Estate Agency News

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.

Jamie Lester's Haus Properties is launching another office in leafy Fulham, taking its tally of branches in the capital to four.

Part of the Monaco based Pastor range of companies

A Surrey estate agency has installed a neat gizmo in its high street branch to harvest applicants 24/7.