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09 December 2019
From: Breaking News

A few weeks ago, I came across a couple of really interesting articles which I immediately thought worth writing a piece...
16 October 2019
From: Breaking News

This is stating the obvious to estate agents but the government has revealed that homes near parks, gardens, playing fields and...
16 October 2019
From: Breaking News

If you thought - perhaps hoped - that five weeks of prorogued Parliament meant a break from politics, think again: the...
14 September 2019
From: Features

A £3.6 billion Towns Fund to support towns across England to build prosperous futures through innovative regeneration is a perfect chance...
10 September 2019
From: Breaking News

A leading figure in urban design is urging new Prime Minister Boris Johnson to stand up for the pioneering space standards...
07 August 2019
From: Breaking News

Two of the highest profile independent estate agencies in the north of England have merged following a spectacular acquisition. Linley & Simpson...
17 July 2019
From: Breaking News

With this summer marking forty years since Margaret Thatcher came to power, her legacy continues to invoke both celebration and consternation...
06 July 2019
From: Features

This week, I want to take a look at the Israeli startup, Venn, an urban revitalisation firm which has recently received...
03 July 2019
From: Breaking News

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is running a Certified Property Measurer course aimed at training agents and others in the...
05 June 2019
From: Breaking News

While media attention has been on Theresa May, Brexit and the Tories, chatter in the agency industry has been about what...
25 May 2019
From: Features

Whether you love or hate it, Purplebricks has undoubtedly left its mark since arriving on the scene in 2015 – much...
18 May 2019
From: Features

During our school days, most of us did that task where we imagined and drew the homes of the future, but...
04 May 2019
From: Features

Hello and here we go with yet another Agents Do Charity, the weekly opportunity to herald the unsung efforts of our...
08 March 2019
From: Breaking News

A couple of weeks ago, SoftBank’s Vision Fund led a whopping $200 million investment injection into Clutter, the US-based on-demand storage...
06 March 2019
From: Breaking News

Online estate agent Emoov failed to tell crowdfunding investors it was losing £3m a month before its collapse, a Sunday paper claims. The...
24 February 2019
From: Breaking News

At the end of January the Asian PropTech company PropertyGuru announced the imminent launch of beta-phase testing of its cutting-edge new product, PropertyGuru Lens. This...
06 February 2019
From: Breaking News

A think tank is suggesting that micro-homes could be the answer to London’s shortage of available homes for first time buyers. The...
22 January 2019
From: Breaking News

It’s time to think about planning the 2019 events calendar. This year, there are more PropTech conferences scheduled than ever before,...
09 January 2019
From: Breaking News

Another year is nearly done – and what an eventful year it’s been. We’ve had more than our fair share of breaking...
22 December 2018
From: Features

So this is (almost) it. Next week may be a quiet one for business as vendors and landlords alike begin to...
14 December 2018
From: Breaking News

A Newcastle-based property company says it has acquired the listings of Emoov and Tepilo. It has emailed and texted vendors to say...
13 December 2018
From: Breaking News

A crowdfunding bid to Emoov’s staff to win financial help over the Christmas period has flopped badly with a paltry £30...
13 December 2018
From: Breaking News

It is now known that at least 32 formal complaints have been received by the crowdfunding platform that helped Emoov raise...
12 December 2018
From: Breaking News

Estate Agent Today has been given details of responses made by administrators to an enquiry about the possible acquisition of some...
11 December 2018
From: Breaking News

The Times reports that crowdfunding investors are considering legal action following the collapse of Emoov. The investors in question appear to be some of...
10 December 2018
From: Breaking News

Investment platform Crowdcube has told Estate Agent Today that defunct online estate agency Emoov revised down its company valuation from £104m...
05 December 2018
From: Breaking News

A statement by the administrators appointed by Emoov says there are prospective buyers for the listings on the online agency and...
05 December 2018
From: Breaking News

The demise of Emoov, Tepilo and lettings platform Urban raises question marks over the long-term viability of online agencies according to...
04 December 2018
From: Breaking News

The circus surrounding the fate of online agency Emoov has taken an unexpected turn. Yesterday Sky News revealed that the company was...
30 November 2018
From: Breaking News

