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A hybrid agency is appealing to corporate estate agents to jump ship and try its self employed business model. Mr & Mrs...

The property market became somewhat fractious during 2020. After receiving a much-needed boost with the promise of stamp duty relief, things...

A PropTech firm claims its new interactive property reports are “the most comprehensive on any UK property” and reduce the need...

A housing index says the market continues to defy Coronavirus and Brexit worries with asking prices up 4.9 per cent in...

One of the most respected figures in the industry, trainer and consultant Richard Rawlings, is suggesting that stamp duty should be...

The largest company involved in the controversial Modern Method of Auction says it’s producing a “disruptive digital market campaign to address...

One of the founder agencies of the new Boomin portal, scheduled to launch in the New Year, has also rejoined Zoopla. Farrell...

We’re sure agents have been working hard to urge vendors to take it easy on the dodgy decorations if there are...

The shock and almost immediate increase in stamp duty on additional homes in Wales has prompted one question in the industry...

The importance of marketing properties is something that is often undervalued. Big budgets are dedicated to selling everyday items such as...

Buyer feedback is a key resource for agents who want to keep on top of market changes and so handle vendors’...

Welcome to part three of our ongoing series on local independent agents, as we seek to give this all-important part of...

If this year has taught us anything, it's that estate agents need their software provider and specifically their CRM, to help...

Over 100 Zoopla member branches have signed up to the Modern Method of Auction system offered via the portal. Over the summer Zoopla...

The Federation of Independent Agents trade group has unveiled a new automated nurture product available exclusively to members - and it claims...

As what now seems like a common occurrence everything has changed again since I last sat down to write about the...

Rezi’s integration with Zapier has transformed the way in which estate agents can now save time, money and resource. Agents are...

Online network love2move - which gives partner High Street agents an option to offer vendors an online sales service - is...

Connells Group has announced a major recruitment drive as it looks to create 250 new agents' positions - and it’s launched...

Safety checks which are apparently now preventing thousands of owners selling flats are to be eased - but there is confusion...

As regular readers will know, the Natter kickstarted a series last time out zoning in on local independent agents – the...

Searches that are bound by the Search Code, protecting the seller, buyer and lender, are property and not client specific. As...

Newspapers are pushed through the door, whereas websites have to pull in visitors - it’s a simple but fundamental difference with vast implications...

One of the country’s top buying agents is advising purchasers and vendors to avoid online agencies and 'bucketshop' conveyancers. Edward Heaton - founder...

As we embark on another nationwide lockdown, the team at SDL Auctions are keen to help agents ride the storm, beat...

Conveyancers have considered whether the long-standing ‘caveat emptor’ or buyer beware principle in a property purchase should be replaced by ‘vendor...

A relaunched home buying service says it wants to partner with agents to unlock sales if the housing market deteriorates. The service...

The trend of buyers apparently fleeing the city to get more for their money in the country has hit the buffers...

Hello and welcome to yet another Agents Do Charity, the weekly forum for the industry to share its good news on...

An online agency says its virtual auction service can be used even by its rivals between now and the end of...

Advanced information released today about Boomin suggests it will seek a much closer relationship with agents than existing portals, with lifetime...

We can all agree that the recovery of the property market since May has been outstanding. The latest data from Zoopla...

The housing market is to remain open in the four week lockdown in England. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government...

Agents spend their whole careers telling vendors and landlords why they will be able to achieve a better sale price or...

Independent agent uses innovative ‘feet up’ campaign to win business. An independent letting agency has invited landlords to put their ‘feet up’...

I was asked recently, how can an agent generate more landlord leads? Well that got me thinking, firstly, we have to...

Putting fingers to keyboard to create blogs and articles isn’t always the easiest job for agents, particularly when meetings, viewings and...

Generating leads is a crucial and age-old part of estate agency. Before the internet, lead generation was just as important to...

Here at The ValPal Network, we know that there are other options available when considering to use a valuation tool, so...

The property market has bounced back with all of the expected resilience and flexibility that is its hallmark since it reopened...

The Stamp Duty Land Tax holiday has been a hot topic of conversation for many in the residential property industry –...

