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The property market has performed strongly in recent months  as the impact of the pandemic has encouraged more people to move...

The launch of Boomin has been and gone with, perhaps, something less than its expected fanfare of publicity. Of course there are...

Here are the first three TV adverts for Boomin, the new property portal which launches on Friday.The new website launches early...

When I joined Zoopla, I took the same approach that I always take whenever I enter a new sector: I was...

An open letter from Boomin chief executive Michael Bruce shows how fierce the competition is going to be in the portal field...

Let’s address the elephant in the room first - the property sector and how we market properties is changing. Gone are the...

Property porn as a popular pastime is as big in the US as it is here, as fans of shows like Netflix’s...

Property portals remain an essential marketing tool for estate agents and their value is clearly appreciated by consumers. However, with a...

It’s been some time since online agencies have ventured into crowdfunding to raise investment, but easyProperty has now done so -...

Another group of independent estate agents have launched a portal - a rival to a similar project launched by other agencies...

While the property industry has suffered far less than other sectors during the past year, it would be short of the...

Boomin has announced another 15 independents as members of the site, which is expected to launch in the near future. “The latest...

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

The importance of marketing properties is something that is often undervalued. Big budgets are dedicated to selling everyday items such as...

Douglas & Gordon, one of the highest profile London agency networks, is the latest signing for the yet-to-launch Boomin portal. The agency...

As we approach the most unusual of festive periods, many property professionals will already be thinking about the January market and...

The new property portal Boomin has revealed its fees structure for agents. Tapping into the industry debate over portal fees, Boomin describes...

The soon-to-launch portal Boomin - set up by the people who founded Purplebricks- has signed another 10 independent agents. They are all...

Many agents are brilliant at giving a personal touch and are professional in the way they treat customers, but I would...

The six brands that make up The Property Franchise Group are the latest signings for yet-to-launch portal Boomin. TPFG’s brands are national...

Boomin is to levy a traditional monthly fee for estate and letting agents listing on the site, in line with other...

It’s been an unexpected year for the property market, shaped by the effects of the pandemic. We didn’t quite anticipate the...

It’s a given these days that your business needs to be on social media. Consumers spend a large portion of their...

A new property portal that operates a Tinder-style ‘swipe’ app is offering agents 12 months free listings. MoveStreets operates like the dating...

One of the latest 10 agents joining the still-to-launch Boomin portal says it could be the go-to website for all property...

Another new property portal has been launched, this one - Mutual - describing itself as the ‘Pre-Portal Property Platform for estate...

The senior management from four of the agencies announced as founding members of Boomin have spoken out in favour of the...

Lawyers, politicians, bankers, insurance sellers – no matter where you go, there are some professions that are just always going to...

The new Boomin portal being launched shortly has named 10 high profile agency chains as founding members. The 10 give the new portal...

Property technology company OneDome, which operates two portals - OneDome and Nethouseprices - has raised another £5m in funding.  It says it...

One of the growing number of free to list property portals, Residential People, claims a record-breaking number of sales and letting...

Share prices for many quoted estate agencies and property portals fell in trading as fears grew about Coronavirus. London-focussed agency Foxtons was one...

The portal  set up by Purplebricks founders Michael and Kenny Bruce has revealed it's recruited Rightmove and Zoopla personnel and intends...

Property portal Boomin has been "courted by a range of potential backers" according to Sky News. The news service - which has...

One of Countrywide’s biggest shareholders has written a second letter to the company to demand bold action to save the agency...

A new agency called Eazy Agent has launched - it’s another online operation, this time with a starting price of £249. For...

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

It has been three months since the property market was given the green light to reopen. During this time, we have...

Almost all estate agents are still saying Yes to Rightmove, according to figures produced by the portal this morning. Membership numbers for...

The proportion of the asking price achieved on average in the past year is 95.8 per cent according to a new survey. Comparison...

A new analysis of corporate estate agencies’ social media followings and websites shows the big winners to be Savills, Foxtons and...

Purplebricks founders Michael and Kenny Bruce have revealed the name of their new property venture.  It’s to be called Boomin. There are still few specific...

The mortgage arm of a regional property portal has launched pre-approval software which it claims will significantly speed up the initial...

There’s no doubt that Covid-19 has had a huge impact on the UK’s property market, after hundreds of thousands of house...

