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At the back-end of last year and the start of this, the biggest news stories in town – besides debates over...

Gareth Samples has been confirmed as the new chief executive of The Property Franchise Group, stepping into the role on Thursday...

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

The Property Franchise Group - which owns Martin & Co, EweMove and three other brands - is to have a former...

After months of difficulties and closures for many online and hybrid estate agencies, EweMove claims to have bucked the trend. In a...

Our own industry’s upheaval over recent years has been no less dramatic than the turmoil at Westminster. The political earthquake has seen...

The Property Franchise Group says its online/hybrid agency EweMove traded profitably throughout  last year and will show “a significant improvement” over...

Has the bell finally tolled for online agencies? Emoov’s collapse and an investor revolt over crowdfunding have left a large question...

A decade ago we were still years away from Purplebricks, Countrywide was a colossus in the industry, no one had thought...

Here it is - the industry’s verdict on the latest set of figures from Purplebricks. The agency doesn’t play by any of...

Three Country Properties offices in Hertfordshire have been rebranded as Hunters - over two years after their acquisition.  The regional agency Country Properties...

Belvoir has revealed that it has won the backing of a minority shareholder in The Property Franchise Group to resume merger...

Statements from The Property Franchise Group and Belvoir continue to ramp up the war of words between the two agency groups...

A new managing director has been named for EweMove - with the promise of more high-level appointments to come for the...

No one can say Agents’ Mutual has failed to provoke debate within the industry. The project was the centre of fierce argument...

Property Franchise Group - formerly known as Martin & Co - has announced that 12 EweMove franchises have been sold in...

Hybrid agency EweMove is rapidly expanding its network footprint this year and will be a “challenger brand” deliberately designed to be...

We talk about the unstoppable rise of buy-to-let and forget that it was only as recently as the early 1970’s that...

One of the UK's largest property franchises has reported strong figures in an interim trading statement to the City - with group...

Franchise giant Martin & Co says there has been “very limited take-up” of a no frills estate agency service that it...

Hunters has added another 23 franchised offices to its empire with the acquisition of Home Counties estate and letting agency Country...

Ian Wilson, the head of Martin & Co, recently threw his hat into the ring regarding Labour’s stated intention to cap...