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A little known family-run agency - Griffin Property Co - says it is finally relaunching as Emoov. The purchase of the Emoov...

Some 83% of estate agents are proud of their profession, says a new survey. The poll of 1,728 estate agents, commissioned by...

With a combined value surpassing £7.4 trillion, the UK’s 29 million residential properties represent a vital national asset, and for homeowners,...

Housing supply rather than the private rented sector (PRS) made the headlines during the Conservative and Labour Party conferences this year...

I sometimes wonder just how far our national obsession with buying our own homes will stretch. First-time buyers are prepared to save...

New research shows that while the UK homebuyers are paying far more than those in many other countries, the properties they...

You don’t need me to tell you that buy to let has had a torrid time of it lately. For agents trying...

The 1980s may be most fondly remembered for bad hairdos and questionable fashion, but it may have also been the best...

There is a staggering £117 billion worth of property currently up for sale across the UK property market, according to new...

The self-employed model, after years of not really catching on fully, was given a major boost by the pandemic and the...

Moments of major international uncertainty such as the Ukraine crisis lead to property being regarded as a safe investment. That’s according to...

A new analysis has revealed those areas of England and Wales with the largest numbers of Russian-owned homes. Credas Technologies analysed Land...

A national newspaper has lifted the lid on what it alleges to be the backgrounds of high-end self-employed agents who feature...

The government’s heavily publicised Levelling Up initiative could benefit the UK’s overall property market by approaching £96 billion, it’s been claimed. Some...

A massive multi-million pound marketing blitz by Zoopla starts on Monday. The portal says the campaign will capitalise on what it says...

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

At first glance, Rishi Sunak’s Budget speech earlier this week didn’t offer much from a property perspective. But digging down a little...

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

Property auctioneer Auction House has recorded its best first half results in its 14-year history, and says it’s going to continue...

The race to complete home sales before the stamp duty holiday came to an end on June 30 has created what...

For many, the funeral of HRH Prince Philip will be a solemn affair, while for some it will also be a...

One of the biggest trends in recent times, as a direct result of the pandemic, is the concept of working from...

London still dominated the league table of locations with the highest volumes of sales by value in 2020, despite the apparent...

Homeowners staying at home during another lockdown are doing more than sharing memes of groundhog day or doing family quizzes on...

If your house is anything like mine, the postman has a path beaten to your door over the last nine months. In...

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

A new family-run estate agency in Cornwall claims to be the first in the county to focus on green thinking, championing...

Welcome to part three of our ongoing series on local independent agents, as we seek to give this all-important part of...

The Home website, which publishes a detailed monthly snapshot of the market, has raised the alarm over London because of a...

Strike, the firm previously known as HouseSimple, has launched another attack on the charges levied by High Street agents. This time it is...

It has been three months since the property market was given the green light to reopen. During this time, we have...

The EweMove hybrid agency has been singled out for special praise in a trading statement from its parent company, which also...

One of the leading ‘new breed’ of hybrids relying on self-employed agents is opening a share offer to investors in a...

A third of agencies say at least some of their staff will be working from home permanently when the Coronavirus pandemic...

There’s been a surge in UK enquiries to global free-to-list portal Residential People, and a comparable rise in interest from Chinese...

A warning has been issued by a prominent industry figure that more bricks-and-mortar High Street agents will go under in 2020,...

A traditional property agent says critics of Purplebricks underestimate the beneficial impact the firm has had on the UK agency industry. And...

The phrase ‘death of the high street’ can be found in nearly any publication in any given week. And for fair...

The collapse of Thomas Cook, widely seen as failing modernise with the expectations of modern shoppers, is a clear lesson for...

The new chief executive of Purplebricks believes hybrid agents could win '20-30% market share' in the UK. Vic Darvey, who replaced Michael...

When they first came onto the scene, online-only estate and lettings agents were predicted to swiftly spell the end for traditional...

Nobody likes change. It makes people feel threatened, undermines their confidence, and makes them worry about the future. But regardless of...

The former chief executive of Emoov says he has the answer to Foxtons’ current downbeat performance - it should exploit its...

