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The gap between what sellers want for their home and what buyers are actually paying has increased by a further 1.1%...

A new senior figure in Purplebricks claims the agency has much in common with selling broadband.  Nick Gunga is the new chief...

Yopa is achieving almost £13,000 more than the average agent on a typical £450,000 home, the online agency brand claims. Using TwentyCi...

Purplebricks has launched launched a mortgage divison, known formally as Purplebricks Mortgages Limited This will see a team of more than 150...

A new analysis of the cost-of-moving suggests that the typical seller will incur expenses of £5,867 - and that rises hugely...

Who says irony is dead? That Purplebricks, of all agencies, should promote the idea of a ‘BS-Tester’ to identify false promises by...

The intellectual property of collapsed online agency brand Doorsteps has sold for just £3,666. Begbies Traynor, the liquidator for Doorsteps, sought offers...

Yopa has detailed a restructure of its business after chairman Grenville Turner mysteriously stepped down as a director. Companies House documents last...

Utility management platform Muuvo has announced a new partnership and technical integration with online agency Yopa. A dashboard has been created exclusively...

The market share of online and hybrid agents reduced further during the second quarter of 2023, new figures show. Analysis from property...

The founder of an online agency that switched to the for sale-by-owner model has turned his attention to property portals. Kae Travis...

Self-employed agency network eXp UK’s Adam Day has admitted he shoulders some blame for low fees in the sector. Speaking on the...

Strike chief executive Sam Mitchell has said he is looking forward to building a “new force” in the property industry after...

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools could change the way people search for agents and property within just a few years, an industry...

News of a potential takeover gave Purplebricks’ share price a boost yesterday. Its share price rose 15.5% in a day after Estate...

Purplebricks has confirmed that it has been in discussions with online agency rival Strike regarding a potential takeover offer. As reported by...

Online agency brand Strike is believed to be considering a bid for beleaguered rival Purplebricks. A source close to the talks has...

Online agency boss-turned-media-pundit Russell Quirk has been given his own money-focused TalkTV programme, with the first focusing on the hot topic...

Online agents increased their market share in 2022 but are struggling to break into higher value markets, new data has revealed. Data...

I’ve just read an article saying that this is the time of the online estate agency. The time in question is, of...

Aside from all the news surrounding the Autumn Statement this week, which will have a significant bearing on the property market...

The apparent battle for the future of beleaguered online agency brand Purplebricks took an interesting turn last week when activist investor...

Online searches for property portals have declined, in another suggested sign of the slowing market. Analysis of data from AdWords and Google Trends...

Purplebricks has pushed back the publication of its annual accounts. The online agent’s full year results were due to be published on...

Purplebricks has revealed a drop in instructions so far this year. The online agency brand issued a trading update this morning for...

The property industry is fortunate in including many great people, doing great work across a range of businesses – from traditional agency...

The online agency brand eXp UK claims it’s growing at an industry leading pace - and it puts it all down...

Online agency easyProperty - which says it has a mission to transform the way people sell their home - has signed...

A new company claiming to save money on buyers’ legal and estate agent fees has been forced to rebrand. Easyfees - launched...

Strike, formerly known as Housesimple, is the latest online agency to claim it’s going to secure a 10 per cent market...

A former Purplebricks chief is the new CEO of rival online company Yopa. Verona Frankish has been involved in the property industry...

Research based on questioning almost 1,000 estate agents suggests that around 70 per cent are set to expand their business this...

Purplebricks’ decision to de-list a property after the Christian vendors made anti-gay comments has won widespread support from industry figures, including...

The name of Purplebricks - which once claimed its business model was a global success - has now been removed in...

A new survey of people who have sold their home in the past six months has given a strong backing to...

The past two years have been a whirlwind of change, challenges and chance. The main catalyst has clearly been the pandemic...

Adam Day will be a well-known figure to many in the industry, having been the founder of Hatched (the online agency...

A hybrid agency that charges no fees to vendors but instead relies on referral fees for income has officially rolled out...

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

The investment arms of Savills and the Daily Mail General Trust have pumped more cash into online agency Yopa which has...

The Good Estate Agent, set up in 2010, is slashing its franchise fee - it claims the reductions are for Black...

New research suggests estate agents earn some of the lowest basic salaries of all sales professions.  Nested, an online agency promoting the...

The Nested online agency, which recently revamped its business model to attract more self-employed agents, is expanding outside London for the...

An analysis of estate agencies in 21 major cities suggests a big rise in competing companies, prompting risks of fee wars between...

Propertymark’s chief executive - officially still in post on just an interim basis - is to face questions from a past...

The existence of online agencies means some consumers believe real life estate agents are unnecessary in a deal - but the rest of...

