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The industry big hitter who joined Connells on a temporary basis to support its acquisition of Countrywide has now become its commercial director and a...

There’s been a flurry of recent activity involving agencies quoted on the London Stock Exchange: Hunters, The Property Franchise Group and...

Here’s hoping you managed to have as good a Christmas and New Year as Covid rules allowed. Journalism in early January is...

OnTheMarket’s first formal annual figures released since its flotation reveal losses in what it describes as its “transformational year” but also...

OnTheMarket has announced to the City and its shareholders that it’s to reveal its annual results tomorrow - the first such...

Review service allAgents has relaunched its property portal, saying it may become an agent-owned service and pledging to turn it into...

Whatever else you say about OnTheMarket, you can’t say it’s not consistent, consistent in treating its core membership shabbily.  We already know...

Figures presented to the London Stock Exchange by Agents’ Mutual appear to show that it has 200 fewer branches now than...

Both Purplebricks and OnTheMarket are keeping their powder dry on speculation that that hybrid agency is going to list on the...

OnTheMarket has announced some details of its IPO and the launch of its stock market flotation - but it has given nothing...

As we hurtle towards the end of 2017, it’s time to reflect on the year that’s just been.   Even better, this property-based...

Agents’ Mutual is officially making no comment on the timetable for the company flotation but speculation within the industry is mounting...

Speculation that OnTheMarket was courting Countrywide to list on its website after flotation may have suffered a setback following an announcement...

It now appears that OnTheMarket agents do not require to sign up to the portal for five years in order to...

One of the world’s leading property technology experts, who at one time was head of strategy at a property portal, says investing...

Sky News says the online estate agent eMoov is drawing up plans to float on the stock market.  Sky has been well-informed...

The flotation of Agents’ Mutual on the London Stock Exchange could happen as soon as later this year following the endorsement...

Agents’ Mutual’s flotation will definitely go ahead following a meeting of the High Court today, at which the appropriate processes behind...

One of the country’s leading property-technology experts says the way in which the Agents’ Mutual stock market flotation proposal has been...

The growing anger of some OnTheMarket member agents about the portal’s parent company proposal to float on the London Stock Exchange...

Before we go any further, assuming you are an Agents’ Mutual member, let me ask you a question. If you had...

Humberts, a member of Agents’ Mutual, is today launching an online-only option and claims it can list online-only properties on OnTheMarket. Such...

There’s a distinct sense of déjà vu over the debacle of OnTheMarket. I avoided joining two years ago because I couldn’t see...

After my article last week predicting that Agents’ Mutual would likely seek to raise external capital, including possibly on the public markets,...

I hate to be the guy to say ‘I told you so’…but I told you so! It seems that my predictions...

Agents’ Mutual has confirmed that it proposes to form a new company, OnTheMarket plc, to list on the AIM market of...

Sky News is reporting that OnTheMarket is to demutualise and list on the Stock Exchange.    The portal made much of its mutual...

The Charter for Independent Estate and Letting Agents has started its ‘pre-launch’ membership drive - and says it ultimately want to...

The chief financial officer of Foxtons is expected to resign this week - but is reported to be remaining with the...

  The chief marketing officer of Purplebricks, Joby Russell - who in the recent past has described the hybrid as “the UK’s...

An investment consultancy has issued a note to investors, advising them not to buy shares in Purplebricks.  Jefferies – the firm which...

The only way Purplebricks' dominance of the online agency sector can be challenged is via a merger between competitors or another stock...

Despite being round the block quite a few times in the property world, it was only in 2008 that the importance...

An estate agent is suing his former employer for £500,000 after he believes he was unfairly dismissed. Abdul Samad is taking legal...

The City consultancy which advises Purplebricks says the online agency will break even in terms of its month-to-month activities by the...

Zoopla has confirmed that its next date for announcing its agency membership totals - part of its ongoing rivalry with OnTheMarket...

Purplebricks, the online agency that floated a month ago at 100p per share, was yesterday down to 75.0 at one point...

The co-founder of hybrid estate agency EweMove says if the newly-floated Purplebricks fails "the online agency game could be up." Glenn Ackroyd,...

It’s time to take a pause, to reflect and put into context—and what a year it has been for our industry...

In the week that Purplebricks floats on the stock market, rival agency easyProperty says it will not list for two years...

Hybrid online estate agency Purplebricks is expected to start trading on the Stock Exchange on December 17. It has already raised £58.1m...

Purplebricks has launched in another region of the UK as speculation continues over the date of its expected flotation.  It has now...

The latest trading figures from Hunters, which in recent years has become one of the country’s largest sales and lettings agents,...