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Three portals are to reveal their thoughts on how their platforms and others are likely to develop at this spring’s annual...

Zoopla says the number of its leads delivered to member agents in the period March 2018 to February 2019 was 36...

Hello - here we are once again with the weekly round-up of key moves in the agency and related industries. We’re letting...

Two 'challenger portals' have revealed major new services this morning as they fight to take on Rightmove and Zoopla. OneDome, the new...

The end of 2018 was a bit of a rocky time for online estate agents. Yet only a few years ago...

The easyProperty online agency has abandoned an across-the-board fee structure, allowing its licensee agents to charge what they like. “Each local market is unique...

Maverick Cornish estate agent Chris Wood has quit the industry with a stinging attack on those who have “taken their toll”...

Instagram (or, as the younger generation would have it, Insta) is, by any measure, massive.  Only launched in October 2010, it’s a...

Both major portals have this morning revealed more evidence of a gently slowing housing market. The average time to sell a property...

Latest figures show that the top 10 online estate agencies have once again failed to exceed five per cent market share,...

The first set of figures for the year from HMRC show that there were 0.8 per cent more residential property transactions...

A portal powered by Artificial Intelligence claims it is offering investors a much-needed and superior alternative to Rightmove and Zoopla. One &...

A survey of 3,000 people by Zoopla suggests that 47 per cent of vendors believe the success of their sale was...

In these tougher times, we recognise that helping agents win new inventory is the key to their businesses.  There were more than...

One of the world’s leading digital analysts has given his latest verdict on the UK portal market and offers a major...

Hello and welcome to this half-term week’s PJT, your regular Monday opportunity to catch up with the key personnel changes in...

Who are you? I’m the Director of Sales for both the well-known industry leading Today publications and The ValPal Network. Leading publications: Estate...

OnTheMarket says one of its key aims for 2019 is to match Rightmove’s product offer to agents. “We’re looking to match Rightmove’s...

As an estate agent, you need to be ready to cater for the specific requirements of buyers and sellers, tailoring your...

New figures released this morning from OnTheMarket claim its listing inventory bis now over 80 per cent of the size of...

At the end of January the Asian PropTech company PropertyGuru announced the imminent launch of beta-phase testing of its cutting-edge new product, PropertyGuru Lens. This...

OnTheMarket says it now has listings agreements with more than 12,500 estate and lettings agency branches. In a statement to shareholders and...

Purplebricks might have the last laugh - its biggest critic is ditching his High Street office and making his own agency online. Controversial...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT.  Everyone here let us know about their jobs news by emailing press@estateagenttoday.co.uk - please do...

The monthly index of house price changes in Britain’s major cities, for many years operated under the Hometrack banner, has been...

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...

If you want an engaging page-turner novel for cold winter evenings, my recommendation is Our House by Louise Candlish, a bestseller...

Connells’ brand Gascoigne Halman has lost its appeal against OnTheMarket. Gascoigne Halman challenged OTM’s old ‘one other portal’ rule at the Competition...

Purplebricks has increased its listings by an eye-opening 44 per cent in the past two weeks according to an updated analysis...

A new report from Zoopla claims very nearly a third of buyers want to know the street - or even the...

The former chief executive of Emoov says online estate agencies charge too little, so risk appearing cheap and ineffective to potential...

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

A survey of 6,000 members of the public and 660 estate and letting agents has revealed some striking findings about how...

A maverick estate agent pictured wearing a yellow vest has threatened to mount what he calls a “civil protest” if Brexit...

Zoopla is radically changing its strategy by exploiting the freedom it has under its new private equity ownership. That’s the conclusion of...

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

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

A new portal called YourMoov and describing itself as “the UK’s first decentralised property listing database” is to launch shortly. In an...

Early figures suggest record numbers of people visited Rightmove just after Christmas, giving renewed hope that the market may step up...

As 2018 ticks away and 2019 beckons, it’s time for everyone at Estate Agent Today to wish you, your family and...

There’s nothing new about identifying 10 figures who have helped shape an industry over the past year, but that doesn’t mean...

House price inflation across the UK has slowed to a six-year low of 2.6 per cent thanks to falls in London...

Another year is nearly done – and what an eventful year it’s been. We’ve had more than our fair share of breaking...

An analysis of property branding by more than 200 companies suggests that Purplebricks and OnTheMarket are two of the big winners with...

