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Increasingly cash-strapped traditional estate agencies should consider abandoning their High Street offices and work from serviced offices or similar lower-profile and...

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

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

Whisper it quietly, but it may be that some bosses of online agencies used traditional High Street companies to sell their...

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...

A mergers and acquisitions specialist says traditional agencies have been pushed into becoming more innovative by the rise of portals and...

A new report by the residential property team of a legal firm has found widespread criticism of online agents’ over their...

An online estate agency brand launched a year ago by a traditional high street agent to ward off competition has exceeded...

Leading independent property expert Kate Faulkner says the current row regarding the accuracy of Purplebricks’ sales figures should be the trigger...

Spicerhaart, which describes itself as the UK’s largest independent estate agency group, has been on the acquisition trail again, showing its...

A senior figure at the UK arm of American agency Keller Williams has suggested that Purplebricks won’t succeed in the New...

A ‘secret’ proposal called Project UHA was put to a hand-picked group of agents on Friday with speculation suggesting it centres...

An estate agency that is moving from a high street to a business centre says it is relocation because footfall has...

Arun Estates has launched what it describes as “a major new departure” - a fully-staffed High Street office but covering a...

A senior figure in another regional estate agency group has expressed scepticism about the popularity of online choices for vendors. Last week...

A buying agent in Melbourne says ‘old dinosaurs’ in traditional estate agencies ‘have no idea’ how to deal with the arrival of...

A firm which offers a white-labelled online estate agency platform which can be used by otherwise-traditional agencies to provide a Purplebricks-style...

The consumer affairs correspondent of The Times has savaged High Street estate agents because of the commission they charge when compared...

Two of the leading lights in the growing Proptech sector are now working with a company which has a product it...

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

The vast majority of sellers surveyed by a consumer group say rapport with branch staff in a locally-based office is important...

Purplebricks has issued a strong defence of its Local Property Experts after an agency comparison website’s analysis was critical of the...

Hunters says it will not be following other traditional-style estate agencies by offering online-only services to sellers - but it will...

Peel Hunt, the City investment broker that has worked closely with Purplebricks, has issued an investment note to clients with a...

An analysis conducted by estate agency comparison website GetAgent has for the first time attempted to calculate how ‘local’ agencies' local property...

A PropTech start-up says its booking, valuation and communication tools will be available free of charge to any agency with fewer...

One of the more puzzling questions in London's estate agency industry has been resolved - how a company which appears to...

Estate agency James Pendleton says it wants to give its clients more digital advantages without becoming an online operation itself -...

Horton Estate Agents - a hybrid agency which nonetheless claims to have ‘offices’ - says it will expand into 15 new...

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

A major regional agency with offices in Kent, Surrey and Sussex says its new online service - Howard Cundey LIVE -...

An estate agency that has just launched in south Devon says it is giving its customers the advantages of a 24-hour...

An online estate agency with a website claiming “a saving of 50 per cent” on local agents, is seeking £100,000 to £250,000...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned online agency HouseSimple from claiming that High Street agents charge “1.5% to 4% (plus 20%...

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

Some 19 per cent of estate agents in the UK currently show warning signs that indicate they are at risk of going...

Countrywide says the roll out of its online sales and lettings service is on schedule to reach 50 per cent of...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an advertisement which suggested that the firm behind it had “a physical office ... in...

  A hybrid agency called 99Home Ltd, which made its debut back in April, appears to have relaunched with what it calls...

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

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

Two leading voices in the PropTech sector suggest a radical overhaul of agents’ fee structures, saying that neither traditional full service nor online...

A study described as the biggest of its type seeks to explain why vendors choose - or avoid - online agents. The...

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

Hybrid estate agency YOPA has launched a recruitment campaign suggesting that agents have “the chance to make between £6k and £12k per...

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

A company which last month launched a service which it claims allows High Street estate agents to compete with online and...

Countrywide’s Bairstow Eves brand has launched a series of video guides for customers using their £995 online agency service and for...

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

A London investment broker says Purplebricks’ share price - currently around 300p - could rise another 50 per cent or more...

A firm is claiming to be allow high street agents to offer vendors an online sale services as well, without the...

A debate on customer service in the agency industry has been arranged for later this month between leading lights from both...

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

HomeXperts, the network of franchise agents operating from their homes and covering sales and lettings, has announced three new franchisees. They are...

A Financial Times article reports a bank analysis shows Purplebricks with a market share of 3.3 per cent of properties marked...

Swiss bank UBS has downgraded Countrywide’s status to ‘sell’ in a move which has prompted the troubled estate agency’s share price...

The fledgling group being set up to represent independent estate and letting agents is preparing a formal complaint about Purplebricks based...

A high street agency has turned the online sector’s advertising technique on its head. Instead of a seller revealing ‘saved’ fees by...

One of the founders of hybrid agency Purplebricks says sellers in the UK may never accept the sale of their property...

One of the earliest entrepreneurs to found a website to allow for-sale-by-owner property listings back in 2000, predicts current online agents...

Hatched, the online agency snapped up just over a year ago by Connells in what was described as an ‘industry defining’...

An estate agency described as operating a ‘pay as you go’ business model says it wants to “disrupt the disruptors” operating...

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

Countrywide’s marketing chief says the estate agency group’s controversial hybrid sales model - to be rolled out to a quarter of...

The award-winning online agency HouseSimple has had one of its advertisements banned by the Advertising Standards Authority. The advert was a poster for...

A debate discussing how online and traditional estate agency would develop in the future, organised by City investment consultancy Jefferies, has...

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

Despite the much-publicised 'threat' of online estate agency there were more high street offices opened in the first half of this year...

YOPA, the online agency that recently had an extensive TV campaign, has amended the content of its website following a complaint to...

In the first half of this year, vendors in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, could have saved over £1.87 billion in...

Martin & Co is reported to have acquired EweMove, an estate agency which describes itself as the first ‘hybrid’ service -...

Ed Mead, one of the most high profile estate agents in the industry, is leaving London agency Douglas and Gordon to...

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

An estate agency owned by Countrywide has relaunched with what it calls “an innovative, premises-free business model that seeks to redefine...

Haus Properties, the high-profile London estate agency started almost five years ago by Apprentice star Jamie Lester, now appears to be...

Sarah Beeny’s Tepilo agency says it intends to more than double its size in the next six months and cites Purplebricks...

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

Another Countrywide executive has left the company - the latest departure is Eyal Malinger, the director of corporate development. Harvard-educated Malinger had...

Online agency HouseSimple Award claims a new £13m investment package will allow it to “challenge PurpleBricks as the UK’s leading online...

Countrywide is to offer vendors and buyers a choice of using an online service, a traditional high street branch or a...

Countrywide's retail chief says the group's new hybrid joint online and traditional project has involved training agents to change the way...

There has been a muted response from the City to the announcement just before the weekend that high-end estate agency Savills...

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 property portal sector’s leading analysts is suggesting that Rightmove may be about to increasingly involve itself with services...

Countrywide is going to announce “in the very near future” that it is taking a stake in two tech start-up companies...

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

A large survey of home movers reveals that over one in five of them considered using only an online-only estate agent...

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

The future estate agency model is going to be neither the traditional High Street office nor the online-only alternative - instead...

Online estate agent HouseSimple has launched what it calls a “weekly pay-as-you-go estate agent service” which asks sellers to pay from...