The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the way every industry operates and the property sector is no exception. Following an enforced seven-week...

Online auction service Iamsold secured £52.7m in total for vendors in September, an increase of 16 per cent on the same period last...

Another new property portal has been launched, this one - Mutual - describing itself as the ‘Pre-Portal Property Platform for estate...

Hello and welcome to the start of a new week and a new edition of Property Jobs Today, your chance to...

Lawyers, politicians, bankers, insurance sellers – no matter where you go, there are some professions that are just always going to...

Let’s be honest: things are getting just a little tougher aren’t they?  We’re delighted to say that the spirit of the industry...

A prominent housing market analyst is warning that in 14 years of studying prices and transactions he has never seen the...

A platform which signs up vendors and allocates their sale to a high-performing local agent says it sells property two months...

A new portal-style PropTech product has launched and wants to recruit estate agents to its fold - despite describing the way...

An estate agency in the south of England has abandoned its online-only strategy and has decided to open a physical office...

Many agents, certainly those in London, will have faced the difficult task of selling a flat with a shorter lease. A...

It’s about this time of year, pandemic or not, that agents may be asked one particularly awkward question by a vendor...

An estate agent in Liverpool has adopted the unusual technique of urging vendors to sell now “before prices crash.” Clearly unworried about...

A new online platform claims to be the first of its kind to speed up the private treaty sales process for...

A quick buy firm which typically purchases homes from sellers at below market levels has accused estate agents and the private...

Vendors spend an average £41 a day for 144 days when selling their home - but some spend a remarkable £140 a...

Seller and landlord leads are what makes estate agency tick. Without them, new business is nowhere to be seen and you...

Two agencies have entered the debate on whether the current frenzied housing market is seeing delays in completions. Yesterday EAT reported that...

Logjams in the mortgage, conveyancing and removal stages of house moving mean sales are taking much longer than usual, according to...

A family-run agency which last year asked people to “make an offer” to buy a franchise is now claiming it will...

A quick buy firm boasting it has ‘sold’ a home within six days also says it now takes 140 days on...

Almost a third of property sellers (29%) say they won't accept a lower offer for their property, according to new research. Online...

The strong performance of the auction market in recent months has been reinforced by the latest figures from iamsold, the UK's...

Ahead of the launch of a new iBuyer platform later this year, agents are being invited to attend two webinars hosted...

Independent agents are busier than they have ever been thanks to the post-lockdown surge but larger corporates are actually losing market...

A leading agent says the government’s new Coronavirus clampdown from Monday will push more home owners to sell. Caspar Harvard-Wills, a partner at...

Knight Frank has launched an auction business to give vendors a wider range of sale options as market uncertainty remains because...

With estate agents increasingly offering auction options to vendors, new research makes interesting reading - and suggests that homes sold via...

Whilst Estate and Letting Agents have adapted their operations during COVID-19, to ensure safer working practices under Government guidance, ‘virtual property...

Estate agents are increasingly using low-key ‘grey’ marketing to avoid too many prospective buyers swamping them when homes go on sale. That’s...

One of the victims of a notorious estate agency price fixing cartel has spoken out against one of the offenders.  Christina Davis...

An American realtor who once predicted his company would have 5,000 UK estate agents working under its banner is now saying...

An insurance firm claims estate agents are taught not to quote VAT in fees until the final bill. A statement from Admiral...

OneDome, which operates two free-to-list property listing sites, says it’s had a record month as it strives to build an alternative...

In another sign of the buoyant housing market, estate agency Savills is breaking tradition by staging its first ever August auction...

Hindsight is 20-20 vision, of course, and we can all see things we did ‘then’ that we would not do ‘now’....

One of Countrywide’s biggest shareholders has written a second letter to the company to demand bold action to save the agency...

An online agency says it’s offering its customers a kind of ‘fall-through insurance’ after over 100 deals collapsed between mid-March and...

A leading buying agency is warning sellers and buyers not to jump the gun and abandon London in the belief that...

An unusual property sales concept, which signs up vendors and then effectively sub-contracts their sales to strongly-performing local estate agents, has...

