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28 June 2022
From: Breaking News

Agent marketing platform Growth Track has rebranded with a new offering aiming to save firm’s money and boost their digital presence. Now...
15 June 2022
From: Breaking News

When was the last time you updated your website? New consumer research suggests 81% of sellers will not contact an estate agent...
04 June 2022
From: Breaking News

Estate agency software provider Street.co.uk has announced an integration with lead generation tool Spectre to help agents secure instructions. Agency firms that...
26 May 2022
From: Breaking News

Agents using Boomin have managed to convert more than 20% of SmartVal valuation requests into instructions. The challenger portal and lead generation...
24 May 2022
From: Breaking News

Technology can be utilised to grow and advance a company's income. That’s not a new or controversial statement, but here I...
21 May 2022
From: Features

Google rather than the portals is the starting point for sellers finding an estate agent, a survey claims. A survey among 2,000...
19 May 2022
From: Breaking News

In this video interview – part of a regular monthly series – Homesearch’s Sam Hunter speaks to Angels Media’s Lee Dahill...
04 May 2022
From: Features

The property industry is fortunate in including many great people, doing great work across a range of businesses – from traditional agency...
30 April 2022
From: Features

In this piece, the team at Iceberg Digital look at whether the first cracks are appearing in the portals. For the last...
06 April 2022
From: Breaking News

New portal Boomin suggests it has “thousands” of agents who have signed up on a paid basis. The portal - which launched almost...
30 March 2022
From: Breaking News

PropTech supplier nurtur.group - which owns Fine & Country and the Guild of Property Professionals - has acquired Brief Your Market,...
07 March 2022
From: Breaking News

OnTheMarket has inked a deal with Kremer Signs to supply agents with Smartboards to be added to For Sale signs -...
23 February 2022
From: Breaking News

A lead generation platform that boasts Leaders, EweMove and Northwood amongst its clients says it’s expanding into mortgages. Rentround, now in its...
22 February 2022
From: Breaking News

A PropTech platform claims its “unique” features will help its subscribers get a 1,500 per cent return on investment by the...
21 February 2022
From: Breaking News

The branding and technology supplier epropservices - which also owns Fine & Country and the Guild of Property Professionals - is changing...
01 February 2022
From: Breaking News

The past two years have been a whirlwind of change, challenges and chance. The main catalyst has clearly been the pandemic...
08 January 2022
From: Features

The last two years have been dramatic and decisive for many people and many businesses. Both have reassessed their work approaches...
08 January 2022
From: Features

I’m going to declare upfront that, as an investor, I have a financial interest in the success of MovePal but I also need...
23 October 2021
From: Features

An estate agent claims he may be the highest paid in the industry this year - and he puts it down to...
08 October 2021
From: Breaking News

PropTech industry giant epropservices has acquired Property Technology Ltd, better known to agents as marketing platform LeadPro. epropservices is the parent company of...
07 October 2021
From: Breaking News

Let it never be said that this column isn’t here to help out agents directly. In this week’s Natter, I speak...
17 July 2021
From: Features

EweMove says it’s has just recorded its best-ever month for new enquiries from sellers. In April the hybrid - which is part...
21 May 2021
From: Breaking News

An industry provider has created a free e-book for agents explaining the latest must-have - a Tech Stack. Tech provider Rex has created...
18 May 2021
From: Breaking News

A leading industry supplier says there’s been a jaw-dropping 495 per cent year-on-year increase in digital spend from agents - and that...
07 May 2021
From: Breaking News

A portal says it’s the most significant challenger to the Big Three of Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket. OneDome says it bases this on...
08 April 2021
From: Breaking News

New data from The ValPal Network suggests 57 per cent of leads are generated outside office hours, putting the emphasis on...
25 March 2021
From: Breaking News

The increasingly common live-streaming of property viewings is becoming a source of lead generation according to an industry supplier. The creators of...
11 March 2021
From: Breaking News

epropservices - parent company of The Guild and Fine & Country - has made another significant PropTech acquisition, its second in three...
05 March 2021
From: Breaking News

When I joined Zoopla, I took the same approach that I always take whenever I enter a new sector: I was...
03 March 2021
From: Features

epropservices, parent company of The Guild of Property Professionals and Fine & Country, has acquired estate agency website supplier Starberry. The firm is...
03 March 2021
From: Breaking News

