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The real estate industry is one of the industries hardest hit by falling numbers of self-employed, having seen the third-largest decline...

Calling all self-employed property professionals! With only one week to go until the 31 January self assessment deadline, the 3.8 million people...

Online and Americanised models of self-employed agency have deterred new agents from entering the sector amid a wider decline of professionals...

Troubled agency Purplebricks is set to face further litigation from the group which is already preparing to bring a class action...

Purplebricks has this morning announced its long-awaited annual results, delayed since July 12 due to internal changes. It shows that revenue...

Yesterday afternoon, Helena Marston was finally confirmed as Purplebricks new CEO after all the due diligence checks that are required for...

Purplebricks say it’s going to complete its transformation from an agency using self-employed local operatives in the field, to having fully...

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

Purplebricks chief executive Vic Darvey has quit, citing “personal circumstances”.  He leaves at the end of this month with chief operating officer Helena...

Purplebricks is claiming that literally thousands of High Street agents from conventional bricks-and-mortar firms are applying to the agency. It says this...

Purplebricks says there’s an uncertain period ahead following a sharp loss of revenue in the first half of its trading year. In...

Purplebricks' share price tumbled a remarkable 34 per cent this morning when trading opened on the London Stock Exchange. The price crashed...

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

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

An estate agent claims he may be the highest paid in the industry this year - and he puts it down to...

Purplebricks says its aim to move 650 staff from self-employed status to employed has had a 95 per cent success rate. It...

There are some parts of the world, including in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, where estate agent isn’t seen as...

One of the biggest trends since Covid, in the property world and elsewhere, has been a shift towards more hybrid, flexible...

Self-employed agents working for Purplebricks who want to resist the instruction to become fully employed are being wooed by a Midlands...

Purplebricks’ chief executive says a £4m marketing blitz scheduled for the autumn will go ahead despite the upheaval caused by the...

The chief executive of Purplebricks says he wants to move his agency’s 600 Local Property Experts from self-employed to employed status...

Purplebricks has this morning confirmed that it’s ending its self-employed Local Property Experts operation and is moving to “a fully employed model...

Butters John Bee, one of the oldest agency brands in the UK, is the latest part of the Spicerhaart group to...

Haart - one of the brands owned by Spicerhaart, which laid off staff in the first hours of the pandemic -...