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The government has launched a new equity loan scheme for the self-build market. The Help to Build scheme aims to help thousands...

The government’s new Right to Buy policy for housing association tenants appeared to unravel last night after the Housing Secretary said...

Agency trade body Propertymark has called for the government’s housing market reforms to go further and has even suggested targeted stamp...

Property professionals and MPs were left wanting more after Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s much-anticipated housing announcements yesterday. Johnson yesterday promised a review...

A proptech startup launched by former Conveyancing Association chairman Eddie Goldsmith has secured a second round of investment. YouConvey, which aims to...

Agents have been getting active in recent weeks to raise money for Ukrainian refugees. Fundraising activities range from office-based collections and referencing challenges...

Many people in recent years will have become familiar with challenger banks such as Monzo, Starling and Atom. Many will have...

Elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly are due to be held on 5 May and agents are hoping that housing remains...

You can tell that spring is in the air as this week's Agents Do Charity is full of outdoor fundraising pursuits...

The government’s long awaited Energy Security Strategy has failed to spark excitement among estate agents. The government unveiled its plans to create...

Savills suggests that London is returning to its role as the dominant element in the high end housing market in the...

The humanitarian crisis in Ukraine continues to dominate the thoughts of our industry as this week’s ADC shows - a wonderful...

Sky News is reporting that Boomin, the portal founded by Purplebricks creator Michael Bruce, is close to finalising a new round...

It’s not an easy time for many renters (and homeowners). The cost of living is going up across the board for...

Hello and welcome to the weekend, and another ADC - our chance to pay tribute to fundraisers throughout our industry. Want to...

Too many leaseholders will fall through the cracks of the government’s “piecemeal measures” to combat the cladding crisis.  That’s the view of...

The Mayor of London is demanding ministers take sanctioning Russian oligarchs seriously by moving immediately to seize assets that can then...

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

The Welsh Government has announced an increase to the maximum level of council tax premiums for second homes, as well as...

Propertymark has backed a call for stamp duty incentives to be introduced to drive forward domestic energy efficiency. The trade body’s policy...

Until a few years ago, you would have been forgiven for not knowing who or what Coadjute was. But the company, founded...

Coadjute, the blockchain network for the UK property market that claims it can radically simplify home purchasing, has revealed that PropTech...

The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper, revealed this morning includes a radical reshaping of the private rental sector. Section 21 eviction...

A stamp duty cut would provide a long-term to improve energy efficiency on homes, the Chancellor has been told by an...

Our Agents Do Charity column each Friday does a fantastic job of highlighting the amazing charitable work of agents up and...

OnTheMarket has signed a deal with Brickflow, a new comparison site for development finance.   The portal says the partnership will provide member...

Barely three weeks into the new year and we’re already talking about plans to raise tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands of...

Homesearch has won £5m new investment from venture capital firm Octopus Ventures - an organisation that has also backed three businesses...

As this is the first Natter back since the Christmas break, I should like to first wish all our readers a...

Foxtons has this morning announced that it’s selling off the sales wing of a rival London agency that it bought just...

Blockchain PropTech operator Coadjute is to continue as Headline Partner for The ESTAS for 2022 and 2023.  Coadjute - which took over...

It’s often said that agency is a people business, and I can see no reason to disagree - agents dealing face-to-face...

Leaseholders in lower-rise blocks of flats will not have to take out loans to remove dangerous cladding under new government rules...

A hybrid agency that charges no fees to vendors but instead relies on referral fees for income has officially rolled out...

Welcome to 2022 and the first Agents Do Charity of the New Year. We’re all learning to live with Covid a little...

Coadjute, the PropTech platform that aims to slash the length of property transactions, has announced a further £6m investment. Coadjute is a blockchain...

Hello and welcome to the latest Agents Do Charity, your weekly opportunity to salute those in our industry doing so much...

There’s been a significant rise in buyer interest in the energy efficiency of properties - but so far it’s making no...

The scheme behind two of this country’s most successful PropTech start-ups is marking what it calls a successful first year.  REACH UK...

A leading estate agency says the government may have to use stamp duty and council tax as incentives to persuade owners...

In this op-ed, Warwick Haycock, accounting software specialist at The Access Group, looks at how the use of tech can empower...

