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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...

In this latest article from the team at Iceberg Digital, they uncover the common challenges faced by Estate Agency owners at...

A prominent south west estate agency trading for 50 years is making five redundancies as part of a restructuring.  Local media report...

Connells boss David Plumtree is set to leave the agency brand. After more than 35 years of service, Plumtree has decided to...

Prime property agency London House, which features in the new Netflix series Buying London, has seen a 30% increase in global...

Rightmove has revealed details of its latest anti-money laundering (AML) webinar. The next event, in partnership with FCS Compliance, is titled 10...

If you’re thinking about becoming an Estate Agency franchise or converting your existing estate agency business to a franchise, here we...

An anti-money laundering (AML) expert has queried why there is a reluctance among estate agents to accept and follow AML responsibilities. It...

In the first of a short series of articles, David Beaumont, managing director of Compliance Matters, casts a professional eye over...

Any estate agency will have noticed the rise of the “personal agent” in the industry, with interesting propositions from eXp, The...

Branches may be closing but the number of estate agency businesses has increased by 2% across the UK over the past...

Two estate agency businesses have already signed up to self-employed agency brand eXp’s new brokerage model just weeks after launch. Mackays, a...

Self-employed agency brand eXp has launched a brokerage model for the UK market. Such a system is already common in the US...

Marie Fritz, a top performer for Fine & Country in Northamptonshire has been reunited with the former chief executive of the...

Estate agency insolvencies have increased by 11% over the past 12 months, research suggests. Analysis by audit and accountancy firm Mazars found...

You’ll know by now that I’m a fully signed up member of the PropTech fan club. And I’ve had an exciting...

A new self-employed estate agency says it’s signed-up 30 new recruits in four months. iad - which had 20 recruits until recently...

The Guild of Property Professionals has launched a second virtual event this Autumn following its inaugural streamed event earlier this year. Scheduled...

Jamie Lester is set to revive the HAUS Properties brand that he previously founded and quit. Lester, a former contestant on The...

LSL has described the transfer of its estate agency business to a franchise model as a success and said it expects...

Industry figure Sean Newman has launched a new TedTalk-style event called the ‘Estate Agent Success Summit’. Speakers will be given 30 minutes...

Welcome back to the second instalment of our blog series on social media marketing tips for estate agents! In part one,...

In this latest article from the team at Iceberg Digital, they review the valuable guidance and innovation offered by Estate Agency...

As money laundering compliance marks its twentieth year, more and more estate agents are being fined for breaches of HMRC’s ID...

A new self employed agency business that launched into the UK market last month claims its success elsewhere in the world...

Self-employed models have a place in estate agency but there is a risk of some becoming ‘cultish,’ a senior industry figure...

A successful European self-employed agency business has entered the UK market. With annual revenues of more than £500m and 20,000 partner agents,...

The average anti-money laundering (AML) fine issued to estate agents for non-compliance so far during 2022/23 has already crept beyond the...

Fortune favours the brave, as the saying goes. So, when you consider how upfront material information can and does make the...

Self-employed agency brand eXp UK has unveiled details of a new nationwide roadshow including an as yet unnamed ex-footballer. Its ‘Growing into...

Rightmove’s Level 3 Certificate for Estate and Lettings Agents (CELA) has been officially recognised by trade body Propertymark, alongside Propertymark Qualifications. The...

LSL Property Services’ share price hit a six-month high during trading yesterday after it announced its entire estate agency network would...

Keller Williams (KW) UK chief executive Ben Taylor has announced a “significant expansion plan” for the UK network but has said...

Estate agents are entering a ‘rocky period,’ an accountancy firm has warned, as research shows insolvencies in the sector are on...

Paul Alexander Mortgage Consultants has been acquired by national broker brand Coreco. Paul Alexander worked closely with the Orchards of London estate...

The UK estate agent industry is expected to grow by 3.2% in 2023, new figures suggest. Hybrid agent Nested analysed historic data...

With the property market showing signs of a slow-down and the economic outlook rather uncertain, we spoke to Lucy Noonan, founder...

The average anti-money laundering (AML) fine issued to the estate agency sector for non-compliance has started to climb, reversing the previous...

Agents should be using social media and their own US-style personal brand to promote listings regardless of the value of the...

Agency brand eXp UK has launched a new network referral programme for its self-employed agents to earn extra commission by sending...

Estate agency sales revenue could have dropped by as much as 27% by the end of this year, research suggests. Analysis of...

You are aware of the business benefits of digital transformation. You understand the need for your estate agency to leverage technology to...

We spent some time with Lucy Noonan, Founder and CEO of Atomic Consultancy, to pick her brains about the many moving...

The COP27 UN Climate Conference may be over but environmental challenges remain and one agent is urging others in the sector...

In tougher times – as is the case now, post-Covid, post-Brexit, cost-of-living crisis, war in Ukraine, etc – reputation and consumer...

With sustainability and eco-friendliness becoming more important by the minute, new research has suggested significant amounts of carbon could be saved...

Bristol-based Alexander May claims to have become the city’s first estate agency business to go carbon neutral and is looking to...

A regional independent agent has shifted its focus to sales after offloading its lettings business to The Lomond Group. Warwickshire and Worcestershire-based...