Zoopla is launching its latest advertising campaign from Boxing Day with ideas from the creative minds behind Wallace & Gromit.  From Wednesday...

There are only a few days left for agents, brokers and suppliers to enter the ESTAS 2019 - closing date is...

When renting a property out, letting agents and landlords recognise that it is important to take a deposit from the tenant...

There is a perfect storm brewing in the lettings market, and as the saying goes, “you can’t change the direction of...

The head of the portal PropertyMutual has accused Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket of being “corporate dinosaurs” and has called on agents...

Zoopla claims a new Property Valuation Report being trialled in nine areas will win more leads for agents.  The PVR will use...

Two weeks to Christmas but no sign of our industry slowing down with more job moves announced in recent days.  Please let...

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

In his keynote speech at the recent Negotiator Conference, Professor Andrew Baum sparked debate throughout the property industry. Baum’s speech, which began...

The demise of Emoov, Tepilo and lettings platform Urban raises question marks over the long-term viability of online agencies according to...

With portal rivalry hotting up again, Zoopla has announced that with immediate effect it’s removing all non-property related adverts from all...

A new portal is launching next year with Countrywide and some 30 other estate agency groups signed up, as well as...

At least some calls from potential customers to Emoov are being cut off and rival estate agents are now plundering the...

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

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

A platform that allows individual private sellers and landlords to list their properties alongside those from professional agents says it’s not...

OnTheMarket chief executive Ian Springett has told an agents’ conference of the strategy for his service - including a prediction that...

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

The introduction of the Propertymark brand as a ‘consumer friendly’ umbrella name for a series of trade bodies has been a...

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

The high profile financial difficulties faced by Emoov and the recent fall in the share value of Purplebricks do not mean...

An estate agency that’s been commended for its flexible working has launched a recruitment drive for franchisees who would keep 75...

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

Zoopla says 38 per cent of properties on sale have had their asking prices slashed. That’s a five per cent rise since...

Not so long ago, the best estate agents were those who did the best work for their clients and therefore built...

A new online agency says it is currently focussing on one large city but will expand to cover the whole of...

Johnston Press, the company which owns the i national newspaper and some 200 local titles - many with property supplements carrying...

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

When Facebook first announced it would be entering the property listings market a few weeks ago it sent shockwaves across the...

Last week, the first of a new kind of industry event took place; an open debate between agents and PropTech suppliers. Strong...

OnTheMarket has this morning announced that it now has signed listing agreements with more than 11,000 estate agency offices - over...

Zoopla has once again released its list of the costliest streets in the UK - but for the second year running...

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

Humberts - which when it was operating jointly with Chestertons was a prominent supporter of Agents’ Mutual and OnTheMarket - has...

OnTheMarket today launches a new TV advertising campaign which aims to highlight its 'New & Exclusive' marketing feature. Agents listing with the...

Zoopla Property Group's founder and chief executive, Alex Chesterman, is to step back from day to day operations at the end...

This week may have marked the landmark moment of Facebook entering the UK property market but as the industry prepares for...

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld one of two complaints made against OnTheMarket's TV and print advertising. The complaints refer to...

A few stories caught my eye this week from China, all of which announce the arrival of cutting-edge technological innovation in...

In the past decade or so there has been a movement towards the use of digital signage screens within a number...

Why do we choose to engage with one application more than another, or find ourselves returning to the same piece of...

When Oakland A’s, a small-market team, stunned the baseball world 16 years ago by transforming itself into world-beaters on a shoestring-budget,...

At first sight, to suggest this is a good time for an agency business to go for an IPO - that...

It was interesting to see the recent story on Estate Agent Today about OnTheMarket (OTM) raising its fees after signing up...

Another OnTheMarket founding estate agency - Strutt & Parker - has rejoined the Zoopla and PrimeLocation portals. Some months ago the London...

There have been two stories dominating the PropTech headlines over this past week. As WeWork places a gentle arm around the...

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

An online estate agency has changed the wording of a listing on Rightmove, Zoopla and on its own website after a...

As you probably know, I have been no fan of OnTheMarket (OTM) over the years. You may see this admission as...

First things first, I have to mention the World Cup. The dream is over, football’s not quite coming home (not until...

I loved my Foxtons office. I started in the Battersea branch. It was the old-style office; traditional carpets, actual properties in...

