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This time out, I’m in conversation with one of the big three established portals. Since it was founded in 2007, Zoopla...

Over the last 20 years, the growth of online property portals – including Zoopla, Rightmove and PrimeLocation – has transformed the...

Many independents will be based in the capital, but given its size and breadth they may get drowned out even more...

Welcome to part three of our ongoing series on local independent agents, as we seek to give this all-important part of...

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

OnTheMarket says almost 500 branches have signed up in recent months, entitling their business owners to ‘welcome shares’. Of those branches signing...

OnTheMarket says it has another 32 million shares to give away to agents signing full fee contracts with the challenger portal...

Only half of the branches signed up to Zoopla have taken advantage of one or other of the discount offers made...

OnTheMarket is not responding to requests to reveal details of any pay-off for its chief executive Ian Springett, who was sacked...

Hello and another Monday means PJT Day, your regular update on movers in the industry - and it’s March already. If there...

Rupert Sebag-Montefiore has this morning been named as a non-executive director of OnTheMarket. He will also serve as chairman of the portal’s...

The landscape of the estate agency market in the UK is evolving to reflect changes in the way we live our...

Zoopla has this afternoon announced a massive growth programme for 2020 with 120 new staff and expansion in most of its...

Hello and welcome to the latest PJT, your weekly opportunity to catch up on who’s moving where and why across our...

One of the country’s largest regional estate and lettings agencies has now fully rejoined Zoopla. Yorkshire-based Dacre, Son & Hartley brings its...

Savills says it’s not commenting on whether it will list on Zoopla in the future. Last week Knight Frank - which in...

One of the agencies most active in the creation of OnTheMarket is trialling a return to listing on Zoopla after an...

An estate agency has removed a claim that it uploads its properties to Zoopla and PrimeLocation after a complaint to the...

All the most successful startups of recent years – from Airbnb and Uber to Just Eat and Deliveroo – have melded...

The founder of Zoopla has explained how the portal got its name and branding, and the philosophy behind it when it...

Mark Witherspoon, well known in the agency industry as the former data services director of Zoopla, has joined the TwentyCi company.  TwentyCi...

I don’t think I can add anything more to the excellent 2019 pieces we’ve seen on EAT in recent weeks –...

There’s nothing new about identifying 10 figures who have helped shape an industry over the past year, but that doesn’t mean...

The ‘new broom’ owners of Zoopla have revealed that Gary Bramall is to be the firm’s new chief marketing officer charged with...

Zoopla founder Alex Chesterman - who sold the portal company for more than £2.2 billion to US private equity fund Silver...

To say legendary ZPG founder and CEO Alex Chesterman left big boots to fill when he stepped back from day-to-day operations...

Given that online property portals, dominated by a handful of websites, are by far the most popular home search method, it...

Two local estate agencies are entering a strategic partnership to market properties together, allowing them to list the properties on the...

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

Humberts - which when it was operating jointly with Chestertons was a prominent supporter of Agents’ Mutual and OnTheMarket - has...

Another OnTheMarket founding estate agency - Strutt & Parker - has rejoined the Zoopla and PrimeLocation portals. Some months ago the London...

Estate Agent Today is 10 years old this weekend. We hope you’ll agree that’s a cause for celebration and a great...

Zoopla Property Group (ZPG) has confirmed that it expects its sale to Silver Lake to complete in Q3 2018. As part of...

ZPG shares have rocketed up in value by 30 per cent this morning on the back of a £2.2 billion bid...

There's been a shock announcement that ZPG - operator of Zoopla, PrimeLocation and Hometrack, as well as uSwitch - has accepted a £2.2...

ZPG has announced that it has signed a listings agreement with Chestertons, one of the estate agencies involved in the founding...

New figures released by ZPG suggest increasing numbers of agents are listing on three portals. Amongst the latest agencies to renew long...

The death of traditional TV – where viewers sit down together to watch shows at defined times – has been much...

