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

Purplebricks is starting a new wave of TV advertisements today, continuing its theme from earlier this year as a sponsor of...

As we adjust to a life post-Covid-19, letting agents, landlords, and tenants are thinking - ways to speed up the process...

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

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...

The Covid-19 crisis has forced the UK property industry to rethink the way it operates. With little warning, the pandemic disrupted the...

OnTheMarket has introduced a new filter that allows buyers to limit their searches to those properties with online viewing options. These can...

** This Bank Holiday Monday both Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today look at how agencies have modified offices and...

** This Bank Holiday Monday both Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today look at how agencies have modified offices and protocols...

** This Bank Holiday Monday both Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today look at how agencies have modified offices and protocols...

Rightmove has suggested there may be massive changes underway in buyers’ priorities as the housing market resumes and the country begins...

There’s been a very significant increase in the number of listings carrying virtual viewings, accelerating during the period of the Coronavirus crisis and...

Guidance issued by the government explicitly advises agents, buyers and sellers that more activity should be done online if possible. “The process...

Although few expect virtual viewings to continue their popularity now that lockdown restrictions have been eased, there’s news this morning that...

A PropTech firm says it’s using what it calls “World War Three-style” hazard suits when they visit premises to create virtual...

There’s been a furious response to the agent who appears to have breached government rules by opening his branch to the...

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

Virtual viewings are here to stay and will continue long after lockdown eases according to the head of a PropTech group. Babek...

Since my last column in April, one could argue that very little has changed for agents in terms of the market...

The Property Ombudsman is advising agents to use virtual viewings only as a filtering process with offers being agreed only ‘subject...

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

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...

One of prime central London’s most respected estate agencies is warning that it could take until spring 2021 for the luxury...

Hunters has expanded its online offering to improve its service to both the sales and lettings sectors - and it’s even...

The last five years have seen unprecedented changes to the property market and agents and their clients have never faced such...

We are still living in highly extraordinary times, perhaps evidenced best by the fact that the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, was...

In this time of economic uncertainty, more and more people are becoming unwilling to leave their homes, yet you and your...

Floorplan and photography supplier FocalAgent is making a free offer to every agent in the UK during the virus crisis -...

As the impact of coronavirus unfolds, we are in constant conversations with customers to understand the challenges they’re facing and to...

On April 4, EAT published a piece titled: ‘It’s 2024: what will the industry look like, post corona-virus’. To me, this...

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

One of the country’s best known high-end independent estate agencies is marketing a home for £22.5m and hopes it finds a...

The government has at last issued extensive advice on home moving and the activities of estate agents during the continuing Coronavirus crisis. This...

The ‘on-demand’ economy is reshaping our world. The way we order food, get around, and even access healthcare has changed irreversibly...

Virtual tours are a compelling way of enhancing a property’s potential through online marketing, increased transparency and efficiency for agents, and...

We all know the three essential things an estate agent must have on their website include the ability to be able...

It’s safe to say that the majority of agents will be glad to see the end of the past two years....

Audioagent and KeyAGENT have merged to create the UK’s largest property marketing group. Together they provide property marketing services to the UK’s...

Strutt & Parker is offering free Virtual Viewings to 1,000 new clients, and says it's the first national agency to offer such...

A leading agent has urged major portals Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket to feature virtual viewings content more prominently on their platforms. Writing...

I’m writing this a week into my instruction decision. It has been a fascinating journey to date. As I discussed last week,...

I’m excited to write this piece. I love it when something comes along and delivers that genuine thrill; the thrill of...

Technology has been continuing to shape the way estate agents manage their customer service offering for years. It’s now a completely...

Hatched, the online agency snapped up just over a year ago by Connells in what was described as an ‘industry defining’...

Rightmove has begun testing a virtual reality viewing platform which will allow prospective buyers to view properties without leaving their own...

There’s been a lot of talk lately about artificial intelligence (AI). We’ve seen it feature prominently this year on film (in...

A London start-up is the latest to launch virtual reality technology aimed at estate agents and property buyers.  Launched last week, VirtuEye...