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

Seymours has relocated its Woking office to a new modern showroom office in the Victoria Place shopping centre. The independent 20-branch estate...

Proptech company OneDome’s mortgage advisory firm CMME is launching a new scheme exclusively designed for self-employed mortgage advisers. The brand wants to...

Industry charity Agents Giving is asking the property industry to rally together for local food banks this week and beyond. Agents Giving...

PropTech supplier nurtur.group - which owns Fine & Country and the Guild of Property Professionals - has acquired Brief Your Market,...

MRI Software explores the use of PropTech to enhance the performance of the sales and lettings processes and how to select...

A franchise for two agency offices in west London has been acquired by property professionals Faith Cook and Georgia Everton-Wallach –...

The past two years have been a whirlwind of change, challenges and chance. The main catalyst has clearly been the pandemic...

An independent estate agency with an eye to fashion has launched a second office in the Home Counties, just nine months...

It’s now over a year since the property market officially reopened after an unprecedented two-month shutdown at the height of the...

I was not surprised when I came across an industry article recently citing that over half of home buyers never visit...

Estate agency offices in Wales, closed for many weeks as part of that country’s lockdown, will reopen from next Monday, April 12. The...

Former Reapit chief Gary Barker is to join Connells Group, just as the company is taking over Countrywide. Barker - who last...

An agent is challenging the insurer Hiscox over its interpretation of whether to honour a Business Interruption Insurance policy. A standard letter...

An estate agent has shut both branches of his business for safety reasons and wants tighter Coronavirus restrictions on the industry.  ITV...

Estate agency offices in Wales with five or more staff will have to carry out a Coronavirus risk assessment under new...

An online petition wants all agents’ offices to close during the pandemic. Keeping them open means agents feel "forced and pressured" to conduct...

Many agents have been operating under Tier 4 Coronavirus restrictions for some days, but today sees another 20 million residents in...

While England’s national lockdown exempts the housing market and allows agents to operate normally, it’s not been the same in Wales...

There is no doubting that 2020 has been a challenging year for all industries, with the lettings market being no exception. Following...

Most agents' branches in Wales are expected to close for just over two weeks from 6pm this Friday, October 23 - moving...

Wearing a face covering in shops and supermarkets is to be made mandatory in England.  Anyone failing to comply with the order...

A raft of changes in the senior management of Strutt & Parker is being heralded as part of a “shift towards...

A former Purplebricks chief has become managing director of an agency aiming to be a national brand. Jim Harris - a former training...

All my recent Natters have been focused on one particular topic, the coronavirus crisis, for obvious reasons. But there has been...

For the coming Bank Holiday on Monday, we’d like to show images of how agency offices have adapted to cope with...

Countrywide has added its weight to the campaign asking the government to allow agents to get back to work - and...

The Say No To Rightmove campaign has started buying social media advertising space in a bid to recruit agents. In a ‘promoted’...

One of the industry’s leading automated valuation services says it’s running at approaching 1,000 leads a day for agents even during...

There has been scepticism across the industry as to the motives behind an unspecified number of lay-offs and permanent branch closures...

The landscape of the estate agency market in the UK is evolving to reflect changes in the way we live our...

The government has dismissed a request from the NAEA and ARLA Propertymark to review business rates for agency offices on High...

An online valuation service says the number of leads it generated for agents in January was over double the figure in...

We’re delighted to be able to show another very charming Valentine’s Day window display - this one from Emma’s Estate Agents...

The ValPal Network claims its new product allows agents to gather the maximum amount of information from customers using its automated...

Today, with the festive break around the corner, we have another video from an agent - but this one is distinctly...

A well known regional agent has closed one of its offices saying “the old shop window of an estate agency is...

A new digital platform has been set up in a bid to provide a one-stop-shop for self-build enthusiasts - and it...

love2move, the online network which allows high street agents to offer a white-labelled hybrid service, has announced its latest partner. Peter David...

A survey undertaken by the respected Economist Intelligence Unit and a risk solutions company suggests that estate agency may be one...

Local media in the east Midlands report that four estate agency offices operated by the Nottingham building society are to close...

A newspaper claims that 1,228 estate agent branches closed on Britain’s High Streets last year. The Mirror’s business editor, Graham Hiscott, says the...

The huge £215,000 fine levied on Countrywide for failing to abide by anti-money laundering procedures is a demonstration that estate agents...

A new bespoke Customer Relationship Management system developed by The Property Franchise Group claims to enable High Street agents to fight...

The shortlist has been announced for the annual Guild of Property Professionals Awards to be held on January 17 in London.  The...

Hello, and the wind-down to the Big Day continues with more pictures of your agency offices. Thanks so much, firstly, to Becky...

Hello and welcome to a new week - the last before Christmas. We’ve got more of your wonderful office pictures and videos...

New figures from the British Independent Retailers Association suggest that there are now 135 fewer independent estate agency branches than at...

