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Estate agents in Liverpool and Portsmouth have had the busiest start to the year, new analysis suggests. Self-employed agency brand eXp UK...

Estate agency recruitment expert and mentor Ian Dobrin has joined property data firm Addland. He will initially focus on further building the...

A shift towards self-employed estate agency models has contributed to a decline in estate agency branches, research suggests. Analysis by property data...

Agents and sellers are taking an average 5.5% discount on listings to secure a sale, new Zoopla data shows. The portal’s latest...

Agency Express has won the Franchisor of the Year – Gold award at the 2023 British Franchise Association (BFA) HSBC British...

Hat and Home has opened its fifth office and a new headquarters in the heart of Sandhurst. The move centralises the agency...

Three men who set fire to an estate agency branch in Luton while residents of upstairs flat were home have been...

David Plumtree, group chief executive, estate agency at Connells Group is marking 35 years with the business this week. He joined the...

Kendal’s Arnold Greenwood Estate Agents has expanded with the launch of a new south Cumbria branch. Estate agency services at the new...

Over 20,000 UK agency branches have now registered with HMRC for anti-money laundering supervision. A new analysis from risk management platform Thirdfort...

At iamproperty we are excited to share the announcement of our future innovation strategy and vision, continuing our commitment to transform...

Proptech firm iamproperty has reported 40% growth in its partner agent network over the past 12 months. It now works with more...

The housing market hasn’t yet tipped in favour of buyers, new agency data suggests. Figures from 550 estate agency branches across Great...

An extraordinary increase in estate agencies has been recorded over the past year. A total of 10.6% more estate agencies existed in...

LSL has sold its mortgage, protection, and general insurance brokerage firms Embrace and First2Protect. The brands have been sold to Pivotal Growth,...

New research has uncovered the most densely populated areas for estate agency branches. Agency comparison website GetAgent’s internal data tracks the number...

The estate agency job market remains buoyant despite talk of a property market slowdown, an industry recruiter claims. Agency recruitment firm Rayner...

Getting a property on the market has become more efficient but agents still require the same people and sales skills that...

Estate agency branches are bracing themselves for “a very difficult few months,” the National Association of Property Buyers (NAPB) claims. The NAPB...

More than 1,000 estate agency branches are to join iamproperty’s partner network from SDL Auctions after a trade deal between the...

Estate agents have listed an average of 7.3 homes for sale per branch during 2022, research suggests- down 12.5% annually. Agency comparison...

Connells Group - the largest agency group in the UK after its purchase of Countrywide - has today announced its financial results for...

I look back on when my dad helped me buy my first car and shared his pearls of wisdom on what...

Next month will see new rules around upfront Material Information for property sales and lettings come into force in the UK...

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

A tech company in the compliance sector claims that 25 per cent of UK estate agency branches have failed to register...

Rightmove’s first housing market report of 2022 starts when last year’s ended - on a high.  The average price of property coming...

Rightmove has identified the UK’s strongest sellers’ market - and it’s in Easton, Bristol. Four of the top 10 sellers’ markets are...

Boomin has revealed an upgrade to its SmartVal feature, which tries to blend real-time online valuations with local expertise from member...

The concept of the High Street estate agency branch has been given an endorsement by two companies announcing new offices. Fine &...

An analysis of estate agencies in 21 major cities suggests a big rise in competing companies, prompting risks of fee wars between...

Like most aspects of life since the pandemic hit, the employment arena has been hit hard. But not just with uncertainty...

Propertymark says the supply of homes on the market has dwindled almost continuously since the start of the year, with 40...

LSL Property Services - parent company of Your Move, Reeds Rains and Marsh & Parsons - has reported record figures as...

Available residential property listings across the country are at historic lows according to property data firm Homesearch. The company, which focuses its...

Two of Britain's largest agency groups have sold their stakes in a property search firm. Both LSL and Connells have announced the sale...

An all-time record high of one in three properties sold for more than the original asking price last month. This is according...

Today is the day that non-essential retail reopens as part of the government's roadmap out of lockdown. For the majority of the...

A new survey suggests 53 per cent of buyers never actually visit an estate agent’s office during the course of their...

Estate agency offices in Wales, closed for many weeks as part of that country’s lockdown, will reopen from next Monday, April 12. The...

The Bruce brothers' new portal Boomin has launched a day early - and no, this isn't an April Fool. The site went live...

A Sheffield estate agency is pioneering a new form of branch office - one that sells homes at the same time...

A prominent estate agent has warned buyers and sellers about the perils of the controversial Modern Method of Auction. MMA is now...

A new service is offering agents free welcome boxes which can be passed over to buyers and tenants who move in. The...

The rise and rise of portal listings and changing consumer habits during the pandemic may mean the death of the High...

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

Members of staff at an estate agency branch in the Midlands tested positive for Coronavirus in consecutive weeks, triggering a temporary...

Free-to-list portal group OneDome claims 425 estate agency branches joined its listing services last month,  OneDome Group operates two portals, OneDome and...

