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haart, part of the Spicerhaart estate agency group, has accused rival agencies of copying its hybrid working model. Spicerhaart group managing director...
18 March 2022
From: Breaking News

Lomond Group, which says it is the UK’s fastest-growing estate agency network, has appointed Ed Phillips as its new Group Chief...
08 March 2022
From: Breaking News

The London agency that was at the forefront of introducing the ‘serviced office hub’ concept of working for self-employed agents has...
27 January 2022
From: Breaking News

An estate agency that launched in 2018 saying that High Street offices were dead…has now opened its second physical branch in...
18 January 2022
From: Breaking News

Christmas - time for a much-needed rest for our industry after getting through a workload which reached almost unprecedented levels in...
20 December 2021
From: Breaking News

Hertfordshire agency Sewell & Gardner has cut the ribbon on a refurbished and extended office, which will incorporate two previously-separate branches...
15 December 2021
From: Breaking News

There are many features and functionalities a website must have to be successful. Ultimately, the purpose of your website should be...
03 December 2021
From: Sponsored Content

Trust has always been vital for building and nurturing good relations between an agent and their customer. Maintaining trust will keep...
20 November 2021
From: Features

Spicerhaart - which is radically reshaping its structure to encourage hybrid operations and working from home as part of a new...
19 October 2021
From: Breaking News

2021 redefined what it meant to offer exceptional customer experiences for consumers across multiple industries, but particularly for the residential property...
13 October 2021
From: Features

Hamptons is to expand the provision of New Homes and residential development services across all of its 90 branches, after a...
04 October 2021
From: Breaking News

A self employed franchise estate agent business model has been launched by one of the brands in The Property Franchise Group. Hunters...
23 June 2021
From: Breaking News

A home within 500 metres of a tube or railway station in London will carry a massive premium compared to a...
14 June 2021
From: Breaking News

Free to list portal Residential People has launched a market intelligence platform called Prospr. This has been developed with the aim of...
24 May 2021
From: Breaking News

A hybrid agency which until now has been active only in London is launching new hubs in Manchester and Brighton. Agent &...
20 April 2021
From: Breaking News

Today is the day that non-essential retail reopens as part of the government's roadmap out of lockdown. For the majority of the...
12 April 2021
From: Breaking News

A Sheffield estate agency is pioneering a new form of branch office - one that sells homes at the same time...
16 March 2021
From: Breaking News

As we move towards the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the first lockdown, it is a good time to reflect...
13 February 2021
From: Features

A property industry body representing developers wants the government to think again about making it easier for redundant High Street shops...
02 February 2021
From: Breaking News

One of the founder agencies of the new Boomin portal, scheduled to launch in the New Year, has also rejoined Zoopla. Farrell...
23 December 2020
From: Breaking News

Recent debate about urgent need for reform and better collaboration within the property industry, has once again come under the spotlight...
04 December 2020
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The secure Conservative victory in the 2019 General Election meant the property market in the sunlit uplands was set for a...
28 November 2020
From: Features

The so-called hub model of estate agency adopted by a growing number of firms appears to be part of a wider...
29 October 2020
From: Breaking News

One of the country’s major regional agencies has unveiled a ‘super hub’ structure which began life as a lockdown measure but...
29 September 2020
From: Breaking News

One of Countrywide’s biggest shareholders has written a second letter to the company to demand bold action to save the agency...
19 August 2020
From: Breaking News

A London agency says it’s seen over 30 new agents join its hub franchise operation during the lockdown, taking the total...
06 July 2020
From: Breaking News

A regional agency in the east of England says the Coronavirus lockdown working environment has made it rethink its structure -...
29 June 2020
From: Breaking News

Midlands regional chain Andrew Grant, which last year closed some branches as it moved to a ‘hub’ structure, appears to have...
22 June 2020
From: Breaking News

“Let’s Zoom later”, “are we Zooming in the morning or afternoon?” “Yeah, I zoomed the client earlier” – variations on these...
20 June 2020
From: Features

Many of the leading advocates of the self-employed estate agent business model have talked about why many want new recruits with...
26 May 2020
From: Breaking News

Industry operators who receive dividends as part of their monthly income are pressing the government to include this in its financial...
06 April 2020
From: Breaking News

