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Automatically changing the main marketing photo on a portal listing can attract up to 40 per cent more traffic, it has...

An estate agent who operates an online blog has told The Times that Purplebricks has faked price reductions. Other tricks which the agent reveals about...

Hello - here we are once again with the weekly round-up of key moves in the agency and related industries. We’re letting...

Maverick Cornish estate agent Chris Wood has quit the industry with a stinging attack on those who have “taken their toll”...

A slew of allegations have been made against agents and sometimes even by agents, over alleged misdemeanours over property listings as...

An agent from Cornwall who has waged a long-running campaign against online agencies in general and Purplebricks in particular has been...

There’s good and bad in every industry and at first sight, this week has been one where the good have won...

A City consultancy has noted every property advertised on Rightmove in recent months and will track them throughout 2017 in a...

Rightmove has reminded agents of its new 14-week re-listing timescale, first announced just before Christmas as part of its crackdown on...

New software has been devised which can allow users to identify individual properties that have been ‘portal juggled’ - de-listed and...

Forecasts are so last year: who anticipated Bowie, Brexit or Balls for example? Quotes, on the other hand, really ARE last year...

Zoopla and OnTheMarket have given their first reactions to Rightmove's portal juggling extension of its property re-listing deadline from two weeks to...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is the latest body within the industry to warn its members against portal juggling. Following statements...

Although Brexit, portal juggling and portal wars have stolen property industry headlines in recent months, there's been one story almost constantly...

Portal juggling has been defined as one of a number of "emerging threats" aimed at deceiving consumers through the manipulation of...

The National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team based in Powys has revealed that its cases under investigation include apparent offences of...

The National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team has followed up the recent announcement by The Property Ombudsman to counteract portal juggling by...

The Property Ombudsman scheme (TPO) has announced that it will be issuing updated versions of all its Codes of Practice on...

An agent at the centre of the campaign to expose and stop portal juggling wants to know whether the National Trading...

The National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team is warning agents not to engage in portal juggling - an activity it describes...

Housebuilder St Modwen has been forced to write down the value of the landmark Nine Elms regeneration scheme because “recent transactional...

The MP who pledged his support to a campaign against portal juggling has now submitted an application for a Westminster Hall...

A member of the public has submitted a complaint on portal juggling to the National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team following...

The National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team has over the weekend repeated its intention to investigate allegations of so-called portal juggling...

A Conservative MP is to raise the portal juggling controversy in the House of Commons. Derek Thomas, MP for St Ives in...

Research by data company Propcision claims that portal juggling - the listing and re-listing of the same properties - risks inflating...