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

In this piece, Leanna Donkin from house. partnership reflects on what the last year has brought for her after a leap...

The head of a small hybrid firm that describes traditional agencies with offices as “antiquated” says property professionals working for corporates...

A family franchise agency that prides itself on saving costs associated with traditional High Street premises has nonetheless opened a new office...

Guy Leaning, a former high street agent who has now moved into working in the hybrid model of agency, outlines why...

One of the biggest trends since Covid, in the property world and elsewhere, has been a shift towards more hybrid, flexible...

The self-employed agency model will not be successful in the UK because the commission in this country is so low. That’s the...

There’s been a dramatic slump in instructions for online agencies, particularly Purplebricks, according to data produced by one online firm itself. 99Home...

Swiss investment bank UBS has advised investors to sell their Purplebricks shares as the market share for the controversial agency appears...

A new survey of some 700 estate agency customers show that they want to get traditional services like High Street branches,...

A company in the German Axel Springer publishing empire - which also invested in Purplebricks in the past - has put...

Connells Group has announced a major recruitment drive as it looks to create 250 new agents' positions - and it’s launched...

A platform which signs up vendors and allocates their sale to a high-performing local agent says it sells property two months...

The frenzied housing market and the uncertain wider economic outlook during the pandemic have combined to lead to a surge in...

Rightmove and OnTheMarket have announced that they are extending their cut-price fees deals, introduced because of Coronavirus. This morning Rightmove says: "We have...

The new chief executive of The Property Franchise Group says he anticipates his company’s hybrid arm - EweMove - will go...

Midlands regional chain Andrew Grant, which last year closed some branches as it moved to a ‘hub’ structure, appears to have...

One of the leading ‘new breed’ of hybrids relying on self-employed agents is opening a share offer to investors in a...

Many of the leading advocates of the self-employed estate agent business model have talked about why many want new recruits with...

There’s a sense that we really are on the verge of a huge change in the industry. It’s too early to be...

For complete transparency, I write this column first thing on a Tuesday morning and have done for a couple of years...

The landscape of the estate agency market in the UK is evolving to reflect changes in the way we live our...

Fine & Country has introduced a self-employed agency business model to be run by well-known former Property Academy chief Nicky Stevenson. The...

Quite a few years ago, I spoke at a conference for auctioneers. It was a traditional affair. Rural location. Nice hotel....

They will be the doctors, lawyers, teachers, thinkers, leaders and captains of industry of the not too distant future, but is...

love2move, the online network which allows high street agents to offer a white-labelled hybrid service, has announced its latest partner. Peter David...

A survey suggests there’s no firm correlation between a traditional agency’s opening hours and its performance in selling property - and...

Whether you love or hate it, Purplebricks has undoubtedly left its mark since arriving on the scene in 2015 – much...

An expert who has invested in an online agency in the past has slammed Purplebricks’ business model. James Max, who presents the...

An industry veteran is launching a new hub-based hybrid agency and is offering to sell 50 homes for free to raise the...

Humberts, the agency which was one of the first to ditch High Street offices in favour of fewer larger hubs, has...

An anonymous estate agent has renewed his attack on Purplebricks after an article in The Times at the weekend. Estate Agent Today...

Hello, welcome to a new week and to PJT, your regular Monday round-up of jobs news in the industry. Do please let...

Savills has this morning talked up its investment in onliner Yopa, which it claims is the sixth largest estate agency in...

The end of 2018 was a bit of a rocky time for online estate agents. Yet only a few years ago...

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

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...

However mild the weather may have been for most of us, it’s a cold autumn for the online estate agency market...

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

The chief executive of Emoov, Russell Quirk, has suggested that the unexpectedly low take up of online agents may mean that...

An estate agency comparison website claims the rise of online and hybrid estate agencies has obliged traditional agents to be more...

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

At first sight, to suggest this is a good time for an agency business to go for an IPO - that...

Purplebricks co-founder Michael Bruce says traditional agents sell only around 50 per cent of the homes that they list, so spend...