Evidence is pouring in that the stamp duty holiday introduced 48 hours ago has already produced huge levels of interest from...

Have you ever wondered how industry-specific software and property portals have influenced the typical estate agency of today? A new book, which...

“Let’s Zoom later”, “are we Zooming in the morning or afternoon?” “Yeah, I zoomed the client earlier” – variations on these...

One of the leading ‘new breed’ of hybrids relying on self-employed agents is opening a share offer to investors in a...

It’s official – the property market is back open for business. Estate agents have started to unfurlough staff and many are...

The only story that has come remotely close to pushing coronavirus – and its various knock-on effects – off the top...

Over the last few years, there have been a number of high-profile court cases in which renters took action against letting...

Homesearch - the new property portal which describes itself as “the future of the property industry” - has delayed its launch. It was scheduled...

The Haart estate agency chain has launched a portal called Off Market which it describes to sellers as being “a unique...

Hello and welcome to our latest update… we’re probably not yet getting used to these unusual times but we hope this...

Two property portals insist they’re going to launch this spring despite the Coronavirus chaos effectively closing down much of the housing...

It’s time to draw a line in the sand and condemn our rival portals for their current charging structure. Little will...

A free-to-list property portal is warning the estate agency industry that it’s facing “dark days” thanks to the Coronavirus crisis and...

A long-standing legal dispute between OnTheMarket and the Gascogne Halman and Connells agencies has been settled. No details have been released but in...

A property portal is making the controversial claim that the Coronavirus has led to an increase in online interest in UK...

Prominent agency industry analyst Anthony Codling is asking agents whether the board of OnTheMarket did the right thing by firing Ian...

OnTheMarket has announced this morning that it has given notice to its chief executive, Ian Springett, with immediate effect. The troubled portal's...

More than 18 months on from the acquisition of ZPG for £2.2 billion by Silver Lake Partners, a US private equity...

A free-to-list portal says the costs of listing on the established sites - especially Rightmove - are contributing to estate agencies...

New research shows that 77 per cent of consumers use portals to conduct property searches - meaning, surprisingly, that almost a...

Property portals generate revenue from estate agents regardless of the outcome of the transaction. This relationship has resulted in a fundamental...

An agent is defying attempts by a property portal to get him to pay subscriptions for two branches - because he...

When is a property really off-market? There may be many answers to that question but it’s likely that few would consider...

A leasehold reform campaigner claims estate agents face “growing calls to be held accountable for mis-selling leasehold properties.” Louie Burns, managing director...

A property portal says that it’s going to remain free to list for estate and letting agents - and that pledge...

A free to list property portal has announced its integration with two leading property management solutions. Estate agents using either Reapit or...

Property voyeurism and the festive season have long been bedfellows for many Brits. The heady combination of over-indulgence and regret, close proximity...

The head of a new property portal is urging agents to forget about spending money on For Sale and To Let...

Zoopla says it now offers the fastest listings search of all three leading UK property portals on mobile devices. In turn, it...

When renting a property out, letting agents and landlords recognise that it is important to take a deposit from the tenant...

Property portal Zoopla has hired a new creative agency to help it reach its goal of becoming the UK's 'number one...

OnTheMarket has this morning posted its latest results to the stock market. The portal reports that 2,346 branches had converted to full-paying...

Property portal OnTheMarket has thrown down the challenge to Rightmove by launching two new features for its listing agents. The first, Market...

A growing free-to-list property portal says there's never been a better time for estate agents to target foreign investors. Residential People, which,...

The German-based Alex Springer publishing company, which is already the largest single investor in Purplebricks, has acquired a prominent online estate...

A banking company used by OnTheMarket has issued a note to its investor clients claiming the portal “arguably beats its peers...

Global free-to-list property portal Residential People has announced it’s almost at its next milestone of 800,000 listings within its first six...

A free-to-list property portal says that contrary to opinion within parts of the agency industry, the more portals there are the...

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

Traditionally speaking, users who are looking to buy, rent, or sell their property to customers on an international basis have been...

One of the earliest property websites, nethouseprices.com, has been acquired by fledgling property portal OneDome.  Nethouseprices was set up in 2004 and...

The government has published proposals for far-reaching changes to the way estate and letting agents are regulated, trained and licensed. The proposals...

