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LSL Estate Agency Franchising is home to one of the UK’s best-known estate agent brands - Your Move. There are several...
23 July 2024
From: Sponsored Content
![LSL boss reveals what’s next for franchised agents](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
Attention is turning to acquisitions and growth among LSL’s newly-franchised brands. It has been a year since LSL Property Services announced that...
10 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![A conversation with David Newnes, Co-Founder of National Home Move, and Managing Director Matthew McCreath discussing the benefits of being a Your Move Franchise Partner.](/upload/images/adv-2021/sponsored-content/LSL/branch-image(1).jpg)
Tell us a little bit about National Home Move. We are a network of more than 60 Your Move and Reeds Rains...
12 June 2024
From: Sponsored Content
![10 reasons to become a Your Move franchise.](/upload/images/adv-2021/sponsored-content/LSL/online.jpg)
If you’re thinking about becoming an Estate Agency franchise or converting your existing estate agency business to a franchise, here we...
16 May 2024
From: Sponsored Content
![LSL names new high-profile proposition director](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Compliance-2-400x310.png)
Industry figure Paul Clarke has joined LSL Estate Agency Franchising as director of proposition. It comes after Clarke left his Mr and...
08 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![JONATHAN ROLANDE: Buying and selling is too stressful – here is how agents can ease the burden](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HouseForSale_400x310.png)
Lots of things change in the property sector - but one thing always seems to stay the same. For buyers and sellers,...
28 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Top agents who keep the customer satisfied - survey](/upload/images/shutterstock_2326738651.jpg)
A new survey has scored the top ten national real estate brands in terms of reputation, value and customer satisfaction. Using YouGov...
05 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Transactions plummet to 15 year low according to e.surv](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePriceChange-400x310.png)
Transactions for the first half of 2023 are at their lowest level since the financial crisis of 2007-09 as a result...
14 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Share Price plummets after agency group’s profits warning](/upload/images/shutterstock_1677222151.jpg)
The share price of LSL Property Services dropped around 16 per cent at one point yesterday following a profits warning given...
08 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![LSL shares soar as it switches to franchise model](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Franchise-400x310.png)
LSL Property Services’ share price hit a six-month high during trading yesterday after it announced its entire estate agency network would...
05 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agency sector facing one fall-through per minute - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HouseMarketCrash-400x310.png)
The estate agency sector is close to being hit by a fall-through per minute as an industry veteran warns that the...
05 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter – the who’s who of the industry](/upload/images/Site%20logos/PropertyNatter-2019-400x310.png)
The property industry is fortunate in including many great people, doing great work across a range of businesses – from traditional agency...
30 April 2022
From: Features
![LSL Property Services announces the beginning of share buyback scheme](/upload/images/Logos/LSL-Property-Services400x310.png)
One of estate agency’s biggest groups yesterday announced the start of a share buyback programme for a tranche of up to...
22 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![Zoopla launches Sales Advisory Board to boost agent influence](/upload/images/library/ZooplaLogo2019-Purple-400x310.jpg)
Zoopla has unveiled a Sales Advisory Board in an attempt to give agents a greater say in how the portal is...
06 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![English Football League link up with top agency to continue](/upload/images/Miscellaneous/Football-Field-Image-400x310.jpg)
The link up between the English Football League and a top estate agency is to go on for a third year...
25 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![International Men’s Day wins support of leading agency group](/upload/images/library/LSL-Logo-2021-400x310.png)
In support of International Men’s Day - today - LSL will celebrate what it calls “the positive value men bring to...
19 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity - Golf, football and… er…. baking](/upload/images/library/AgentsDoCharity-18-400x310.png)
Welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity - another edition of good will and cheer generated by the industry’s fund-raising heroes. It’s...
10 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Record figures for Your Move parent firm as it swings to finance](/upload/images/library/LSLPropertyServices-400x310.jpg)
LSL Property Services - parent company of Your Move, Reeds Rains and Marsh & Parsons - has reported record figures as...
