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Strike chief executive Sam Mitchell has blamed uncertainty since the September mini-Budget and rising mortgage rates for making the market more...

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

Former Evolve staff are being offered £2,000 ex-gratia payments by the easyGroup after its ownership of easyProperty ended. Jason Bull, national sales...

Purplebricks backer Axel Springer has replaced its representative on the board of the beleaguered online estate agent. A stockmarket update yesterday said...

Homeowners may have become less willing to pay upfront fees to sell their home. Despite efforts by online-only brands such as Purplebricks...

The online agency Strike - which has a business model selling homes for free and relying on referral fees for revenue...

Purplebricks is delaying release of its half-year figures which were scheduled to be given to shareholders tomorrow. This follows revelations in the Daily...

Mark Meyer, CEO, Meyers Estate Agents: “We’re on a mission to revolutionise the traditional concept of estate agency.   We don’t have...

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

The Good Estate Agent, set up in 2010, is slashing its franchise fee - it claims the reductions are for Black...

Purplebricks' share price tumbled a remarkable 34 per cent this morning when trading opened on the London Stock Exchange. The price crashed...

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...

An online agency has issued an outlandish statement that it, and other online agencies, have made the profession more trusted amongst...

To kick off 2021, we have a Q&A with one of the most high-profile – and, it has to be said,...

99Home, the agency that describes itself as the country’s fifth largest hybrid, has teamed up with the Mortgage Advice Bureau. MAB will...

Annual house price inflation is now running at 6.5 per cent according to the latest Nationwide index after a 0.9 per...

One of the country’s top buying agents is advising purchasers and vendors to avoid online agencies and 'bucketshop' conveyancers. Edward Heaton - founder...

It is widely expected that Purplebricks will shortly reveal the result of an experiment with a number of different pricing strategies. The...

The online agency Housesimple has rebranded to become 'Strike' with immediate effect. The news comes as a surprise given the apparent success...

The chief executive of a property information platform says now is a “dangerous time” to buy or sell homes because of...

Buyers and sellers using online estate agencies could inadvertently sign contracts if they carelessly use email signature blocks. Blocks are the ‘auto-signatures’...

A leading property lawyer is urging sellers not to use online agents because to do so would be “a gamble”. Gillian Wright...

A leading analyst says Purplebricks has clearly plateaued and will not reach its own target of a 10 per cent market...

An online estate agent is awaiting sentence after being found guilty of a £5,000 fraud  Claire Ainsworth, who worked for the agency...

A warning has been issued by a prominent industry figure that more bricks-and-mortar High Street agents will go under in 2020,...

It normally costs estate or lettings agents £10,000 to buy a franchise for the online company called The Good Estate Agent...

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

There has been a surprise, but small, increase in the market share of online estate agents according to the latest survey. Business...

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

Hybrid agency Yopa has announced that its chief executive, Ben Poynter, will be standing down at the end of October to...

A survey claims that millions of potential sellers would use online estate agents - and bizarrely, this includes an online agency...

In the old days an agent would procure clients based upon their position in the high street, the size of the...

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

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

One of the most experienced and high profile figures in the industry says individual agents working for online companies are typically...

The Advertising Standards Authority has issued a guidance note warning online estate agents, after complaints about them have “grown dramatically”. “Property is big...

There’s more bad news for online estate agencies this morning as a survey reveals that they have only a seven per cent...

In the last ten years Google's revenue, largely from pay per click ads (Adwords), has grown by 527% (Source: Statista). In...

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

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

Purplebricks has announced that it is to give a trading update and the result of its review of its US activities on...

New data from property consultancy The Advisory shows that the top 10 online estate agents now have a combined market share...

Whether you love or hate it, Purplebricks has undoubtedly left its mark since arriving on the scene in 2015 – much...

Agents have reacted gloomily to the release of figures showing that the number of new mortgages offered to both movers and...

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

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

Online estate agents have seized on the recent national newspaper article accusing estate agents of over-valuing properties to earn higher fees. The...

UK estate agents charge the lowest commission in the European Union according to new research from a comparison website. Despite high levels...

Purplebricks’ and Foxtons’ apparent success on Trustpilot have come under scrutiny in a Times newspaper analysis of the review platform. The Times’...

For many years, the majority of agents have stuck to the tried-and-tested 9am-6pm opening hours framework. But is this now changing,...