OnTheMarket has told the City this morning that it has already signed up 81 new listing agreements by 5pm yesterday, completing...

OnTheMarket remains defiant despite the decision of Douglas & Gordon, one of its founder agencies, to list once again on Zoopla...

Yopa, the online agency with financial backing from Savills and LSL Property Services, is the latest online firm to launch a...

One of the founding agencies behind OnTheMarket has returned to listing on Zoopla. A statement from ZPG, parent company of Zoopla and PrimeLocation,...

ZPG has revealed that it had 58m visits to its property websites, Zoopla and Primelocation, last month. This is 10 per cent up...

ZPG says it anticipates a strong 2018 according to a trading statement ahead of the company’s annual general meeting today. The firm...

ZPG, which operates Zoopla and PrimeLocation as well as owning the Property Software Group, has signed more long-term marketing deals with a...

A ‘secret’ proposal called Project UHA was put to a hand-picked group of agents on Friday with speculation suggesting it centres...

Online estate agency Tepilo has denied industry speculation that it is to change its fee structure now that it is under...

One of the world’s leading property technology analysts says Purplebricks-style disruptive agencies will be a trend to look out for in...

Asking prices are being cut more heavily than at any time in the past six years says Zoopla.  It says just over...

ZPG has revealed its 2017 annual report this morning with a stream of records - 648 million visits to portals, revenue...

LSL Property Services - which has high street brands including Your Move, Reeds Rains and Marsh & Parsons - has signed...

Global investment bank RBC Capital Markets says OnTheMarket has the potential to undermine the pricing power of Rightmove and ZPG -...

News agency Reuters says a top five shareholder in price comparison service GoCompare says the firm should respond “positively” if ZPG...

OnTheMarket is reported to be threatening an estate agency with legal action. Earlier this week Estate Agent Today reported that Henry Adams, a...

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

ZPG says that the number of estate agency branches that left to join OnTheMarket but have now returned has reached over...

The ZPG app for mobile users of the Zoopla and Primelocation websites has now been downloaded more than 10m times. ZPG launched...

The fact is that most house hunters simply do not have the time, let alone the inclination, to trawl around properties...

ZPG has announced that Connells is the latest major agency chain to sign a long-term deal with its portals Zoopla and...

ZPG - which already owns and operates Zoopla, PrimeLocation, Hometrack and the price comparison website uSwitch - has acquired the financial...

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

No one can say Agents’ Mutual has failed to provoke debate within the industry. The project was the centre of fierce argument...

ZPG has stepped into the escalating dispute between portals by revealing record figures on new leads - two hours before the first...

  A hybrid agency called 99Home Ltd, which made its debut back in April, appears to have relaunched with what it calls...

Major westcountry agency Wilkinson Grant has told the Advertising Standards Authority it will not re-use wording following a complaint from a...

The managing director of ZPG Property Services says his firm will never ‘go around’ an agent in order to directly work...

Mark Goddard was the founder and CEO of The Property Software Group (PSG), a property software solutions firm established in 2007,...

ZPG, owner of digital platforms including Zoopla, uSwitch, PrimeLocation, Hometrack and Property Software Group, has been cleared by the Competition and...

A new online estate agency is offering vendors a sales package for just £24.99. MoveSelf, which is based in Manchester, allows vendors to...

Estate and letting agents' property descriptions are becoming increasingly likely to appear in keyword searches, according to a web marketing expert. Director...

ZPG has published its half-year figures this morning showing a six per cent rise in the number of agents and a...

The Competitions and Markets Authority is reviewing the acquisition of Expert Agent by ZPG, parent company of Zoopla and PrimeLocation. A statement...

New research conducted for ZPG claims that Zoopla’s ‘national spontaneous brand awareness’ is at an all-time high - with the gap...

Estate Agent Today has been told that a deal between the Property Franchise Group and ZPG - the new name for...

Zoopla Property Group says that in the last three months alone over 100 estate agency branches have returned to its portal...