The Nested online agency, which recently revamped its business model to attract more self-employed agents, is expanding outside London for the...

Agents trade body Propertymark has given its verdict on yesterday’s Budget with this statement - “Some good news but it leaves...

There’s been some cynicism amongst the industry in response to new homes promises made by Chancellor Rishi Sunak in yesterday’s Budget. Sunak...

The Budget has proven more generous than many expected - and with most property taxation left unchanged. Chancellor Rishi Sunak has made...

Within weeks the focus of the industry will be on the White Paper to be issued on rental reform before Christmas. Let’s...

The government has released details of a new property tax. It’s the Residential Property Developer Tax, first announced at the start of...

Agent wages have been in the news this week, with boastful claims from a number of self-employed businesses about the sums...

Many agents working in the industry, whether for large corporates or smaller independents, might one day have ambitions to branch out...

Fund-raising takes all sorts of shapes and sizes and this week we have a splendid selection proving that point. Don’t miss out...

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

Hello and welcome to the end of the week - another opportunity to see how our industry is doing great work...

An online operator called Nested is to spend £5m to promote the self-employed estate agency concept in 100 parts of the...

An online agency which describes itself as being “the future of property” is up for sale. Nu:move is a franchise operation, set...

Controversial London agency Foxtons is to review its policy on top management bonuses. This follows a shareholder revolt at the agency's AGM...

Strike, the digital-first estate agent previously known as Housesimple, has been selected to join Tech Nation’s Future Fifty programme. The online agent, which...

It’s certainly the case that awareness of part exchange isn’t very high in the property and agency world, despite the potential...

New figures from HM Treasury have revealed that businesses, including a number of major agencies, have returned £1.3 billion in furlough...

Almost a million tenants have built up rent arrears since March 2020, according to research by National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA)....

Estate agents are being urged to future-proof and diversify by linking with retirement developers via part-exchange services. Property investment service HBB Solutions...

The Karma Club: An industry partner has celebrated its second birthday by reaching a landmark of more than £15,000 donated to...

A company says it’s gathering £500m in funding to purchase properties for a “gradual home ownership” scheme - a variation on...

A company says it will fund first time buyers’ bids to get on the property ladder by matching them with property...

Here’s a new way to encourage house moves - pay the potential vendor £50,000. The Scottish Government is launching an official consultation...

A group of MPs has suggested the government consider a “proportional property tax” to replace the current council tax, in a...

Strike - which over the weekend announced a new £11m investment package - has now revealed it has a new chief...

Channel 4 Ventures is one of a number of investors who have collectively put the equivalent of £11m into the online...

Almost 77 per cent of people think the government must build more homes - but if that means reclassifying Green Belt...

Agents should prepare for a surge in fall throughs and collapsed sales thanks to the first stamp duty holiday period expiring...

A leading agent has been in touch with EAT to vent his frustration at the government for extending most of the...

Amro Partners, the Build to Rent and student accommodation operator, has launched a venture capital arm investing in PropTech and FinTech. Amro...

The Grenfell Tower disaster in June 2017 exposed the dangers of inflammable cladding on residential tower blocks, and what has come...

One of the men behind the defunct Emoov online estate agency has re-emerged as the head of a marketing service. The service...

We have more regulations controlling the sector than ever before and we have more ‘regulators’ involved in controlling the sector than...

There’s a new warning that the estate agency industry may be in a more fragile financial condition than before the pandemic,...

Hello and welcome to Agents Do Charity as we are on the threshold of May why not get on to the...

Another major agency group has agreed to repay substantial sums it claimed under the government's Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, introduced to...

The biggest news story in town this last week – which has brought people who don’t usually like or watch football...

Potential house buyers may be fine with virtual tours during lockdown periods, but as the country opens up, people are going...

Controversial Foxtons chief executive Nic Budden is to pocket a bonus package of around £1m - despite a huge shareholder rebellion at...

Hello and welcome to a sunny Friday and this week’s round-up of the industry’s good works. We’re keen to feature agents and...

It’s Friday so it’s Charity day of course, and today we get to the root of the issue of lockdown easing...

Sky News is reporting that new portal Boomin is to announce the former chief executive of Sir Richard Branson’s business empire...

The founder of Zoopla has returned to the property market with a new proposal to disrupt how agents buy and sell homes. Alex...

