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Gareth Samples has been confirmed as the new chief executive of The Property Franchise Group, stepping into the role on Thursday...
28 April 2020
From: Breaking News
17 February 2020
From: Breaking News
The Property Franchise Group - which owns Martin & Co, EweMove and three other brands - is to have a former...
14 February 2020
From: Breaking News
After months of difficulties and closures for many online and hybrid estate agencies, EweMove claims to have bucked the trend. In a...
01 August 2019
From: Breaking News
Our own industry’s upheaval over recent years has been no less dramatic than the turmoil at Westminster. The political earthquake has seen...
23 July 2019
From: Breaking News
The Property Franchise Group says its online/hybrid agency EweMove traded profitably throughout last year and will show “a significant improvement” over...
06 February 2019
From: Breaking News
Has the bell finally tolled for online agencies? Emoov’s collapse and an investor revolt over crowdfunding have left a large question...
14 December 2018
From: Breaking News
A decade ago we were still years away from Purplebricks, Countrywide was a colossus in the industry, no one had thought...
02 July 2018
From: Breaking News
Here it is - the industry’s verdict on the latest set of figures from Purplebricks. The agency doesn’t play by any of...
15 December 2017
From: Breaking News
Three Country Properties offices in Hertfordshire have been rebranded as Hunters - over two years after their acquisition. The regional agency Country Properties...
05 December 2017
From: Breaking News
Belvoir has revealed that it has won the backing of a minority shareholder in The Property Franchise Group to resume merger...
14 November 2017
From: Breaking News
Statements from The Property Franchise Group and Belvoir continue to ramp up the war of words between the two agency groups...
20 October 2017
From: Breaking News
A new managing director has been named for EweMove - with the promise of more high-level appointments to come for the...
15 August 2017
From: Breaking News
No one can say Agents’ Mutual has failed to provoke debate within the industry. The project was the centre of fierce argument...
11 August 2017
From: Breaking News
Property Franchise Group - formerly known as Martin & Co - has announced that 12 EweMove franchises have been sold in...
05 April 2017
From: Breaking News
Hybrid agency EweMove is rapidly expanding its network footprint this year and will be a “challenger brand” deliberately designed to be...
03 February 2017
From: Breaking News
We talk about the unstoppable rise of buy-to-let and forget that it was only as recently as the early 1970’s that...
08 April 2016
From: Features
One of the UK's largest property franchises has reported strong figures in an interim trading statement to the City - with group...
21 January 2016
From: Breaking News
Franchise giant Martin & Co says there has been “very limited take-up” of a no frills estate agency service that it...
10 September 2015
From: Breaking News
Hunters has added another 23 franchised offices to its empire with the acquisition of Home Counties estate and letting agency Country...