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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...