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I have been an agent for 25 years and have represented a large corporate agency and Anderson Rose (my own independent...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Lee O’Brien, Managing Director of iad UK. In your experience,...

The Guild of Property Professionals has launched a new Ezine system to boost member marketing. Agents will be able to create digital...

Agency website and digital marketing company Property Webmasters has partnered with social media proptech firm Flow. The collaboration will provide clients with...

Tangible, tactile, and tested. Those are the three words that Royal Mail used to describe direct mail marketing campaigns. Despite living in...

The Property Franchise Group (TPFG) is working on tools to improve its franchisee brand’s use of data and digital marketing capabilities. Gareth...

Purplebricks co-founder Kenny Bruce has returned to the estate agency world. Bruce, who helped launch Purplebricks with his brother Michael as well...

High-profile agency self-employed agency owner Sean Newman has unveiled a rebrand of his offering. He has changed the name of his self-employed...

Estate agents have the challenging job of creating relationships and trust with their customers, who will make crucial life decisions such...

Fine & Country is to embark on a regional roadshow next month, starting in Wales and moving throughout the UK. The regional...

There are no signs of a post-summer lull in the property jobs market. Here are some of the latest moves that took...

Over the last two years, the property industry has experienced unprecedented change through shifting market conditions and new regulations around compliance. To...

After two years of extraordinary activity in the housing market there are signs that the clouds are gathering as RICS reports...

The Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners (ALEP) has announced the schedule for its annual Conference. The event returns to its traditional in-person format this year,...

Changes to Google’s algorithm may be impacting how agency websites appear in search results, firms have been warned. Google released its latest...

Agents need to use social media for more than just posting property listings, an industry digital marketing expert claims. Craig Vile, director...

There was an article in Estate Agent Today recently that suggested only four per cent of properties on Rightmove and Zoopla...

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

An estate agent who has spent eight years working for traditional agencies has now set up his own hybrid operation, using...

The branding and technology supplier epropservices - which also owns Fine & Country and the Guild of Property Professionals - is changing...

Foxtons has confirmed its intention to sell the sales side of Douglas & Gordon, the London agency chain it acquired only...

Mark Meyer, CEO, Meyers Estate Agents: “We’re on a mission to revolutionise the traditional concept of estate agency.   We don’t have...

A few weeks ago the ESTAS took place at the Grosvenor House hotel in London - the first chance for many...

2021 redefined what it meant to offer exceptional customer experiences for consumers across multiple industries, but particularly for the residential property...

A Borders estate agency business, Hastings Legal and Property, has invested in Halo Digital Signage – hailed as ‘the new generation...

Even at the height of summer (or the British wet season, as some call it) there are substantial numbers of job...

Strike - which over the weekend announced a new £11m investment package - has now revealed it has a new chief...

Iain McKenzie, chief executive of the Guild of Property Professionals, has given Estate Agent Today readers four exclusive marketing tips. In a...

A recent survey run by mio revealed that almost 50% of home movers selected their estate agent because they liked them....

Digital marketing agency Angels Media and digital platform Gazeal have announced an exclusive strategic partnership to help improve and speed up...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  Bal Arora – Managing Director In your experience, what is the...

A leading industry supplier says there’s been a jaw-dropping 495 per cent year-on-year increase in digital spend from agents - and that...

You could make about 65 more cold calls, or hold 13 more viewings, or you could take a power-nap every day...

The estate agency industry is besotted with digital canvassing to try to win business - but that’s the wrong approach to take...

International investment bank UBS has double-downgraded Purplebricks from ‘buy’ to ‘sell’ - and that could be good for independent agents, a...

We’ve all spent the past nine months adapting to a more digital way of life. Whether that’s been working from home,...

Agency marketing platform BriefYourMarket has acquired live chat and customer experience provider Yomdel.  BriefYourMarket says the addition of Yomdel to its offer...

Digital channels are essential for agents’ promotion of properties but there is still a key place for print and direct mail...

epropservices - parent company of The Guild and Fine & Country - has made another significant PropTech acquisition, its second in three...

Challenger portal OneDome has signed up one of the larger UK agencies, the Leaders Romans Group. LRG will list all its residential sales...

Agency websites supplier Property Webmasters has secured a substantial but undisclosed cash injection to expand internationally. The investment comes from Net Ventures...

Let’s address the elephant in the room first - the property sector and how we market properties is changing. Gone are the...

As regular readers will know, the Natter kickstarted a series last time out zoning in on local independent agents – the...

Generating leads is a crucial and age-old part of estate agency. Before the internet, lead generation was just as important to...

A new tool which identifies preferences of Facebook users and then targets them with ads for appropriate homes on sale, is...

Seller and landlord leads are what makes estate agency tick. Without them, new business is nowhere to be seen and you...

Across the UK and Europe, lockdown measures are changing and the markets are kicking back into life as we grow accustomed...

The online agency Housesimple has rebranded to become 'Strike' with immediate effect. The news comes as a surprise given the apparent success...

