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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...

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

As those of us in the industry know, there is a fine balance to strike between disruptive technology – and the...

Speculation that OnTheMarket was courting Countrywide to list on its website after flotation may have suffered a setback following an announcement...

One of the most thorough analyses of property portals ever undertaken shows that Rightmove is the world’s most profitable portal company...

It now appears that OnTheMarket agents do not require to sign up to the portal for five years in order to...

Regional property portal MoviNorth says it plans to secure additional investment to expand its coverage by the end of 2017. The portal...

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...

Agents’ Mutual’s flotation will definitely go ahead following a meeting of the High Court today, at which the appropriate processes behind...

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

One of the founding agents behind Agents’ Mutual and OnTheMarket and one of the current directors of Countrywide will be amongst...

I’ve been in France for the past few days and depending on your viewpoint, I made a spectacularly good or singularly...

Let’s be honest - few people saw this coming. The 89 to 11 per cent majority amongst Agents’ Mutual members for...

One of the country’s leading property-technology experts says the way in which the Agents’ Mutual stock market flotation proposal has been...

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

The industry today awaits the result of Agents’ Mutual’s formal Members’ Court in which agents will vote on the organisation’s proposed demutualisation and...

Iain White, the ex-Romans managing director and former Countrywide director, has come out strongly against the demutualisation proposal from Agents’ Mutual...

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

Before we go any further, assuming you are an Agents’ Mutual member, let me ask you a question. If you had...

A leading business consultancy which advises clients on investments has refuted a claim by a prominent media analyst that it is...

OnTheMarket is declining to comment after suggestions were floated that some debts by its member agents could be deferred, or in some...

The investment consultancy chosen by Agents’ Mutual to advise on its float plans - Zeus Capital - is the same one...

OneDome has launched a new online tool that allows users to scour Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket by setting up lifestyle criteria,...

The roadshow of presentations of Agents’ Mutual’s plans to float on the stock market have just passed the half-way mark. Remaining sessions...

Humberts, which yesterday launched an online-only option for landlord clients, says it is “not closing the door” on expanding the idea...

Humberts, a member of Agents’ Mutual, is today launching an online-only option and claims it can list online-only properties on OnTheMarket. Such...

One of the founding figures behind OnTheMarket, which currently bans listings from online agencies, now says bricks and mortar agencies that...

There’s a distinct sense of déjà vu over the debacle of OnTheMarket. I avoided joining two years ago because I couldn’t see...

No one can say Agents’ Mutual has failed to provoke debate within the industry. The project was the centre of fierce argument...

Agents’ Mutual has confirmed that it requires 75 per cent of the votes of member agencies to pass its proposals to...

After my article last week predicting that Agents’ Mutual would likely seek to raise external capital, including possibly on the public markets,...

ZPG has stepped into the escalating dispute between portals by revealing record figures on new leads - two hours before the first...

  The first two meetings in a roadshow which OnTheMarket has organised for local member agents take place today - another 18...

The head of a regional portal in the north of England has welcomed the likely demise of the controversial One Other...

There has been a sceptical reception from City analysts to Agents’ Mutual’s decision to restructure and float on the stock market...

Property has been changing hands for centuries, but when did estate agents as we know them today – with their branches,...

I hate to be the guy to say ‘I told you so’…but I told you so! It seems that my predictions...

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

Sky News is reporting that OnTheMarket is to demutualise and list on the Stock Exchange.    The portal made much of its mutual...

The accounts for Agents’ Mutual, parent company of the OnTheMarket portal, show that revenue for the year ending January 31 was...

OnTheMarket is this month holding 20 meetings for member agents to explain “progress and plans” for the portal.   The meetings - sometimes...

The controversial website Houser, which made waves when it launched in 2014, has been ordered by the Advertising Standards Authority to...

The Connells-owned agency Gascoigne Halman is to make a costs payment of £1.24m within 14 days to Agents’ Mutual - but...

The Connells-owned agency Gascoigne Halman is to make a costs payment of £1.24m within 14 days to Agents’ Mutual - but...

OnTheMarket is keeping its powder dry over the possible legal action against it by dissident agents who have formed an action...

The OnTheMarket Action Group of dissident agents has told Estate Agent Today it is now in a position to decide on...

Agents’ Mutual says it will be seeking to recover costs and compensation for losses incurred after what is widely seen as...

The Competition Appeal Tribunal has issued its judgement in the case between Agents’ Mutual and the Gascoigne Halman agency - and...

Major westcountry agency Wilkinson Grant has told the Advertising Standards Authority it will not re-use wording following a complaint from a...

Mark Goddard was the founder and CEO of The Property Software Group (PSG), a property software solutions firm established in 2007,...

High profile estate agency Cluttons has returned to marketing with Zoopla Property Group (ZPG).  The firm rejoined the portal at the end...

