Your Move says that it has become the largest individual estate agency in the UK, with 336 branches, following its acquisition of 101 Halifax branches at the end of last year. Staffing levels have also increased overall with 1550 employees. (Countrywide is a larger group with 1100 branches operating under all its different brands.)

David Newnes, MD, Your Move, said, “This deal has rocketed us into the Number One spot. Your Move’s investment in staff really paid-off in 2009 - our volume of complaints is at an all-time low. We have spent the last two months retraining hundreds of new staff. We’re the biggest, the best and we want customers to know they can trust us. Your-move. co.uk is now the most visited estate agency website in the UK. As part of the integration project, we have also invested heavily in placing properties on the major property portals to raise the online profile of our customer’s properties.”

Your Move is smartening up its offering with a £1.5m programme to give its branches new fascias.