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The industry big hitter who joined Connells on a temporary basis to support its acquisition of Countrywide has now become its commercial director and a...
24 February 2022
From: Breaking News

There are some parts of the world, including in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, where estate agent isn’t seen as...
28 August 2021
From: Features

Things can change. For those who remember, it’s no secret that I became one of the industry's strongest critics of OnTheMarket (OTM). My reasons...
21 August 2021
From: Features

The Bruce brothers' new portal Boomin has launched a day early - and no, this isn't an April Fool. The site went live...
01 April 2021
From: Breaking News

For a mixture of reasons, I now only write this column every two weeks. At first, I missed the weekly consideration...
09 September 2020
From: Breaking News

Zoopla says its sale and vendor leads have reached a 2020 high, beating volumes delivered even during the strong start to the...
27 July 2020
From: Breaking News

Over 600 agents have now signed up to the Say No To Rightmove campaign including some of the biggest names on...
23 March 2020
From: Breaking News

Yes, believe it or not, we’ve nearly reached the end of a whole decade. And what an eventful decade it’s been. We’ve...
14 December 2019
From: Features

Zoopla says the number of its leads delivered to member agents in the period March 2018 to February 2019 was 36...
20 March 2019
From: Breaking News

OnTheMarket has stepped up its attack on Rightmove with a stridently-worded email to agents explaining how a drop in leads from...
05 March 2019
From: Breaking News

Zoopla is claiming a big surge in leads provided to agents and a new high in the number of visits to...
07 January 2019
From: Breaking News

As you probably know, I have been no fan of OnTheMarket (OTM) over the years. You may see this admission as...
20 July 2018
From: Features

Cast your mind back to July 2008 – Gordon Brown was Prime Minister, the Euros were in full swing in Austria/Switzerland...
30 June 2018
From: Features

Property portal OnTheMarket has announced that it now has listing agreements with over 8,500 estate and letting agency branches. It says that...
30 May 2018
From: Breaking News

OnTheMarket remains defiant despite the decision of Douglas & Gordon, one of its founder agencies, to list once again on Zoopla...
15 February 2018
From: Breaking News

Rightmove says its visits so far in January are running over nine per cent higher than the same period a year...
15 January 2018
From: Breaking News

Who says things slow down before Christmas? The opposite appears to be the case, at least when it comes to the...
21 December 2017
From: Features

The new contract for firms joining or re-signing to OnTheMarket is reported to have a restriction on acquisitions. It is said to...
05 December 2017
From: Breaking News

LSL Property Services - which has high street brands including Your Move, Reeds Rains and Marsh & Parsons - has signed...
28 November 2017
From: Breaking News

Global investment bank RBC Capital Markets says OnTheMarket has the potential to undermine the pricing power of Rightmove and ZPG -...
22 November 2017
From: Breaking News

OnTheMarket is reported to be threatening an estate agency with legal action. Earlier this week Estate Agent Today reported that Henry Adams, a...
17 November 2017
From: Breaking News

The 15-branch Henry Adams agency has signed up to ZPG, just the day after the portal group said it had seen...
15 November 2017
From: Breaking News

ZPG says that the number of estate agency branches that left to join OnTheMarket but have now returned has reached over...
13 November 2017
From: Breaking News

The fact is that most house hunters simply do not have the time, let alone the inclination, to trawl around properties...
28 October 2017
From: Features

An early Gold member of OnTheMarket is making a last-ditch bid to stop its parent company, Agents’ Mutual, from floating on...
11 September 2017
From: Breaking News

Let’s be honest - few people saw this coming. The 89 to 11 per cent majority amongst Agents’ Mutual members for...
08 September 2017
From: Breaking News

The industry today awaits the result of Agents’ Mutual’s formal Members’ Court in which agents will vote on the organisation’s proposed demutualisation and...
06 September 2017
From: Breaking News

The growing anger of some OnTheMarket member agents about the portal’s parent company proposal to float on the London Stock Exchange...
29 August 2017
From: Breaking News

Before we go any further, assuming you are an Agents’ Mutual member, let me ask you a question. If you had...
24 August 2017
From: Features

There’s a distinct sense of déjà vu over the debacle of OnTheMarket. I avoided joining two years ago because I couldn’t see...
12 August 2017
From: Features

No one can say Agents’ Mutual has failed to provoke debate within the industry. The project was the centre of fierce argument...
11 August 2017
From: Breaking News

ZPG has stepped into the escalating dispute between portals by revealing record figures on new leads - two hours before the first...
08 August 2017
From: Breaking News

