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Will it work? Auction house launches ‘buy it now’ Ebay-style service
A property platform best known for online property auctions has moved to offer instant property purchases as part of their service expansion. UnderTheHammer, a property sales website with a nationwide...
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UK housing market now weaker than Greece’s, global index reveals
The struggling UK sales market has propelled the nation ten places down the global house price index list, Knight Frank has revealed, and has been overtaken by a list of countries unknown previously...
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Would you take on the marketing of Britain’s ‘most haunted’ house?
An Essex estate agency has taken on the sale of a two-bedroom historic house that has been described as the ‘most difficult property to sell in the UK’. Domus360 has begun marketing The Cage in St...
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Illegal sub-letting at ‘epidemic’ levels claims TV evictions star
The TV property evictions show Nightmare Tenants Slum Landlords is set to continue next week and will uncover the extraordinary tale of an Instagram star who turned out to be a ‘professional’ rental...
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Ground-breaking research aims to improve standards in the Private Rented Sector
Two housing-related charitable organisations are to fund a major UK-wide research programme, aiming to improving standards in the private rented sector (PRS). TDS Charitable Foundation (TDSCF) and the...
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Fares please! Grand apartments launch on former bus depot site
Bracknell’s former bus depot is to undergo a grand transformation into a 155,000 square foot development of 242 luxury apartments, following its acquisition by SevenCapital. The Grand Exchange will...
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Tenant fees ban: London agent to charge landlords new £240 ‘tenancy set up’ fee
A letting agency in North London has become one of the first in the UK to urge its landlords to raise their rents to cover the additional costs of tenancy management following the tenant fees ban, as...
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Judge gives green light to landmark ‘gas safety certificate eviction case’...
A landmark evictions court case that could have significant consequences for letting agents and landlords has been given the go-ahead by a judge. The case concerns a landlord who failed to issue a gas...
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Meet your new leaders! Propertymark reveals new line-up for NAEA and ARLA
Propertymark 2019 line up: (top photo, LtoR) Richard Selwyn, Phil Keddie, Maxine Fothergill, ARLA Chief Executive David Cox. (bottom photo): Kirsty Finney, Laurent Scott, NAEA Chief Exeuctive Mark...
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Letting agents to lose £400 per let in central London as tenant fees ban bites
Research by a leading property software company has estimated that letting agents will lose £400 in lost fees per new let in London, substantially more than previous industry and government estimates...
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The Landsite launches: dedicated platform for property professionals
The Landsite has recently been launched by the highly experienced proptech investor, Ramsey Assal. Aimed at connecting UK property professionals, it hopes to become the go-to online portal for all...
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‘Scotland survived the tenant fees ban, so will English lettings agents’
Letting agents in Scotland made up the shortfall in fees lost when its tenant fees ban came in four years ago by persuading landlords to include the additional costs in rent increases, it has been...
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Watch this space…says expanding Sussex independent estate agency
Michael Jones & Company, the largest independent estate agency in West Sussex, has finalised its acquisition of competitor Curtis & Co which has now been incorporated into the wider business....
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Americans Trump other foreign buyers for London super prime property
President Trump may be long gone but home buyers from the USA have shot up to second place in London’s international buyer rankings, spending an average £7.3m ($9.3m) during 2019 on a property,...
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Leading estate agency makes first ‘virtual’ sale as student investment market...
One of the UK’s largest student housing estate agencies says it has made its first sale entirely via a 360-degree virtual property tour without the buyer seeing the property in the flesh. Durham-based...
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Breaking: Shelter removes renting report from website after being savaged by...
Housing charity Shelter has removed a report from its website that called on the governments in England and Wales to copy the recent reforms of Scotland’s private rented market. The disappearance of...
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Rural pursuit: LonRes welcomes 200 country agents to its fold
Many agents across the country will have heard about LonRes, but have not been able to be part of the network – until now. ResCountry, the country offering from LonRes, has added 5,000 rural properties...
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Oops! Hunters statement to City mixes up senior job titles as it reveals...
Franchised estate agency chain Hunters had to reissue a statement to the stock market yesterday after mistakenly naming Chief Financial Officer Ed Jones (pictured above, right) as its CEO. The...
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Leading property firm share prices fall as Woodford investment saga continues
The share prices of all but two of the UK’s key residential property PLCs fell yesterday as the ongoing demise of Purplebricks backer Neil Woodford caused jitters in the City. Shares in Countrywide,...
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Roman Abramovich kicks off £4.75m raise for short-lets firm GuestReady
A company that seeks to persuade landlords to rent their homes out via Airbnb and Booking.com rather than using letting agents has raised a further £4.78 million in funding including cash from Chelsea...
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