In my last Natter, I explored the differences between estate agency in the UK and the US with the help of...

Asking prices are up again for a third consecutive month in all English regions and across Scotland and Wales.  The measurement, from...

It has been three months since the property market was given the green light to reopen. During this time, we have...

A property developer has set up an estate agency that charges no commission to sellers but instead levies a non-refundable reservation...

A row is brewing over an agency which acted on a vendor’s request to use the English version of a house...

Property raffles are a legal minefield and many are too good to be true, according to a leading lawyer. There has been...

Following the easing of lockdown restrictions on England’s property market in May, NAEA Propertymark reported a sharp increase in business for...

A survey of estate agents’ market share post-lockdown indicates significant advances for independent agencies and online operators. TwentyCi, a data consultancy, says...

New information has come to light which suggests that a leading marketing platform may be planning to step into the CRM...

A BBC presenter has used her local newspaper column to mock an estate agency for suggesting fridge magnets be removed to improve...

“Many hands make light work” – Does John Heywood’s old English proverb from the 1300s apply to modern approaches on how...

A new website that describes itself as an estate agency says it wants to “empower people to sell their own home”...

A vendor who suffered a fall-through on the sale of his five bedroom home in West Yorkshire is now trying to...

An agent in Hertfordshire says he routinely secures 5,000 visits to ‘live open houses’ on Facebook Live, and have on one...

Zoopla says its sale and vendor leads have reached a 2020 high, beating volumes delivered even during the strong start to the...

It is widely expected that Purplebricks will shortly reveal the result of an experiment with a number of different pricing strategies. The...

The estate agency industry has been sharply criticised for its record on protecting staff and customers during the Coronavirus crisis. The compliance...

The latest monthly index suggests that the average asking price in England and Wales has jumped 1.5 per cent in the...

An online agency that describes itself as the fifth largest in the sector has announced it’s launching a digital auction service. 99home...

At a recent Conveyancing Association webinar focused on the provision of upfront information in the property sale process, there was a...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak - and the agency industry - will no doubt be delighted to know that visits to Rightmove soared...

The latest guidance from the government on the next phase of the HS2 high-speed railway confirms the previous demand that vendors...

The property market has been reopen for almost eight weeks now and during that time demand from prospective buyers has soared. Rightmove...

The industry’s first virtual awards event has taken place with hundreds of agents participating courtesy of YouTube. Winners of the prestigious ESTAS...

Buyer registrations and sales enquiries are reportedly back to pre-Covid levels. Completions, however, are lagging behind. This is probably down to...

“Let’s Zoom later”, “are we Zooming in the morning or afternoon?” “Yeah, I zoomed the client earlier” – variations on these...

A former chief executive of Countrywide has issued a string of extravagant claims about the lockdown success of the online agency...

Price discounts are diminishing as the housing market strengthens, according to data from Knight Frank. The average discount to the asking price...

Online sector veterans Russell Quirk and Kenny Bruce have used social media to call for a temporary scrapping of all stamp...

A free webinar is taking place this week to show how agents can list properties on Facebook Marketplace. The event, hosted by...

As we emerge from lockdown, quickly progressing sales to completion is vital to replace lost commission income.  What role can mio...

The new YOUhome Property Gurus agency has announced another key hire to strengthen its central London activities.  The agency, set up by...

A new high end agency called The Country House Department is launching with an initial focus on Oxfordshire, Berkshire and The...

A quarter of vendors and buyers contacted by a high-end agency say the lockdown and the Coronavirus crisis have made them...

Lets Bid works in partnership with a variety of Estate Agents across the Uk from big franchise brands like Winkworth /...

An overwhelming 98 per cent of vendors questioned by Zoopla say they remain anxious about the Coronavirus and would prefer to...

Rightmove has contacted all member agents saying it has enhanced its automated online viewing feature first introduced in April. As part of...

A survey of sellers by a high-end agency suggests that around a third expect price falls of six per cent or...

A well-known saying in estate agency is that first-time buyers are the sellers of the future. If we believe this to...

The Covid-19 crisis hasn’t caused the revolution it has been reported to have. Despite the challenges it has brought, fundamentally, the...

