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An increase in agents, fees and rising take-up of its extra packages contributed to a 6% annual rise in average revenue...

Political parties have been pretty quiet on housing policy during the General Election campaign and industry groups are hopeful that tonight’s...

National estate agency, Jackson Stops, has appointed Bamboo Auctions to provide the white-labelled technology behind its new J-S Auctions service. Bamboo Auctions...

A home staging firm that partners with estate agents to present properties has secured financial backing. Lemon and Lime Interiors has received...

A former lawyer has used her own experiences of trying to buy a home to launch a platform that matches homebuyers...

Bamboo Auctions has been integrated into the Alto Marketplace. The tool will helps agents identify which properties are right for auction and...

Proptech firm iamproperty has reached a new milestone as it reveals its partner agent network has hit 5,000 firms. The milestone represents...

More than 1,000 estate agency branches are to join iamproperty’s partner network from SDL Auctions after a trade deal between the...

Online agent Griffin Property Co has become the latest brand to partner with Help to Buy-style equity loan provider Proportunity. The partnership...

Fledgling portal Boomin says its new SmartVal tool has received over 10,000 requests since launching in early September. SmartVal is powered in part by...

Boomin has announced the appointment of six agents, described as independent representatives, who are now on the new portal’s strategic board. The...

Zoopla data has confirmed that buyer demand started to moderate in the months prior to the initial stamp duty holiday tapering...

Keller Williams - which says it’s the UK’s leading business-owner or ‘self-employed’ firm with twice the agents of any direct rival -...

Fledgling portal Boomin is launching what it claims to be the most interactive and accurate online valuation tool on the market.  It...

The largest player in the Modern Method of Auction sector says there is growing consumer confidence in the way the system...

Back in April, leading portal Zoopla launched a new multi-million-pound marketing campaign, its biggest ever, to help agents capitalise on the...

We recently conducted a survey and discussion session with estate and lettings agencies called Agency panel - Cut through the noise...

Keller Williams now boasts 377 estate agency partners across the UK - agents that have set up and run their own...

Some 45 per cent of people who had their home valued by an agent or sold it in the past three years discovered it...

Zoopla today begins a new marketing drive - the latest move in the fierce battle between Rightmove, Zoopla, OnTheMarket and Boomin. Zoopla is...

Zoopla has unveiled a subtle rebranding plus new features and functionality - and says it wants to be number one, not...

When I joined Zoopla, I took the same approach that I always take whenever I enter a new sector: I was...

Zoopla says it has so far delivered almost £80,000 in agent fees through its access to the Modern Method of Auction. MMA...

This time out, I’m in conversation with one of the big three established portals. Since it was founded in 2007, Zoopla...

Over 100 Zoopla member branches have signed up to the Modern Method of Auction system offered via the portal. Over the summer Zoopla...

Watching the government’s surprise press conference a couple of weekends ago the message was clear; we were heading into a gruelling...

Residential People, one of many free-to-list platforms in the hectic portal marketplace, is set to launch which it calls its “AI...

Two City consultancies instructed by OnTheMarket have talked up the company’s fortunes after the appointment of its new chief executive.  Shore Capital, which in...

Zoopla says it wants to know what agents think of its new TV advert which airs from tomorrow but can be...

Zoopla has upped the stakes in the war between rival websites with two major claims which implicitly challenge both Rightmove and...

An overwhelming 98 per cent of vendors questioned by Zoopla say they remain anxious about the Coronavirus and would prefer to...

Zoopla has confirmed that it’s to extend its ‘three months free’ plan to five months of free portal usage for agents...

The three leading portals have rejected an appeal to give the industry a payment holiday to help firms through the Coronavirus...

More than 18 months on from the acquisition of ZPG for £2.2 billion by Silver Lake Partners, a US private equity...

Zoopla has published a startling set of statistics to demonstrate what it calls “a record January with significant growth in delivery...

Auction House, which says it’s the largest property auctioneer in the UK, is opening a new branch in Kent, with its...

'It's a recipe, not a menu' is a mantra championed by a host of Keller Williams' millionaire estate agents. But what are...

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

Property voyeurism and the festive season have long been bedfellows for many Brits. The heady combination of over-indulgence and regret, close proximity...

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

A new online auction service has launched this week, pledging a fairer service for agent partners, as well as buyers and...

It has been a long time coming, but the tenant fees ban, which forbids landlords and letting agents in England from...

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

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

The debate about online auction charges levied on buyers continues this morning with the release of figures showing that one company...

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

Having built over 1,800 websites for estate and lettings agents in the last 20 years, it will come as no surprise...

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

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

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

Zoopla Property Group says there were over 53m visits to its Zoopla and PrimeLocation websites in September, up 13 per cent...

With a number of agent partner programmes available nationwide, estate agents can often increase business by offering sales by auction, especially...

Zoopla Property Group (ZPG) has today reported a strong period of growth during the six months to the end of March...

The company behind Homeshift, an online tool which helps home-movers, says it aims to build on its current 200 estate and...