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Stock crisis: Prime London sales firms now using buying agent tactics
Hamptons International’s PCL team is celebrating the sale of an £18 million property – and reports that in the current market they are acting more like buying agents to offer best service to their...
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Embrace the opportunities for your business
For any agent the challenge of making a business successful is hard work with the focus on maintaining good stock levels, operating compliantly, keeping customers happy, and staff motivated as well as...
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Exclusive: Askporter reveals plans to raise significant ‘Series A’ cash next...
Chatbot property maintenance platform AskPorter is to launch a substantial ‘Series A’ cash raise next year despite admitting that a ‘funding winter’ is on the horizon for proptech firms in the UK, it...
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But would it get planning permission? New tool for estate agents launches
Have you ever told a buyer or vendor that they “could do wonders with this… extend it, add a granny flat, put a holiday chalet in the garden” without any real idea whether it’s feasible, worth doing...
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‘Airbnb doesn’t care about illegal sub-letting’ claims leading agent
A leading lettings agent has criticised Airbnb for its refusal to take action over illegal sub-letting after his staff discovered one of the apartments it manages was being offered on the short-lets...
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Influential thinktank calls for Stamp Duty to be reformed or abolished
A political think tank founded by Margaret Thatcher has called on Boris Johnson to follow up on his promise to scrap Stamp Duty on all purchases below £500,000 and labelled the levy a ‘tax on mobility...
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OnTheMarket: agent reveals how it banned him from meetings after criticism
Another estate agent has spoken out to complain about his treatment by OnTheMarket. Simon Shinerock, who is chairman of 15-branch estate agency Choices, has claimed that he was banned from public...
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All change for house-buying
Geoff Hall, Head of Residential Conveyancing at Gordon Brown Law Firm and a director of the national body, the Conveyancing Association, has initially endorsed the idea of a legally binding reservation...
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New boss of easyProperty reveals its ‘local expert’ network
The relaunched easyProperty hybrid estate agency is planning to have 72 local partners in place by July next year following its acquisition from eProp Services Group, the parent company of The Guild...
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Rent controls have ‘failed across the world, and would do in London’
The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has poured a substantial bucket of cold water over Mayor of London Sadiq Khan’s stated aim to introduce rent controls in the capital. Its researchers have...
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It’s time to police Airbnb and other short-lets platforms, says Lord Best
The architect of RoPA, Lord Best, has called on the government to include Airbnb and other short-let platforms within the remit of his planned new regulator. His comments were made in the House of...
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What a stink! New septic tank rules set to upset rural sales
Any estate agent operating in rural areas will be aware of the joys of septic tanks, cess pits and sewage treatment tanks – because discovering that they are not correctly sited, not properly...
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Estate agency fined £40k after admitting nine counts under unfair practices law
An estate agent has been fined a total of £40,034 after admitting a string of offences during the first day of a trial that followed an investigation by local Trading Standards. Bournemouth Illsley...
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Building solutions for estate agencies
They’re fighting to keep a presence on a battle-scarred high street, littered with retail and leisure casualties, while at the same time facing the onslaught of regiments of online-only services...
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Boris vows to shake-up Stamp Duty
Timothy Evans, Trainee Solicitor, and Helen Marsh, Partner, at Forsters LLP agree, hope Boris will follow through on his ideology Helen Marsh Changes apparently being considered include raising the...
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OnTheMarket threatens legal action against original ‘action group’ member...
A worried London estate agency has contacted The Negotiator to reveal that OnTheMarket is chasing it for £24,000 in unpaid portal fees which, OTM claims, it owes after the agency cancelled its...
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Exclusive: what to expect when RoPA becomes law, from its chief architect
Lord Best is the architect of what will soon become the greatest change for the property industry since the Estate Agency Act was passed into law in 1979. Talking from his parliamentary office,...
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Is building business your New Year’s resolution?
Estate agency businesses rightly focus on winning new instructions and selling more homes, but creating new business partnerships to offer more to your clients a better more inclusive service. Embrace...
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Russell Quirk: Estate agents should thank me for failing online
Former Emoov boss and now PR guru Russell Quirk has claimed that estate agents in the UK should thank him and the other pioneers of the online and hybrid model for their lack of success online. The...
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Show for full-time Airbnb landlords opens today
The gap between government views on Airbnb and the reality of the ground have been laid bare following the launch of a trade show to promote the growing ‘buy-to-host’ industry in the UK. Last week a...
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