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High-end estate agent Tyron Ash has hit out at the “sense of entitlement” at corporate estate agencies who he said don’t...
10 April 2024
From: Breaking News
One of the founders of self-employed brand The Agency UK (TAUK) has set out hopes for the business to dominate the...
20 March 2024
From: Breaking News
Two estate agency businesses have already signed up to self-employed agency brand eXp’s new brokerage model just weeks after launch. Mackays, a...
18 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Self-employed agency brand eXp UK is celebrating surpassing the 500 agent milestone. The latest announcement comes less than a year after the...
11 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Self-employed agency brand eXp has launched a brokerage model for the UK market. Such a system is already common in the US...
04 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Estate agency has changed. No longer is it required to sit in a high street office working the old way. Provide a...
12 September 2023
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Former Homesearch head of training and development Simon Gates has been appointed as a non executive director of Chris Buckler’s new...
22 August 2023
From: Breaking News
OneDome has signalled an intention to acquire more mortgage brokers as it reveals its HomeBuyer service has helped return triple-digit year-on-year...
20 July 2023
From: Breaking News
The Agency UK’s (TAUK) nationwide team of self-employed estate agents has now reached 89 partners operating across 32 countries, with the...
17 April 2023
From: Breaking News
LSL has sold its mortgage, protection, and general insurance brokerage firms Embrace and First2Protect. The brands have been sold to Pivotal Growth,...
12 April 2023
From: Breaking News
Former youth Olympic Badminton player Grace King is one of first recruits in a campaign launched by hybrid agency Mr and...
25 January 2023
From: Breaking News
Agency brand LSL has announced the sale of its new build mortgage and protection brokerage firms, Group First, which operates under...
16 January 2023
From: Breaking News
Challenger portal and homebuying support platform OneDome has acquired broker CMME Mortgage and Protection from the private equity-backed CMME Group. CMME Mortgage...
12 January 2023
From: Breaking News
Agents should be using social media and their own US-style personal brand to promote listings regardless of the value of the...
05 January 2023
From: Breaking News
Demand for prime London property from Americans doubled between September and October due to favourable dollar exchange rates and increased investor...
17 November 2022
From: Breaking News
Self-employed estate partnership brand The Agency UK (TAUK) has launched a series of roadshows to attract agents to its offering. The company...
03 November 2022
From: Breaking News
Gallagher, the insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has announced a £5,000 fund to help two businesses further their learning at...
11 October 2022
From: Breaking News
Property brokerage and estate agency Nest Seekers International is set to reveal the highs and lows of luxury property sales in...
21 September 2022
From: Breaking News
The Agency UK – which was set up by three ex-employees of Purplebricks – has strengthened its team with the arrival...
15 August 2022
From: Breaking News
Franchise giant Belvoir has snapped up one of the earliest British estate agencies to adopt the model of using self-employed or...
11 March 2022
From: Breaking News
The finance arm of LSL Property Services - known as Pivotal Growth - has snapped up a specialist mortgage and insurance...
11 February 2022
From: Breaking News
Tomorrow sees the Relocation Agent Network’s first in-person conference since 2019. The event, at the Metropole Hilton in Birmingham, will focus...
02 December 2021
From: Breaking News
Relocation Agent Network, the network of primarily independent agencies, says it’s looking at global options for growth thanks to its relationship...
26 November 2021
From: Breaking News
A mortgage expert says surveyors should improve their standard services to cover the threat of climate change. This comes after a summer...
23 August 2021
From: Breaking News
LSL Property Services has told Estate Agent Today that the company did not agree to a potential sale of its mortgage arm at...
26 July 2021
From: Breaking News
Britain’s second largest estate agency has outlined radical new plans to shift direction, making financial services and not sales or rentals...
29 April 2021
From: Breaking News
LSL Property Services is to set up a mortgage brokerage called Pivotal Growth. The new brokerage - set up with Pollen Street...
23 April 2021
From: Breaking News
The rise and rise of portal listings and changing consumer habits during the pandemic may mean the death of the High...
12 February 2021
From: Breaking News
One of the early operators of the self-employed agency model has launched a scheme under which its agents receive shares in the...
10 February 2021
From: Breaking News
The UK outlet of Warren Buffett's estate agency empire is launching its first TV advert in this country. Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Kay &...
08 January 2021
From: Breaking News
One of Countrywide’s biggest shareholders has written a second letter to the company to demand bold action to save the agency...
