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I’ve just read an article saying that this is the time of the online estate agency. The time in question is, of...

Aside from all the news surrounding the Autumn Statement this week, which will have a significant bearing on the property market...

The property industry is fortunate in including many great people, doing great work across a range of businesses – from traditional agency...

One of the biggest TV hits of lockdown has been the Netflix show Call My Agent! It’s a surprise success, perhaps, because...

This week’s In Conversation Today interviewee needs no introduction. One of the property industry’s most recognisable names, she has been a...

At the back-end of last year and the start of this, the biggest news stories in town – besides debates over...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick - currently at the centre of a planning controversy - could be sacked in a September Cabinet reshuffle. The...

Due to the current Coronavirus pandemic, we are all being told to stay at home as much as possible to contain...

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...

Countrywide’s ever-patient investors appear to have been unfazed by the company’s latest compliance issue, which has led to a £100,000 fine...

It never rains but it pours. And that’s certainly been the case for the online estate agency sector in the last...

A survey claims that millions of potential sellers would use online estate agents - and bizarrely, this includes an online agency...

A survey undertaken by the respected Economist Intelligence Unit and a risk solutions company suggests that estate agency may be one...

When you think of the best ad campaigns – from moustachioed opera singers and talking meerkats to millions of bouncing balls...

A controversial online estate agency has gone into liquidation two years after describing High Street agents as “smug, suited slime-balls.” BetterMove, registered...

GetAgent, the comparison estate agency business, has secured £2.2m in investment from a consortium of investors including Channel 4. The backers are...

The huge £215,000 fine levied on Countrywide for failing to abide by anti-money laundering procedures is a demonstration that estate agents...

HM Revenue & Customs has issued more details of its bid to encourage estate agents to combat money laundering in the...

It’s been revealed that Countrywide has been hit with a £215,000 fine as part of a swoop by HMRC cracking down...

House Network, one of the first ever online estate agencies, is alleged to be considering calling in administrators. Two reliable sources close...

Welcome to this week’s PJT, your chance to catch up with the latest key job moves. Keep in touch with us on...

Online estate agent Emoov failed to tell crowdfunding investors it was losing £3m a month before its collapse, a Sunday paper claims. The...

It’s been a theatrical week in Westminster with talk of defections and duplicity worthy of Shakespeare. Yet the estate agency world has...

The share of the market taken by online agencies in the final quarter of 2018 slipped from last summer’s high of...

The auction firm that purchased the property listings left stranded by the collapse of Emoov is now offering partnership opportunities to...

The new management at Emoov says that following its acquisition out of administration it will relaunch as an online estate agency later...

Customers are still trying to get hold of Emoov, Tepilo and Hatched months after they closed down. Estate Agent Today has seen...

Estate Agent Today understands from a respected source that the remains of the Emoov and Tepilo online agencies have been acquired...

Purplebricks has tightened its vice-like grip on the online market according to a new analysis - but the race is on...

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

New figures show that online agencies’ share of listings of homes for sale has plummeted to 4.6 per cent. This is well...

A new analysis of the online estate agency business model claims that it ‘could be described as a Ponzi scheme’. The accusation...

The auction company that has acquired some 5,000 vendor listings from the failed Emoov and Tepilo agencies says it wants more agents...

A Newcastle-based property company says it has acquired the listings of Emoov and Tepilo. It has emailed and texted vendors to say...

It is now known that at least 32 formal complaints have been received by the crowdfunding platform that helped Emoov raise...

Purplebricks has launched an emergency hotline for customers of Emoov and Tepilo that are stranded by the agencies’ collapse. A statement this...

Estate Agent Today has been given details of responses made by administrators to an enquiry about the possible acquisition of some...

There’s been a four per cent rise in the number of estate agencies becoming insolvent according to a new report. In the...

The Times reports that crowdfunding investors are considering legal action following the collapse of Emoov. The investors in question appear to be some of...

Whatever one thinks about online estate agencies, it’s a cause of genuine sadness when people lose their jobs - close proximity...

Purplebricks is understood to be pondering the best way to assist victims of the collapse of Emoov without committing money for...

A tweet from Purplebricks’ chief executive Michael Bruce suggests that the agency may be about to play a role in the Emoov...

Investment platform Crowdcube has told Estate Agent Today that defunct online estate agency Emoov revised down its company valuation from £104m...

A statement by the administrators appointed by Emoov says there are prospective buyers for the listings on the online agency and...

The demise of Emoov, Tepilo and lettings platform Urban raises question marks over the long-term viability of online agencies according to...

At least some calls from potential customers to Emoov are being cut off and rival estate agents are now plundering the...

