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Fine & Country is increasing its focus on international growth by launching new marketing initiatives to support its existing international network...

Despite the announcements, the publicity, the guidance and the acres of website information, the most common complaint surrounding house sales is...

Former Douglas & Gordon managing director Ivor Dickinson has passed away. He was known as one of London’s most high-profile and colourful...

PropTech is booming, and its rise was only accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, which forced the real estate industry – as...

A company which was once an early adopter of using a central resource for self-employed agents working under its name, says...

The biggest news story in town this last week – which has brought people who don’t usually like or watch football...

Rightmove has revealed its figures for the full year 2020 - down in terms of profit and revenue because of the impact...

Newspapers are pushed through the door, whereas websites have to pull in visitors - it’s a simple but fundamental difference with vast implications...

The 2010s were a good decade for disrupters. Early on, Airbnb and Uber shook up the holiday lettings/hospitality and traditional black...

For a very long time, it was one of the best ways – if not the best way – of generating...

A free-to-list property portal says that contrary to opinion within parts of the agency industry, the more portals there are the...

Have you asked yourself why technology is so important in letting agency today? Just look around and you will know why. Almost...

When you think of the best ad campaigns – from moustachioed opera singers and talking meerkats to millions of bouncing balls...

Last week, the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government announced a number of measures aimed at further tackling homelessness, including...

Rightmove has this morning given its 2018 report to shareholders, laying bare the huge financial wealth of the company which dominates...

The monthly index of house price changes in Britain’s major cities, for many years operated under the Hometrack banner, has been...

Zoopla is radically changing its strategy by exploiting the freedom it has under its new private equity ownership. That’s the conclusion of...

You don’t have to look far to see an abundance of photo failures, just head to any property portal and they’ll pop...

Well, I don’t know about you but after the holidays I've got an imprint just below my navel where my belt...

A mystery online petition is urging Rightmove to filter its advertisements “in a bid to curb down inflationary / speculative / fake...

Investment group Shore Capital says the future expansion of digital property advertising means Zoopla shares - despite recent growth - are...

Property portal OnTheMarket has announced that it has signed up five branch estate agency Meller Braggins.  The firm, which is based in...

Complaints made against adverts issued by property firms have increased by 10% in the last year. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) reports...

I wish it were otherwise, but there’s a crisis just beginning to sweep over newspapers – with, a bit beneath the...

Beleaguered challenger portal OnTheMarket has recruited the 25-branch south of England agency Goadsby and says this takes its total of sales...

Investors Chronicle says the creation of OnTheMarket was a “logical” step in the light of the Rightmove-Zoopla dupooly - but the...