The first two meetings in a roadshow which OnTheMarket has organised for local member agents take place today - another 18...
08 August 2017
From: Breaking News

Agents’ Mutual has confirmed that it proposes to form a new company, OnTheMarket plc, to list on the AIM market of...
04 August 2017
From: Breaking News

The Connells-owned agency Gascoigne Halman is to make a costs payment of £1.24m within 14 days to Agents’ Mutual - but...
13 July 2017
From: Breaking News

The Connells-owned agency Gascoigne Halman is to make a costs payment of £1.24m within 14 days to Agents’ Mutual - but...
12 July 2017
From: Breaking News

Agents’ Mutual says it will be seeking to recover costs and compensation for losses incurred after what is widely seen as...
06 July 2017
From: Breaking News

ZPG says the number of estate agency branches to have quit OnTheMarket and rejoined Zoopla over the past two years has...
02 June 2017
From: Breaking News

An internet monitoring service operated by international financial services giant Morgan Stanley says OnTheMarket is continuing to lose both its share...
22 May 2017
From: Breaking News

OnTheMarket has swatted away the latest criticism from a long-term critic, online estate agency head Russell Quirk - although it has...
03 March 2017
From: Breaking News

It’s over. Done. The only ones interested are those with too much time on their hands. For God’s sake - behind...
04 February 2017
From: Features

Zoopla and OnTheMarket have issued their figures for last month’s visits, each claiming their busiest ever January. Zoopla Property Group says it...
02 February 2017
From: Breaking News

Zoopla says it delivered a record number of unique appraisal leads to its agent members in December, up 112 per cent...
09 January 2017
From: Breaking News

OnTheMarket is now listing UK commercial properties to rent and for sale. The portal says this is “closely aligned with its UK residential search...
02 December 2016
From: Breaking News

Although Brexit, portal juggling and portal wars have stolen property industry headlines in recent months, there's been one story almost constantly...
05 November 2016
From: Features

Zoopla Property Group claims that in the past two weeks, over 40 agency branches have returned to listing on Zoopla and...
18 October 2016
From: Breaking News

The Jeffries Group, an eight-branch Hampshire-based independent agency, says it is going to leave OnTheMarket. Although the group’s website and email branding...
10 October 2016
From: Breaking News

An eleven-branch estate agency has announced that it will stop listing with OnTheMarket and is returning to Zoopla Property Group (ZPG). Howard...
23 September 2016
From: Breaking News

Agents' Mutual was last week ordered to make a further payment into court as part of its ongoing legal case against...
20 September 2016
From: Breaking News

The OTM Action Group has released a statement claiming that Agents' Mutual has chosen not to address any of the concerns...
14 September 2016
From: Breaking News

Zoopla Property Group has this morning told the City that it has seen another increase in agent numbers and listings in...
08 September 2016
From: Breaking News

OnTheMarket says Andrew Milsom Estate Agents, a six branch agency in Buckinghamshire and Berkshire, has joined the portal. The website says the...
02 September 2016
From: Breaking News

Zoopla claims that it has delivered a 40 per cent increase in valuation leads to its agent members in the first six...
11 July 2016
From: Breaking News

Zoopla chief executive Alex Chesterman has been revealed to be one of the business leaders behind a legal challenge regarding the Brexit...
05 July 2016
From: Breaking News

Property portal OnTheMarket has announced that it has signed up five branch estate agency Meller Braggins. The firm, which is based in...
03 June 2016
From: Breaking News

OnTheMarket has changed the claims it makes to prospective clients about its stock levels and market share compared to Zoopla, following...
18 May 2016
From: Breaking News

Russell Quirk - whose online agency eMoov is banned from OnTheMarket - says the new portal has indirectly helped onliners rather...
17 May 2016
From: Breaking News

One of the directors of Agents’ Mutual, parent body of portal OnTheMarket, has told Estate Agent Today that his firm does...
22 April 2016
From: Breaking News

After over a year of speculation, the Competition and Markets Authority has stepped into the row over OnTheMarket and its ‘one...
21 April 2016
From: Breaking News

The rush to beat the stamp duty surcharge deadline has pushed average asking prices to a record high according to Rightmove...
18 April 2016
From: Breaking News

OnTheMarket chief executive Ian Springett has sent an email to member agents following articles about alleged legal challenges to the portal...
15 April 2016
From: Breaking News

