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I’ve just read an article saying that this is the time of the online estate agency. The time in question is, of...

Aside from all the news surrounding the Autumn Statement this week, which will have a significant bearing on the property market...

The Federation of Independent Agents (FIA) members are to be given access to exclusive training schemes from industry expert Julian O’Dell. The...

Hidden amongst the annual results released by Purplebricks on Tuesday – which saw revenue and profits down, as well as a...

The self-employed model, after years of not really catching on fully, was given a major boost by the pandemic and the...

A new survey by property consultancy TwentyCi shows that the market share of online and hybrid agents in the third quarter...

A claims firm wants to commence proceedings against online estate agency companies such as Purplebricks and Yopa. It's on behalf of thousands...

Like most industries, estate agency is changing. A general trend to a more hybrid model, accelerated by the pandemic has resulted...

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

Channel 4 Ventures is one of a number of investors who have collectively put the equivalent of £11m into the online...

Online estate agency Strike - which used to be HouseSimple - is expanding its sell-for-free service out across the Midlands and...

One of the highest profile supporters of the online estate agency concept has quit the company he founded. Akshay Ruparelia, who is...

Peter Everett - a veteran High Street estate agent with a quarter of a century at LSL and a decade at...

Rightmove is to review the processes of an online platform which directly uploads sellers' property details via an app. Two years ago...

One of the men behind the defunct Emoov online estate agency has re-emerged as the head of a marketing service. The service...

An online agency that already operates in the lettings field is spreading into sales - and pledges to give most of...

A company in the German Axel Springer publishing empire - which also invested in Purplebricks in the past - has put...

  Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  Mark Meyer, CEO, Meyers Franchising What is Meyers and what...

This week’s In Conversation Today interviewee needs no introduction. One of the property industry’s most recognisable names, she has been a...

In this week's Natter, I focus on the inspiring story of Clare Hughes, who has bounced back in the last 12 months...

At the back-end of last year and the start of this, the biggest news stories in town – besides debates over...

Almost a third of property sellers (29%) say they won't accept a lower offer for their property, according to new research. Online...

An online agency says it’s offering its customers a kind of ‘fall-through insurance’ after over 100 deals collapsed between mid-March and...

An online agency that describes itself as the fifth largest in the sector has announced it’s launching a digital auction service. 99home...

The online estate agency Settled appears to have ceased trading with its customers refunded. It was launched in 2014 by former Google...

An online estate agency which has described the Coronavirus pandemic as “a disrupter and game changer” for the agency industry says...

The Atlantic Ocean is a vast space – some 4,000 miles eastwards across from the USA until land is met again....

A new national agency concept - eXp UK - has revealed that it has recruited over 50 agents in its first...

Online estate agency Housesimple is extending its offer to sell homes for free to some postcodes in the Midlands.  The offer is...

Humberts has signed off in bizarre style leaving only false contact details on its website. The historic agency - which closed several...

Humberts' experiment rejecting branches and promoting a supposedly one-stop-shop for property related services has failed with reports that the firm is likely...

[Estate Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise...

The dispute between controversial online estate agency Emoov and the Advertising Standards Authority is rumbling on.  In the first half of November...

An online estate agency which last week claimed it had resolved a dispute over reviews it showed on its website is...

Fledgling online estate agency Emoov - now owned by PropTech firm Mashroom - has removed reviews and endorsements from its website...

The former chief of an online estate agency says the top three surviving firms in the sector must merge if they...

News broke last weekend of a further online estate agency casualty as letting agent Upad announced on its website that it...

The average age of a first-time buyer in the UK is 27, according to research from Nested.com. The online estate agency says...

It never rains but it pours. And that’s certainly been the case for the online estate agency sector in the last...

The German-based Alex Springer publishing company, which is already the largest single investor in Purplebricks, has acquired a prominent online estate...

Three former online estate agency founders - including the controversial Russell Quirk - are going into mainstream full fee agency. They are...

A new online estate agency has attacked the industry for being “largely cloaked and ambiguous” - and says that of all...

The former Countrywide chief executive Grenville Turner says it is an option for online estate agency Yopa to go to an...

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

A newspaper claims that a crowdfunding site used by some estate agencies and other property industry companies has suspended trading on...

Speculation surrounding whether Boris Johnson will honour his pledge to reduce stamp duty risks bringing the housing market “to a grinding...

Online estate agency EasyProperty has been acquired by a firm with the backing of Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou. easyProperty has been sold by the eProp...

Online estate agency Yopa is warning of price falls ahead in London and south east England - although price rises elsewhere...

New figures released show High Street estate agents taking an increasingly large market share as online operators continue to crumble. According to the...

All the most successful startups of recent years – from Airbnb and Uber to Just Eat and Deliveroo – have melded...

A member of a legal information and networking organisation says an online estate agency expects him to do some work in...

“I’m Russell Quirk, and I’ve failed” - with those words, the former chief executive of Emoov has begun to explain how...