The recent announcement of a clicktopurchase partnership demonstrates some much-needed progression from Rightmove. In doing so, however, it could be said it...

It’s now more than three years since the EU referendum result in June 2016, and we’re still no clearer on when...

Now could be the time to buy shares in Purplebricks and Foxtons if one stock market pundit turns out to be...

A new global free-to-list property portal says it has secured 800 new property enquiries for estate agents in the last four...

If agents ran their databases more efficiently, the property portals might find themselves redundant. Controversial opening statement aside, the reality is that...

Conservative leadership frontrunner Boris Johnson's plans to reverse stamp duty changes could help to kickstart the prime property market, according to...

Property portal Rightmove has confirmed that it is trialling an option which allows buyers of commercial properties to submit offers online...

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

The average British homeowner stays in their property for 20.8 years, according to new research by Zoopla. The property portal analysed the...

The free-to-list property portal Residential People says it now has over 740 independent agents in the UK on board - and...

An interesting analysis of Rightmove’s performance on the stock market has led to questions about the long-term profitability and viability of...

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

Zoopla has taken a swipe at OnTheMarket by conducting a poll of sellers’ views about having properties listed exclusively on just...

A new portal for the prime London property market has launched this week, recruiting a string of big-name agents.  Vyomm, founded by...

A top London estate agent says the humble For Sale board remains the cheapest and most effective marketing tool - even...

Rightmove is undertaking an investigation into a PropTech app that has tried to list private sales on the portal. The perhaps-ironically named...

A new sales portal has launched with a radically different business model, aiming to pay agents to list on it. It’s the brainchild of...

The controversial property portal Propertyheads has compiled a blacklist of tradesmen who have a criminal record. The website says this is the...

In these tougher times, we recognise that helping agents win new inventory is the key to their businesses.  There were more than...

A new free-to-list property portal is launching in the UK, and has a pledge to serve over 20 counties by the...

There’s no end to the PropTech and photography solutions available to estate agents these days to help them sell good, old-fashioned...

If you want an engaging page-turner novel for cold winter evenings, my recommendation is Our House by Louise Candlish, a bestseller...

There were 102,330 residential property transactions in December - that’s up 3.6 per cent on the same month last year on...

Former City analyst Anthony Codling - who is now the front-man for a new property portal - has set out why...

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

Zoopla is radically changing its strategy by exploiting the freedom it has under its new private equity ownership. That’s the conclusion of...

One of the world’s leading PropTech analysts says Purplebricks has turned the UK online/hybrid estate agency business into “a one horse...

An analysis of property branding by more than 200 companies suggests that Purplebricks and OnTheMarket are two of the big winners with...

Zoopla is launching its latest advertising campaign from Boxing Day with ideas from the creative minds behind Wallace & Gromit.  From Wednesday...

A top PropTech analyst says Purplebricks is as much an advertising firm as an estate agency but is nonetheless a huge success...

A specialist property portal says it’s offering estate agents “a captive audience for the ski properties on their books.” SnowOnly says that...

A leading digital analyst says Purplebricks’ success in the US market is not assured and has expressed concern over whether it...

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

The head of a controversial property portal says agents can by-pass some GDPR marketing restrictions by using his service’s social network. Ben Davis,...

OnTheMarket has this morning announced that franchise giant Belvoir will list all of its 300-plus branches on the challenger portal.  This includes...

What may just be the UK’s ultimate property domain names have come up for sale - property.co.uk and realestate.co.uk. Both domains, which...

The head of a leading Chinese property portal has taken the unusual step of commenting on a British tax policy -...

OnTheMarket has signed up an estate and lettings agency firm run by a family and with 11 offices across west Devon...

Purplebricks has been the subject of another complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority, this time over a claim on its website...

Independent review website allAgents says its ultimate ambition is to be a serious rival to existing portals like OnTheMarket. Unveiling a new...

The latest quarterly house price report published by property portal s1homes reveals that properties across Scotland sell on average at six...

Leading PropTech guru Mike DelPrete has revealed that he was involved in Purplebricks’ latest expansion, entering the Canadian agency market via the...

Another update from OnTheMarket this morning claims the portal is now listing over 550,000 UK residential property listings, in excess of...

A leading digital analyst says online agency Yopa has doubled its listings this year and is fighting the merged Emoov-Tepilo operation...

