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Councils are warning agents to abide by the rules following complaints from residents and businesses about the positions of For Sale...

The Guild of Property Professionals has launched a new Ezine system to boost member marketing. Agents will be able to create digital...

Industry regulator the National Trading Standards & Letting Agency Team (NTSELAT) has issued a reminder to agents about their responsibilities when it...

The South East of England is currently most in need of an estate agency personnel boost, new research claims. The analysis, by...

What are you going to do when something unplanned, unexpected, and unpleasant hits your brand and business? There’s no point avoiding it...

A high-profile London estate agency has been chided by iconic Hollywood actor Sir Michael Caine for using his image and one...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned a property investment firm from using a letter claiming that it wanted to buy homes...

Purplebricks issued an unexpected tweet yesterday, showing one of its own advertisements posted on a London tube train - upside down. With...

Purplebricks is claiming that literally thousands of High Street agents from conventional bricks-and-mortar firms are applying to the agency. It says this...

Rightmove will launch its latest outdoor campaign on Monday, with advertisements in over 1,000 roadside and rail locations remaining in place...

A property media analyst claims Purplebricks has record-breaking website traffic thanks to its “relentless” and vast budget marketing. “Whether you like to...

A TV advertising campaign begins today to promote SmartVal, its real-time valuation tool available on the Boomin portal. The advertisements will start...

The housing market could be in for a financial boost of an unusual kind as a High Street bank plans to...

Purplebricks’ chief executive says a £4m marketing blitz scheduled for the autumn will go ahead despite the upheaval caused by the...

Purplebricks is to launch an extensive marketing campaign after this summer’s Olympics to emphasise the local knowledge of its 600 agents...

Zoopla has launched a new advertising innovation which it says will help both agents and housebuilders as they seek to capitalise...

A firm has agreed to amend its claim that it was the number one selling agent in its town in 2020,...

Agents have contacted Estate Agent Today to say they fear the new MatchMaker service on the Boomin portal could be used...

The launch of Boomin has been and gone with, perhaps, something less than its expected fanfare of publicity. Of course there are...

Here are the first three TV adverts for Boomin, the new property portal which launches on Friday.The new website launches early...

Dexters, which last week secured a reported £130m in new investment for the coming years, has snapped up the historic Roy...

The Bruce brothers’ latest project, Boomin, is “ready to launch” some two months after it was expected to see the light...

Property porn as a popular pastime is as big in the US as it is here, as fans of shows like Netflix’s...

Two mysterious online agencies have had their advertisements for the same property banned by the Advertising Standards Authority. The agencies - Manchestersalerent and...

While the property industry has suffered far less than other sectors during the past year, it would be short of the...

One of Countrywide’s top-end brands begins a TV advertisement campaign on Boxing Day.  Hamptons’ ad is the first ever TV promotion from the agency and...

Zoopla is the first UK property company to launch advertising on Pinterest, the lifestyle picture-centric social media platform. A statement from Zoopla...

The proliferation of free and accessible digital services has - at face value - brought us many great things: same-day deliveries,...

Purplebricks has changed the wording of an advertisement on its website after a watchdog stepped in following a complaint. According to the...

A London Labour council has won draconian powers to effectively ban For Sale and To Let boards in several parts of...

The advertising and sponsorship links between Purplebricks and Team GB have won the agency a silver medal according to a leading...

Purplebricks is starting a new wave of TV advertisements today, continuing its theme from earlier this year as a sponsor of...

The death has been announced of Colin Lowman, a veteran south London estate agent who had a 64 year career in...

NetAnAgent, a website which offers consumers instant quotes from a selection of traditional and online agents, has changed some of its...

Sellers are being warned to make strict checks before responding to advertisements apparently from prospective buyers.  The National Association of Property Buyers...

Nested is the latest online agency to base a marketing campaign around criticism of established estate agents.  In three 30-second TV ads...

Following on from the second half of the last decade, the first few weeks of 2020 have been a bit mad...

The Property Ombudsman role is being advertised. The current Ombudsman, Katrine Sporle, is giving up the role in November after five years in...

Zoopla is launching a new eight week marketing campaign on Boxing Day - and Estate Agent Today has an exclusive look at...

Rightmove has been given the green light to continue using the claim that “every second someone contacts an estate agent about a...

A service has launched for estate and letting agents to copy and paste a widget into online advertisements free of charge. It...

Purplebricks has spent £26.7m on marketing in the past year - that represents £382 per instruction.  The figures, revealed in the agency’s...

A survey claims that millions of potential sellers would use online estate agents - and bizarrely, this includes an online agency...

A former Local Property Expert and manager at Purplebricks has gone on record to reveal what it was really like to work...

The Advertising Standards Authority has issued a guidance note warning online estate agents, after complaints about them have “grown dramatically”. “Property is big...

A company which promotes property raffles have been told that it cannot repeat certain elements of its advertisements on Facebook and...

