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Purplebricks territory owner moves over to fledgling rival with national...
Fledgling online lettings platform Accommodation.co.uk has revealed its first franchisees including one who turns out to be a former Purplebricks LPE. Joe Grundy is to be the agency’s representative...
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The Lettings Hub steps in to look after 300 estate agent clients of failed rival
Lettings reference firm LetsXL has struck a deal to transfer its 300 agent clients to rival The Lettings Hub after the Welsh business became commercially unviable and ceased trading. Colwyn Bay-based...
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Growing fears over ‘scale and speed’ of tenant fees ban impact
There is mounting evidence that the “unintended consequences” of the Government’s tenant fees ban are fast becoming reality, new research by Yorkshire’s largest letting agent has found. Linley &...
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Can a lettings agency cancel a tenancy contract after a claim of sexual assault?
A lettings agency in Bristol has been told by ARLA Propertymark that one of its tenants cannot have her AST contract terminated despite claiming to have been sexually assaulted within her rental...
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Administrator chases NE former estate agency owner for £235,000
The former owner of a leading North East estate agency has been given an extra 12 months to find the £235,000 that he owed a director’s loan account at the time the company went into administration....
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Housing minister hints at longer minimum length for tenancies AGAIN
Housing minister Esther McVey has hinted heavily that the Government will introduce regulations to introduce a longer minimum tenancy period for renters as part of its proposed reforms of the Assured...
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Online veteran trio buy huge Keller Williams franchise
Hybrid US-style estate agency network Keller Williams has pulled a major coup and signed up three leading industry players from the online sector to launch the brand in Essex. House Network founder...
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Council backs down over licensing scheme after property industry campaign
Councils will now need to be more careful how they introduce additional licencing schemes for privately rented accommodation after a borough in London withdraw its planned scheme following a legal...
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Stop bashing property market ‘like a piñata’ leading agent tells politicians
Leading letting agent Marc von Grundherr of London firm Benham & Reeves has written to the Sunday Times to bemoan the ‘assault’ on the property market from all directions. In a strongly-worded...
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Fake estate agent given four year prison term for defrauding women
A prolific fraudster who has duped dozens of women out of thousands of pounds while using multiple false identities including that of an estate agent has been sentenced to four years prison at...
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‘Brevity is the soul of wit’! Could you write property descriptions like...
Do your property descriptions have a lyrical quality to them? Then perhaps you should have entered a competitor run last week by The Spectator magazine which asked its readers to write descriptions in...
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Jersey estate agent calls for practice of overvaluing homes to be outlawed
An estate agent has called for a regulatory body to prevent property firms over-valuing homes in order to win instructions. Jersey estate agent Harry Trower (pictured, below) of Broadlands Estates...
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Ask a question! ARLA chief to appear in live evictions webinar this week
Letting agents baffled by the government’s sometimes contradictory announcements about its plans to ban Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions can pin down ARLA Propertymark Chief Executive David Cox on...
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Toscafund tops up ownership to over 50% of Guild parent company
City investment vehicle Tosca Fund has increased the number of shares it holds in Eprop Services Plc, the parent company of the Guild of Property Professionals and Fine & Country. The additional...
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Estate agent’s lettings platform prepares for national launch with board...
Apropos, the lettings agency platform being readied for launch by Scottish estate agency DJ Alexander, has promoted two of its senior staff to the fledgling company’s board. These are its director of...
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Agents can’t charge for arranging to fix a loo, says tenant fees ban advice
ARLA Propertymark has told its members that they should not charge fees to tenants for remedying problems such as blocked toilets that have been created by the tenants. ‘Contractual damages’ as they...
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Ewemove resumes taking on franchisees without property industry experience
Ewemove is to restart recruiting franchisees who don’t have industry experience after ‘examining the evidence’, it has been revealed in the latest upbeat trading results from parent group TPFG....
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The Negotiator Awards 2019 Shortlist is announced!
We are delighted and excited to publish the Shortlist for The Negotiator Awards 2019 – the largest and most important Awards programme in the UK residential property industry. The Negotiator Awards...
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OTM makes its first steps into new home market after signing up Barratt
OnTheMarket has pulled a major coup and signed not only its first house builder but the UK’s biggest, Barratt Developments. The house building giant is to list many of the nearly 19,000 properties it...
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Tax raid on landlords is ‘perverse’ and has FAILED, claims leading economist
The government’s attempts to muzzle the buy-to-let market and give first time buyers a chance to get on the property ladder have failed and are ‘perverse’, a leading economist and former member of the...
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