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Properties with professional marketing packs sell up to 48 per cent quicker than those without, according to an experiment conducted by...

Agents should use a mixture of next-generation 3D style technology and traditional, old-school estate agency to allow them to thrive. That's...

Two of Britain's largest agency groups have sold their stakes in a property search firm. Both LSL and Connells have announced the sale...

Your Move, Reeds Rains and other parts of the LSL Group are to hold an Act of Kindness day to encourage...

LSL Property Services, which owns YourMove and Reeds Rains amongst other industry brands, has created an employee forum to help increase...

LSL Property Services, owner of Reeds Rains and Your Move agencies, has sold its holding in conveyancing panel management firm LMS...

A controversial league table of corporate agents’ market share is deliberately excluding Purplebricks and other online agencies.  This is despite Purplebricks this...

Purplebricks has revealed how it’s going to fill in following the departure of chief sales office Chris Beckwith last week for...

Britain’s second largest estate agency has outlined radical new plans to shift direction, making financial services and not sales or rentals...

An increased focus on the provision of financial services has helped boost the trading figures released today by LSL Property Services,...

Reeds Rains is once again fundraising for the wonderful Cash For Kids - and this time there’s a twist. In previous years...

Fundamental changes to the way in which agents can work were shown at the online launch of Lifesycle 2 by Iceberg...

The acquisition of Countrywide by Connells might just be the deal of the century in the British estate agency industry. That’s the...

LSL, owner of Reeds Rains and Your Move, is boosting its financial services sector through a £2.4m acquisition. It’s snapped up Mortgage...

Revenues for LSL Property Services - owner of Your Move and Reeds Rains - dropped last year by 15 per cent. Although...

Revenues have slumped by 18 per cent at LSL Property Services, the corporate which boasts Your Move and Reeds Rains and...

Countrywide shares soared yesterday, rising 47 per cent on the previous close at one point as investors relished the prospect of...

It’s a tough time for agents and our stories show a disturbingly high number of  branches closing - but there are...

LSL Property Services has this morning released details of its response to the Coronavirus crisis. All members of its board have taken...

All my recent Natters have been focused on one particular topic, the coronavirus crisis, for obvious reasons. But there has been...

LSL Property Services says one of its measures to “rightsize” the organisation during the Coronavirus crisis will be to put agents...

LSL Property Services says the Coronavirus crisis has led to a softening of "lead sales indicators" - and it warns of...

Some of the biggest figures in the industry have given Estate Agent Today their reaction to the news - broken yesterday...

It’s been revealed that the branch closure programme by Your Move and Reeds Rains last year resulted in 460 lost jobs...

Another weekend, another storm: it’s hard to put a smile on your face when winter goes on this long but the...

LSL Property Services, which embarked on a significant branch closure programme last year, has reported a 16 per cent slump in...

An unknown website called EA League Tables has issued a list of agencies and agency-groups which it claims shows their order by...

A trading statement this morning by LSL Property Services - owners of Reeds Rains, Your Move and Marsh & Parsons -...

It’s easier than you might think. For any agent the challenge of making a business successful is hard work with the focus...

‘Workers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains’. So is written on the tombstone of the father...

LSL Property Services, parent firm of Your Move and Reeds Rains, says the company’s branch closure programme was a success with profits...

Hello and welcome to another one of those great long weekends that come along often at this time of year -...

Prices have dropped 0.5 per cent in the past year according to LSL Property Services, the parent company of Your Move...

Family-run Chelsea agency Russell Simpson is marking 40 years of business by expanding for the first time in its history, opening...

LSL Property Services, the parent company of Your Move and Reeds Rains, has substantially 'written down' its investment in online estate...

Your Move and Reeds Rains have confirmed that 39 branches are to be taken over by David Newnes and an existing...

The beleaguered Your Move estate agency insists there was no breach of customer privacy after an ex-employee reportedly took confidential data...

Formal consultations have started concerning the job losses and branch closures for Your Move and Reeds Rains, revealed yesterday by their...

The former LSL director of estate agency, David Newnes, has made what is officially described as “a significant investment” in a...

