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Trio who helped Bruce brothers get Purplebricks off the ground in UK, US and Oz have today launched their own business, The Agency UK.

Former Marsh & Parsons estate agent Richard Towler says Covid has persuaded him to quit the Big Smoke for Teeside.

Company says its financial performance has been helped by government's Covid furlough cash.

But administrators now say approximately £225,000 has been raised to pay creditors including pay and pensions owed to former staff.

The online firm, which claims to be in the top 50 UK estate agencies by volume, says it will release an update on its latest development.

The group's three-year-old financial services arm Brook/MAB saw its profits jump by 26% last year.

Connells has begun buying up the shares from key Countrywide investors including the 5.85% share held by Schroders.