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Borrowers are currently rolling off relatively favourable two-year fixed-rate deals agreed at the start of 2022, but the pain from higher...

A variety of charities have received support from the property industry this week. If there are charitable endeavours you think the rest...

Now more than ever, property professionals across the sector need to pull together and collaborate more closely to make business gains,...

Savills and OnTheMarket are among property brands set to deliver a webinar next week aimed at helping buyers to understand what...

Propertymark has released details of a panel featuring several industry heavyweights at its much anticipated conference in June. Founder of emoov-turned-property-pundit and...

Estate agency should be about more than just earning a commission, senior property leaders have said. The issue of commission was discussed...

The way to sell a property has changed and agents shouldn’t rely on just listing on Rightmove, senior property leaders have...

The Relocation Agent Network (RAN) has been sold to a company featuring respected estate agency industry figures. RAN’s owner Dwellworks has completed...

In this latest article from the team at Iceberg Digital, they discuss estate agency in 2023. Who is embracing technology, and how...

Two members of Ellis & Co’s Mill Hill team have joined forces to takeover the office following the death of its...

Choosing the right technology platform for your agency is hard. Getting it wrong is easy. The last thing you need is to...

If there’s one thing that received a boost as a result of Covid and lockdowns, it’s podcasts – which reached whole...

Winkworth Shepherd’s Bush has passed to new owners in the latest example of succession planning at the franchise agency network. Its former owner,...

Agents were busy marking the Platinum Jubilee over the past week but there was still time for fundraising exploits including tree-planting...

Agency franchisees with brands such as Hunters, Martin & Co, Belvoir and EasyProperty are being given the chance to sign up...

The Property Franchise Group (TPFG) is planning more acquisitions after a busy 2021 for buying-up agencies. The umbrella property brand, which incorporates...

The Property Franchise Group has reported record like-for-like revenue for 2021. The umbrella property brand, which incorporates well-known names such as EweMove,...

Hybrid agency EweMove - which has a mix of working-from-home agents and High Street branches - has had an outstanding year...

You’ve heard me bang on about the wonder of reservation agreements for some time now, but it’s definitely the case that...

The Property Franchise Group, the agency industry’s largest franchise operation, has reported strong performance in recent months. Chief executive Gareth Samples has...

An online intelligence platform has started ranking agencies in terms of their SEO and Google searches. The platform - Industry Alerts, which...

I recently took part in a webinar hosted by ICG (The Innovation Collaboration Group) – titled ‘New estate agency revenue streams...

The self-employed partnership known as The Agency UK - founded by three refugees from Purplebricks - has announced a major expansion. The...

The Property Franchise Group (TPFG) – the umbrella property brand which incorporates well-known names such as EweMove, Ellis & Co, Martin...

Hybrid agency EweMove has continued growing with the sale of 37 new territories in the first six months of the year...

Hello, and we’re at the start of a long weekend - and as the weather (finally) improves, perhaps that’s the opportunity...

In this week’s In Conversation Today, I am delighted to chat with Lucy Morton, Head of Residential Agency at JLL, about...

Another major agency group has agreed to repay substantial sums it claimed under the government's Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, introduced to...

The Property Franchise Group, which earlier this year completed a buy out of franchise rival Hunters, has expanded its senior management...

The extraordinary consolidation in the estate agency industry continues apace today with two of the biggest deals reaching critical points. Firstly Hunters’...

Fundamental changes to the way in which agents can work were shown at the online launch of Lifesycle 2 by Iceberg...

Fixflo’s webinar on February 9 saw an industry panel debate 2021’s threats and opportunities for letting agents. The panel discussed a range...

Boomin, created by Michael and Kenny Bruce, promises “highly memorable and engaging” TV and radio ads at its launch in the near...

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

Talks continue between The Property Franchise Group and Hunters with both companies agreeing a new deadline of next Friday, January 29. Just...

The government is considering stricter tier structures for the coming weeks as the number of Coronavirus infections continues to rise. There is...

An agency operating in the new Tier 4 area has abandoned viewings and visits to homes until New Year, even though the...

The Property Franchise Group has approached Hunters about a possible takeover. Confirmation came this morning in a statement from Hunters, which you can...

Hello, and if it’s Friday it can only mean Charity day as we celebrate the industry’s continuing fund-raising despite challenges from...

High profile franchise hybrid agency EweMove has announced ambitious plans to double agent numbers within two years. The firm - which has...

Hello and welcome to your regular Friday charity round-up from the industry - appropriately enough on the day of the latest...

The six brands that make up The Property Franchise Group are the latest signings for yet-to-launch portal Boomin. TPFG’s brands are national...

Propertymark has teamed up with an employment and health and safety specialist to establish a service for member agents with Coronavirus-related...

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has encouraged people to complain if they are unhappy about working conditions and thousands of complaints...

With the high street open again, and the Chancellor’s temporary stamp duty holiday helping to stimulate the market, estate and letting...

Hybrid agency EweMove has outperformed its traditional sister companies within The Property Franchise Group over the past six months. That’s the clear...

The EweMove hybrid agency has been singled out for special praise in a trading statement from its parent company, which also...