04 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Professional marketing sells homes quicker and for more - survey](/img/default/eat.png)
Properties with professional marketing packs sell up to 48 per cent quicker than those without, according to an experiment conducted by...
16 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Estate agency groups bag £88m in dramatic sell-off](/img/default/eat.png)
Two of Britain's largest agency groups have sold their stakes in a property search firm. Both LSL and Connells have announced the sale...
08 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agencies to hold ‘Act of Kindness Day’ for local communities](/img/default/eat.png)
Your Move, Reeds Rains and other parts of the LSL Group are to hold an Act of Kindness day to encourage...
28 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Can a veteran High Street agent make an online agency successful?](/img/default/eat.png)
Peter Everett - a veteran High Street estate agent with a quarter of a century at LSL and a decade at...
25 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agency group’s £12m windfall by off-loading conveyancing share](/img/default/eat.png)
LSL Property Services, owner of Reeds Rains and Your Move agencies, has sold its holding in conveyancing panel management firm LMS...
27 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks excluded from industry league table despite surge in instructions](/img/default/eat.png)
A controversial league table of corporate agents’ market share is deliberately excluding Purplebricks and other online agencies. This is despite Purplebricks this...
20 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Top Agency’s New Idea - selling houses is NOT the top priority](/img/default/eat.png)
Britain’s second largest estate agency has outlined radical new plans to shift direction, making financial services and not sales or rentals...
29 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Increased focus on financial services helps LSL’s strong figures](/img/default/eat.png)
An increased focus on the provision of financial services has helped boost the trading figures released today by LSL Property Services,...
28 April 2021
From: Breaking News
29 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Countrywide veteran’s PropTech service signs up former rivals](/img/default/eat.png)
A former Countrywide agent who is now a leading figure in a PropTech company has signed up two local agencies which...
16 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Property Jobs Today - all the latest movers and shakers](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello and welcome to this edition of Property Jobs Today, a chance to catch up with who’s moving where in the...
08 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Estate agency industry celebrates International Women’s Day](/img/default/eat.png)
Agencies and suppliers today mark International Women’s Day with events and declarations shining a light on the achievements of female colleagues and...
08 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity … Who’s sponsored to climb the cliff edge?](/img/default/eat.png)
Another week and another frenzy of news, culminating in the Budget and the extension of the stamp duty holiday. A cliff edge...
05 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Connells buys Countrywide - five reasons why it will be a success](/img/default/eat.png)
The acquisition of Countrywide by Connells might just be the deal of the century in the British estate agency industry. That’s the...
23 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Your Move owner building up financial services empire](/img/default/eat.png)
LSL, owner of Reeds Rains and Your Move, is boosting its financial services sector through a £2.4m acquisition. It’s snapped up Mortgage...
12 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agency closes office after staff contract Coronavirus](/img/default/eat.png)
Members of staff at an estate agency branch in the Midlands tested positive for Coronavirus in consecutive weeks, triggering a temporary...
29 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Pipeline surge not enough to stop Your Move/Reeds Rains revenue drop](/img/default/eat.png)
Revenues for LSL Property Services - owner of Your Move and Reeds Rains - dropped last year by 15 per cent. Although...
18 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Branch closures and Covid lead to big LSL revenue slump](/img/default/eat.png)
Revenues have slumped by 18 per cent at LSL Property Services, the corporate which boasts Your Move and Reeds Rains and...
14 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Countrywide shares soar despite more branch closures](/img/default/eat.png)
Countrywide shares soared yesterday, rising 47 per cent on the previous close at one point as investors relished the prospect of...
10 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Major English Football League deal for High Street agency](/img/default/eat.png)
Your Move is to become the English Football League’s official Communities Supporter for the coming season. The agency is already an Official...
