Top-end national estate agency launches ‘self-employment model’

Sandbanks property broker Saxe Coburg has shut two of its three branches, but says it is "just as busy as when there were three offices”

After twenty years with some of the biggest firms in the PCL market, this senior agency insider - who has asked to remain anonymous - is sensing a 'huge change' in the air, with potentially serious consequences…

'We have thoroughly tested the hybrid model and have reached the conclusion that it does not produce a viable economic result', says Connells chief David Plumtree