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Rightmove’s decision to return £100m to its shareholders has been called into question. The property portal giant announced in its recent half-year...

The estate agency industry is being urged to do more to tackle the issue of gender jaws, it has been warned. The...

In this latest article from the team at Iceberg Digital, they discuss their series of ground-breaking innovations announced at their annual...

The Women in Estate Agency support group has unveiled details of its latest conference. The event will take place at The IET...

Fine & Country has launched a marketing campaign centred around becoming the most recommended national estate agency brand among consumers. The campaign...

Have you heard of the Pareto Principle…? Named after economist Vilfredo Pareto, it describes the imbalance of most work-related events -...

Here’s the news you don’t normally get to hear about - the agency industry in full swing doing good work. If you’ve...

Whether you know them as sold-in-your-area campaigns, sold-on-your-road postcards or 20:20s, the practice of prospecting 20 doors up and 20 doors...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...

Industry charity Agents Together is celebrating reaching new mentorship and volunteering milestone. It has revealed that 800 free mentorships have now been...

In this latest article from the team at Iceberg Digital, they review the recent Estate Agency X 8, 2023 On 23rd March, the...

In this latest article from the team at Iceberg Digital, they preview Estate Agency X 8, 2023 Estate Agency X is back and better...

Former youth Olympic Badminton player Grace King is one of first recruits in a campaign launched by hybrid agency Mr and...

The Relocation Agent Network (RAN) has been sold to a company featuring respected estate agency industry figures. RAN’s owner Dwellworks has completed...

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

Most agents are falling foul of anti-money laundering (AML) rules by accident but the sector could face more compliance-related fines by...

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

The worst cost-of-living crisis in generations is everywhere we look and agents – and the property industry more widely – are...

For years now estate agents have been on a journey from digital infancy to digital maturity. But what does the future...

Technology developed for the estate agency industry has advanced and expanded seismically over the past decade as software vendors develop their...

An analysis of anti-money laundering compliance shows the estate agency industry as one of the UK’s worst performing sectors. And the expert...

New research suggests that the estate agency industry has bucked the nationwide trend of business liquidation that he plagued other sectors...

The online agency Strike - which has a business model selling homes for free and relying on referral fees for revenue...

A recruitment expert says the estate agency industry has joined those sectors suffering from a shortage of staff. And in the case...

PropTech industry giant epropservices has acquired Property Technology Ltd, better known to agents as marketing platform LeadPro. epropservices is the parent company of...

An agent has gone on record saying how he has progressed from being a photocopier boy at a Connells branch to...

A former estate agent has accused the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agent Team of trying to discredit him. Chris Wood,...

One of the best known faces in estate agency has launched his own podcast - and is giving Estate Agent Today...

Channel 4 Ventures is one of a number of investors who have collectively put the equivalent of £11m into the online...

Like many of you, I have watched a lot of football recently and I’ve enjoyed every minute. It has been an...

It may be the height of summer but the industry is still super-busy and new appointments continue to come thick and...

Peter Everett - a veteran High Street estate agent with a quarter of a century at LSL and a decade at...

A leading agent has been in touch with EAT to vent his frustration at the government for extending most of the...

As the high-street sees a dramatic increase in footfall1, a trend that is set to continue, agents are elevating their window...

In this week’s In Conversation Today, I am delighted to chat with Lucy Morton, Head of Residential Agency at JLL, about...

There’s a new warning that the estate agency industry may be in a more fragile financial condition than before the pandemic,...

In this week’s In Conversation Today, I chat with Fine & Country UK’s managing director Nicky Stevenson, one of the most...

The estate agency industry is besotted with digital canvassing to try to win business - but that’s the wrong approach to take...

It’s Friday so it’s Charity day of course, and today we get to the root of the issue of lockdown easing...

Mental health – and the importance of good mental health – has become a vital thing for all of us in...

The extraordinary consolidation in the estate agency industry continues apace today with two of the biggest deals reaching critical points. Firstly Hunters’...

Agencies and suppliers today mark International Women’s Day with events and declarations shining a light on the achievements of female colleagues and...

The acquisition of Countrywide by Connells might just be the deal of the century in the British estate agency industry. That’s the...

As the official advice over holidays descends into farce - can we go this year? if so at home or away?...

Hello and welcome to the end of a busy, busy week for agency news.  It’s easy to assume the agency business is...

A former London estate agency owner and finalist on The Apprentice says he’s now returning to the sector to sell new-builds. Jamie...

As you may have seen over the weekend, the long-running Property Natter column – penned by Angels Media chief executive, Nat...

A security company says it is “disappointing” the estate agency industry is only around 55 per cent through preparations to cope...

Customers must be told about third party referral fees when buying or selling a home says the National Trading Standards Estate...

The agency leading the Say No To Rightmove campaign has returned all of its offices and brands to Zoopla. The Acorn Group,...

Online agency easyProperty has announced four new areas to its portfolio to build on its existing 41 locations - and it’s seeking...

