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Any estate agency will have noticed the rise of the “personal agent” in the industry, with interesting propositions from eXp, The...

Spectre has hailed the success of its recently launched fee recovery tool after helping an agent reclaim £7,000 in owed fees. Launched...

Agents are being offered a new tool to help them reclaim fees they are owed following a vendor’s withdrawal from the...

Mortgage rate hikes have already halved landlord profits according to latest research, and a base rate rise to 2.5% will see...

As inflation passes the 10% mark, it’s no surprise that many landlords are hurriedly reviewing the health of their buy-to-let portfolio. You...

In this guest piece, Colum Smith, a property expert at law firm Taylor Rose MW, sets out why speedier transactions could...

Agents lost out on £600,000 worth of owed commission from withdrawn listings last year, industry data suggests. Withdrawn sales are an occupational hazard...

Online agent Strike is preparing to name a home seller who will be reimbursed the equivalent of an estate agent fee...

Agents are preparing their businesses for the cost of living crunch, with considerations on fuel use, heating and window display lighting. Much...

The market’s likely to slow this year as the rising cost of living saps some buyer confidence, so agents are understandably...

A bid to regulate second home ownership in part of the UK through changes to planning policy will add complexity and...

A new agency service has been launched seeking to attract vendors of second-hand residential park homes.  Quickmove Properties has partnered with park industry...

A hybrid agency that charges no fees to vendors but instead relies on referral fees for income has officially rolled out...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I can’t remember the last time I had a business...

Purplebricks insists there is no basis for a class action legal case over its employment practices which may start this month. A pressure group, Contractors...

A property specialist is warning about “modern day ambulance chasers” who try to convince buyers they have paid too much stamp duty.  “An increasing...

Strike chief executive Sam Mitchell has hailed the online agent’s no-fee model after reaching £5 billion worth of sales. The agency, previously...

An online estate agency is launching a quasi franchise operation it calls Agency In A Box and claims applicants will “effectively”...

Strike - which over the weekend announced a new £11m investment package - has now revealed it has a new chief...

Jason Tebb, the ex-Foxtons agent who is now chief executive of OnTheMarket, has given his first in depth public interview since...

Online agency Yopa says it will change a claim on its website that appears to suggest no fee will be charged...

A prominent estate agent has warned buyers and sellers about the perils of the controversial Modern Method of Auction. MMA is now...

Buyer registrations and sales enquiries are reportedly back to pre-Covid levels. Completions, however, are lagging behind. This is probably down to...

A hybrid agency which set a target of rivalling Purplebricks when it launched has announced a recruitment drive and expansion in...

It’s another Bank Holiday weekend and the first since lockdown was eased and the housing market returns - so perhaps a...

Let me start by wishing everyone well in these uncertain and precarious times. I truly hope you, your families, friends and...

Hello, and we trust you had as good a weekend as possible in these difficult circumstances.  As we start a new week...

The founder and chairman of Hunters, who is also a Conservative MP, has been criticised for a tweet saying he would...

The government is being urged to make commonhold ownership compulsory on all new apartments - and the move could even begin a...

An online agency’s claim that it sells homes “for free” has been disputed by a High Street rival - but the...

A new league table of High Street agents’ charges published over the weekend reveals the locations where agents charge an average...

The Purplebricks share price dropped by 1% to 108p yesterday as investors prepare for today's Annual General Meeting. The hybrid agency's market...

OnTheMarket’s selective fee freeze for agents has been challenged by a new portal which asks agents: ‘Why pay at all?’ OTM revealed...

Purplebricks has revealed it is considering changes to its pricing structure to correct “mistakes” of the past. Chief executive Vic Darvey has...

Speculation is growing about the future of online agency Yopa. This follows a key resignation from Yopa’s board and one expert’s analysis...

Online estate agency Housesimple has appointed a company to handle its public relations and social media as it rolls it its...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Lino Goncalves – Area Sales Manager What is Lets bid property...

Phil Spencer and his advice website IQ have endorsed the concept of legally binding reservation agreements and digital legal packs through...

An online auction service which only came into existence in September last year claims to have 150 partner estate agents already,...

99home is the latest online agency to launch a no sale, no fee option for its vendors. The firm, which was launched...

An industry veteran is launching a new hub-based hybrid agency and is offering to sell 50 homes for free to raise the...

A PropTech firm that lists a customer’s home with successive estate agents until it is sold has raised £500,000 of startup...