It’s another Bank Holiday weekend and the first since lockdown was eased and the housing market returns - so perhaps a...

Strutt & Parker is the latest agency to attract hundreds of prospective vendors and buyers to a ‘keep in touch’ webinar. Last...

Rightmove has taken the unusual step this weekend of issuing its usual monthly asking price index on a Saturday instead of...

Who are you? I’m Craig Fenner, a Customer Success Director at Feefo.  I work directly with Feefo’s Enterprise clients to ensure they...

Over the past few weeks, estate agents have been forced to close high street branches and adapt to working from home,...

There’s been a surge in buyers wanting to view properties - but agents must sit on their hands and wait for...

There has been much speculation about when agents will be allowed back to work, and what the new office working environment...

Fine & Country is one of those clever agencies employing interior designers to help stage properties, making them look their best...

An instant valuation service has launched a new tool aimed at helping agents prioritise leads through prospective vendors uploading photographs to...

Housing minister Chris Pincher is drawing up guidelines which could allow agents to return to something like normal working in the near...

Buying and selling a house is often referenced as being one of the most stressful life experiences that we can go...

NAEA Propertymark has today launched a campaign for the government to introduce what it calls a Property Sector Support Package. This would...

The Haart estate agency chain has launched a portal called Off Market which it describes to sellers as being “a unique...

A property tax specialist is warning that sellers of buy to lets or holiday homes may have to estimate their own...

Industry supplier epropservices has created a new virtual valuation platform to help the industry operate during the lockdown and social distancing...

Savills has kept in touch with almost 2,000 of its vendors and prospective buyers through two mass webinars. Entitled ‘What COVID-19 means...

An online auction platform is offering agents full legal packs with no upfront cost in a bid to keep the housing...

One of the few agents anywhere in the British Isles who has returned to something like normal working has revealed new...

It may seem a long time since normal trading took place but many agencies are now finding they are picking up...

A Fine & Country agent has just sold a home based on a video viewing, and is now sharing tips with...

The National Association of Estate Agents is urging its members to use the lockdown as an opportunity to train on its...

Hello and welcome to Conquering Corona, our bid to help agents through the crisis. If you have appropriate advice to share with...

Hello - we hope you had as good an Easter as possible in these unusual circumstances, and welcome back to work. Now...

Just a month ago our homes felt, for many of us, to be a mere pitstop on a centrifuge of work,...

Working from home is something of a leveller right now, applying to people in the capital and in the sticks, but...

One of the first analyses of portal listings since the start of the Coronavirus crisis shows that new listings have plummeted...

Hello and welcome to Wednesday’s update on what offers and advice are available to agents at this most difficult and challenging...

Week three of the lockdown begins - we hope you’re faring well with these temporary restrictions. We’re here to help where...

Due to the current Coronavirus pandemic, we are all being told to stay at home as much as possible to contain...

There’s a sense that we really are on the verge of a huge change in the industry. It’s too early to be...

An estate agency in Portsmouth has sold a house subject to contract after nothing more than a video tour filmed by...

Hello and welcome to our latest update… we’re probably not yet getting used to these unusual times but we hope this...

Over the last two weeks we’ve seen the country come to a standstill and the property market effectively put on ice...

Welcome to the latest edition of our daily service dedicated to advice and guidance on how agents can best cope with...

A video has been launched this morning explaining how agents can get their sellers and landlords to use iPhones to make...

A video interview released this morning features the experiences of eight agents who have quit Rightmove in the past two years,...

There’s been a huge change in the way estate agencies operate in recent years, with far more focus on marketing properties...

Nested is the latest online agency to base a marketing campaign around criticism of established estate agents.  In three 30-second TV ads...

Hello and another Monday means PJT Day, your regular update on movers in the industry. You know the drill by now: if...

Analysis by an online valuation and lead generation service shows that requests from prospective sellers and landlords are increasingly happening in...

Almost eight in 10 sellers have instructed High Street agents in the past year - a significantly higher figure than 12...

There’s been a surge in UK enquiries to global free-to-list portal Residential People, and a comparable rise in interest from Chinese...

