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Seymours has relocated its Woking office to a new modern showroom office in the Victoria Place shopping centre. The independent 20-branch estate...
09 May 2024
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Proptech company OneDome’s mortgage advisory firm CMME is launching a new scheme exclusively designed for self-employed mortgage advisers. The brand wants to...
01 August 2023
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One in 15 homes formerly sold by agents are returning to the market after the original sale collapsed, new data shows. Analysis...
28 November 2022
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Independent London agent Dexters has unveiled its latest acquisition. The brand has purchased south east London firm Conran Estates, taking on its...
25 July 2022
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PropTech supplier nurtur.group - which owns Fine & Country and the Guild of Property Professionals - has acquired Brief Your Market,...
07 March 2022
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The Mail Online website alleges that an after-hours party at an estate agency office involved staff apparently inhaling drugs from balloons. The...
17 February 2022
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Estate agency offices in Wales, closed for many weeks as part of that country’s lockdown, will reopen from next Monday, April 12. The...
06 April 2021
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Former Reapit chief Gary Barker is to join Connells Group, just as the company is taking over Countrywide. Barker - who last...
19 February 2021
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An estate agent has shut both branches of his business for safety reasons and wants tighter Coronavirus restrictions on the industry. ITV...
20 January 2021
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Estate agency offices in Wales with five or more staff will have to carry out a Coronavirus risk assessment under new...
18 January 2021
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An online petition wants all agents’ offices to close during the pandemic. Keeping them open means agents feel "forced and pressured" to conduct...
14 January 2021
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Many agents have been operating under Tier 4 Coronavirus restrictions for some days, but today sees another 20 million residents in...
31 December 2020
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Most agents' branches in Wales are expected to close for just over two weeks from 6pm this Friday, October 23 - moving...
19 October 2020
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A raft of changes in the senior management of Strutt & Parker is being heralded as part of a “shift towards...
24 June 2020
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Social distancing will be part of our daily routine moving forward for the foreseeable future and if you run an estate...
04 June 2020
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Countrywide has added its weight to the campaign asking the government to allow agents to get back to work - and...
04 May 2020
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There has been scepticism across the industry as to the motives behind an unspecified number of lay-offs and permanent branch closures...
23 March 2020
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The PropTech era is changing the way in which employees decide where they are going to work. As CBRE has discovered in...
10 July 2019
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love2move, the online network which allows high street agents to offer a white-labelled hybrid service, has announced its latest partner. Peter David...
03 July 2019
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A survey undertaken by the respected Economist Intelligence Unit and a risk solutions company suggests that estate agency may be one...
17 May 2019
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A man has surrendered to police after admitting smashing an estate agency's window. The Oxford Mail reports that a 30-year-old from Abingdon, who has...
24 April 2019
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Local media in the east Midlands report that four estate agency offices operated by the Nottingham building society are to close...
29 March 2019
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The huge £215,000 fine levied on Countrywide for failing to abide by anti-money laundering procedures is a demonstration that estate agents...
06 March 2019
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Mystery surrounds the details of an apparent theft of thousands of pounds by three men who walked into an estate agency...
11 February 2019
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A new bespoke Customer Relationship Management system developed by The Property Franchise Group claims to enable High Street agents to fight...
22 January 2019
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New figures from the British Independent Retailers Association suggest that there are now 135 fewer independent estate agency branches than at...
22 November 2018
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Shocking figures from the Local Data Company, a consultancy monitoring the health of High Streets, show that 211 estate agency offices...
12 November 2018
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No, I haven’t lost the plot. Such a thing exists – and if you’re familiar with North London, there is a...
20 October 2018
From: Features
Another high profile estate agency office in London has closed - this time a branch of Winkworth. The Richmond branch has been...
19 October 2018
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OnTheMarket plc, the company which operates the OTM portal, gives its first formal stock market figures tomorrow morning, for the six...
10 October 2018
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OnTheMarket has this morning announced that it now has signed listing agreements with more than 11,000 estate agency offices - over...
02 October 2018
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A branch of Andrews estate and lettings agency, damaged by water as a result of a fire eight months ago, is...
04 July 2018
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A Maserati 3200 has ended up wedged into the front of a Fox and Sons estate agency office in central Brighton. The...
03 April 2018
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With the year in full swing we have some more heroic fund-raising and grant-giving stories to tell this week. Thanks so much...
19 January 2018
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Network Auctions has revealed its 100th partner estate agency office ahead of its next auction in three weeks’ time. Rolfe East in...
