Two high street agents who last year started up a hybrid agency have also claimed that vendors and landlords' busy lives mean the traditional approach is obsolete.

South African Tim Van der Schyff has left Countrywide's premium John D Wood business to head up the lettings portfolio of Nick Dunning Associates.

Few agents will have considered making promotional capital from the week’s Beast from the East storm, but London agency John D Wood has, and should get this year’s award for quick thinking.…

Countrywide recently announced that the Faron Sutaria brand would be disappearing and its remaining branches rebranded as John D Wood & Co. But the change of name has been “celebrated” in an unusual…

Countrywide has completed its merger of two subsidiary brands, expanding John D Wood & Co. by a third, while closing the Faron Sutaria brand which was established 40 years ago.

42-year-old London estate agency Faron Sutaria has disappeared for good following the completion of its merger with John D Wood. The company’s former shopfronts have now been replaced with John D Wood…