Countrywide has given Estate Agent Today some early details of how its mix of online and traditional agency services will roll-out over the second half of 2016.

At last week’s half-year report to the City, Britain’s largest estate agency group stated that by the end of this year some 25 per cent of its branches across the country would offer what it calls a “multi-channel proposition.”

Read the full story on Estate Agent Today

Now Read: "Has Countrywide’s trial of online agency really worked, asks Quirk" from Property Industry Eye, which starts:

"Countrywide is to roll out its online offering across 25 per cent of the network – despite a claim that evidence shows its current trial has not yet worked.

"The claim comes from online agent Russell Quirk, of eMoov, who put together (a chart) showing listings levels of the three brands running the trial – Austin & Wyatt, Spencers, and Frank Innes."

Read the full story on PIE with the chart.