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Another extension? Not Brexit – Housing Secretary pledges radical change to...
Lots of sweet promises emanated from the Tory conference in Manchester including The Chancellor, Sajid Javid’s promise to create an ‘infrastructure revolution’. Within the package is a £25billion,...
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Brexit uncertainty has reduced sales transactions by up to 42% in London
Research by a leading building society has revealed the Brexit property transaction winners and losers following the EU Referendum in June 2016. The Yorkshire Building Society claims the London...
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What the big housing beasts said yesterday at the Conservative conference
The Conservative party conference yesterday saw one of the busiest days for housing-related announcements including reveals from Chancellor Sajid Javid, Housing Secretary Robert Kenrick and Housing...
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Told you so! Record number of agents report rising rents after fees ban
Letting industry predictions that the tenant fees ban would push up rents are proving to be true, new and dramatic figures reveal. ARLA Propertymark’s latest month report into the private rented...
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Great grandson of Jackson-Stops founder reveals why he won’t work for family...
The great grandson of Jackson-Stops founder Herbert Jackson-Stops has revealed that he is to strike out and found his own company after seven years spent working in the industry. George Jackson-Stops...
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Video exclusive: former Purplebricks director reveals all about his new business
Purplebricks’ former National Lettings Director Richard Jacques (above, left) says his new investment platform Investerge will create a level playing field for investors and claims it’s already...
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Purplebricks told to pay tenants compensation after maintenance failings
Purplebricks has been ordered to pay a tenant £250 in compensation after being found to have twice contravened a key paragraph within The Property Ombudsman (TPO) Code of Practice. It has also been...
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Savills wins key contract to advise on England’s newest town… Northstowe
Savills has won a key contract to advise Homes England on the next stage of the UK’s largest new town since Milton Keynes. The development team at Savills Cambridge will help with the delivery of...
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Filming to begin on crime thriller based on true story of London estate agent
Estate agents regularly make it onto TV including Channel 4’s two series Stath Lets and The Estate Agents or the BBC’s Under Offer: Estate Agents On The Job. But now there is going to be a blockbuster...
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Bob Scarff: ‘How I’d fix Countrywide, and why it’s in trouble’
Former Countrywide estate agency MD Bob Scarff has gone on record to reveal what he would do to save the business and why it’s gone so awry. Scarff, who during his 16 years at Countrywide was in...
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Rising digital-savvy estate agency star acquires traditional rival
A North East estate agency which says it has grown quickly by embracing technology has acquired an older and more traditional rival for an undisclosed sum. Darlington-based My Property Box has...
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SpicerHaart’s Just Mortgages arm tests out ‘no ties’ brokerage hub for agents
A ‘no-ties’ mortgage broker hub for estate agents and developers launched today by Just Mortgages is believed to be the first of its kind in the UK. The unique brokerage service is being trialled...
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Advice within ‘model’ tenancy contract on ministry’s website woefully out of...
The Negotiator has discovered that the downloadable assured shorthold tenancy contract agreement live on the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s website with guidance for agents...
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Housing Secretary says he’ll have ‘no ugly homes built in the UK’
At the Conservative Conference, the Housing Secretary of State, Robert Jenrick, said that ugly homes have no place in his future vision for UK housing. “The government is committed to building the...
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The Makeover
THE BRIEF UK shop fit-out company, Excite Interiors (Xeyet Limited), have developed a distinctive brand for Sowerbys Estate Agent offices over many years emphasising their market position and...
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New lettings platform bags two leading property industry players
Start-up lettings platform Accommodation.co.uk has bagged two more leading industry figures both of whom until recently worked for Purplebricks These are Michael Booth and Julie Findlater. Findlater,...
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It’s back! Emoov launches first marketing campaign since re-launch
The good times could be back for emoov as it launches its first digital campaign under new management . The revived agency joined Stepan Dobrovolskiy’s company, Mashroom in January 2019 as part of his...
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‘Parlous state of the housing market has finally reached receptive ears’
Secretary of State for Housing, Robert Jenrick, (yet another one through the revolving door of the department) wants to try and cure the ailing housing market, which only built 220,000 homes last...
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Is Accommodation the next Purplebricks… for lettings?
Accommodation.co.uk started out as an online lettings platform that many within the industry predicted would go the way of its multiple predecessors who have failed to gain significant traction...
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Rogue tenant fined £20,000 for illegally sub-letting HMO
A tenant in London has been fined £16,000 for sub-letting a house illegally as an HMO in a move that many in the industry will welcome as councils have begun to bear down heavily on agents and...
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