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![Agent comparison website bags £2.2m funding to build on TV backing](/img/default/eat.png)
GetAgent, the comparison estate agency business, has secured £2.2m in investment from a consortium of investors including Channel 4. The backers are...
14 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![Rightmove's charges 'are good value for agents' insists ex-agency boss](/img/default/eat.png)
Property industry commentator and former online agency chief executive Russell Quirk has defended Rightmove’s charges to agents, saying that compared to...
28 January 2019
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
![Help To Buy “important catalyst” for first time buyers - claim](/img/default/eat.png)
A property comparison website has made a defence of the controversial Help To Buy initiative, claiming it “acts as an important...
15 November 2018
From: Breaking News
![Conveyancers may have to publish prices, services and reviews](/img/default/eat.png)
As the process of making buying and selling more transparent continues to gather pace, the body that regulates conveyancers says it...
05 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![ZPG claims record January traffic across digital platforms](/img/default/eat.png)
ZPG has revealed that it had 58m visits to its property websites, Zoopla and Primelocation, last month. This is 10 per cent up...
12 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![ZPG refuses to increase its offer for GoCompare service](/img/default/eat.png)
ZPG is refusing to increase its rejected bid to buy comparison website GoCompare. Earlier this month GoCompare turned down an unsolicited takeover offer...
24 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Major GoCompare investor reported to be seeking higher ZPG offer](/img/default/eat.png)
News agency Reuters says a top five shareholder in price comparison service GoCompare says the firm should respond “positively” if ZPG...
20 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Estate agents 'receive relatively few word-of-mouth recommendations'](/img/default/eat.png)
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
![New agency comparison website bans online and hybrid agents](/img/default/eat.png)
A new website that will allow vendors and landlords to compare the expertise and fees of estate and letting agents has banned online...
19 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter: online agents – where are they now?](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s easy to forget, but there was a time when the internet didn’t exist. When the idea behind the world wide...
19 August 2016
From: Features
![Developer gives big cash boost to estate agents' comparison website](/img/default/eat.png)
A west country property developer is reported to have taken “a significant stake” in Netanagent, a price comparison website focused on...