Connells Group, the UK’s third largest estate agency, is piloting the new estate agency rating website raterAgent.

The testing is taking place in 78 of their Barnard Marcus, William H Brown, Fox & Sons and Brown & Merry branches.

If successful, the partnership will be rolled out across the entire 500-plus network.

Connells joins other  clients of raterAgent, including Webbers, Marsh & Parsons, and Keatons in trying out the site which has launched head to head against allAgents.

raterAgent launched four months ago in ‘beta’ testing.

Its crowdfunding campaign has been over-subscribed, with raterAgent emphasising that it chucks out fake reviews.

So far it has attracted 1,000 registered reviewers of estate and letting agents.

Mal McCallion, CEO of raterAgent, said: “We’re delighted that such a significant agency as Connells Group has joined us.

“RaterAgent is not just about driving new early-stage valuation requests.

“We want to make that new business as profitable as possible. Nothing convinces a potential seller or landlord that an agent is worth a higher fee than seeing people, just like them, talking on an independently-verified site about the great service they received.

“We’re focused on delivering on that for all of our clients and are thrilled that this now includes Connells.”