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This time out, I’m in conversation with one of the big three established portals. Since it was founded in 2007, Zoopla...

Purplebricks chief financial officer James Davies has resigned. His place has been taken by Andrew Botha, who has joined from the online...

Zoopla Property Group's founder and chief executive, Alex Chesterman, is to step back from day to day operations at the end...

Why do we choose to engage with one application more than another, or find ourselves returning to the same piece of...

Letting agents are being advised to think seriously about how they can recoup costs to help compensate for the introduction of...

Zoopla Property Group (ZPG) has confirmed that it expects its sale to Silver Lake to complete in Q3 2018. As part of...

A study of estate agencies and portals floated on the London Stock Exchange suggests that digital companies have shown much better...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today. If you haven’t caught this feature before, it’s a regular Monday opportunity...

The managing director of property data consultancy Hometrack, Charlie Bryant, is to lead a reorganised property marketing, software and data division...

The ESTAS Group has announced record entries for its 2018 estate and letting agents awards.  The national award scheme - which recognises...

The Guild of Property Professionals has launched a partnership with the ESTAS Group, which runs the customer feedback platform and customer...

Let’s be honest - few people saw this coming. The 89 to 11 per cent majority amongst Agents’ Mutual members for...

Mark Goddard was the founder and CEO of The Property Software Group (PSG), a property software solutions firm established in 2007,...

High profile estate agency Cluttons has returned to marketing with Zoopla Property Group (ZPG).  The firm rejoined the portal at the end...

Zoopla Property Group (ZPG) has announced it has become a 1% shareholder in international property portal business Propertyfinder Group (PFG). The organisation,...

The Competitions and Markets Authority has released more details of its ‘calling-in’ of the acquisition of Expert Agent by Zoopla Property...

Estate Agent Today has been told that a deal between the Property Franchise Group and ZPG - the new name for...

Zoopla has released details of the profit some of its agents have made from its 2014 offer to purchase shares at...

Zoopla and OnTheMarket have issued their figures for last month’s visits, each claiming their busiest ever January. Zoopla Property Group says it...

A City consultancy has issued a note to investors backing Zoopla Property Group’s acquisition of data company Hometrack, suggested there is...

Zoopla Property Group’s £120m purchase of Hometrack, announced yesterday evening, is part of its aim to create “the UK’s most valuable...

Zoopla Property Group is buying Hometrack, one of the country’s leading property market business consultancies. Established in 1999, Hometrack is one of...

Reapit, the provider of CRM software to much of the estate agency industry, has become one of the partners for the...

Zoopla Property Group says that in the last three months alone over 100 estate agency branches have returned to its portal...

Property Service Holdings - parent company of the 150 branches trading under the Romans and Leaders names - has signed up...

Zoopla says it delivered a record number of unique appraisal leads to its agent members in December, up 112 per cent...

The ESTAS awards have a new main category sponsor - PropTech company OneDome. The OneDome service, launched last month, provides free-to-use information...

Zoopla Property Group has acquired the estate agency website specialist design firm Technicweb. The acquisition - its announcement was buried in yesterday's...

Zoopla Property Group's estate agency membership grew five per cent and its property listing inventory was up 10 per cent in...

It’s a tale of two estate agencies - Britain’s biggest, seemingly in trouble, and the second biggest, winning a seal of...

A debate discussing how online and traditional estate agency would develop in the future, organised by City investment consultancy Jefferies, has...

LSL Property Services has sold its remaining stake in Zoopla Property Group according to a City report. LSL - which includes High...

Countrywide's second most senior management figure - Head of Retail Sam Tyrer - is to speak before an industry audience next...

Zoopla Property Group claims that brand awareness for Zoopla is now at an all-time high and is establishing a growing gap...

Zoopla Property Group claims that in the past two weeks, over 40 agency branches have returned to listing on Zoopla and...

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

The Jeffries Group, an eight-branch Hampshire-based independent agency, says it is going to leave OnTheMarket.  Although the group’s website and email branding...

Zoopla Property Group says there were over 53m visits to its Zoopla and PrimeLocation websites in September, up 13 per cent...

An eleven-branch estate agency has announced that it will stop listing with OnTheMarket and is returning to Zoopla Property Group (ZPG). Howard...

Zoopla Property Group (ZPG) has announced the launch of a new feature on its website which will help estate agents to...

Zoopla Property Group (ZPG) has announced that it has invested in a soon-to-launch PropTech startup. The group, which now owns uSwitch and...

Zoopla Property Group is seeking to integrate uSwitch, its price comparison service, with MoveIT, its agents’ platform for ancillary revenue generation. It...

Zoopla Property Group has this morning told the City that it has seen another increase in agent numbers and listings in...

Zoopla Property Group is organising a series of seminars for agent members next month, aimed at promoting products offered by its...

Countrywide has confounded its critics with an upbeat performance in the first six months of the year, growing revenues by nine...

Zoopla is to offer its members a range of options which effectively mean that those agents who wish to can offer...

The Zoopla Property Group have been confirmed as headline partner once again for The ESTAS next year.     The ESTAS is a...

With more house-hunters than ever now starting their search for a new home by typically looking online on one of the major...