Revenue for The Property Franchise Group was hit by 20 per cent cent thanks for the lockdown - but sales listings...

The Property Franchise Group - parent company of six agency brands including EweMove and Martin & Co - says all of...

Hello - yes it’s Friday in case you lost track, and that means it’s Agents Do Charity day: and once again...

Staff and senior management at a large franchise company running a string of major High Street agency brands are taking voluntary...

Welcome to the latest edition of our daily service dedicated to advice and guidance on how agents can best cope with...

A surveyors’ firm has been wound up after courts declared that it had misled clients over the success of its core...

Hello and welcome to Agents Do Charity’s final edition before this Christmas and the New Year. It’s been a terrific year for...

The Property Franchise Group has issued a trading statement that is upbeat on lettings but warns that the sales market has...

Hello and welcome to a new week - one with darker evenings and colder days. But there is still plenty of activity...

In an increasingly aggressive UK right now, it’s worth remembering that most people just want to get along and do good...

It’s another Friday so it’s another Agents Do Charity - of course! It’s August and the height of the holidays but as...

Hello and welcome to both this week’s PJT and welcome to July. It may be summer and Wimbledon time, but there’s no...

Welcome to the latest Property Jobs Today - because last week there was a Bank Holiday, we have a bumper edition...

With next Friday being Easter, this is the last ADC for a fortnight - so it’s our chance to honour those...

Hello, it’s that time of the week again when we look at the latest recruitment and appointment news in the industry. Just...

If you thought Christmas Eve meant no more news in terms of industry movers and shakers…well, think again - we’ve one...

In the past year it seems every other story has been about PropTech - the big stuff like Purplebricks and the...

The Land & New Homes Network has announced a part exchange and assisted move collaboration with Relocation Agent Network in a...

Japanese Knotweed remains a major problem for a property sale - and that’s despite a recent study suggesting that the growth...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today, our weekly feature on who’s moving where throughout our industry. And it’s...

ZPG has announced that it has signed a listings agreement with Chestertons, one of the estate agencies involved in the founding...

Thanks once again for your contributions to this weekly round-up of agents’ good works; we love covering these stories which show...

The Property Franchise Group has launched five new websites, one for each of its high street brands.  These are CJ Hole, Ellis & Co,...

Members of the Relocation Agent Network are celebrating after a successful annual awards event in London, combined with keynote conference sessions...

Belvoir has revealed that it has won the backing of a minority shareholder in The Property Franchise Group to resume merger...

Belvoir has announced that it has made an approach to The Property Franchise Group regarding a possible merger. In a statement to...

It’s been an undeniably tough year for agents so far and no one can say the industry doesn’t deserve a summer...

Former RICS residential chief Jeremy Leaf says he is not downcast by the latest Halifax house price index which shows prices...

Few things provoke argument within the industry more than the online v traditional agency debate - and within that debate, nothing...

A network which helps estate agents win more instructions in the land and new homes sector is launching a lead generation...

A gathering of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has called on the industry to unite and improve the buying and selling process...

Average house prices in the three months to May were 3.3% higher than in the same period of 2016, according to...

Theresa May’s call for a snap general election on June 8 took many by surprise. But estate agents have been broadly...

The director of a respected mortgage broker is warning that market sentiment is changing with more down-valuations from surveyors and some...

The Property Franchise Group says it has seen 13 consecutive years of growth for the five High Street brands within its...

Average house prices across the UK in the three months to March were only 0.1 per cent higher than in the...

Property Franchise Group - formerly known as Martin & Co - has announced that 12 EweMove franchises have been sold in...

The chronic shortage of housing supply in the UK relative to demand has been a national issue for decades. The Government...

Annual growth in house prices slowed in January - a taste of things to come in 2017 according to the house...

Estate Agent Today has been told that a deal between the Property Franchise Group and ZPG - the new name for...

Hybrid agency EweMove is rapidly expanding its network footprint this year and will be a “challenger brand” deliberately designed to be...

The East of England, which takes in areas from Hertfordshire to Norfolk, has recorded the biggest hike in property prices over...

A new body set up to forge links between developers and estate agents has spoken up in favour of the government’s...

This is the final Estate Agent Today until Tuesday January 3 2017, so everyone at Angels Media sends all good wishes for...

The Halifax says house prices across the UK will rise between 1.0 and 4.0 per cent in the next 12 months...

Following a strong start to 2016, particularly in the lower to middle range of the UK housing market, that lasted up...

The latest index from the Halifax shows that prices in the three months to November were 0.8 per cent higher than...

House prices in the three months to late October were on average 5.2 per cent higher than over the same period...

The eventual rebrand of former independent agency W A Ellis is set to be completed next year following the opening of...

House prices fell a negligible 0.1 per cent in the three months to September as compared to the previous quarter, but...

House prices dipped 0.2 per cent last month but remain 0.7 per cent higher than three months ago and a full...

Schools going back, final Bank Holiday over until Christmas, and agents returning from their summer breaks. It can only mean September. But...

Average house prices in June rose 1.3 per cent but as the shock Brexit result was not known until late in...