First time buyers are now saving more than £800 a year in comparison with tenants, new analysis suggests.  The Halifax says the...

The managing director of Fine & Country Cardiff, Dan Thomas, has wasted no time with his fundraiser - starting as soon...

A company in the German Axel Springer publishing empire - which also invested in Purplebricks in the past - has put...

A controversial property crowdfunding platform, criticised in the past on TV's Dragon’s Den, has gone into administration.  The House Crowd was launched...

Energy Performance Certificates ought to be scrapped because they are outdated and not fit for purpose. That’s the view of an influential...

The total value of the UK’s housing stock has hit a record £7.56 trillion despite the pandemic. The calculation - by Savills,...

Pressure is building on London agency Foxtons to repay its furlough funding. The company issued an upbeat trading statement on Wednesday; while...

With just two days to go, it's fair to say the property industry is eagerly awaiting Chancellor Rishi Sunak's Budget statement...

CRM supplier Reapit, backed by private equity funding, has entered into an international deal to acquire a leading Australian PropTech provider...

Agency websites supplier Property Webmasters has secured a substantial but undisclosed cash injection to expand internationally. The investment comes from Net Ventures...

Propertymark has slammed government energy efficiency proposals as being “unrealistic, too simplistic and could deter people from moving home.” A formal consultation...

You can always tell when Budget day is approaching. There’s lots of comment from every imaginable quarter about what the Chancellor of...

The government has given details of two new taxes to provide funds to address the cladding problem on high rise tower blocks...

Labour and Conservative MPs have expressed a unanimous view on their desire to see an extension of the stamp duty holiday...

Labour has entered the cladding controversy by calling a vote in the House of Commons to force government action on the...

It’s been some time since online agencies have ventured into crowdfunding to raise investment, but easyProperty has now done so -...

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

The Chancellor has announced new measures to help businesses in the light of the lockdown announced in the past 24 hours. The...

MPs want the government to publish the names of estate agencies and other companies claiming furlough funding. The all-party Public Accounts Committee of...

Hello and welcome to our latest doffing of the cap in honour of those in our industry fund-raising for great causes....

A London estate agency chief executive says agents "have become good at pretending that they are qualified and regulated when the...

Welcome to part three of our ongoing series on local independent agents, as we seek to give this all-important part of...

Here at Giraffe360, the PropTech startup, we have raised a £3.5 million funding round to further accelerate our product development and...

We’re just a few days from December so why not get into the festive spirit a little early and get some...

Property tax rises and falling house prices look as if they are on the way according to the small print accompanying...

The Competitions and Markets Authority is to probe the proposed merger of two crowdfunding sites used by numerous property industry companies. Crowdcube...

A relaunched home buying service says it wants to partner with agents to unlock sales if the housing market deteriorates. The service...

Hello and welcome to yet another Agents Do Charity, the weekly forum for the industry to share its good news on...

High end agents usually keep their powder dry when it comes to party politics, to avoid upsetting customers. However Knight Frank has...

The ESTAS awards service and the Agents Together foundation are entering into a partnership. That means all ESTAS customer agents will be...

Shorter days and darker nights deflate the spirits, especially in today’s challenging circumstances, but there’s some bright news - a large...

Many agents, certainly those in London, will have faced the difficult task of selling a flat with a shorter lease. A...

A security company says it is “disappointing” the estate agency industry is only around 55 per cent through preparations to cope...

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

There’s no stopping our industry - whether it’s local lockdowns or early autumn storms, agents and suppliers continue doing great work for...

A veteran agent with 38 years experience of the industry - much of it at Countrywide - has become the head...

Property technology company OneDome, which operates two portals - OneDome and Nethouseprices - has raised another £5m in funding.  It says it...

Survivors and bereaved family members from the Grenfell Tower fire have joined forces with residents trapped in allegedly dangerous flats in...

The Times has revealed new allegations concerning the behaviour of Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick. The Cabinet member has been under the spotlight...

I was giving an interview this week for an upcoming conference - yet another to convert from a physical to a...

As many in the industry will know, Ian Westerling passed away last week at the age of 51: he was a...

Property portal Boomin has been "courted by a range of potential backers" according to Sky News. The news service - which has...

