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Winkworth has revealed that it has not renewed franchises on offices “where our standards were not being met and results were...

LSL has hailed the benefits of switching to a franchise model for its estate agency brand. A trading update from the company...

Propertymark has launched a new working relationship with the Belvoir Group to help further improve standards and enhance financial protection for...

The Good Estate Agent has attracted 16 franchisees to its new travel brand, with almost half even combining it with their existing...

Winkworth is revving up its backing for young racing driver Zak O’Sullivan. At 18-years old he is already on the fast track...

Winkworth has launched a talent drive to find rising stars to build a career and a business within the franchise network.  The...

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

Winkworth has expanded further in Dorset with the acquisition of Christopher Batten in Wimborne – its seventh office in the county.  Christopher...

LSL has described the transfer of its estate agency business to a franchise model as a success and said it expects...

The Property Franchise Group (TPFG) is working on tools to improve its franchisee brand’s use of data and digital marketing capabilities. Gareth...

The team behind regional agency brands Simpson & Partners and Simpson and Weekley is developing a hybrid franchise model. Andrew Simpson and...

A group of Hunters’ franchisees have taken on the brand’s Medway business. Andrew Barker, Rob Stewart, Richard Watts, Andrew Scott and Duncan...

LSL Property Services’ share price hit a six-month high during trading yesterday after it announced its entire estate agency network would...

EweMove has announced its Franchise of the Year as part of the brand’s10th anniversary celebrations More than 250 people flocked to the...

Belvoir is seeking more acquisitions this year, the agency franchise brand has revealed. The company revealed in its annual results yesterday that...

Hunters has welcomed two new franchise partners who have acquired the Hunters Scarborough, Bridlington and Filey businesses. Sam Lakin and Pete Croft have...

Winkworth is expanding its operations to focus on land and new homes opportunities across London. Dominic Agace, chief executive of Winkworth, said...

The Property Franchise Group (TPFG) has launched a group-wide online training academy for its brands and agents. All brands within the group...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? On my card it says: Vincent Anthony, Managing Director of Propertynest.  ...

Winkworth has expanded further in the South West of England with a new office opening in the Bishopston area of Bristol. The...

One of hybrid agent EweMove’s first franchisees has expanded his North West territory by rebranding as Property Franchise Group stablemate Whitegates. Chris...

Estate agency franchise network Propertynest is looking to expand its reach as it looks to become a 100 franchisee-plus network over...

The sales process is starting to speed up, The Property Franchise Group (TPFG) has claimed. Gareth Samples, chief executive of TPFG, which...

The Property Franchise Group (TPFG) is still expecting a strong 2022 after posting increased half-year revenues and profits this morning. The listed...

Agency network Mr and Mrs Clarke has launched a new loan product to help aspiring self-employed business owners launch their own...

Winkworth has seen a boom in potential franchisees while the first wave of agents are also working on succession planning. Writing exclusively...

The Belvoir Group has announced the acquisition of mortgage broker TIME. The agency franchise and financial services brand has acquired the entire issued...

Century 21 UK, the British arm of the US-based franchising agency, has been sold. Nicholas Faulkner, the owner of leasehold property management...

An industry veteran who helped train Purplebricks agents has partnered with easyProperty to foster its franchisee talent. The online hybrid agent is...

Agency franchisees with brands such as Hunters, Martin & Co, Belvoir and EasyProperty are being given the chance to sign up...

EweMove managing director Nick Neill has set out plans to double the size of the franchise network by 2025 as the brand’s...

The Property Franchise Group (TPFG) chief executive Gareth Samples has called for a steer on when the long-awaited Regulation of Property...

The Property Franchise Group has reported record like-for-like revenue for 2021. The umbrella property brand, which incorporates well-known names such as EweMove,...

A three-branch agency in the south west has launched a franchise model which it says should appeal “to those wanting a...

These are undeniably darker days as news comes through of a humanitarian crisis in Ukraine - we have the first agency...

Hybrid agency EweMove has this morning announced that it’s moving all of its 170 branches to a new fully-automated cloud-based system...

Hybrid agency EweMove - which has a mix of working-from-home agents and High Street branches - has had an outstanding year...

Hunters has tweaked its earlier version of hybrid franchising in a bid to attract self-employed agents. Hunters Personal was launched with a...

A franchise for two agency offices in west London has been acquired by property professionals Faith Cook and Georgia Everton-Wallach –...

Winkworth has told its shareholders that it expects approaches from prospective franchisees to open new branches this year. In a trading statement...

Mark Meyer, CEO, Meyers Estate Agents: “We’re on a mission to revolutionise the traditional concept of estate agency.   We don’t have...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I can’t remember the last time I had a business...

The Good Estate Agent, set up in 2010, is slashing its franchise fee - it claims the reductions are for Black...

One of the first companies to promote the self-employed ‘broker’ business model has announced its first franchise agreement - and says...

Franchise giant Winkworth says at least eight new offices will open next year, following an upbeat performance in 2021. In a trading...

EweMove - the hybrid brand owned by The Property Franchise Group - says its operating model effectively solves a reported staff...

Hello and welcome to the latest PJT, your chance to catch up with who’s moving where in our industry. If you have...

A service that sells properties and elements of joint venture schemes to investors says it’s seeking to expand after completing on...

