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Agents need to use social media for more than just posting property listings, an industry digital marketing expert claims. Craig Vile, director...

Agent marketing platform Growth Track has rebranded with a new offering aiming to save firm’s money and boost their digital presence. Now...

New homeowners are being warned about cold calls from scammers advising them to make speculated stamp duty refund claims. The warning comes...

When was the last time you updated your website? New consumer research suggests 81% of sellers will not contact an estate agent...

The pool of candidates for jobs in the estate agency sector appears to be shrinking. It comes after official figures showed overall...

Google rather than the portals is the starting point for sellers finding an estate agent, a survey claims. A survey among 2,000...

Buyers are being urged to ditch their laptops and hit the streets to find a property. The property market is currently hampered...

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has said it may consider complaints about ‘misleading SSTC listings’ on portals but suggests it may...

We know from our customer research that being able to showcase property that looks the best it can online is the...

The OneDome group websites - OneDome itself and nethouseprices - are launching their largest ever advertising campaign. It will target buyers and...

PropTech supplier nurtur.group - which owns Fine & Country and the Guild of Property Professionals - has acquired Brief Your Market,...

The controversial conveyancing firm at the centre of an apparent cyber attack has hit back at newspaper claims that it did...

Only one in eight sellers use the estate agent through which they purchased their home to begin with. That’s a staggering loss of...

A good website is no longer optional for estate agents, as no single aspect of marketing to new customers is more...

With tenancy fraud on the rise, landlords are increasingly wary. So, they want to work with agencies who do everything they...

A survey of sellers shows that 61 per cent of them visit the agent’s website before instructing them. According to respondents the...

There are many features and functionalities a website must have to be successful. Ultimately, the purpose of your website should be...

Conveyancing firms in the Simplify Group, hit by a massive systems crash for much of this week, say they are working...

Estate agency business platform Reapit is launching AgentPoint services in the UK - just seven months after it acquired AgentPoint in...

PropTech and CRMs should be about far more than merely gathering data - they should be telling agents which prospects are...

PropTech industry giant epropservices has acquired Property Technology Ltd, better known to agents as marketing platform LeadPro. epropservices is the parent company of...

It’s a truism that most property enquiries from buyers these days come through portals but there are several reasons why agents...

Photography has become an increasingly important weapon in an agent’s armoury in recent years as listings compete for space on portals,...

PropTech platform Agent Response has just released its latest league table for conversion stats relating to the first two weeks of...

A PropTech entrepreneur is advising agents not to settle for simply having their websites up and running, and instead using CRM...

Viewings are in the news right now and with good reason.  As the impact of the stamp duty holiday fades, and transaction...

The former leader of the Liberal Democrats is calling for a ban on family homes being used for holiday lets and...

There is growing criticism of Savills on social media following the controversy over a racist tweet apparently sent from the personal...

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

In the world of football – very topical at the moment, as we all enjoy the Euros – there is an...

As agents, we’ve finally got used to the word PropTech - some of us even like it! What’s more, PropTech has,...

Over the last 15 months (basically since the ‘c’ word entered our daily vocabulary) agent websites has become more crucial than...

Around 18 months ago, just a few months before the pandemic hit, I did a Natter with the team at software...

Rightmove is to review the processes of an online platform which directly uploads sellers' property details via an app. Two years ago...

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

In an industry which is faced with constant changes in day-to-day practices and even more so given the Covid terrain which agents...

In recent years, the property market has been taking steps to become more digital – with HM Land Registry leading the...

One of the men behind the defunct Emoov online estate agency has re-emerged as the head of a marketing service. The service...

Changes to the way the property market operates over the last year - with increased flexibility and remote interactions - has...

A leading industry supplier says there’s been a jaw-dropping 495 per cent year-on-year increase in digital spend from agents - and that...

It’s hard to remember a time at any point in the last 20 years when agents have been looking for a...

International investment bank UBS has double-downgraded Purplebricks from ‘buy’ to ‘sell’ - and that could be good for independent agents, a...

The Competition and Markets Authority says it has pushed Facebook into taking new action to combat fake reviews - an issue...

A portal says it’s the most significant challenger to the Big Three of Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket. OneDome says it bases this on...

The property sector is in the middle of a boom and demand is high. Last week’s announcement that the stamp duty...

epropservices - parent company of The Guild and Fine & Country - has made another significant PropTech acquisition, its second in three...

CRM supplier Reapit, backed by private equity funding, has entered into an international deal to acquire a leading Australian PropTech provider...