One of the most experienced British estate agents says the new portal Boomin - expected to launch next month, October -...

An overview of the global PropTech sector is often what I am asked to cover at conferences around the world. This generally...

A PropTech platform that claims to halve the time a transaction takes has received a huge cash injection from investors for...

An unusual property sales concept, which signs up vendors and then effectively sub-contracts their sales to strongly-performing local estate agents, has...

An intervention by a magazine has led to Purplebricks refunding the up-front fee to a seller whose husband died suddenly and...

There are high hopes that the new stamp duty holiday will make an already busy market even busier - but not...

An industry analyst is challenging the long-established agents’ view that reducing or temporarily scrapping stamp duty would help the market. On the...

One of the key members of the Purplebricks board has stood down after two years. Andreas Wiele joined the Purplebricks board in...

Countrywide has released details of its trading performance, including the knock its income has received as a result of the housing...

A hybrid agency which set a target of rivalling Purplebricks when it launched has announced a recruitment drive and expansion in...

US-originated estate agency Keller Williams claims to be the fastest growing in the UK as a result of 29 agents joining...

Estate agents are likely to get through the next five to six months even if the market falls away - but...

Hello and welcome to Agents Do Charity, our weekly opportunity to salute suppliers and agents fund-raising for good causes. We appreciate how...

The brothers who founded Purplebricks - Michael and Kenny Bruce - have returned to the agency industry for the first time...

I was asked a question by a German journalist yesterday. What is the biggest lesson German and European PropTech founders can...

Dominic Cummings has been at worst a cause of huge anger to a nation that’s already extremely anxious. At best, he’s been...

The online estate agency Settled appears to have ceased trading with its customers refunded. It was launched in 2014 by former Google...

A Labour council in London has come out against the government’s plan to offer 30 per cent discounts to first time...

Listings from an agent who ended his contract with Rightmove were not removed as he expected - instead, he is accusing...

Rightmove, Zoopla and even OnTheMarket could make money even if they did not charge agents anything at all to list properties....

Rightmove and Knight Frank are today both calling for a series of government incentives to kick-start the market after the Coronavirus...

Knight Frank is furloughing agents and other staff with the company topping up the taxpayers’ funding to ensure employees get 100...

A high-profile regional agency is “cracking on” with support for a hospice for children and young people that cannot raise funds during...

New temporary rules have thrown a lifeline to troubled agencies like Countrywide and Purplebricks which may need to raise additional funds...

Welcome to the latest edition of our daily service dedicated to advice and guidance on how agents can best cope with...

The founder and chairman of Hunters, who is also a Conservative MP, has been criticised for a tweet saying he would...

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

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced a sweeping range of financial measures to try to minimise the impact of Coronavirus...

Nested is the latest online agency to base a marketing campaign around criticism of established estate agents.  In three 30-second TV ads...

The Bank of England has announced an emergency cut in the base interest rate to shore up the economy during the Coronavirus...

The National Association of Estate Agents has launched its Sales Protocol Toolkit, in a bid to reduce fall-throughs and dramatically improve...

Another former Savills agent has joined freelance agency operation Keller Williams, the second in recent weeks. In January it was revealed that...

A new market centre operating as a hub for freelance agents has opened in Glasgow. Called KW Evolve it is a Keller...

Keller Williams UK is opening a new Market Centre, this time in Oxfordshire - and it has signed a senior Savills...

Hello - if it’s Monday it’s PJT day, so welcome to the latest update on key moves within our industry. Let us...

The founder of an online agency has spoken publicly for the first time about how his near-death experience led him to...

“Give me 100 leads and I will make five-times more good appointments than any AI you put me up against,” stated...

Yes, believe it or not, we’ve nearly reached the end of a whole decade. And what an eventful decade it’s been. We’ve...

In the firmest sign yet that PropTech has entered the mainstream, Housing Minister Esther McVey recently launched an expert advisory council...

The election is over and there’s nothing on the agenda except the run-up to Christmas - although there’s still time for...

With Brexit still unresolved, the domestic agenda has been pushed from the headlines by the seemingly overwhelming public and political discord...

The man who founded Zoopla is now a second hand car salesman - but with a digital difference. Alex Chesterman, who founded...

It’s been clear for a while that the additional regulation landlords and agents are facing has helped professionalise the private rental...

