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Leaders Romans Group (LRG) has unveiled redesigned estate agency boards to promote its carbon-neutral status. In collaboration with supplier Kremer Signs, the boards...

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

An Irish estate agent has come up with a solution to For Sale boards that can get damaged by bad weather. Auctioneera...

A political party is pledging that if elected it will make every home in the UK have an EPC rating of...

Belvoir’s shares were temporarily suspended yesterday after the high court approved its high profile merger with The Property Franchise Group. This paved...

Kerfuffle has revealed the winners of its Supplier of the Year awards The awards are based on agent reviews and net promoter...

Belvoir shareholders have backed the agency brand's merger with The Property Franchise Group (TPFG), paving the way for the high-profile deal...

A local estate agent is spreading the love this Valentine’s Day with a video aiming to get people “on board.” Surrey and...

The majority of shareholders of The Property Franchise Group (TPFG) have backed a merger of the brand with Belvoir. TPFG and Belvoir...

The UK’s largest housebuilder has agreed a deal to acquire its rival Redrow. The £2.5bn deal, backed by both company boards, would...

Shareholders of Belvoir and The Property Franchise Group (TPFG) have been invited to a presentation this week where they can ask...

The chief executive and chief financial officer of Belvoir will lose their jobs if the brand’s merger with The Property Franchise...

One of the most heart-warming parts of my job is having the privilege to be the patron of Agents Giving, the...

TV presenter Phil Spencer announced the winners at the 20th ESTAS Awards in October As most of you will know The ESTAS...

Robinsons Tees Valley Estate Agents is changing its business name following a change of ownership that actually took place two years...

Agency Express has won the Franchisor of the Year – Gold award at the 2023 British Franchise Association (BFA) HSBC British...

Agency brands Knight Frank and Savills are among 12 of the largest real estate consultancies in the UK behind a new...

For almost as long as any of us can remember, we’ve had an unpaid colleague getting sales over the line for...

A new estate agency has benefited from a grant scheme run by multinational company Tata Steel. Lincolnshire estate agent Grahame Barratt-Needham has...

An industry marketing expert has questioned the strategies of ‘house of brand’ agencies. Writing exclusively for Estate Agent Today, Simon Leadbetter, former...

Hunters West Cornwall has announced a new initiative to celebrate the Cornish language. The agency brand has introduced new sales boards that...

A QR code on a sales board can land agents multiple leads at around £1 each, says Agency Express managing director,...

An agency brand has partnered with Sticklepath Parish Council to promote safer driving and lower speed limits. Stevens Estate Agents in Okehampton...

A competition to track down as many golden estate agent boards placed around Leeds as possible has been won by Grace...

Spicerhaart’s non-executive chairman John Spence has received a special achievement award after announcing his retirement from the board after more than...

Leaders has launched its latest sustainable branch. Following the opening of its first sustainable branch in Aylesbury earlier this year, Leaders has...

Agency brands including Hamptons and Savills as well as property developer London Square have sponsored gardens at this week’s Chelsea Flower...

Purplebricks was the top brand for new listings and sales agreed during March, new data shows. A new quarterly market report launched...

Two well-known East Yorkshire estate agents have joined forces to merge their businesses with a new name and branding. Stanifords and Grays...

Chartered psychologist, neuroscientist and award-winning science communicator Dr Sabina Brennan has been announced as the latest speaker at this year’s Propertymark...

Politicians are to take estate agents to task over what they call “a forest” of For Sale and To Let boards. Local...

There are a few common questions that arise when the issue of mould in rented properties is mentioned: what causes it,...

An estate agency has gone back to school to design new for sale boards. Three Sixty Living, the sales and lettings agency...

By David Boughtflower Business Analyst at Reapit, 14 years in Residential Sales and Lettings Having entered estate agency in the eye of the...

Purplebricks is working on ways to diversify its revenue stream to be less susceptible to the whims of the housing market,...

OnTheMarket Group is set to host a “Meet Our Partners” virtual series of webinars for agents to hear from the commercial...

Agents have been showing there is more to being charitable than just donating money. This weeks charitable exploits have a big focus...

The For Sale board is one of the oldest marketing tools available to agents, but it is still considered one of...

As a signage company we know we have a serious responsibility to the environment to ensure our industry’s future and we...

It’s the oddest thing. Surely, the most fundamental requirement of an estate agent having won an instruction, is to get it...

A significant number of estate agents are planning cutbacks in the coming months to cope with the cost of living crisis,...

Regional estate agency Bradley Hall has undergone a rebrand as it looks to expand its presence beyond the North East and...

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

A recent study conducted by the Technical University of Denmark reported that the attention span of people around the world is...

Reapit has launched a new version of its AgencyCloud software tool. The new product from the CRM provider is called Agency Edition...

There are positive signs that the country market could avoid a housing downturn, Knight Frank claims. Analysis by the agent found while...

Amid a cost-of-living crisis, not to mention the uncertainty of a post-Covid economy, real estate businesses across the UK don’t have...

It was a relatively quiet week for fundraising by agents and property professionals but no less important and inspirational. If there are...

Agency board supplier Kremer Signs is working on geotagging tools that can be incorporated into For Sale signs. Tom Cummuskey, sales and...