The Agency UK – which was set up by three ex-employees of Purplebricks – has strengthened its team with the arrival...

Anti-money laundering (AML) platform Thirdfort has secured funding from three high profile estate agents. Knight Frank, Chestertons and Savills’ proptech subsidiary Grosvenor...

Propertymark is considering creating a membership category for estate agency businesses.  The agency trade body already has 18,000 individual members but is...

The digital transformation of the property industry is not a new chapter, but an ongoing journey in which the winners are...

The executive director of LSL’s estate agency business has retired. Helen Buck joined the listed agency brand’s board as a non executive...

An industry veteran who helped train Purplebricks agents has partnered with easyProperty to foster its franchisee talent. The online hybrid agent is...

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

Estate agency recruiter Josh Rayner has said job demand is at the highest level he can remember. Rayner, who runs property jobs...

Three of the leading industry content specialists are set to gather on stage together for what is believe to be the...

The government has insisted it is still committed to introducing agency qualifications and minimum standards in the sector. It is almost three...

Purplebricks has announced that chief financial officer Stephen Long has been given a shares bonus as part of the company’s performance plan...

A three-branch agency in the south west has launched a franchise model which it says should appeal “to those wanting a...

The online agency brand eXp UK claims it’s growing at an industry leading pace - and it puts it all down...

A 20 year old estate agent who admitted being four times over the drink driving limit has been fined and banned...

The findings of a new survey may make worrying reading for agents who have taken the self-employed route as agency business...

The changes to the business models of agents have been turbo-charged by the pandemic - and that makes the industry ripe...

Guy Leaning, a former high street agent who has now moved into working in the hybrid model of agency, outlines why...

We have been speaking with many agents over the past months and the story appears the same with them all. There...

Estate agency business platform Reapit is launching AgentPoint services in the UK - just seven months after it acquired AgentPoint in...

Hunters, now part of The Property Franchise Group, has announced its first so-called ‘Personal Agent’ signing - and says it’s ideal...

The self-employed partnership known as The Agency UK - founded by three refugees from Purplebricks - has announced a major expansion. The...

New figures from HM Treasury have revealed that businesses, including a number of major agencies, have returned £1.3 billion in furlough...

A Borders estate agency business, Hastings Legal and Property, has invested in Halo Digital Signage – hailed as ‘the new generation...

Tech, as has been shown more than ever during the pandemic, can be a wonderful thing – bringing people closer together,...

A banned West Midlands estate agent has today been sentenced to a custodial sentence of six weeks, suspended for two years, and fined £4,000 at Wolverhampton Crown Court after pleading guilty...

A PropTech entrepreneur is advising agents not to settle for simply having their websites up and running, and instead using CRM...

An agent has gone on record saying how he has progressed from being a photocopier boy at a Connells branch to...

Like most aspects of life since the pandemic hit, the employment arena has been hit hard. But not just with uncertainty...

The chief executive of Purplebricks says he wants to move his agency’s 600 Local Property Experts from self-employed to employed status...

For over 20 years, Reapit's CRM software has been the obvious choice for any self-respecting estate agency business. Used today by...

One of the best known faces in estate agency has launched his own podcast - and is giving Estate Agent Today...

A young estate agent is being praised because of his heroic actions to save a woman from drowning.  Austin Mellor - just...

A leading industry personnel expert says agencies must do more to attract new staff, including adapting how they work to compete...

Creating a New Homes division could be a good way of expanding an agency business according to the head of a...

It may be the height of summer but the industry is still super-busy and new appointments continue to come thick and...

eXp UK - an agency brand with roots in the US - says it now has 200 self-employed agents operating under its...

With property fraud on the rise and an ever-increasing number of transactions taking place in the lettings sector, having strict anti-money laundering...

The Trading Standards agency team has outlined to Estate Agent Today the process it will follow to improve what it calls...

We have more regulations controlling the sector than ever before and we have more ‘regulators’ involved in controlling the sector than...

Hello and welcome to another working week, and the latest on jobs and staff movement across our industry. You can be part...

It’s Friday so it’s Charity day of course, and today we get to the root of the issue of lockdown easing...

A business that calls itself the UK’s first 24/7 home-based estate agency has announced a new franchisee.  Dorset-based Meyers Estate Agents was...

The events of the last 12 months have potentially shaped the future of our sector for years to come. There has been...

When it comes to communications, Propertymark could do with a lot fewer confidentiality agreements and a lot more transparency. And I...

Fixflo’s webinar on February 9 saw an industry panel debate 2021’s threats and opportunities for letting agents. The panel discussed a range...

Estate agents might be expert at advising on buying and selling properties on their books but when it comes to buying...

At the back-end of last year and the start of this, the biggest news stories in town – besides debates over...

Hello and welcome to the end of a busy, busy week for agency news.  It’s easy to assume the agency business is...

1. How would you say Century 21 franchisees have adapted to the challenges during 2020?  If someone had told me at the...

An estate agency group has launched new franchise business models to help those in the industry impacted by Covid-19. Century 21 UK...

Firstly, Happy New Year – here’s to 2021 being less chaotic than the last! In the final part of our series on...

Described on this site as a ‘powerful disruptor’ in March 2020, few would deny that the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted on...