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A new estate agency has benefited from a grant scheme run by multinational company Tata Steel. Lincolnshire estate agent Grahame Barratt-Needham has...

An industry marketing expert has questioned the strategies of ‘house of brand’ agencies. Writing exclusively for Estate Agent Today, Simon Leadbetter, former...

Politicians are to take estate agents to task over what they call “a forest” of For Sale and To Let boards. Local...

An estate agency has gone back to school to design new for sale boards. Three Sixty Living, the sales and lettings agency...

Agency board supplier Kremer Signs is working on geotagging tools that can be incorporated into For Sale signs. Tom Cummuskey, sales and...

The number one portal is making a big marketing and research push to get reluctant owners to put up the For...

An estate agency is running a competition to encourage residents to photograph badly-located For Sale and To Let boards. The Basingstoke branch...

A family-run agency has reinvented the For Sale board by removing all of the usual visual cues and traditional words -...

The debate over For Sale and To Let boards continues apace with some local councils wanting to make it difficult or...

Purplebricks has pulled off another publicity coup - it’s to sell the Rovers Return in Coronation Street. The hybrid agency, which already...

Leaders Romans Group is to use only fully recycled material to create its sales and lettings boards across all of its...

The property market experienced a slowdown last month as a result of more people going on summer holidays, according to the...

The debate over whether For Sale boards remain a valuable source of publicity has been in the headlines of late -...

Purplebricks is starting a new wave of TV advertisements today, continuing its theme from earlier this year as a sponsor of...

“Let’s Zoom later”, “are we Zooming in the morning or afternoon?” “Yeah, I zoomed the client earlier” – variations on these...

In the last few Natters I’ve focused on the slow death of local newspaper advertising, and how many agents are now...

When is a property really off-market? There may be many answers to that question but it’s likely that few would consider...

The head of a new property portal is urging agents to forget about spending money on For Sale and To Let...

All eyes are on Japan for the Rugby World Cup beginning this weekend…but there’s still time for our industry to raise...

A top London estate agent says the humble For Sale board remains the cheapest and most effective marketing tool - even...

A slew of allegations have been made against agents and sometimes even by agents, over alleged misdemeanours over property listings as...

The two men behind a low-profile hybrid estate agency say their company is flourishing after two years in business, during which they...

The property market remained slow and stunted in August as the number of For Sale and Sold boards across the country...

The head of London’s largest estate agency brand has hit back at a council in the capital which wants enhanced powers...

One of the industry’s largest sign makers has been spelling out its environmental credentials on the back of increased concern about...

Vigilant followers of the Liberal Democrats may have spotted a blog in the name of Mark Pack early yesterday morning, commenting...

A London council has issued 49 fines to estate and letting agents in the first two months of a crackdown that...

For my latest Property Natter I have sought the opinions of two well-known property consultants - Michael Day, managing director of...

A controversial scheme in a London borough, limiting the size and duration of letting and estate agents’ boards on display, comes...

A number of local authorities are now serving £100 or £120 fixed penalty notices on estate agents who display For Sale...

A ban on For Sale and To Let boards in central areas of Bath has been extended - for no less...

As circus performers, most estate agents would fail. Some of you might find that difficult to comprehend. After all, many uninformed members...

An online estate agency delisted by Rightmove for apparently breaching its terms and conditions has accused the portal of “gross abuse”...

Agents in a London borough have been warned that the local council now has new powers to fine the firms behind...

Dacorum council in Hertfordshire has prosecuted an estate agency for what it calls the “illegal display” of a For Sale board...

Marketing and property often go hand in hand. But from time to time you might come across certain marketing terms that...

Agents in Douglas on the Isle of Man have agreed to a voluntary code governing the size of their For Sale...

There is controversy in the London suburb of Brixton over an estate agent which has allegedly 'spammed' the area with publicity...