The business was established by
General Accident in the late 1980s. By 1989, GA Property Services, latterly trading as General Accident Property Services (GAPS), owned 69 estate agencies and in 1995, the surveying division of GAPS became a separate company – GA Valuation and Survey (GAVS). Following the merger between General Accident and
Commercial Union to create
CGU plc in 1998, GAPS rebranded to
Your Move and GAVS rebranded to
e.surv Chartered Surveyors in November 1999. Following the merger of CGU plc with
Norwich Union to form
Aviva in 2000,
Your Move and
e.surv Chartered Surveyors were declared non-core to the insurance business and were the subject of a management buyout, backed by Equistone, under a new company, Lending Solutions Limited, in July 2004. The company acquired
Reeds Rains in 2005, and became a publicly listed company on the
London Stock Exchange in 2006. In October 2006, the company underwent a rebranding exercise, changing its name from "Lending Solutions Limited" to "LSL Property Services." The company went on to acquire Halifax Estate Agencies Limited ('HEAL') from
Lloyds Banking Group for a nominal consideration of £1 in October 2009. HEAL's 218 branches, which had been built up by
Halifax Building Society in the 1980s, were rebranded to other LSL brands in 2010. In January 2023, the company sold Marsh & Parsons, a premium brand estate agency operating in Central, North West, West and South West London, to a competitor, Dexters, for approximately £29 million. ==Operations==