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Firstly, Happy New Year – here’s to 2021 being less chaotic than the last! In the final part of our series on...

Upad, the national online letting agent set up by entrepreneur James Davis has announced that it is “closed to new business”...

Speculation is growing about the future of online agency Yopa. This follows a key resignation from Yopa’s board and one expert’s analysis...

Conveyancing platform The Moving Hub has this week launched its proposition into the estate agency and mortgage intermediary sectors. The firm is...

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

It’s that time of year again where we start saying goodbye to 12 months of hard work and start looking forward...

Purplebricks chief executive in Australia, Ryan Dinsdale, is quitting the firm after two and a half years. The influential Australian Financial Review...

The troubled Emoov hybrid estate agency, currently up for sale, has removed an advertisement after a complaint to a watchdog over...

Not so long ago, the best estate agents were those who did the best work for their clients and therefore built...

A new online agency says it is currently focussing on one large city but will expand to cover the whole of...

Some conveyancers must publish some price and service information on their websites and in other media from December 6, according to...

Online agency Emoov has amended its website following the intervention of the Advertising Standards Authority.  The authority says the agency’s site included...

An analysis of one month’s listings on Purplebricks by City consultancy Jefferies concludes that it sold 51.6 per cent of its...

Buyers spent £9.7 billion on moving house in 2017 with the average individual move costing £9,580 according to comparison website Compare...

Six more High Street estate agencies have signed up to an online platform that allows them to offer customers a fixed-fee...

The Advertising Standards Authority has upheld a complaint over a Purplebricks website statement featuring testimonials from clients; the complaint was made...

Online estate agency Settled has raised £1.2 million in funding to further develop its product. Settled describes itself as a 'powerful digital...

A new online estate agency is offering vendors a sales package for just £24.99. MoveSelf, which is based in Manchester, allows vendors to...

A one branch independent estate agency has this week launched a fixed-fee sales option alongside its traditional commission-based service. WH Breading, which...

EasyProperty has removed from its advertising any reference to clients getting ‘an offier in 20 weeks’ after an intervention by the...

A new website that will allow vendors and landlords to compare the expertise and fees of estate and letting agents has banned online...

I have spent the last 20 years working within the conveyancing business, alongside estate agents and I can’t help feeling a...

Online agency HouseSimple is introducing a High Street agency style No Sale-No Fee option for vendors, with a reduced fee if they...

A High Street estate agent has cautioned others within the industry against being tempted to go down the route of charging...