Agency websites supplier Property Webmasters has secured a substantial but undisclosed cash injection to expand internationally. The investment comes from Net Ventures...

OneDome says it’s seen a surge in consumer activity in 2021, culminating in its two websites growing to a combined visitor...

A high-profile London agency is asking the police and property industry bodies including Trading Standards to investigate a fake company posing under...

The new chief executive of Propertymark has declined to answer questions relating to the resignation of the NAEA president only half...

This time out, I’m in conversation with one of the big three established portals. Since it was founded in 2007, Zoopla...

We’re now in Lockdown 3.0 and most of us have become used to juggling home-working, home schooling and a million and...

If your house is anything like mine, the postman has a path beaten to your door over the last nine months. In...

The last few months have seen property agents work hard to continue delivering quality client communications and maintain an increasingly digital...

ZPG, parent company of Zoopla, is to buy another comparison website business, in addition to running its existing Uswitch service. Insurance group...

One of the oldest portals in the UK, Mouseprice, has been bought by a service which describes itself as the country’s...

So, we’re back to where we were in the spring, more or less. England is in a national lockdown again to...

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

Residential People, one of many free-to-list platforms in the hectic portal marketplace, is set to launch which it calls its “AI...

It’s been an unexpected year for the property market, shaped by the effects of the pandemic. We didn’t quite anticipate the...

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

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

Despite the recent effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, there is still much opportunity in the market for letting agents to grow...

Rightmove, which recently posted a 37 per cent drop in revenue for the first six months of 2020, has lost almost...

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

A new portal launches today with 100,000 listings and a pledge to target buyers largely ignored by established websites - investors. It’s...

Reviews and awards platform ESTAS has announced that it’s now the preferred partner of the Guild of Property Professionals.  “Over the past...

OneDome has released a list of High Street agencies that have signed up to its free-to-list portal and sister website Nethouseprices  -...

Steve, his name was. Steve, the board man. A rather frightening man, if truth be told. When I started at Foxtons, he used...

A new analysis of corporate estate agencies’ social media followings and websites shows the big winners to be Savills, Foxtons and...

Propertymark is working with an organisation called the Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance to inform agents how to sport signs and respond...

The Say No To Rightmove campaign has set out strategy suggestions for independent agents facing steep portal bills. A 10-page document reveals...

Zoopla has upped the stakes in the war between rival websites with two major claims which implicitly challenge both Rightmove and...

It’s official – the property market is back open for business. Estate agents have started to unfurlough staff and many are...

The only story that has come remotely close to pushing coronavirus – and its various knock-on effects – off the top...

An agent in the unusual position of operating across the England and Welsh border says many of his competitors appear to...

Over the last few years, there have been a number of high-profile court cases in which renters took action against letting...

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

The Competition and Markets Authority has launched an investigation into fake and misleading online reviews. The announcement from the watchdog does not...

It’s been revealed that the home moving advice service set up by Phil Spencer is entering a collaboration with awards and...

A third of agencies say at least some of their staff will be working from home permanently when the Coronavirus pandemic...

We all know the world has gone digital—nothing new there. Every time you jump online, you’re one of 4.5 billion internet...

The OneDome and Nethouseprices websites claim to have seen a surge in agents joining in recent weeks as an alternative to...

The ESTAS has launched a new tool which it says will help agents get in pole position for when the market...

Hello and welcome to today’s Conquering Corona, a service we’re running to share official guidance and agents’ advice in a bid...

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

Trading Standards says agents must include more “material information” in property details even if this may not be a wholly positive...

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 government has dismissed a request from the NAEA and ARLA Propertymark to review business rates for agency offices on High...

A number of estate agents have recently received phishing emails, fraudulently claiming to be from the main portals and trying to...

The 2010s were a good decade for disrupters. Early on, Airbnb and Uber shook up the holiday lettings/hospitality and traditional black...

A challenger portal says agents should reduce their reliance on the likes of Rightmove and Zoopla by using smaller rival portals...

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

For a very long time, it was one of the best ways – if not the best way – of generating...

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

Property portals generate revenue from estate agents regardless of the outcome of the transaction. This relationship has resulted in a fundamental...

First things first, a big happy New Year to everyone. Welcome to 2020! It looks set to be another interesting year...

An unknown website called EA League Tables has issued a list of agencies and agency-groups which it claims shows their order by...

Outsourcing important business functions such as marketing, HR and IT to attract cost savings, leverage expertise and gain greater competitive advantage is...

