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Two estate agency businesses have already signed up to self-employed agency brand eXp’s new brokerage model just weeks after launch. Mackays, a...

Estate agency has changed. No longer is it required to sit in a high street office working the old way. Provide a...

Agents are preparing their businesses for the cost of living crunch, with considerations on fuel use, heating and window display lighting. Much...

Purplebricks is to tilt its marketing increasingly towards local advertising on traditional and online platforms, and promoting the ‘on the street’...

Almost a year ago the government announced that estate and lettings agencies were to be included in the business rates relief...

Most agents' branches in Wales are expected to close for just over two weeks from 6pm this Friday, October 23 - moving...

OneDome, which operates two free-to-list property listing sites, says it’s had a record month as it strives to build an alternative...

OneDome has released a list of High Street agencies that have signed up to its free-to-list portal and sister website Nethouseprices  -...

Difference should be celebrated. But in our industry it rarely is. I was on the board of a large corporate where...

The three leading portals have rejected an appeal to give the industry a payment holiday to help firms through the Coronavirus...

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

What an interesting few days it’s been. I don’t think the topic of this week’s column is doing anything good for our...

An estate agent who has himself made the move from the High Street to a hybrid operation has urged anyone in...

The landscape of the estate agency market in the UK is evolving to reflect changes in the way we live our...

A major regional estate agency is expanding with another physical office because it says the traditional High Street business model delivers...

The relaunched easyProperty hybrid agency is to rely exclusively on local marketing to drive awareness and customers, and not follow the...

love2move, an online network which allows high street agents to offer a white-labelled hybrid service, has teamed up with the Mortgage...

A new national agency concept - eXp UK - has told Estate Agent Today that its recruitment schedule is running “well...

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

A relatively new company which signs up vendors and then effectively sub-contracts their sales to strongly-performing local estate agents says it...

The collapse of Thomas Cook, widely seen as failing modernise with the expectations of modern shoppers, is a clear lesson for...

In a previous Natter, I promised to talk more about CRMs – and here I stick to that promise. Following on from...

Earlier this year, the Regulation of Property Agents (RoPA) working group announced the initial details of plans for mandatory qualifications and...

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

For many years, the majority of agents have stuck to the tried-and-tested 9am-6pm opening hours framework. But is this now changing,...

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

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

A major restructuring of LSL Property Services has just been announced to shareholders, with substantial numbers of branch closures. The statement says...

Fresh details have emerged about the financial difficulties suffered by Emoov, its search for a buyer and its possible sale price. A...

Traditional estate agencies could be in for a stormy autumn and face being the next casualty of the high street shake-out...

Next week ludlowthompson celebrates its 25th anniversary. Here, I catch up with Stephen Ludlow, co-founder and now executive director of the...

Whisper it quietly, but it may be that some bosses of online agencies used traditional High Street companies to sell their...

TV property expert Sarah Beeny says she expects online agencies to take 70 per cent market share in the future -...

A study of estate agencies and portals floated on the London Stock Exchange suggests that digital companies have shown much better...

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

Hunters says it will not be following other traditional-style estate agencies by offering online-only services to sellers - but it will...

It used to be so easy. Around 20 years ago there were what we now call full-service estate and letting agencies, and...

I’ve been in France for the past few days and depending on your viewpoint, I made a spectacularly good or singularly...

One of the founding figures behind OnTheMarket, which currently bans listings from online agencies, now says bricks and mortar agencies that...

The first meeting of fledgling trade group CIELA has ended with a pledge to expose what it calls ‘fake agents’ which...

Estate Agent Today has been told that a deal between the Property Franchise Group and ZPG - the new name for...

I’m sure I’m not the only estate agent confused by the Government’s approach to residential property ownership. Many of the current ministerial...

We've caught the apparent death of the high street estate agent on video - or at least that's what online estate...