There’s a sense that we really are on the verge of a huge change in the industry. It’s too early to be...
04 April 2020
From: Features

The former director of customer experience at Purplebricks has been announced as a new partner in a Keller Williams franchise. Sarah Downes,...
19 March 2020
From: Breaking News

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...
26 February 2020
From: Breaking News

An estate agent who has himself made the move from the High Street to a hybrid operation has urged anyone in...
25 February 2020
From: Breaking News

The 2010s were a good decade for disrupters. Early on, Airbnb and Uber shook up the holiday lettings/hospitality and traditional black...
15 February 2020
From: Features

Another hub-based agency has launched in the capital, following in the footsteps of operations like Harding Green, Orchards and Keller Williams. Mariel...
20 January 2020
From: Breaking News

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...
14 December 2019
From: Features

The portals say they are ready and willing to play their part in changes approaching the industry, ranging from new agency...
10 December 2019
From: Breaking News

Humberts' experiment rejecting branches and promoting a supposedly one-stop-shop for property related services has failed with reports that the firm is likely...
09 December 2019
From: Breaking News

Yopa – launched in 2015 as part of the new breed of hybrid operators seeking to shake up the industry –...
19 October 2019
From: Features

The US-based real estate firm Keller Williams says it is aiming to be this country’s leading agency training organisation. Ben Taylor, who...
16 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Briefings from the Conservative Party to The Sun newspaper suggest that the party will this week announce further relaxation in planning...
30 September 2019
From: Breaking News

One of the first so-called ‘hub’ hybrid estate agencies using self-employed freelances instead of staff says it’s moving to bigger premises...
26 September 2019
From: Breaking News

A comprehensive report into the changing complexion of the High Street suggests that some 143 estate agents’ offices closed in the...
12 September 2019
From: Breaking News

One of the biggest changes seen in the property market over the last decade is technology growth. With the likes of Rightmove...
11 September 2019
From: Features

No less than 56 per cent of properties across the UK are in areas that are affordable for first time buyers...
04 September 2019
From: Breaking News

They will be the doctors, lawyers, teachers, thinkers, leaders and captains of industry of the not too distant future, but is...
24 August 2019
From: Features

A veteran of three online estate agencies has been named as the first UK head of a US real estate operation...
07 June 2019
From: Breaking News

An agent with over 29 years of experience has taken over as chief executive officer at Humberts - just as the...
23 May 2019
From: Breaking News

An industry veteran is launching a new hub-based hybrid agency and is offering to sell 50 homes for free to raise the...
09 May 2019
From: Breaking News

Major regional agency Humberts, which was bought out of administration last year, has announced the first acquisition since its new owners...
09 May 2019
From: Breaking News

During our school days, most of us did that task where we imagined and drew the homes of the future, but...
04 May 2019
From: Features

Humberts, the agency which was one of the first to ditch High Street offices in favour of fewer larger hubs, has...
25 April 2019
From: Breaking News

The US estate agency Keller Williams says it is on course to have 10 hubs, called market centres, across the UK...
04 April 2019
From: Breaking News

This article was originally written for City AM in response to an article it published attacking letting agents. See more here. A...
23 March 2019
From: Features

For many years, the majority of agents have stuck to the tried-and-tested 9am-6pm opening hours framework. But is this now changing,...
16 March 2019
From: Features

Both major portals have this morning revealed more evidence of a gently slowing housing market. The average time to sell a property...
27 February 2019
From: Breaking News

The radically-restructured Humberts estate agency claims the risks it took last year in scrapping branches and moving to ‘hubs’ has paid...
18 February 2019
From: Breaking News

A firm which recently joined the ‘hub club’ of agencies using centralised services offices says its won a major new build...
17 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A hybrid estate agency which uses freelance agents operating from a central hub is now expanding from London into the Home...
04 January 2019
From: Breaking News

Keller Williams, which yesterday revealed two new market centres in the south of England, says up to 25 agents in the...
03 January 2019
From: Breaking News

Estate Agent Today can reveal that US-owned franchise agency Keller Williams has ‘soft-opened’ two new market centres in the south of...
02 January 2019
From: Breaking News

Rightmove has revealed which day was its busiest in 2018 in terms of page views. It says February 19 was the date,...
02 January 2019
From: Breaking News

