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

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

There’s been a flurry of recent activity involving agencies quoted on the London Stock Exchange: Hunters, The Property Franchise Group and...

Purplebricks chief financial officer James Davies has resigned. His place has been taken by Andrew Botha, who has joined from the online...

There’s been widespread outrage amongst agents at Rightmove’s offer to allow some agents a deferred payment scheme operating for just three...

Any bid by Zoopla and OnTheMarket to displace Rightmove as the number one portal in the UK is at best expensive...

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

Zoopla has published a startling set of statistics to demonstrate what it calls “a record January with significant growth in delivery...

Zoopla has revealed large growth in agency membership and visitor figures for 2019. Since being bought by US equity firm Silver Lake,...

There’s a warning today that Rightmove could be vulnerable to losing its number one portal status because it has such a...

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...

The monthly index of house price changes in Britain’s major cities, for many years operated under the Hometrack banner, has been...

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

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

Another year is nearly done – and what an eventful year it’s been. We’ve had more than our fair share of breaking...

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...

Zoopla Property Group's founder and chief executive, Alex Chesterman, is to step back from day to day operations at the end...

First things first, I have to mention the World Cup. The dream is over, football’s not quite coming home (not until...

Last time out I looked at the growing importance of content, social media and design – but these should only form...

ZPG’s sell-off of the Australian arm of housing data company Hometrack to REA Group, a multinational digital firm specialising in portals and...

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...