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Leading estate agent makes bold claims for ‘open house’ day selling
Strutt & Parker has made some bold claims for its annual US-style National Open House Day event including that it both encourages buyers to make offers earlier and turns tyre kickers into serious...
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Average new homes sales people paid £52,500 a year, claims recruiter
Estate agents considering a move to a big developer or into an estate agency’s land and new homes team now have some food for thought. A leading new homes recruitment specialists has published a...
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LSL London estate agency Marsh & Parsons opens ANOTHER branch
LSL’s upmarket London estate agency March & Parsons (M&P) is about to open yet another branch, The Negotiator can reveal, as the parent company completes its huge closure programme outside the...
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Brexit freezes the market
Headlines Rightmove: “Muted rise in prices but market moving with 5% uplift in home-hunting.” Home.co.uk: “Growth nears zero while London readies for recovery.” NAEA Propertymark: “Housing market still...
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Countrywide reveals cost cutting plan and admits IT systems are ‘aged’
Countrywide has revealed a significant cost reduction plan and admitted that its IT systems are ‘aged’ and require a complete overhaul over the next three years, its latest update on the company’s...
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Allsop strengthens its offering in the North
Brad Harris Allsop has appointed Brad Harris as Senior Surveyor having recently joined from Cushman & Wakefield. Brad has six years’ experience in land and development and in advising clients on...
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Fancy that! Sarah Beeny now urging home owners to stay put
TV presenter Sarah Beeny has launched a new show that urges home owners to stay put rather than endure the ‘hassle and expense’ of moving home. Called Renovate Don’t Relocate and being aired on TV...
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Petition calling on Rightmove to ban ‘No DSS’ adverts signed by 40,000 people
An online petition urging Rightmove to follow Zoopla’s example and ban ‘No DSS’ adverts within the portal’s listings has been signed by nearly 40,000 people. Campaigning website 38 Degrees started the...
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Fergus Wilson sells off his final 300 homes in £90 million deal
Outspoken landlord Fergus Wilson is to sell the remaining 300 homes within his former 1,000-unit portfolio for £90 million to a housing association in Kent. The 70-year-old landlord recently announced...
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Portal pressures
It’s now over ten years since Zoopla was founded. Rightmove is still in its teens (just), but the portal market has changed markedly since the early days. Email4property, Findaproperty, Zoomf, Globrix...
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Hunters opens up to proptech lettings platform Teclet
Estate agency Hunters is to offer lettings automation platform teclet to its 191 franchised branch owners after completing a pilot of the proptech service among its 11 directly-owned offices. Teclet...
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Portico expands short-term lettings
London agency, Portico, has expanded into the North West of England, launching its short term letting service, Portico Host, in Manchester and Liverpool. Its first venture outside the Capital, Portico...
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Disgraced estate agent who stole £357,000 told to pay back £1
An estate agent who stole £357,000 from landlords and tenants and left suppliers and staff out of pocket after getting into financial difficulties has been ordered to pay just £1 back. Clifford...
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Deposit disputes ‘set to rise’ if agents bring inventories in-house after ban
Three leading industry bodies are so worried about a reduction in inventory report quality and potential problems over bias after the tenant fees ban that they have joined forces to issue new guidance...
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Leading property industry figure receives MBE at Buckingham Palace
A leading London landlord and estate agency owner has been to Buckingham Palace to be given an MBE awarded to him within the New Year’s Honours list. Gopal Gupta (pictured above, second left) has...
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Rooftop homes for Londoners
Secretary of State for Housing, James Brokenshire, said that the Government is backing an exciting and pioneering project to build rooftop properties in London on the top of existing buildings with...
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Alternative deposits: proptech firm secures new deal with lettings platform
Tenant services supermarket Tenant Shop is to begin offering a cash rental deposit alternative after signing a distribution deal with Reposit. The partnership will enable letting agents to offer...
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Future PropTech’s theme for 2019: “Open Collaboration.” Join them in London for “The World’s Number One PropTech Event”. This will be their 5th year anniversary and it will also be their most...
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Student Housing – The Next Big Opportunity Areas
The Annual Conference for the leading players in the Student Housing Sector: Returning for an 10th Year, at a superb venue in Covent Garden London, with 600 Delegates attending Organised by LD Events,...
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RICS Infrastructure Conference 2019
Automated, digital technology and AI is reshaping the world around us; a new approach to planning, building and operating the UK’s infrastructure is urgently necessary. The UK’s infrastructure is in...
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