A leading property industry analysts says Rightmove may be amongst the top portals in the industry worldwide, but it is facing...

The entrepreneur behind a free-to-list property portal claiming support from 17 estate agencies has defended the description of them as ‘partners’ -...

London estate agency Kay & Co says it is targeting Chinese buyers following research data produced by a portal. The China property...

A property portal that describes itself as free-to-list has launched today, taking the industry by surprise - however, at least one...

Property portal OnTheMarket has announced that it now has listing agreements with over 8,500 estate and letting agency branches.  It says that...

Property sellers in Scotland are profiting from buyers' willingness to pay above asking price for a home.  This is according to portal...

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

One of the world’s leading agency and PropTech analysts says the race is on for who comes second in the UK’s...

Review service allAgents has relaunched its property portal, saying it may become an agent-owned service and pledging to turn it into...

Floor plans are an essential marketing tool, which play an important part in helping an estate agent sell a home.  A floor...

You don’t have to look far to see an abundance of photo failures, just head to any property portal and they’ll pop...

A property technology analyst has floated the idea that portals could become eclipsed by powerful alternatives such as Google, triggered by...

One of the leading PropTech analysts says Rightmove’s huge success means that it has two difficult choices ahead if it is...

OnTheMarket says estate agencies with some 1,000 offices have joined the portal in the five weeks since it floated on the...

One of the world’s leading property technology analysts has compiled a major report on estate agents’ business models - an exercise...

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

A lengthy analysis of the online agency sector, based on material supplied by an online agent, suggests that its market share...

Why I won’t buy Purplebricks shares and why if I had any, I’d sell fast… In its latest adverts, Purplebricks attempts to...

The bank Morgan Stanley says OnTheMarket’s listings have fallen 19 per cent in the past year. In a note to investors issued...

Most listed agencies and portals suffered share price falls yesterday, creating a challenging landscape for Agents’ Mutual which launches on the London stock exchange...

I had an interesting meeting last week with a VR company called Garou. Based in New York, they claim to have...

The printing industry is in the midst of a decline as digital products and services displace printed materials, which is why...

Hello and welcome to our first Property Jobs Today, a weekly round-up of key job moves within estate and letting agencies...

Agents’ Mutual has released more details of its float on the stock market, which begins on February 9 with a placing priced...

Here’s how the LetsBid Property team is helping them do it. A new property platform called LetsBid has launched in the...

A new property portal called Linktosale aims to launch in the UK at the start of March following what appears to...

A buying agent in Melbourne says ‘old dinosaurs’ in traditional estate agencies ‘have no idea’ how to deal with the arrival of...

An online intermediary platform called OpenMoov has been set up which instructs agents on behalf of sellers and tenants - and...

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

The operators of a new website which earlier today claimed to have 500,000 property listings appear to have now removed the...

A new portal called Housemap has launched and says it is free to agents. It’s a clean, attractive looking portal which already...

OnTheMarket has announced some details of its IPO and the launch of its stock market flotation - but it has given nothing...

The man behind a PropTech company has blasted Rightmove and Zoopla for failing to emphasise 360-degree virtual tours - the feature recently...

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

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

A new website which completely by-passes all kinds of estate agents and allows vendors to upload details of their own properties...

International property analyst Mike DelPrete has queried the suggestion that Countrywide's online sales option is drawing in additional business to those...

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

The death throes of the Charter for Independent Estate and Letting Agents are continuing. A statement by software entrepreneur Charlie Wright, who...

One of the most thorough analyses of property portals ever undertaken shows that Rightmove is the world’s most profitable portal company...

It looks likely that Facebook will soon be able to list homes for sale in the US, in the style of...

Regional property portal MoviNorth says it plans to secure additional investment to expand its coverage by the end of 2017. The portal...

One of the world’s leading property technology experts, who at one time was head of strategy at a property portal, says investing...

Consumer group Which? says the public should be wary of claims made by online estate agents. This follows a series of complaints about...

Agents’ Mutual has confirmed that it proposes to form a new company, OnTheMarket plc, to list on the AIM market of...

Purplebricks’ well-publicised attempt to break into the Australian market with a similar model to the one being used here has come...

We’re already more than halfway through 2017 and, against all the odds, it’s pushing 2016 close in terms of eventfulness and...

The Competition Appeal Tribunal has issued its judgement in the case between Agents’ Mutual and the Gascoigne Halman agency - and...