A major restructuring of LSL Property Services has just been announced to shareholders, with substantial numbers of branch closures. The statement says...

LSL Property Services - parent company of Your Move, Reeds Rains and London agency Marsh & Parsons - has given a...

House prices are flatlining with the rate of annual growth having fallen continually since August according to LSL Property Services, which...

A new ‘robo-adviser’ mortgage service which is backed by LSL Property Services has won another £3.8m in funding from investors.  Robo-advisers provide...

The parent company of Your Move, Reeds Rains and other agency brands has succeeded where Foxtons yesterday did not - in...

Welcome back to Property Jobs Today - EAT's weekly roundup of all the big moves going on in our industry. If you...

Average house prices rose 0.5 per cent in February, making it the biggest rise in five months according to the latest...

LSL Property Services - parent company to 12 brands including Your Move, Reeds Rains and London’s Marsh & Parsons - has...

The war between AllAgents review website and Purplebricks has continued with the site naming the hybrid agency the “worst rated one...

HM Land Registry has revealed how major house price indices are compiled - showing the huge variation in transactions behind the headline figures. The critique,...

LSL Property Services - which includes Your Move, Reeds Rains and other high street estate agencies - batted away any housing...

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

Your Move and Reeds Rains, both part of LSL Property Services, are the latest agencies to admit a slowdown in house...

Property has been changing hands for centuries, but when did estate agents as we know them today – with their branches,...

LSL Property Services - owners of Your Move, Reeds Rains and Marsh & Parsons amongst estate agency brands - has enjoyed...

LSL Property Services does not report its figures for the first half of 2017 until August 1, but even so it...

Analysis of over 120,000 sales valuations has revealed some of the UK's most expensive and cheapest property regions. Central London's 'W' postcode...

Theresa May's decision to call a snap election in June has so far had 'little effect' on the property market, according...

LSL Property Services - which owns high street agency brands Your Move, Reeds Rains and Marsh & Parsons - is the...

LSL Property Services has sold its remaining stake in Zoopla Property Group according to a City report. LSL - which includes High...

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has published details of four more cases in which it has 'informally resolved' complaints made against...

If agents need evidence of how members of the public can spot errors in property descriptions - and can raise an...

The Olympics are inspiring us, the summer is distracting us, and then there’s the day job of working too. Yet despite all...

Speculation continues to grow within the industry over a potential merger involving Connells and the newly-combined agencies of Leaders and Romans.   Connells...

LSL Property Services - which owns agency brands including Your Move, Reeds Rains and Marsh & Parsons - has reported strong...

Data from Your Move and Reeds Rains - for May, so well before the EU referendum result - suggests average prices slumped 0.4...

Property sales slowed dramatically in April as the market readjusted following the frenzy of buying before the stamp duty surcharge deadline...

The latest price index from LSL Property Services suggests that the average home in Greater London has risen in price by...

It’s unlikely that this is what George Osborne wanted when he announced his stamp duty surcharge but its deadline for introduction...

The numbers of households purchasing their first home has grown by almost seven per cent annually, despite the surge in buy...

In the latest of many mixed signals from the housing market, a survey by agents Your Move and Reeds Rains suggests...

A major estate agency chain’s price index says average house prices in England and Wales have grown 6.6 per cent in...

The director of two major agencies says George Osborne’s stamp duty surcharge and stock at an “historically low level” will force...

The number of first time buyer transactions in October stood at 28,100 - a drop on previous months despite the fact...

Negativity. There’s a lot of it about in the lettings industry right now. Where you might see barriers, hurdles and more...

In a new sign that the housing market is strengthening, mortgage lending increased in August by the largest amount since 2008. Data...

LSL Property Services, owner of Reeds Rains and Your Move amongst other high street chains, says last month’s sales market was the...

A small online survey carried out by Reeds Rains agency suggests buyers decide whether they want to own a home between...

This year saw the lowest May for first time buyer completions in three years according to data from Your Move and...

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

Average house price growth is slowing and is now just a third of what it was this time last year according...

The true impact of the election on the housing market has been revealed as the latest government figures on house transactions...