Essex-based estate agent Beresford Group has celebrated and thanked sales director Mike Sayers who is retiring from the company after 35...

Kent-based agent Miles & Barr has opened its 13th office in the region and is celebrating by offering to sell local...

Sales and lettings board provider Agency Express has launched a strategic partnership with The Key Safe Company. The partnership provides a bolt-on...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I am Tom Cummuskey, I am the Sales & Marketing...

The interim chairman of the RICS governing council has vowed to get the beleaguered body in a “good position” for reforms...

A high-profile review of the governance and purpose of the RICS has said the need for change at the institution is...

OneDome has launched a new platform for agents to monitor and manage referrals made and earned through the challenger portal. The platform,...

Boomin has acquired interior design platform My Bespoke Room. The challenger portal's founder Michael Bruce said it was part of a wider...

Stanley Michael Brecker, an iconic and revered figure on the London commercial property scene for more than 60 years has died...

Oakfield Estate Agents is marking a quarter-century in business with a major rebrand and a pledge to donate £50 to a...

A former chairman of challenger bank Monzo has joined OneDome’s board. Tim Brooke Thom has been appointed as non-executive director of the challenger...

Estate agent HOP is offering eagle eyed Leeds residents the chance to win a £2,000 holiday if they spot one of...

First off, here at EAT we hope everyone enjoyed the Easter celebrations and didn’t eat too much chocolate! Despite the Easter break,...

The OneDome group websites - OneDome itself and nethouseprices - are launching their largest ever advertising campaign. It will target buyers and...

OnTheMarket has inked a deal with Kremer Signs to supply agents with Smartboards to be added to For Sale signs -...

The number one portal is making a big marketing and research push to get reluctant owners to put up the For...

An estate agency is running a competition to encourage residents to photograph badly-located For Sale and To Let boards. The Basingstoke branch...

If you thought checking in to a Microsoft Teams video-conferencing meeting would allow you to escape telephone calls, think again. Outsourced communications...

An estate agency that launched in 2018 saying that High Street offices were dead…has now opened its second physical branch in...

EAT readers may have seen a piece in Friday’s property section of The Times about the long-running Simplify saga, which has...

Hello again and with just two weeks to go before the festivities begin, there’s a definite ramping up of fund-raising for...

Decorating a branch isn’t the only way an agency can celebrate Christmas, as the ingenious folk at Stonefield Agents in Ayr...

In this latest Natter piece zoning in on independent agents doing things differently, following on from the one I did with...

The clocks have fallen back, the nights are longer and the temperature has definitely dropped - winter is here and with...

There is no denying that managing properties is labour intensive. As real estate agents you are responsible for administering and addressing...

A family-run agency has reinvented the For Sale board by removing all of the usual visual cues and traditional words -...

It’s a truism that most property enquiries from buyers these days come through portals but there are several reasons why agents...

An online operator called Nested is to spend £5m to promote the self-employed estate agency concept in 100 parts of the...

Purplebricks is launching its biggest advertising campaign in five years this evening. The multichannel campaign kicks off with a 60-second spot on Channel 4’s...

Picky buyers are walking away from property deals after realising the internet connection at a property is poor, research claims. A poll...

The independent QC leading a review into the governance scandal at the RICS says there was “no fraudulent or criminal misbehaviour”...

Business intelligence is paramount to companies looking to gain a competitive edge, particularly in saturated markets like estate agency. Each client...

A career in property can be fun and rewarding, but it’s a busy world to live and work in. As we...

Board company Agency Express has become a carbon neutral business - and that’s official. Working with Carbon Neutral Britain, which advises businesses...

It’s a big ask to expect anyone to suddenly change what they have always done, particularly if their results have proven...

The biggest challenge facing many agents in the current climate is the general shortage of stock, both for sales & lettings. Let’s...

Spicerhaart - which is increasingly shifting its activities towards agents operating away from traditional branches - has redesigned its boards in...

A prominent London estate agency owner wants an industry anti-racism campaign to counter what she describes as the “discrimination and prejudice...

The debate over For Sale and To Let boards continues apace with some local councils wanting to make it difficult or...

easyJet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou has given his personal backing to the newest recruit of online agency easyProperty - even though...

With just hours to go to the start of the Euros, we can announce our squad for writing Agents Reports on...

A council cracking down on the increase of illegally positioned estate agent boards. Agents are required, under Planning and Highways legislation to...

Purplebricks has pulled off another publicity coup - it’s to sell the Rovers Return in Coronation Street. The hybrid agency, which already...

You could make about 65 more cold calls, or hold 13 more viewings, or you could take a power-nap every day...

Software provider Rex has launched three new live dashboards for agencies, one of which covers agent performance. Rex says the dashboards -...

Purplebricks has unveiled changes to its For Sale and To Let boards to reflect its continuing sponsorship of Team GB and...

Recently I heard the stat that over 50% of property is sold with the second agent, which was backed up by...

Leaders Romans Group is to use only fully recycled material to create its sales and lettings boards across all of its...

Agents should put as much emphasis on ensuring a house move actually happens as on winning the instruction to begin with,...

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

The property market became somewhat fractious during 2020. After receiving a much-needed boost with the promise of stamp duty relief, things...