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The intellectual property of collapsed online agency brand Doorsteps has sold for just £3,666. Begbies Traynor, the liquidator for Doorsteps, sought offers...

The liquidator for Doorsteps is seeking a buyer for the collapsed online agent’s intellectual property. Prospective buyers have been messaged by restructuring...

Eight agents were excluded from The Property Ombudsman (TPO) scheme during the first quarter of 2023 including collapsed online brand Doorsteps for...

I’ve just read an article saying that this is the time of the online estate agency. The time in question is, of...

Aside from all the news surrounding the Autumn Statement this week, which will have a significant bearing on the property market...

Collapsed online agent Doorsteps owes more than half a million pounds to company creditors including Rightmove, HMRC and the Treasury, documents...

The For Sale board is one of the oldest marketing tools available to agents, but it is still considered one of...

Homeowners may have become less willing to pay upfront fees to sell their home. Despite efforts by online-only brands such as Purplebricks...

Like most industries, estate agency is changing. A general trend to a more hybrid model, accelerated by the pandemic has resulted...

A new survey of online and hybrid agents claims that they are now taking a 13 per cent share of the...

Property portal app MoveStreets says the latest upgrade to its app sends leads to agents’ inboxes and allows users to instantly arrange...

One of the highest profile supporters of the online estate agency concept has quit the company he founded. Akshay Ruparelia, who is...

There’s been a dramatic slump in instructions for online agencies, particularly Purplebricks, according to data produced by one online firm itself. 99Home...

Purplebricks has been rated as only the 10th best online agency in the country in a controversial new league table. The list...

The industry seems almost back to normal. Not the ‘new normal’ we spoke so much of a few weeks and months ago,...

A new survey of the market share split between High Street and online agencies shows that Purplebricks remains the digital market...

As last Friday was the VE Day Anniversary bank holiday we have a bumper bundle of fund-raising activities to report on...

Due to the current Coronavirus pandemic, we are all being told to stay at home as much as possible to contain...

An online agency has offered to sell the homes of NHS frontline staff for free. Doorsteps, set up by high profile young...

Can any agency beat Knight Frank for a brilliant collection of selfless work? We doubt it, as the agency has provided...

Akshay Ruparelia, the 21 year old who founded the online agency Doorsteps while he was still in sixth form, has called for...

New figures released show High Street estate agents taking an increasingly large market share as online operators continue to crumble. According to the...

All the most successful startups of recent years – from Airbnb and Uber to Just Eat and Deliveroo – have melded...

New data from property consultancy The Advisory shows that the top 10 online estate agents now have a combined market share...

The Secretary of State for Education has written to the head of an online estate agency to ask him to share...

Hello - here we are once again with the weekly round-up of key moves in the agency and related industries. We’re letting...

A former senior management figure at Rightmove and online estate agency Doorsteps is going it alone for a new holiday property...

The latest analysis of new listings in the two weeks to last Friday show that online estate agencies continue to have...

A slew of bad news stories about online estate agencies may have taken the lustre off the sector in recent weeks,...

Latest figures show that the top 10 online estate agencies have once again failed to exceed five per cent market share,...

The latest analysis of the performance of the top 10 online estate agencies shows that their market share of new listings...

The controversial crowdfunding site Crowdcube has listed the founder of online estate agency Doorsteps as one of its five ‘entrepreneurs of...

The former chief executive of Emoov says online estate agencies charge too little, so risk appearing cheap and ineffective to potential...

Another year is nearly done – and what an eventful year it’s been. We’ve had more than our fair share of breaking...

The demise of Emoov, Tepilo and lettings platform Urban raises question marks over the long-term viability of online agencies according to...

Online agency Doorsteps is slashing its flat fee to just £1 with no commission charge - but for only 48 hours. The...

An estate agency analyst has shared with Estate Agent Today his findings on the current and recent conversion rates of online...

However mild the weather may have been for most of us, it’s a cold autumn for the online estate agency market...

Akshay Ruparelia, the young founder and head of the online agency Doorsteps, has been shortlisted for one of the most prestigious...

Doorsteps, the online agency founded by a teenager, has raised over £700,000 - that’s 175 per cent of its original £400,000 target,...

An online estate agency run by one of the country’s youngest entrepreneurs has agreed to change a reference about savings on...

The young entrepreneur behind Doorsteps, the estate agency that deliberately avoids the huge marketing razzamatazz of other online companies, says his...

The For Sale board is one of the oldest marketing tools available to agents, but it is still considered one of...

Akshay Ruparelia, the teenager who set up the Doorsteps online estate agency only 18 months ago, is now reported to be...

One of the world’s leading property technology analysts has compiled a major report on estate agents’ business models - an exercise...

The 19 year old boss of online agency Doorsteps claims that his website has sold £100m worth of homes, currently lists...

There seems to have been a seismic shift in recent years for companies to migrate everything ‘on brand’ online. However signage...