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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...

Is there such a thing as an online estate agency any more? A decade ago, about the time I started editing Estate...

Kerfuffle founder Simon Whale may have thought becoming a servant for the day as part of a charity auction would have...

Russell Quirk may have already irked plenty of estate agents in his time as boss of collapsed online brand Emoov and...

Propertymark has released details of a panel featuring several industry heavyweights at its much anticipated conference in June. Founder of emoov-turned-property-pundit and...

A former Countrywide director says that since becoming a Keller Williams agent he’s racked up over £1m in fees. Dominic Marcel -...

Industry leaders have hit back at a suggestion that agents should do more door-knocking to win business. Speaking in the latest video...

Industry leaders have hit out at the media for “stifling sentiment” as they urge agents to help vendors make an informed...

I’ve just read an article saying that this is the time of the online estate agency. The time in question is, of...

Proptech firm iamproperty has overhauled its movebutler platform with more material information features and a Love Island theme. The end-to-end onboarding and...

The property industry is fortunate in including many great people, doing great work across a range of businesses – from traditional agency...

Purplebricks ended the trading day yesterday without being able to formally welcome its new chief executive but the markets appeared to...

Adam Day will be a well-known figure to many in the industry, having been the founder of Hatched (the online agency...

Representatives of Rightmove, Zoopla, OnTheMarket, Boomin and OneDome portals are to be quizzed in an industry Question Time session next month. Russell...

A new service launched over the weekend, proposing to charge buyers £30 for a “guaranteed” viewing, has split opinions amongst estate...

The Competititon and Markets Authority says it’s to look into reviews on Google and Amazon, and see whether the online giants...

One of the men behind the defunct Emoov online estate agency has re-emerged as the head of a marketing service. The service...

The launch of Boomin has been and gone with, perhaps, something less than its expected fanfare of publicity. Of course there are...

Emoov’s new 'guaranteed offer' service means fall-thoughs and chain-related delays are effectively eliminated, the agency claims. Emoov - now owned by a firm...

One of the biggest TV hits of lockdown has been the Netflix show Call My Agent! It’s a surprise success, perhaps, because...

This week’s In Conversation Today interviewee needs no introduction. One of the property industry’s most recognisable names, she has been a...

Purplebricks has been rated as only the 10th best online agency in the country in a controversial new league table. The list...

At the back-end of last year and the start of this, the biggest news stories in town – besides debates over...

There’s been a flurry of recent activity involving agencies quoted on the London Stock Exchange: Hunters, The Property Franchise Group and...

A survey of completion times for house sales over the past four years suggests that the worst performing local authority area...

The Competitions and Markets Authority is to probe the proposed merger of two crowdfunding sites used by numerous property industry companies. Crowdcube...

Gary Keller is stepping down from his post as chief executive of the global Keller Williams estate agency empire. Although operating chiefly...

A new survey of the market share split between High Street and online agencies shows that Purplebricks remains the digital market...

A new analysis of corporate estate agencies’ social media followings and websites shows the big winners to be Savills, Foxtons and...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick - currently at the centre of a planning controversy - could be sacked in a September Cabinet reshuffle. The...

Online sector veterans Russell Quirk and Kenny Bruce have used social media to call for a temporary scrapping of all stamp...

Dominic Cummings has been at worst a cause of huge anger to a nation that’s already extremely anxious. At best, he’s been...

Some of the biggest figures in the industry have given Estate Agent Today their reaction to the news - broken yesterday...

An outspoken industry commentator says some of the country’s leading agencies are failing because they’re not actually run by experienced agents. Russell...

There have been two developments on the controversial subject of online reviews. One concerns the online agency Emoov, which three months ago...

Estate agents who deliberately over-value properties in order to win instructions are effectively committing fraud according to a prominent industry figure. Russell...

An unknown website called EA League Tables has issued a list of agencies and agency-groups which it claims shows their order by...

Yes, believe it or not, we’ve nearly reached the end of a whole decade. And what an eventful decade it’s been. We’ve...

The dispute between controversial online estate agency Emoov and the Advertising Standards Authority is rumbling on.  In the first half of November...

An online estate agency which last week claimed it had resolved a dispute over reviews it showed on its website is...

Fledgling online estate agency Emoov - now owned by PropTech firm Mashroom - has removed reviews and endorsements from its website...

The former chief of an online estate agency says the top three surviving firms in the sector must merge if they...

A controversial estate agent and former head of an online agency is urging agents to knock on the doors of vendors...

A new national agency concept - eXp UK - has told Estate Agent Today that its recruitment schedule is running “well...

Upad, the national online letting agent set up by entrepreneur James Davis has announced that it is “closed to new business”...

It never rains but it pours. And that’s certainly been the case for the online estate agency sector in the last...

The tech publication WIRED has conducted an in-depth analysis of Purplebricks’ reviews on the Trustpilot site and suggests the agency may...

HM Revenue & Customs has revealed that the original Emoov online agency has been fined for breaches of money laundering regulations. HMRC...

Three former online estate agency founders - including the controversial Russell Quirk - are going into mainstream full fee agency. They are...

