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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%...

Cash buyers accounted for the highest percentage of market activity seen in the past decade and, so far this year, they’ve...

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

Verona Frankish has hit back at critics who claim fixed-fee agents who charge upfront fees have no motivation to sell. Frankish, chief...

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

The average time it takes to sell a house from listing to completion has dropped by 0.7% in the past year,...

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

Property professionals have called for the Government to allocate its promised £3m towards improving the home buying and selling process to...

A quarter of homebuyers have attempted to bribe sellers with everything from cash to kindness when trying to secure a property,...

A variety of charities have received support from the property industry over the past week. If there are charitable endeavours you think...

Yopa’s latest accounts for 2022 have revealed a “material uncertainty” that the business could continue ahead of a restructure in 2023. The...

Two brothers who previously worked as estate agents have launched a new networking platform for property professionals in the UK. Chris Tremlett,...

A shift towards self-employed estate agency models has contributed to a decline in estate agency branches, research suggests. Analysis by property data...

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

Hundreds of properties are having their asking prices cut each day, new analysis reveals as agents and sellers continue to try...

Around half of homebuyers will continue to postpone plans to purchase a property after the Autumn Statement failed to provide sufficient...

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 for exchanges has fallen again during the third quarter. Figures from property data firm...

The Women in Estate Agency (WiEA) group is launching a webinar series. The first will go live on Friday 13 October at...

Estate agency has changed. No longer is it required to sit in a high street office working the old way. Provide a...

The term mixed-tenure development usually refers to residential developments where different residential tenures are provided on the same site. Typically, tenure was...

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

Success with your chosen CRM solution should not be a one-and-done package. Once you team up with a stellar CRM provider,...

CRMs can be superheroes for your business, but not all of them possess the necessary powers to save the day. As...

The team behind regional agency brands Simpson & Partners and Simpson and Weekley is developing a hybrid franchise model. Andrew Simpson and...

By adopting a top-notch Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution, you're not only opening doors to acquiring new customers and nurturing existing...

The gap between online and traditional high street agents has shrunk, the chief executive of Yopa has claimed. Speaking at the Propertymark...

A coalition of businesses from across the property industry have united to call on the Government to do more to speed-up...

Purplebricks was the top brand for new listings and sales agreed during March, new data shows. A new quarterly market report launched...

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...

Safety, support, health, wealth and happiness were the key firms of the inaugural Women in Estate Agency group conference last week. The...

Black mould associated with condensation is becoming an increasing problem for homes in the UK and following the tragic death of...

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 market share of hybrid and online agents increased slightly during the third quarter of 2022 but firms are still struggling...

Troubled agency Purplebricks is set to face further litigation from the group which is already preparing to bring a class action...

The market share of hybrid and online agents has increased slightly but they are still struggling to break into the higher...

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

There has been plenty of movement in the property jobs market this month. Here are some of the latest moves that took...

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

One of the biggest names in agency has been appointed as chairperson of the board at BidX1, one of Europe’s leading...

The humanitarian crisis in Ukraine continues to dominate the thoughts of our industry as this week’s ADC shows - a wonderful...

Despite the latest Halifax house price index showing a 10.8 per cent annual rise, a leading housing market analyst is warning...

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

The market share of hybrid and online agents has fallen again, this time to 6.7 per cent. That figure - taken at...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I can’t remember the last time I had a business...

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

With the conveyancing crisis at the Simplify Group now approaching two weeks old, it appears Purplebricks has been the worst affected...

A torrid period for Purplebricks' share value means it opens stock market trading today with a price of just 33p.  This is less...

A new survey by property consultancy TwentyCi shows that the market share of online and hybrid agents in the third quarter...

The class action taken by former self-employed workers against two online agencies should be a warning to other firms breaking the...

A claims firm wants to commence proceedings against online estate agency companies such as Purplebricks and Yopa. It's on behalf of thousands...

Like most industries, estate agency is changing. A general trend to a more hybrid model, accelerated by the pandemic has resulted...

House sales slumped nearly two thirds last month as the main deadline for the stamp duty holiday passed.  HM Revenue and Customs...

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

One of the biggest trends since Covid, in the property world and elsewhere, has been a shift towards more hybrid, flexible...

Hello and welcome to another Property Jobs Today, your chance to see the latest moves in our industry. Why not be a...

The market share of the online and hybrid agencies combined has risen to 8.1 per cent in the second quarter of...

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

An online agent operating in the Midlands says the idea of flipping property is a thing of the past thanks to...

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...

This time out, I speak to one of the industry’s biggest-hitters. Adrian Gill may have retired from frontline agency, having had...

One of the industry’s leading consultants has calculated staff turnover rates at the country’s leading estate agencies. Christopher Watkin, the consultant who...

Yopa has instructed two companies to help with its brand building as it battles with other major online players. It’s appointed M.i. Media...

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

Transaction totals took a tumble last month for the first time since last summer as HMRC figures suggest the stamp duty...

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

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

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

Recent debate about urgent need for reform and better collaboration within the property industry, has once again come under the spotlight...

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

Record house prices recorded this week by the Nationwide index are set to go higher still according to a leading agent. Nationwide...

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

An estate agency is warning that the likely rush of transactions when the new stamp duty holiday ends next spring will...

It’s a tough time for agents and our stories show a disturbingly high number of  branches closing - but there are...

A former chief executive of Countrywide has issued a string of extravagant claims about the lockdown success of the online agency...

The housing market is set for long-term recovery, despite dips in the road on the way.  That's the message from the latest house...

The market share for all online agents fell sharply in the period up to the start of the pandemic according to new...

Due to the current Coronavirus pandemic, we are all being told to stay at home as much as possible to contain...

A woman claims she had no idea that her husband stole almost £1.5m from two high-profile employers - one of them...

Hello and welcome to the end of the week, which always means a round-up of our industry’s good work for charity....

An analysis of the market share of online agents shows they are on 4.8 per cent - virtually unchanged from the...

After a year dogged by Brexit deadlock, political turmoil, and slow growth, estate agents’ confidence in the property market hit a...

The number of residential sales rose 1.9 per cent to 102,050  in November compared to the same month last year, the...

An unknown website called EA League Tables has issued a list of agencies and agency-groups which it claims shows their order by...

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...

The relaunched easyProperty hybrid agency is to rely exclusively on local marketing to drive awareness and customers, and not follow the...

An online agent claims to have the answer to why fewer people are buying and selling these days. It’s not Brexit, stamp...

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

Troubled online agency Yopa has launched an in-house subsidiary to sell mortgages and other financial services - and not just to Yopa...

Yopa – launched in 2015 as part of the new breed of hybrid operators seeking to shake up the industry –...

A new national agency concept - eXp UK - has told Estate Agent Today that its recruitment schedule is running “well...

Upad, the national online letting agent set up by entrepreneur James Davis has announced that it is “closed to new business”...

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

Hybrid agency Yopa has announced that its chief executive, Ben Poynter, will be standing down at the end of October to...

The tech publication WIRED has conducted an in-depth analysis of Purplebricks’ reviews on the Trustpilot site and suggests the agency may...

The annual rate of growth of UK house prices has slowed to its lowest level since September 2012. Official government data from...

The head of online agency Housesimple has made another strident attack on the integrity of High Street agents by saying some...