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Campaigners call for MPs to return £42 million made on property sales
MPs are in hot water again over the profits they make selling tax-payer subsidised homes. The Daily Mirror has today published a list of 160 MPs who have sold homes for a total profit of £42 million,...
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Barclays-backed blockchain trial reduces conveyancing from three months to a...
A blockchain trial involving some of the UK’s leading banks including Barclays and RBS has shown that the conveyancing process can be reduced from an average of three months to just three weeks, it...
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Shelter piles pressure on Rightmove to remove ‘No DSS’ adverts
Shelter has launched a social media campaign to persuade Rightmove to join Zoopla and commit to banning ‘No DSS’ adverts within its listings. Launched on Twitter yesterday (see below), the campaign...
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Senior industry sales figure Jeremy Gee joins London estate agency Beauchamp
The UK’s most successful upmarket boutique estate agency Beachamp Estates has appointed one of the best-known sales figures from the UK property industry to be its new managing director. Jeremy Gee...
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Gloves are off! Jupix founder claims Purplebricks’ hybrid model not sustainable
Jupix founder and its former managing director Oliver Gleave has revealed why he thinks Purplebricks’ estate agency model is doomed during a video interview. His comments, which he makes during a...
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SDL Surveying’s bash raises £12,000 for charity
SDL Surveying started the year in style by hosting a 007 themed charity ball in February, raising £12,000 for its chosen charity, The Donna Louise Hospice. The glamorous black tie event held at The...
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CFO Andrews retires
Nick Wright, Group Chief Financial Officer, has retired, after 32 years with Andrews Property Group. Nick joined the business in 1987. Aged 27, he was the firm’s youngest ever Director and, aside from...
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New management company launches
A new property management company has launched to provide residents with a better service. Dan Robinson, Carla Bussey and Freddy Hoare established LevelUP Property Management after seeing more...
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Making Tax Digital
What is Making Tax Digital? On 1 April 2019 the Making Tax Digital (MTD) regulations will be brought in by the government. This means all VAT registered businesses with a taxable turnover above the...
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Vincent Tchenguiz invests £100m in UK proptech
You may not have been on his superyacht, Da Vinci, along with the beautiful people visiting Cannes for MIPIM property bash, but it would have been a great place for Mr Tchenguiz to announce his latest...
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No wonder everyone’s portal juggling! First hours of online listing are most...
Analysis of lead generatoin by online listings has revealed in stark detail the reason why so many agents are tempted to break the rules and ‘portal juggle’ in order to keep their properties high up...
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Investigation into Romans’‘unfair’ no-deposit option scheme published
Leaders Romans has been investigated by a personal finance website over claims that its ‘no deposit option’ is unfair to tenants. Daily Mail-owned ThisIsMoney has published the findings after its...
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Brexit chaos continues to be ‘major drag’ on housing market, say surveyors
Brexit continued to hammer the housing market during March although a more positive attitude among surveyors appears to be returning as people become ‘tired’ of waiting for an outcome, it has been...
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Tenant fees ban will increase churn in rental market, it is claimed
The tenant fees ban will lead to more people moving home when it reduces the cost of renting a property by 50%, it has been claimed. Rental platform Goodlord says the ban, along with the rise of...
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Estate agents facing most price sensitive housing market ‘in many years’
Estate agents are facing one of the most price sensitive housing markets seen in many years, Rightmove has reported. Its housing market analyst Miles Shipside makes the claim within the company’s...
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Purplebricks now a ‘superbrand’ alongside Rightmove and best-known agents
Purplebricks has made it into this year’s business and consumer Superbrands list published over the weekend in the Guardian newspaper, handing the hybrid agency a major coup in its attempts to...
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Government reveals shock abolition of Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions in England
The Government has announced that it is to ban ‘no fault’ Section 21 evictions ending one of the key tools that letting agents and landlords use to end tenancies. James Brokenshire (below) has called...
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Estate agent offers house for sale with unusual request from vendor
Estate agent Leaders has put a property on the market featuring one of the most unusual conditions ever requested by a vendor within its property particulars. The agency has caused a storm on social...
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Rightmoves sets deadline for agents to stop uploading ‘No DSS’ adverts
Rightmove has written to its estate agent database to ask them to stop using the term ‘No DSS’ within rental listings, and not to take a blanket approach to tenants who are receipt of benefits. The...
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Online estate agents will never achieve more than 10% of market
Emoov founder and now PR guru Russell Quirk has published an extraordinary blog predicting that low-cost online and hybrid estate agents will never gain more than 10% of the estate agency market. In...
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