This article was originally written for City AM in response to an article it published attacking letting agents. See more here.  A...

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...

Rightmove is undertaking an investigation into a PropTech app that has tried to list private sales on the portal. The perhaps-ironically named...

It’s been a theatrical week in Westminster with talk of defections and duplicity worthy of Shakespeare. Yet the estate agency world has...

Cast your minds back to the summer of 2014. It’s 9.55 am somewhere in east London ‘Sorry I’m late’ offers the...

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...

The demise of Emoov, Tepilo and lettings platform Urban raises question marks over the long-term viability of online agencies according to...

When was the last time you looked at your business and really thought about what you could do to improve? Yesterday? Last...

A new online agency says it is currently focussing on one large city but will expand to cover the whole of...

An estate agency is pioneering a new business model in which it charges no commission whatsoever to the vendor. Freeagent247, an online...

Purplebricks co-founder Michael Bruce says traditional agents sell only around 50 per cent of the homes that they list, so spend...

A report drawn up by Reapit and data consultancy Dataloft suggests that agents in 2017 lost a potential (and jaw-dropping) £4...

If you’re an estate agent and have a property that is difficult to sell or the homeowner simply needs a fast...

Respected industry spokesperson Kristjan Byfield is continuing his fightback against the negative coverage of the agency industry in the mainstream press...

Online estate agencies are the centre of attention right now - but one of them seems to be seeking publicity in...

Online agency HouseSimple has become a completely No Sale No Fee agency - and is thought to be the only online...

  An assessment of nine online agencies undertaken by a property website has seen Emoov come out on top after being analysed...

Yopa, the online agency with financial backing from Savills and LSL Property Services, is the latest online firm to launch a...

Why I won’t buy Purplebricks shares and why if I had any, I’d sell fast… In its latest adverts, Purplebricks attempts to...

Online estate agent eMoov recently set itself apart by directly addressing the issues of openness and transparency that have long dogged the online business...

Online agency EweMove - part of The Property Franchise Group, which recently failed to agree merger terms with Belvoir - claims...

The Guild of Property Professionals is launching a marketing campaign to promote the benefits of the No Sale, No Fee estate...

So at last someone has woken up to the fact that Purplebricks needs to be clearer about how it charges for...

A long-standing traditional agent says the real success of online agencies is not their share of the market but that they...

An online platform that allows the public to compare the services and fees of traditional estate agents in their areas has...

Parliament is sitting again and the entire lettings industry is waiting with bated breath for more detail on the government’s proposal...

The Conservative Party says it wants greater competition and more digitisation to cut the costs and reduce the amount of time...

The Conservatives now say they are not resuscitating Home Information Packs, despite a suggestion by a prominent former minister that they "had...

Online agency HouseSimple has been told that by the Advertising Standards Authority that its TV advertisement including the claim ‘sell your...

The fledgling group being set up to represent independent estate and letting agents is preparing a formal complaint about Purplebricks based...

I have a confession to make. In 1988 I became a Seekers franchisee. For those of you who don't know who...

This week we have the Head Shepherd of EweMove, Glenn Ackroyd, in the hotseat. He’s been co-owner of EweMove Sales and Lettings,...

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

Countrywide has given Estate Agent Today some early details of how its mix of online and traditional agency services will roll-out...

It’s a familiar theme – kids doing charity trips and needing sponsorship or raffle prizes to help fund their fares. If we...

Another crowdfunding platform has launched, encouraging investors to buy a share in a property - in this case, a prime London...

The agency which describes itself as the UK’s first hybrid - EweMove - is claiming a record quarter of property sales...

I have spent the last 20 years working within the conveyancing business, alongside estate agents and I can’t help feeling a...

Controversial online estate agent and industry commentator Russell Quirk has hit out at the fee structure of traditional agents, claiming it...

Online agency HouseSimple is introducing a High Street agency style No Sale-No Fee option for vendors, with a reduced fee if they...

An agent is using social media to help homeless ex-service personnel move into empty properties free of charge - and he...

Online estate agency FindAHome Online has become an official partner of Port Vale football club in return for a number of advertising,...

A traditional estate agent has taken a leaf from the book of online rivals by scrapping old-style percentage commission and instead...

One of the country’s most prominent online estate agencies is trying to confound critics by offering a no sale-no fee model,...

This publication recently reported on Russell Quirk's latest attempt to upset the establishment, this time by attacking the hallowed ground of...