The end of 2018 was a bit of a rocky time for online estate agents. Yet only a few years ago...

The latest analysis of new listings in the two weeks to last Friday show that online estate agencies continue to have...

Online agency platform Love2move insists that its current bid to attract investors will not be damaged by the adverse publicity surrounding...

Online estate agent Emoov failed to tell crowdfunding investors it was losing £3m a month before its collapse, a Sunday paper claims. The...

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

The regional agency MoveSelf, which set up in 2017 as an online estate agent, is shifting emphasis towards For Sale By...

Purplebricks has increased its listings by an eye-opening 44 per cent in the past two weeks according to an updated analysis...

The share of the market taken by online agencies in the final quarter of 2018 slipped from last summer’s high of...

Kenny Bruce, one of the founders of sector-leading online agency Purplebricks, has sent his good wishes to Russell Quirk, who founded...

It’s been an interesting week of contrasts when it comes to online replacing ‘the old school’. Data from that clever consultancy The...

Hello and welcome to 2019. These are less predictions and more expectations - developments following on from what’s happened in the past...

Has the bell finally tolled for online agencies? Emoov’s collapse and an investor revolt over crowdfunding have left a large question...

Estate Agent Today has been given details of responses made by administrators to an enquiry about the possible acquisition of some...

Whatever one thinks about online estate agencies, it’s a cause of genuine sadness when people lose their jobs - close proximity...

The chief executive of Emoov and the founder of the new portal Rummage4Property had a dramatic spat on Twitter just hours...

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

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

New research by TheAdvisory consultancy, shared exclusively with Estate Agent Today, reveals exactly how fees have fallen for traditional agents in...

The chairman of LonRes says online estate agents have only a one per cent share of the market in prime central...

Cast your mind back to July 2008 – Gordon Brown was Prime Minister, the Euros were in full swing in Austria/Switzerland...

So here’s the thing. It’s summer - not much going on, school holidays about to start, industry publications filling out space...

The Money editor of The Mirror newspaper has finally sold a home he first put on the market in late 2016...

A recent holiday in the US gave me an opportunity to catch up with property news over there - and surprisingly,...

Two high street estate agents have used the medium of the local press to come out fighting against the threat of...

The prospect of technology transforming the selling and buying process, including more power for portals and especially online agents, dominated parts...

Sky News says online estate agents Emoov and Tepilo are in talks about a ‎merger - and if it happens the...

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...

For many estate agents seeking to become entrepreneurs, the idea of starting their own business is undoubtedly daunting, especially when going...

The operation of ‘online estate agencies’ has changed substantially in the relatively short few years of their existence: I have spotted...

A lengthy analysis of the online agency sector, based on material supplied by an online agent, suggests that its market share...

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

Outspoken buying agent Henry Pryor has set out 10 points that he claims many traditional agents overlook when they debate the...

The BBC says it is to broadcast a special one-hour radio documentary this weekend investigating online estate agencies. The show will go...

Well, I don’t know about you but after the holidays I've got an imprint just below my navel where my belt...

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

A new website which completely by-passes all kinds of estate agents and allows vendors to upload details of their own properties...

Ten jobs have been lost with the closure of a long-standing north of England estate agency - with the downward pressure...

Sky News says the online estate agent eMoov is drawing up plans to float on the stock market.  Sky has been well-informed...

Arun Estates reports that it has netted an additional £350,000 in fees thanks to a scheme designed to woo vendors using online...

Consumer group Which? says the public should be wary of claims made by online estate agents. This follows a series of complaints about...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned online agency HouseSimple from claiming that High Street agents charge “1.5% to 4% (plus 20%...

Once upon a time there were estate agents. That was it. Nice and simple. If you marketed and sold residential property,...

Even if you didn’t watch it, you’ve almost certainly heard about it by now.  The recent BBC Watchdog exposé of Purplebricks has...

MPL Interiors has not one but two brilliant things to give away this summer. We want to encourage as many estate...

Purplebricks’ share price this afternoon dropped to a recent low of 406.50p before recovering to close down about five per cernt...

A new report reveals how clients’ reviews and star ratings - used by many online estate agents in particular - are...

A traditional estate agency has launched a new online package to give vendors the opportunity “to save thousands.” FranKeys in Lincoln has...