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In 2006, when I first started to evangelise about 'the future of estate agency being online', I was convinced that democratisation, commoditisation and cheaper fees facilitated by centralisation, technology and the consequential cost savings, would prevail.After...

This week saw the release of HM Land Registry's latest price paid data report for April. if you're a property geek as we are there are a number of stats in the numbers that you might find interesting and that we  thought we mention:There were 394 property sales that...

Government data revealed today by the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government makes for grim reading.The least bad news is that overall numbers of housing increased year on year. But the small print of the release demonstrates a number of concerns whereby...

Sunday May 19th 2019,11.20am. Brentwood, EssexThe tension builds as they near the starting line. Nerves are jangling as the motivational music builds and compere Rob Jelly of BBC Essex fame shouts encouragement from his Mad Max-esque podium. Smoke billows,...

Taking a backward step has rarely resulted in forward progress.  I mean, if Usain Bolt had stepped back from the starting blocks before starting his 100m world record bid it probably wouldn’t have assisted his time so much. And if Elon Musk had dusted off the...

Not a great week for the fixed fee estate agent PurpleBricks or for the wider online agency sector with the news that they are to close shop in Australia and part with their founder and CEO Michael Bruce.The former was not unexpected as far as I am concerned and, in...

Trouble On The Market Third place portal, On The Market, saw a massive drop in share price on Thursday, falling by 10% on the day to just £1.00 and wiping some £6m from its value. This, in sharp contrast to Rightmove stock which remains at close to an all-time...

Between 2014 (when Emoov took PR in-house) and 2018 we achieved over 8000 media mentions in print and online media across titles such as the Telegraph, The Times, the Daily Mail, the Huffington Post, City AM and the Evening Standard, together with around 100 broadcast...

A Problem Shared Rightmove saw its share price reach new highs but whilst PurpleBricks’s market cap dropped to the lowest it’s been for two years. These two aspects may even be related? Rightmove’s value is a whisker under £5bn now as it marches relentlessly toward...

Latest research from for sale by owner empowerment platform, www.okaylah.co.uk, has looked at how Brexit uncertainty has impacted even the most tantalising parts of the property market. Areas of the UK famous for their culinary exports have seen house price growth...