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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...

The so-called hub model of estate agency adopted by a growing number of firms appears to be part of a wider...

One of the country’s major regional agencies has unveiled a ‘super hub’ structure which began life as a lockdown measure but...

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

A London agency says it’s seen over 30 new agents join its hub franchise operation during the lockdown, taking the total...

A regional agency in the east of England says the Coronavirus lockdown working environment has made it rethink its structure -...

Midlands regional chain Andrew Grant, which last year closed some branches as it moved to a ‘hub’ structure, appears to have...

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

Many of the leading advocates of the self-employed estate agent business model have talked about why many want new recruits with...

Industry operators who receive dividends as part of their monthly income are pressing the government to include this in its financial...

There’s a sense that we really are on the verge of a huge change in the industry. It’s too early to be...

The former director of customer experience at Purplebricks has been announced as a new partner in a Keller Williams franchise. Sarah Downes,...

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 2010s were a good decade for disrupters. Early on, Airbnb and Uber shook up the holiday lettings/hospitality and traditional black...

Another hub-based agency has launched in the capital, following in the footsteps of operations like Harding Green, Orchards and Keller Williams. Mariel...

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...

The portals say they are ready and willing to play their part in changes approaching the industry, ranging from new agency...

Humberts' experiment rejecting branches and promoting a supposedly one-stop-shop for property related services has failed with reports that the firm is likely...

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

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

Briefings from the Conservative Party to The Sun newspaper suggest that the party will this week announce further relaxation in planning...

One of the first so-called ‘hub’ hybrid estate agencies using self-employed freelances instead of staff says it’s moving to bigger premises...

A comprehensive report into the changing complexion of the High Street suggests that some 143 estate agents’ offices closed in the...

One of the biggest changes seen in the property market over the last decade is technology growth. With the likes of Rightmove...

No less than 56 per cent of properties across the UK are in areas that are affordable for first time buyers...

They will be the doctors, lawyers, teachers, thinkers, leaders and captains of industry of the not too distant future, but is...

A veteran of three online estate agencies has been named as the first UK head of a US real estate operation...

An agent with over 29 years of experience has taken over as  chief executive officer at Humberts - just as the...

An industry veteran is launching a new hub-based hybrid agency and is offering to sell 50 homes for free to raise the...

Major regional agency Humberts, which was bought out of administration last year, has announced the first acquisition since its new owners...

During our school days, most of us did that task where we imagined and drew the homes of the future, but...

Humberts, the agency which was one of the first to ditch High Street offices in favour of fewer larger hubs, has...

The US estate agency Keller Williams says it is on course to have 10 hubs, called market centres, across the UK...

This article was originally written for City AM in response to an article it published attacking letting agents. See more here.  A...

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

Both major portals have this morning revealed more evidence of a gently slowing housing market. The average time to sell a property...

The radically-restructured Humberts estate agency claims the risks it took last year in scrapping branches and moving to ‘hubs’ has paid...

A firm which recently joined the ‘hub club’ of agencies using centralised services offices says its won a major new build...

A hybrid estate agency which uses freelance agents operating from a central hub is now expanding from London into the Home...

Keller Williams, which yesterday revealed two new market centres in the south of England, says up to 25 agents in the...

Estate Agent Today can reveal that US-owned franchise agency Keller Williams has ‘soft-opened’ two new market centres in the south of...

Rightmove has revealed which day was its busiest in 2018 in terms of page views. It says February 19 was the date,...

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

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

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

Last year it was ‘disruptor’ and before that came ‘exclusive’ - now, according to one estate agency at least, the over-used...

Yet another estate agency has announced that it’s shutting branches and opening a centralised hub. This time it’s Newman Property Experts, a...

Orchards of London is abandoning its current branch network and instead opening a single Hub from the middle of next month. Orchards,...

Humberts’ revolution continues apace as it opens its first controversial hub in Dorset and accompanies it with a brand new vocabulary...

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

The first signs of a seasonal slowdown are appearing according to some agents in touch with EAT, but there are still...

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

An agent in the Guild is launching a ‘hub’ style operation from December 1 and says the concept of traditional estate...

The estate agency group Humberts, which narrowly avoided collapse early this year, now claims to have turned around its fortunes thanks...

A website has officially launched this morning, aiming to push the concept of US-style For Sale By Owner online property marketing...

Humberts - which when it was operating jointly with Chestertons was a prominent supporter of Agents’ Mutual and OnTheMarket - has...

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

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...

The former head of Humberts’ country house department, who has spent 30 years selling homes, has switched to buying. Jeremy Campbell-Harris was...

The new owner of Humberts says he would consider acquiring or working alongside existing agencies who want to be part of...

The big story to break this week in the property world was the announcement by the new owner of Humberts that...

A businessman who’s just entered the estate agency industry says he’s got the secret behind Purplebricks’ success - even though he...

The new owner of Humberts is to ultimately close many of the traditional branches and move to what he is calling...

The UK arm of the US-based estate agency Keller Williams says it is making a specific bid to recruit more women...

It went largely unreported when news broke last week but now the suggestion that home owners should pay a surcharge if...

The fast-diversifying Humberts has set up regional hubs to handle its new homes and land division, in addition to taking on...

Q. How did you get in to the property industry? My career in the property industry actually started out as a holiday...

The housing market may appear sluggish at best in many areas but data from Rightmove suggests it’s now quicker to sell...

A substantial new research body is to be launched this summer with a remit of looking at six overlapping aspects of...

It seems prop-tech is exploding at a scary rate, and the latest brands are all trying to grab our attention by...

A series of leaks to national newspapers and a flurry of broadcast interviews by housing minister Gavin Barwell means we already know...

As many northern cities struggled to recover from the 2008 global financial crisis, the north-south divide returned to plague the British...

The government has signalled that it is going to publish a housing White Paper later this year with “significant measures” to...

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

A London estate agency is opening its eleventh office this month in an area it believes has 'fast growth' potential. ludlowthompson is...