A London Labour council has won draconian powers to effectively ban For Sale and To Let boards in several parts of...

There’s no doubt we’re in a less-than-rosy phase of the property cycle. This, however, is not another doom and gloom piece:...

It may seem a long time since normal trading took place but many agencies are now finding they are picking up...

The OneDome and Nethouseprices websites claim to have seen a surge in agents joining in recent weeks as an alternative to...

In this time of economic uncertainty, more and more people are becoming unwilling to leave their homes, yet you and your...

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

There’s been a huge change in the way estate agencies operate in recent years, with far more focus on marketing properties...

There’s been a surge in UK enquiries to global free-to-list portal Residential People, and a comparable rise in interest from Chinese...

Hello and another Monday means PJT Day, your regular update on movers in the industry - and it’s March already. If there...

More than 18 months on from the acquisition of ZPG for £2.2 billion by Silver Lake Partners, a US private equity...

A free-to-list portal says the costs of listing on the established sites - especially Rightmove - are contributing to estate agencies...

Hello and welcome to the end of the week…which must mean Agents Do Charity. There’s plenty to admire in this week’s entries;...

Hello and welcome to the start of a new week - and it’s been a frantic seven days since the last...

The Property Franchise Group - which owns Martin & Co, EweMove and three other brands - is to have a former...

Zoopla has published a startling set of statistics to demonstrate what it calls “a record January with significant growth in delivery...

  Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Catherine Shinerock - ARO Account Manager What is your ‘company name’...

Hello and welcome to a new week, and a new edition of PJT. If you’re on the move or your firm has...

UK estate agents are amongst the worst paid in any country in the world according to new data. Digital marketing firm Yell...

First things first, a big happy New Year to everyone. Welcome to 2020! It looks set to be another interesting year...

Iceberg Digital launches what it calls its “new flagship marketing platform” named Lifesycle on Monday, January 6. The data marketing platform -...

The head of a new property portal is urging agents to forget about spending money on For Sale and To Let...

The competition is hotting up between Zoopla and OnTheMarket for new homes listings. Today Zoopla has revealed that it has seen a...

Zoopla is mining data from users of its website to target sellers on Facebook and Instagram, producing leads and making it unnecessary for agencies to...

Landmark Information’s online valuation tool SmartVal is being retired by the company, with agents who use it being advised to switch to...

Two of the PropTech sector's highest profile digital marketing suppliers are integrating in a bid to help agents nurture the leads...

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

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, your weekly chance to catch up on major moves in our industry. Everyone here has...

The former chief information officer of Foxtons has taken a senior position at Hunters. The appointment of Dan Rafferty as Hunters’ chief operating...

Instagram (or, as the younger generation would have it, Insta) is, by any measure, massive.  Only launched in October 2010, it’s a...

The former LSL director of estate agency, David Newnes, has made what is officially described as “a significant investment” in a...

OnTheMarket says it now has listings agreements with more than 12,500 estate and lettings agency branches. In a statement to shareholders and...

Fine & Country has revealed that it is the fastest-growing premium agency in the UK. Quoting research from TwentyCi - the business...

A new bespoke Customer Relationship Management system developed by The Property Franchise Group claims to enable High Street agents to fight...

For my final EAT contribution of 2018, I’ve put together a list of Christmas gifts that you could buy your PropTech-loving...

PropTech has been mainstream for a few years now, and as more agents are familiar with the range of products and...

Given that online property portals, dominated by a handful of websites, are by far the most popular home search method, it...

1.             Who are you and what do you do? HeyJuno Property is a business dedicated to empowering estate and letting agents throughout...

Given that ‘UK buyers are the most digitally active home hunters’, with HSBC’s Beyond the Bricks report stating that 90% of...

Several agents have asked me whether they should consider ditching their high street offices and move to an out of town...

Google celebrated its 20th birthday last month. Yes, it might be hard to recall a time when it wasn’t integral in...

Over the last 10 years, so much has changed within the marketing sector, including the surge of mobile use, the way...

An estate agency is pioneering a new business model in which it charges no commission whatsoever to the vendor. Freeagent247, an online...

Fake news has become the popular catchphrase of a certain orange-tinted president in recent years. And everyone, from tech giants like...

How can you use data to benefit and better your business? It’s something you’ll no doubt have asked yourself down the...

As promised a few weeks ago, this week’s Natter concentrates on the importance of content, design and social media, three easily...

One of the most important aspects of running a successful estate or letting agency is being able to generate new business...

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

The printing industry is in the midst of a decline as digital products and services displace printed materials, which is why...

In recent years January has become the month of detoxes, fad diets, health kicks such as Dry January and Veganuary, and...

After the fun and over-indulgence of the festivities, most of us are now back to the world of work. And, with...

We would like to take this opportunity to provide a clarification to a newsflash sent by Property Industry Eye on January 1.  The...

The fact is that most house hunters simply do not have the time, let alone the inclination, to trawl around properties...