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has launched a new guide in a bid to end what it calls inconsistencies and...
20 November 2018
From: Breaking News

Time appears to be running short for the sale of troubled online agency Emoov. An Emoov insider has told Estate Agent Today...
19 November 2018
From: Breaking News

A leading property consultancy has called out Manchester as the location which has seen the highest urban price growth of anywhere...
14 November 2018
From: Breaking News

An online agency launched by a traditional high street agent to ward off competition says the online business model might have...
13 November 2018
From: Breaking News

Hello and welcome to our latest edition of Property Jobs Today, a weekly run-through of the key job moves within our...
12 November 2018
From: Breaking News

One of Emoov’s agents in the field has contacted Estate Agent Today to give an insight into how the agency has...
05 November 2018
From: Breaking News

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

Sky News says Emoov is to be sold, just months after the controversial online agency merged with Sarah Beeny's Tepilo and the...
31 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Bored with Brexit? Baffled by the backstop? Troubled by the transition period? Well here’s a promise - there’s no mention of the...
19 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Sales of holiday homes could be hit as a result of a new £560m tax proposal put forward by Labour. Under the...
24 September 2018
From: Breaking News

The chief executive of the newly-expanded Emoov group has been giving details of the merger with Tepilo and the possibility of...
17 August 2018
From: Breaking News

My eye was caught yesterday morning by news that PropTech company, Agent Software, is claiming that ‘some agencies deliberately over-value properties...
15 August 2018
From: Breaking News

Emoov’s latest crowdfunding campaign has now gone well over £1.5m, making it already 50 per cent over-funded already from its original...
18 July 2018
From: Breaking News

First things first, I have to mention the World Cup. The dream is over, football’s not quite coming home (not until...
14 July 2018
From: Features

Emoov has launched a crowdfunding campaign giving investors, it says, “a final chance” to put their money into the hybrid agency...
03 July 2018
From: Breaking News

The UK arm of the US-based estate agency Keller Williams says it is making a specific bid to recruit more women...
28 June 2018
From: Breaking News

A major hybrid agency says there is a huge ‘reality gap’ between the typical asking price of homes on sale and the...
21 June 2018
From: Breaking News

Hello - if it’s Monday, it must be Property Jobs Today, your chance to see a snapshot of the key moves...
18 June 2018
From: Breaking News

The young entrepreneur behind Doorsteps, the estate agency that deliberately avoids the huge marketing razzamatazz of other online companies, says his...
14 June 2018
From: Breaking News

Russell Quirk, chief executive of Emoov, says his agency is now one of the top seven in the UK following its...
08 June 2018
From: Breaking News

A London estate agency run by a brother and sister is trying something completely now - it pledges to use some...
08 June 2018
From: Breaking News

TV property expert Sarah Beeny says she expects online agencies to take 70 per cent market share in the future -...
05 June 2018
From: Breaking News

The so-called ‘merger’ of Emoov, Tepilo and a lettings firm is actually an acquisition by Emoov of the other two companies. That's...
31 May 2018
From: Breaking News

The long-awaited merger of Tepilo and Emoov is reported to have been confirmed this afternoon and in with them goes online lettings...
30 May 2018
From: Breaking News

The sun has finally returned to ours skies and you’re on the lookout for a little bit of summer reading. As...
21 April 2018
From: Features

Andy Martin, the popular and respected senior partner at Strutt & Parker from 2009 to earlier this year, has been appointed...
21 December 2017
From: Breaking News

Hands up if you’ve read all of the property reports that have been published in the past week or so? Forever...
29 November 2017
From: Breaking News

An estate agency that started its life at a kitchen table in 1997 is now celebrating 20 years in business. City living specialist...
07 November 2017
From: Breaking News

In this week’s Natter I’m going to get all political. Don’t worry, I won’t be giving my opinions on Brexit, Trump...
02 September 2017
From: Features

“When an industry is new, still finding its feet, finding its purpose, the tendency is for those few people within it...
30 August 2017
From: Breaking News

Historically, short-term rentals have been an unattractive business for the majority of estate agents and property managers. Scarcity of demand from tenants...
04 August 2017
From: Features

A research report compiled by Strutt & Parker in partnership with Octopus Healthcare has revealed what the baby boomer generation expects...
13 June 2017
From: Breaking News