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

It’s been clear for a while that the additional regulation landlords and agents are facing has helped professionalise the private rental...

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

Upad, the national online letting agent set up by entrepreneur James Davis has announced that it is “closed to new business”...

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

The tech publication WIRED has conducted an in-depth analysis of Purplebricks’ reviews on the Trustpilot site and suggests the agency may...

In the old days an agent would procure clients based upon their position in the high street, the size of the...

They will be the doctors, lawyers, teachers, thinkers, leaders and captains of industry of the not too distant future, but is...

It’s that time again. Each year I take a look at newspaper readership - not from the angle of journalists, but...

Have you asked yourself why technology is so important in letting agency today? Just look around and you will know why. Almost...

One of the earliest property websites, nethouseprices.com, has been acquired by fledgling property portal OneDome.  Nethouseprices was set up in 2004 and...

Seven in 10 agents fail to use video or YouTube to assist in their marketing according to an analysis by free-to-list...

In the last ten years Google's revenue, largely from pay per click ads (Adwords), has grown by 527% (Source: Statista). In...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? That depends on which business card. One says ‘Properganda PR,...

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

The free-to-list property portal Residential People says it now has over 740 independent agents in the UK on board - and...

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

All the most successful startups of recent years – from Airbnb and Uber to Just Eat and Deliveroo – have melded...

The founder of Zoopla has explained how the portal got its name and branding, and the philosophy behind it when it...

A buying agent has revealed how she advises potential clients to use portals when looking for a property to buy -...

A recent survey conducted by comparison website GetAgent found that traditional high street agents have been given a firm thumbs up...

The Property Ombudsman says its members must in future disclose referral fees in a bid to make previously-hidden costs open and...

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

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, the destination where you can catch up with the key moves announced in the...

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

Having a responsive website - one which is designed to automatically resize to fit the size of the screen of the...

UK estate agents charge the lowest commission out of any nation in the European Union, according to a recent study by...

Four high-profile industry figures have sent an open letter urging agents to think about what they call “smarter marketing” in a...

GetAgent, the comparison estate agency business, has secured £2.2m in investment from a consortium of investors including Channel 4. The backers are...

The director of strategy at the Council for Licensed Conveyancers says “the onus is very much on estate agents” to respond...

A new sales portal has launched with a radically different business model, aiming to pay agents to list on it. It’s the brainchild of...

Another For Sale By Owner website has been launched - this one, apparently, because the founder was “frustrated” with estate agents’...

As the sales market across much of Britain appears to be mired in political and economic uncertainty, figures from Scotland appear...

With the home buying and selling process firmly on the news agenda of late – everything from a possible ban on...

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

An estate agent says he’s “bruised” by recent mysterious negative online reviews he has received - shortly after he posted positive...

An estate agent in the north of England has been confronted by vigilantes who duped him into thinking they were underage girls.  The...

Agents need to focus on more targeted marketing using a mix of traditional and modern methods to optimise their position in...

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

I don’t think I can add anything more to the excellent 2019 pieces we’ve seen on EAT in recent weeks –...

When it comes to building online reputation, Google is king. It is estimated that over 90% of consumers Google a business before...

The government has moved to crack down on money laundering in the UK with a new campaign focusing on the accountancy,...

It’s been an interesting week of contrasts when it comes to online replacing ‘the old school’. Data from that clever consultancy The...

Customers are still trying to get hold of Emoov, Tepilo and Hatched months after they closed down. Estate Agent Today has seen...

Zoopla is claiming a big surge in leads provided to agents and a new high in the number of visits to...

Having built over 1900 websites for estate and lettings agents in the last 16 years, we know a thing or two...

It is something of an understatement to say that we are in challenging times. BREXIT is unresolved and we wait with...

The ‘new broom’ owners of Zoopla have revealed that Gary Bramall is to be the firm’s new chief marketing officer charged with...

Zoopla founder Alex Chesterman - who sold the portal company for more than £2.2 billion to US private equity fund Silver...

Last year it was ‘disruptor’ and before that came ‘exclusive’ - now, according to one estate agency at least, the over-used...

When was the last time you looked at your business and really thought about what you could do to improve? Yesterday? Last...

To say legendary ZPG founder and CEO Alex Chesterman left big boots to fill when he stepped back from day-to-day operations...

The future of online agency Emoov remains in the balance this weekend with talks continuing between the management and possible buyers. On...

