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A little known family-run agency - Griffin Property Co - says it is finally relaunching as Emoov. The purchase of the Emoov...

Online agent turned property PR guru Russell Quirk has set out his solution to solving the housing crisis. Speaking on the latest...

Is there such a thing as an online estate agency any more? A decade ago, about the time I started editing Estate...

A fifth of Estate Agent Today readers have claimed house prices are falling either nationally or regionally, a survey has revealed. It...

Property market commentators Russell Quirk and Charlie Lamdin have gone head-to—head in a long-awaited podcast to tackle their ongoing debate about...

Nat Daniels, chief executive of Estate Agent Today publisher Angels Media is among guests to appear on a new industry podcast...

Kerfuffle founder Simon Whale may have thought becoming a servant for the day as part of a charity auction would have...

The potential takeover of OnTheMarket (OTM) by US property giant CoStar Group could finally provide a viable challenger for Rightmove, it...

Russell Quirk may have already irked plenty of estate agents in his time as boss of collapsed online brand Emoov and...

Propertymark has released details of a panel featuring several industry heavyweights at its much anticipated conference in June. Founder of emoov-turned-property-pundit and...

  It's not often that I have sympathy for our glorious leaders – those who set the rules by which we all...

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...

A former Countrywide director says that since becoming a Keller Williams agent he’s racked up over £1m in fees. Dominic Marcel -...

Foxtons non-executive director and former boss Peter Rollings has suggested the “vast majority” of agents aren’t good at selling properties. Discussing opportunities...

Half of Estate Agent Today readers agree that industry regulations and minimum qualifications will improve standards in the sector but a...

Industry leaders have hit back at a suggestion that agents should do more door-knocking to win business. Speaking in the latest video...

A lack of training and a laissez-faire attitude to leads and listings is preventing agents charging higher fees, industry leaders have...

Industry leaders have hit out at the media for “stifling sentiment” as they urge agents to help vendors make an informed...

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

Property professionals and commentators have begun pondering an official definition of a house price crash. It comes amid forecasts that house prices...

Keller Williams’ (KW) Warwick Market Centre has closed, prompting a blame game between its former owners and the franchise brand. KW Warwick has...

Russell Quirk has gone from online estate agency founder to PR guru and property commentator, but has now added national talk show...

There has been so much coverage recently over how painfully slow conveyancing is at the moment - 18-20 weeks is now...

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

Purplebricks ended the trading day yesterday without being able to formally welcome its new chief executive but the markets appeared to...

Pressure appears to be building for the recommendations of the Regulation of Property Agents working party finally to be implemented. It’s now...

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

Representatives of Rightmove, Zoopla, OnTheMarket, Boomin and OneDome portals are to be quizzed in an industry Question Time session next month. Russell...

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

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

The launch of Boomin has been and gone with, perhaps, something less than its expected fanfare of publicity. Of course there are...

Members of Propertymark are left wondering today what if any future there is for the industry’s trade body. The shock resignation yesterday...

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

Propertymark, the overarching body aiming to bring five different associations (ARLA, NAEA, NAVA, ICBA and APIP) into a single brand, was...

Two of the most outspoken agents in the industry have criticised those calling for an extension to the stamp duty holiday...

Gary Keller is stepping down from his post as chief executive of the global Keller Williams estate agency empire. Although operating chiefly...

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

Online sector veterans Russell Quirk and Kenny Bruce have used social media to call for a temporary scrapping of all stamp...

Domestic cleaners can now re-enter private homes under new Coronavirus return-to-work guidelines - the very guidelines which appear to stop estate...

There’s a sense that we really are on the verge of a huge change in the industry. It’s too early to be...

There has been scepticism across the industry as to the motives behind an unspecified number of lay-offs and permanent branch closures...

The Atlantic Ocean is a vast space – some 4,000 miles eastwards across from the USA until land is met again....

Some of the biggest figures in the industry have given Estate Agent Today their reaction to the news - broken yesterday...

Agents have reacted angrily to the government contemplating introducing a Mansion Tax, and to the Housing Secretary not ruling out the...

An outspoken industry commentator says some of the country’s leading agencies are failing because they’re not actually run by experienced agents. Russell...

The founder of an online agency has spoken publicly for the first time about how his near-death experience led him to...

A new branch of Keller Williams UK - operating from a so-called market centre office rather than a traditional shopfront branch...

There’s a warning today that Rightmove could be vulnerable to losing its number one portal status because it has such a...

Estate agents who deliberately over-value properties in order to win instructions are effectively committing fraud according to a prominent industry figure. Russell...

Yes, believe it or not, we’ve nearly reached the end of a whole decade. And what an eventful decade it’s been. We’ve...

A new portal claims it will do what OnTheMarket failed to do, and offer an agent-led operation charging every agency branch...

The dispute between controversial online estate agency Emoov and the Advertising Standards Authority is rumbling on.  In the first half of November...