A controversial online estate agency has gone into liquidation two years after describing High Street agents as “smug, suited slime-balls.” BetterMove, registered...

An online estate agency insists the online/hybrid sector will take a 50 per cent market share in the future - despite...

The Secretary of State for Education has written to the head of an online estate agency to ask him to share...

A former senior management figure at Rightmove and online estate agency Doorsteps is going it alone for a new holiday property...

The online estate agency platform Love2Move has scrapped its bid for investment via a controversial crowdfunding platform. The platform - which allows...

LSL Property Services, the parent company of Your Move and Reeds Rains, has substantially 'written down' its investment in online estate...

The UK’s second-largest online estate agency, Yopa, is this month launching a new advertising campaign under the title ‘Smooth Move’. The agency...

The controversial crowdfunding site Crowdcube has listed the founder of online estate agency Doorsteps as one of its five ‘entrepreneurs of...

The new management at Emoov says that following its acquisition out of administration it will relaunch as an online estate agency later...

A new analysis of the online estate agency business model claims that it ‘could be described as a Ponzi scheme’. The accusation...

It’s that time of the week again when we focus on the great work done by the industry, usually without much...

Investment platform Crowdcube has told Estate Agent Today that defunct online estate agency Emoov revised down its company valuation from £104m...

Sky News says the online estate agency Emoov is preparing to call in administrators in a last-ditch attempt to salvage its...

The latest research from online estate agency Emoov shows at least one silver lining to the current Brexit-hit housing market -...

However mild the weather may have been for most of us, it’s a cold autumn for the online estate agency market...

As scary Halloweens go, yesterday was quite a shocker for Britain’s online estate agency sector - and not in a good...

Outspoken online estate agency chief Russell Quirk says the estate agency industry is “really p****d off” with Rightmove trying to ride...

Purplebricks says its performance in the UK “is currently showing double-digit growth year-on-year in monthly instructions.” In a brief UK trading update...

An estate agency comparison website claims the rise of online and hybrid estate agencies has obliged traditional agents to be more...

The Connells-owned online agency Hatched is to close with immediate effect. A statement from the company says: “Online estate agency Hatched will...

An online estate agency run by one of the country’s youngest entrepreneurs has agreed to change a reference about savings on...

The former deputy chief executive at online agency Tepilo is launching a new training, recruitment and consultancy business for estate agents.  Catherine...

An online estate agency has changed the wording of a listing on Rightmove, Zoopla and on its own website after a...

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

A leading digital analyst says online agency Yopa has doubled its listings this year and is fighting the merged Emoov-Tepilo operation...

TV property expert Sarah Beeny says she expects online agencies to take 70 per cent market share in the future -...

Akshay Ruparelia, the teenager who set up the Doorsteps online estate agency only 18 months ago, is now reported to be...

James Brokenshire - yesterday appointed Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government - joins the rank of senior politicians...

Online estate agency House Network claims that “the percentage of houses sold at the original valuation price is 98 per cent”.  The...

Online estate agency Tepilo and over-60s ‘life plan’ property sales service Homewise have been rapped over the knuckles following complaints made...

Agents and representatives from other property sectors have reacted enthusiastically to proposals to professionalise the industry. As we reported yesterday, the government...

Hello and welcome to the latest Property Jobs Today, our round-up each Monday of key job moves within estate and letting...

EweMove has made a senior hire in the shape of Chris Webb, formerly of Countrywide and Winkworth.  He now takes up the...

An online estate agency brand launched a year ago by a traditional high street agent to ward off competition has exceeded...

House Network, which describes itself as the UK’s first online estate agency, is using TV advertising to promote a new "20-point...

There has been a 40 per cent increase in new vendors registering their properties for sale according to an online estate...

According to The Branding Journal, a brand is “a name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one seller's...

Online estate agency Tepilo has denied industry speculation that it is to change its fee structure now that it is under...

HouseSimple is reported to have secured £20m in growth capital which it says will help it “challenge Purplebricks as the UK’s...

Two families have bought each other’s homes in what an online estate agency says is the first ever example of a...

Estate Agent Today understands that a high-profile online estate agency in the UK has approached Facebook with a view to operating...

A firm which offers a white-labelled online estate agency platform which can be used by otherwise-traditional agencies to provide a Purplebricks-style...

The Savills-backed online estate agency YOPA has found itself in glittering company amongst 25 firms listed by business media site LinkedIn...

Two of the leading lights in the growing Proptech sector are now working with a company which has a product it...

Online estate agency YOPA - well known recently for advertisements featuring the Village People - is this evening launching a new...

Online estate agency eMoov has announced the appointment of a new marketing expert. Lucy Milne - formerly marketing director of Just Eat...

A tech magazine has raised speculation, circulating in the industry for some months, that some online agencies have considered joining forces...

For the second successive week the Advertising Standards Authority has banned an online estate agency’s advertisement.  Last week it was HouseSimple and...