A hybrid estate agency has launched in Bury, one of the first of its kind to operate in the UK on...

Another update from OnTheMarket this morning claims the portal is now listing over 550,000 UK residential property listings, in excess of...

A decade ago we were still years away from Purplebricks, Countrywide was a colossus in the industry, no one had thought...

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

Estate Agent Today is 10 years old this weekend. We hope you’ll agree that’s a cause for celebration and a great...

Estate Agent Today can reveal that Keller Williams, the US-led firm that has 170,000 agents worldwide, is to open its fourth...

The Advertising Standards Authority has intervened after receiving a complaint about a website and online advertisement for the Howard Cundey agency. The...

Letting agents are being advised to think seriously about how they can recoup costs to help compensate for the introduction of...

Last time out I looked at the growing importance of content, social media and design – but these should only form...

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

Firstly, my sincere apologies - it has now been over a month since my last PropTech blog, doesn’t time fly!  In the...

Zoopla Property Group (ZPG) has confirmed that it expects its sale to Silver Lake to complete in Q3 2018. As part of...

Research by Zoopla suggests that homeowners' confidence in the property market is on the rise.  The property website's latest Housing Market Sentiment...

How can you use data to benefit and better your business? It’s something you’ll no doubt have asked yourself down the...

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

A study of estate agencies and portals floated on the London Stock Exchange suggests that digital companies have shown much better...

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...

There's been a shock announcement that ZPG - operator of Zoopla, PrimeLocation and Hometrack, as well as uSwitch - has accepted a £2.2...

An online question-and-answer article with OnTheMarket chief executive Ian Springett has suggested that its focus of criticism may be shifting from...

The final winners’ list for this year’s ESTAS Awards has just been published with the  ‘Best In County’ agents named -...

Manning Stainton, one of the major estate agency chains operating across North Yorkshire, is to return to listing on ZPG. It will...

Franchise giant Hunters says independent agencies which joined the firm in recent years have typically beaten the performance of the housing market. Chief...

Just like that, the Easter Bank Holiday has come and gone and I find myself now looking ahead to the Summer.  The...

Foxtons says its long-term branch expansion programme is now “largely complete” and it is shifting its attention to using technology to...

As noted in Estate Agent Today’s news pages, OnTheMarket’s (OTM) recent dire share performance (at time of writing the price is...

ZPG has announced that it has signed a listings agreement with Chestertons, one of the estate agencies involved in the founding...

Three weeks has flown by (I missed an early deadline last week - apologies) and I find myself writing the next...

For many estate agents seeking to become entrepreneurs, the idea of starting their own business is undoubtedly daunting, especially when going...

One of the leading PropTech analysts says Rightmove’s huge success means that it has two difficult choices ahead if it is...

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

A mergers and acquisitions specialist says traditional agencies have been pushed into becoming more innovative by the rise of portals and...

New figures released by ZPG suggest increasing numbers of agents are listing on three portals. Amongst the latest agencies to renew long...

London agency Portico has been warned that if there is a repeat of issues concerning its listings on portals, it may...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today. If you haven’t caught this feature before, it’s a regular Monday opportunity...

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

The managing director of property data consultancy Hometrack, Charlie Bryant, is to lead a reorganised property marketing, software and data division...

OnTheMarket has told the City this morning that it has already signed up 81 new listing agreements by 5pm yesterday, completing...

OnTheMarket remains defiant despite the decision of Douglas & Gordon, one of its founder agencies, to list once again on Zoopla...

Yopa, the online agency with financial backing from Savills and LSL Property Services, is the latest online firm to launch a...

One of the founding agencies behind OnTheMarket has returned to listing on Zoopla. A statement from ZPG, parent company of Zoopla and PrimeLocation,...

The bank Morgan Stanley says OnTheMarket’s listings have fallen 19 per cent in the past year. In a note to investors issued...

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

OnTheMarket has finally completed its stock market float, with less capital raised, at a lower than planned valuation and, as I write,...

All eyes are on Agents’ Mutual’s first day of trading on the London stock exchange - just over five years after...

The printing industry is in the midst of a decline as digital products and services displace printed materials, which is why...

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

Whatever else you say about OnTheMarket, you can’t say it’s not consistent, consistent in treating its core membership shabbily.  We already know...

Analysts have given a frosty reception to the announcement by Agents’ Mutual that it is going to float shares priced at...