To give you a nice distraction from the post-election madness, here’s an interview with Charlie Wright, founder of CIELA (or The...

ZPG says the number of estate agency branches to have quit OnTheMarket and rejoined Zoopla over the past two years has...

ZPG has published its half-year figures this morning showing a six per cent rise in the number of agents and a...

An internet monitoring service operated by international financial services giant Morgan Stanley says OnTheMarket is continuing to lose both its share...

Given that around 95% of property searches now start online, it is more important than ever that an agent has an...

Trevor Abrahmsohn, one of London’s best known estate agents and a founder of OnTheMarket, says stamp duty should be split between...

A controversial new search engine claiming to be in the later stages of development is seeking investment from estate agents, corporates...

New research conducted for ZPG claims that Zoopla’s ‘national spontaneous brand awareness’ is at an all-time high - with the gap...

I had a very interesting chat with the man behind a new portal the other day. He was John Dixon, the portal...

OnTheMarket has swatted away the latest criticism from a long-term critic, online estate agency head Russell Quirk - although it has...

A new regional property portal aiming to sign up 80 per cent of agencies in Yorkshire says it is unconcerned about...

The Competition Appeals Tribunal hearing between Agents’ Mutual and Connells-owned agency Gascoigne Halman is to be concluded on Monday - but...

It’s over. Done. The only ones interested are those with too much time on their hands. For God’s sake - behind...

The Competition Appeal Tribunal hearing involving Agents’ Mutual and Gascoigne Halman, set to start tomorrow, has had a last-minute twist with...

Zoopla and OnTheMarket have issued their figures for last month’s visits, each claiming their busiest ever January. Zoopla Property Group says it...

This week sees the start of the Competition Appeal Tribunal court case between Agents’ Mutual Ltd and Gascoigne Halman Ltd. The case...

Zoopla Property Group says that in the last three months alone over 100 estate agency branches have returned to its portal...

The story of the week has been the first steps of a trade body to represent independent estate agents - as...

When I read about the possible formation of yet another ‘mutual’ with the aim of furthering and protecting the interests of...

Property Service Holdings - parent company of the 150 branches trading under the Romans and Leaders names - has signed up...

An American investment analyst has used the Motley Fool online city column to give a glowing endorsement to one of the...

Zoopla says it delivered a record number of unique appraisal leads to its agent members in December, up 112 per cent...

OnTheMarket is to advertise across 40 channels this month, in the build up to its second anniversary at the end of January. The...

Forecasts are so last year: who anticipated Bowie, Brexit or Balls for example? Quotes, on the other hand, really ARE last year...

Zoopla and OnTheMarket have given their first reactions to Rightmove's portal juggling extension of its property re-listing deadline from two weeks to...

OnTheMarket is now listing UK commercial properties to rent and for sale.  The portal says this is “closely aligned with its UK residential search...

Zoopla Property Group claims that brand awareness for Zoopla is now at an all-time high and is establishing a growing gap...

It is with no pleasure and a touch of sadness that I took in the significance of OTM's recent performance in...

OnTheMarket is linking with the Absolutely Magazines chain of London-centric magazines to provide a co-branded online search facility on the publishing firm’s...

The Jeffries Group, an eight-branch Hampshire-based independent agency, says it is going to leave OnTheMarket.  Although the group’s website and email branding...

A new portal has launched listing off-market properties at the very highest end of the market, and says it does not...

OnTheMarket says it provided “a record number of leads” to its agent members in September - but is not disclosing how...

The OnTheMarket Action Group of rebel agents in a legal process against the portal has issued a set of questions following...

An eleven-branch estate agency has announced that it will stop listing with OnTheMarket and is returning to Zoopla Property Group (ZPG). Howard...

Agents' Mutual was last week ordered to make a further payment into court as part of its ongoing legal case against...

The OTM Action Group has released a statement claiming that Agents' Mutual has chosen not to address any of the concerns...

Zoopla Property Group has this morning told the City that it has seen another increase in agent numbers and listings in...

  OnTheMarket says Andrew Milsom Estate Agents, a six branch agency in Buckinghamshire and Berkshire, has joined the portal.   The website says the...

OnTheMarket has announced that it now has more than 6,400 estate and letting agency offices listing on its site - a...

It’s a headline from an Australian business journal this week but it has a familiar ring to it: “Estate agents’ attempts...

One of Britain’s foremost PropTech experts says OnTheMarket could still disrupt the portal landscape - but has trust issues following disputes...

Rightmove has reported its half-year figures to the City and its investors with the stand-out claim being that it now says...

A poll being taken by Property Portal Watch - an international website monitoring the real estate online sector - suggests that...

The Competition Appeals Tribunal which is to investigate a dispute between OnTheMarket and two agencies is scheduled to hold its first...

It has been revealed this morning that OnTheMarket has been ordered to pay £1m into court - three quarters of it...