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Self-employed agency brand eXp UK has surpassed the 600 member agent threshold. It comes after recruiting a further 100 agents since the...

Humberts, one of the UK’s oldest agency brands, has announced plans for its first international expansion with the opening of a...

A prominent westcountry agent has joined Moveli, which operates the self-employed broker model. Jonathan Mowday, previously of Stags in Devon, has joined...

Chestertons Global has revealed an expansion strategy as the business continues to grow its presence in key international markets. The estate agency...

Former senior Savills director Trevor Kearney has unveiled his own luxury agency venture called The Private Office: Real Estate, aiming to...

Agents working for themselves, supported by a ‘broker’ organisation are on the increase in the UK after becoming almost the norm...

Yesterday we covered the story of self-employed estate agency brokerage eXp revealing three new agencies to have taken on the corporate...

Self-employed agency brand eXp UK has named a second wave of estate agencies to adopt its new business model. The brand’s ‘brokerage’...

An agent with 15 years experience at high end agencies Hamptons and Knight Frank has joined a self-employed brokerage brand. Sally Jane...

A US real estate brokerage is heading to the UK, with plans to target those looking for a holiday home across...

High-end estate agent Tyron Ash has hit out at the “sense of entitlement” at corporate estate agencies who he said don’t...

One of the founders of self-employed brand The Agency UK (TAUK) has set out hopes for the business to dominate the...

Two estate agency businesses have already signed up to self-employed agency brand eXp’s new brokerage model just weeks after launch. Mackays, a...

Self-employed agency brand eXp UK is celebrating surpassing the 500 agent milestone. The latest announcement comes less than a year after the...

Self-employed agency brand eXp has launched a brokerage model for the UK market. Such a system is already common in the US...

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

Former Homesearch head of training and development Simon Gates has been appointed as a non executive director of Chris Buckler’s new...

OneDome has signalled an intention to acquire more mortgage brokers as it reveals its HomeBuyer service has helped return triple-digit year-on-year...

The Agency UK’s (TAUK) nationwide team of self-employed estate agents has now reached 89 partners operating across 32 countries, with the...

LSL has sold its mortgage, protection, and general insurance brokerage firms Embrace and First2Protect. The brands have been sold to Pivotal Growth,...

Former youth Olympic Badminton player Grace King is one of first recruits in a campaign launched by hybrid agency Mr and...

Agency brand LSL has announced the sale of its new build mortgage and protection brokerage firms, Group First, which operates under...

Challenger portal and homebuying support platform OneDome has acquired broker CMME Mortgage and Protection from the private equity-backed CMME Group. CMME Mortgage...

Agents should be using social media and their own US-style personal brand to promote listings regardless of the value of the...

Demand for prime London property from Americans doubled between September and October due to favourable dollar exchange rates and increased investor...

Self-employed estate partnership brand The Agency UK (TAUK) has launched a series of roadshows to attract agents to its offering. The company...

Gallagher, the insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has announced a £5,000 fund to help two businesses further their learning at...

Property brokerage and estate agency Nest Seekers International is set to reveal the highs and lows of luxury property sales in...

The Agency UK – which was set up by three ex-employees of Purplebricks – has strengthened its team with the arrival...

Franchise giant Belvoir has snapped up one of the earliest British estate agencies to adopt the model of using self-employed or...

The finance arm of LSL Property Services - known as Pivotal Growth - has snapped up a specialist mortgage and insurance...

Tomorrow sees the Relocation Agent Network’s first in-person conference since 2019.   The event, at the Metropole Hilton in Birmingham, will focus...

Relocation Agent Network, the network of primarily independent agencies, says it’s looking at global options for growth thanks to its relationship...

A  mortgage expert says surveyors should improve their standard services to cover the threat of climate change.  This comes after a summer...

LSL Property Services has told Estate Agent Today that the company did not agree to a potential sale of its mortgage arm at...

