Award-winning new editor for Estate Agent Today from next month

Estate Agent Today is to have a new editor from April 4.

He is award winning journalist and podcaster Marc Shoffman who has covered property and personal finance for the past decade with work appearing on Property Industry Eye and in The Times, The Mail on Sunday and The Sun.

He was the Headlinemoney Freelance Journalist of the Year in 2021 and a regular nominee in the Prop4Media Awards.

Shoffman takes over from Graham Norwood who steps down after more than eight years in the role.

Since 2014 EAT has been transformed from a three-times-a-week publication, with just a few stories per day, to a five-days-a-week service, also reporting on breaking industry news outside office hours too.

Norwood’s tenure saw EAT breaking a range of high-profile stories regarding controversies surrounding the launch of OnTheMarket, a series of dramatic problems besetting Countrywide and a series of revelations concerning Purplebricks.

In 2018 Norwood was named as Property Trade Magazine Journalist of the Year and Property Industry Commentator of the Year at the Property Press Awards. In 2019 Estate Agent Today won the Trade Magazine of the Year award at the same event, and Norwood took four gongs - Property Columnist, Commentator and Trade Magazine Journalist of the year, plus the overall Property Journalist of the Year accolade. 

“It’s been a pleasure and a privilege to serve the agency industry by editing Estate Agent Today, and seeing it become an essential part of agents’ lives on a daily basis. During the pandemic, in particular, readership soared - it’s a source of pride that so many looked to EAT as an invaluable source of information at such a difficult time” says Norwood.

“It’s also been a particular joy to work with the Angels Media team who have worked ceaselessly behind the scenes. I’m delighted to still be working alongside them and continuing to edit both Letting Agent Today and Landlord Today, and contributing some feature articles, while Marc takes EAT to new heights.”

And Shoffman says: "Having worked alongside Ros Renshaw and admired Graham's work for many years, I have built up lots of experience writing about the estate agency sector. It is an exciting time to be taking the helm with the prospect of minimum professional standards and increased use of technology both helping and hindering agents.

"Estate agents come in for a lot of unfair slack, as do journalists, but there are plenty of underreported stories recognising the role you play in your communities and helping many reach their ultimate aspiration of homeownership. It is set to be a challenging time ahead for agents with constant rumours of a market slowdown but I am looking forward to stepping into Graham's shoes to help show the good that property firms can do while also keeping agents on their toes.”

You can contact marc@angelsmedia.co.uk and press@estateagenttoday.co.uk.