It’s beginning to look a lot like…we’re running a very popular service for agents, as we’ve been inundated with more fund-raising...

Election time means setting out your stall and getting support - so how about a vote of confidence for those agents,...

Last week, it was announced that Plentific, the London-based tenant experience, has raised $32 million in Series B funding. Plentific’s model sees...

It’s on - although judging by the early lack of enthusiasm amongst the British public, you might be forgiven for thinking...

A small online agency which in six months of trading has secured around 140 sales says it’s on course to be...

The founder of Rightmove and former Countrywide chief executive Harry Hill is one of a number of investors behind a new...

It’s that time again, with the clocks going back an hour to mark the start of slightly brighter mornings and significantly...

It was in this very column, back in July, when I wrote about how the British government was starting to take...

Yopa – launched in 2015 as part of the new breed of hybrid operators seeking to shake up the industry –...

Raise more money for your charity with help from the industry charity – Agents Giving. At Agents Giving we work with estate and...

A yet-to-launch estate agency comparison site is nearing its crowdfunding target of £50,000. Invite Agents, which is crowdfunding on crowdcube, had, as...

Leaders Romans says it has won new funding to acquire more agencies.  “We have made no secret of the group’s intention to...

Savills, Knight Frank, Cushman & Wakefield and JLL are the main estate agencies now working with a review website allowing buyers...

There are those who say that PropTech is at risk of becoming a bubble market, and others who say bubbles don’t...

A report by the influential Public Accounts committee of MPs has been highly sceptical of the effectiveness of Help To Buy. It...

A £3.6 billion Towns Fund to support towns across England to build prosperous futures through innovative regeneration is a perfect chance...

There’s plenty of action in and around Westminster these days, but while the political temperature rises, the marvellous work of agents,...

Former Purplebricks US chief executive officer Eric Eckardt is seeking some £6m in funding from across the world for his latest...

Crowdfunding has been largely avoided by property companies for much of the past year following controversies surrounding Emoov’s fund raising -...

The Guardian has revealed that small investors lured into putting money into TV property guru Kevin McCloud’s eco-friendly housing projects -...

The former Countrywide chief executive Grenville Turner says it is an option for online estate agency Yopa to go to an...

We daren’t mention it but this is the final Bank Holiday before…well, Christmas.  Let’s hope agents and suppliers have an opportunity to...

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

Online estate agency Housesimple has appointed a company to handle its public relations and social media as it rolls it its...

News this week tells of Zehomes, the German property management company, raising €13 million in Series-A funding, bringing its all-time total...

A newspaper claims that a crowdfunding site used by some estate agencies and other property industry companies has suspended trading on...

LSL Property Services, parent firm of Your Move and Reeds Rains, says the company’s branch closure programme was a success with profits...

An online agency which last autumn said it wanted to have as much as a three per cent market share of...

A leading figure in the PropTech sector says clarity and speed are vital to ensure agencies can adequately prepare for a...

The industry press has given substantial space to recommendations from the Regulation of Property Agents, the government’s working party which has...

The trade headlines may be dominated by a revolution proposed for how agents are regulated, licensed and trained but one thing...

With this summer marking forty years since Margaret Thatcher came to power, her legacy continues to invoke both celebration and consternation...

It’s been a busy year for Giraffe360. Following its £1 million successful funding round in January and moving its headquarters from...

The new owners of Emoov have confirmed that 70 previous customers have opted to re-list their homes with the firm since it...

This week, I want to take a look at the Israeli startup, Venn, an urban revitalisation firm which has recently received...

Estate Agent Today has been contacted by an individual who says he is one of three former Emoov customers intending to...

In the second part of my exploration of startups, I talk to a number of people with lived experience of creating...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Mark Worrall the co-founder of love2move What is love2move and...

The minister at the centre of reforms to the estate and lettings industry sector has apologised for what she calls “inappropriate...

You may be right in thinking that Brexit has dominated the thinking of the government in the last three years. However,...

If it’s Friday it’s Agents Do Charity day - and we’ve got another bundle of good work for you this week,...

All the most successful startups of recent years – from Airbnb and Uber to Just Eat and Deliveroo – have melded...

Property developing is an incredibly diverse and exciting career choice, and something that many people aspire to do in the UK.  I...

