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

Former Reapit chief Gary Barker is to join Connells Group, just as the company is taking over Countrywide. Barker - who last...

An estate agent has shut both branches of his business for safety reasons and wants tighter Coronavirus restrictions on the industry.  ITV...

Estate agency offices in Wales with five or more staff will have to carry out a Coronavirus risk assessment under new...

An online petition wants all agents’ offices to close during the pandemic. Keeping them open means agents feel "forced and pressured" to conduct...

Many agents have been operating under Tier 4 Coronavirus restrictions for some days, but today sees another 20 million residents in...

Most agents' branches in Wales are expected to close for just over two weeks from 6pm this Friday, October 23 - moving...

A raft of changes in the senior management of Strutt & Parker is being heralded as part of a “shift towards...

Countrywide has added its weight to the campaign asking the government to allow agents to get back to work - and...

There has been scepticism across the industry as to the motives behind an unspecified number of lay-offs and permanent branch closures...

love2move, the online network which allows high street agents to offer a white-labelled hybrid service, has announced its latest partner. Peter David...

A survey undertaken by the respected Economist Intelligence Unit and a risk solutions company suggests that estate agency may be one...

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

The huge £215,000 fine levied on Countrywide for failing to abide by anti-money laundering procedures is a demonstration that estate agents...

A new bespoke Customer Relationship Management system developed by The Property Franchise Group claims to enable High Street agents to fight...

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

Shocking figures from the Local Data Company, a consultancy monitoring the health of High Streets, show that 211 estate agency offices...

No, I haven’t lost the plot. Such a thing exists – and if you’re familiar with North London, there is a...

OnTheMarket plc, the company which operates the OTM portal, gives its first formal stock market figures tomorrow morning, for the six...

OnTheMarket has this morning announced that it now has signed listing agreements with more than 11,000 estate agency offices - over...

A branch of Andrews estate and lettings agency, damaged by water as a result of a fire eight months ago, is...

With the year in full swing we have some more heroic fund-raising and grant-giving stories to tell this week. Thanks so much...

Sources within Countrywide say the latest senior management figure to leave the company is Sam Tyrer, who under her title of...

You might have thought the week after Christmas or the day after Easter would be when agents receive the most calls...

Marsh & Parsons will be opening a new office in Islington on September 4 - defying many analysts who say the...

A network of almost 80 independent estate agency offices has launched what it calls a hard-hitting campaign against 'internet-based call centre...

An estate agency group operating from two offices close to Heathrow airport has announced it is to open a third, ultimately...

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

The three-office RH & RW Clutton agency has issued a statement to say it’s alive and well - and unaffected by...

A well-informed industry article on the possible sale of Strutt & Parker to French bank BNP Paribas suggests that the deal,...

Work has been completed on the £300,000 refurbishment of the lower ground floor of city living specialist estate agency Morgans in...

A branch of Martin & Co is changing the wording it uses on a leaflet following a complaint from a rival...

New research suggests there has been a slight increase in the total number of estate agency offices in Greater London this...

It’s Christmas-Central in the estate agency business if your photographs are any indicator - and we’re very grateful that you continue...

Pete Wallace, appointed as Countrywide's retail performance director just a year ago and a long-standing employee of the group before that...

It's enough to make the typical Islington resident splutter over their breakfast muesli, or perhaps feel too nervous to drive their...

Despite the much-publicised 'threat' of online estate agency there were more high street offices opened in the first half of this year...

Estate Agent Today has received a list of around 60 Countrywide Group estate agency offices expected to close in the next...

Several agencies have unveiled expansion plans despite the EU referendum, economic uncertainty and fears of a major downturn in the London...

Andrews Property Group, which this year celebrates its 70th anniversary, has rebranded its offices and online presence.  It says its new look...

Jackson-Stops & Staff has opened a new branch in in Blandford, Dorset, expanding the agency’s west country presence to nine offices.   Simon...

Fine & Country is opening a new office in Shrewsbury later this month, marking the brand’s expansion in the West Midlands.  The...

Foxtons has won planning consent for an office in the south London suburb of Peckham after another controversy involving opposition from...

Century 21 has announced another new office, this time in Stafford. The office - led by local husband and wife team Andrew...

We've caught the apparent death of the high street estate agent on video - or at least that's what online estate...

North London estate agency Anthony Pepe is to open its third sales and lettings office in early September.  Anthony Pepe & Co...