The Property Franchise Group - the UK's largest property franchisor, which owns EweMove and other brands - has acquired 80 per...

An estate agency is celebrating its 21st anniversary by launching a new ‘realtor’ franchise model based on enhanced technology and personalised...

Hybrid agency EweMove has continued growing with the sale of 37 new territories in the first six months of the year...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  Thom Hudson, photographer at Meyers Estate Agents What is Meyers...

Franchise giant Winkworth has launched a new property podcast to boost its marketing. The Property Exchange podcast will air monthly, with the...

EweMove, the high profile hybrid estate agency owned by The Property Franchise Group, says it has recruited a record 30 new...

Hello and welcome to the latest Property Jobs Today, your chance to catch up with who’s on the move. Let us know...

Franchise agency giant Belvoir has acquired share capital in a small mortgage company. Nottingham Mortgage Services Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of...

EweMove says it’s has just recorded its best-ever month for new enquiries from sellers. In April the hybrid - which is part...

Century 21 UK is the first agency in the country to white label an app which covers transaction components from property...

Britain’s second largest estate agency has outlined radical new plans to shift direction, making financial services and not sales or rentals...

The Property Franchise Group and LSL Property Services are linking up mortgage and related activity. This agreement means that LSL will be...

Independent estate agency Dacre, Son & Hartley plans to significantly grow its franchise network across Yorkshire and beyond. Dacres currently employs 125...

The Property Franchise Group, which earlier this year completed a buy out of franchise rival Hunters, has expanded its senior management...

  Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  Mark Meyer, CEO, Meyers Franchising What is Meyers and what...

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

By any available metric, Belvoir had a good 2020. Already a well-known and well-established name, it was highly praised for its...

A firm calling itself the UK’s first 24/7 home-based agency says it wants to roll out nationally with a network of franchisees...

1. How would you say Century 21 franchisees have adapted to the challenges during 2020?  If someone had told me at the...

An estate agency group has launched new franchise business models to help those in the industry impacted by Covid-19. Century 21 UK...

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

With a headline like that, we can only be talking about the annual EweMove Christmas video, consisting of the hybrid agency’s...

Belvoir has become the latest major agency group to sign up to Boomin as a founder agent.  The properties of all four...

High profile franchise hybrid agency EweMove has announced ambitious plans to double agent numbers within two years. The firm - which has...

The six brands that make up The Property Franchise Group are the latest signings for yet-to-launch portal Boomin. TPFG’s brands are national...

Gary Keller is stepping down from his post as chief executive of the global Keller Williams estate agency empire. Although operating chiefly...

The Property Franchise Group has named high-profile industry veteran Eric Walker as managing director of Martin & Co (South and Scotland).  Walker...

A family-run agency which last year asked people to “make an offer” to buy a franchise is now claiming it will...

In my last Natter, I explored the differences between estate agency in the UK and the US with the help of...

Hunters has announced the launch of an additional franchise office at Torquay in Devon. The branch is a conversion of local independent...

Six agency branches are being closed as a result of a partnership between franchise giant Belvoir and the Nottingham Building Society. Under...

The phrase ‘game-changer’ has been hugely overused. But when applied to how Covid-19 is changing the way estate agents will work...

A former chief executive of Countrywide has issued a string of extravagant claims about the lockdown success of the online agency...

The Property Franchise Group - parent company of six agency brands including EweMove and Martin & Co - says all of...

A senior property lawyer is to set up a franchise agency which he describes as embracing the best of the High...

Many of the leading advocates of the self-employed estate agent business model have talked about why many want new recruits with...

EweMove is this week hosting a webinar in a bid to win recruits to its hybrid model from agents who may...

Gareth Samples has been confirmed as the new chief executive of The Property Franchise Group, stepping into the role on Thursday...

Let me start by wishing everyone well in these uncertain and precarious times. I truly hope you, your families, friends and...

Individual franchisees operating under the Winkworth banner are receiving what the company calls “comprehensive help” on a range of issues, including...

Staff and senior management at a large franchise company running a string of major High Street agency brands are taking voluntary...

A hybrid agency says the Coronavirus is a “disrupter and game changer” for the industry and is wanting agents keen to...

The property franchise company Belvoir Lettings has laid off 15 workers from its Grantham headquarters - and warns there may be...

Estate agency Chestertons has named the new chief operating officer for the roll out of its UK and Europe franchising operation. Some...

It’s been revealed that the branch closure programme by Your Move and Reeds Rains last year resulted in 460 lost jobs...

It's been confirmed that Humberts has been sold for an undisclosed amount to a consortium of franchisees - and that the...

Winkworth says it’s achieved a big jump in London sales market share despite “an uncertain and difficult year that was dominated...

The Property Franchise Group - which operates five High Street agency brands and the EweMove hybrid - has set up a...

For the stock market generally, 2019 has been a positive year - but a few high profile agencies and associated companies...

It normally costs estate or lettings agents £10,000 to buy a franchise for the online company called The Good Estate Agent...

The Property Franchise Group has issued a trading statement that is upbeat on lettings but warns that the sales market has...

“Multiple”members of the new trade body, the Federation of Independent Agents, are considering cancelling their subscriptions to Rightmove. FIA founder Graham Lock...