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![Viewber marks 500,000th appointment](/upload/images/shutterstock_2100071413(2).jpg)
Outsourced property viewings and inspections provider Viewber is celebrating completing more than half a million appointments. Launched at the end of 2016...
29 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Guild conference to share how agents can charge higher fees](/upload/images/shutterstock_2232908121(1).jpg)
The Guild of Property Professionals has set a date for its Annual Conference and Awards Ceremony on 22 March 2024. It will...
05 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Foxtons ‘has its mojo back’ - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Compliance-2-400x310.png)
Foxtons has got its mojo back under its new chief executive Guy Gittins, senior executives at the agency brand have proclaimed. Gittins...
29 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Foxtons board member: 'Most agents aren’t very good'](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/AgentsWorking-400x310.png)
Foxtons non-executive director and former boss Peter Rollings has suggested the “vast majority” of agents aren’t good at selling properties. Discussing opportunities...
03 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Reader poll: Will you raise your fees this year?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Estate_Agent1-400x310.png)
More than half of Estate Agent Today readers have indicated they will raise their fees this year. Several industry executives have suggested...
03 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Are low fees to blame for lack of agency leadership?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Misc/AML400X310.jpg)
Industry executives have blamed low fees, budgets and a lack of training for a lack of leadership in the estate agency...
31 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Estate agency is about more than commission - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/_Estate-Agent-400x310.png)
Estate agency should be about more than just earning a commission, senior property leaders have said. The issue of commission was discussed...
27 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Should agents door-knock to win business?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/RightToRent1-400x310.png)
Industry leaders have hit back at a suggestion that agents should do more door-knocking to win business. Speaking in the latest video...
25 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents must prove they are worth higher fees - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LearningAgents2-400x310.png)
A lack of training and a laissez-faire attitude to leads and listings is preventing agents charging higher fees, industry leaders have...
24 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Media blamed for ‘stifling market sentiment’](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-400x310.png)
Industry leaders have hit out at the media for “stifling sentiment” as they urge agents to help vendors make an informed...
23 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Foxtons became too flabby, interim boss claims](/upload/images/Logos/FoxtonsBoards-400x310.jpg)
Foxtons had become ‘flabby’ and lost its sense of business, its interim chief executive Peter Rollings claims. Speaking on The Guild of...
18 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Foxtons: 'Why we replaced our chief executive'](/upload/images/Logos/Foxtons-logo400x310.png)
Foxtons interim chief executive Peter Rollings has said “change was needed” to boost the London brand after Guy Gittins was appointed...
29 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Guy Gittins confirmed as new Foxtons boss](/upload/images/Logos/Foxtons-logo400x310.png)
Foxtons has confirmed the appointment of former Chestertons boss Guy Gittins as its new chief executive. Gittins will step into the role...
30 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter – the A-Z of property for 2021](/upload/images/Site%20logos/PropertyNatter-2019-400x310.png)
It really is beginning to look a lot like Christmas – just a week to go now. Presents all wrapped and...
18 December 2021
From: Features
![Famous Foxtons veteran rejoins the agency after 16 years](/upload/images/Logos/Foxtons-logo400x310.png)
Foxtons has this morning announced that former managing director Peter Rollings is rejoining the agency 16 years after his departure. Rollings was...
29 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter: talking the secret to good photography and working for Foxtons](/upload/images/Site%20logos/PropertyNatter-2019-400x310.png)
Good property marketing photos have arguably never been more important in an increasingly visual and tech-led world. We saw just the...
11 September 2021
From: Features
![Foxtons - “too aggressive and too nasty” admits former boss](/upload/images/Logos/Foxtons-logo400x310.png)
The man who admits he was “the acceptable face of Foxtons” in its golden period says he finally left because it...
02 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter: why didn’t Foxtons’ American dream work out?](/img/default/eat.png)
Recent Natters have explored the differences between the UK and American models of agency, and why Purplebricks failed to make a...
26 September 2020
From: Features
![Outsourced viewing service hits 90,000 and reveals new partnership](/img/default/eat.png)
[Estate Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise...
06 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Major foreign estate agency poised to re-enter UK market](/img/default/eat.png)
One of the most high profile estate agencies in the Republic of Ireland says it may re-enter the UK market after...
25 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Viewber completes 35,000th viewing after 460% growth in just a year](/img/default/eat.png)
Viewber has announced that it’s just completed its 35,000th outsourced viewing, reflecting a jaw-dropping 460 per cent rise in just a...
11 September 2018
From: Breaking News
![Property Jobs Today - the industry's latest moves...](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT - a thinner than usual edition as the industry enjoys the last of the...
20 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![PropTech Today: Can Viewber become an essential part of the agent toolbox?](/img/default/eat.png)
What a big week for PropTech! With the very first MIPIM PropTech conference, taking place in Paris today and tomorrow, comes...
20 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![Foxtons off-the-scale manic and hyper-aggressive (well, it used to be)](/img/default/eat.png)
The former managing director of Foxtons, Peter Rollings, has spilled the beans on what it was like working at the heart...
18 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter: Q & A with Peter Rollings](/img/default/eat.png)
Peter Rollings is one of the most respected and best-known figures in property, having helped to rapidly grow Foxtons (where he...
16 June 2018
From: Features
![Viewber passes 20,000 viewings mark and secures over £2m new funding](/img/default/eat.png)
The outsourced viewing service Viewber says it has now conducted over 20,000 viewings on behalf of agents and has secured another...
11 April 2018
From: Breaking News
![Viewber marks its first year with its 6,500th appointment](/img/default/eat.png)
Viewber, the outsourced viewing service, has marked its first anniversary by notching up its 6,500th appointment. Launched in early September 2016 by...
12 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![Influential Marsh & Parsons sales director to depart after 12 years](/img/default/eat.png)
London estate agency Marsh & Parsons has announced that its sales director Liza-Jane Kelly has taken the decision to leave after...
17 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Viewber network now over 1,200 as startup closes funding round](/img/default/eat.png)
Viewber, the outsourced property viewing service and brainchild of high-profile former estate agent Ed Mead, says its network of 'Viewbers' now...
16 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Former Foxtons boss invests in Viewber outsourced viewing service](/img/default/eat.png)
Peter Rollings, the well-known former managing director of Foxtons, has taken a stake in Viewber, the recently-launched outsourced viewing service. Viewber allows...
12 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![Mortgage surge shows housing market is strengthening](/img/default/eat.png)
In a new sign that the housing market is strengthening, mortgage lending increased in August by the largest amount since 2008. Data...
30 September 2015
From: Breaking News
![Transactions down as election impact is revealed](/img/default/eat.png)
The true impact of the election on the housing market has been revealed as the latest government figures on house transactions...