Estate Agency News
Online & hybrid estate agency penetration picks up in central London
Hybrid/online estate agencies' market share of UK property exchanges remained at 8% in 2020, despite a 10% increase in the proportion of new instructions from 2019.
John D Wood launches high-end refurb division; makes two senior appointments
145-year-old estate agency brand John D Wood has set up a "bespoke project management" arm to help clients with high-end property refurbishments
Trendy estate agency launches ‘talent show style’ recruitment campaign
Mr and Mrs Clarke is looking to swell its self-employed ranks and to recruit a new in-house sales manager.
House-hunters shamed for ‘travelling hundreds of miles to view homes’
Some house-hunters and estate agents are stretching the bounds of good sense, warns the BBC, by travelling across the country to view properties despite the national Covid-19 lockdown.
The Modern House founders target ‘marvellous historic homes’ with new estate agency, Inigo
Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill unveil new venture named after the 17th-century architect who sparked a revolution in British building design.
Interview: Knight Frank’s Tim Hyatt on team morale, market resilience & the future of estate agency
On April 1st 2020, when the UK had been in lockdown for exactly nine days, Tim Hyatt took over the management of Knight Frank’s UK residential business and joined the group executive board. H
Purplebricks alumni launch new hybrid estate agency
Steph Walker, Andy Vass and Mark Bruce and have set up The Agency UK, with ambitions to expand across the UK.
LSL expects 2020’s operating profits to be ‘significantly ahead’ of 2019
Property Plc's full year revenue dropped 15% from 2019 to 2020 - but "very strong trading" at the end of the year helped push profits up.
Savills reports ‘an extraordinary rebound’ in prime resi activity
"The volume of activity in prime residential markets [outside London] for [2020] as a whole was the strongest since before the global financial crisis," says Savills.
Chestertons expands in Spain
Team España in Marbella has signed up to the Chestertons franchise network, and will now operate as Chestertons Costa del Sol.
Fine & Country on the hunt for new licensees in Cambridge, Kensington & Hampstead
“We currently have a number of high-net-worth investors with property backgrounds eager to invest in city locations,"says the franchised estate agency brand's Head of Growth.
Anti-viral Marketing: How property agents are keeping the market moving safely in lockdown
"This is a golden opportunity for our industry to gain the trust of the public,” says one top industry pundit, as estate agents and buying agents share how they have adapted to doing business by the b…