Agents’ Mutual has released more details of its float on the stock market, which begins on February 9 with a placing priced...

The story of this week - the ousting of Countrywide chief executive Alison Platt - prompts two key questions. Firstly, who takes...

The ESTAS Group has announced record entries for its 2018 estate and letting agents awards.  The national award scheme - which recognises...

ZPG, which operates Zoopla and PrimeLocation as well as owning the Property Software Group, has signed more long-term marketing deals with a...

Connells says it is still unable to comment on whether it will appeal against the Competition Appeals Tribunal verdict of last...

Online estate agency Tepilo has denied industry speculation that it is to change its fee structure now that it is under...

A website called Roofoveryourhead has launched which threatens to bypass estate agents and allow vendors to sell for free. The site uses language similar...

Well, I don’t know about you but after the holidays I've got an imprint just below my navel where my belt...

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

One of the world’s leading property technology analysts says Purplebricks-style disruptive agencies will be a trend to look out for in...

The Court of Appeal Civil Division has today given Connells’ agency Gascoigne Halman the right to appeal against the verdict of...

Asking prices are being cut more heavily than at any time in the past six years says Zoopla.  It says just over...

It’s traditional before Christmas to either review the year past or anticipate the one ahead - but I’m intrigued about what...

Keller Williams UK is launching its third office in the UK. It’s in Glasgow and the new market centre - the term...

Yesterday morning OnTheMarket confirmed its IPO plans but with no firm date. The question remains on whether the float will be...

The man behind a PropTech company has blasted Rightmove and Zoopla for failing to emphasise 360-degree virtual tours - the feature recently...

The average home in England and Wales now sells for very nearly four per cent under its original asking price - a...

ZPG has revealed its 2017 annual report this morning with a stream of records - 648 million visits to portals, revenue...

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

As we hurtle towards the end of 2017, it’s time to reflect on the year that’s just been.   Even better, this property-based...

Global investment bank RBC Capital Markets says OnTheMarket has the potential to undermine the pricing power of Rightmove and ZPG -...

An online agency which claims to be the first in the world to be dedicated to sealed bid property sales, is...

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...

ZPG says that the number of estate agency branches that left to join OnTheMarket but have now returned has reached over...

Winter seems to be firmly with us now, if the plunging temperatures are anything to go by. After a ridiculously mild...

A new website which completely by-passes all kinds of estate agents and allows vendors to upload details of their own properties...

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

International property analyst Mike DelPrete has queried the suggestion that Countrywide's online sales option is drawing in additional business to those...

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

ZPG has announced that Connells is the latest major agency chain to sign a long-term deal with its portals Zoopla and...

What is your experience in the property industry? I worked in estate agency for 12 years before joining Moneypenny and really enjoyed...

One of the industry’s longest-serving individuals, Connells Group chairman Stephen Shipperley, this month celebrates 40 years with the business.   He joined...

As those of us in the industry know, there is a fine balance to strike between disruptive technology – and the...

The vast majority of sellers surveyed by a consumer group say rapport with branch staff in a locally-based office is important...

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

It used to be so easy. Around 20 years ago there were what we now call full-service estate and letting agencies, and...

Three more complaints about agents made to the Advertising Standards Authority have been settled informally - including one concerning an agency's...

Zoopla is launching a new advert as part of its ongoing TV and radio campaign - and it stars those hermit...

One of the world’s leading property technology experts, who at one time was head of strategy at a property portal, says investing...

The Guild of Property Professionals has launched a partnership with the ESTAS Group, which runs the customer feedback platform and customer...

Let’s be honest - few people saw this coming. The 89 to 11 per cent majority amongst Agents’ Mutual members for...

ZPG - which already owns and operates Zoopla, PrimeLocation, Hometrack and the price comparison website uSwitch - has acquired the financial...

Iain White, the ex-Romans managing director and former Countrywide director, has come out strongly against the demutualisation proposal from Agents’ Mutual...

Before we go any further, assuming you are an Agents’ Mutual member, let me ask you a question. If you had...

The Property Ombudsman has expelled a London lettings and estate agency for a year and is warning that the firm may...

An estate agency that has just launched in south Devon says it is giving its customers the advantages of a 24-hour...

OneDome has launched a new online tool that allows users to scour Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket by setting up lifestyle criteria,...

The roadshow of presentations of Agents’ Mutual’s plans to float on the stock market have just passed the half-way mark. Remaining sessions...