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

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

To give you a nice distraction from the post-election madness, here’s an interview with Charlie Wright, founder of CIELA (or The...

The industry’s three government-approved redress schemes have this week issued an updated version of their Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The MOU is...

Zoopla Property Group (ZPG) has announced it has become a 1% shareholder in international property portal business Propertyfinder Group (PFG). The organisation,...

An estate agency is offering to radically extend its marketing approach for each of its vendors’ properties to include a high...

Trinity Mirror is aiming to secure more of agents' marketing spend after launching what it is describing as a 'fightback' against...

Property portal Rightmove has appointed easyJet's chief financial officer to its board. Andrew Findlay will join Rightmove as a non-executive director...

Four Proptech experts have listed the top 10 start up companies they believe are the ones to watch for agents and...

What does it say on your business card? Peter Mansfield, Group Chairman, The World Property Network, www.twpn.com  and TheWorldPropertyNetwork.com                                  What is The World Property Network...

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

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

A US technology company is warning that estate agency websites with log-in pages are “at risk of data theft, account takeover...

It seems prop-tech is exploding at a scary rate, and the latest brands are all trying to grab our attention by...

Over 60% of UK consumers think that Estate Agents’ Photos Are Very Poor To Average A recent survey* by dedicated property photo...

The World Property Network, a global property portal, has launched a show on Sky Property TV - the first portal in...

A Scottish property portal now ‘live’ and claiming to list almost all the homes for sale north of the border, says...

A competition organised by Real Hot Property - which says it “aims to be Europe’s largest property portal” - has been...

A new regional property portal aiming to sign up 80 per cent of agencies in Yorkshire says it is unconcerned about...

James Dearsley, founder of The Digital Marketing Bureau and arguably the best known figure in the fast-emerging property technology sector, is...

Annoying isn’t it. You take on a stunning property, agree a compelling asking price and your Vendor is desperate to get the...

The East of England, which takes in areas from Hertfordshire to Norfolk, has recorded the biggest hike in property prices over...

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

A new property portal is to launch in April, and has this week started recruiting estate and letting agency members while...

A single-branch agency operating around Blackpool is offering vendors ultra-low fees if they register their homes for sale online on Boxing...

Rightmove has employed jClarity, a ‘performance tuning specialist’, to improve the search facility on its applications. A statement from jClarity on the...

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...

A leading PropTech analyst has compared the finances of many of the world's leading property portals and says Rightmove is earning...

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

A technology business adviser who has surveyed property portals across the world has praised Rightmove for its determination to become the...

More estate agents are using – or at least considering using – virtual reality viewings as part of their services. But what...

Property portal Rightmove has revealed its new logo to estate and letting agents ahead of its official launch in December. The portal...

A long-standing analyst of property portals and websites worldwide has included Rightmove, Purplebricks and easyProperty in a list of 10 sites...

It’s easy to forget, but there was a time when the internet didn’t exist. When the idea behind the world wide...

A data consultancy says it will shortly release the findings of an online survey on estate agents’ concerns over how their...

What is Properstar? Properstar helps UK estate agents cross the chasm from local to global in respect of advertising their properties. Using...

The National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team is warning agents not to engage in portal juggling - an activity it describes...

Summer finally arrived, the transport system (as always) went into meltdown, everyone complained that it was too hot and the sun...

Whether you work from a traditional office, a coffee shop or a bedroom, one thing's for sure is that these days...

One of Britain’s foremost PropTech experts says OnTheMarket could still disrupt the portal landscape - but has trust issues following disputes...

A poll being taken by Property Portal Watch - an international website monitoring the real estate online sector - suggests that...

An online search engine claims it will allow estate agents to “make significant cost savings in advertising portal fees” with the...

nu-move online estate agents -The Future of Property Nu-move is an online venture that has been created to meet the demand...

Zoopla is beefing up its TV and bus advertising this week to consolidate its claim to be the property portal with...

It’s official; the estate agency business is tougher than ever. Contrary to perceptions that may exist amongst observers and even clients, the...

Angels Media, publisher of Estate Agent Today, is delighted to welcome on board one of Britain’s top property industry journalists, Marc...

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

As we have just passed the 6 month half way point of 2016 we thought it would be a good idea...

