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02 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agency launches campaign for the High Street](/img/default/eat.png)
A family-run agency has launched a campaign to back the High Street following the reopening of most shops and businesses. London agency...
19 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agency abandons online-only strategy by opening High St office](/img/default/eat.png)
An estate agency in the south of England has abandoned its online-only strategy and has decided to open a physical office...
12 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agency behind Say No To Rightmove reveals High Street expansion](/img/default/eat.png)
The regional agency group which master-minded the Say No To Rightmove campaign has made a big commitment to the future of...
23 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Top agency emphasises importance of High Street branches](/img/default/eat.png)
Connells Group has revealed seven appointments to its board of directors which it links directly with a target to grow presence and...
22 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Online agencies in the doldrums as market share stalls](/img/default/eat.png)
There’s more bad news for online estate agencies this morning as a survey reveals that they have only a seven per cent...
17 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Online auction method adopted by historic estate agency](/img/default/eat.png)
A 176 year old agency is claiming success with its first online auction lot selling for over twice the guide price. It...
27 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![Want to sell more homes more quickly? Then close the office early...](/img/default/eat.png)
A survey suggests there’s no firm correlation between a traditional agency’s opening hours and its performance in selling property - and...
17 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![Traditional agents are good value say sellers, but deals take too long](/img/default/eat.png)
Traditional High Street estate agents have been given the thumbs up by sellers in a new survey of over 5,000 vendors...
31 May 2019
From: Breaking News
![Estate agencies top league table of shop closures across Britain](/img/default/eat.png)
New figures released to Estate Agent Today show that a net total of 284 agents’ offices closed down in 2018. This number -...
29 May 2019
From: Breaking News
![“Gaping holes” in Purplebricks business model, says ex-online investor](/img/default/eat.png)
An expert who has invested in an online agency in the past has slammed Purplebricks’ business model. James Max, who presents the...
16 May 2019
From: Breaking News
![Agency’s big training investment as it bids to be ‘number one on High Street’](/img/default/eat.png)
A new training and development team has been set up by Connells Group. It’s designed - in the company’s words - “to...
21 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Emoov sale price 'likely to be far below £100m merger cost'](/img/default/eat.png)
Fresh details have emerged about the financial difficulties suffered by Emoov, its search for a buyer and its possible sale price. A...
01 November 2018
From: Breaking News
![Twitter Storm: complaints about house competition](/img/default/eat.png)
A Twitter account dedicated to the private sale of a multi-million pound waterside home in Berkshire has prompted complaints to the...
24 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![New online agency says it wants to expand across the UK](/img/default/eat.png)
A new online agency says it is currently focussing on one large city but will expand to cover the whole of...
23 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![Ditch High Street branches and use serviced offices, urges agency chief](/img/default/eat.png)
Increasingly cash-strapped traditional estate agencies should consider abandoning their High Street offices and work from serviced offices or similar lower-profile and...
28 September 2018
From: Breaking News
![Buckle Up - High Street agencies in for a tough autumn says KPMG](/img/default/eat.png)
Traditional estate agencies could be in for a stormy autumn and face being the next casualty of the high street shake-out...
20 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Play the 'luxury' game! Startling advice to traditional estate agents](/img/default/eat.png)
Traditional estate agencies should make their work appear more of a luxury and even showcase the prices of individual elements that...
26 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![Do online bosses use High Street agencies to sell their own homes?](/img/default/eat.png)
Whisper it quietly, but it may be that some bosses of online agencies used traditional High Street companies to sell their...
15 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![Online agents most popular with sellers in strong markets, research shows](/img/default/eat.png)
New research appears to show that Purplebricks, HouseSimple, Yopa and other prominent online agencies are most popular with vendors selling in...
09 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Revealed: Purplebricks “stunning growth” explained by top industry analyst](/img/default/eat.png)
One of the world’s leading property technology analysts has compiled a major report on estate agents’ business models - an exercise...
07 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Online agents will have to employ sales progression teams](/img/default/eat.png)
The operation of ‘online estate agencies’ has changed substantially in the relatively short few years of their existence: I have spotted...
03 March 2018
From: Features
![Portals and onliners 'force agents into innovation' says global advisory firm](/img/default/eat.png)
A mergers and acquisitions specialist says traditional agencies have been pushed into becoming more innovative by the rise of portals and...
02 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Report exposes online agents over very poor sales progression](/img/default/eat.png)
A new report by the residential property team of a legal firm has found widespread criticism of online agents’ over their...
27 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![Online agency platform claims it gets an average 98.6% of asking price](/img/default/eat.png)
An online estate agency brand launched a year ago by a traditional high street agent to ward off competition has exceeded...
15 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks row should trigger call for regulations of agents, says expert](/img/default/eat.png)
Leading independent property expert Kate Faulkner says the current row regarding the accuracy of Purplebricks’ sales figures should be the trigger...
