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Purplebricks to be ‘official estate agent’ of Team GB at Tokyo Olympics in 2020
Purplebricks is taking a relatively long-term view of its UK profile, clearly thinking they have a sporting chance of winning the battle for supremacy in the UK property agency market.
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Nested tells 20% of staff to leave and Brexit takes the blame
Despite recently reporting a ‘record year’ and a further £10m investment, co-founder of Nested, Matt Robinson, confirms the departure of 15 staff.
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Double celebration for Northeast agency
A North East independent estate agency celebrated its first year in business in County Durham and 5,000 followers on Facebook.
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Connells closes its online venture, Hatched
The online agency arm of Connells has been closed, three years after launch, with the Group CEO David Plumtree saying it is "not the right solution for the customer".
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Housesimple secures £20m in growth capital
HouseSimple.com has secured a further £20m growth capital as it plans to build on its success and challenge PurpleBricks as the UK’s leading online estate agency.
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Features
We are not all the same
Behind the digital ‘shop front’ each online estate agent business is a completely different beast, says Mark Readings, founder and CEO of the UK’s first online estate agents, House Network.
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High street gloom
Two brave figures in the residential sales industry predict that the traditional high street estate agency could disappear in the next five to ten years.
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Agencies & People
YOPA gets investment from Savills
Now Savills joins the internet set, by buying into online agent YOPA.
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Agencies & People
Spot the difference
Marc Da Silva talks to the CEO of one fast-growing online agency and asks what they have to offer over High St agencies – besides the obvious!
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Yes, it’s YOPA!
Hybrid estate agency YOPA is gearing up for a national roll-out this month. The estate agency is launching across England and Wales after reporting successful pre-Christmas pilots in the Granada and Meridian regions. YOPA says its combination of Local Property Managers (LPMs) and cutting-edge industry technology is proving a hit with vendors. One LPM operating in the North West sold three properties in three days before Christmas. YOPA had been marketing all three for less than two weeks and two of them had previously been on the market with traditional high street agents. YOPA – www.yopa.co.uk – says that it is regularly saving its customers an average of £5,348 on estate agent fees by charging vendors a flat fee of just £780. The firm, which has its head office in London, has so far hired over 100 LPMs and will have a further 60 in place by the summer. A number of them have previously worked for some of the biggest names in the estate agency industry. YOPA’s four founders – Joint Managing Directors Daniel Attia and Andrew Barclay, Finance Director Alistair Barclay and Chief Marketing Officer David Jacobs, say that its national roll-out will include a major advertising campaign…
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