let's now speak to michael bruce, the ceo and founder of purple bricks. anyone and you use a mixture of online estate agents and estate agents on the ground. so if i'm selling my house i will have to show the people coming to see my property around myself? yeah, you're right to a degree. what we offer is a full service for a flat fee. you get a choice whether or not to show people around or not yourself. it is the whole spectrum. how do you think the whole spectrum. how do you think the slow down in the housing market has impacted you? well not in the uk. we continue to invest in other markets, the united states and australia and we have bought a business in canada. if you look at the uk market, we have been growing considerably. 0ur profit margin in the uk is up by nearly 600% during this financial year and if you look at independent data you will see that you know we're winning, because we are selling three times more houses than the next brand. we're selling them faster and getting people more money. so it is for that reason we are seeing people more m

the stock market now fancies the likes of purple bricks and online estate agents, and also right movelf of this year, it seems that foxto ns first half of this year, it seems that foxtons and others have not delivered that, but there are always brands that will. thank you for talking to us. henry pryor, an independent market expert. let's look at the numbers. i have put foxto ns o n look at the numbers. i have put foxtons on the board. henry mentioned 49.9 pence, down from that previous £4 that you mentioned. reach, widening the loss they have blamed on their regional publishing division. bt group also down after losing the rights to the nba basketball. they have walked away from the bidding war because they don't think they are worth the money being asked of it. all that leaving the ftse100 down 0.2% so far on the day but we will keep an eye on that because the foxtons one is interesting, that loss. nonetheless, shares up nearly 5%. good future prospects be looking brighter? that is potentially what investors are looking at rather than the first six months of the year. mortgage figur