An estate agent who swindled a 69 year old woman out of £5,000 has escaped jail - and has been ordered...

More than 18 months on from the acquisition of ZPG for £2.2 billion by Silver Lake Partners, a US private equity...

In the last few Natters I’ve focused on the slow death of local newspaper advertising, and how many agents are now...

The National Association of Estate Agents has launched its Sales Protocol Toolkit, in a bid to reduce fall-throughs and dramatically improve...

Trials of reservation agreements for buyers and sellers have been delayed until the late spring. Statements last year from the Ministry of Housing, Communities...

The property management industry is evolving at a rapid pace, thanks almost entirely to the rise in PropTech. Hundreds, if not thousands...

A conveyancing firm has launched what it claims to be one of the first ever apps for vendors and buyers in...

A prominent consumer group says homes sold precisely 14 days after first being listed typically achieve the best price - closest...

An online agency’s claim that it sells homes “for free” has been disputed by a High Street rival - but the...

The people behind an online valuation service is warning agents that having a widget on their website is not enough by...

A new renovation start-up is operating across eight cities and claims to be able to transform properties - including ones that...

Mystery surrounds a historic agency that has ceased trading after 235 years in business - even though its website is still...

Quite a few years ago, I spoke at a conference for auctioneers. It was a traditional affair. Rural location. Nice hotel....

Another hub-based agency has launched in the capital, following in the footsteps of operations like Harding Green, Orchards and Keller Williams. Mariel...

At the end of a strong week for housing market indicators, the latest survey from the website Home suggests a major...

Over the past decade, the short-term rental industry, now eponymised by Airbnb, has experienced meteoric growth. This has been driven by the...

A hybrid estate agency which set a target of rivalling Purplebricks when it launched says it aims to recruit 25 agents...

Three signs emerged over the weekend suggesting that the market may be shaping up well for 2020. Firstly a new survey by...

OnTheMarket has started 2020 as it ended 2019 - with an attack on Rightmove via an agency which urges others to...

Estate agents who deliberately over-value properties in order to win instructions are effectively committing fraud according to a prominent industry figure. Russell...

Purplebricks is not revealing details of the different pricing strategies it is testing “in the field” early this year. Last month the...

An agency in Leeds is next month launching a service which it claims is unique in the area, partnering with a...

A website has slammed the idea that there is a surge of interest in buying homes on Boxing Day, describing the...

It’s one of the most crucial aspects of the homebuying and selling process but is too often bogged down by frustrating...

The latest snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows that the UK housing market is still on hold, pending...

When we launched Reapit’s Foundations Platform as a Service (PaaS) in November, it may have seemed like a recent development in...

Online estate agency Housesimple is extending its offer to sell homes for free to some postcodes in the Midlands.  The offer is...

Humberts has signed off in bizarre style leaving only false contact details on its website. The historic agency - which closed several...

[Estate Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise...

love2move, which offers High Street agents a white-labelled digital platform that allows them to offer online services to vendors, has revealed...

An online agency which is free to list for vendors says it wants prospective buyers to stay in the property they...

Zoopla is advising agents to prepare for a festive rush of leads. The portal says it expects a 60  per cent month-on-month increase...

Here at sales progression and communication tool mio, we recently caught up with Sarah Edmundson, co-director of The AllStars Group, the...

House prices increased 0.5 per cent in November, which was the strongest monthly rise since April according to the Nationwide.  However, annual...

A new app is being launched which allows agents to gauge possible interest in a property before it is formally put...

A Georgian mansion described as an oasis of seclusion and including a lake with 2,000 fish is being raffled by its...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Michelle O’Brien, mio Account Manager for Home Counties North What is...

A PropTech company says the majority of transactions now involve chains and that the issue is becoming more problematic for agents...

It’s only five weeks to the New Year and new decade and the first agents have started making predictions for the...

A prominent regional agent says the industry owes it to vendors to try competing marketing outlets for property, and not to...

Humberts is the latest estate agency to announce that it’s going to offer customers the controversial Modern Method of Auction option. The...