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

Some 713 estate agency branches have failed to reopen following the spring lockdown according to a business consultancy. TwentyCi says that is the...

Hello and welcome to the start of a new week and a new edition of Property Jobs Today, your chance to...

We all know that people can’t move to a new house without going through the Conveyancing process. However, with that said,...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that all retail staff will be obliged to wear masks when working - and it's now...

More than 24 hours after the government's announcement about the compulsory wearing of facemasks by shoppers in England, and there is...

Six agency branches are being closed as a result of a partnership between franchise giant Belvoir and the Nottingham Building Society. Under...

In the first of a series of articles, Emma Vigus, managing director of mio, the estate agent sales progression platform, explores the...

Zoopla predicts that the price strength that has been seen since the reopening of the housing market is likely to continue...

“A lot of people have learned that they can work at home, or that there’s other methods of conducting their business......

Some 2,500 estate agency branches have expressed an interest in a new portal, Homesearch, launching next month.  Although the Homesearch website lists...

LSL Property Services says one of its measures to “rightsize” the organisation during the Coronavirus crisis will be to put agents...

LSL Property Services says the Coronavirus crisis has led to a softening of "lead sales indicators" - and it warns of...

Rightmove has released another stonking set of results - but there are signs that some agents are defecting from the ever-more-expensive...

Hello and welcome to PJT: even with little more than a fortnight before Christmas it seems there are still plenty of...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Simon Trippett – Partner at The Property Centre. What services...

Hello and welcome to the final PJT before September - yes that means summer is almost over.  Yet even during the holiday season...

iamproperty, parent company of IAMsold, says it now works with 2,500 estate agency branches nationwide and has sold over 16,500 properties...

With the often negative portrayal of agents in the media and popular culture, you might ask yourself why anyone would want...

One of the earliest property websites, nethouseprices.com, has been acquired by fledgling property portal OneDome.  Nethouseprices was set up in 2004 and...

The price of property coming to market fell by 0.2 per cent or an average of £656 in the past month...

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

As we move closer to the halfway point of 2019, property market conditions for agents and their clients remain challenging. Brexit may...

More than 800 property transactions fall through daily, which can have repercussions both practically and financially, as agents fail to get...

Local media in the east Midlands report that four estate agency offices operated by the Nottingham building society are to close...

Savills has declined to comment on whether it will follow in the footsteps of LSL Property Services and write down its...

LSL Property Services, the parent company of Your Move and Reeds Rains, has substantially 'written down' its investment in online estate...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, your regular catch-up on key appointments news in our industry. It’s been a difficult seven...

New figures from the British Independent Retailers Association suggest that there are now 135 fewer independent estate agency branches than at...

A firm which links with agents to operate online auctions has hit back at a consumer group's allegations that this growing sector...

An agent in the Guild is launching a ‘hub’ style operation from December 1 and says the concept of traditional estate...

Industry supplier Mid West Displays has drafted in students from the University of Wolverhampton to design future estate agency branches. The company...

Property sellers have been on the back foot over the slow summer period, according to the latest report from NAEA Propertymark....

Asking prices are at a virtual standstill as the summer lull kicks in, according to the latest Rightmove index. New seller asking...

Another four existing estate agency branches have rebranded as Hunters. In the westcountry three branches of Heritage4homes - at Yatton, Nailsea and...

OnTheMarket now has listing agreements with over 9,000 estate agency branches - that's another 500 or so since its previous release...

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

The housing market has swung back in favour of property sellers, according to the latest data from estate agents. NAEA Propertymark's Housing...

Alice Hickmott is the perfect advertisement for apprentices in estate agency - especially as we are now in National Apprentice Week.  Essex...

Connells Group’s estate agency business increased its market share of new instructions in 2017 by almost four per cent, despite a...

The UK’s largest property franchise group, Belvoir, says it is reaping rewards from its acquisition of Brook Financial Services and its...

PropTech start up OneDome, which supplies online booking and mapping tools, has teamed up with live chat service provider Yomdel in...

Currell is defying any gloomy predictions about the capital's housing market by opening a new office at Hackney Wick Fish Island. Currell...

ZPG says that the number of estate agency branches that left to join OnTheMarket but have now returned has reached over...

Thieves have broken into an estate agency branch within a fortnight of it opening and are reported to have stolen equipment...

An analysis conducted by estate agency comparison website GetAgent has for the first time attempted to calculate how ‘local’ agencies' local property...

Some customers dislike entering traditional estate agency branches, occasionally feeling 'like prey' for sales staff when they enter. This is one of...

Jackson-Stops & Staff has opened a new branch in Reigate, Surrey, taking its national network to 45 offices. The branch augments nearby...

Haus Properties - the estate agency set up by former Apprentice finalist Jamie Lester, who quit the company suddenly last year...

ZPG says the number of estate agency branches to have quit OnTheMarket and rejoined Zoopla over the past two years has...

The number of house hunters registered per estate agency branch fell last month to 381 - well down on its figure...

ZPG has published its half-year figures this morning showing a six per cent rise in the number of agents and a...