19 August 2020
From: Breaking News
We have had a special relationship for many years and are bonded as countries in many ways – historically, politically and...
01 August 2020
From: Features
Difference should be celebrated. But in our industry it rarely is. I was on the board of a large corporate where...
22 July 2020
From: Features
There’s a growing trend for estate agents to quit big-name corporates and either go independent or join US-style brokerages, a top...
04 March 2020
From: Breaking News
'It's a recipe, not a menu' is a mantra championed by a host of Keller Williams' millionaire estate agents. But what are...
25 January 2020
From: Features
“Give me 100 leads and I will make five-times more good appointments than any AI you put me up against,” stated...
22 January 2020
From: Breaking News
Reapit has joined a consortium attempting to make the long-anticipated end-to-end digital home buying process a reality. It’s joined the IPN Consortium,...
20 January 2020
From: Breaking News
A leading analyst says Purplebricks has clearly plateaued and will not reach its own target of a 10 per cent market...
14 January 2020
From: Breaking News
The German-based Alex Springer publishing company, which is already the largest single investor in Purplebricks, has acquired a prominent online estate...
30 September 2019
From: Breaking News
A story from America caught my eye this week. It’s about a company called Curbio partnering with another called The Keyes...
25 September 2019
From: Breaking News
A comprehensive report into the changing complexion of the High Street suggests that some 143 estate agents’ offices closed in the...
12 September 2019
From: Breaking News
Former Purplebricks US chief executive officer Eric Eckardt is seeking some £6m in funding from across the world for his latest...
04 September 2019
From: Breaking News
I wrote last week about Keller Williams and how their leader, Gary Keller, is doing an admirable job of driving innovation through...
07 August 2019
From: Breaking News
Hello and welcome to this latest edition of PJT, your Monday catch-up on all the key appointments news in the industry. Please...
15 July 2019
From: Breaking News
Hello and here’s another PJT to start the week: we hope it’s your first port of call when you want to...
10 June 2019
From: Breaking News
A veteran of three online estate agencies has been named as the first UK head of a US real estate operation...
07 June 2019
From: Breaking News
A well-known London estate agency says it signing up to a US-based real estate franchise network run by billionaire Warren Buffett. From...
10 September 2018
From: Breaking News
It’s not just the bosses’ pay incentives that have been a problem for Countrywide’s senior management - it appears the company...
21 August 2018
From: Breaking News
Rumours abound over the future of Countrywide, which lost further share value on Friday, closing very slightly down on the day...
13 August 2018
From: Breaking News
There have been two stories dominating the PropTech headlines over this past week. As WeWork places a gentle arm around the...
01 August 2018
From: Breaking News
Purplebricks is expanding its US activities by entering the markets of Las Vegas, Nevada and Phoenix, in the state of Arizona. A...
15 June 2018
From: Breaking News
The rise and fall - and perhaps rise again - of Countrywide has been of enduring interest to the agency industry...
12 May 2018
From: Features
Here’s some good news to take into the Bank Holiday weekend. Research undertaken by Estate Agent Today suggests that fees charged by...
04 May 2018
From: Breaking News
LSL Property Services - parent company to 12 brands including Your Move, Reeds Rains and London’s Marsh & Parsons - has...
06 March 2018
From: Breaking News
According to The Branding Journal, a brand is “a name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one seller's...
20 January 2018
From: Features
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has launched a comprehensive guide to what it calls “the responsibilities of residential property agents...
12 September 2017
From: Breaking News
Supporting the adoption of technology does not mean we have to stop protecting the core values of the property industry. In...
05 July 2017
From: Breaking News
Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of...
07 June 2017
From: Breaking News
A London investment broker says Purplebricks’ share price - currently around 300p - could rise another 50 per cent or more...
25 April 2017
From: Breaking News
News was released this week of a new PropTech partnership: banking disrupter Revolut has joined up with mortgage brokerage, Trussle, to offer...
20 April 2017
From: Breaking News
This week, it would be very easy for me to focus on the startling figures that easyProperty logged with Companies House...
05 April 2017
From: Breaking News
People are more likely to give word-of-mouth recommendations for handyman services than recommend estate agents, according to a controversial poll. The survey...
03 April 2017
From: Breaking News
So, Property Week has announced its Property Awards shortlist for 2017. Looking at the entries for PropTech Company of the Year, I'm surprised...
22 February 2017
From: Breaking News
A few of our Industry Views pieces this week focus on the upcoming EU referendum. I don’t think I can add...