09 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Countrywide and Your Move veteran takes up new PropTech role](/img/default/eat.png)
A veteran agent with 38 years experience of the industry - much of it at Countrywide - has become the head...
29 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Auction march continues - record summer for UK's largest auctioneer](/img/default/eat.png)
The strong performance of the auction market in recent months has been reinforced by the latest figures from iamsold, the UK's...
17 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Top agency group “increasingly optimistic” about market despite Covid](/img/default/eat.png)
The chairman of LSL Property Services - Simon Embley - says he is “increasingly optimistic” about the outlook for the market,...
05 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![High Street agency veteran speaks up for hybrid business model](/img/default/eat.png)
The new chief executive of The Property Franchise Group says he anticipates his company’s hybrid arm - EweMove - will go...
23 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Ex-Countrywide CEO’s high praise for online agency’s success](/img/default/eat.png)
A former chief executive of Countrywide has issued a string of extravagant claims about the lockdown success of the online agency...
17 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![LSL bring staff back off furlough as board takes one third pay cut](/img/default/eat.png)
LSL Property Services has this morning released details of its response to the Coronavirus crisis. All members of its board have taken...
05 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![New chief executive for Your Move and Reeds Rain parent company](/img/default/eat.png)
LSL Property Services, parent company of Your Move and Reeds Rain, has named a new chief executive officer taking the helm...
01 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Veteran agency boss steps up to be Property Franchise Group CEO](/img/default/eat.png)
Gareth Samples has been confirmed as the new chief executive of The Property Franchise Group, stepping into the role on Thursday...
28 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![Property TV ads – the winners and losers revealed](/img/default/eat.png)
Due to the current Coronavirus pandemic, we are all being told to stay at home as much as possible to contain...
04 April 2020
From: Features
![Top agency to train agents in other activities during virus crisis](/img/default/eat.png)
LSL Property Services says one of its measures to “rightsize” the organisation during the Coronavirus crisis will be to put agents...
31 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![LSL warns over Coronavirus as takeover talks with Countrywide continue](/img/default/eat.png)
LSL Property Services says the Coronavirus crisis has led to a softening of "lead sales indicators" - and it warns of...
10 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Blood and branches will be shed in Countrywide merger, experts predict](/img/default/eat.png)
Some of the biggest figures in the industry have given Estate Agent Today their reaction to the news - broken yesterday...
24 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![460 jobs lost in 2019 Your Move/Reeds Rains branch closures](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s been revealed that the branch closure programme by Your Move and Reeds Rains last year resulted in 460 lost jobs...
20 February 2020
From: Breaking News
17 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![Your Move veteran to take helm at Martin & Co’s parent firm](/img/default/eat.png)
The Property Franchise Group - which owns Martin & Co, EweMove and three other brands - is to have a former...
14 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![Big revenue slump after branch closures by LSL Property Services](/img/default/eat.png)
LSL Property Services, which embarked on a significant branch closure programme last year, has reported a 16 per cent slump in...
28 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks leads UK league table of agents with available properties](/img/default/eat.png)
An unknown website called EA League Tables has issued a list of agencies and agency-groups which it claims shows their order by...
19 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Home Win for Your Move as it backs the English Football League](/img/default/eat.png)
Your Move is to become an Official Supporter of the English Football League. The announcement will see Your Move benefit from digital...
13 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Agency revenue falls for Your Move, Reeds Rains and Marsh & Parsons](/img/default/eat.png)
A trading statement this morning by LSL Property Services - owners of Reeds Rains, Your Move and Marsh & Parsons -...
02 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Is this how Reservation Agreements will work?](/img/default/eat.png)
Reservation Agreements are the subject of the moment in the agency industry. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is to...
09 November 2019
From: Features
![Power to the People](/img/default/eat.png)
‘Workers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains’. So is written on the tombstone of the father...
