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CoStar Group, the US-based global online real estate provider which acquired OnTheMarket in December, has now snapped up Matterport, the well...

It’s the start of what promises - perhaps ‘threatens’ is a better word - to be a challenging second half of...

A man has been jailed for fraud after conning potential property buyers out of nearly £16,000. Jaspal Singh Juttla, 64 of Northwood...

From Million Dollar Listing to Selling Sunset, we’re used to seeing real estate reality TV in full force on Netflix. Whilst...

Agents using Boomin have managed to convert more than 20% of SmartVal valuation requests into instructions. The challenger portal and lead generation...

There seems a consensus amongst agents, analysts and amateur pundits alike that the market will stay relatively strong for some months,...

Spring may be struggling to break through the clouds but agents are continuing to step up for good causes. The humanitarian crisis...

In this piece, Leanna Donkin from house. partnership reflects on what the last year has brought for her after a leap...

Viewings are in the news right now and with good reason.  As the impact of the stamp duty holiday fades, and transaction...

It doesn’t seem that long ago that 2D floorplans were considered cutting edge – but it’s safe to say they’re now...

Property portal app MoveStreets says the latest upgrade to its app sends leads to agents’ inboxes and allows users to instantly arrange...

A traditional problem for agents has been ‘tyre kickers’ who come to view a home out of curiosity with little or...

Propertymark has produced a new guide for estate agents in the wake of the latest step on the roadmap out of Covid...

There’s been a drop of no less than 16,000 in the number of physical viewings over the past year thanks to just...

The increasingly common live-streaming of property viewings is becoming a source of lead generation according to an industry supplier. The creators of...

Recently I heard the stat that over 50% of property is sold with the second agent, which was backed up by...

A panel of estate agents recently participated in a webinar to discuss the benefits of livestream open house viewings. The webinar, part...

Pre-pandemic, virtual and video viewings were a nice little add-on for some agents, but they were far from universally used and...

Fledgling portal Boomin - launching later this month - has announced another 10 independent regional agencies as founder members. This includes its...

The housing market is to remain open in the four week lockdown in England. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government...

An estate agency in the south of England has abandoned its online-only strategy and has decided to open a physical office...

For a number of years now, predictions have been made that one of the major tech giants will eventually enter the...

In my last Natter, I explored the differences between estate agency in the UK and the US with the help of...

A leading expert on estate agency and the housing market in Australia has lifted the lid on how Purplebricks failed down...

We have had a special relationship for many years and are bonded as countries in many ways – historically, politically and...

An agent in Hertfordshire says he routinely secures 5,000 visits to ‘live open houses’ on Facebook Live, and have on one...

A former chief executive of Countrywide has issued a string of extravagant claims about the lockdown success of the online agency...

The chief executive of NAEA Propertymark says he expects specific government guidance later this week for estate agents to return to...

“A lot of people have learned that they can work at home, or that there’s other methods of conducting their business......

Since my last column in April, one could argue that very little has changed for agents in terms of the market...

Over the last two weeks we’ve seen the country come to a standstill and the property market effectively put on ice...

An international comparison of how major portals have discounted their charges to agents show Rightmove and Zoopla making “deeper and longer...

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

‘Property ghosting’ is a problem that nearly all estate and letting agencies will face at one time or another. Ghosting, which is...

Stories of a slow property market due to an ongoing lack of supply and Brexit woes have been well-documented in recent...

It’s likely that your agency or one of your clients has recently fallen foul of an old-fashioned trend which has been...

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

New free-to-list portals Residential People and Commercial People are aiming to secure one million property listings by Q4 2019. The portals -...

We all make mistakes, and when it comes to typos Estate Agent Today is as guilty as anyone. But there’s a...

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 latest analysis of the performance of the top 10 online estate agencies shows that their market share of new listings...

No, I haven’t lost the plot. Such a thing exists – and if you’re familiar with North London, there is a...

The last couple of weeks’ articles were penned very much for a specific agent readership, something I am trying to be...

New research appears to show that Purplebricks, HouseSimple, Yopa and other prominent online agencies are most popular with vendors selling in...

Online agency Elopa has dropped a claim on its website that its Open House method of selling properties achieved the best...

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

This actually happened - the names of the guilty have been withheld to protect the innocent. I live in Spain, Marbella actually,...

If this past year is anything to go by, outsourcing is firmly on the agenda for estate agents. Rather than being...

Technology has been continuing to shape the way estate agents manage their customer service offering for years. It’s now a completely...

Strutt & Parker says it has achieved record annual sales figures from its latest National Open House day on October 8. It says...

More than 900 sales branches will be taking part in the UK's 'largest open house weekend' later this week.  The event, which...

The managing director of an agency operating in prime central London and other high-value locations in southern England says the Open...

Online estate agency easyProperty has brought in a veteran psychology expert to look at the stress of buying a home -...

Women property buyers are more instinctive when buying a home and are therefore 13% more likely to 'mentally move into a...

It’s the Bank Holiday and an extra-long weekend - although many agents will be making the most of sales, lets, open...

The Advertising Standards Authority has ordered the company Homewise not to use misleading wording following two complaints about one of its...

There’s been a lot of talk lately about artificial intelligence (AI). We’ve seen it feature prominently this year on film (in...

Competition is hot among home buyers in my part of southern England to take ownership of properties that come onto the...

The property at the centre of what has been described as the world’s first virtual open house on Facebook has sold...

Thomas Morris Estate Agents has claimed the world’s first ‘virtual open house’ property viewing.  The firm carried out the event via the...

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