The circus surrounding the fate of online agency Emoov has taken an unexpected turn. Yesterday Sky News revealed that the company was...

The future of online agency Emoov remains in the balance this weekend with talks continuing between the management and possible buyers. On...

Time appears to be running short for the sale of troubled online agency Emoov. An Emoov insider has told Estate Agent Today...

An estate agency analyst has shared with Estate Agent Today his findings on the current and recent conversion rates of online...

An online agency launched by a traditional high street agent to ward off competition says the online business model might have...

Hello and welcome to our latest edition of Property Jobs Today, a weekly run-through of the key job moves within our...

One of Emoov’s agents in the field has contacted Estate Agent Today to give an insight into how the agency has...

Fresh details have emerged about the financial difficulties suffered by Emoov, its search for a buyer and its possible sale price. A...

Sky News says Emoov is to be sold, just months after the controversial online agency merged with Sarah Beeny's Tepilo and the...

Traditional estate agencies could be in for a stormy autumn and face being the next casualty of the high street shake-out...

The chief executive of the newly-expanded Emoov group has been giving details of the merger with Tepilo and the possibility of...

The former deputy chief executive at online agency Tepilo is launching a new training, recruitment and consultancy business for estate agents.  Catherine...

The big story to break this week in the property world was the announcement by the new owner of Humberts that...

Emoov’s latest crowdfunding campaign has now gone well over £1.5m, making it already 50 per cent over-funded already from its original...

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

Emoov has launched a crowdfunding campaign giving investors, it says, “a final chance” to put their money into the hybrid agency...

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

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

A major hybrid agency says there is a huge ‘reality gap’ between the typical asking price of homes on sale and the...

Hello - if it’s Monday, it must be Property Jobs Today, your chance to see a snapshot of the key moves...

The young entrepreneur behind Doorsteps, the estate agency that deliberately avoids the huge marketing razzamatazz of other online companies, says his...

Russell Quirk, chief executive of Emoov, says his agency is now one of the top seven in the UK following its...

The head of eProp Services, parent company of easyProperty, says growth in the online sector is slower than expected - but that...

The online agency shake-out and consolidation continues apace. Former YOPA director Russell Humphrey has been named as the managing director of estate...

TV property expert Sarah Beeny says she expects online agencies to take 70 per cent market share in the future -...

A recent holiday in the US gave me an opportunity to catch up with property news over there - and surprisingly,...

The so-called ‘merger’ of Emoov, Tepilo and a lettings firm is actually an acquisition by Emoov of the other two companies. That's...

The long-awaited merger of Tepilo and Emoov is reported to have been confirmed this afternoon and in with them goes online lettings...

Two high street estate agents have used the medium of the local press to come out fighting against the threat of...

Online estate agencies are the centre of attention right now - but one of them seems to be seeking publicity in...

The prospect of technology transforming the selling and buying process, including more power for portals and especially online agents, dominated parts...

GetAgent, an estate agent comparison website, has won investment from a growth fund that also provides a 10 month advertising campaign on...

 Humberts says it has settled on a buyer after receiving several offers for the troubled agency - although it has delayed identifying...

Sky News says online estate agents Emoov and Tepilo are in talks about a ‎merger - and if it happens the...

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

Online estate agency Tepilo and over-60s ‘life plan’ property sales service Homewise have been rapped over the knuckles following complaints made...

New research appears to show that Purplebricks, HouseSimple, Yopa and other prominent online agencies are most popular with vendors selling in...

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

The operation of ‘online estate agencies’ has changed substantially in the relatively short few years of their existence: I have spotted...

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

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

Tepilo has told Estate Agent Today that it will be unaffected by the sale of Northern & Shell Ventures’ publishing activities...

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

Winter seems to be firmly with us now, if the plunging temperatures are anything to go by. After a ridiculously mild...

It’s been quite a week, much of it concerning the technology that increasingly underpins our industry.  A glut of fund-raising and relaunching...

“When an industry is new, still finding its feet, finding its purpose, the tendency is for those few people within it...

A tech magazine has raised speculation, circulating in the industry for some months, that some online agencies have considered joining forces...

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

TV property expert and online agency owner Sarah Beeny says there will always be some sellers who prefer to use traditional...

A consumer group which has consistently promoted online agencies says they achieve closer to sellers’ original asking price than the national...

Estate Agent Today understands that the fledgling trade group CIELA - the Charter for Independent Estate and Letting Agents - has...

The comparison service Get Agent has released the full details of its analysis of the performance of four different online estate...

Purplebricks' share price moved up over two per cent yesterday on the strength of its latest trading statement - but its...

The industry has broadly welcomed the shock announcement of a June 8 General Election as a chance to end long term...