Britain’s second largest estate agency has outlined radical new plans to shift direction, making financial services and not sales or rentals...

LSL Property Services is to set up a mortgage brokerage called Pivotal Growth. The new brokerage - set up with Pollen Street...

The rise and rise of portal listings and changing consumer habits during the pandemic may mean the death of the High...

One of the early operators of the self-employed agency model has launched a scheme under which its agents receive shares in the...

The UK outlet of Warren Buffett's estate agency empire is launching its first TV advert in this country.  Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Kay &...

One of Countrywide’s biggest shareholders has written a second letter to the company to demand bold action to save the agency...

We have had a special relationship for many years and are bonded as countries in many ways – historically, politically and...

Difference should be celebrated. But in our industry it rarely is. I was on the board of a large corporate where...

There’s a growing trend for estate agents to quit big-name corporates and either go independent or join US-style brokerages, a top...

'It's a recipe, not a menu' is a mantra championed by a host of Keller Williams' millionaire estate agents. But what are...

“Give me 100 leads and I will make five-times more good appointments than any AI you put me up against,” stated...

Reapit has joined a consortium attempting to make the long-anticipated end-to-end digital home buying process a reality. It’s joined the IPN Consortium,...

A leading analyst says Purplebricks has clearly plateaued and will not reach its own target of a 10 per cent market...

The German-based Alex Springer publishing company, which is already the largest single investor in Purplebricks, has acquired a prominent online estate...

A story from America caught my eye this week. It’s about a company called Curbio partnering with another called The Keyes...

A comprehensive report into the changing complexion of the High Street suggests that some 143 estate agents’ offices closed in the...

Former Purplebricks US chief executive officer Eric Eckardt is seeking some £6m in funding from across the world for his latest...

I wrote last week about Keller Williams and how their leader, Gary Keller, is doing an admirable job of driving innovation through...

Hello and welcome to this latest edition of PJT, your Monday catch-up on all the key appointments news in the industry. Please...

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A veteran of three online estate agencies has been named as the first UK head of a US real estate operation...

A well-known London estate agency says it signing up to a US-based real estate franchise network run by billionaire Warren Buffett. From...

It’s not just the bosses’ pay incentives that have been a problem for Countrywide’s senior management - it appears the company...

Rumours abound over the future of Countrywide, which lost further share value on Friday, closing very slightly down on the day...

There have been two stories dominating the PropTech headlines over this past week. As WeWork places a gentle arm around the...

Purplebricks is expanding its US activities by entering the markets of Las Vegas, Nevada and Phoenix, in the state of Arizona. A...

The rise and fall - and perhaps rise again - of Countrywide has been of enduring interest to the agency industry...

Here’s some good news to take into the Bank Holiday weekend.  Research undertaken by Estate Agent Today suggests that fees charged by...

LSL Property Services - parent company to 12 brands including Your Move, Reeds Rains and London’s Marsh & Parsons - has...

According to The Branding Journal, a brand is “a name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one seller's...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has launched a comprehensive guide to what it calls “the responsibilities of residential property agents...

Supporting the adoption of technology does not mean we have to stop protecting the core values of the property industry. In...

Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of...

A London investment broker says Purplebricks’ share price - currently around 300p - could rise another 50 per cent or more...

News was released this week of a new PropTech partnership: banking disrupter Revolut has joined up with mortgage brokerage, Trussle, to offer...

This week, it would be very easy for me to focus on the startling figures that easyProperty logged with Companies House...

People are more likely to give word-of-mouth recommendations for handyman services than recommend estate agents, according to a controversial poll. The survey...

So, Property Week has announced its Property Awards shortlist for 2017. Looking at the entries for PropTech Company of the Year, I'm surprised...

A few of our Industry Views pieces this week focus on the upcoming EU referendum. I don’t think I can add...

It's great to hear how new proptech is being embraced by a number of front line agents in order to network...