The prospective buyers of a home in Oxfordshire who paid a deposit of £108,000 before withdrawing are suing the sellers in...

Rightmove is this morning reporting a huge fall in the number of new sellers coming to the market - a drop...

As we know, the world’s moving very fast and how we communicate now is drastically different to even 10 years ago....

Reservation Agreements are the subject of the moment in the agency industry. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is to...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  Jason Wilson, mio Account Manager What is mio and what does...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Milton Rodosthenous, Director of Equity and Capital & LetsBid Property.  What...

Two very different views on Brexit have come forward in the past 24 hours from different players in the industry. First off,...

An estate agency will pay out over £40,000 after being found to have misled customers and allowing one of its own...

A controversial estate agent and former head of an online agency is urging agents to knock on the doors of vendors...

One of the earliest British estate agencies to adopt the model of using self-employed or freelance agents operating under the same...

Enhanced customer care strategies, relationship-building schemes, cost-cutting measures and new revenue streams can’t help the lettings industry if the fundamental underlying...

A London agency has told Estate Agent Today that it makes some of its buyers pay upwards of £5,000 in Reservation...

First details have emerged of the information vendors may have to provide up-front In future transactions if government house buying reforms...

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has given more details of the trial of reservation agreements likely to take...

Yopa – launched in 2015 as part of the new breed of hybrid operators seeking to shake up the industry –...

Controversy and Purplebricks have gone hand in hand since the agency was first launched in 2012, through its float on the...

The latest housing market snapshot from the listings website Home suggests more regional markets are heading for price corrections. Home says that...

A relatively new company which signs up vendors and then effectively sub-contracts their sales to strongly-performing local estate agents says it...

There are fewer ‘accidental landlords’ - vendors who resort to letting out their homes because the sales market is difficult. That’s the...

A London agent is urging rivals to provide realistic valuations, even if vendors want more and despite temptations to over-value to...

A new online auction service has launched this week, pledging a fairer service for agent partners, as well as buyers and...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? David Masters – Account Manager for the Midlands What is ‘company...

The property market in prime central London showed some impressive signs of recovery during the summer months, according to Knight Frank. The...

Halloween is just over three weeks away and while the government prepares for the planned departure from the EU on the...

Property portal OnTheMarket has thrown down the challenge to Rightmove by launching two new features for its listing agents. The first, Market...

Prospective property buyers have been provided with several reasons why they should stop delaying purchasing decisions due to Brexit uncertainty. Buying agency...

A former sales agent with a historic property name and heritage has launched his own buying agency after becoming 'frustrated' with...

A new estate agency, which claims to only hire property experts, has announced a new investment as well as the recruitment...

There’s a clear change of mood music in the country now regarding environmental issues. You don’t need to be old to remember...

A story from America caught my eye this week. It’s about a company called Curbio partnering with another called The Keyes...

A well known regional agent has closed one of its offices saying “the old shop window of an estate agency is...

A sales and lettings agency which has entered insolvency is reported by a local newspaper to have offered vendors cut-price fees...

‘Workers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains’. So is written on the tombstone of the father...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Simon Trippett – Partner at The Property Centre. What services...

A pessimistic set of figures on asking prices, transaction volumes and stock levels culminates in Rightmove urging vendors to be willing...

The number of new property listings in the UK fell by a whopping 13.2 per cent in August according to online...

Pattinson Auction has claimed its latest live non-online event was a “tremendous success” despite what it calls “misconceptions” about this way...

I think I speak for most people when I say that we are not currently where we thought we would be...

The London market has “plummeted” because almost a third of vendors have cut their asking prices in anticipation of Brexit. Using data...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Phil Smith - mio Account manager What is mio and what does...

A former Local Property Expert and manager at Purplebricks has gone on record to reveal what it was really like to work...

A free-to-list property portal says that contrary to opinion within parts of the agency industry, the more portals there are the...

iamproperty, parent company of IAMsold, says it now works with 2,500 estate agency branches nationwide and has sold over 16,500 properties...

A London council admits that it typically takes 50 working days for a search - which means a Local Land Charge...