Sources within Countrywide say the latest senior management figure to leave the company is Sam Tyrer, who under her title of...

Speculation is growing that one of the most senior executives in the Countrywide management team may be leaving the organisation. Countrywide and...

Humberts, a member of Agents’ Mutual, is today launching an online-only option and claims it can list online-only properties on OnTheMarket. Such...

There’s a distinct sense of déjà vu over the debacle of OnTheMarket. I avoided joining two years ago because I couldn’t see...

No one can say Agents’ Mutual has failed to provoke debate within the industry. The project was the centre of fierce argument...

ZPG has stepped into the escalating dispute between portals by revealing record figures on new leads - two hours before the first...

  The first two meetings in a roadshow which OnTheMarket has organised for local member agents take place today - another 18...

The head of a regional portal in the north of England has welcomed the likely demise of the controversial One Other...

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

I hate to be the guy to say ‘I told you so’…but I told you so! It seems that my predictions...

Agents’ Mutual has confirmed that it proposes to form a new company, OnTheMarket plc, to list on the AIM market of...

Agents’ Mutual (oops, that name might need to change…read on) has been touting its recent legal victory and is about to...

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

More than a third of the homes in London currently on the market have had their asking prices reduced according to...

  A hybrid agency called 99Home Ltd, which made its debut back in April, appears to have relaunched with what it calls...

Being a leading world-class city comes at a price – they are the most expensive for occupiers and the most lucrative...

A traditional estate agency has launched a new online package to give vendors the opportunity “to save thousands.” FranKeys in Lincoln has...

Agents’ Mutual says it will be seeking to recover costs and compensation for losses incurred after what is widely seen as...

The Competition Appeal Tribunal has issued its judgement in the case between Agents’ Mutual and the Gascoigne Halman agency - and...

Supporting the adoption of technology does not mean we have to stop protecting the core values of the property industry. In...

Major westcountry agency Wilkinson Grant has told the Advertising Standards Authority it will not re-use wording following a complaint from a...

The managing director of ZPG Property Services says his firm will never ‘go around’ an agent in order to directly work...

The chief executive of Purplebricks, often criticised by detractors for failing to reveal completion rates as opposed to listings, says his...

Another senior industry analyst says the time is fast approaching for Rightmove to either shift its focus to take account of...

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

ZPG, owner of digital platforms including Zoopla, uSwitch, PrimeLocation, Hometrack and Property Software Group, has been cleared by the Competition and...

A new online estate agency is offering vendors a sales package for just £24.99. MoveSelf, which is based in Manchester, allows vendors to...

High profile estate agency Cluttons has returned to marketing with Zoopla Property Group (ZPG).  The firm rejoined the portal at the end...

To give you a nice distraction from the post-election madness, here’s an interview with Charlie Wright, founder of CIELA (or The...

The introduction of a 3% stamp duty surcharge on the purchase of additional properties has 'shattered' the property market, according to...

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

Zoopla Property Group (ZPG) has announced it has become a 1% shareholder in international property portal business Propertyfinder Group (PFG). The organisation,...

A distinctive boutique estate agency that describes itself as a hybrid between traditional and online operators, and which set up a...

ZPG says the number of estate agency branches to have quit OnTheMarket and rejoined Zoopla over the past two years has...

Zoopla has been reported as saying hybrid estate agencies will not reach their professed targets of achieving 10 per cent of...

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

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

Estate Agent Today understands that the fledgling trade group CIELA - the Charter for Independent Estate and Letting Agents - has...

An internet monitoring service operated by international financial services giant Morgan Stanley says OnTheMarket is continuing to lose both its share...

Hybrid estate agency YOPA has announced a successful Series B round of funding in which it raised a total of £15...

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

Over 1,000 guests celebrated the success of the industry at the 14th annual ESTAS awards on Friday. The event, which is sponsored...

Given that around 95% of property searches now start online, it is more important than ever that an agent has an...

Badger Holdings, owner of 26 agency branches operating under the Townends and Regents Estate Agent brands, has signed a multi-year deal...

A record number of over 300 agents have so far signed up for next week’s FUTURE: PropTech conference, the largest event...

Zoopla has launched a new advertising campaign to promote its usefulness to house movers as told through the eyes of hermit...

Senior members of the fledgling Charter for Independent Estate and Letting Agents group are meeting today to discuss how independents can...

