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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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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 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...

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

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...

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...

“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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

Network Auctions has added 19 additional estate agency offices to its network so far this year.  They include three offices of Chaffers...

The industry magazine Estates Gazette is reporting that Cluttons, the residential and commercial agency, has been bought out of pre-pack administration...

OnTheMarket has swatted away the latest criticism from a long-term critic, online estate agency head Russell Quirk - although it has...

Connells Group’s mortgage services wing has recorded a 10 per cent increase in the number of mortgages in 2016 and has generated...

Zoopla Property Group says that in the last three months alone over 100 estate agency branches have returned to its portal...

The former Apprentice runner-up Jamie Lester, who at one time ran four London estate agency branches under Haus Properties, says he...

A firm called Proper Local has launched, insisting it is offering “a new model” for estate agency, somewhere between a traditional...

A property analytics company has devised a method of calculating the ‘best’ locations in which to work as an estate agent,...

Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward has expanded its network of branches in central London with the launch of new offices in Clerkenwell,...

Leaders has acquired another agency just weeks after absorbing another agency in the same region.  Tudor Estates was founded in 1959 and...

Keller Williams, the US-originated franchise agency with three ‘market centre’ offices in the UK says it aims to expand that number...

Zoopla is back in business with its trading update to the City this morning revealing that it has a net growth...

Zoopla is set to announce its latest total of agent members later this week. Back in May Zoopla revealed that it had...

Q: Tell us about Kristina Grimes. I am the Sales Director of Dezrez, one of the leading providers of estate agency software....

Zoopla says it has lost 16 per cent of its global members in the year to the end of March -...