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New homes specialist joins Sq. One Real Estate
London new homes specialist, Matt Cobb, has joined Sq. One Real Estate, as a partner. Previously a Director with Currell Residential, Cobb has 14 years’ experience of working on developments across the...
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William H Brown announces appoints Ellen Stewart
William H Brown’s New Homes division has appointed Ellen Stewart as Field Sales Manager for the East Midlands. Ellen was Branch Manager at William H Brown in Spalding and has worked in estate agency...
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Mayor hopeful to take London housing back to ‘golden years’ of the 1950s
Conservative Mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey (pictured) has announced plans to create ‘Housing for London’, a City Hall-controlled home builder to clear London’s multi-generational housing backlog....
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Government contradicts its own ‘broken rental market’ claims
The government’s claim that the private rental market is ‘broken’ look questionable after its latest English Housing Survey has revealed that 84% of renters are satisfied with their current...
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Regulation is coming! Minimum qualifications and code of practice a step...
Estate agents are to find out today how they will be policed when the final report from the Regulation of Property Agents (ROPA) working group is made public. It is the result of nine months of...
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House prices ‘flatline’ as shocking drops in London drag average down
English House prices are flatlining at the moment dropping by 0.1% month-on-month and rising by just 1% a year, the government’s latest index reveals, taking the average to £229,431. But the figures...
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New regulations to cover overseas and online agents, auctioneers, property...
The policing of estate agents in the UK proposed by the final ROPA report published today by the government reveals that many non-traditional property players are to be regulated. The Regulation of...
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Worried by ROPA? Don’t panic – more regulation is good for professionals
The report by the working group on the Regulation of Property Agents (ROPA) proposes a single, mandatory and legally enforceable Code of Practice for property agents; a system of minimum entry...
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Lamplugh investigator: Police are following wrong line of enquiry
A former Scotland Yard detective who has self-funded a three-year investigation into the disappearance of estate agent Suzy Lamplugh in 1986 has told The Negotiator that he has evidence that prove...
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Surge in tenants searching for properties follows tenants fees ban
The tenant fees ban has led to a huge surge in the number of people looking for properties following its introduction on June 1st, Rightmove has claimed. Demand increased by 7% during May and June,...
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Can ‘uneconomic’ Easyproperty survive? Parent company reveals strategic review
The parent group of online estate agency Easyproperty has revealed that the business is now profitable after major reductions in costs including a lower headcount and significantly reduced marketing...
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In Pictures: Norfolk estate agency’s ‘model’ property listing
As estate agency publicity wheezes go, selling a model village via your estate agency is one of the better ideas, guaranteed to grab attention and raise eyebrows among amused potential customers. It’s...
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Catfest: agents and suppliers join the stars at ‘property’s Glastonbury’ to...
Catfest is the property industry’s version of Glastonbury, presented by the well known trainer and consultant Julian O’Dell and his wife Cat, who held their annual fundraising music festival on July...
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Estate agent who ‘systematically’ stole £110,000 sentenced to two years in...
A ‘trusted’ estate agent who stole £110,000 from both an elderly widow and the estate of a deceased friend has been jailed for two years. Roger Darnton, who pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud at...
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Government consults on sweeping eviction reforms despite industry scepticism
Despite agents telling the government its reform of England’s evictions laws will be ‘disastrous’ housing secretary James Brokenshire has confirmed that he is to move forward with a new deal for the...
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Forget to provide an EPC? Then you could be added to rogue database under new...
The government is proposing to introduce a new and shockingly wide range of offences that could lead to letting agents being included within its recently-introduced ‘rogue agents’ database. This is to...
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ARLA savages London mayor’s latest bid to control rents
London mayor Sadiq Khan has officially requested powers to regulate the private rented sector in the capital and issued a detailed report into its housing market. His proposals include introducing...
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CBRE’s residential arm to offers its £1,000-a-week tenants a deposit...
Alternative deposit supplier Flatfair has landed a coup after signing a deal with the world’s largest property company, CBRE, and revealing that it is about to sign another deal with one of the UK’s...
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Had enough of proptech? Venture capital investor to back ANOTHER 50 startups
A leading proptech venture capital firm that specialises in start-ups has revealed that it is to pile money into 50 new companies over the next five years. London-based Pi Labs, which was founded by...
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Money laundering: SmartSearch says estate agency is its fastest growing...
The pioneering anti-money laundering (AML) firm, SmartSearch has told The Negotiator that its estate agency client numbers have doubled in the past two years. The firm, which increased its overall...
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