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A new survey of people who have sold their home in the past six months has given a strong backing to...
14 January 2022
From: Breaking News

Three quarters of estate agents work more than an eight hour day at least once a week - and over half...
10 December 2021
From: Breaking News

A new league table of earnings by estate agents, based on basic salary and commission combined, suggests that UK agents earn...
18 November 2021
From: Breaking News

New research suggests estate agents earn some of the lowest basic salaries of all sales professions. Nested, an online agency promoting the...
03 November 2021
From: Breaking News

The Nested online agency, which recently revamped its business model to attract more self-employed agents, is expanding outside London for the...
29 October 2021
From: Breaking News

The class action taken by former self-employed workers against two online agencies should be a warning to other firms breaking the...
21 October 2021
From: Breaking News

A claims firm wants to commence proceedings against online estate agency companies such as Purplebricks and Yopa. It's on behalf of thousands...
20 October 2021
From: Breaking News

An analysis of estate agencies in 21 major cities suggests a big rise in competing companies, prompting risks of fee wars between...
14 October 2021
From: Breaking News

An estate agent who has now gone self-employed after working on the staff of Connells and Spicerhaart says her move is...
12 October 2021
From: Breaking News

Agent wages have been in the news this week, with boastful claims from a number of self-employed businesses about the sums...
09 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

An agency says individual agents operating as self-employed can earn up to £64,000 more per year than fully-employed counterparts. Nested says the average UK...
07 October 2021
From: Breaking News

An online operator called Nested is to spend £5m to promote the self-employed estate agency concept in 100 parts of the...
30 September 2021
From: Breaking News

A company in the German Axel Springer publishing empire - which also invested in Purplebricks in the past - has put...
31 March 2021
From: Breaking News

Emoov’s new 'guaranteed offer' service means fall-thoughs and chain-related delays are effectively eliminated, the agency claims. Emoov - now owned by a firm...
26 March 2021
From: Breaking News

Nested is the latest online agency to base a marketing campaign around criticism of established estate agents. In three 30-second TV ads...
12 March 2020
From: Breaking News

An estate agent who has himself made the move from the High Street to a hybrid operation has urged anyone in...
25 February 2020
From: Breaking News

[Estate Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise...
06 December 2019
From: Breaking News

The average age of a first-time buyer in the UK is 27, according to research from Nested.com. The online estate agency says...
11 October 2019
From: Breaking News

One of the first so-called ‘hub’ hybrid estate agencies using self-employed freelances instead of staff says it’s moving to bigger premises...
26 September 2019
From: Breaking News

The London market has “plummeted” because almost a third of vendors have cut their asking prices in anticipation of Brexit. Using data...
27 August 2019
From: Breaking News

An online agency has struck out against the conventional wisdom that it’s tougher than ever before for first time buyers to...
13 August 2019
From: Breaking News
05 June 2019
From: Breaking News

Hello and welcome to the regular Monday edition of Property Jobs Today. Everyone here contacted us on press@estateagenttoday.co.uk to espresso the word;...
25 March 2019
From: Breaking News

Nested, an innovative online agency that offers vendors a form of guaranteed sale, has laid off 20 per cent of its workforce...
18 March 2019
From: Breaking News

A hybrid estate agency which uses freelance agents operating from a central hub is now expanding from London into the Home...
04 January 2019
From: Breaking News

It’s been reported that Nested, an estate agency launched two years ago, has received a massive £120m cash injection from venture capitalists. Nested, which...
12 November 2018
From: Breaking News

The first signs of a seasonal slowdown are appearing according to some agents in touch with EAT, but there are still...
05 November 2018
From: Breaking News

Two former High Street agents say their new hybrid agency has enjoyed an impressive launch gathering 40 instructions in just four...
02 November 2018
From: Breaking News

One of the world’s leading property technology analysts has compiled a major report on estate agents’ business models - an exercise...
07 March 2018
From: Breaking News

Two UK online estate agencies have been named in a list of the world’s top 50 real estate start-ups to watch...
11 January 2018
From: Breaking News

Agents and even the Labour Party have backed the government’s scrapping of stamp duty for first time buyers’ purchases up to...
23 November 2017
From: Breaking News

Crowdfunding is nothing new. As I pointed out in a previous Natter, it dates back centuries, playing a part in the...
28 October 2017
From: Features

With more news of PropTech investment, this time with Spotahome and Nested, one can’t help but wonder if this boom period is...
25 October 2017
From: Breaking News

Innovative London agency Nested has raised an additional £36m in funding - brining the total behind the company to almost £50m. Nested,...
24 October 2017
From: Breaking News

It used to be so easy. Around 20 years ago there were what we now call full-service estate and letting agencies, and...
23 September 2017
From: Features

Nested, the chain-breaking estate agency that offers vendors a guaranteed sale of their property within 90 days, is to expand beyond...
21 September 2017
From: Breaking News

Being a leading world-class city comes at a price – they are the most expensive for occupiers and the most lucrative...
14 July 2017
From: Features

The chief executive of Purplebricks, often criticised by detractors for failing to reveal completion rates as opposed to listings, says his...
03 July 2017
From: Breaking News

The introduction of a 3% stamp duty surcharge on the purchase of additional properties has 'shattered' the property market, according to...
09 June 2017
From: Breaking News

Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of...
07 June 2017
From: Breaking News

A ‘disrupter’ estate agent says the English housing market operates in a way that is far less efficient than Scotland’s -...
19 May 2017
From: Breaking News

Purplebricks' share price moved up over two per cent yesterday on the strength of its latest trading statement - but its...
05 May 2017
From: Breaking News

A record number of over 300 agents have so far signed up for next week’s FUTURE: PropTech conference, the largest event...
28 April 2017
From: Breaking News

It’s been revealed that next month’s Future: PropTech conference will feature a debate between ‘technologists’ and ‘traditionalists’ over the future of...
06 April 2017
From: Breaking News

In a week that I am recovering from the exuberance of MIPIM, there are two big pieces of fundraising news that...
22 March 2017
From: Breaking News

Nested, the chain-breaking estate agency that offers vendors a guaranteed sale of their property within 90 days, has secured a new...