CRM supplier Reapit, backed by private equity funding, has entered into an international deal to acquire a leading Australian PropTech provider...
25 February 2021
From: Breaking News

The Federation of Independent Agents says a survey of member agencies suggests only around a fifth per cent would definitely be listing...
12 January 2021
From: Breaking News

Zoopla is the first UK property company to launch advertising on Pinterest, the lifestyle picture-centric social media platform. A statement from Zoopla...
16 November 2020
From: Breaking News

Independent agent uses innovative ‘feet up’ campaign to win business. An independent letting agency has invited landlords to put their ‘feet up’...
27 October 2020
From: Marketing & Social Media

I was asked recently, how can an agent generate more landlord leads? Well that got me thinking, firstly, we have to...
27 October 2020
From: Marketing & Social Media

Putting fingers to keyboard to create blogs and articles isn’t always the easiest job for agents, particularly when meetings, viewings and...
27 October 2020
From: Marketing & Social Media

It’s a given these days that your business needs to be on social media. Consumers spend a large portion of their...
27 October 2020
From: Marketing & Social Media

Generating leads is a crucial and age-old part of estate agency. Before the internet, lead generation was just as important to...
27 October 2020
From: Marketing & Social Media

Here at The ValPal Network, we know that there are other options available when considering to use a valuation tool, so...
27 October 2020
From: PropTech & Innovation

There is no doubting that 2020 has been a challenging year for all industries, with the lettings market being no exception. Following...
24 October 2020
From: Features

A new PropTech product claims to help agents generate and nurture leads - even while they sleep. MovePal generates leads through Facebook...
28 September 2020
From: Breaking News

Seller and landlord leads are what makes estate agency tick. Without them, new business is nowhere to be seen and you...
23 September 2020
From: Features

Haart - one of the brands owned by Spicerhaart, which laid off staff in the first hours of the pandemic -...
03 July 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

US-originated estate agency Keller Williams claims to be the fastest growing in the UK as a result of 29 agents joining...
16 June 2020
From: Breaking News

In response to the current coronavirus pandemic, which is having such an impact on all parts of life, including the property...
28 March 2020
From: Features

Rightmove’s growth rate is at an all-time low, despite what some consider to be an unbeatable lead amongst portals in the...
10 March 2020
From: Breaking News

Analysis by an online valuation and lead generation service shows that requests from prospective sellers and landlords are increasingly happening in...
09 March 2020
From: Breaking News

The Atlantic Ocean is a vast space – some 4,000 miles eastwards across from the USA until land is met again....
29 February 2020
From: Features

“It appears conveyancers either aren’t too concerned with PropTech right now, or they don’t yet have all the information needed to...
05 February 2020
From: Breaking News

Following on from the second half of the last decade, the first few weeks of 2020 have been a bit mad...
18 January 2020
From: Features

love2move, which offers High Street agents a white-labelled digital platform that allows them to offer online services to vendors, has revealed...
04 December 2019
From: Breaking News

Property voyeurism and the festive season have long been bedfellows for many Brits. The heady combination of over-indulgence and regret, close proximity...
30 November 2019
From: Features

Zoopla says it now offers the fastest listings search of all three leading UK property portals on mobile devices. In turn, it...
08 November 2019
From: Breaking News

Relocation Agent Network has revealed a new competition in which member agents can win tip to £5,000. RAN currently offers four customer...
05 November 2019
From: Breaking News

The ValPal Network, which consists of over 800 agency brands with more than 4,000 offices, has launched a new product which...
07 October 2019
From: Breaking News

1. Win More Listings For estate agency in the UK, the number one task is to get new properties to market. However,...
29 July 2019
From: Sponsored Content

In a marketplace as competitive as the property industry, you may think that generating leads is the most important focus for...
20 July 2019
From: Features

The free-to-list property portal Residential People says it now has over 740 independent agents in the UK on board - and...
25 June 2019
From: Breaking News

As we move closer to the halfway point of 2019, property market conditions for agents and their clients remain challenging. Brexit may...
22 May 2019
From: Features