The estate agency industry is still under the spotlight for possible illegal price fixing cartels according to the Competition and Markets...

The Say No To Rightmove campaign has given a thumbs up to the new Boomin listings service created by the brothers...

One of the UK’s market centres set up by US-led agency Keller Williams has strongly defended its policy of recruiting newcomers...

If a week is a long time in politics (an old phrase, for younger readers), then a year is a very long...

The estate agency industry has been sharply criticised for its record on protecting staff and customers during the Coronavirus crisis. The compliance...

Collaboration creates a bigger market Iain White, of the Innovation Collaboration Group “the Estate Agency industry must recognise that collaboration will...

The recommendations to regulate and train the estate agency industry put forward a year ago remain on the Housing Secretary’s desk...

The new chief executive of The Property Franchise Group says he anticipates his company’s hybrid arm - EweMove - will go...

Russell Jervis, who spent 33 years at Spicerhaart rising to managing director before quitting late last year, has re-emerged this morning...

A free-to-list property portal is warning the estate agency industry that it’s facing “dark days” thanks to the Coronavirus crisis and...

A new call has been issued this morning by the Competition and Markets Authority for estate agents to confess if their...

Some older estate agents may end up retiring when mandatory examinations and qualifications are introduced as there will be no ‘free...

The Competition and Markets Authority says it wants to send “a strong signal” to the estate agency industry that price-fixing will...

In the latest part of the Natter’s ‘day in the life of’ series, I catch up with Chris Osmond, sales director...

Two separate former High Street estate agents have sung the praise of switching to the hybrid business model. Appleby’s in Gloucestershire is...

There are many adjectives that can be applied to Boris Johnson, probably very few of them complimentary, but there’s one that...

There has been a real wind of change in estate agency and over the last 18 months we have seen the...

The boss of a 15+ branch estate agency group has explained how he thinks regulation could 'ruin' the estate agency industry. Simon...

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

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

A new online estate agency has attacked the industry for being “largely cloaked and ambiguous” - and says that of all...

The estate agency industry is at a crossroads. A turbulent market, unstable political situation and a chronic lack of public confidence has...

The estate agency industry is in a staffing dilemma because of the continuing uncertainty over Brexit and its effect on the...

There was a time when the mere mention of the financial services industry brought with it scorn and mistrust. The issues arising...

LSL Property Services, the parent company of Your Move and Reeds Rains, has substantially 'written down' its investment in online estate...

The online sales and lettings platform TheHouseShop has scrapped its £500,000 crowdfunding pitch - and it’s blaming the collapse of online...

Phil Spencer is on the warpath against “constant tinkering” by government in housing matters - and instead, he wants the problems...

The world may be going crazy outside but we’re delighted to tell you that in the estate agency industry it’s still...

As scary Halloweens go, yesterday was quite a shocker for Britain’s online estate agency sector - and not in a good...

The government has told the estate agency industry that it has a “moral” obligation to report suspicions about potential money laundering. Figures...

Outspoken online estate agency chief Russell Quirk says the estate agency industry is “really p****d off” with Rightmove trying to ride...

A government minister has told the estate agency industry that it must be more transparent over the issue of referral fees. In...

Over a fifth of pensioners say they would be encouraged to downsize if there was a stamp duty incentive - particularly...

When Oakland A’s, a small-market team, stunned the baseball world 16 years ago by transforming itself into world-beaters on a shoestring-budget,...

A businessman who’s just entered the estate agency industry says he’s got the secret behind Purplebricks’ success - even though he...

Foxtons share price hit a new low yesterday, dropping to only 46p early in the afternoon: it eventually closed narrowly up...

Cast your mind back to July 2008 – Gordon Brown was Prime Minister, the Euros were in full swing in Austria/Switzerland...

The estate agency sector “is experiencing the worst staff shortages in a generation at a point when the property market is...

PropTech firm Iceberg Digital has revealed an expansion of its marketing deal with franchise agency giant Hunters.  This will involve local content...

US bank J P Morgan has predicted that Purplebricks, which it says now has around six per cent of advertised homes...

Estate agents are facing the biggest industry changes seen in decades. The rise of online and hybrid agents alongside more traditional...

The Elf on the Shelf has been something of a craze in the build up to this Christmas, notoriously getting up...

The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that two TV advertisements for Purplebricks cannot be shown again in their current form because...

Estate agency James Pendleton says the sales of flats across London have collapsed 47 per cent in only a year -...

A campaigning estate agency has taken the distinctly unusual route of exposing what it calls the ‘Top Ten Dirty Tricks’ which...

One of the more puzzling questions in London's estate agency industry has been resolved - how a company which appears to...

Let’s face it - summer seems to be on holiday itself, if the weather in the UK is anything to go...

Given the shift change in the estate agent world at the moment, with online models becoming more prevalent (think easyProperty’s £60...

Estate and letting agents are being urged to prepare for new data protection legislation coming into effect next year - but...