06 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![Spicerhaart acquisition shows commitment to bricks and mortar agencies](/img/default/eat.png)
Spicerhaart, which describes itself as the UK’s largest independent estate agency group, has been on the acquisition trail again, showing its...
05 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks won't succeed in the Big Apple, says UK arm of US agency](/img/default/eat.png)
A senior figure at the UK arm of American agency Keller Williams has suggested that Purplebricks won’t succeed in the New...
26 January 2018
From: Breaking News
!['Secret' project aims to help traditional agents combat Purplebricks](/img/default/eat.png)
A ‘secret’ proposal called Project UHA was put to a hand-picked group of agents on Friday with speculation suggesting it centres...
22 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Footfall no longer on the High Street says agency after relocation](/img/default/eat.png)
An estate agency that is moving from a high street to a business centre says it is relocation because footfall has...
16 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Agency unveils radical 'low-cost traditional High Street business model'](/img/default/eat.png)
Arun Estates has launched what it describes as “a major new departure” - a fully-staffed High Street office but covering a...
09 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Another regional chain says it's sceptical of online agency popularity](/img/default/eat.png)
A senior figure in another regional estate agency group has expressed scepticism about the popularity of online choices for vendors. Last week...
08 January 2018
From: Breaking News
!['Old dinosaurs' can't deal with Purplebricks says Aussie buying agent](/img/default/eat.png)
A buying agent in Melbourne says ‘old dinosaurs’ in traditional estate agencies ‘have no idea’ how to deal with the arrival of...
05 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Free offer to agents to use platform giving them online presence](/img/default/eat.png)
A firm which offers a white-labelled online estate agency platform which can be used by otherwise-traditional agencies to provide a Purplebricks-style...
20 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Estate agents are not professionals claims Times consumer journalist](/img/default/eat.png)
The consumer affairs correspondent of The Times has savaged High Street estate agents because of the commission they charge when compared...
06 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Platform allowing agents to 'rival Purplebricks' wins PropTech support](/img/default/eat.png)
Two of the leading lights in the growing Proptech sector are now working with a company which has a product it...
25 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![New analysis shows Purplebricks' massive domination of online sector](/img/default/eat.png)
A long-standing traditional agent says the real success of online agencies is not their share of the market but that they...
18 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![Vast majority of sellers say local branch staff are key to selecting agent](/img/default/eat.png)
The vast majority of sellers surveyed by a consumer group say rapport with branch staff in a locally-based office is important...
29 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks defends its Local Property Experts after website criticism](/img/default/eat.png)
Purplebricks has issued a strong defence of its Local Property Experts after an agency comparison website’s analysis was critical of the...
28 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![Hunters rules out going online but will emphasise new 'digital tools'](/img/default/eat.png)
Hunters says it will not be following other traditional-style estate agencies by offering online-only services to sellers - but it will...
28 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![Broker linked to Purplebricks says traditional agents are in trouble](/img/default/eat.png)
Peel Hunt, the City investment broker that has worked closely with Purplebricks, has issued an investment note to clients with a...
28 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - exactly how 'local' are local property experts?](/img/default/eat.png)
An analysis conducted by estate agency comparison website GetAgent has for the first time attempted to calculate how ‘local’ agencies' local property...
27 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![Start-up offers free software to agents with under 50 listings](/img/default/eat.png)
A PropTech start-up says its booking, valuation and communication tools will be available free of charge to any agency with fewer...
19 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - how Ted Dexter inspired an estate agency (well...sort of)](/img/default/eat.png)
One of the more puzzling questions in London's estate agency industry has been resolved - how a company which appears to...
19 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![Agency allows clients to make appointments directly in staff diaries](/img/default/eat.png)
Estate agency James Pendleton says it wants to give its clients more digital advantages without becoming an online operation itself -...
13 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![Hybrid agency opens third office and 'plans 15 new territories in next year'](/img/default/eat.png)
Horton Estate Agents - a hybrid agency which nonetheless claims to have ‘offices’ - says it will expand into 15 new...
13 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![Service lists High Street agents that are 'Purplebricks Price Beaters'](/img/default/eat.png)
An online platform that allows the public to compare the services and fees of traditional estate agents in their areas has...
12 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![Major regional agency says new online service is 'the fourth way'](/img/default/eat.png)
A major regional agency with offices in Kent, Surrey and Sussex says its new online service - Howard Cundey LIVE -...
29 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![New agency operates online but says 'we're no budget company'](/img/default/eat.png)
An estate agency that has just launched in south Devon says it is giving its customers the advantages of a 24-hour...
23 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Online sales and lettings agency seeks six-figure crowdfunding cash](/img/default/eat.png)
An online estate agency with a website claiming “a saving of 50 per cent” on local agents, is seeking £100,000 to £250,000...
