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The property industry is fortunate in including many great people, doing great work across a range of businesses – from traditional agency...

One of estate agency’s biggest groups yesterday announced the start of a share buyback programme for a tranche of up to...

Zoopla has unveiled a Sales Advisory Board in an attempt to give agents a greater say in how the portal is...

The link up between the English Football League and a top estate agency is to go on for a third year...

In support of International Men’s Day - today - LSL will celebrate what it calls “the positive value men bring to...

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...

LSL Property Services - parent company of Your Move, Reeds Rains and Marsh & Parsons - has reported record figures as...

Properties with professional marketing packs sell up to 48 per cent quicker than those without, according to an experiment conducted by...

Two of Britain's largest agency groups have sold their stakes in a property search firm. Both LSL and Connells have announced the sale...

Your Move, Reeds Rains and other parts of the LSL Group are to hold an Act of Kindness day to encourage...

Peter Everett - a veteran High Street estate agent with a quarter of a century at LSL and a decade at...

LSL Property Services, owner of Reeds Rains and Your Move agencies, has sold its holding in conveyancing panel management firm LMS...

A controversial league table of corporate agents’ market share is deliberately excluding Purplebricks and other online agencies.  This is despite Purplebricks this...

Britain’s second largest estate agency has outlined radical new plans to shift direction, making financial services and not sales or rentals...

An increased focus on the provision of financial services has helped boost the trading figures released today by LSL Property Services,...

Hello, and as we near the first Bank Holiday of the year (and a little light at the end of the...

A former Countrywide agent who is now a leading figure in a PropTech company has signed up two local agencies which...

Hello and welcome to this edition of Property Jobs Today, a chance to catch up with who’s moving where in the...

Agencies and suppliers today mark International Women’s Day with events and declarations shining a light on the achievements of female colleagues and...

Another week and another frenzy of news, culminating in the Budget and the extension of the stamp duty holiday. A cliff edge...

The acquisition of Countrywide by Connells might just be the deal of the century in the British estate agency industry. That’s the...

LSL, owner of Reeds Rains and Your Move, is boosting its financial services sector through a £2.4m acquisition. It’s snapped up Mortgage...

Members of staff at an estate agency branch in the Midlands tested positive for Coronavirus in consecutive weeks, triggering a temporary...

Revenues for LSL Property Services - owner of Your Move and Reeds Rains - dropped last year by 15 per cent. Although...

Revenues have slumped by 18 per cent at LSL Property Services, the corporate which boasts Your Move and Reeds Rains and...

Countrywide shares soared yesterday, rising 47 per cent on the previous close at one point as investors relished the prospect of...

Your Move is to become the English Football League’s official Communities Supporter for the coming season. The agency is already an Official...

A veteran agent with 38 years experience of the industry - much of it at Countrywide - has become the head...

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

The chairman of LSL Property Services - Simon Embley - says he is “increasingly optimistic” about the outlook for the market,...

The new chief executive of The Property Franchise Group says he anticipates his company’s hybrid arm - EweMove - will go...

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

LSL Property Services has this morning released details of its response to the Coronavirus crisis. All members of its board have taken...

LSL Property Services, parent company of Your Move and Reeds Rain, has named a new chief executive officer taking the helm...

Gareth Samples has been confirmed as the new chief executive of The Property Franchise Group, stepping into the role on Thursday...

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

LSL Property Services says one of its measures to “rightsize” the organisation during the Coronavirus crisis will be to put agents...

LSL Property Services says the Coronavirus crisis has led to a softening of "lead sales indicators" - and it warns of...

Some of the biggest figures in the industry have given Estate Agent Today their reaction to the news - broken yesterday...

It’s been revealed that the branch closure programme by Your Move and Reeds Rains last year resulted in 460 lost jobs...

Hello and welcome to the start of a new week - and it’s been a frantic seven days since the last...

The Property Franchise Group - which owns Martin & Co, EweMove and three other brands - is to have a former...

LSL Property Services, which embarked on a significant branch closure programme last year, has reported a 16 per cent slump in...

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

Your Move is to become an Official Supporter of the English Football League.  The announcement will see Your Move benefit from digital...