A firm that offers a white-labelled online agency platform to traditional High Street agents has signed up a new customer. love2move was...

It’s London Tech Week, everybody! The sprawling city-wide event taking in dozens of conferences, events, workshops, panel debates and so on,...

A review website set up by a former estate agent says £1m of new funding will allow it to roll out...

With summer in full swing (will someone tell the weather?) we’re having bumper editions of Agents Do Charity, and this weekend’s is...

It may well seem that the government is pre-occupied with one issue, and one issue alone. While preparations for Brexit take up a...

We’ve reached the final instalment of my market transformation do’s and don’ts.  In previous articles, we’ve looked at: Do encourage, don’t deter;...

Whether you love or hate it, Purplebricks has undoubtedly left its mark since arriving on the scene in 2015 – much...

Equity release, seen by many agents as a reason why fewer older homeowners are downsizing these days, has reported more growth...

Estate Agent Today has been given details of the new National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agents Team - the body...

A PropTech firm that lists a customer’s home with successive estate agents until it is sold has raised £500,000 of startup...

A millionaire who has not previously invested in the property industry has taken the plunge by funding an online agency network. The...

It’s no secret that the UK’s housing sector is in crisis. Headlines scream about the shortage of new-build homes. TV pundits...

Nested, an innovative online agency that offers vendors a form of guaranteed sale, has laid off 20 per cent of its workforce...

A former senior management figure at Rightmove and online estate agency Doorsteps is going it alone for a new holiday property...

GetAgent, the comparison estate agency business, has secured £2.2m in investment from a consortium of investors including Channel 4. The backers are...

The online estate agency platform Love2Move has scrapped its bid for investment via a controversial crowdfunding platform. The platform - which allows...

Last week, the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government announced a number of measures aimed at further tackling homelessness, including...

Savills has declined to comment on whether it will follow in the footsteps of LSL Property Services and write down its...

A couple of weeks ago, SoftBank’s Vision Fund led a whopping $200 million investment injection into Clutter, the US-based on-demand storage...

Online agency platform Love2move insists that its current bid to attract investors will not be damaged by the adverse publicity surrounding...

The former chief executive of online agency Emoov has complained to the Mail on Sunday about an article concerning the firm’s...

Online estate agent Emoov failed to tell crowdfunding investors it was losing £3m a month before its collapse, a Sunday paper claims. The...

Few can deny that with announcements from MPs and an announcement from Purplebricks, that it’s been an extraordinary week.  While it may...

Hello and welcome to this half-term week’s PJT, your regular Monday opportunity to catch up with the key personnel changes in...

Hello and welcome to yet another Agents Do Charity - our tribute to the great work done by our industry in...

The first major estate agency business to launch a crowdfunding bid since the controversial collapse of Emoov has emphasised its “realistic”...

There are many misconceptions about the franchising world but, whether we’re talking about estate agency franchises or fast food franchises, it’s...

The controversial crowdfunding site Crowdcube has listed the founder of online estate agency Doorsteps as one of its five ‘entrepreneurs of...

Connells’ brand Gascoigne Halman has lost its appeal against OnTheMarket. Gascoigne Halman challenged OTM’s old ‘one other portal’ rule at the Competition...

The industry is back to full-strength on its fund-raising judging from our virtual postbag this week with many new reports of...

A PropTech firm that provides photography for virtual tours, floor plans and online and hard copy property details is relocating from Latvia to...

Former Emoov chief executive Russell Quirk has made his first on-the-record comments about the factors behind the dramatic collapse of his...

Still recovering from Christmas and New Year? There’s no shame in that - the agents’ fund-raising season resumes in earnest in...

The former boss of Emoov, the controversial Russell Quirk, has resuscitated his career as a public relations man and pro-Brexit commentator. Just...

It’s time to think about planning the 2019 events calendar. This year, there are more PropTech conferences scheduled than ever before,...

Today sees the launch of Unissu, a platform which has classified over 6,000 PropTech businesses in a bid to offer estate...

The online sales and lettings platform TheHouseShop has scrapped its £500,000 crowdfunding pitch - and it’s blaming the collapse of online...

Another year is nearly done – and what an eventful year it’s been. We’ve had more than our fair share of breaking...