Given that online property portals, dominated by a handful of websites, are by far the most popular home search method, it...

A property comparison website has made a defence of the controversial Help To Buy initiative, claiming it “acts as an important...

Two local estate agencies are entering a strategic partnership to market properties together, allowing them to list the properties on the...

A new junior estate agent apprenticeship standard has been launched with skills being offered for residential, commercial and auction sectors. Created by...

Almost one in five online sales valuations generated by The ValPal Network over a two-year period resulted in a completion with...

Hello and welcome to PJT, our weekly round up of key moves within the industry. Let us know what’s going on with...

Local business reviews are becoming increasingly important for reputation management, with recent research showing 90% of consumers read online reviews before...

Some conveyancers must publish some price and service information on their websites and in other media from December 6, according to...

Having delivered over 1,800 websites for estate agents over the last 15 years, I have come to recognise one major common...

The six-figure refurb of the office on London’s Park Lane occupied by The Guild and Fine & Country is officially launching...

With the news that Hunters and Fisher German are the latest agencies to offer online auctions to sellers, is this something...

Hunters and Fisher German are the latest agencies to offer online auctions to vendors. An announcement from PropTech property auction company Bamboo...

A website claim by the London estate agency Moveli has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority after a complaint from...

Fake news has become the popular catchphrase of a certain orange-tinted president in recent years. And everyone, from tech giants like...

Independent review website allAgents says its ultimate ambition is to be a serious rival to existing portals like OnTheMarket. Unveiling a new...

A maverick Cornish estate agent who falsely gave the impression to customers that his business was highly successful has been hit...

The buy-to-let sector, which has been under sustained pressure for a number of years now thanks to tax changes designed to...

The Council for Licensed Conveyancers says it wants legal practice websites to list cost information, including whether they have referral arrangements. The...

A leading buying agency is warning about asking prices that are higher than those acceptable to mortgage companies who therefore down-value...

With the shelf life of recent housing ministers being on a par with football managers, it's perhaps little surprise that we're...

A property software guru says he wants PropTech firms to join with him in an ‘open platform’ which would allow smaller...

Everyone wants to rank highly on Google. Why? Well, as the world’s biggest search engine, with more than 65% market share,...

Cast your mind back to July 2008 – Gordon Brown was Prime Minister, the Euros were in full swing in Austria/Switzerland...

So what did you think of the match? A deserved 2-1 win or a lucky victory snatched from the jaws of...

The For Sale board is one of the oldest marketing tools available to agents, but it is still considered one of...

Clients of software provider Reapit can now integrate with leading sharing and online valuation service The ValPal Network. The objective is to help Reapit...

An Oxfordshire estate agency is shutting up shop at the end of this week in order to allow its parent company...

As the process of making buying and selling more transparent continues to gather pace, the body that regulates conveyancers says it...

Two high street estate agents have used the medium of the local press to come out fighting against the threat of...

Reapit has announced the acquisition of Resource Techniques in a bid to strengthen its position in the agency software market. Resource Techniques,...

As promised a few weeks ago, this week’s Natter concentrates on the importance of content, design and social media, three easily...

There is a common misconception that the private rented sector (PRS) is entirely made up of young professionals and students. While...

Gone are the days of having to rush back to your office every time you win an instruction to market the...

The prospect of technology transforming the selling and buying process, including more power for portals and especially online agents, dominated parts...

ZPG shares have rocketed up in value by 30 per cent this morning on the back of a £2.2 billion bid...

Ever wondered what it’s like to be on the frontline of property journalism? Well, wonder no more, as our very own...

To say I had a lot of reaction to last week's column about selling my flat would be an understatement. I've never...

In the modern marketplace – where people live their lives on their smartphones and tablets, social media has a bigger influence...

Last week, a story was published by CNBC about a couple who sold their home, for above the asking price, without...

One of the most important aspects of running a successful estate or letting agency is being able to generate new business...

An estate agency has been the subject of a complaint over website wording which appeared to suggest that it had a...

The operation of ‘online estate agencies’ has changed substantially in the relatively short few years of their existence: I have spotted...

When it comes to growing your business sustainably, maintaining a brand that is eye-catching and identifiable with your audience is vital...

In a show of changing consumer behaviour in the property market, new research has revealed that digital-savvy movers are favouring specialist...

Having built over 1,800 websites for estate and lettings agents in the last 20 years, it will come as no surprise...

Hello and welcome to the latest Property Jobs Today, our round-up each Monday of key job moves within estate and letting...