19 September 2019
From: Features
![Property Jobs Today - we’re back with the latest industry moves](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s been two weeks since our last PJT, thanks to the Bank Holiday, so there’s plenty of news in today’s edition. If...
02 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Branch closures boost profits at Your Move and Reeds Rains](/img/default/eat.png)
LSL Property Services, parent firm of Your Move and Reeds Rains, says the company’s branch closure programme was a success with profits...
30 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Hybrid agency boss applied for top job “to protect business model”](/img/default/eat.png)
The head of EweMove, the hybrid agency operated by The Property Franchise Group, says he applied for the top job in...
20 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity - and good luck to Marathon runners this weekend…](/img/default/eat.png)
The London Marathon may be just one of literally thousands of fund-raising events but we know it’s a favourite with many...
26 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![Property Jobs Today - all the latest industry moves...](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello and welcome to the regular Monday edition of Property Jobs Today. Everyone here contacted us on press@estateagenttoday.co.uk to espresso the word;...
25 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![Prices stagnate but there are big regional differences says Your Move](/img/default/eat.png)
Prices have dropped 0.5 per cent in the past year according to LSL Property Services, the parent company of Your Move...
20 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![Two agencies defy London market by opening new offices](/img/default/eat.png)
Family-run Chelsea agency Russell Simpson is marking 40 years of business by expanding for the first time in its history, opening...
13 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![LSL writes down value of Yopa stake as it pins faith in High Street branches](/img/default/eat.png)
LSL Property Services, the parent company of Your Move and Reeds Rains, has substantially 'written down' its investment in online estate...
05 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![39 Your Move and Reeds Rain branches bought and becoming franchises](/img/default/eat.png)
Your Move and Reeds Rains have confirmed that 39 branches are to be taken over by David Newnes and an existing...
04 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![Your Move insists “No breach of data” after documents taken from branch](/img/default/eat.png)
The beleaguered Your Move estate agency insists there was no breach of customer privacy after an ex-employee reportedly took confidential data...
07 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Consultations start on ‘500’ Your Move and Reeds Rains jobs at risk](/img/default/eat.png)
Formal consultations have started concerning the job losses and branch closures for Your Move and Reeds Rains, revealed yesterday by their...
06 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Huge branch closures announced for YourMove and Reeds Rains](/img/default/eat.png)
A major restructuring of LSL Property Services has just been announced to shareholders, with substantial numbers of branch closures. The statement says...
05 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![LSL delivers upbeat figures despite Brexit-fuelled caution over 2019](/img/default/eat.png)
LSL Property Services - parent company of Your Move, Reeds Rains and London agency Marsh & Parsons - has given a...
22 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![Patchy market but 74 of 108 areas still reporting house price rises](/img/default/eat.png)
The industry has long been critical of reports claiming house price movements are in some way uniform across the country, but...
22 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![Setback for new portal which must change name ahead of launch](/img/default/eat.png)
A new portal which had branded itself as “the UK’s first decentralised property listing database” appears to have had a setback...
08 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![More market woe as house prices flatline, according to agency](/img/default/eat.png)
House prices are flatlining with the rate of annual growth having fallen continually since August according to LSL Property Services, which...
20 December 2018
From: Breaking News
![Agency data confirms slowing market with some regional price falls](/img/default/eat.png)
The latest Your Move house price data confirms what a wide range of indices have shown recently - slowing price growth and,...
13 November 2018
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter: what impact has Google had on the property market?](/img/default/eat.png)
Google celebrated its 20th birthday last month. Yes, it might be hard to recall a time when it wasn’t integral in...
06 October 2018
From: Features
![Ex-Reapit sales chief launches as independent PropTech consultant](/img/default/eat.png)
Reapit’s popular former sales manager Peter Fenwick is today formally launching as an independent PropTech consultant. Fenwick, whose departure from Reapit was...
24 September 2018
From: Breaking News
!['Robo-firm' backed by Your Move parent company wins new funding](/img/default/eat.png)
A new ‘robo-adviser’ mortgage service which is backed by LSL Property Services has won another £3.8m in funding from investors. Robo-advisers provide...