A bid by online property platform TheHouseShop to raise £500,000 investment via crowdfunding appears to be flatlining. TheHouseShop - until 2015 known...

Hard not to mention two major breaking news stories of recent days; one directly affecting the property market and one which...

Has the bell finally tolled for online agencies? Emoov’s collapse and an investor revolt over crowdfunding have left a large question...

A crowdfunding bid to Emoov’s staff to win financial help over the Christmas period has flopped badly with a paltry £30...

Vesta, which describes itself as “the new online marketplace for buying and selling rental property” has launched a bid to raise...

It is now known that at least 32 formal complaints have been received by the crowdfunding platform that helped Emoov raise...

The Times reports that crowdfunding investors are considering legal action following the collapse of Emoov. The investors in question appear to be some of...

Whatever one thinks about online estate agencies, it’s a cause of genuine sadness when people lose their jobs - close proximity...

Investment platform Crowdcube has told Estate Agent Today that defunct online estate agency Emoov revised down its company valuation from £104m...

Zoopla founder Alex Chesterman - who sold the portal company for more than £2.2 billion to US private equity fund Silver...

With Christmas less than four weeks away (yes, really) the countdown to the festive season begins tomorrow when December begins. Charity...

A platform that allows individual private sellers and landlords to list their properties alongside those from professional agents says it’s not...

East Midlands estate and lettings agency Jackson Grundy has signed up to OnTheMarket. The firm, with its Northampton headquarters, has 10 sales...

OnTheMarket chief executive Ian Springett has told an agents’ conference of the strategy for his service - including a prediction that...

A website that lists private sale properties and calls itself “the all in one property marketplace” has valued itself on a...

Time appears to be running short for the sale of troubled online agency Emoov. An Emoov insider has told Estate Agent Today...

However mild the weather may have been for most of us, it’s a cold autumn for the online estate agency market...

The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...

Akshay Ruparelia, the young founder and head of the online agency Doorsteps, has been shortlisted for one of the most prestigious...

Doorsteps, the online agency founded by a teenager, has raised over £700,000 - that’s 175 per cent of its original £400,000 target,...

Hello and welcome to another weekly update on the industry’s good work - and a chance for us to show that...

You will perhaps have seen recently that the Government has decided to boost funding to the regulator, the National Trading Standards...

Landlords and letting agents might feel they’ve taken a bit of a battering from the government in recent years – and...

We’re well and truly back from summer with a flurry of fund-raising to report on this week: thanks to each and...

A new ‘robo-adviser’ mortgage service which is backed by LSL Property Services has won another £3.8m in funding from investors.  Robo-advisers provide...

Viewber has announced that it’s just completed its 35,000th outsourced viewing, reflecting a jaw-dropping 460 per cent rise in just a...

One of Countrywide's major investors has significantly reduced its holding in the troubled estate agency group. Oaktree Capital yesterday lowered its stake...

The online auction platform BidX1 has announced a strategic investment which will be used to accelerate its growth. The investment comes from...

In a surprise weekend announcement the government has almost doubled funding for the National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team - the...

Following the first day of trading its new shares yesterday, Countrywide's share price finished at 12.52, down almost 4%. The new shares were...

Countrywide may have enjoyed the overwhelming support of its major institutional shareholders for its controversial rescue plan, but the wider financial...

Countrywide’s embattled management leaders have been overwhelmingly backed by shareholders in their bid for additional funding. A General Meeting of shareholders was held...

At first sight, to suggest this is a good time for an agency business to go for an IPO - that...

When you are starting up a new business, it is unlikely that you will already have enough capital to invest. Taking...

Running an effective property business in today’s market relies on the clever use of technology.  The right technology will make your agency...

Countrywide is under fire again over the controversial rescue plan it announced last week. On Friday the troubled agency group’s share price -...

Small print in the Countrywide rescue plan announced yesterday spells out in stark terms what could happen if the company’s bid...

Countrywide's share price has dropped sharply following the announcement of the company's rescue plan - but the firm itself says this...

Labour says stamp duty receipts and other tax income from properties in the capital should go to the Mayor, Sadiq Kahn,...

The emerging Proptech platform BestAgent has announced its latest partnership - this one is with sales progression company ViewMyChain. BestAgent, run by...