OnTheMarket chief executive Ian Springett has sent an email to member agents following articles about alleged legal challenges to the portal...
14 April 2016
From: Breaking News

The agent who last year wrote a controversial ‘open letter’ about OnTheMarket has now received a letter demanding she pay alleged...
12 April 2016
From: Breaking News

A senior analyst at Credit Suisse has opened the debate about the possibility of unhappy agent members of OnTheMarket challenging their...
08 April 2016
From: Breaking News

City analysts at UBS have downgraded Zoopla to a 'neutral' recommendation from 'buy' citing that it remains threatened by OnTheMarket. Against the...
08 April 2016
From: Breaking News

A number of agencies that joined OnTheMarket but subsequently stopped listing properties on the portal have received letters from a legal...
07 April 2016
From: Breaking News

Zoopla Property Group says it has recorded a 61 per cent leap in appraisal leads in February compared to the same...
18 March 2016
From: Breaking News

A three branch estate agency has announced that it has returned to Zoopla from OnTheMarket. Staves Estate Agents, which has offices in...
17 March 2016
From: Breaking News

Here’s a story with more than a little in common with Britain’s own property portal wars. A long-running legal saga between Danish...
11 March 2016
From: Breaking News

OnTheMarket is not going to uphold the controversial ‘one other portal’ rule for its new Overseas Channel, which it has launched...
02 March 2016
From: Breaking News

In line with the industry’s expectations, Rightmove has announced its results declaring a record performance by almost every measure. There were a...
26 February 2016
From: Breaking News

Countrywide has given what it admits is a “mixed performance” in 2015 with a major reduction in operating profits, although it...
25 February 2016
From: Breaking News

It is reported this morning that OnTheMarket has lost one of its key early investors, the Gascoigne Halman agency which is...
10 February 2016
From: Breaking News

Analysts at German-owned bank Berenberg have done an analysis of visitor numbers for OnTheMarket and Zoopla in January. In a report titled...
08 February 2016
From: Breaking News

An OnTheMarket director says his portal can still challenge Rightmove - despite record figures from Rightmove itself. As we reported yesterday, Rightmove says...
05 February 2016
From: Breaking News

Rightmove has announced a string of new records with visits in January up 21 million on the same period last year...
04 February 2016
From: Breaking News

High profile stock market commentary website Motley Fool has given Zoopla a strong endorsement on the eve of the first anniversary...
26 January 2016
From: Breaking News

An online estate agent who a year ago predicted that OnTheMarket would not survive for 12 months has issued a statement...
26 January 2016
From: Breaking News

Zoopla has confirmed that its next date for announcing its agency membership totals - part of its ongoing rivalry with OnTheMarket...
22 January 2016
From: Breaking News

Both Zoopla and OnTheMarket have ramped up their long-standing rivalry. As we reported yesterday afternoon, Zoopla has revealed what it calls a...
21 January 2016
From: Breaking News

With the portal wars ratcheting up ahead of OnTheMarket’s first anniversary, Zoopla has revealed what it calls a “record number” of...
20 January 2016
From: Breaking News

And so it begins. The first anniversary of OnTheMarket’s launch was inevitably going to bring a further skirmish in the portal...
15 January 2016
From: Features

An international portal consultancy not previously known for its outspoken comments has sharply criticised OnTheMarket for its “protection of the status...
12 January 2016
From: Breaking News

OnTheMarket has issued testimonials from three agents advertising their properties on the portal, which marks its first anniversary later this month. A...
07 January 2016
From: Breaking News

The directors of Agents’ Mutual say they have “every confidence” in OnTheMarket as the portal approaches its first anniversary on January...
04 January 2016
From: Breaking News

The director of a leading regional independent agency says the agency industry needs a thriving Zoopla to keep Rightmove in check,...
17 December 2015
From: Breaking News

Some agents are being offered the opportunity to list with OnTheMarket for free now if they sign a Letter of Intent...
11 December 2015
From: Breaking News

Zoopla, buoyed by its latest financial figures reported to the City yesterday, now claims that OnTheMarket lost 43 per cent of...
03 December 2015
From: Breaking News

Zoopla Property Group is reporting record figures to the City and claims it has seen “continuous agency growth since May” as...
02 December 2015
From: Breaking News

OnTheMarket - stung by recent lukewarm assessments of its track record - has repeated its faith in letters of intent from...
01 December 2015
From: Breaking News

The Hamburg-based Berenberg Bank is the latest to send a briefing to investors on the so-called portal wars - and while...
26 November 2015
From: Breaking News

