New research appears to show that Purplebricks, HouseSimple, Yopa and other prominent online agencies are most popular with vendors selling in...
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09 March 2018
From: Breaking News

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

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

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

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

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

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, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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’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

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

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

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

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

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, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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’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

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

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'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

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

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

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 reported to have acquired EweMove, an estate agency which describes itself as the first ‘hybrid’ service -...
06 September 2016
From: Breaking News

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 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

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

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 says it intends to more than double its size in the next six months and cites Purplebricks...
17 June 2016
From: Breaking News

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 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 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 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

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

There has been a muted response from the City to the announcement just before the weekend that high-end estate agency Savills...
06 June 2016
From: Breaking News

An online agency claims that for the second year running London’s traditional estate agents have charged well over £1 billion in...
11 May 2016
From: Breaking News

One of the property portal sector’s leading analysts is suggesting that Rightmove may be about to increasingly involve itself with services...
03 March 2016
From: Breaking News

Countrywide is going to announce “in the very near future” that it is taking a stake in two tech start-up companies...
11 February 2016
From: Breaking News

A survey of 1,000 members of the public suggests that 60 per cent of people would prefer to buy or sell a...
06 January 2016
From: Breaking News

A large survey of home movers reveals that over one in five of them considered using only an online-only estate agent...
14 December 2015
From: Breaking News

Connells Group says it is still on the prowl for traditional estate agencies to acquire after its announcement that it has...
17 November 2015
From: Breaking News

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