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Lomond has announced its latest acquisition within the East Midlands, bolstering its John Shepherd brand following two recent acquisitions within the...
11 April 2024
From: Breaking News
Plenty of inspirational examples of fundraising activities by agents and property professionals have been coming in from the end of 2022. Whatever...
06 January 2023
From: Breaking News
Excitement is building for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations. A four-day Bank Holiday to mark the occasion will kick off on 2...
20 May 2022
From: Breaking News
Agents are preparing their businesses for the cost of living crunch, with considerations on fuel use, heating and window display lighting. Much...
07 April 2022
From: Breaking News
haart, part of the Spicerhaart estate agency group, has accused rival agencies of copying its hybrid working model. Spicerhaart group managing director...
18 March 2022
From: Breaking News
Hybrid agency EweMove has this morning announced that it’s moving all of its 170 branches to a new fully-automated cloud-based system...
03 March 2022
From: Breaking News
Hybrid agency EweMove - which has a mix of working-from-home agents and High Street branches - has had an outstanding year...
01 February 2022
From: Breaking News
Jackson-Stops, which currently has 42 branches across the UK, has revealed it’s going to have another 20 by the end of...
06 September 2021
From: Breaking News
A new survey of some 700 estate agency customers show that they want to get traditional services like High Street branches,...
27 May 2021
From: Breaking News
A new survey suggests 53 per cent of buyers never actually visit an estate agent’s office during the course of their...
09 April 2021
From: Breaking News
Estate agents quitting companies and setting up on their own will prosper only by tapping into the most appropriate level of...
17 February 2021
From: Breaking News
The rise and rise of portal listings and changing consumer habits during the pandemic may mean the death of the High...
12 February 2021
From: Breaking News
The property market has bounced back with all of the expected resilience and flexibility that is its hallmark since it reopened...
24 October 2020
From: Features
Some 713 estate agency branches have failed to reopen following the spring lockdown according to a business consultancy. TwentyCi says that is the...
20 October 2020
From: Breaking News
Chancellor Rishi Sunak today reveals his latest measures to help businesses - including agencies, suppliers and other parts of the property...
24 September 2020
From: Breaking News
The regional agency group which master-minded the Say No To Rightmove campaign has made a big commitment to the future of...
23 September 2020
From: Breaking News
Connells Group has revealed seven appointments to its board of directors which it links directly with a target to grow presence and...
22 September 2020
From: Breaking News
One of Countrywide’s biggest shareholders has written a second letter to the company to demand bold action to save the agency...
19 August 2020
From: Breaking News
Connells Group has announced its trading statement for the first half of 2020 - and its support for its staff is...
12 August 2020
From: Breaking News
Over the past few weeks, estate agents have been forced to close high street branches and adapt to working from home,...
14 May 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
From: Breaking News
Lockdown measures are still in place for another two weeks, at least, with the possibility of them being extended beyond that....
25 April 2020
From: Features
Individual franchisees operating under the Winkworth banner are receiving what the company calls “comprehensive help” on a range of issues, including...
07 April 2020
From: Breaking News
Welcome to this week’s charity round-up, where we include a possible kick-start to your fund-raising efforts for 2020. Whatever you’re doing this...
24 January 2020
From: Breaking News
A regional agency operating across Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire has announced an acquisition which adds two branches to its network. This week, Alexander...
10 October 2019
From: Breaking News
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
From: Breaking News
LSL Property Services, the parent company of Your Move and Reeds Rains, has substantially 'written down' its investment in online estate...
05 March 2019
From: Breaking News
Connells Group says investment in PropTech will be the way to safeguard its almost-600 High Street branches - and it’s repeated...
28 February 2019
From: Breaking News
Another year is nearly done – and what an eventful year it’s been. We’ve had more than our fair share of breaking...
22 December 2018
From: Features
OnTheMarket chief executive Ian Springett has told an agents’ conference of the strategy for his service - including a prediction that...
26 November 2018
From: Breaking News
It’s the most obvious visual medium high street agents have at their disposal, and for many decades has been absolutely pivotal...
03 November 2018
From: Features
Increasingly cash-strapped traditional estate agencies should consider abandoning their High Street offices and work from serviced offices or similar lower-profile and...
28 September 2018
From: Breaking News
Out and about recently, I got to thinking: how often do I actually have the call for cash anymore? Or, for...
25 August 2018
From: Features
A major regional agency with offices in Kent, Surrey and Sussex says its new online service - Howard Cundey LIVE -...
29 August 2017
From: Breaking News
Since we last spoke, the ESTAS – the biggest and best property awards ceremony in the UK – has been and...
27 May 2017
From: Features
One of the world’s leading property portal and online consultants says Purplebricks, which is now operating in Australia and the UK,...
18 October 2016
From: Breaking News
Connells has acquired the five-branch independent Paul Dubberley from property investment company Bond Wolfe. Established in 1992, Paul Dubberley offers sales, lettings,...
16 May 2016
From: Breaking News
In 2014 there were 19,000 estate agent branches in the UK. Of which 18,000 were registered to list properties on the...
14 April 2016
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An estate agency display specialist is strongly refuting comments made by a digital marketing company that agents are doing too little...
05 April 2016
From: Breaking News
Loyalty Street W1, a service that sends cheques to householders which they can cash if they then use a nominated local...
23 November 2015
From: Breaking News
It’s interesting to read of plans to debate which business plan really is best for the customer, online or traditional estate...