Rightmove will not only be supporting WIEA’s advocate and training programmes it has also agreed to continue to be the headline sponsor of the annual conference for a further 2 years.

Equality and diversity across the property industry is so important.”

The portal has been working with WIEA for a number of years and with this new agreement it will be expanding its support into two new initiatives. These are:

A new leadership training programme which will provide several one-day leadership training courses for women from agencies across the country, aimed at building future female leaders for the industry. These will take place over the next two years and be held at Rightmove’s offices.

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New regional advocate events which, with the support of Rightmove, will bring together and expand WIEA’s network of regional advocates. The programme aims to engage property professionals to act as regional representatives to help spread the values of WIEA across the UK.

Colleen Babcock, Rightmove’s Head of Partner Marketing, said: “Equality and diversity across the property industry is so important, with work still to be done, so we’re really pleased to support networks with values like those of Women in Estate Agency.”

Verona Frankish, Chair of the Women in Estate Agency committee, said: “This collaboration will allow us to expand our reach and impact through new initiatives that focus on leadership development and regional advocacy.”

WIEA is a network made up of a number of property industry professionals, both women and men, who have volunteered to give up their time to drive change and equality for women in the estate agency sector.