18 August 2017
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Sources within Countrywide say the latest senior management figure to leave the company is Sam Tyrer, who under her title of...
17 August 2017
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You might have thought the week after Christmas or the day after Easter would be when agents receive the most calls...
15 August 2017
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Marsh & Parsons will be opening a new office in Islington on September 4 - defying many analysts who say the...
07 August 2017
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A London independent says it has doubled its valuations so far this year and is opening a new office, despite the...
17 July 2017
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A network of almost 80 independent estate agency offices has launched what it calls a hard-hitting campaign against 'internet-based call centre...
15 June 2017
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An estate agency group operating from two offices close to Heathrow airport has announced it is to open a third, ultimately...
24 May 2017
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Network Auctions has added 19 additional estate agency offices to its network so far this year. They include three offices of Chaffers...
09 May 2017
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The three-office RH & RW Clutton agency has issued a statement to say it’s alive and well - and unaffected by...
08 May 2017
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A well-informed industry article on the possible sale of Strutt & Parker to French bank BNP Paribas suggests that the deal,...
21 April 2017
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Work has been completed on the £300,000 refurbishment of the lower ground floor of city living specialist estate agency Morgans in...
19 April 2017
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A branch of Martin & Co is changing the wording it uses on a leaflet following a complaint from a rival...
29 March 2017
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New research suggests there has been a slight increase in the total number of estate agency offices in Greater London this...
21 December 2016
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It’s Christmas-Central in the estate agency business if your photographs are any indicator - and we’re very grateful that you continue...
09 December 2016
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Pete Wallace, appointed as Countrywide's retail performance director just a year ago and a long-standing employee of the group before that...
10 November 2016
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It's enough to make the typical Islington resident splutter over their breakfast muesli, or perhaps feel too nervous to drive their...
02 November 2016
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Despite the much-publicised 'threat' of online estate agency there were more high street offices opened in the first half of this year...
26 October 2016
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A fantastic exclusive this week as I carry out a question and answer session with one of the leading names in...
16 September 2016
From: Features
Estate Agent Today has received a list of around 60 Countrywide Group estate agency offices expected to close in the next...
02 September 2016
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Several agencies have unveiled expansion plans despite the EU referendum, economic uncertainty and fears of a major downturn in the London...
19 August 2016
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Andrews Property Group, which this year celebrates its 70th anniversary, has rebranded its offices and online presence. It says its new look...
08 August 2016
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Jackson-Stops & Staff has opened a new branch in in Blandford, Dorset, expanding the agency’s west country presence to nine offices. Simon...
05 August 2016
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A man has been banned from going near an estate agency office or its staff after he swore at one of...
03 August 2016
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After helping more than 40,000 people move home in the past 20 years, a Yorkshire estate agency is itself in new...
02 August 2016
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Fine & Country is opening a new office in Shrewsbury later this month, marking the brand’s expansion in the West Midlands. The...
15 July 2016
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Foxtons has won planning consent for an office in the south London suburb of Peckham after another controversy involving opposition from...
06 June 2016
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Two graffiti attacks on a London estate agency office in just one week have involved the slogans “F*** gentrification” and “Kill gentrifiers”...
09 May 2016
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Winners’ reactions and views from a fantastic day of celebration! The Kings Group scooped the gold award for Best Estate Agent in...
25 April 2016
From: Features
Century 21 has announced another new office, this time in Stafford. The office - led by local husband and wife team Andrew...
22 March 2016
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Aspire estate agency has opened its ninth office in south west London at Raynes Park, SW20. It is “doing a Foxtons” by...
23 February 2016
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Estate agents with a difference, a twist, a unique selling point, whatever you want to call it, seem to be becoming...
20 February 2016
From: Features
An agent has broken new ground by creating an open-plan shop which includes an agency office, a cafe and an interiors...
29 January 2016
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So how long does a visitor typically stay in an estate agency office? Well, if it’s the case of intruders, about 15...
12 January 2016
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It’s not just inside the offices that get decorated at Christmas - many of you have done a fine job at...
17 December 2015
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No details have yet been revealed of the reasons for a fire at an estate agency in the centre of St...
26 October 2015
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Two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a policeman was struck by a car and killed following a...
07 October 2015
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We've caught the apparent death of the high street estate agent on video - or at least that's what online estate...
30 September 2015
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easyProperty today launches a TV and multi-media advertising campaign “costing very much into seven figures” as it attempts to boost its...
21 September 2015
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North London estate agency Anthony Pepe is to open its third sales and lettings office in early September. Anthony Pepe & Co...