There’s no end to the PropTech and photography solutions available to estate agents these days to help them sell good, old-fashioned...

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

The former boss of Emoov, the controversial Russell Quirk, has resuscitated his career as a public relations man and pro-Brexit commentator. Just...

A hybrid estate agency which uses freelance agents operating from a central hub is now expanding from London into the Home...

An online agency launched by a traditional high street agent to ward off competition says the online business model might have...

However mild the weather may have been for most of us, it’s a cold autumn for the online estate agency market...

New research by TheAdvisory consultancy, shared exclusively with Estate Agent Today, reveals exactly how fees have fallen for traditional agents in...

Traditional estate agencies could be in for a stormy autumn and face being the next casualty of the high street shake-out...

Last time out I looked at the growing importance of content, social media and design – but these should only form...

Century 21 UK is slashing the cost of becoming a franchisee for a six week period, cutting the price from £23,500...

A EweMove branch operating from a franchisee’s home in Staffordshire has taken over the running of a bricks and mortar agency. EweMove’s...

Spicerhaart, which describes itself as the UK’s largest independent estate agency group, has been on the acquisition trail again, showing its...

Here we are again: another much anticipated Budget has been and gone and, yet, still nothing much has changed! Yes, of course,...

London’s long-standing chain Douglas & Gordon is the latest company to embrace the concept of the Purplebricks-style hybrid estate agency. The company’s...

I’ve written before about the impact of headlines on the property industry. Interest rate speculation.   Market booms and busts. Demand...

Following speculation earlier in the week, Spicerhaart has confirmed that it has purchased 19 branch regional agency butters john bee. The acquisition...

One of the founding figures behind OnTheMarket, which currently bans listings from online agencies, now says bricks and mortar agencies that...

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

Adam Day, the founder of Connells-owned online estate agency Hatched, has been announced as head of operations at easyProperty.    In a statement...

With several agent partner programmes available across the country, estate agents can often increase business by offering sales by auction, with...

The Competition Appeal Tribunal has issued its judgement in the case between Agents’ Mutual and the Gascoigne Halman agency - and...

In their election rhetoric all the political parties informed us that the UK is experiencing a ‘housing crisis’, with all promising...

Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of...

Over 168,000 new homes were completed in the year to March 2016, according to data released by the government, over 15,500...

The rental market has had to face a raft of changes over the past year, including the introduction of the 3% stamp...

Following a strong start to 2016, particularly in the lower to middle range of the UK housing market, that lasted up...

House prices will stall in 2017 and there won’t by any significant improvement in affordability for many hard-pressed buyers - but...

It may still be too early to start compiling a Christmas wish list, but it is the right time to provide...

The huge rush to acquire buy-to-let property in the first quarter of the year ahead of the stamp duty change deadline...

The number of 95 per cent loan to value mortgages available for first time buyers has dwindled 16 per cent in...

What is Properstar? Properstar helps UK estate agents cross the chasm from local to global in respect of advertising their properties. Using...

Summer finally arrived, the transport system (as always) went into meltdown, everyone complained that it was too hot and the sun...

Settled, which was set up in 2015 and earlier this year announced it was hunting for an additional £1m in funding,...

The National Association of Estate Agents and Association of Residential Letting Agents say that although there are no conclusive ‘leave’ or...

An estate agency display specialist is strongly refuting comments made by a digital marketing company that agents are doing too little...

The amount of column inches taken up by ‘property’ is at an all-time high.  In my mind there are two major contributing...

Online estate agent Purplebricks has now completed its pre-Christmas IPO with shares initially valued at £240m. It’s the latest news that...

Only four per cent of people in the UK who have sold a home have used an online agent claims bricks...

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

Controversial online agency chief Russell Quirk has described aspects of Countrywide’s newly-revealed digital ambitions as “cursory” and showing “arrogance.” Yesterday Estate Agent...

eMoov, arguably Britain’s highest-profile online estate agency, says it is “inevitable” that it will enter the US sales market in the...

Here's a thought. The Chancellor may have done the buy-to-let industry a small favour with his emergency Budget in July. What...