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Let’s be completely honest - as challenges go, estate agents are up against it trying to persuade reluctant vendors to take...

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

Christmas - time for a much-needed rest for our industry after getting through a workload which reached almost unprecedented levels in...

Purplebricks has addressed its critics on house sales by pledging to return vendors’ upfront fees if the agency fails to find...

As London plays catch-up with the buoyant housing market seen in the rest of the country, two agencies have announced new...

A new survey suggests 53 per cent of buyers never actually visit an estate agent’s office during the course of their...

Winkworth says Covid and its aftermath will not derail plans to open five offices a year.  In a trading statement to shareholders...

Another group of independent estate agents have launched a portal - a rival to a similar project launched by other agencies...

One of the industry's senior agency leaders says it would be a mistake for agents to be stopped from working in...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that all retail staff will be obliged to wear masks when working - and it's now...

You’ve probably heard about unified communications (UC) before. But why are your competitors and other organisations moving towards centralised comms platforms? What are...

Countrywide’s shares took another battering yesterday as they plummeted below the psychologically-painful 5p mark - reflecting a 95 per cent loss of...

The main debate at this year’s FUTURE: PropTech conference - the industry’s leading technology forum, held yesterday in London - saw...

It was an end of an era in the property world this week. Christopher Hamer stepped down as the Property Ombudsman...

It’s rare for an incumbent to pivot to a disruptive business model, even in the face of compelling logic that they...