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Former Homesearch head of training and development Simon Gates has been appointed as a non executive director of Chris Buckler’s new...

Members of the Federation of Independent Agents (FIA) are to be given free access to an exclusive quarterly online masterclass session...

Prospecting letters are a key part of an agent’s armoury and now data and prospecting platform Homesearch has partnered up with...

Property data and estate agent prospecting platform, Homesearch has unveiled a new property search engine that it hopes will transform the...

Agents are being urged to discuss pricing with vendors after research shows 52% of listings have been on the market for...

For some time, LinkedIn was seen – fairly or unfairly – as stodgy, dull, corporate and formal. The uncool uncle to...

Estate agents in Scotland are bucking the sales slowdown trend, Homesearch claims. The property data and prospecting platform, which recently launched north...

If there’s one thing that received a boost as a result of Covid and lockdowns, it’s podcasts – which reached whole...

Homesearch has partnered with professional body Propertymark, to provide increased support to its estate agent members and boost innovation across the...

In the third part of this exclusive series with Homesearch’s chief operating officer, Sam Hunter, Angels Media’s Lee Dahill questions him...

Agency data and prospecting platform Homesearch has launched a new guide to help firms continue securing instructions during the so-called summer...

Fewer sellers have cut prices over the past months but agency instructions have dropped, figures suggest. Analysis by property data and estate...

In this latest video interview zoning in on the current property market, and the stats, facts and data behind its present...

Supply is slowly increasing but there are signs that buyers are now biding their time. Analysis by property data company TwentyCi shows...

With this week being Mental Health Awareness Week, Sam Hunter - COO at Homesearch and a keen mental health advocate -...

Property data and estate agent prospecting platform Homesearch is expanding north of the border. After three years of operation in England and...

In this video interview – part of a regular monthly series – Homesearch’s Sam Hunter speaks to Angels Media’s Lee Dahill...

The property industry is fortunate in including many great people, doing great work across a range of businesses – from traditional agency...

In June, the biggest pilot scheme of a four-day working week anywhere in the world will begin in Britain, with more...

There is a danger that some agents forget to undertake basic activities after a lengthy period of a super-strong market. That’s the...

When was the time you actively learned something new from your clients or competitors? If it’s a difficult question to answer quickly,...

A PropTech platform claims its “unique” features will help its subscribers get a 1,500 per cent return on investment by the...

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

It really is beginning to look a lot like Christmas – just a week to go now. Presents all wrapped and...

In a 'coup' for property data firm Homesearch, Keller Williams UK, which has some 400 agents under its banner across the UK,...

Newly instructed properties across the country dropped by 10 per cent in August compared to July’s numbers, according to Homesearch. The company,...

There’s a lot being said about how the workforce will operate in the post-pandemic world. We’re still largely remote at Homesearch but as...

Available residential property listings across the country are at historic lows according to property data firm Homesearch. The company, which focuses its...

Before you read on, ask yourself, how many times did you hear “we want to move, but just we can’t find...

It’s now over a year since the property market officially reopened after an unprecedented two-month shutdown at the height of the...

We know the industry-wide statistic that more than 50% of all vendors end up selling with the second (or sometimes third)...

In this week’s In Conversation Today, I speak to someone who has made an excellent impression on the property industry in...

This time last year the industry was awaiting the launch of a new portal - the free to list public site...

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

Mental health – and the importance of good mental health – has become a vital thing for all of us in...

We know the industry-wide statistic that more than 50% of all vendors end up selling with the second (or sometimes third)...

The Federation of Independent Agents says a survey of member agencies suggests only around a fifth per cent would definitely be listing...

The Federation of Independent Agents trade group has unveiled a new automated nurture product available exclusively to members - and it claims...

The agency industry may look back on this year and say: “Well...to be honest we didn’t really see it coming.” No, no,...

You probably don’t have to listen closely to hear estate agents across the country starting to cheer. It’s been a big...