At least one City analyst has given a frosty response to a statement from OnTheMarket claiming that the new portal’s membership...
20 November 2015
From: Breaking News

Rightmove has grabbed market share from OnTheMarket according to a report from City analysts Liberum and is now the ‘portal of...
12 November 2015
From: Breaking News

The company of City analysts that worked with Zoopla on its floatation says it now senses “a change in climate” around...
03 November 2015
From: Breaking News

Fierce debate continues over an open letter sent by a top consultant to OnTheMarket at the end of last week, accusing...
02 November 2015
From: Breaking News

Estate agents using OnTheMarket have come out in defence of the new portal. “We’ve had nothing but positive experiences thus far with...
30 October 2015
From: Breaking News

I’m writing this from the brand spanking new Center Parks in Woburn Forest. Set within 365 acres of lush Bedfordshire forest,...
23 October 2015
From: Features

Zoopla has added another 146 UK estate agents to its membership since July, taking the total of UK agents now to...
22 October 2015
From: Breaking News

Zoopla says it will later this week give an update on the number of agents it now has as members -...
19 October 2015
From: Breaking News

Zoopla Property Group, which earlier this year snapped up comparison website uSwitch, is launching a new marketing scheme allowing agents to...
15 October 2015
From: Breaking News

Goodstuff, the company that until now has managed only Zoopla’s TV advertising, has now been given responsibility to buy space for...
17 September 2015
From: Breaking News

The chief executive of Zoopla has pledged that there will be no financial or other penalty exerted on agents who return...
16 September 2015
From: Breaking News

There are three days left to quiz Zoopla founder and chief executive Alex Chesterman as he steps into the firing line...
09 September 2015
From: Breaking News

The war of words and statistics between rival portals continues apace as OnTheMarket says its visits hit a record last month according...
07 September 2015
From: Breaking News

Zoopla says it has no comment to make on the decision of high-end London estate agency Chestertons to move from Zoopla...
03 September 2015
From: Breaking News

Zoopla founder and chief executive Alex Chesterman is to step into the firing line to answer online questions from estate and...
01 September 2015
From: Breaking News

OnTheMarket has queried the listings inventory detailed in Zoopla’s half-year trading statement. Zoopla Property Group reported that its listings inventory had increased...
24 August 2015
From: Breaking News

The Competition and Markets Authority says it is still monitoring the major property portals. A statement to Estate Agent Today by the...
17 August 2015
From: Breaking News

OnTheMarket has made a defiant response to news that Zoopla is growing both its estate agent membership and its property listings...
13 August 2015
From: Breaking News

Yesterday we reported Rightmove’s new TV advertisement - today, Zoopla announces the launch of a new national marketing campaign which includes...
11 August 2015
From: Breaking News

Zoopla is set to announce its latest total of agent members later this week. Back in May Zoopla revealed that it had...
10 August 2015
From: Breaking News

OnTheMarket has achieved 5.2m visits in July – an increase of 18 per cent on the previous month and ahead of...
05 August 2015
From: Breaking News

Rightmove and Foxtons have reported their half-year figures to the City this morning - and they tell very different stories. Rightmove’s customer...
29 July 2015
From: Breaking News

Analysis of Britain’s three rival property portals shows that Rightmove is strengthening its position, Zoopla’s loss of agents has stabilised, and...
28 July 2015
From: Breaking News

Zoopla claims that new research shows it leads all UK property portals with the highest level of national consumer brand awareness. The...
17 July 2015
From: Breaking News

Rightmove, which for many years has published a heavily-publicised monthly monitor of asking prices of homes on sale, is now extending...
15 July 2015
From: Breaking News

OnTheMarket is launching a ‘letter of intent’ for agents to sign which represents a commitment for them to join the new...
09 July 2015
From: Breaking News

Estate Agent Today has seen a copy of an email sent by an OnTheMarket representative to an agent stating there may...
09 July 2015
From: Breaking News

Zoopla remains unbowed by its loss of 23 per cent of its UK agents and says it has new statistics proving...
21 May 2015
From: Breaking News
20 May 2015
From: Breaking News

The ex-Savills and ex-Romans agent who heads the estate agency Capital & Coastal, Michael Riley has stepped into the row between...
19 May 2015
From: Breaking News

In the latest exchange in the long-running war of words between Zoopla and OnTheMarket, ZPG claims that the new portal is...
18 May 2015
From: Breaking News

OnTheMarket claims it has achieved 10 million visits to the site with 90 million page views in three months. The portal launched...