ZPG has revealed that it had 58m visits to its property websites, Zoopla and Primelocation, last month. This is 10 per cent up...

Between October and December 2017, some £822 million worth of UK residential property was sold at auction, according to the Essential...

Outspoken buying agent Henry Pryor has set out 10 points that he claims many traditional agents overlook when they debate the...

ZPG says it anticipates a strong 2018 according to a trading statement ahead of the company’s annual general meeting today. The firm...

  A new league table showing how long it takes homes to sell on average in different postcodes across England and Wales...

Hunters is partnering with a PropTech firm to allow homes on the market and still awaiting buyers to be short-let for...

In 2018, Google will introduce changes to the way it ranks websites, meaning sites will be ranked on the quality of...

The Property Franchise Group has launched five new websites, one for each of its high street brands.  These are CJ Hole, Ellis & Co,...

The Advertising Standards Authority has told the organisers of a house raffle that they must not repeat a promotion because of...

Purplebricks is to work with respected review website Feefo - in addition to keeping its controversial existing link with Trustpilot which...

ZPG is refusing to increase its rejected bid to buy comparison website GoCompare. Earlier this month GoCompare turned down an unsolicited takeover offer...

News agency Reuters says a top five shareholder in price comparison service GoCompare says the firm should respond “positively” if ZPG...

OnTheMarket is reported to be threatening an estate agency with legal action. Earlier this week Estate Agent Today reported that Henry Adams, a...

The 15-branch Henry Adams agency has signed up to ZPG, just the day after the portal group said it had seen...

The rise of Airbnb has been majestic, going all the way from conception to becoming a common noun in less than...

The ZPG app for mobile users of the Zoopla and Primelocation websites has now been downloaded more than 10m times. ZPG launched...

We recently witnessed the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) increase the base interest rate for the first time since...

The fact is that most house hunters simply do not have the time, let alone the inclination, to trawl around properties...

The 19 year old boss of online agency Doorsteps claims that his website has sold £100m worth of homes, currently lists...

There’s much said in the mainstream press about estate agency fees and how costly they can be for consumers. But one point...

One of the most thorough analyses of property portals ever undertaken shows that Rightmove is the world’s most profitable portal company...

An experiment conducted by insurance company AXA has revealed how sloppy photographs can alter the perception of a property in the...

Winkworth says solid performances from its lettings and property management services, plus new franchise deals, have compensated for a challenging sales...

Many industries in the UK are currently facing a tumultuous time as the great unknown of Brexit looms on the horizon...

Research in the United States shows that traditional full-service estate agencies achieve better sale prices than the biggest alternative in that...

As someone who spends his days peering into the PropTech world, one thing I’ve observed is the way in which certain tech prompts...

If you’re a busy estate or letting agent, you’ll find that it can be quite difficult and time-consuming locating the right...

Facebook appears to be interested in entering the sales and lettings world with its first advertising product geared solely towards industry professionals. The...

Property has been changing hands for centuries, but when did estate agents as we know them today – with their branches,...

A data analytics firm that has studied over 2.7m visits to UK property company websites claims that once a visitor arrives...

House hunters in the UK are the global leaders in online property research according to a new study from HSBC.    The bank...

Countrywide says the roll out of its online sales and lettings service is on schedule to reach 50 per cent of...

The controversial website Houser, which made waves when it launched in 2014, has been ordered by the Advertising Standards Authority to...

We’re already more than halfway through 2017 and, against all the odds, it’s pushing 2016 close in terms of eventfulness and...

It’s not happening here (yet) but several articles on US websites have started talking up the possibility of Amazon going into...

How many property professionals are truly happy with their revenue? High levels of competition from new market entrants is a significant...

The fees charged by estate agents receive a lot of coverage in the press - and rarely for positive reasons. Negative...

Mark Goddard was the founder and CEO of The Property Software Group (PSG), a property software solutions firm established in 2007,...

Our recent roundtable on the government’s proposed ban on tenant fees generated 10 tips for growing your business. Since then, we’ve been...

Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of...

A consumer group which has consistently promoted online agencies says they achieve closer to sellers’ original asking price than the national...

Since we last spoke, the ESTAS – the biggest and best property awards ceremony in the UK – has been and...

Customers really dislike leaving voicemail messages. This may not be surprising, there may be many times when you have been faced...

ZPG has published its half-year figures this morning showing a six per cent rise in the number of agents and a...

Trinity Mirror is aiming to secure more of agents' marketing spend after launching what it is describing as a 'fightback' against...