Two established independent estate agency brands have joined forces to create the Estate Agency Franchise Group and are looking to expand. The...
09 June 2017
From: Breaking News

It has been announced that Uber, the taxi company, has teamed up with build to rent firm, Moda Living, to ‘revolutionise renting’. This...
31 May 2017
From: Breaking News

The latest measure of house price rises in key UK cities by the property consultancy Hometrack shows house price in many...
30 May 2017
From: Breaking News

Winkworth’s annual figures for 2016 reveal a franchise turnover drop of six per cent and a pre-tax profit fall of 25.6...
31 March 2017
From: Breaking News

Hometrack data suggests that annual house price inflation in London has fallen to 6.4 per cent, the lowest level since June...
24 February 2017
From: Breaking News

The guys at Which? are at it again, all over estate agents like a rash for “over valuing” properties so they...
17 February 2017
From: Features

The chronic shortage of housing supply in the UK relative to demand has been a national issue for decades. The Government...
11 February 2017
From: Features

First details of the long-awaited Housing White Paper have emerged in stories in newspapers frequently used by government to float ideas. The...
03 February 2017
From: Breaking News

Over 168,000 new homes were completed in the year to March 2016, according to data released by the government, over 15,500...
28 January 2017
From: Features

London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s aim of creating a 24-hour city is one step closer with the appointment of London’s first Night...
26 November 2016
From: Features

As many northern cities struggled to recover from the 2008 global financial crisis, the north-south divide returned to plague the British...
28 October 2016
From: Features

Countryside Properties and Telford Homes are the latest housebuilders to report good trading conditions following the result of the EU referendum. Countryside,...
14 October 2016
From: Breaking News

It’s easy to forget, but there was a time when the internet didn’t exist. When the idea behind the world wide...
19 August 2016
From: Features

Sheffield in South Yorkshire, which was once one of the leading industrial cities in Britain and is still recognised for its...
22 July 2016
From: Features

London’s rising supply of homes on sale and relatively low level of transactions are “pointing to slower house price growth in...
22 July 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

Hometrack is the latest property organisation to forecast that the referendum result will impact turnover far more than house prices in...
29 June 2016
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank says the prices of so-called ‘prime’ country houses are still on average 13.6 per cent below their peak, despite...
17 May 2016
From: Breaking News

The summer term – rounders, cricket and hayfever. It's also the last dash before the housing market supposedly closes down for...
23 April 2016
From: Features

So this is Easter - a busy time for many agents although once again the industry has shown its compassionate side...
25 March 2016
From: Breaking News

The sale of country houses - already tough as buyers increasingly want to live on the edge of market towns and...
23 March 2016
From: Breaking News

Fine & Country this week opens a new London office in Bow, coinciding with the imminent start of its TV advertising...
29 February 2016
From: Breaking News

The chief executive of Countrywide says there’s “no change of course” after a 37 per cent slump in operating profits were...
25 February 2016
From: Breaking News

Some 51 per cent of postcodes within Greater London now have average property prices of £500,000 or more according to one...
04 February 2016
From: Breaking News

Surely people will start moving again soon. The employment rate for the last quarter of 2015 is likely to be the...
22 January 2016
From: Features

It’s time to take a pause, to reflect and put into context—and what a year it has been for our industry...
24 December 2015
From: Features

A new agency called Sphere Estates will launch next month following a management buy-out of high end overseas property agency Abercrombie...
02 December 2015
From: Breaking News

Hometrack says its index of house price growth in major cities is already 9.4 per cent per annum and looks set...
20 November 2015
From: Breaking News

This month analysis by the Office for National Statistics revealed that the average home in England and Wales cost a record...
28 August 2015
From: Features

LSL Property Services, owner of Reeds Rains and Your Move amongst other high street chains, says last month’s sales market was the...
13 August 2015
From: Breaking News

John D Wood & Co is launching an international department, promising properties ranging from urban pieds-à-terre to Caribbean beach houses, from...
21 May 2015
From: Breaking News

There has been much debate in recent years about Britain’s desperate need for more housing stock. Demand has been outstripping supply...
15 May 2015
From: Features

A pressure group says cities across England and Wales - including mid-size cities as well as the big urban conurbations -...