18 September 2018
From: Breaking News
![Yopa's new marketing boss aims to challenge estate agency norms](/img/default/eat.png)
Yopa - the online agency enjoying large-scale financial backing from Savills and LSL Property Services, the owner of Your Move -...
11 September 2018
From: Breaking News
![Your Move parent firm sees 11% sales slump but good lettings performance](/img/default/eat.png)
The parent company of Your Move, Reeds Rains and other agency brands has succeeded where Foxtons yesterday did not - in...
31 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![Property Jobs Today – this week’s movers and shakers revealed](/img/default/eat.png)
Welcome back to Property Jobs Today - EAT's weekly roundup of all the big moves going on in our industry. If you...
21 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Property Jobs Today - and it's a bumper week for moves...](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today, our weekly feature on who’s moving where throughout our industry. And it’s...
14 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Some London prices fall up to 15% despite rises in much of England and Wales](/img/default/eat.png)
Average house prices rose 0.5 per cent in February, making it the biggest rise in five months according to the latest...
13 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![LSL's agency brands reveal growth in past year despite market woe](/img/default/eat.png)
LSL Property Services - parent company to 12 brands including Your Move, Reeds Rains and London’s Marsh & Parsons - has...
06 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter – a property invasion on our tellies](/img/default/eat.png)
The death of traditional TV – where viewers sit down together to watch shows at defined times – has been much...
24 February 2018
From: Features
![Massive price falls in London distorts national picture, says agency](/img/default/eat.png)
New figures from Your Move suggest that average house prices across England and Wales barely moved in 2017, increasing just 0.2...
16 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Revealed: huge differences in data used to compile house price indices](/img/default/eat.png)
HM Land Registry has revealed how major house price indices are compiled - showing the huge variation in transactions behind the headline figures. The critique,...
19 December 2017
From: Breaking News
![Transactions fall but LSL still shows bigger-than-expected revenues](/img/default/eat.png)
LSL Property Services - which includes Your Move, Reeds Rains and other high street estate agencies - batted away any housing...
30 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![LSL's 500 agency branches sign up to ZPG for another five years](/img/default/eat.png)
LSL Property Services - which has high street brands including Your Move, Reeds Rains and Marsh & Parsons - has signed...
28 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![More agencies report slowdown in price growth and sales](/img/default/eat.png)
Your Move and Reeds Rains, both part of LSL Property Services, are the latest agencies to admit a slowdown in house...
14 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Transactions plummet 20 per cent in one year, says Your Move](/img/default/eat.png)
Annual house price inflation is 1.3 per cent according to Your Move - even though prices dipped 0.1 per cent in...
16 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![London sluggish but England and Wales price average nears £300,000](/img/default/eat.png)
The latest data from Your Move reveals London as still being the area of England and Wales with the lowest house...
20 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter - a short history of estate agency](/img/default/eat.png)
Property has been changing hands for centuries, but when did estate agents as we know them today – with their branches,...
04 August 2017
From: Features
![LSL profits up - but agency group warns of 'suppressed sales'](/img/default/eat.png)
LSL Property Services - owners of Your Move, Reeds Rains and Marsh & Parsons amongst estate agency brands - has enjoyed...
01 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![What market slowdown? LSL agencies say 2017 is better than expected](/img/default/eat.png)
LSL Property Services does not report its figures for the first half of 2017 until August 1, but even so it...
18 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Your Move says General Election exacerbated market downturn](/img/default/eat.png)
Your Move says the surprise General Election and the creation of a weaker minority government has exacerbated the slowdown in the...
17 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Video interview: new easyProperty boss explains GPEA merger](/img/default/eat.png)
The chief executive of eProp Services Ltd - the company formed by a merger between easyProperty and GPEA Ltd (the parent...