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

Traditional estate agencies should make their work appear more of a luxury and even showcase the prices of individual elements that...

The former head of Rightmove’s lettings division has blasted High Street estate agencies for “living in the past, charging exorbitant fees...

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

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

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

According to The Branding Journal, a brand is “a name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one seller's...

US bank J P Morgan has predicted that Purplebricks, which it says now has around six per cent of advertised homes...

So at last someone has woken up to the fact that Purplebricks needs to be clearer about how it charges for...

A long-standing traditional agent says the real success of online agencies is not their share of the market but that they...

London’s long-standing chain Douglas & Gordon is the latest company to embrace the concept of the Purplebricks-style hybrid estate agency. The company’s...

How has the world of estate agency changed in the last few decades? That’s the question this week’s Natter is going...

I’ve been in France for the past few days and depending on your viewpoint, I made a spectacularly good or singularly...

Some customers dislike entering traditional estate agency branches, occasionally feeling 'like prey' for sales staff when they enter. This is one of...

Adam Day, the founder of Connells-owned online estate agency Hatched, has been announced as head of operations at easyProperty.    In a statement...

Purplebricks’ well-publicised attempt to break into the Australian market with a similar model to the one being used here has come...

The fees charged by estate agents receive a lot of coverage in the press - and rarely for positive reasons. Negative...

Few things provoke argument within the industry more than the online v traditional agency debate - and within that debate, nothing...

Zoopla has been reported as saying hybrid estate agencies will not reach their professed targets of achieving 10 per cent of...

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

The new chief marketing officer of online estate agency YOPA is a figure with over 20 years experience with brands such as...

It’s been revealed that next month’s Future: PropTech conference will feature a debate between ‘technologists’ and ‘traditionalists’ over the future of...

Organisers of the Future:PropTech2017 conference on May 4 have revealed new sponsors involved with the event - including Angels Media, publisher...

The Keller Williams franchise agency, one of the largest in the world, is relaunching in the UK on Wednesday with the...

A founder of the new organisation seeking to be a trade body for independent estate and letting agents is warning that...

The average fee paid by sellers to high street estate agents in the past year is £4,055 claims Purplebricks - an...

Countrywide’s controversial hybrid estate agency business has produced “fantastic results” according to Sam Tyrer, the group’s Managing Director, Retail & London. In...

Countrywide chief executive Alison Platt has told Estate Agent Today the transformation she wishes to see within the group may take...

Barely a week goes by without an announcement relating to the latest player entering the online agency world and when they...

It’s easy to forget, but there was a time when the internet didn’t exist. When the idea behind the world wide...

Countrywide has given Estate Agent Today some early details of how its mix of online and traditional agency services will roll-out...

Countrywide has confounded its critics with an upbeat performance in the first six months of the year, growing revenues by nine...

The influential consumer property body HomeOwners Alliance says Purplebricks-style hybrid estate agencies may be “the future”. In a blog on the HOA website,...

A survey of 1,000 members of the public suggests that 60 per cent of people would prefer to buy or sell a...

Investors’ Chronicle, the weekly investment magazine published by the Financial Times Group, has lavishly praised high-end agency Savills for diversifying its...

Connells Group says it is still on the prowl for traditional estate agencies to acquire after its announcement that it has...

Only four per cent of people in the UK who have sold a home have used an online agent claims bricks...

An agency that offers both traditional and online sales and lettings services to clients has opened a new office - in...

Keller Williams, the US-originated franchise agency with three ‘market centre’ offices in the UK says it aims to expand that number...

One of the industry debates of the year will be held next week when the inaugural FUTURE : Property Tech conference...

Watch the latest weekly video round-up of news from Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today, featuring stories on the fortunes...

Watch the latest weekly video round-up of news from Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today, featuring stories on the fortunes...

It’s become almost obligatory for start-ups in many industries – frequently online agents in the selling and letting business – to...

The chief executive of online agency easyProperty says the money laundering scandal exposed in Channel 4’s ‘From Russia With Cash’ would...

The annual RESI conference, usually dominated by developers and debates over housebuilding totals, is this year to include a discussion on...