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Lomond has announced its latest acquisition within the East Midlands, bolstering its John Shepherd brand following two recent acquisitions within the...

Plenty of inspirational examples of fundraising activities by agents and property professionals have been coming in from the end of 2022. Whatever...

Excitement is building for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations. A four-day Bank Holiday to mark the occasion will kick off on 2...

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

haart, part of the Spicerhaart estate agency group, has accused rival agencies of copying its hybrid working model. Spicerhaart group managing director...

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...

Jackson-Stops, which currently has 42 branches across the UK, has revealed it’s going to have another 20 by the end of...

A new survey of some 700 estate agency customers show that they want to get traditional services like High Street branches,...

A new survey suggests 53 per cent of buyers never actually visit an estate agent’s office during the course of their...

Estate agents quitting companies and setting up on their own will prosper only by tapping into the most appropriate level of...

The rise and rise of portal listings and changing consumer habits during the pandemic may mean the death of the High...

The property market has bounced back with all of the expected resilience and flexibility that is its hallmark since it reopened...

Some 713 estate agency branches have failed to reopen following the spring lockdown according to a business consultancy. TwentyCi says that is the...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak today reveals his latest measures to help businesses - including agencies, suppliers and other parts of the property...

The regional agency group which master-minded the Say No To Rightmove campaign has made a big commitment to the future of...

Connells Group has revealed seven appointments to its board of directors which it links directly with a target to grow presence and...

One of Countrywide’s biggest shareholders has written a second letter to the company to demand bold action to save the agency...

Connells Group has announced its trading statement for the first half of 2020 - and its support for its staff is...

Over the past few weeks, estate agents have been forced to close high street branches and adapt to working from home,...

Countrywide has added its weight to the campaign asking the government to allow agents to get back to work - and...

Lockdown measures are still in place for another two weeks, at least, with the possibility of them being extended beyond that....

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

Welcome to this week’s charity round-up, where we include a possible kick-start to your fund-raising efforts for 2020. Whatever you’re doing this...

A regional agency operating across Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire has announced an acquisition which adds two branches to its network. This week, Alexander...

The PropTech era is changing the way in which employees decide where they are going to work. As CBRE has discovered in...

LSL Property Services, the parent company of Your Move and Reeds Rains, has substantially 'written down' its investment in online estate...

Connells Group says investment in PropTech will be the way to safeguard its almost-600 High Street branches - and it’s repeated...

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

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

It’s the most obvious visual medium high street agents have at their disposal, and for many decades has been absolutely pivotal...

Increasingly cash-strapped traditional estate agencies should consider abandoning their High Street offices and work from serviced offices or similar lower-profile and...

Out and about recently, I got to thinking: how often do I actually have the call for cash anymore? Or, for...

A major regional agency with offices in Kent, Surrey and Sussex says its new online service - Howard Cundey LIVE -...

Since we last spoke, the ESTAS – the biggest and best property awards ceremony in the UK – has been and...

One of the world’s leading property portal and online consultants says Purplebricks, which is now operating in Australia and the UK,...

Connells has acquired the five-branch independent Paul Dubberley from property investment company Bond Wolfe. Established in 1992, Paul Dubberley offers sales, lettings,...

In 2014 there were 19,000 estate agent branches in the UK. Of which 18,000 were registered to list properties on the...

An estate agency display specialist is strongly refuting comments made by a digital marketing company that agents are doing too little...

Loyalty Street W1, a service that sends cheques to householders which they can cash if they then use a nominated local...

It’s interesting to read of plans to debate which business plan really is best for the customer, online or traditional estate...

Hybrid estate agency EweMove has announced five new branches bringing its total to 62 - with more to come, it claims.  The...