Estate Agency News

Two of the Home Counties's most successful prime property agents have launched a new hybrid "estate agency hub" offering "the best of both" across the Surrey hills and Sussex borders

One of London's most high-profile agents

New figures have shown 220 estate agency branches opened up in London over the last 12 months, with Westminster leading the charge. After this 8.

The UK's biggest estate agency group Countrywide is "in retailing, the same as Tesco”, said Chief Executive (and Tesco Non Exec) Alison Platt at the weekend.

Data management giant Supadü has bought up the firm responsible for the nuts and bolts of many of the UK's top estate agency websites. W

Colliers International Group has bought London property agency Hatton Real Estate, which will rebrand immediately, for an undisclosed sum.

700 property types turned up to London's Lancaster Hotel last week for the annual Estate Agency Awards, in association with The Sunday Times and The Times, and sponsored by Zoopla

Luxury travel brand Abercrombie & Kent's property arm - Abercrombie & Kent International Estates - is morphing into a new operation - Sphere Estates - following a management buyout by the company's General…

Her Majesty's Treasury is looking at ways of "injecting innovation into the process of home buying" to cut costs for homeowners, speed up processes and jolly transaction numbers along.

Curzon Street-based Beauchamp Estates has signed a deal with one of Israel's top property agencies

Beauchamp Place-based Patterson Bowe will be offering a 50% fee discount

JLL has acquired Dublin-based specialist residential agency Guardian Property Asset Management, in a "logical next step" for the international roll-out of the firm's resi ambitions.