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Millions of people use online property portals every year to conduct their property search, whether it be for sales or for...

April looks set to go down as the busiest month for house sales of the year.  And with record numbers of properties predicted...

Property portals are preparing to support agents in complying with a new era of upfront material information. From the end of May,...

Agents and conveyancers have signed up to a new buyers’s and seller’s property information form that is described as having been...

Boomin claims that one of the online influencers it has commissioned to create YouTube content has won has many viewers as...

The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agent Team has released background information on how it came to make changes to...

Trading Standards and the government have jointly announced compulsory new data which must appear on property listings. A property's council tax band or...

Mark Meyer, CEO, Meyers Estate Agents: “We’re on a mission to revolutionise the traditional concept of estate agency.   We don’t have...

Boomin has launched a new tool - Chainmaker - which it claims cuts fall throughs and introduces agents to ‘hot buyers’. The software...

A new membership scheme aiming to increase the industry’s energy efficiency credentials is being launched next year by allAgents. The Sustainable Agent...

PropTech has seen a surge in uptake over the last few years for several reasons – be it the Covid-19 pandemic...

PropertyHeads, a platform describing itself as a social network for house buyers and sellers, has a new PropTech partnership. It’s linked with...

A torrid period for Purplebricks' share value means it opens stock market trading today with a price of just 33p.  This is less...

The Modern Method of Auction (MMoA), also known as Conditional auction, can sometimes get a bad rap. However, much of the...

Representatives of Rightmove, Zoopla, OnTheMarket, Boomin and OneDome portals are to be quizzed in an industry Question Time session next month. Russell...

Fledgling portal Boomin is launching what it claims to be the most interactive and accurate online valuation tool on the market.  It...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Jamie Cooke, Co-Founder and Managing Director of iamsold, part...

Boomin says it’s going to “reinvent the YouTube channel for property.” The portal’s new YouTube channel has gone live with five unique...

Rightmove is to review the processes of an online platform which directly uploads sellers' property details via an app. Two years ago...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  Bal Arora – Managing Director In your experience, what is the...

Changes to the way the property market operates over the last year - with increased flexibility and remote interactions - has...

One of the world’s leading analysts of portals has warned Boomin, OnTheMarket and others challenging Rightmove - millions have been spent...

The biggest news story in town this last week – which has brought people who don’t usually like or watch football...

As the property market continues to boom, competition between portals such as Zoopla, Rightmove, OnTheMarket and Boomin has been hotting up...

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

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

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 -...

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...

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 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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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 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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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 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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...