A survey claims that millions of potential sellers would use online estate agents - and bizarrely, this includes an online agency...

In the old days an agent would procure clients based upon their position in the high street, the size of the...

Crowdfunding has been largely avoided by property companies for much of the past year following controversies surrounding Emoov’s fund raising -...

Speculation is growing about the future of online agency Yopa. This follows a key resignation from Yopa’s board and one expert’s analysis...

A former Local Property Expert and manager at Purplebricks has gone on record to reveal what it was really like to work...

A newspaper claims that a crowdfunding site used by some estate agencies and other property industry companies has suspended trading on...

One of the most experienced and high profile figures in the industry says individual agents working for online companies are typically...

It’s now more than three years since the EU referendum result in June 2016, and we’re still no clearer on when...

The new owners of Emoov have confirmed that 70 previous customers have opted to re-list their homes with the firm since it...

In the last ten years Google's revenue, largely from pay per click ads (Adwords), has grown by 527% (Source: Statista). In...

Estate Agent Today has been contacted by an individual who says he is one of three former Emoov customers intending to...

New figures released show High Street estate agents taking an increasingly large market share as online operators continue to crumble. According to the...

Hello and here’s another PJT to start the week: we hope it’s your first port of call when you want to...

We like a good video here at Estate Agent Today, and we know our industry can take a joke even if...

Emoov and Countrywide: what a pair, observers might say. They present a tale of two failures - although, in the case of...

A veteran of three online estate agencies has been named as the first UK head of a US real estate operation...

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

New data from property consultancy The Advisory shows that the top 10 online estate agents now have a combined market share...

Whether you love or hate it, Purplebricks has undoubtedly left its mark since arriving on the scene in 2015 – much...

“I’m Russell Quirk, and I’ve failed” - with those words, the former chief executive of Emoov has begun to explain how...

Mark Witherspoon, well known in the agency industry as the former data services director of Zoopla, has joined the TwentyCi company.  TwentyCi...

The failure of online agencies to significantly disrupt the industry is down to their being too cheap and creating a perception...

A millionaire who has not previously invested in the property industry has taken the plunge by funding an online agency network. The...

There’s more bad news for Purplebricks: after a shock 80 per cent downgrading of its stock value by a bank on...

When you think of the best ad campaigns – from moustachioed opera singers and talking meerkats to millions of bouncing balls...

A controversial online estate agency has gone into liquidation two years after describing High Street agents as “smug, suited slime-balls.” BetterMove, registered...

An online estate agency insists the online/hybrid sector will take a 50 per cent market share in the future - despite...

Virtual tours are a compelling way of enhancing a property’s potential through online marketing, increased transparency and efficiency for agents, and...

The founder and former chief executive of Emoov, Russell Quirk, is back in the headlines with a new but until now...

GetAgent, the comparison estate agency business, has secured £2.2m in investment from a consortium of investors including Channel 4. The backers are...

The end of 2018 was a bit of a rocky time for online estate agents. Yet only a few years ago...

The online estate agency platform Love2Move has scrapped its bid for investment via a controversial crowdfunding platform. The platform - which allows...

House Network, one of the first ever online estate agencies, is alleged to be considering calling in administrators. Two reliable sources close...

The former chief executive of online agency Emoov has complained to the Mail on Sunday about an article concerning the firm’s...

Welcome to this week’s PJT, your chance to catch up with the latest key job moves. Keep in touch with us on...

Online estate agent Emoov failed to tell crowdfunding investors it was losing £3m a month before its collapse, a Sunday paper claims. The...

It’s been a theatrical week in Westminster with talk of defections and duplicity worthy of Shakespeare. Yet the estate agency world has...

Latest figures show that the top 10 online estate agencies have once again failed to exceed five per cent market share,...

The first major estate agency business to launch a crowdfunding bid since the controversial collapse of Emoov has emphasised its “realistic”...

“You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over,” is an oft-quoted saying of Richard...

The latest analysis of the performance of the top 10 online estate agencies shows that their market share of new listings...

The Property Franchise Group says its online/hybrid agency EweMove traded profitably throughout  last year and will show “a significant improvement” over...

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

Property industry commentator and former online agency chief executive Russell Quirk has defended Rightmove’s charges to agents, saying that compared to...

The controversial crowdfunding site Crowdcube has listed the founder of online estate agency Doorsteps as one of its five ‘entrepreneurs of...

The former chief executive of Emoov says online estate agencies charge too little, so risk appearing cheap and ineffective to potential...

The share of the market taken by online agencies in the final quarter of 2018 slipped from last summer’s high of...

The auction firm that purchased the property listings left stranded by the collapse of Emoov is now offering partnership opportunities to...

The new management at Emoov says that following its acquisition out of administration it will relaunch as an online estate agency later...

Kenny Bruce, one of the founders of sector-leading online agency Purplebricks, has sent his good wishes to Russell Quirk, who founded...

Former Emoov chief executive Russell Quirk has made his first on-the-record comments about the factors behind the dramatic collapse of his...