Might EYE readers have a slightly different take on this story compared with the Daily Mail?

The Mail is full of praise for a “savvy” home buyer who bagged a £7m discount by paying £17m in cash for an 18-bedroom mansion the day before the referendum.

The property was put on the market for £24m by a seller who shunned high street agents and put it on with Manchester-based My Online Estate Agent.

“They paid an up-front fee of £549 – saving themselves around £300,000 in estate agency fees,” says the Mail – which seems to think it wasn’t just the buyer that got a bargain, but the seller too.

The price for the London property is thought to be a record for an online agent, says the Mail

Separately, the Financial Times has suggested that online agents could do well in any gloomier environment post-Brexit.

The piece, by Judith Evans, quotes Purplebricks chief executive as saying that tough conditions present “a real opportunity for us to continue to put pressure on other people in the market. We’re seeing customers being very conscious about costs.”