Several stock market analysts have published reports on Zoopla's half-year trading statement released yesterday. Anthony Codling of Jefferies – the firm which...

Zoopla Property Group (ZPG) has today reported a strong period of growth during the six months to the end of March...

OnTheMarket has changed the claims it makes to prospective clients about its stock levels and market share compared to Zoopla, following...

Leaked emails dating from 2013 and seen this week by Estate Agent Today appear to show a number of estate agencies...

Agency software company Dezrez says the jury is out on whether Zoopla’s acquisition of the Property Software Group will be considered...

A City analyst says Zoopla Property Group’s conditional acquisition of the UK's largest supplier of estate agency software for £75m may...

Zoopla Property Group has confirmed its conditional agreement to buy The Property Software Group, which it calls the UK’s market-leading provider...

Zoopla Property Group says it has recorded a 61 per cent leap in appraisal leads in February compared to the same...

A record 30,000 surveys have been submitted to the organisers of The ESTAS awards on the performance of estate and letting...

Research conducted for Zoopla Property Group claims its own Zoopla portal has a higher level of ‘spontaneous awareness’ than Rightmove amongst...

Countrywide is to lead a group including Connells and Zoopla in a partnership with the proptech company Fixflo, currently best known...

New partners have been announced for The ESTAS Group's annual awards event taking place in London in April.  The headline sponsor remains...

Zoopla Property Group has gone for a new chief financial officer steeped in online and digital experience rather than one with...

High profile stock market commentary website Motley Fool has given Zoopla a strong endorsement on the eve of the first anniversary...

Zoopla has confirmed that its next date for announcing its agency membership totals - part of its ongoing rivalry with OnTheMarket...

Both Zoopla and OnTheMarket have ramped up their long-standing rivalry. As we reported yesterday afternoon, Zoopla has revealed what it calls a...

With the portal wars ratcheting up ahead of OnTheMarket’s first anniversary, Zoopla has revealed what it calls a “record number” of...

Zoopla has instructed Brands2Life to handle its PR, taking over from Instinctif Partners. Brands2Life, which is based in prime central London, won...

Zoopla Property Group is reporting record figures to the City and claims it has seen “continuous agency growth since May” as...

Zoopla Property Group says it has achieved over seven million downloads for its mobile apps, a milestone it reached during October when...

Zoopla has added another 146 UK estate agents to its membership since July, taking the total of UK agents now to...

Challenger portal OnTheMarket is “not attracting a meaningful audience or engaging with its users” and so is likely to fail according...

Zoopla says it will later this week give an update on the number of agents it now has as members -...

Over the past few years Rightmove and Zoopla Property Group (ZPG) have each been spending massive sums on marketing and product...

Zoopla Property Group, which earlier this year snapped up comparison website uSwitch, is launching a new marketing scheme allowing agents to...

Zoopla Property Group is reported to be looking for a new headquarters to house its property portals and recent acquisition, the...

Goodstuff, the company that until now has managed only Zoopla’s TV advertising, has now been given responsibility to buy space for...

Readers of Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today were given an exclusive opportunity to pose questions to Zoopla Property Group...

Readers of Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today were given an exclusive opportunity to pose questions to Zoopla Property Group...

There are three days left to quiz Zoopla founder and chief executive Alex Chesterman as he steps into the firing line...

The war of words and statistics between rival portals continues apace as OnTheMarket says its visits hit a record last month according...

What will Zoopla Property Group (ZPG) do if it is overtaken in agent numbers by OnTheMarket?  Does the acquisition of uSwitch risk...

OnTheMarket has queried the listings inventory detailed in Zoopla’s half-year trading statement. Zoopla Property Group reported that its listings inventory had increased...

Zoopla is back in business with its trading update to the City this morning revealing that it has a net growth...

Zoopla Property Group has launched a new service across Zoopla and PrimeLocation to provide users with access to thousands of professionals and...

Some 87 per cent of Zoopla members who bought discounted shares in the firm last year have made additional purchases this summer...

Zoopla claims that new research shows it leads all UK property portals with the highest level of national consumer brand awareness. The...

The Zoopla Property Group is reported to be looking for a new advertising agency after a clash of interest following the...

Agent Tracker has been recognised for its outstanding customer service to its clients by the largest and longest running award scheme...

Zoopla Property Group has appointed Vin Murria as an independent non-executive director. Murria, who left her role as chief executive of AIM-listed...

Members of Zoopla Property Group (ZPG) who purchased discounted shares ahead of the firm’s Initial Public Offering last June will have...

Zoopla remains unbowed by its loss of 23 per cent of its UK agents and says it has new statistics proving...

There’s been a remarkably positive welcome from across the industry for the new Today websites unveiled this week for Estate Agent...

Zoopla Property Group is looking for more potential acquisitions following its surprise announcement that it is buying price comparison website uSwitch. ZPG...

Zoopla Property Group has acquired uSwitch, widely considered to be the UK’s leading price comparison website. It also generates high volumes of...

Zoopla Property Group has appointed Gareth Helm, brand director of MoneySuperMarket, to a new senior role - Chief Marketing Officer. Helm has...