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A shift towards self-employed estate agency models has contributed to a decline in estate agency branches, research suggests. Analysis by property data...

Purplebricks has shifted to a free pricing model and will replace the Strike brand. It follows Strike’s acquisition of Purplebricks earlier this...

A regional estate agency that markets homes without charging the vendor is set to expand next year. Midlands-based Chosen Home explains its...

An estate agency is opening a large new office in London which it claims will be “very different” to the traditional...

The UK property market is always evolving but never as quickly as it is now. Traditional estate agents are seriously questioning...

The Chancellor’s recent announcement that the stamp duty holiday would be extended for another three months was undoubtedly great news for...

  Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  Mark Meyer, CEO, Meyers Franchising What is Meyers and what...

It’s no secret that the recent pandemic has forced more businesses to operate remotely, but the shift for estate agents has...

An investment adviser says Purplebricks remains “far too risky” for investors even though it now has “a fighting chance of survival”. Rodney...

Estate agents facing crippling running costs as the wider impacts of the Coronavirus crisis hit home may benefit, at least in...

A leading property lawyer is urging sellers not to use online agents because to do so would be “a gamble”. Gillian Wright...

A leading analyst says Purplebricks has clearly plateaued and will not reach its own target of a 10 per cent market...

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

The chief executive of Hunters franchise operation, Glynis Frew, says online estate agencies have given the industry two ‘positives’ - but...

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

Purplebricks’ former chief executive Lee Wainwright has made a stout defence of the controversial agency’s sales progression process and its local...

A former Territory Owner at Purplebricks, who at one time managed 11 Local Property Experts, has spoken out in support of...

An analyst on shares website Motley Fool says Purplebricks is not only in surprisingly strong financial health, but is actually outperforming...

High Street estate agents should re-define themselves in today’s competitive market by becoming Residential Property Experts offering a wide range of...

A firm that offers a white-labelled online agency platform to traditional High Street agents has signed up a new customer. love2move was...

Another new online auction company has launched and is bidding to woo traditional estate agents with the controversial ‘modern method of...

Savills has declined to comment on whether it will follow in the footsteps of LSL Property Services and write down its...

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

Online agency platform Love2move insists that its current bid to attract investors will not be damaged by the adverse publicity surrounding...

Has the bell finally tolled for online agencies? Emoov’s collapse and an investor revolt over crowdfunding have left a large question...

Traditional estate agent fees average just 1.1 per cent across the UK according to research from an agency comparison website -...

New research by TheAdvisory consultancy, shared exclusively with Estate Agent Today, reveals exactly how fees have fallen for traditional agents in...

When Facebook first announced it would be entering the property listings market a few weeks ago it sent shockwaves across the...

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

Foxtons share price hit a new low yesterday, dropping to only 46p early in the afternoon: it eventually closed narrowly up...

The creative agency behind the new round of Purplebricks Commisery TV advertisements have been explaining the philosophy they brought to the...

Here’s some good news to take into the Bank Holiday weekend.  Research undertaken by Estate Agent Today suggests that fees charged by...

Purplebricks has returned to the fray after recent controversies with a claim that home owners saved themselves over £140m in commission...

Purplebricks has issued a provocative response to the government’s new measures to promote a more professional and transparent house buying process.  The...

Controversial new Purplebricks advertisements on social media mock traditional estate agents who “twiddle their thumbs” in offices and claim the hybrid...

Outspoken buying agent Henry Pryor has set out 10 points that he claims many traditional agents overlook when they debate the...

Q. How did you get in to the property industry? My career in the property industry actually started out as a holiday...

A new website which completely by-passes all kinds of estate agents and allows vendors to upload details of their own properties...

Complaints about a Purplebricks claim concerning its Local Property Experts have been rejected by the Advertising Standards Authority. Complaints came from PDQ...

Ten jobs have been lost with the closure of a long-standing north of England estate agency - with the downward pressure...

The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that two TV advertisements for Purplebricks cannot be shown again in their current form because...

An online platform that allows the public to compare the services and fees of traditional estate agents in their areas has...

Purplebricks’ share price has now recovered all of the value it lost after being criticised on two BBC consumer programmes and...

PropTech start-up OneDome - which describes its products as allowing traditional estate agents to challenge Purplebricks and other online rivals -...

A traditional estate agency has launched a new online package to give vendors the opportunity “to save thousands.” FranKeys in Lincoln has...

Think ‘fake agents’ are no threat to your business? Think again. The rise of online agents - dubbed by some as...

The new chief executive of the Guild of Property Professionals has accused some online agents of carrying out “aggressive” marketing campaigns...