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

An online agency which describes itself as being “the future of property” is up for sale. Nu:move is a franchise operation, set...

An estate agency that charges buyers not sellers is proposing to roll out nationwide. FreeAgent247.com, has been set up by Daniel Lewis...

A new survey of online and hybrid agents claims that they are now taking a 13 per cent share of the...

A new service launched over the weekend, proposing to charge buyers £30 for a “guaranteed” viewing, has split opinions amongst estate...

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

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

Online estate agency Strike - which used to be HouseSimple - is expanding its sell-for-free service out across the Midlands and...

One of the highest profile supporters of the online estate agency concept has quit the company he founded. Akshay Ruparelia, who is...

The self-employed agency model will not be successful in the UK because the commission in this country is so low. That’s the...

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

There’s been a dramatic slump in instructions for online agencies, particularly Purplebricks, according to data produced by one online firm itself. 99Home...

easyJet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou has given his personal backing to the newest recruit of online agency easyProperty - even though...

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An online agency has issued an outlandish statement that it, and other online agencies, have made the profession more trusted amongst...

Rightmove is to review the processes of an online platform which directly uploads sellers' property details via an app. Two years ago...

One of the men behind the defunct Emoov online estate agency has re-emerged as the head of a marketing service. The service...

Online agency Strike has used specialist eye-tracking software to analyse what attracts a buyer’s attention when scrolling through homes online — and...

An online agency that already operates in the lettings field is spreading into sales - and pledges to give most of...

A high flying agent with experience at a string of top end companies has set up an online business with his...

A company in the German Axel Springer publishing empire - which also invested in Purplebricks in the past - has put...

Emoov’s new 'guaranteed offer' service means fall-thoughs and chain-related delays are effectively eliminated, the agency claims. Emoov - now owned by a firm...

Purplebricks is to tilt its marketing increasingly towards local advertising on traditional and online platforms, and promoting the ‘on the street’...

Online agency Yopa says it will change a claim on its website that appears to suggest no fee will be charged...

One of the biggest trends in recent times, as a direct result of the pandemic, is the concept of working from...

One of the biggest TV hits of lockdown has been the Netflix show Call My Agent! It’s a surprise success, perhaps, because...

This week’s In Conversation Today interviewee needs no introduction. One of the property industry’s most recognisable names, she has been a...

An online agency has apologised to a single mother who felt pressured into allowing viewings of a property she was renting. Local media in...

Estate agents have kept up the pressure on the Westminster government to consider some kind of tapered ending to the stamp...

Purplebricks has been rated as only the 10th best online agency in the country in a controversial new league table. The list...

At the back-end of last year and the start of this, the biggest news stories in town – besides debates over...

It’s been some time since online agencies have ventured into crowdfunding to raise investment, but easyProperty has now done so -...

A £17.8m pre-tax loss has been reported by Yopa in its latest financial statement filed at Companies House. Figures lodged just before...

99Home, the agency that describes itself as the country’s fifth largest hybrid, has teamed up with the Mortgage Advice Bureau. MAB will...

A survey of completion times for house sales over the past four years suggests that the worst performing local authority area...

Purplebricks has just appointed its new chief marketing officer, who was most recently global director of restaurants at a food chain. Ben...

The advertising watchdog has told the agency industry to clean up its act on four issues, with clarity over fees being...

The Competitions and Markets Authority is to probe the proposed merger of two crowdfunding sites used by numerous property industry companies. Crowdcube...

Strike, the firm previously known as HouseSimple, has launched another attack on the charges levied by High Street agents. This time it is...

Fledgling portal Boomin - launching later this month - has announced another 10 independent regional agencies as founder members. This includes its...

An online agency says its virtual auction service can be used even by its rivals between now and the end of...

Savills says the shape and size of the housing market in the coming months will be determined by the capacity of conveyancers...

The latest agency recruits for online firm easyProperty are batting for the company in more ways than one - they are...

Online agency Purplebricks says an absence of technology in property details is one of the biggest turn-offs for potential buyers. A survey...

A new survey of the market share split between High Street and online agencies shows that Purplebricks remains the digital market...

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

For a number of years now, predictions have been made that one of the major tech giants will eventually enter the...

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

An online agency says it’s offering its customers a kind of ‘fall-through insurance’ after over 100 deals collapsed between mid-March and...

A new agency called Eazy Agent has launched - it’s another online operation, this time with a starting price of £249. For...

Agents have almost unanimously been reporting a big surge in business since the reopening of the housing market, but new figures...

The online agency Housesimple has rebranded to become 'Strike' with immediate effect. The news comes as a surprise given the apparent success...

Purplebricks’ sale of its Canadian operation for some £35m begs the question - where can it now recoup some of its losses...