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Agents should use a mixture of next-generation 3D style technology and traditional, old-school estate agency to allow them to thrive. That's...

Estate agents are being advised to emphasise to customers that they are local experts. “Show [the public] that you really know your...

Digital signatures are not new but the relative slowness with which they have been adopted by the industry is disappointing, according...

The debate over For Sale and To Let boards continues apace with some local councils wanting to make it difficult or...

Property auctions have boomed during the pandemic, despite auction houses having to quickly move away from their traditional in-room events since...

Iain McKenzie, chief executive of the Guild of Property Professionals, has given Estate Agent Today readers four exclusive marketing tips. In a...

Kerfuffle founder Simon Whale has given Estate Agent Today readers three top tips for improving their performance. The trio of suggestions -...

Buying agents level the playing field with estate agents according to Phil Spencer - the TV property expert who started his...

One of the industry’s key marketing suppliers has given four tips for agent readers of Estate Agent Today. Graeme Edwards, managing director...

In a video interview for Estate Agent Today, Dominic Murphy, Managing Director of DM & Co. in the Midlands, speaks to...

In a video interview for Letting Agent Today, Neil Cobbold, Chief Sales Officer of PayProp, speaks to property professional Chris Buckler...

This time last year the industry was awaiting the launch of a new portal - the free to list public site...

One of the industry’s leading consultants has calculated staff turnover rates at the country’s leading estate agencies. Christopher Watkin, the consultant who...

Buyer behaviour has changed over the past year of the pandemic and it’s up to estate agents to calculate how to...

Few people in the industry have as controversial or challenging a role as Nathan Emerson, the new (but interim) chief executive...

In a video interview for Estate Agent Today, property professional Chris Buckler speaks to Ed Mead,  all-round property guru and founder...

In a video interview for Letting Agent Today, property professional Chris Buckler speaks to Mike Dawson, Group Head of Sales at...

An MP demanding a root and branch reform of property taxation, including scrapping stamp duty, says the chance of fundamental reform is...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has announced “an exceptional intervention” promising that leaseholders in high-rise buildings above 18 metres will bear no...

In a video interview for Estate Agent Today, property professional Chris Buckler speaks to Justin and Victoria Bhoday - a married...

The new chief executive of Propertymark, now combining five agency trade bodies including the NAEA and ARLA, has no experience at...

Propertymark, combining both the National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Letting Agents, claims to speak for the...

In a wide-ranging video interview for his Move iQ service, Phil Spencer speaks to buying agent and TV property pundit Henry...

One of the country’s most experienced estate agents has spoken out about mental illness in the industry and his own condition...

A prominent PropTech supplier wants agents to hand over much more information to conveyancers to allow them to make faster progress on...

A leading enthusiast of the self-employed agency business model says even in these challenging times people can make a success of...

A self-employed agent has gone public to lavish praise on the mentoring scheme which is part of the Agents Together charity. Cameron Carter,...

In a video interview for Estate Agent Today, property professional Chris Buckler speaks to Matt Nicol, managing director of Nicol &...

In a video interview for Estate Agent Today, property professional Chris Buckler speaks to industry video expert Christopher Watkin. Watkin gives his...

Industry veteran Harry Hill, a former chairman of Countrywide and founder of Rightmove, has now become a mentor at the new...

The leader of the Say No To Rightmove campaign has revealed to Estate Agent Today that he has lobbied the portal...

Virtual viewings could transform estate agency so fundamentally that they might mean the work of five negotiators could in future be...

In a video interview for his Move iQ service, Phil Spencer speaks to Mark Hayward, managing director of NAEA Propertymark about...

The brothers who founded Purplebricks - Michael and Kenny Bruce - have returned to the agency industry for the first time...

In a wide-ranging video interview for his Move iQ service, Phil Spencer speaks to former agent and founder of Viewber, Ed...

Many of the leading advocates of the self-employed estate agent business model have talked about why many want new recruits with...

The founder of OnTheMarket has revealed why the portal floated on the stock market and why Ian Springett was the right...

In a video interview for Estate Agent Today, property professional Chris Buckler speaks to Sam Hunter, director of Homesearch. Alongside asking Hunter...

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

An industry stalwart has urged critics of Rightmove to fight for the portal to offer agents a fairer pricing system, not...

A new analysis of the simmering Rightmove crisis says there is now “no clear downside” stopping agents leaving. The Financial Times says that Rightmove’s...

The leader of the Say No To Rightmove campaign says that agents are demanding that there is “no return to full...

In a video interview for Estate Agent Today, property professional Chris Buckler speaks to Christopher May, director of free-to-list portal Residential...

The key figure behind the Say No To Rightmove campaign says the fight for more realistic fees goes on - and...

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

One of Britain’s most experienced estate agents says there’s no alternative to Rightmove, and the portal’s relationship with the industry is...

There’s a warning today that Rightmove could be vulnerable to losing its number one portal status because it has such a...

A leading estate agent has urged others in the industry to follow his example and make local TV programmes to build...

In a new video interview, Steve Carroll, director of industry relations at Real Estate Group, tells industry commentator Christopher Watkin why...

A prominent agency owner and industry figure has attacked Rightmove for failing to support estate agents and has accused it of...

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

The former chief of an online estate agency says the top three surviving firms in the sector must merge if they...

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

One of the industry’s leading consultants says Rightmove is in a form of abusive relationship with agents, who should consider legal...

How can estate and letting agents nurture leads who aren't ready to sell or let a property instantly? It's a question many...

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

The former chief executive of Purplebricks has defended claims that some Local Property Experts are underpaid, saying that success comes through...

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

The former chief executive of Purplebricks UK says the agency completes on over 80 per cent of the homes it lists...

“You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over,” is an oft-quoted saying of Richard...

Property industry commentator and former online agency chief executive Russell Quirk has defended Rightmove’s charges to agents, saying that compared to...

Former Emoov chief executive Russell Quirk has made his first on-the-record comments about the factors behind the dramatic collapse of his...

What are the magic ingredients for building a strong brand, attracting new customers and building trust with your target market? Gareth Helm,...

Estate Agent Today editor Graham Norwood speaks to Debbie Franklin, Andrews Property Group's Head of Multi-Channel Fulfilment at FUTURE: PropTech 2018.   ...

Estate Agent Today editor Graham Norwood speaks to Sohail Rashid, founder of View My Chain at FUTURE: PropTech 2018. ...

Neil Cobbold, COO of PayProp, advises letting agents to act now to beat the upcoming letting agent fee ban and discusses...

The long-running saga of whether independent agents’ group CIELA is ever going to launch appears to be nearing its end game...

During a week in which fledgling trade group the Charter for Independent Estate and Letting Agents (CIELA) announced that it still...

The chief executive of eProp Services Ltd - the company formed by a merger between easyProperty and GPEA Ltd (the parent...