A trading statement this morning by LSL Property Services - owners of Reeds Rains, Your Move and Marsh & Parsons -...

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

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

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...

LSL Property Services, parent firm of Your Move and Reeds Rains, says the company’s branch closure programme was a success with profits...

The head of EweMove, the hybrid agency operated by The Property Franchise Group, says he applied for the top job in...

The London Marathon may be just one of literally thousands of fund-raising events but we know it’s a favourite with many...

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;...

Prices have dropped 0.5 per cent in the past year according to LSL Property Services, the parent company of Your Move...

Family-run Chelsea agency Russell Simpson is marking 40 years of business by expanding for the first time in its history, opening...

LSL Property Services, the parent company of Your Move and Reeds Rains, has substantially 'written down' its investment in online estate...

Your Move and Reeds Rains have confirmed that 39 branches are to be taken over by David Newnes and an existing...

The beleaguered Your Move estate agency insists there was no breach of customer privacy after an ex-employee reportedly took confidential data...

Formal consultations have started concerning the job losses and branch closures for Your Move and Reeds Rains, revealed yesterday by their...

A major restructuring of LSL Property Services has just been announced to shareholders, with substantial numbers of branch closures. The statement says...

LSL Property Services - parent company of Your Move, Reeds Rains and London agency Marsh & Parsons - has given a...

The industry has long been critical of reports claiming house price movements are in some way uniform across the country, but...

A new portal which had branded itself as “the UK’s first decentralised property listing database” appears to have had a setback...

House prices are flatlining with the rate of annual growth having fallen continually since August according to LSL Property Services, which...

The latest Your Move house price data confirms what a wide range of indices have shown recently - slowing price growth and,...

Google celebrated its 20th birthday last month. Yes, it might be hard to recall a time when it wasn’t integral in...

Reapit’s popular former sales manager Peter Fenwick is today formally launching as an independent PropTech consultant. Fenwick, whose departure from Reapit was...

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...

Yopa - the online agency enjoying large-scale financial backing from Savills and LSL Property Services, the owner of Your Move -...

The parent company of Your Move, Reeds Rains and other agency brands has succeeded where Foxtons yesterday did not - in...

Welcome back to Property Jobs Today - EAT's weekly roundup of all the big moves going on in our industry. If you...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today, our weekly feature on who’s moving where throughout our industry. And it’s...

Average house prices rose 0.5 per cent in February, making it the biggest rise in five months according to the latest...

LSL Property Services - parent company to 12 brands including Your Move, Reeds Rains and London’s Marsh & Parsons - has...

The death of traditional TV – where viewers sit down together to watch shows at defined times – has been much...

New figures from Your Move suggest that average house prices across England and Wales barely moved in 2017, increasing just 0.2...

HM Land Registry has revealed how major house price indices are compiled - showing the huge variation in transactions behind the headline figures. The critique,...

LSL Property Services - which includes Your Move, Reeds Rains and other high street estate agencies - batted away any housing...

LSL Property Services - which has high street brands including Your Move, Reeds Rains and Marsh & Parsons - has signed...

Your Move and Reeds Rains, both part of LSL Property Services, are the latest agencies to admit a slowdown in house...

Annual house price inflation is 1.3 per cent according to Your Move - even though prices dipped 0.1 per cent in...

The latest data from Your Move reveals London as still being the area of England and Wales with the lowest house...

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

LSL Property Services - owners of Your Move, Reeds Rains and Marsh & Parsons amongst estate agency brands - has enjoyed...

LSL Property Services does not report its figures for the first half of 2017 until August 1, but even so it...

Your Move says the surprise General Election and the creation of a weaker minority government has exacerbated the slowdown in the...

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

Analysis of over 120,000 sales valuations has revealed some of the UK's most expensive and cheapest property regions. Central London's 'W' postcode...

An estate agent who was offered a sex act by his boss if he hit sales targets has won a sex...

Theresa May's decision to call a snap election in June has so far had 'little effect' on the property market, according...

Auctions are a great way to sell property competitively, with a wide range of homes often selling under the hammer, and...

Your Move’s latest house price index shows that the average house price in England and Wales is now £301,278 after a...