17 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Banned! Online firm claimed High Street agents charge 1.5% to 4%](/img/default/eat.png)
The Advertising Standards Authority has banned online agency HouseSimple from claiming that High Street agents charge “1.5% to 4% (plus 20%...
16 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![As you were - Purplebricks share price riding high again](/img/default/eat.png)
Purplebricks’ share price has now recovered all of the value it lost after being criticised on two BBC consumer programmes and...
09 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![One in five estate agencies 'at risk of going broke' warns analyst](/img/default/eat.png)
Some 19 per cent of estate agents in the UK currently show warning signs that indicate they are at risk of going...
31 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Countrywide: 50% of branches will have online option within days](/img/default/eat.png)
Countrywide says the roll out of its online sales and lettings service is on schedule to reach 50 per cent of...
28 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Agency banned from using advert suggesting it had traditional office](/img/default/eat.png)
The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an advertisement which suggested that the firm behind it had “a physical office ... in...
19 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Hybrid agency relaunches cheapest ever £99 sales listings](/img/default/eat.png)
A hybrid agency called 99Home Ltd, which made its debut back in April, appears to have relaunched with what it calls...
18 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![£3m boost for start-up helping traditional agents challenge onliners](/img/default/eat.png)
PropTech start-up OneDome - which describes its products as allowing traditional estate agents to challenge Purplebricks and other online rivals -...
13 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Traditional agents won't disappear completely says Sarah Beeny](/img/default/eat.png)
TV property expert and online agency owner Sarah Beeny says there will always be some sellers who prefer to use traditional...
20 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Should agents list for free and allow vendors to set asking prices?](/img/default/eat.png)
Two leading voices in the PropTech sector suggest a radical overhaul of agents’ fee structures, saying that neither traditional full service nor online...
02 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Biggest-ever study reveals why most vendors choose traditional agents](/img/default/eat.png)
A study described as the biggest of its type seeks to explain why vendors choose - or avoid - online agents. The...
01 June 2017
From: Breaking News
!['Top High Street agents significantly out-perform onliners' says group](/img/default/eat.png)
A consumer group which has consistently promoted online agencies says they achieve closer to sellers’ original asking price than the national...
01 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![YOPA recruiting agents with 'chance to earn up to £12k per month'](/img/default/eat.png)
Hybrid estate agency YOPA has launched a recruitment campaign suggesting that agents have “the chance to make between £6k and £12k per...
31 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Comparison service releases online agencies' performance data](/img/default/eat.png)
The comparison service Get Agent has released the full details of its analysis of the performance of four different online estate...
19 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Firm sees large demand for 'digital platform' to compete with hybrids](/img/default/eat.png)
A company which last month launched a service which it claims allows High Street estate agents to compete with online and...
18 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Countrywide brand unveils video guides to online and full-service options](/img/default/eat.png)
Countrywide’s Bairstow Eves brand has launched a series of video guides for customers using their £995 online agency service and for...
27 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Guild chief says aggressive online agency marketing lacks integrity](/img/default/eat.png)
The new chief executive of the Guild of Property Professionals has accused some online agents of carrying out “aggressive” marketing campaigns...
26 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks to be 'biggest UK agency by 2019' with 'share price up 50%'](/img/default/eat.png)
A London investment broker says Purplebricks’ share price - currently around 300p - could rise another 50 per cent or more...
25 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Firm offers online system for High Street agents to 'take on Purplebricks'](/img/default/eat.png)
A firm is claiming to be allow high street agents to offer vendors an online sale services as well, without the...
24 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Online and traditional agents debate how to boost customer service](/img/default/eat.png)
A debate on customer service in the agency industry has been arranged for later this month between leading lights from both...
11 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Technology v Traditional agency debate at Future : PropTech](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s been revealed that next month’s Future: PropTech conference will feature a debate between ‘technologists’ and ‘traditionalists’ over the future of...
06 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![HomeXperts announces another trio of new home-based franchisees](/img/default/eat.png)
HomeXperts, the network of franchise agents operating from their homes and covering sales and lettings, has announced three new franchisees. They are...
06 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks nearing Countrywide on homes sold STC, claims bank](/img/default/eat.png)
A Financial Times article reports a bank analysis shows Purplebricks with a market share of 3.3 per cent of properties marked...
24 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Countrywide shares hit record low after bank downgrading](/img/default/eat.png)
Swiss bank UBS has downgraded Countrywide’s status to ‘sell’ in a move which has prompted the troubled estate agency’s share price...
16 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks: 'formal complaint' from independent agents](/img/default/eat.png)
The fledgling group being set up to represent independent estate and letting agents is preparing a formal complaint about Purplebricks based...
17 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![Vendor 'makes £67,500' by using traditional estate agent](/img/default/eat.png)
A high street agency has turned the online sector’s advertising technique on its head. Instead of a seller revealing ‘saved’ fees by...