As regular readers will know, the Natter kickstarted a series last time out zoning in on local independent agents – the...

The Say No To Rightmove campaign has admitted that getting the number one portal to change its fee structure “may take...

If you’re in any way connected to estate agency all it takes is a quick glance at Facebook or LinkedIn to...

Be proactive, have a plan, and keep prospecting.  After the easing of lockdown measures, it’s safe to say the property market picked...

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

The Federation of Independent Agents has announced its latest partnership - this time with a live-streaming viewing service called Gavl. The platform...

Agents have been understandably delighted at the latest Halifax index which shows house prices posting their biggest gain of the year...

A new PropTech platform says its central feature will be the launch of a Multiple Listings Service.  This will allow agents “to...

The Nationwide says annual house price growth has recovered to 1.5 per cent. Its July house price index says the fall in...

One of the main points I’ve had reinforced to me from agent after agent over the last year of hosting a...

The Federation of Independent Agents has announced its latest partnership offering exclusive services for members - it property recruitment firm The...

They are the names we hear about often, pushing for this or seeking clarifications on that. They are the representatives of...

The estate agency group spearheading the Say No To Rightmove campaign has signed its 36 branches up to new portal Homesearch. The...

Homesearch, the long-awaited new free-to-list portal, launches today with a string of testimonials from supportive estate agents. The new portal announced at...

The challenger portal scheduled to launch in less than a week’s time on July 1 has secured the support of 10,000...

The only story that has come remotely close to pushing coronavirus – and its various knock-on effects – off the top...

The Covid-19 crisis hasn’t caused the revolution it has been reported to have. Despite the challenges it has brought, fundamentally, the...

The fast-growing trade group for independent estate agents has launched a partnership with the soon-to-launch Homesearch portal. Of the various free-to-list portals...

Homesearch - the new property portal which describes itself as “the future of the property industry” - has delayed its launch. It was scheduled...

In a video interview for Estate Agent Today, property professional Chris Buckler speaks to Sam Hunter, director of Homesearch. Alongside asking Hunter...

Hello and welcome to Property Jobs Today - our first for some weeks as the coverage has previously been dominated by...

Hello and welcome to Wednesday’s update on what offers and advice are available to agents at this most difficult and challenging...

On April 4, EAT published a piece titled: ‘It’s 2024: what will the industry look like, post corona-virus’. To me, this...

Some 2,500 estate agency branches have expressed an interest in a new portal, Homesearch, launching next month.  Although the Homesearch website lists...

Two property portals insist they’re going to launch this spring despite the Coronavirus chaos effectively closing down much of the housing...

Hello and welcome to the start of a new week - and it’s been a frantic seven days since the last...

Agents are being offered a two week free trial of a service giving mobile telephone signal strength information and broadband connectivity...

Our mental health affects how we think, feel and act. It affects how we handle anxiety, relate to others and impacts...

Agents who join the fast-growing Federation of Independent Agents will have full access to the new Homesearch mine of data. Homesearch debuted...

Homesearch, the data service which launched this year as free-to-use with a subscription model launching in 2020, has announced it’s introducing...

Hello and welcome to a new week - one with darker evenings and colder days. But there is still plenty of activity...

Two PropTech advocates have launched a podcast series telling agents how to improve their businesses. One of the couple is Mark Worrall,...

A new service which launched in June and pledged to provide estate and letting agents with “game changing” access to property...

If agents ran their databases more efficiently, the property portals might find themselves redundant. Controversial opening statement aside, the reality is that...

A new service which aims to provide estate and letting agents with what it calls “game changing” access to property data...

The fledgling trade body the Federation of Independent Agents has revealed another new partner - this one dealing with housing and...

A survey by the Centre for Ageing Better recently showed that 72% of people want to see every new home built...

A retirement property sales business says increasing numbers of estate agents are considering selling specialist retirement housing “but often without the...