House prices grew at their fastest pace for 12 months in February, with average values increasing 0.6 per cent -  that’s...

LSL Property Services - which owns high street agency brands Your Move, Reeds Rains and Marsh & Parsons - is the...

A survey of 5,000 people by agency chain Your Move reveals that 80 per cent of buyers view three or more...

The market got off to a strong start in 2017 with prices growing 0.3 per cent in January to push the...

LSL Property Services has named Helen Buck as executive director of its estate agency business.  Buck has been a non-executive director at...

The rental market has had to face a raft of changes over the past year, including the introduction of the 3% stamp...

LSL Property Services has sold its remaining stake in Zoopla Property Group according to a City report. LSL - which includes High...

Data from Your Move suggests annual house price movements in London boroughs range massively from +16.4 per cent to -16.5 per...

Buy-to-let landlords may have failed in their recent legal battle against planned government tax relief changes for buy-to-let homes set to...

The huge rush to acquire buy-to-let property in the first quarter of the year ahead of the stamp duty change deadline...

Speculation continues to grow within the industry over a potential merger involving Connells and the newly-combined agencies of Leaders and Romans.   Connells...

LSL Property Services - which owns agency brands including Your Move, Reeds Rains and Marsh & Parsons - has reported strong...

House prices in Scotland rose 0.9 per cent in May, taking the average value to £172,119 - still down on a...

Data from Your Move and Reeds Rains - for May, so well before the EU referendum result - suggests average prices slumped 0.4...

There has been an 11 per cent increase in sales in Scotland over the past year - and one major agency...

Property sales slowed dramatically in April as the market readjusted following the frenzy of buying before the stamp duty surcharge deadline...

The latest price index from LSL Property Services suggests that the average home in Greater London has risen in price by...

Rayner Personnel is increasing its firepower in the key south east of England recruitment market with the announcement that husband and...

It’s unlikely that this is what George Osborne wanted when he announced his stamp duty surcharge but its deadline for introduction...

The numbers of households purchasing their first home has grown by almost seven per cent annually, despite the surge in buy...

The number of property sales in Scotland during January was the highest recorded since 2008, according to figures from Your Move. The...

Ivy Gate, the start-up hybrid estate agency which won investment from TV Dragon James Caan three years ago, has announced its...

In the latest of many mixed signals from the housing market, a survey by agents Your Move and Reeds Rains suggests...

Your Move claims the higher end of the Scottish housing market is recovering from the introduction of Land and Building Transaction...

A major estate agency chain’s price index says average house prices in England and Wales have grown 6.6 per cent in...

Your Move has announced what it claims to be “a major integrated marketing and media campaign which aims to raise brand...

Property sales in Scotland for first-time buyers and home movers are increasing three times faster than the rest of the UK...

The director of two major agencies says George Osborne’s stamp duty surcharge and stock at an “historically low level” will force...

The number of first time buyer transactions in October stood at 28,100 - a drop on previous months despite the fact...

Negativity. There’s a lot of it about in the lettings industry right now. Where you might see barriers, hurdles and more...

LSL Property Services plc has announced another lettings acquisition, this time in Elgin and Inverness. The agency they have bought, PHP Lettings,...

Another house price index has suggested a strong mainstream housing market but a struggling one at the high end. The latest LSL...

In a new sign that the housing market is strengthening, mortgage lending increased in August by the largest amount since 2008. Data...

The police are investigating a theft from an independently run franchise in Northampton, according to a report in The Northampton Chronicle &...

A Yorkshire agency has announced the opening of its 19th branch this week. Manning Stainton's latest office, which was formerly occupied by...

LSL Property Services, owner of Reeds Rains and Your Move amongst other high street chains, says last month’s sales market was the...

This year saw the lowest May for first time buyer completions in three years according to data from Your Move and...

A review of 30 prominent property sales websites undertaken by a digital marketing company demonstrates, perhaps predictably, a huge lead for...

Scottish house prices have seen their sharpest fall in six years as the ‘transaction tax boom’ has come to an end...

Average house price growth is slowing and is now just a third of what it was this time last year according...

The true impact of the election on the housing market has been revealed as the latest government figures on house transactions...

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