Consumer habits have changed massively over the past few years, and regardless of which market you operate in, being able to...
15 May 2019
From: Features

Zoopla has been spelling out more details of prospective buyers’ and renters’ patterns of portal-watching and how they relate to leads...
18 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Four high-profile industry figures have sent an open letter urging agents to think about what they call “smarter marketing” in a...
27 March 2019
From: Breaking News

Many of the industry’s best known and widely respected suppliers have set up a new group which they say offers agents...
20 March 2019
From: Breaking News

OnTheMarket has stepped up its attack on Rightmove with a stridently-worded email to agents explaining how a drop in leads from...
05 March 2019
From: Breaking News

OnTheMarket says it now has listings agreements with more than 12,500 estate and lettings agency branches. In a statement to shareholders and...
05 February 2019
From: Breaking News

Agents need to focus on more targeted marketing using a mix of traditional and modern methods to optimise their position in...
29 January 2019
From: Breaking News

Rather like doctors, estate agents are present at critical points in our lives – moving in together, bidding farewell to a...
07 November 2018
From: Features

Almost one in five online sales valuations generated by The ValPal Network over a two-year period resulted in a completion with...
19 October 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

When Oakland A’s, a small-market team, stunned the baseball world 16 years ago by transforming itself into world-beaters on a shoestring-budget,...
11 August 2018
From: Features

Agents are being offered a new way to capture details of prospective clients thanks to a partnership between The ValPal Network...
23 July 2018
From: Breaking News

I loved my Foxtons office. I started in the Battersea branch. It was the old-style office; traditional carpets, actual properties in...
11 July 2018
From: Breaking News

Clients of software provider Reapit can now integrate with leading sharing and online valuation service The ValPal Network. The objective is to help Reapit...
12 June 2018
From: Breaking News

As promised a few weeks ago, this week’s Natter concentrates on the importance of content, design and social media, three easily...
19 May 2018
From: Features

In an exclusive and candid interview with Estate Agent Today, Countrywide chairman Peter Long has admitted that the company had been...
08 March 2018
From: Breaking News

After the fun and over-indulgence of the festivities, most of us are now back to the world of work. And, with...
13 January 2018
From: Features

The Property Franchise Group has launched five new websites, one for each of its high street brands. These are CJ Hole, Ellis & Co,...
14 December 2017
From: Breaking News

Winter seems to be firmly with us now, if the plunging temperatures are anything to go by. After a ridiculously mild...
11 November 2017
From: Features

Many industries in the UK are currently facing a tumultuous time as the great unknown of Brexit looms on the horizon...
09 September 2017
From: Features

Foxtons is reported to have teamed up with Oracle to improve its targeted digital marketing and lead generation. Oracle’s Marketing Cloud product...
11 July 2017
From: Breaking News

Supporting the adoption of technology does not mean we have to stop protecting the core values of the property industry. In...
05 July 2017
From: Breaking News

A network which helps estate agents win more instructions in the land and new homes sector is launching a lead generation...
27 June 2017
From: Breaking News

Peter Robinson, CEO of AIPP – Association of International Property Professionals – shines a light onto the international property market. Some UK...
01 April 2017
From: Features

For my latest Property Natter I have sought the opinions of two well-known property consultants - Michael Day, managing director of...
01 April 2017
From: Features

The first week of February has seen some extraordinary goings on in the property sector, from which two stories particularly stand out...
08 February 2017
From: Breaking News

It’s all been kicking off in recent weeks, hasn’t it? Marmite wars, the endless Trump v Clinton debate, Samsung phones blowing...
28 October 2016
From: Features

As promised, this week’s Natter is dedicated to a question and answer session with Peter Brodnicki, the man who has been...
22 July 2016
From: Features

An online search engine claims it will allow estate agents to “make significant cost savings in advertising portal fees” with the...
12 July 2016
From: Breaking News

Cost-effective marketing will always be an important part of growing an estate agency business. I'm often asked about the ways in which...
10 June 2016
From: Features

Hybrid estate agency EweMove has unveiled its new website which claims to set a new bar for agents looking to use...
15 February 2016
From: Breaking News

Marketing and property often go hand in hand. But from time to time you might come across certain marketing terms that...