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

Shocking figures from the Local Data Company, a consultancy monitoring the health of High Streets, show that 211 estate agency offices...

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

OnTheMarket plc, the company which operates the OTM portal, gives its first formal stock market figures tomorrow morning, for the six...

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

Hello and welcome to our weekly catch-up on the major moves within our industry. Remember, you can let the rest of the...

Yopa - the online agency with huge financial backing from Savills - has attracted a Knight Frank agent to become its...

A branch of Andrews estate and lettings agency, damaged by water as a result of a fire eight months ago, is...

A company which creates interior displays for agency offices and other players in the property industry have introduced a so-called scrappage...

A Cotswolds-based agency has expanded to a second office and says it has plans to develop further in the region. Move was...

With the year in full swing we have some more heroic fund-raising and grant-giving stories to tell this week. Thanks so much...

We have images from three more agency offices to show you today as the pictures keep rolling in - thanks so...

Some customers dislike entering traditional estate agency branches, occasionally feeling 'like prey' for sales staff when they enter. This is one of...

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

You might have thought the week after Christmas or the day after Easter would be when agents receive the most calls...

The stock exchange seems to be on everyone’s lips at the moment. There’s Agents’ Mutual seeking to float on the Alternative Investment...

Marsh & Parsons will be opening a new office in Islington on September 4 - defying many analysts who say the...

A network of almost 80 independent estate agency offices has launched what it calls a hard-hitting campaign against 'internet-based call centre...

An estate agency group operating from two offices close to Heathrow airport has announced it is to open a third, ultimately...

Network Auctions has added 19 additional estate agency offices to its network so far this year.  They include three offices of Chaffers...

The three-office RH & RW Clutton agency has issued a statement to say it’s alive and well - and unaffected by...

A well-informed industry article on the possible sale of Strutt & Parker to French bank BNP Paribas suggests that the deal,...

Work has been completed on the £300,000 refurbishment of the lower ground floor of city living specialist estate agency Morgans in...

A Cincinatti-based international property agency, Barnes, has acquired a majority stake in the high end consultancy Hanover Private Office. “We believe there...

A branch of Martin & Co is changing the wording it uses on a leaflet following a complaint from a rival...

One of the country’s leading estate agency consultants and trainers, Richard Rawlings, this week embarks on a six-week tour of the...

New research suggests there has been a slight increase in the total number of estate agency offices in Greater London this...

It’s Christmas-Central in the estate agency business if your photographs are any indicator - and we’re very grateful that you continue...

It’s December - and as agents near the end of an exhausting and unpredictable year, there’s no excuse not to let...

Pete Wallace, appointed as Countrywide's retail performance director just a year ago and a long-standing employee of the group before that...

It's enough to make the typical Islington resident splutter over their breakfast muesli, or perhaps feel too nervous to drive their...

Despite the much-publicised 'threat' of online estate agency there were more high street offices opened in the first half of this year...

A survey by the Nottingham Building Society - owner of Harrison Murray estate agency - reveals the reliance of buyers on...

Estate Agent Today has received a list of around 60 Countrywide Group estate agency offices expected to close in the next...

OnTheMarket has announced that it now has more than 6,400 estate and letting agency offices listing on its site - a...

Several agencies have unveiled expansion plans despite the EU referendum, economic uncertainty and fears of a major downturn in the London...

Andrews Property Group, which this year celebrates its 70th anniversary, has rebranded its offices and online presence.  It says its new look...

Jackson-Stops & Staff has opened a new branch in in Blandford, Dorset, expanding the agency’s west country presence to nine offices.   Simon...

Haus Properties, the high-profile London estate agency started almost five years ago by Apprentice star Jamie Lester, now appears to be...

Fine & Country is opening a new office in Shrewsbury later this month, marking the brand’s expansion in the West Midlands.  The...

It’s official; the estate agency business is tougher than ever. Contrary to perceptions that may exist amongst observers and even clients, the...

With more house-hunters than ever now starting their search for a new home by typically looking online on one of the major...

Foxtons has won planning consent for an office in the south London suburb of Peckham after another controversy involving opposition from...

OnTheMarket says it now has the support of over 7,000 estate and letting agency offices. This includes those formally contracted now and...

Century 21 has announced another new office, this time in Stafford. The office - led by local husband and wife team Andrew...

We’re absolutely delighted with the response to EAT’s appeal for photographs of agency offices and teams deocrated for Christmas - you’ve...

The little-publicised extension of the CHAPS settlement day - taking the closure up to 6pm from next summer - has received...

We've caught the apparent death of the high street estate agent on video - or at least that's what online estate...

There has long been the assumption and contention in the industry that portals are expensive. This, however, is not the case. Along...

North London estate agency Anthony Pepe is to open its third sales and lettings office in early September.  Anthony Pepe & Co...

The property centre in the middle of the latest controversy surrounding the Competition and Markets Authority says it is still waiting...

The National Association of Estate Agents says HMRC have been making unscheduled visits to individual agency offices to check on their...