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By Mike Bilboe, Face For Business Buying or selling a home can be one of the most stressful and uncertain times for...

Fine & Country is increasing its focus on international growth by launching new marketing initiatives to support its existing international network...

Zoopla owner Houseful has launched Movemnt, described as a national home transaction infrastructure for all property professionals.  Movemnt joins the Houseful family...

US agency broker brand eXp Realty has promoted Leo Pareja to chief executive. Pareja was previously chief strategy officer and will replace...

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

Referrals within the Relocation Agent Network (RAN) reached a four-year high for both the months of December and January, the brand...

The Guild of Property Professionals has launched a referral arrangement for its members with The Land & New Homes Network.  New home...

Client compliance platform Thirdfort has launched its updated Secure share product to help estate agents boost referrals through the secure sharing...

Five years ago, Lettings expert, Tim Lawler, wrote an article for Estate Agent Today charting his early experiences of setting up...

Self-employed estate agency brand iad UK has launched a consumer app that lets anyone earn money through word-of-mouth referrals. Propertips is an...

Proptech company OneDome’s mortgage advisory firm CMME is launching a new scheme exclusively designed for self-employed mortgage advisers. The brand wants to...

Can you start by telling us a bit about yourself and how you got into the property industry? My name is Andrea...

Agency technology company the nurtur.group has launched the first phase its Automated Referral System, to help agents in the Fine &...

A Relocation Agent Network (RAN) member was happy to have her morning meeting interrupted last week to be presented with a...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...

Fine & Country has unveiled details of its 2023 International conference and awards ceremony The upmarket agent brand will hold its annual...

Strike chief executive Sam Mitchell has blamed uncertainty since the September mini-Budget and rising mortgage rates for making the market more...

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

Agency brand eXp UK has launched a new network referral programme for its self-employed agents to earn extra commission by sending...

As economic signs increasingly point to a contraction in the property market, competition for new business will inevitably heat up. But...

The sales progression function is what binds the whole property transaction together and the importance of effective sales progression in the...

A former estate agent has launched a white-labelled sales progression tool for the industry after his own experiences of purchasing a...

Many experts are predicting that house price growth will slow for the remainder of the year as the cost of living...

Following a rigorous process, Lifesycle has been chosen as the software provider for By Design, a new high-end network brand for independent...

As the great sporting summer continues – with the Lionesses triumphant against Germany last Sunday, the ongoing Commonwealth Games, and the...

Zoopla has launched a Progression Portal for agents, promising real-time updates for 15 key milestones during the sales transaction process. Agents can...

OneDome has launched a new platform for agents to monitor and manage referrals made and earned through the challenger portal. The platform,...

Property industry veteran Mal McCallion is among two new high-profile recruits for GetAgent. McCallion, who helped launch Primelocation in 2000 and was...

Agency franchisees with brands such as Hunters, Martin & Co, Belvoir and EasyProperty are being given the chance to sign up...

Online agent Strike is preparing to name a home seller who will be reimbursed the equivalent of an estate agent fee...

Some 86 Bronze, Silver, Gold and Special Awards have been presented to agents in the Guild off Property Professionals at its...

Historic estate agency group Humberts - which was at risk of disappearing entirely just over two years ago - has opened...

EAT readers may have seen a piece in Friday’s property section of The Times about the long-running Simplify saga, which has...

As you are no doubt aware, building mutually beneficial relationships with conveyancers in your local area can not only make your...

Strike chief executive Sam Mitchell has hailed the online agent’s no-fee model after reaching £5 billion worth of sales. The agency, previously...

With the competition for new listings between agents as fierce as ever, it can sometimes feel like a race to the...

The Property Ombudsman says there’s been a big increase in enquiries to its service in recent months, despite the pandemic.  In its...

Referral revenues shared between agents in a major industry trade group has hit over £1.35m.  Daniel Pepperell, regional director at The Guild...

One of the country’s longest-standing independent buying agencies has rebranded. Haringtons, established in 2004 and covering both London and the country, has...

The growth of the internet and technology has transformed virtually every aspect of our lives, including how we approach the property...

EweMove says it’s has just recorded its best-ever month for new enquiries from sellers. In April the hybrid - which is part...

Legal firm Anderson Strathern has announced a merger with Lerwick-based Neil Risk Solicitor and Estate Agent. The Shetland firm's practice areas focus on residential...

An appeal has gone out to agents wanting to jump from being employees to running their own businesses - and there are...

Hello and welcome to the first Property Jobs Today of 2021 - we’re less than a fortnight into the New Year...