The Property Franchise Group says it has seen 13 consecutive years of growth for the five High Street brands within its...

Countrywide’s Bairstow Eves brand has launched a series of video guides for customers using their £995 online agency service and for...

Being featured in newspapers, magazines and websites, as well as on radio and TV, can be a great way to build...

A controversial new search engine claiming to be in the later stages of development is seeking investment from estate agents, corporates...

People are more likely to give word-of-mouth recommendations for handyman services than recommend estate agents, according to a controversial poll. The survey...

For my latest Property Natter I have sought the opinions of two well-known property consultants - Michael Day, managing director of...

Purplebricks has agreed to remove a claim from its website that “on average it takes us just 14 days to find...

A US technology company is warning that estate agency websites with log-in pages are “at risk of data theft, account takeover...

New research conducted for ZPG claims that Zoopla’s ‘national spontaneous brand awareness’ is at an all-time high - with the gap...

A survey of over 2,000 sellers who used online agency eMoov reveals that review websites were the overwhelmingly largest driver of...

Some big news in the agency world last week won’t have escaped the attention of many in the industry. Last Thursday news...

Agents who ignore critical reviews of their services do so at their peril as new figures reveal high levels of readership...

Which Money? - part of the Which? consumer organisation - says its analysis of thousands of properties for sale suggests that...

Only one in nine customers of estate agents regard face-to-face contact as the most important element of the process to determine...

One thing that can be guaranteed in the property world each year is a range of conferences and awards dinners. Very...

A Scottish property portal now ‘live’ and claiming to list almost all the homes for sale north of the border, says...

It’s over. Done. The only ones interested are those with too much time on their hands. For God’s sake - behind...

Hybrid agency EweMove is rapidly expanding its network footprint this year and will be a “challenger brand” deliberately designed to be...

The Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in following a complaint about the website for property developer Keepmoat. The ASA says that the...

Zoopla Property Group says that in the last three months alone over 100 estate agency branches have returned to its portal...

Property Service Holdings - parent company of the 150 branches trading under the Romans and Leaders names - has signed up...

A new website that will allow vendors and landlords to compare the expertise and fees of estate and letting agents has banned online...

2016 was quite a year – eventful, dramatic, shocking and impossible to predict. In no particular order, we saw Leicester winning...

Conveyancers are to be told to publish the charges for their house-moving services in a bid to help consumers and to...

Carpe diem, seize the day – whatever you call it, it’s something all of us in the property industry should be looking...

A single-branch agency operating around Blackpool is offering vendors ultra-low fees if they register their homes for sale online on Boxing...

Zoopla Property Group has acquired the estate agency website specialist design firm Technicweb. The acquisition - its announcement was buried in yesterday's...

Zoopla Property Group's estate agency membership grew five per cent and its property listing inventory was up 10 per cent in...

In the world of property and estate agency, competition is always fierce. It’s the same when it comes to your website....

Portal juggling has been defined as one of a number of "emerging threats" aimed at deceiving consumers through the manipulation of...

All estate and letting agents now have a website – but just how effective is yours? Your 'virtual shop window' is now...

A new automated sales progression tool being launched today promises to require fewer resources from agents in return for ensuring faster...

A website live chat provider claims research shows that the facility significantly influences activity amongst users of websites on which it...

Zoopla Property Group says there were over 53m visits to its Zoopla and PrimeLocation websites in September, up 13 per cent...

The National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team has followed up the recent announcement by The Property Ombudsman to counteract portal juggling by...

A survey by the Nottingham Building Society - owner of Harrison Murray estate agency - reveals the reliance of buyers on...

When marketing a property for sale, there are a number of attributes that buyers and sellers today expect ‘as standard’, but...

More estate agents are using – or at least considering using – virtual reality viewings as part of their services. But what...

The network of independent estate agents known as the Property Sharing Experts has become the Experts in Property. The change of name...

Two estate agencies have incorporated video footage on to their website homepages in order to promote their brands to prospective clients. Lumley...

A long-standing analyst of property portals and websites worldwide has included Rightmove, Purplebricks and easyProperty in a list of 10 sites...

It’s a headline from an Australian business journal this week but it has a familiar ring to it: “Estate agents’ attempts...

The founder of a controversial service helping vendors find the ‘right’ estate agency and negotiating its fees says he has had...

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

Mystery surrounds the fate of Fresh Chilli, a north of England-based hybrid estate agency that launched with a fanfare last autumn,...