Hello and welcome to 2019. These are less predictions and more expectations - developments following on from what’s happened in the past...
31 December 2018
From: Features

Another year is nearly done – and what an eventful year it’s been. We’ve had more than our fair share of breaking...
22 December 2018
From: Features

Hard not to mention two major breaking news stories of recent days; one directly affecting the property market and one which...
15 December 2018
From: Features

Last year it was ‘disruptor’ and before that came ‘exclusive’ - now, according to one estate agency at least, the over-used...
30 November 2018
From: Breaking News

Yet another estate agency has announced that it’s shutting branches and opening a centralised hub. This time it’s Newman Property Experts, a...
28 November 2018
From: Breaking News

Orchards of London is abandoning its current branch network and instead opening a single Hub from the middle of next month. Orchards,...
23 November 2018
From: Breaking News

Humberts’ revolution continues apace as it opens its first controversial hub in Dorset and accompanies it with a brand new vocabulary...
21 November 2018
From: Breaking News

Keller Williams, the US agency which allows agents to work from hub-like ‘market centres’, says it now has 130 freelance agents in this...
08 November 2018
From: Breaking News

The first signs of a seasonal slowdown are appearing according to some agents in touch with EAT, but there are still...
05 November 2018
From: Breaking News

It’s the most obvious visual medium high street agents have at their disposal, and for many decades has been absolutely pivotal...
03 November 2018
From: Features

An agent in the Guild is launching a ‘hub’ style operation from December 1 and says the concept of traditional estate...
22 October 2018
From: Breaking News

The estate agency group Humberts, which narrowly avoided collapse early this year, now claims to have turned around its fortunes thanks...
18 October 2018
From: Breaking News

A website has officially launched this morning, aiming to push the concept of US-style For Sale By Owner online property marketing...
02 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Humberts - which when it was operating jointly with Chestertons was a prominent supporter of Agents’ Mutual and OnTheMarket - has...
12 September 2018
From: Breaking News

Fake news has become the popular catchphrase of a certain orange-tinted president in recent years. And everyone, from tech giants like...
08 September 2018
From: Features

Following a break for last week's final Bank Holiday before Christmas, we're back with a bumper edition of Property Jobs Today. We're...
03 September 2018
From: Breaking News

The former head of Humberts’ country house department, who has spent 30 years selling homes, has switched to buying. Jeremy Campbell-Harris was...
24 August 2018
From: Breaking News

The new owner of Humberts says he would consider acquiring or working alongside existing agencies who want to be part of...
30 July 2018
From: Breaking News

The big story to break this week in the property world was the announcement by the new owner of Humberts that...
28 July 2018
From: Features

A businessman who’s just entered the estate agency industry says he’s got the secret behind Purplebricks’ success - even though he...
26 July 2018
From: Breaking News

The new owner of Humberts is to ultimately close many of the traditional branches and move to what he is calling...
25 July 2018
From: Breaking News

The UK arm of the US-based estate agency Keller Williams says it is making a specific bid to recruit more women...
28 June 2018
From: Breaking News

It went largely unreported when news broke last week but now the suggestion that home owners should pay a surcharge if...
15 May 2018
From: Breaking News

The fast-diversifying Humberts has set up regional hubs to handle its new homes and land division, in addition to taking on...
22 February 2018
From: Breaking News

Q. How did you get in to the property industry? My career in the property industry actually started out as a holiday...
01 February 2018
From: 60 Second Interview

The housing market may appear sluggish at best in many areas but data from Rightmove suggests it’s now quicker to sell...
10 October 2017
From: Breaking News

A substantial new research body is to be launched this summer with a remit of looking at six overlapping aspects of...
12 April 2017
From: Breaking News
It seems prop-tech is exploding at a scary rate, and the latest brands are all trying to grab our attention by...
17 March 2017
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A series of leaks to national newspapers and a flurry of broadcast interviews by housing minister Gavin Barwell means we already know...
07 February 2017
From: Breaking News

As many northern cities struggled to recover from the 2008 global financial crisis, the north-south divide returned to plague the British...
28 October 2016
From: Features

The government has signalled that it is going to publish a housing White Paper later this year with “significant measures” to...
04 October 2016
From: Breaking News

A campaign has been launched to make Bristol the colour capital of the UK by ensuring that more homes are painted...