul Smith's article 'Why Estate Agents Must Stand Up to the Power of the Portals' I just read an...