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The founder of a new online sales assistance service says agents are often unfairly blamed by the public for failings in...

A PropTech start-up says its booking, valuation and communication tools will be available free of charge to any agency with fewer...

One of the more puzzling questions in London's estate agency industry has been resolved - how a company which appears to...

Estate agency James Pendleton says it wants to give its clients more digital advantages without becoming an online operation itself -...

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

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

eMoov, the online agency which last month secured an additional £9m funding from investors, has launched a recruitment drive for what...

Online agency HouseSimple has once again been the subject of a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority. Earlier this month a HouseSimple advertisement...

A major regional agency with offices in Kent, Surrey and Sussex says its new online service - Howard Cundey LIVE -...

Research in the United States shows that traditional full-service estate agencies achieve better sale prices than the biggest alternative in that...

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

An estate agency that has just launched in south Devon says it is giving its customers the advantages of a 24-hour...

The chief executive of online estate agency eMoov - which has raised £9m in its latest investment round - says “more...

Experts in Property - the network of independent estate agencies across Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Bristol - has revealed two...

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

Speculation is growing that one of the most senior executives in the Countrywide management team may be leaving the organisation. Countrywide and...

An online estate agency with a website claiming “a saving of 50 per cent” on local agents, is seeking £100,000 to £250,000...

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

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

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

Some 19 per cent of estate agents in the UK currently show warning signs that indicate they are at risk of going...

Adam Day, the founder of Connells-owned online estate agency Hatched, has been announced as head of operations at easyProperty.    In a statement...

Countrywide says the roll out of its online sales and lettings service is on schedule to reach 50 per cent of...

The on-off-on saga of the fledgling trade group for independent agents has taken another twist. The founder of the organisation suggests that...

A third of ‘quick sale’ companies - those that buy homes in bulk at discounted prices - say the rise of...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an advertisement which suggested that the firm behind it had “a physical office ... in...

The first ever home to have a viewing staged over Facebook Live has sold after it received three offers as a...

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

It’s not happening here (yet) but several articles on US websites have started talking up the possibility of Amazon going into...

PropTech start-up OneDome - which describes its products as allowing traditional estate agents to challenge Purplebricks and other online rivals -...

The chief executive of Purplebricks, often criticised by detractors for failing to reveal completion rates as opposed to listings, says his...

The troubled trade group Charter for Independent Estate and Letting Agents - which has suggested it may not have enough support...

New figures released this morning from Purplebricks shows the onward march of the hybrid agency and its Local Property Experts. For the...

Online estate agency Housesimple says it is aiming to sell the first home in the UK via a viewing on Facebook...

TV property expert and online agency owner Sarah Beeny says there will always be some sellers who prefer to use traditional...

Two leading voices in the PropTech sector suggest a radical overhaul of agents’ fee structures, saying that neither traditional full service nor online...

A study described as the biggest of its type seeks to explain why vendors choose - or avoid - online agents. The...

A consumer group which has consistently promoted online agencies says they achieve closer to sellers’ original asking price than the national...

Zoopla has been reported as saying hybrid estate agencies will not reach their professed targets of achieving 10 per cent of...

The founder of the trade group seeking to represent independent agencies says he hopes the National Association of Estate Agents considers...

Estate Agent Today understands that the fledgling trade group CIELA - the Charter for Independent Estate and Letting Agents - has...

The comparison service Get Agent has released the full details of its analysis of the performance of four different online estate...

A company which last month launched a service which it claims allows High Street estate agents to compete with online and...

EasyProperty has removed from its advertising any reference to clients getting ‘an offier in 20 weeks’ after an intervention by the...

EweMove, the online brand owned by the Property Franchise Group, now has 108 franchisees - 97 are fully operational and 11...

Countrywide’s Bairstow Eves brand has launched a series of video guides for customers using their £995 online agency service and for...

The new chief executive of the Guild of Property Professionals has accused some online agents of carrying out “aggressive” marketing campaigns...

A firm is claiming to be allow high street agents to offer vendors an online sale services as well, without the...

The new chief marketing officer of online estate agency YOPA is a figure with over 20 years experience with brands such as...

The first meeting of fledgling trade group CIELA has ended with a pledge to expose what it calls ‘fake agents’ which...

A debate on customer service in the agency industry has been arranged for later this month between leading lights from both...

It’s been revealed that next month’s Future: PropTech conference will feature a debate between ‘technologists’ and ‘traditionalists’ over the future of...

HomeXperts, the network of franchise agents operating from their homes and covering sales and lettings, has announced three new franchisees. They are...

