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Government softens blow of ‘no fault’ eviction ban proposals
Following yesterday’s announcement from the government that it is to ban Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions by landlords and letting agents, further proposals to soften the blow of the shock announcement...
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Compulsory three-year tenancies ‘unlikely’ to go ahead
The government’s response to its eight-week consultation on making longer tenancies compulsory has been published and it suggests strongly that the idea of mandatory three-year-long agreements will be...
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LandAid 10K
The LandAid 10K, sponsored by Evans Randall Investors, is back at Regent’s Park The LandAid 10K is the biggest property 10K, and on 4 June hundreds of runners will take part to raise money to end...
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JLL Property Triathlon 2019
When you push yourself to the very limit you can really make your mark. And doing this together is how we can achieve something great. From that first 6.00 am training session to the moment you smash...
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BPF Annual Conference 2019: Driving our Future
This year’s BPF Annual Conference marks the launch of the BPF’s strategy to Redefine Real Estate. The BPF’s Presidential Team, Grainger’s Helen Gordon, Landsec’s Robert Noel and Argent’s David...
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The Southampton Property Show 2019
The Southampton Property Show returns for another year to the Harbour Hotel in Southampton. More than 1000 landlords, investors and property professionals from across Hampshire attended Southampton’s...
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Allsop resi auction raises £54m from 200 lots
Allsop raised £54m from 200 lots, recording a strong success rate of 74 per cent, at its recent auction at the InterContinental Park Lane Hotel in London. £10.5m was generated from high value...
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Connells signs up to Etech to provide home valuation reports
Connells Survey & Valuation has confirmed its partnership with eTech Solutions, which provides mobile surveying and workflow management software. The estate agency is adopting eTech’s Mortgage...
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Can estate agents use portal intel to make ‘No.1’ claims any longer?
The use of portal market data by estate agents to claim to be the ‘No.1 in a postcode’ has been thrown into doubt following a ruling by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). It has upheld a...
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Land Registry-backed ‘home buying passport’ proptech app about to launch
A tech-based home buyer passport is about to launch that will enable agents to qualify buyers, purchasers to prove to agents that they are serious and vendors to understand more about people making...
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Online estate agent share of market plateaus at ‘around 7%’ of market
The share of the property market held by online and hybrid estate agents has plateaued and is ‘consistently hovering’ around the 7% mark according to the latest TwentyCI housing market report. During...
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Fraudster estate agent duo jailed over theft of £266,000
A mother and daughter estate agent duo who admitted to jointly being involved in defrauding tenants and landlords out of £266,000 have been jailed and applications made by police to retrieve the money...
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‘Property industry consolidation looming if low transaction volumes continue’
Graham Lock, the founder of soon-to-launch property industry body the Federation of Independent Agents (FIA), says many of the smaller operators within the industry won’t survive the looming period of...
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Brexit pushes London house prices into freefall
London house prices are in freefall and dropped on average by 2% last month and 3.8% overall year-on-year, the government’s official ONS house price index has revealed. The capital’s problems are...
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New Trading Standards ‘police force’ for Engalnd and Wales revealed
A new national ‘police force’ with dedicated teams for both sales and lettings has been announced, the first of its kind in the UK. The private rental sector is to be monitored by a new team operated...
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Best time to upload properties onto property portals revealed
Portal property listings should be launched on Monday evenings at 8pm to get the most leads, it has been claimed. Research by property portal Zoopla among its listings shows that adverts for rental...
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Letting agency fined £50,000 over safety failures at two HMOs
A letting agency which is also an HMO landlord has been fined £50,000 after admitting 18 offences relating in particular to fire safety. Lettings of London Ltd, which his based in a business park in...
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Foxtons denies ‘bait and switch’ tactics in case of London couple
A national newspaper has suggested that a leading London estate agency has been using ‘bait and switch’ tactics within the capital’s lettings market, a charge it has denied. The Sunday Times reported...
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SW estate agency launches ‘one of a kind’ partnership with mortgage giant
A leading SW estate agency has partnered with the region’s Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) network to create a ‘one of a kind’ proposition to help builders in the region take advantage of the boom in...
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Land Registry’s blockchain pilot signals end to ‘nail biting’ Friday completions
One of the key players in the Land Registry’s recent pioneering Digital Street conveyancing blockchain pilot says the stress of agents biting their nails as their clients all move home on ‘nightmare...
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