Here we are, on the brink of a festive season like never before, and approaching the end of 2020. Although a dreadful...

The Federation of Independent Agents trade group has unveiled a new automated nurture product available exclusively to members - and it claims...

From December, the new RICS Home Survey Standard will become mandatory for all RICS professionals undertaking home surveys. The below article explains...

Life as we know it has changed – for everybody – and what tenants want, need and expect in this post-pandemic...

Emma Vigus, managing director of sales progression platform mio, in discussion with key suppliers in the residential property industry on operating...

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

Estate agency Chestertons has named the new chief operating officer for the roll out of its UK and Europe franchising operation. Some...

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

It’s one of the most crucial aspects of the homebuying and selling process but is too often bogged down by frustrating...

love2move, an online network which allows high street agents to offer a white-labelled hybrid service, has teamed up with the Mortgage...

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

One of the agencies most active in the creation of OnTheMarket is trialling a return to listing on Zoopla after an...

The Property Ombudsman will in future refer more estate agents to the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agent Team if...

If agents ran their databases more efficiently, the property portals might find themselves redundant. Controversial opening statement aside, the reality is that...

An online auction service which only came into existence in September last year claims to have 150 partner estate agents already,...

The estate agency industry is at a crossroads. A turbulent market, unstable political situation and a chronic lack of public confidence has...

In recent years, estate and letting agents have been faced with a series of tough challenges to absorb and react to. There...

In a world where people want instant gratification, it’s important to find ways to connect and engage with customers when they...

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...

The National Association of Estate Agents and the referral service Relocation Agent Network have announced a link-up. Under it, selected NAEA members...

Many of the industry’s best known and widely respected suppliers have set up a new group which they say offers agents...

Over the past year I've had so many conversations with agents telling me how they feel that offering a premium customer...

A mortgage platform is making a pitch for online estate agencies to link with it and offer their customers “a customised...

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

A leading London estate agency is reporting a surge in overseas buyers sealing deals ahead of the government’s new stamp duty...

Having delivered over 1,800 websites for estate agents over the last 15 years, I have come to recognise one major common...

We are currently engaged in consultations with our members to help to find a practical solution to the concern of the...

If you’re an estate agent and have a property that is difficult to sell or the homeowner simply needs a fast...

Countrywide says its Back To Basics strategy has seen a nine per cent increase in properties for sale with the group...

A survey shows only 18 per cent of vendors favour reviews over personal recommendations when it comes to choosing an estate...

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

Given the level of resource and energy being put behind upping the number of first-time buyers in the UK, you might...

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

For many estate agents seeking to become entrepreneurs, the idea of starting their own business is undoubtedly daunting, especially when going...

The troubled Countrywide group has this morning revealed its recovery plan to get - in its words - ‘back to basics’...

Firstly, a huge thanks to everyone who shared and commented on my first blog and for all those that emailed me...

ZPG says it has reached the milestone of delivering over £1m in referrals to its agents via its new MoveIt tool.  This provides agents with the...

Living next to inconsiderate neighbours can be a nightmare, but letting to bad tenants can prove costly, especially when issues, which...

The Guild of Property Professionals and Fine & Country have launched a new referral system app which allows its members to...

The Guild of Property Professionals, which has over 800 agent members across the country, has this week launched a new website.  The...

In recent years the mortgage industry has gone through some testing times. Recession and regulation have led to more stringent lending...

Welcome to February! It means that 2017 is well under way and we’re edging closer to Spring – a time when...

A client recently told me how much their estate agency spends on advertising and marketing every year.  It wasn’t pennies, and even...

No Letting Go have won Bronze at the Lettings Agency of the Year 2016 Awards.   They have been accredited with the Bronze...

A product that describes itself as a ‘concierge service for estate agents’ has launched under the title Property Butler, with links...

There seems to have been a seismic shift in recent years for companies to migrate everything ‘on brand’ online. However signage...

It’s rare for an incumbent to pivot to a disruptive business model, even in the face of compelling logic that they...

There was a recent article in Estate Agent Today titled: Agents 'missing out on income by not charging for referrals'. A study...

Countrywide says it has Foxtons as its target to beat in a bid to be the number one agency for sales...

A company is claiming that estate agents are missing out on substantial potential income by not charging for referrals of clients...

Well, the hosts have left the party early. England have crashed out of their own Rugby World Cup after a demoralising...

The issue of some estate agents insisting that buyers and/or sellers use a particular solicitor or conveyancer has reared its ugly...

There was a whopping 42 per cent rise in referrals to The Property Ombudsman last year according to the annual report...