Purplebricks’ advertising is very negative and critical of the competition. They talk about 'commisery', trying to make potential sellers feel ripped...

It’s easy to be dismissive of the value of local newspapers for advertising residential property but things are never as straightforward...

The Competitions and Markets Authority has released more details of its ‘calling-in’ of the acquisition of Expert Agent by Zoopla Property...

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

The Competitions and Markets Authority is reviewing the acquisition of Expert Agent by ZPG, parent company of Zoopla and PrimeLocation. A statement...

As Trussle and Placester add to 2017s bonkers tally of PropTech investment, isn’t it time we end the conflict between Tech...

ZPG chief executive Alex Chesterman has been named in a list of 100 British businessmen regarded as the key disruptors of...

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

It has been a busy week for investment in PropTech businesses and no doubt you have already got reading fatigue about...

OnTheMarket has swatted away the latest criticism from a long-term critic, online estate agency head Russell Quirk - although it has...

Over 60% of UK consumers think that Estate Agents’ Photos Are Very Poor To Average A recent survey* by dedicated property photo...

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

Zoopla has acquired Expert Agent - the latest of a string of acquisitons by the portal. This follows the portal company's...

Organisers of the Future:PropTech2017 conference on May 4 have revealed new sponsors involved with the event - including Angels Media, publisher...

A new regional property portal aiming to sign up 80 per cent of agencies in Yorkshire says it is unconcerned about...

Rightmove has reminded agents of its new 14-week re-listing timescale, first announced just before Christmas as part of its crackdown on...

Excuse the puntastic (or not) title, but as you’ve no doubt already deciphered I took a trip northwards a couple of...

The first week of February has seen some extraordinary goings on in the property sector, from which two stories particularly stand out...

Estate Agent Today has been told that a deal between the Property Franchise Group and ZPG - the new name for...

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

Zoopla has released details of the profit some of its agents have made from its 2014 offer to purchase shares at...

Zoopla and OnTheMarket have issued their figures for last month’s visits, each claiming their busiest ever January. Zoopla Property Group says it...

A City consultancy has issued a note to investors backing Zoopla Property Group’s acquisition of data company Hometrack, suggested there is...

Zoopla Property Group’s £120m purchase of Hometrack, announced yesterday evening, is part of its aim to create “the UK’s most valuable...

Zoopla Property Group is buying Hometrack, one of the country’s leading property market business consultancies. Established in 1999, Hometrack is one of...

Reapit, the provider of CRM software to much of the estate agency industry, has become one of the partners for the...

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

The story of the week has been the first steps of a trade body to represent independent estate agents - as...

When I read about the possible formation of yet another ‘mutual’ with the aim of furthering and protecting the interests of...

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

An American investment analyst has used the Motley Fool online city column to give a glowing endorsement to one of the...

One of the founders of hybrid agency Purplebricks says sellers in the UK may never accept the sale of their property...

Zoopla says it delivered a record number of unique appraisal leads to its agent members in December, up 112 per cent...

Agency telephone answering service Moneypenny says Christmas 2016 is set to be busy if it follows the pattern of the previous festive...

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

Zoopla and OnTheMarket have given their first reactions to Rightmove's portal juggling extension of its property re-listing deadline from two weeks to...

The ESTAS awards have a new main category sponsor - PropTech company OneDome. The OneDome service, launched last month, provides free-to-use information...

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

A new property portal is to launch in April, and has this week started recruiting estate and letting agency members while...

What a mad, bonkers year it’s been. We’ve had, in no particular order: Trump, Brexit, Leicester winning the Premier League, a...

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...

It’s a tale of two estate agencies - Britain’s biggest, seemingly in trouble, and the second biggest, winning a seal of...

Chancellor Philip Hammond caught the lettings industry unaware with an incredulous Autumn Statement.  The buy-to-let sector took a bashing earlier in 2015...

An estate agency described as operating a ‘pay as you go’ business model says it wants to “disrupt the disruptors” operating...

Share prices for both Foxtons and Countrywide took a significant tumble yesterday as news of the ban on letting agents’ fees...

Tepilo, Sarah Beeny’s online estate agency, has opened a new headquarters in central London after doubling its turnover in the past...

The mobile apps for Zoopla and Primelocation passed the 8.5m milestone this week, with the former moving into number two spot...