As debate continues over the merits of upfront fees against post-sale commission for agents and consumers, the fledgling UK ProperTech Association...

Purplebricks has stepped up its attack on what it calls “Britain's antiquated method of buying and selling homes” by describing it as...

A firm that offers online, hybrid and traditional estate and lettings agency services says the digital side of its business is...

Only one in nine customers of estate agents regard face-to-face contact as the most important element of the process to determine...

The Purplebricks stock market bull run took yet another huge leap forwards yesterday with its share price up 20 per cent...

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

A new website that will allow vendors and landlords to compare the expertise and fees of estate and letting agents has banned online...

Online estate agents have been accused to “the callous exploitation of naive sellers” by the software executive behind the idea to...

Consolidation continues apace amongst traditional estate agents. The raft of pressures on agents is increasing and these pressures have two strong...

Some agents put success down to training; others say it’s done by putting in the hours; many insist one-to-one contact with...

As circus performers, most estate agents would fail. Some of you might find that difficult to comprehend. After all, many uninformed members...

Prominent buying agent, TV housing market commentator and hard-core tweeter Henry Pryor has accused traditional estate agents of becoming “fat and...

Countrywide's second most senior management figure - Head of Retail Sam Tyrer - is to speak before an industry audience next...

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has informally resolved a complaint made against online estate agency eMoov.  A media sales adviser for a...

nu-move online estate agents -The Future of Property Nu-move is an online venture that has been created to meet the demand...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an ad by online agency emoov after a complaint disputing the duration of a fee...

The main debate at this year’s FUTURE: PropTech conference - the industry’s leading technology forum, held yesterday in London - saw...

An online agency claims that for the second year running London’s traditional estate agents have charged well over £1 billion in...

One of the founders of online agency Purplebricks says his aim is for the firm to become the "first choice" for...

A survey of over 2,000 people suggests that online estate agents lose out to their traditional counterparts in terms of public...

In 2014 there were 19,000 estate agent branches in the UK. Of which 18,000 were registered to list properties on the...

Online agent House Network has accused unspecified numbers of traditional estate agents of hiding their VAT fees.  A statement from the agency...

One of the leading financial advice websites in the country has said that Rightmove’s “significant market share” and “insanely high margins”...

An estate agency display specialist is strongly refuting comments made by a digital marketing company that agents are doing too little...

Estate agents have been urged to follow the example of the travel agency industry and make high street offices more stimulating...

Controversial online estate agent and industry commentator Russell Quirk has hit out at the fee structure of traditional agents, claiming it...

The never-knowingly-underquoted online agency eMoov has renewed its attack on traditional estate agents’ fees, claiming they are as much as £922...

The website of the consumer group Which? is asking for readers’ experiences as to which is the better choice - using...

The co-founder of hybrid estate agency EweMove says if the newly-floated Purplebricks fails "the online agency game could be up." Glenn Ackroyd,...

Purplebricks chief executive Michael Bruce is to speak alongside eMoov founder Russell Quirk in a debate to be held at the...

Publicity-conscious online estate agency eMoov claims vendors in London have spent £861.5m on traditional estate agents’ fees in 2015.  eMoov accuses agents...

eMoov founder and managing director Russell Quirk has taken to print to explain why he believes 2016 will be the year...

With Purplebricks floating next week and at least one other agent believed to be announcing the appointment of a senior staff...

I’m sure I’m not the only estate agent confused by the Government’s approach to residential property ownership. Many of the current ministerial...

An online estate agency claims it has evidence traditional agents have attention spans “not that much longer” than goldfish when it...

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

It’s interesting to read of plans to debate which business plan really is best for the customer, online or traditional estate...

Another online estate agency has launched, claiming to save vendors thousands of pounds by “getting rid of all the unnecessary stuff...

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...

Online agency and DIY sales platform Settled claims on its website that traditional agents charge commission of up to 3.5% +...

One of the country’s most prominent online estate agencies is trying to confound critics by offering a no sale-no fee model,...

Celebrity property expert Sarah Beeny has firmly dismissed speculation that there was any uncertainty over the future of her online estate agency...

OK, you’ve had your fun. Now let’s leave the regulators regulate and work for the public. If you don’t know what I...

Online estate agency eMoov has lodged a complaint with the Competition and Markets Authority over high street agents’ implementation of sole...

Online agency EweMove says it is seething about a complaint made to the Advertising Standards Authority by a high street estate...

Traditional estate agents are not actually needed to sell a home but merely serve as “reputational insurance” to reassure a buyer...