Countrywide’s share price, which just over three years ago was riding high at just above 685p, has hit a new low...

An analysis by a leading PropTech entrepreneur has attempted to throw light on the startling losses reported last week by online...

The chief executive of online easyProperty says the company’s investors “have full confidence” in the firm despite it announcing an operating...

Figures lodged at Companies House by online agency easyProperty suggest parent company EProp Services will seek additional funding this year. A strategic...

An online estate agency which says it could be the next Purplebricks says prejudice against internet property transactions is waning  “With Neil...

Swiss bank UBS has downgraded Countrywide’s status to ‘sell’ in a move which has prompted the troubled estate agency’s share price...

Purplebricks' entry into selective areas of the US market comes just as new evidence suggests the use of estate agencies by...

The man behind YOPA - the online agency that last year secured investment from high end traditional company Savills - says...

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

The new group for independent owner-managed estate and letting agencies, to be formally inaugurated this week, has stepped up its campaign...

Harry Hill - former chief executive of Countrywide and the founder of Rightmove, and one of the most respected figures in the...

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

A high street agency has turned the online sector’s advertising technique on its head. Instead of a seller revealing ‘saved’ fees by...

One of the founders of hybrid agency Purplebricks says sellers in the UK may never accept the sale of their property...

One of the earliest entrepreneurs to found a website to allow for-sale-by-owner property listings back in 2000, predicts current online agents...

New research suggests there has been a slight increase in the total number of estate agency offices in Greater London this...

Hatched, the online agency snapped up just over a year ago by Connells in what was described as an ‘industry defining’...

An estate agency described as operating a ‘pay as you go’ business model says it wants to “disrupt the disruptors” operating...

Prominent buying agent, TV housing market commentator and hard-core tweeter Henry Pryor has accused traditional estate agents of becoming “fat and...

Tepilo, Sarah Beeny’s online estate agency, has opened a new headquarters in central London after doubling its turnover in the past...

The award-winning online agency HouseSimple has had one of its advertisements banned by the Advertising Standards Authority. The advert was a poster for...

A debate discussing how online and traditional estate agency would develop in the future, organised by City investment consultancy Jefferies, has...

Countrywide's second most senior management figure - Head of Retail Sam Tyrer - is to speak before an industry audience next...

An online agency called DoorStepAgents.com claims to have set up a service which is both the cheapest and ‘best value’ sales...

Despite the much-publicised 'threat' of online estate agency there were more high street offices opened in the first half of this year...

YOPA, the online agency that recently had an extensive TV campaign, has amended the content of its website following a complaint to...

One of the world’s leading property portal and online consultants says Purplebricks, which is now operating in Australia and the UK,...

An online estate agency delisted by Rightmove for apparently breaching its terms and conditions has accused the portal of “gross abuse”...

In the first half of this year, vendors in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, could have saved over £1.87 billion in...

Countrywide’s former senior management rejected an invitation to buy 10 per cent of eMoov for £100,000 five years ago, according to the...

A firm called Proper Local has launched, insisting it is offering “a new model” for estate agency, somewhere between a traditional...

Ed Mead, one of the most high profile estate agents in the industry, is leaving London agency Douglas and Gordon to...

The bank Credit Suisse has launched a new monthly survey of online estate agents, using a simple eight-element questionnaire. The bank -...

YOPA, the online agency which now has financial investment from Savills, says its instructions have risen five-fold since February. It also says...

An estate agency owned by Countrywide has relaunched with what it calls “an innovative, premises-free business model that seeks to redefine...

Zoopla is to offer its members a range of options which effectively mean that those agents who wish to can offer...

Settled, which was set up in 2015 and earlier this year announced it was hunting for an additional £1m in funding,...

Swiss bank UBS has given an upbeat assessment of online estate agencies in the changing housing market - but it warns...

The chief executive of Savills says “the sale of homes will move more and more online” - justifying the recent investment...

Online agency Settled has been described by a major national newspaper as having “halved the time it takes to sell a...

For the second time this month, the Advertising Standards Authority has had to intervene over the wording of an ad from...

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

Sarah Beeny’s Tepilo agency says it intends to more than double its size in the next six months and cites Purplebricks...

The influential consumer property body HomeOwners Alliance says Purplebricks-style hybrid estate agencies may be “the future”. In a blog on the HOA website,...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an ad by online agency emoov after a complaint disputing the duration of a fee...

Another Countrywide executive has left the company - the latest departure is Eyal Malinger, the director of corporate development. Harvard-educated Malinger had...

Online agency HouseSimple Award claims a new £13m investment package will allow it to “challenge PurpleBricks as the UK’s leading online...