Andy Blacklock, who founded SW agency Maitlands in 1994, says higher costs but downward pressure on fees left him no choice but to close his doors.
Read MoreOnline/hybrid estate agents increase market share by 2.7% during pandemic
Research by TwentyCI reveals larger share of London instructions and Covid shutdown last year gave online agents a leg-up.
Read More‘Online-only estate agents have failed to disrupt the property industry’
Online-only estate agents have largely failed in their bid to disrupt the property industry but have radically changed what the public now expect of estate agents. This claim is made by high-profile…
Read MoreOnline estate agents lose significant market share in London and East of England
The latest market snapshot from TwentyCI shows online agents' share of the property market dropped by nearly 20% year-on-year within outer London and by nearly a quarter within its central postcodes.
Read MoreSlow market has been good for online estate agents, says House Network
Read how estate agency House Network has claimed that the slow housing market has been a boon for hybrid and online operators.
Read More‘Hybrid agents miss whole point of property industry when they ignore sales progression’
Hunters CEO Glynis Frew has predicated that hybrid agents can only take a limited slice of the property industry while they ignore sales progression.
Read More£250m pumped into online estate agents so far by investors, claims TPFG
Extraordinary claim is made by parent company of Martin & Co and Ewemove in its upbeat annual results for 2017.
Read MoreWe 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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