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At the back-end of last year and the start of this, the biggest news stories in town – besides debates over...

A £17.8m pre-tax loss has been reported by Yopa in its latest financial statement filed at Companies House. Figures lodged just before...

Connells Group has announced a major recruitment drive as it looks to create 250 new agents' positions - and it’s launched...

Countrywide is to hold a special general meeting on November 18 to consider its future ownership and structure. Last month Countrywide group...

One of Countrywide’s largest shareholders has come out against a £90m investment package in the company proposed by a private equity...

The troubled Countrywide group has announced a £90m investment by Alchemy Partners, a private equity company that specialises in investing in...

One of Countrywide’s biggest shareholders has written a second letter to the company to demand bold action to save the agency...

The share of owners putting their homes on the market within five years of buying is rising again according to an...

Countrywide is remaining silent over the stalled sale of its commercial arm. The troubled agency group’s share price dropped over 3.5 per...

Countrywide has revealed a mysterious delay in the sale of its commercial arm, Lambert Smith Hampton - a sale considered crucial for the...

After a year dogged by Brexit deadlock, political turmoil, and slow growth, estate agents’ confidence in the property market hit a...

Countrywide's senior management has won overwhelming backing from shareholders for its strategy of selling its commercial arm and consoliating its shares. Today's...

Countrywide has this morning revealed that its special general meeting of shareholders to agree the sale of its commercial arm will...

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Cash-strapped Countrywide has this morning announced that it is selling its commercial business, Lambert Smith Hampton, for £38m. In a surprise statement...

Purplebricks claims it actually sells - not just lists - three times more than the UK’s next largest estate agency.  The claim...

Countrywide has told Estate Agent Today that it will not be releasing any figures on the branch closure programme it introduced...

Londoners paid some £30 billion on homes elsewhere in the UK this year - the highest amount since 2007. A report from...

Rumours abound over the future of Countrywide, which lost further share value on Friday, closing very slightly down on the day...

Estate Agent Today can reveal that one of the industry’s best known research experts, Johnny Morris, has left Countrywide.  Morris joined Hamptons...

Countrywide has revealed precisely how many brands, branches and staff it has following the extensive and multiple restructurings of recent years. In...

The troubled Countrywide group has this morning revealed its recovery plan to get - in its words - ‘back to basics’...

The story of this week - the ousting of Countrywide chief executive Alison Platt - prompts two key questions. Firstly, who takes...

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

The magazine Property Week is reporting that Countrywide’s former chief executive Alison Platt, who quit her post this morning, will receive...

Shares in troubled agency group Countrywide have fallen to their lowest-ever level of 106.40p in trading this morning. Yesterday shares fell a...

A trading statement from Countrywide this morning continues the decline shown by the agency group in recent years. It says total income...

Countrywide’s share price hit another new low yesterday of around 115.5p - a fall of just over four per cent on...

Estate Agent Today understands that Spicerhaart is in the final stages of talks to acquire major regional independent firm butters john...

Countrywide’s share price hit a record low during trading yesterday afternoon when it dropped to 137.75p, having opened the day at...

The UK's largest estate agency has announced that its finance chief will step down from its board next month and retire...

Countrywide’s share price, which just over three years ago was riding high at just above 685p, has hit a new low...

Countrywide has successfully placed 21.6m shares to institutional investors at the competitive price of 175p per share - allowing it to...

Estate Agent Today understands that Vince Corley, a senior director at Countrywide, is leaving the company. He is one of the longest-standing...

Countrywide's regional director Martin Coombes has quit the company, having worked for it since the early 1990s. A statement to Estate Agent...

Estate Agent Today has received a list of around 60 Countrywide Group estate agency offices expected to close in the next...

Estate agents and mortgage experts have reacted to the Bank of England’s surprise decision to keep base rate unchanged at 0.5...

Countrywide's retail chief says the group's new hybrid joint online and traditional project has involved training agents to change the way...

Countrywide's chief information officer Oliver Skagerlind this morning joins online agency easyProperty as de facto number two to chief executive Rob...

Countrywide is to lead a group including Connells and Zoopla in a partnership with the proptech company Fixflo, currently best known...

Sky News is reporting that Countrywide has hired headhunters to find a replacement for the estate agency group’s veteran chairman, Grenville...

Countrywide has yet to make a decision on whether its newly-acquired Welsh estate agency chain - John Francis - is to...

Countrywide says it has Foxtons as its target to beat in a bid to be the number one agency for sales...

Chief executive Alison Platt says Countrywide Group will always remain a “house of brands” but will nonetheless move to “fewer, stronger...

Countrywide says the man charged with planning the organisation’s digital future is to step down - just days after he was...

The consumer is King and to protect sellers and buyers' best interests estate and letting agents have to operate in the...

Data from Countrywide Group shows the potential volatility that exists in the much-discussed Prime Central London housing market, simply because of...

The Countrywide group of estate agents has come out fighting after relatively poor figures revealed at the end of last week,...