Fledgling online estate agency Emoov - now owned by PropTech firm Mashroom - has removed reviews and endorsements from its website...

The former chief of an online estate agency says the top three surviving firms in the sector must merge if they...

A controversial estate agent and former head of an online agency is urging agents to knock on the doors of vendors...

News broke last weekend of a further online estate agency casualty as letting agent Upad announced on its website that it...

One of the legends of property journalism, Anne Ashworth, has left her position as editor of The Times’ highly regarded Bricks...

It never rains but it pours. And that’s certainly been the case for the online estate agency sector in the last...

‘Workers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains’. So is written on the tombstone of the father...

Three former online estate agency founders - including the controversial Russell Quirk - are going into mainstream full fee agency. They are...

Whinge. Moan. Lead quality. Crap market. Decision procrastination. Fee pressure. Bloody competitors. Especially Purplebricks. Brexit, of course, Brexit... These are just some...

In the old days an agent would procure clients based upon their position in the high street, the size of the...

Speculation is growing about the future of online agency Yopa. This follows a key resignation from Yopa’s board and one expert’s analysis...

Innovate or Die. But What is Innovation? It Isn’t just PropTech A certain Mr Dick Whittington Esquire was once convinced that the...

A former Local Property Expert and manager at Purplebricks has gone on record to reveal what it was really like to work...

How many of you are in favour of estate agents being licenced? Would most agents rather not be overseen by a regulator...

Theresa May arrived in Downing Street some three years ago - but her premiership has not been a smooth ride. As she...

The new owners of Emoov have confirmed that 70 previous customers have opted to re-list their homes with the firm since it...

In the last ten years Google's revenue, largely from pay per click ads (Adwords), has grown by 527% (Source: Statista). In...

Estate Agent Today has been contacted by an individual who says he is one of three former Emoov customers intending to...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? That depends on which business card. One says ‘Properganda PR,...

Emoov and Countrywide: what a pair, observers might say. They present a tale of two failures - although, in the case of...

“You say tomato, I say tomato” is a line in a famous film score way back in the 1937 film Shall...

Countrywide’s shares took another battering yesterday as they plummeted below the psychologically-painful 5p mark - reflecting a 95 per cent loss of...

Whether you love or hate it, Purplebricks has undoubtedly left its mark since arriving on the scene in 2015 – much...

“I’m Russell Quirk, and I’ve failed” - with those words, the former chief executive of Emoov has begun to explain how...

A new portal for the prime London property market has launched this week, recruiting a string of big-name agents.  Vyomm, founded by...

The failure of online agencies to significantly disrupt the industry is down to their being too cheap and creating a perception...

The founder and former chief executive of Emoov, Russell Quirk, is back in the headlines with a new but until now...

The former chief executive of online agency Emoov has complained to the Mail on Sunday about an article concerning the firm’s...

Online estate agent Emoov failed to tell crowdfunding investors it was losing £3m a month before its collapse, a Sunday paper claims. The...

“You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over,” is an oft-quoted saying of Richard...

The former chief executive of Emoov says he has the answer to Foxtons’ current downbeat performance - it should exploit its...

Property industry commentator and former online agency chief executive Russell Quirk has defended Rightmove’s charges to agents, saying that compared to...

The former chief executive of Emoov says online estate agencies charge too little, so risk appearing cheap and ineffective to potential...

“Estate Agents must be suffering from supplier fatigue. Where do you even begin? Most agents haven’t got the time.” So started the...

Kenny Bruce, one of the founders of sector-leading online agency Purplebricks, has sent his good wishes to Russell Quirk, who founded...

Former Emoov chief executive Russell Quirk has made his first on-the-record comments about the factors behind the dramatic collapse of his...

Customers are still trying to get hold of Emoov, Tepilo and Hatched months after they closed down. Estate Agent Today has seen...

The former boss of Emoov, the controversial Russell Quirk, has resuscitated his career as a public relations man and pro-Brexit commentator. Just...

There’s nothing new about identifying 10 figures who have helped shape an industry over the past year, but that doesn’t mean...

Hard not to mention two major breaking news stories of recent days; one directly affecting the property market and one which...

A Newcastle-based property company says it has acquired the listings of Emoov and Tepilo. It has emailed and texted vendors to say...

A crowdfunding bid to Emoov’s staff to win financial help over the Christmas period has flopped badly with a paltry £30...

Estate Agent Today has been given details of responses made by administrators to an enquiry about the possible acquisition of some...

The Times reports that crowdfunding investors are considering legal action following the collapse of Emoov. The investors in question appear to be some of...

Whatever one thinks about online estate agencies, it’s a cause of genuine sadness when people lose their jobs - close proximity...

The chief executive of failed online agency Emoov has been named this week as one of the 500 top “tech influencers”...

Purplebricks is understood to be pondering the best way to assist victims of the collapse of Emoov without committing money for...

The chief executive of Emoov and the founder of the new portal Rummage4Property had a dramatic spat on Twitter just hours...