New research has found that Purplebricks outstrips its nearest online competitor by well over six times, easily topping a new ‘top ten’ of online estate agency brands.

In the 12 months to August 28, Purplebricks took on 66,125 new listings, up 31% from the same period the year before.

Yopa is in second place with 9,183 new listings, well behind Purplebricks, but showing greater growth of 119%.

In third place is Express Estate Agency (6,999 new listings, up 40%).

Emoov is in fourth place with 4,310 new listings, up 17%; EweMove took on 4,053 new listings, up 44.5%; and Tepilo listed 3,920 new properties, up 14.2%.

Housesimple’s figures were 3,662 new listings, a fall of 39% from 5,999.

Doorsteps’ new listings grew 183% to 3,420, up from 1,209; and Springbok Properties saw its new listings fall 25% from 3,806 to 2,850.

House Network grew its new listings 27% from 1,976 to 2,514.

In the top ten, there is no sign of brands such as Settled or easyProperty.

The study, which shows EweMove as the UK’s fifth largest online agent, also shows it as the UK’s 37th largest agent based on new instructions.

On EweMove’s ‘patch’ – ie, in the places where it operates – the study found it was the second fastest online agent to sell subject to contract, and was also the fastest to complete, beating Purplebricks.

It found that EweMove took an average of 146 days from taking on an instruction to completion; Springbok took 148 days; Doorsteps and Yopa both took 161; Purplebricks took 162; followed by Emoov and Tepilo (both 177 days), Housesimple 178, House Network 179, and Express Estate Agency 200.

The study puts all UK new instructions at a total of 1,644,481 in the year to August 28, with online agents listing 117,440 of them.

Both sets of figures are up on the same period for the previous year, when there were 1,472,436 overall instructions, of which online agents listed 93,154.

The growth in new listings market share by online agents was 26%.

The study was commissioned by The Property Franchise Group, which owns EweMove, and was carried out by an independent research firm, twentyea.