Estate agents have collectively been fiercely criticised for allegedly exaggerating valuations to win instructions, doing a disservice to vendors and not...

Zoopla is mining data from users of its website to target sellers on Facebook and Instagram, producing leads and making it unnecessary for agencies to...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Lino Goncalves – Area Sales Manager What is Lets bid property...

Estate and letting agents will for the first time be able to use WhatsApp to respond to leads on a 24/7...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Eric Woodhams F.N.A.E.A. mio Account Manager What is mio and what...

An online agency which last autumn said it wanted to have as much as a three per cent market share of...

Property pundit Henry Pryor says he is invited on TV and radio in order to provide “balance” against estate agents who...

Improved communication and increased transparency throughout the buying process can manage vendors’ expectations, improve satisfaction scores and create long-term clients. That’s the...

A new survey claims that 28 per cent of those who have put their home up for sale in past five...

Home, the property platform that often produces downbeat market forecasts, now says there are signs of improvement in London at least.  It...

It’s now more than three years since the EU referendum result in June 2016, and we’re still no clearer on when...

Property sellers have been urged to list their properties now in the hope of selling their properties for maximum value within...

The average British homeowner stays in their property for 20.8 years, according to new research by Zoopla. The property portal analysed the...

A survey of property sellers has revealed that 'achieving the asking price' (43%) and 'selling properties quickly' (35%) are the most...

love2move, the online network which allows high street agents to offer a white-labelled hybrid service, has announced its latest partner. Peter David...

Estate Agent Today has been contacted by an individual who says he is one of three former Emoov customers intending to...

The head of a website that contrasts the performances of rival estate agents is urging buyers to ‘drill down’ and find...

New figures released show High Street estate agents taking an increasingly large market share as online operators continue to crumble. According to the...

In the second part of my exploration of startups, I talk to a number of people with lived experience of creating...

Purplebricks’ former chief executive Lee Wainwright has made a stout defence of the controversial agency’s sales progression process and its local...

The modern method of auction is proving to revolutionise the way properties are bought and sold across the UK.  By putting the...

MyBid4It is an online auction platform which has been developed to partner with Estate Agents and revolutionise the way properties are...

A former Territory Owner at Purplebricks, who at one time managed 11 Local Property Experts, has spoken out in support of...

When employing a new member of staff there are a lot of checks and balances put in place by any business...

A firm that offers a white-labelled online agency platform to traditional High Street agents has signed up a new customer. love2move was...

Zoopla has taken a swipe at OnTheMarket by conducting a poll of sellers’ views about having properties listed exclusively on just...

A member of a legal information and networking organisation says an online estate agency expects him to do some work in...

My experience in marketing over the last 10 years has been an interesting journey, however I don’t want to bore you...

The estate agency industry is at a crossroads. A turbulent market, unstable political situation and a chronic lack of public confidence has...

A TV production company is looking for family-run estate agencies to be considered for a possible reality TV show. Curve Media -...

Traditional High Street estate agents have been given the thumbs up by sellers in a new survey of over 5,000 vendors...

Like many good agencies, Savills understands that selling a long-loved family home can be tough for a vendor. So it was with...

The gap between average asking prices and average selling prices has increased in recent months according to Zoopla. Its latest study of...

As we move closer to the halfway point of 2019, property market conditions for agents and their clients remain challenging. Brexit may...

An IT firm says small and medium-sized estate agencies without the infrastructure of large corporates are putting themselves and their customers...

A survey undertaken by the respected Economist Intelligence Unit and a risk solutions company suggests that estate agency may be one...

An expert who has invested in an online agency in the past has slammed Purplebricks’ business model. James Max, who presents the...

The average time on the market for a property is soaring across the UK thanks to Brexit uncertainty, according to the...

Consumer habits have changed massively over the past few years, and regardless of which market you operate in, being able to...

99home is the latest online agency to launch a no sale, no fee option for its vendors. The firm, which was launched...

One of the capital's best-known agents, Marsh & Parsons, has expanded its network with a new office in Streatham Hill, South...

A London sales and lettings agent has revealed to Estate Agent Today some of the tactics used by his rivals in...