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Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...

Demand for prime London property from Americans doubled between September and October due to favourable dollar exchange rates and increased investor...

The Skipton Building Society, which owns Connells estate agency, says the house-selling arm helped it reach a record profit pre-tax profit...

Creating a New Homes division could be a good way of expanding an agency business according to the head of a...

This time out, I’m in conversation with one of the big three established portals. Since it was founded in 2007, Zoopla...

Connells Group, now on the threshold of taking the ailing Countrywide empire under its wings, has signed a five year partnership...

Countrywide has this morning rejected an £80m offer made for it by Connells Group. On November 23 Connells announced that its due...

The property market has bounced back with all of the expected resilience and flexibility that is its hallmark since it reopened...

Forget the Boris Bounce - this might be the Rightmove Retreat. A new tool produced by the portal measures price per...

Savills has smoked out another money-making opportunity with a new enterprise which it claims has “enormous growth potential.” The property consultancy is teaming...

The Property Franchise Group - which operates five High Street agency brands and the EweMove hybrid - has set up a...

Belvoir has struck an innovative eight-year exclusivity agreement with Dacres, the 20 office estate agency network based in Yorkshire, to deliver...

Connells Group has this morning announced a profits dip for the first six months of the year.  Its pre-tax profits were £26.2m...

Belvoir, the UK's largest property franchise, has changed its name - at least slightly - from Belvoir Lettings to Belvoir Group.  In...

Specialist providers catering for the over-50s has welcomed a move by high-end estate agency Knight Frank to move into equity release. Commenting...

Humberts, the agency which was one of the first to ditch High Street offices in favour of fewer larger hubs, has...

The chief executive and founder of a developer and property investment group says Purplebricks is “an excellent business” but its recent...

There’s nothing new about identifying 10 figures who have helped shape an industry over the past year, but that doesn’t mean...

High-end agency Harrods Estates is not content with selling homes in London’s infamous challenging market - now it’s marketing a box...

To say legendary ZPG founder and CEO Alex Chesterman left big boots to fill when he stepped back from day-to-day operations...

Given that online property portals, dominated by a handful of websites, are by far the most popular home search method, it...

I remember renting flats when I was a 25-year-old negotiator at Foxtons. Many of you will remember my love for the...

There have been two stories dominating the PropTech headlines over this past week. As WeWork places a gentle arm around the...

The big story to break this week in the property world was the announcement by the new owner of Humberts that...

A leading property industry analysts says Rightmove may be amongst the top portals in the industry worldwide, but it is facing...

Last time out I looked at the growing importance of content, social media and design – but these should only form...

As always seems to be the case with Purplebricks, the hybrid agency has had a good week...and a bad one. Undeniably impressive...

One of the leading PropTech analysts says Rightmove’s huge success means that it has two difficult choices ahead if it is...

One of the world’s leading property technology analysts says Purplebricks-style disruptive agencies will be a trend to look out for in...

One of the most thorough analyses of property portals ever undertaken shows that Rightmove is the world’s most profitable portal company...

Mark Goddard was the founder and CEO of The Property Software Group (PSG), a property software solutions firm established in 2007,...

It was only a couple of weeks ago that I was writing about the Google City, in Toronto, and now the...

Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of...

It’s a tale of two estate agencies - Britain’s biggest, seemingly in trouble, and the second biggest, winning a seal of...

With more house-hunters than ever now starting their search for a new home by typically looking online on one of the major...

Public relations used to be a minor part of estate agency, something only ‘the big boys’ paid for and with little...

Chancellors has acquired a majority stake in the brokers Alexander James Mortgage Services. The deal means that the Bracknell-based firm – one...

There’s been plenty of forecasting in recent weeks - banks, consultancies and high-end estate agents have predicted house prices in the...

Investors’ Chronicle, the weekly investment magazine published by the Financial Times Group, has lavishly praised high-end agency Savills for diversifying its...

What will Zoopla Property Group (ZPG) do if it is overtaken in agent numbers by OnTheMarket?  Does the acquisition of uSwitch risk...

John D Wood & Co is launching an international department, promising properties ranging from urban pieds-à-terre to Caribbean beach houses, from...

Zoopla Property Group is looking for more potential acquisitions following its surprise announcement that it is buying price comparison website uSwitch. ZPG...