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Industry figure Clive Beattie is set to leave nurtur.group following the sale of The Guild of Property Professionals and Fine &...

Lloyds Bank has issued figures showing a 28% profits plunge for the first quarter of the year - but it nonetheless...

Former global chief executive of Fine & Country Simon Leadbetter has joined home staging firm Lemon and Lime Interiors as fractional...

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

The partners of Cluttons have completed a management buyout of the agency and property consultancy brand. James Gray continues as chief executive...

OnTheMarket (OTM) has issued a new round of share options to its senior staff. The challenger portal and property platform announced on...

Purplebricks has agreed a sale of its business to online rival Strike for a consideration of £1. It brings an end to...

OnTheMarket (OTM) has named the replacements for its outgoing chief financial officer (CFO) Clive Beattie. Beattie, who has worked for the portal...

Lloyds Bank has said it is focusing lending on “slightly better off customers” as it warns that house prices could fall...

Purplebricks chief financial officer (CFO) Steve Long is to leave the online agent after just a year in the role. The beleaguered...

Purplebricks has recruited Helen Martin to the newly created role of group director of risk and compliance. It comes as the beleaguered...

PropTech brand nurtur.group has announced the appointment of Clive Beattie as its new Chief Financial Officer. As we revealed in Estate Agent...

Leading portal OnTheMarket has announced this morning that Clive Beattie has resigned as Chief Financial Officer 'to pursue another opportunity'. According to a...

The Property Franchise Group (TPFG) is planning more acquisitions after a busy 2021 for buying-up agencies. The umbrella property brand, which incorporates...

Foxtons chief executive Nic Budden is to take up the work of the chief operating officer too. In a statement to shareholders...

Purplebricks has announced that chief financial officer Stephen Long has been given a shares bonus as part of the company’s performance plan...

A former chief executive of OnTheMarket is now able to cash in shares worth some £92,000 in the latest part of...

Purplebricks has this morning announced that chief financial officer Andy Botha is quitting at the end of the month. In a terse...

Shareholders in Purplebricks have given overwhelming backing to the company’s remuneration policy - including substantial bonuses for senior executives which had...

A date has been set for Purplebricks’ shareholders to give their verdict on a controversial remuneration package given to the agency’s...

House prices in Wales - where the equivalent of the stamp duty holiday has fully ended - rose to a new...

Purplebricks’ annual report has revealed that a short term bonus scheme to provide incentives for executive directors to meet financial and...

Propertymark has named two new non-executive directors described as having “a wealth of knowledge and independence.” A statement says their appointments “will expand...

A trade union is demanding that the government ban emails from all employers outside office hours - and it wants emails...

The annual report of a major estate agency has revealed that its chief executive took two large cuts to bonus payments...

Paul Creffield, a veteran figure at Countrywide involved in a controversy over bonuses, is staying on to “support” the transition into new...

A leading business consultancy says the level of working-from-home in the UK by 2025 will be five times that before the pandemic. Estate...

OnTheMarket is to undergo a revamp under its new chief executive, former Foxtons agent Jason Tebb - who has been given...

OnTheMarket has handed out more shares to agencies signing long-term agreements with the portal. It was almost three years ago that OTM, then...

OnTheMarket’s acting chief executive says the portal will embrace more social media and innovative marketing strategies in the coming period. Yesterday the...

There’s been a surprise appointment as OnTheMarket chief executive. Instead of popular acting CEO Clive Beattie - who had made it known...

Hindsight is 20-20 vision, of course, and we can all see things we did ‘then’ that we would not do ‘now’....

Rightmove’s new chief financial officer has a basic salary of £390,000 plus bonus options coming to a potential total of £1.75m. Alison Dolan has...

There appears to have been a small shareholder rebellion at Countrywide’s annual general meeting over the company’s remuneration of senior management. No...

OnTheMarket says it still aims to be the number one portal, but the acting chief executive has revealed a far more...

Purplebricks chief financial officer James Davies has resigned. His place has been taken by Andrew Botha, who has joined from the online...

OnTheMarket has announced this morning that it has given notice to its chief executive, Ian Springett, with immediate effect. The troubled portal's...

Countrywide and LSL Property Services have this morning confirmed that talks are underway about a possible mega-merger. This confirms the speculation yesterday that...

Hello - if it’s Monday it’s PJT day, so welcome to the latest update on key moves within our industry. Let us...

In six years of editing Estate Agent Today, some of my most dramatic moments have been covering the troubles - some...

Hybrid agency Yopa has announced that its chief executive, Ben Poynter, will be standing down at the end of October to...

Purplebricks has spent £26.7m on marketing in the past year - that represents £382 per instruction.  The figures, revealed in the agency’s...

Countrywide has named a senior businesswoman as chair of its controversial remuneration committee which was at the centre of a row...

Foxtons has revealed that its six branch closures announced towards the end of last year will save the company £3m in...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today - the every-Monday round-up of key moves within the industry. Let us know...

Countrywide, which was hit by a row over executive pay during the summer, is now on the look out for a...

Countrywide has announced the appointment of a new board member with “substantial restructuring and turnaround expertise.” Mark Shuttleworth became a non-executive director...

Countrywide appears to have backtracked on a move which could have seen its three most senior executives receive some £20m in...

Sky News is reporting that Countrywide faces a new crisis - this time over senior management remuneration, particularly for its executive...

Hello, and welcome to this week’s regular Monday summary of all the major jobs moves in our industry.  Despite summer and the...

Chestertons has announced two changes to its management team in order to, in its own words, “help lead the business into...

TV property expert Sarah Beeny says she expects online agencies to take 70 per cent market share in the future -...

The new owner of Humberts has announced the new management structure of the rural estate agency which he bought out of...

The rise and fall - and perhaps rise again - of Countrywide has been of enduring interest to the agency industry...

Countrywide is in no rush to appoint a new chief executive, following the experience of having Alison Platt in the post...

The long haul back for Countrywide appears to have begun with the first major name who left during the Alison Platt...

In the first of an ongoing series exploring the people who make the property industry tick, I catch up with James...

Hello and welcome to the latest Property Jobs Today, our round-up each Monday of key job moves within estate and letting...

easyProperty has unveiled details of its relaunch, declaring itself to be the UK’s second largest hybrid estate agency - second only...

The UK's largest estate agency has announced a series of internal promotions, bolstering its senior leadership team. Yesterday evening Countrywide confirmed that...

The UK's largest estate agency has announced that its finance chief will step down from its board next month and retire...

Property portal Rightmove has appointed easyJet's chief financial officer to its board. Andrew Findlay will join Rightmove as a non-executive director...

Former Countrywide director Iain McKenzie is the new chief executive of The Guild of Property Professionals. He replaces Marcus Whewell who has...

Another senior Countrywide figure is leaving the organisation to join an independent agency - itself set up by a former Countrywide...

The chief financial officer of Foxtons is expected to resign this week - but is reported to be remaining with the...

The Daily Mail is reporting that the finance chief at much-discussed hybrid agency Purplebricks has purchased shares that are now worth...

Foxtons has announced the appointment of Mark Berry as its new chief financial officer (CFO).  Berry will take over from current CFO...

Zoopla Property Group has gone for a new chief financial officer steeped in online and digital experience rather than one with...

Zoopla has confirmed that its next date for announcing its agency membership totals - part of its ongoing rivalry with OnTheMarket...

A riposte to Paul Smith's article 'Why Estate Agents Must Stand Up to the Power of the Portals' I just read an...

A retail guru from Carphone Warehouse, a former Lloyds Banking Group chief and a human resources expert from BUPA are amongst...