There is a growing potential for property portals to take over the role of estate agents thanks to the vast amount...

Property portal OnTheMarket has announced that it has signed up five branch estate agency Meller Braggins.  The firm, which is based in...

Last time out I spoke about the beginnings of a PropTech revolution, with two major London-based events in the offing over...

Zoopla says its latest research shows it has now achieved a record level of national brand awareness and leads UK property...

I wish it were otherwise, but there’s a crisis just beginning to sweep over newspapers – with, a bit beneath the...

I recently read an article in City A.M. titled: ‘Five ways we will be buying property in 2025’ – it makes...

Agents' boards get a lot of stick. Many see them as stains on the landscape, some see them as useless in...

In a digital age where we have an abundance of information at our fingertips via desktops, tablets and smartphones, our attention...

OnTheMarket, the property portal founded by Agents' Mutual, has announced its launch in Northern Ireland. The website is aiming to go head-to-head...

An estate agent is suing his former employer for £500,000 after he believes he was unfairly dismissed. Abdul Samad is taking legal...

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...

A new portal, New Home Finder, has agreed a contract with Redrow to market its entire UK portfolio, including forthcoming developments,...

One of the property portal sector’s leading analysts is suggesting that Rightmove may be about to increasingly involve itself with services...

London estate agency Douglas & Gordon, one of the firms which founded Agents’ Mutual, has launched a new website with a...

A property statistician says portals may be inaccurately reflecting prices in some areas because of possible double-counting of properties listed with...

The major property portals are “way behind the market”, don’t carry all homes that are for sale, and have such varied...

I'm sure most of you have seen, or at least heard of the Mad Max series of post-apocalyptic dystopian fantasies.  The latest...

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

An international portal consultancy not previously known for its outspoken comments has sharply criticised OnTheMarket for its “protection of the status...

There were 110 million visits to Rightmove on average every month in 2015. Results for the site, which measured hits from January 1...

Rightmove has grabbed market share from OnTheMarket according to a report from City analysts Liberum and is now the ‘portal of...

OnTheMarket has written to a number of members of the Independent Network of Estate Agents, saying they should remove properties from...

Research commissioned by Zoopla claims it remains the property portal in the UK with the highest spontaneous national consumer brand awareness. The...

YourLocalAgent.com Some 91% of the public use search engines to find information every day and 91% of these always or most of...

Property portal Home says in some regions of the UK the number of properties coming to the market is 74 per...

The controversial UK property portal Houser is shortly launching an internet site marketing homes for sale across the United Arab Emirates,...

The big online estate agencies appear to have come of age. No, no - I'm not saying they're good, bad, better or...

A new property portal for sales and rentals is to be launched in February or March  with the additional element of...

Zoopla Property Group is reported to be looking for a new headquarters to house its property portals and recent acquisition, the...

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...

What will Zoopla Property Group (ZPG) do if it is overtaken in agent numbers by OnTheMarket?  Does the acquisition of uSwitch risk...

Online agents may soon sell and let across national boundaries as company websites and property portals operate on an increasingly global...

The Competition and Markets Authority says it is still monitoring the major property portals.  A statement to Estate Agent Today by the...

Rightmove is launching a new advertising campaign featuring animated animals as it looks to raise awareness of its online property credentials.  The...

Introduce your properties to over 500,000 investors, increase sales and management stock... WHAT IS PRING Pring.co.uk is the largest investment property portal...

Harry Hill, the former Countrywide chief executive, has described his old company as “going backwards” following the publication of its half-year...

Analysis of Britain’s three rival property portals shows that Rightmove is strengthening its position, Zoopla’s loss of agents has stabilised, and...

Zoopla claims that new research shows it leads all UK property portals with the highest level of national consumer brand awareness. The...

The Zoopla Property Group is reported to be looking for a new advertising agency after a clash of interest following the...

Two interesting developments in the past week have shown how established parts of the agency industry - on either side of...

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

Property portal Zoopla is offering member agents the opportunity to publicise nominated properties across a range of media, and across the...

Zoopla Property Group is looking for more potential acquisitions following its surprise announcement that it is buying price comparison website uSwitch. ZPG...

It seems like every day there’s a new article about On The Market. Usually it consists something Zoopla have said, followed...

With pension reform, council licensing changes and a General Election on the horizon, many are anticipating a boom in the buy-to-let...