31 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks: 'people may never accept technology-only sales'](/img/default/eat.png)
One of the founders of hybrid agency Purplebricks says sellers in the UK may never accept the sale of their property...
09 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![Internet property pioneer says online agents must raise prices](/img/default/eat.png)
One of the earliest entrepreneurs to found a website to allow for-sale-by-owner property listings back in 2000, predicts current online agents...
05 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![Connells-owned online agency Hatched plans 2017 regional expansion](/img/default/eat.png)
Hatched, the online agency snapped up just over a year ago by Connells in what was described as an ‘industry defining’...
09 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![Pay As You Go online agency promises to 'disrupt the disruptors'](/img/default/eat.png)
An estate agency described as operating a ‘pay as you go’ business model says it wants to “disrupt the disruptors” operating...
25 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Traditional agents have got fat and lazy says high-profile buying agent](/img/default/eat.png)
Prominent buying agent, TV housing market commentator and hard-core tweeter Henry Pryor has accused traditional estate agents of becoming “fat and...
23 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Countrywide hybrid agency idea came from market research, says chief](/img/default/eat.png)
Countrywide’s marketing chief says the estate agency group’s controversial hybrid sales model - to be rolled out to a quarter of...
23 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Banned - award-winning online agency's fees comparison advert](/img/default/eat.png)
The award-winning online agency HouseSimple has had one of its advertisements banned by the Advertising Standards Authority. The advert was a poster for...
09 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Online v High Street: enemies no more, possibly converging...](/img/default/eat.png)
A debate discussing how online and traditional estate agency would develop in the future, organised by City investment consultancy Jefferies, has...
09 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Countrywide chief to face questions ahead of latest results](/img/default/eat.png)
Countrywide's second most senior management figure - Head of Retail Sam Tyrer - is to speak before an industry audience next...
01 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Rising number of High Street agency offices despite online 'threat'](/img/default/eat.png)
Despite the much-publicised 'threat' of online estate agency there were more high street offices opened in the first half of this year...
26 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Another online agency asked to amend website after complaint](/img/default/eat.png)
YOPA, the online agency that recently had an extensive TV campaign, has amended the content of its website following a complaint to...
26 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Online firm resuscitates argument over traditional agents' fees](/img/default/eat.png)
In the first half of this year, vendors in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, could have saved over £1.87 billion in...
11 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Martin & Co is latest to enter the 'hybrid' estate agency field](/img/default/eat.png)
Martin & Co is reported to have acquired EweMove, an estate agency which describes itself as the first ‘hybrid’ service -...
06 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![High-profile agent quits to run service for online and traditional agencies](/img/default/eat.png)
Ed Mead, one of the most high profile estate agents in the industry, is leaving London agency Douglas and Gordon to...
06 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Countrywide reveals first details of online sales service roll-out](/img/default/eat.png)
Countrywide has given Estate Agent Today some early details of how its mix of online and traditional agency services will roll-out...
01 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Countrywide-owned agency moves to 'premises-free business model'](/img/default/eat.png)
An estate agency owned by Countrywide has relaunched with what it calls “an innovative, premises-free business model that seeks to redefine...
21 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![Apprentice star scales back agency as London market worsens](/img/default/eat.png)
Haus Properties, the high-profile London estate agency started almost five years ago by Apprentice star Jamie Lester, now appears to be...
20 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![Sarah Beeny's Tepilo agency seeks to double in size within six months](/img/default/eat.png)
Sarah Beeny’s Tepilo agency says it intends to more than double its size in the next six months and cites Purplebricks...
17 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![Consumer group says hybrid estate agency is the future](/img/default/eat.png)
The influential consumer property body HomeOwners Alliance says Purplebricks-style hybrid estate agencies may be “the future”. In a blog on the HOA website,...
14 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![Another senior Countrywide executive leaves the company](/img/default/eat.png)
Another Countrywide executive has left the company - the latest departure is Eyal Malinger, the director of corporate development. Harvard-educated Malinger had...
08 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![Online agency claims new investment allows it to challenge Purplebricks](/img/default/eat.png)
Online agency HouseSimple Award claims a new £13m investment package will allow it to “challenge PurpleBricks as the UK’s leading online...
07 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![Countrywide launches 'hybrid' online and traditional sales across three brands](/img/default/eat.png)
Countrywide is to offer vendors and buyers a choice of using an online service, a traditional high street branch or a...
06 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![New Countrywide service changes how agents interact with customers](/img/default/eat.png)
Countrywide's retail chief says the group's new hybrid joint online and traditional project has involved training agents to change the way...
06 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![Muted City response to Savills move in to volume and online sales](/img/default/eat.png)
There has been a muted response from the City to the announcement just before the weekend that high-end estate agency Savills...