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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...

Industry figure Sean Newman has named seven additional speakers for the Estate Agent Success Summit, with 50% of tickets already sold. The...

The sales progression function is what binds the whole property transaction together and the importance of effective sales progression in the...

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

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

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

Almost a million shares in Purplebricks have been ‘awarded’ to the two most senior men in the organisation. The golden handcuff deal...

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

I recently saw a fly-through video for a home on sale for well over £2m. The imagery was good (made better by...

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

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

The head of online agency Housesimple has made another strident attack on the integrity of High Street agents by saying some...

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...

A new website devoted solely to prime off-market properties is looking for agents who will use it to find buyers seeking...

Traditional High Street estate agents have been given the thumbs up by sellers in a new survey of over 5,000 vendors...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

The long running spat between review website allAgents and hybrid agency Purplebricks reignited over the weekend following a Facebook post. A Purplebricks...

The assessment by an investment consultancy that Purplebricks sells some 76 per cent of the homes it lists may have made...

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...

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...

A Hampshire estate agency has promised the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) not to make competitor comparisons which cannot be independently verified...

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

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,...

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

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...

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

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...