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OnTheMarket now has listing agreements with over 9,000 estate agency branches - that's another 500 or so since its previous release...

OnTheMarket has announced to the City and its shareholders that it’s to reveal its annual results tomorrow - the first such...

Property portal OnTheMarket has announced that it now has listing agreements with over 8,500 estate and letting agency branches.  It says that...

A study of estate agencies and portals floated on the London Stock Exchange suggests that digital companies have shown much better...

UK measures to retaliate against alleged Russian government-sponsored nerve agent attack on former spy Sergei Skripal have excluded any attempt to...

OnTheMarket says estate agencies with some 1,000 offices have joined the portal in the five weeks since it floated on the...

The UK chief executive of Purplebricks, Lee Wainwright, has been granted an option to buy 100,000 shares in the firm. The purchase would...

In an unexpected trading statement this morning, OnTheMarket says it has signed 243 new listing agreements within its first 10 days...

OnTheMarket’s share price fell just over five per cent yesterday, continuing its troubled launch on to the London stock exchange. It...

The bank Morgan Stanley says OnTheMarket’s listings have fallen 19 per cent in the past year. In a note to investors issued...

All eyes are on Agents’ Mutual’s first day of trading on the London stock exchange - just over five years after...

Most listed agencies and portals suffered share price falls yesterday, creating a challenging landscape for Agents’ Mutual which launches on the London stock exchange...

Figures presented to the London Stock Exchange by Agents’ Mutual appear to show that it has 200 fewer branches now than...

Analysts have given a frosty reception to the announcement by Agents’ Mutual that it is going to float shares priced at...

Agents’ Mutual has released more details of its float on the stock market, which begins on February 9 with a placing priced...

If Countrywide thought its fortunes would immediately improve following the departure of chief executive Alison Platt, it has to think again...

There was confirmation this morning, as expected, that Countrywide chief executive Alison Platt has quit - but so far there is no...

Purplebricks has this morning announced it’s to launch in New York. A statement to the London Stock Exchange this morning read: The...

Franchise giant Winkworth has told its shareholders that its revenues for 2017 are likely to be less than five per cent...

Sky News is reporting that the non-executive chairman of Purplebricks, Paul Pindar, is set to invest a seven figure sum in...

OnTheMarket has announced some details of its IPO and the launch of its stock market flotation - but it has given nothing...

Global investment bank RBC Capital Markets says OnTheMarket has the potential to undermine the pricing power of Rightmove and ZPG -...

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

ZPG says that the number of estate agency branches that left to join OnTheMarket but have now returned has reached over...

The much-expected pause in the roll out of Countrywide's online service to vendors, confirmed yesterday, did not appear to impress investors. Countrywide's...

ZPG has announced that Connells is the latest major agency chain to sign a long-term deal with its portals Zoopla and...

Agents’ Mutual is officially making no comment on the timetable for the company flotation but speculation within the industry is mounting...

It appears that OnTheMarket member agents can, if they wish, opt out of the five year ‘lock in’ share agreement and...

Investec Asset Management has bought a 5.6 per cent share in Countrywide, having had no previous involvement in the troubled estate...

The research director of an investment firm which has advised Purplebricks says the “odd detractor” who doesn’t sell their home does...

Countrywide’s share price hit another new low yesterday of around 115.5p - a fall of just over four per cent on...

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

Sky News says the online estate agent eMoov is drawing up plans to float on the stock market.  Sky has been well-informed...

The flotation of Agents’ Mutual on the London Stock Exchange could happen as soon as later this year following the endorsement...

An early Gold member of OnTheMarket is making a last-ditch bid to stop its parent company, Agents’ Mutual, from floating on...

Agents' Mutual has told the London Stock Exchange that it is going to float after winning support from 89 per cent...

The growing anger of some OnTheMarket member agents about the portal’s parent company proposal to float on the London Stock Exchange...

Countrywide’s share price hit a record low during trading yesterday afternoon when it dropped to 137.75p, having opened the day at...

The stock exchange seems to be on everyone’s lips at the moment. There’s Agents’ Mutual seeking to float on the Alternative Investment...

Agents’ Mutual has confirmed that it proposes to form a new company, OnTheMarket plc, to list on the AIM market of...

Foxtons - a company seen by many as a barometer of the London housing market - is likely to face a...

Property portal Rightmove has appointed easyJet's chief financial officer to its board. Andrew Findlay will join Rightmove as a non-executive director...

Reports in the commercial property industry publication Property Week suggest there may be difficulties concerning the sale of Countrywide’s commercial operation,...

Foxtons has received lavish praise from investment consultancy Jefferies despite long-term share price worries reflecting its mixed performance in the troubled...

Swiss bank UBS has downgraded Countrywide’s status to ‘sell’ in a move which has prompted the troubled estate agency’s share price...

Countrywide has successfully placed 21.6m shares to institutional investors at the competitive price of 175p per share - allowing it to...

An analysis of estate agents quoted on the London Stock Exchange suggests that almost all the traditional firms have suffered since...

The remarkable bull run on the London Stock Exchange continues for hybrid estate agency Purplebricks, which floated shares at 100p just...

Purplebricks has issued its second statement to the City on successive trading days - and its share price has risen by...

The board of Purplebricks has issued a statement to the City saying it has no idea what lies behind the soaring...

The stock market appears to be continuing its love affair with Purplebricks, as the hybrid agency share price rose once again...

Countrywide’s share price closed slightly down again yesterday to finish trading at 176.0 after news emerged that the group was selling...

Each year the London Stock Exchange lists 1,000 firms in a league table entitled ‘Companies To Inspire Britain’ and for the...

Countrywide estate agency group is to drop out of the FTSE 250 from the start of trading on December 19. The news...

The share prices of Countrywide and LSL Property Services diverged yesterday in response to both agency groups being downgraded by influential...

  The chief marketing officer of Purplebricks, Joby Russell - who in the recent past has described the hybrid as “the UK’s...

Swiss bank UBS has given an upbeat assessment of online estate agencies in the changing housing market - but it warns...

Agency and other property shares that have been buffetted in the past two trading days have now stabilised - in most...

The only way Purplebricks' dominance of the online agency sector can be challenged is via a merger between competitors or another stock...

Purplebricks Group has issued a trading statement to the City - with another dramatic revenue increase and a claim that the...

The Motley Fool, a widely-read City investment column, says a Leave vote could result in a fall in housing market transaction...

Purplebricks has appointed Grant Thornton as its ‘growth adviser’ as the hybrid agency continues to fly high on the London stock...

The co-founder of hybrid estate agency EweMove says if the newly-floated Purplebricks fails "the online agency game could be up." Glenn Ackroyd,...

Purplebricks recorded a volatile bout of trading on London’s Stock Exchange yesterday, where it ended the day with a 5.7 per...

Purplebricks is very easily the most recognisable online estate agency, according to a survey of 1,300 home owners by respected polling...