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In the second part of my exploration of startups, I talk to a number of people with lived experience of creating...

The Deposit Protection Service (The DPS) keeps deposit money safe for letting agents, landlords and renters during the course a tenancy....

OnTheMarket claims monthly visits to its website hit a record 25.4m in May - but the portal’s latest update gives no...

The Deposit Protection Service (The DPS) keeps deposit money safe for letting agents, landlords and renters during the course a tenancy....

The easyProperty online agency has abandoned an across-the-board fee structure, allowing its licensee agents to charge what they like. “Each local market is unique...

Latest figures show that the top 10 online estate agencies have once again failed to exceed five per cent market share,...

In these tougher times, we recognise that helping agents win new inventory is the key to their businesses.  There were more than...

One of the world’s leading digital analysts has given his latest verdict on the UK portal market and offers a major...

Hello and welcome to this half-term week’s PJT, your regular Monday opportunity to catch up with the key personnel changes in...

OnTheMarket says one of its key aims for 2019 is to match Rightmove’s product offer to agents. “We’re looking to match Rightmove’s...

New figures released this morning from OnTheMarket claim its listing inventory bis now over 80 per cent of the size of...

Purplebricks has increased its listings by an eye-opening 44 per cent in the past two weeks according to an updated analysis...

A new analysis of the online estate agency business model claims that it ‘could be described as a Ponzi scheme’. The accusation...

OnTheMarket had told its shareholders this morning that it now has over 12,000 branches listing and is offering share incentives to...

The introduction of the Propertymark brand as a ‘consumer friendly’ umbrella name for a series of trade bodies has been a...

Today’s long-awaited debate staged by fledgling PropTech platform Best Agent will address the issue of how the agency industry can most...

An OnTheMarket sales rep - who now no longer works for the company - wrote a critical review of an independent estate...

OnTheMarket has signed up 12-office regional agency Robert Oulsnam and Company.  The firm, which handles sales and lettings, has 12 offices in...

‘Up’ is the key word in Rightmove’s figures for the first half of 2018, released to the City and to shareholders...

OnTheMarket has now signed listing agreements with UK estate and letting agents with a total of over 10,000 offices - but...

The young entrepreneur behind Doorsteps, the estate agency that deliberately avoids the huge marketing razzamatazz of other online companies, says his...

A leading property industry analysts says Rightmove may be amongst the top portals in the industry worldwide, but it is facing...

TV property expert Sarah Beeny says she expects online agencies to take 70 per cent market share in the future -...

Akshay Ruparelia, the teenager who set up the Doorsteps online estate agency only 18 months ago, is now reported to be...

In an exclusive and candid interview with Estate Agent Today, Countrywide chairman Peter Long has admitted that the company had been...

Both Purplebricks and OnTheMarket are keeping their powder dry on speculation that that hybrid agency is going to list on the...

John Taylor, a high-end international estate agency which until earlier this year had a presence in London, says it intends to...

ZPG has revealed its 2017 annual report this morning with a stream of records - 648 million visits to portals, revenue...

LSL Property Services - which has high street brands including Your Move, Reeds Rains and Marsh & Parsons - has signed...

The fact is that most house hunters simply do not have the time, let alone the inclination, to trawl around properties...

One of the world’s leading property technology experts, who at one time was head of strategy at a property portal, says investing...

There has been a sceptical reception from City analysts to Agents’ Mutual’s decision to restructure and float on the stock market...

It’s hot outside but that’s no deterrent to agents helping others, even at the height of summer. Before we honour this week’s...

Expert Agent says it is pleased the uncertainty surrounding its takeover had ended but suggests the Competition and Markets Authority’s announcement...

ZPG, owner of digital platforms including Zoopla, uSwitch, PrimeLocation, Hometrack and Property Software Group, has been cleared by the Competition and...

A website now marketing 380,000 homes from 900 agents across the world has struck a deal with an international property referral...

ZPG has published its half-year figures this morning showing a six per cent rise in the number of agents and a...

An internet monitoring service operated by international financial services giant Morgan Stanley says OnTheMarket is continuing to lose both its share...

A respected City analyst has pointedly dissed Purplebricks over its allegedly modest inventory of homes for sale and rent. Antony Codling of...

A controversial new search engine claiming to be in the later stages of development is seeking investment from estate agents, corporates...

Zoopla has acquired Expert Agent - the latest of a string of acquisitons by the portal. This follows the portal company's...

A Scottish property portal now ‘live’ and claiming to list almost all the homes for sale north of the border, says...

It’s over. Done. The only ones interested are those with too much time on their hands. For God’s sake - behind...

Zoopla Property Group's estate agency membership grew five per cent and its property listing inventory was up 10 per cent in...

For many people buy-to-let continues to look an attractive income investment at a time of low saving rates and stock market...

The Property Redress Scheme, one of three official redress schemes for the sales and lettings sector, has now signed its 5,000th...

Zoopla is linking with Samsung to offer its members giant touch-screens for use in offices, displaying the agents’ own inventory of...

An online search engine claims it will allow estate agents to “make significant cost savings in advertising portal fees” with the...

No Letting Go have won Bronze at the Lettings Agency of the Year 2016 Awards.   They have been accredited with the Bronze...

It’s the Bank Holiday and an extra-long weekend - although many agents will be making the most of sales, lets, open...

Zoopla Property Group has confirmed its conditional agreement to buy The Property Software Group, which it calls the UK’s market-leading provider...

An industry consultant says he has been asked to form an action group OnTheMarket member agents who are disillusioned with the...

Some estate agents who received a letter from lawyers acting on behalf of Agents’ Mutual say they will still not upload...

A senior analyst at Credit Suisse has opened the debate about the possibility of unhappy agent members of OnTheMarket challenging their...

The NFoPP Awarding Body will hold its annual awards ceremony this May to recognise outstanding achievements in property qualifications completed during...

The Arbon Trust is allocating £10,000 to help past and present NFOPP members in financial difficulties as a result of flooding...

Two more agents have been expelled by TPO because they failed to pay awards when ordered to pay compensation, and because...

Challenger portal OnTheMarket is “not attracting a meaningful audience or engaging with its users” and so is likely to fail according...

Over the past few years Rightmove and Zoopla Property Group (ZPG) have each been spending massive sums on marketing and product...

Ex-England, Surrey and Hampshire cricketer Chris Tremlett, who recently retired from the sport because of injury, has joined Berkshire-based agency The...

Readers of Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today were given an exclusive opportunity to pose questions to Zoopla Property Group...

OnTheMarket has queried the listings inventory detailed in Zoopla’s half-year trading statement. Zoopla Property Group reported that its listings inventory had increased...

Zoopla is back in business with its trading update to the City this morning revealing that it has a net growth...

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld two complaints made against online estate agency eMoov.  The first centred around eMoov’s claim that...

The National Federation of Property Professionals (NFoPP) has announced the winners of outstanding achievement in property qualifications last year.  Fifteen winners were...

Hamptons International has been slapped down by the Advertising Standards Authority for not making it clear that some lettings fees were...