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Agents are being urged to place more value on their work and to charge higher fees. Richard Palfreeman, advisor at training provider...

The Property Redress Scheme (PRS) has formed a new member panel that will be chaired by senior industry figure Eric Walker. The...

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

The Property Redress Scheme (PRS) is putting together an advisory panel to improve governance, accountability and sector representation when formulating policies. It...

The typical time taken to sell a property has got so long that people could learn a language before a transaction...

Pressure appears to be building for the recommendations of the Regulation of Property Agents working party finally to be implemented. It’s now...

Veteran agent and property consultant Dominic Grace, who recently left Savills after 37 years, is to take up a new role...

New research shows that UK estate agents are amongst the best value in the world. Using data from the Global Property Guide...

Buyers in around 30 per cent of English cities are almost certainly already too late to complete a purchase by March 31...

A specialist legal advisory service is urging conveyancers to use the reopening of the housing market as an opportunity to increase...

An analysis of the market share of online agents shows they are on 4.8 per cent - virtually unchanged from the...

In the firmest sign yet that PropTech has entered the mainstream, Housing Minister Esther McVey recently launched an expert advisory council...

The head of online agency Housesimple has made another strident attack on the integrity of High Street agents by saying some...

Online estate agency Housesimple has appointed a company to handle its public relations and social media as it rolls it its...

After months of difficulties and closures for many online and hybrid estate agencies, EweMove claims to have bucked the trend. In a...

An online agency which last autumn said it wanted to have as much as a three per cent market share of...

New figures released show High Street estate agents taking an increasingly large market share as online operators continue to crumble. According to the...

Two of Britain’s largest and best known estate agencies have endured a day of turmoil at the hands of investors -...

Purplebricks’ share price yesterday plunged to 90.5p at one point - well below the 100p level at which the company originally...

New data from property consultancy The Advisory shows that the top 10 online estate agents now have a combined market share...

There’s more bad news for Purplebricks: after a shock 80 per cent downgrading of its stock value by a bank on...

The easyProperty online agency has abandoned an across-the-board fee structure, allowing its licensee agents to charge what they like. “Each local market is unique...

The latest analysis of new listings in the two weeks to last Friday show that online estate agencies continue to have...

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

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

Latest figures show that the top 10 online estate agencies have once again failed to exceed five per cent market share,...

The latest analysis of the performance of the top 10 online estate agencies shows that their market share of new listings...

The head of a For Sale By Owner website claims that some agents are making “vast amounts” of up to £7,000...

Purplebricks has increased its listings by an eye-opening 44 per cent in the past two weeks according to an updated analysis...

It’s been an interesting week of contrasts when it comes to online replacing ‘the old school’. Data from that clever consultancy The...

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