South west regional agency Luscombe Maye has amended an advertisement for a new housing development following a complaint to a watchdog. A...

Trading in OnTheMarket’s shares was subject to two so-called Price Monitoring Extensions - temporary freezing of transactions because of erratic movements. The...

It’s clear that some agents are not fans of Trading Standards officers, described in the comments sections of the trade press...

The head of the new Trading Standards authority regulating estate agents says Online firms are treated exactly the same as High...

An estate agency has been ordered by the Advertising Standards Authority not to use an advertisement on its website and Facebook...

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

A poster advertising shared ownership, promoting homes from a housing association, has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority. The poster, for...

OnTheMarket is to continue its TV advertising campaign throughout February - and this time it’s ad is also going to be...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an advertisement calling properties for sale ‘park homes’ when the buildings themselves could not be...

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

The troubled Emoov hybrid estate agency, currently up for sale, has removed an advertisement after a complaint to a watchdog over...

No, I haven’t lost the plot. Such a thing exists – and if you’re familiar with North London, there is a...

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

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an advertisement for a new development in London after complaints over claims about the yields...

Emoov has agreed to change the wording of a Google search advertisement after a complaint was made to the Advertising Standards...

An online estate agency run by one of the country’s youngest entrepreneurs has agreed to change a reference about savings on...

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

The Advertising Standards Authority has today issued a three-point guidance note for estate agents, including controversial interpretations of what constitutes a...

The Advertising Standards Authority says its compliance team is considering its next steps following the refusal of estate agency PDQ Estates...

An agent from Cornwall who has waged a long-running campaign against online agencies in general and Purplebricks in particular has been...

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

The creative agency behind the new round of Purplebricks Commisery TV advertisements have been explaining the philosophy they brought to the...

Another Purplebricks ad has been stamped down on by the Advertising Standards Authority following a complaint by Hunters Property Group - but...

One of the country’s largest auction houses has had to amend an advertisement on its website after an intervention by the...

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

Purplebricks is reported to have hired a new advertising agency to handle a “multi million pound” media campaign. The advertising industry weekly...

Alice Hickmott is the perfect advertisement for apprentices in estate agency - especially as we are now in National Apprentice Week.  Essex...

House Network, which describes itself as the UK’s first online estate agency, is using TV advertising to promote a new "20-point...

Controversial new Purplebricks advertisements on social media mock traditional estate agents who “twiddle their thumbs” in offices and claim the hybrid...

The Charter for Independent Estate and Letting Agents says Purplebricks is still not complying with a ruling made by the Advertising...

Purplebricks once again used the Christmas period to launch new TV and social media advertisements.  In one, the hybrid agency debuted Mr...

The online agency Yopa has removed an ad comparing its performance against other estate agents after complaints to the Advertising Standards...

The man seeking to establish the Charter for Independent Estate and Letting Agents says he is hopeful that the fledgling trade...

Estate Agent Today has been told that there are four more complaints filed to the Advertising Standards Authority about hybrid agency...

The industry appears to be embracing this year’s Halloween celebrations like never before - tomorrow’s the big day but we’ve got...

Complaints about a Purplebricks claim concerning its Local Property Experts have been rejected by the Advertising Standards Authority. Complaints came from PDQ...

The death throes of the Charter for Independent Estate and Letting Agents are continuing. A statement by software entrepreneur Charlie Wright, who...

The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that two TV advertisements for Purplebricks cannot be shown again in their current form because...

The decision by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to fine five estate agents for engaging in a price fixing cartel has...

A mystery online petition is urging Rightmove to filter its advertisements “in a bid to curb down inflationary / speculative / fake...

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

Online estate agency YOPA - well known recently for advertisements featuring the Village People - is this evening launching a new...

Today sees the launch of ARLA and NAEA Propertymark's first national television advertisement. The ad is intended to highlight the importance of...

eMoov, the online agency which last month secured an additional £9m funding from investors, has launched a recruitment drive for what...

Online agency HouseSimple has once again been the subject of a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority. Earlier this month a HouseSimple advertisement...

For the second successive week the Advertising Standards Authority has banned an online estate agency’s advertisement.  Last week it was HouseSimple and...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned online agency HouseSimple from claiming that High Street agents charge “1.5% to 4% (plus 20%...

The police are investigating a quick sale company after a claim by an individual that he received less than half of...

During a week in which fledgling trade group the Charter for Independent Estate and Letting Agents (CIELA) announced that it still...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an advertisement which suggested that the firm behind it had “a physical office ... in...

Purplebricks has released more details of expansion plans to recruit hundreds of additional Local Property Experts. The recruitment drive was launched yesterday...

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

We live in world where the online economy is just as important as the offline economy. Whether your business is online...

Hybrid estate agency YOPA has launched a recruitment campaign suggesting that agents have “the chance to make between £6k and £12k per...