Property Service Holdings - parent company of the 150 branches trading under the Romans and Leaders names - has signed up...

Zoopla says it delivered a record number of unique appraisal leads to its agent members in December, up 112 per cent...

Zoopla Property Group's estate agency membership grew five per cent and its property listing inventory was up 10 per cent in...

The mobile apps for Zoopla and Primelocation passed the 8.5m milestone this week, with the former moving into number two spot...

Zoopla Property Group claims that in the past two weeks, over 40 agency branches have returned to listing on Zoopla and...

Zoopla Property Group says there were over 53m visits to its Zoopla and PrimeLocation websites in September, up 13 per cent...

A fantastic exclusive this week as I carry out a question and answer session with one of the leading names in...

Later on, the title of this piece should become clearer (at least I hope so). First, though, a few bits and...

Zoopla Property Group is organising a series of seminars for agent members next month, aimed at promoting products offered by its...

PropTech firm Plentific has teamed up with the HomeOwners Alliance to give another platform for its ‘Find a Pro’ service highlighting...

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

Plentific - a proptech startup that operates a ‘find a professional’ service - has secured £2m in funding.  The service, which lists...

Zoopla claims that it has delivered a 40 per cent increase in valuation leads to its agent members in the first six...

With more house-hunters than ever now starting their search for a new home by typically looking online on one of the major...

Agency software company Dezrez says the jury is out on whether Zoopla’s acquisition of the Property Software Group will be considered...

A City analyst says Zoopla Property Group’s conditional acquisition of the UK's largest supplier of estate agency software for £75m may...

Some estate agents who received a letter from lawyers acting on behalf of Agents’ Mutual say they will still not upload...

Zoopla Property Group says it has recorded a 61 per cent leap in appraisal leads in February compared to the same...

Analysts at German-owned bank Berenberg have done an analysis of visitor numbers for OnTheMarket and Zoopla in January. In a report titled...

Zoopla, buoyed by its latest financial figures reported to the City yesterday, now claims that OnTheMarket lost 43 per cent of...

Zoopla Property Group is reporting record figures to the City and claims it has seen “continuous agency growth since May” as...

Zoopla Property Group says it has achieved over seven million downloads for its mobile apps, a milestone it reached during October when...

A central London estate agent is in dispute with OnTheMarket over its leads, number of agencies on board, and visits from...

The managing director of a Home Counties estate agency has described how leads “fell off a cliff” when he signed up...

Zoopla has added another 146 UK estate agents to its membership since July, taking the total of UK agents now to...

Challenger portal OnTheMarket is “not attracting a meaningful audience or engaging with its users” and so is likely to fail according...

Over the past few years Rightmove and Zoopla Property Group (ZPG) have each been spending massive sums on marketing and product...

Readers of Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today were given an exclusive opportunity to pose questions to Zoopla Property Group...

The chief executive of Zoopla has ruled out allowing private sellers and landlords to list properties directly on Zoopla or PrimeLocation.  In...

Readers of Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today were given an exclusive opportunity to pose questions to Zoopla Property Group...

Another online estate agency has launched, claiming to save vendors thousands of pounds by “getting rid of all the unnecessary stuff...

The war of words and statistics between rival portals continues apace as OnTheMarket says its visits hit a record last month according...

There has long been the assumption and contention in the industry that portals are expensive. This, however, is not the case. Along...

Zoopla Property Group has launched a new service across Zoopla and PrimeLocation to provide users with access to thousands of professionals and...

A review of 30 prominent property sales websites undertaken by a digital marketing company demonstrates, perhaps predictably, a huge lead for...

Another week, another online estate agency launches - but the latest, called YOPA, claims not to charge any upfront fee to...

Zoopla says it has lost 16 per cent of its global members in the year to the end of March -...

Traditional estate agents are not actually needed to sell a home but merely serve as “reputational insurance” to reassure a buyer...