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Exclusive: Howsy buys Upad out of liquidation and re-employs staff
Online lettings platform Howsy has bought former rival Upad out of liquidation for an undisclosed sum and will run the business separately, The Negotiator can reveal, hot on the heels of its...
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Savills grabs more market share during volatile 2019, latest results show
Shares in Savills jumped by 7.22% yesterday after the company revealed a sneak peek of its 2019 performance ahead of the company’s full results later this year. The statement said Savills had...
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Humberts CEO secures new role at company’s former commercial division
The former boss of failed property firm Humberts, which went into administration late last year, has secured a new role at a company with close ties to the estate agency. Tim Simmonds was briefly CEO...
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Martin & Co parent company establishes in-house mortgage division
The Property Franchise Group (TPFG) has bought an insurance brokerage as it executes a plan to create a large new in-house financial services subsidiary. TPFG, which operates six franchised-based...
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Sporle: Why I am stepping down from The Property Ombudsman
The Chief Executive of The Property Ombudsman, Katrine Sporle, has announced that she will leave the role in November 2020. Katrine has told The Negotiator that she will miss her role, saying, “I have...
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Liquidator of old Emoov says ‘pay up front’ customers are owed £1.5m
The liquidator of the company behind the former Emoov business has revealed that the thousands of estate agency customers who had paid the company in advance for its sales service prior to tist demise...
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Online estate agents take 10% of market for first time within sub-£200k sector
Online estate agents have taken 10% of the UK housing market at the lower end of the market for the first time, latest research by TwentyCI reveals. Its Property & Homebuyer report for the final...
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Deadline looms for latest round of TDS funding. Have you applied?
The closing date for applications is looming for the latest round of funding from the TDS Charitable Foundation. On 20th January 2020, the charity will close the current bid to review proposals before...
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Fancy escaping to the country? Here’s how much you’ll be paid to work on a...
Knight Frank has shone a light into one of the UK’s most unusual property management market after revealing the salaries paid to those employed ‘downstairs’ to keep the country’s great estates ticking...
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Zoopla ups the ante over branch numbers with new ‘win-back’ claim
Zoopla has revealed that 2,250 estate agents have returned to the portal during 2019, many of whom quit in 2015 to satisfy OnTheMarket’s ‘one other portal’ rule when it launched. Recent returnees...
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Compulsory electrical checks for all rented properties start on April 1st
Lettings agents will soon have to complete electrical checks on all rented properties they manage for electrical safety or face fines of up to £30,000. The proposals are outlined in the Electrical...
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ANOTHER council wades in to regulate ‘wild west’ Airbnb property sector
Brighton has become the latest city to tackle Airbnb and other short-term lettings platform head-on with new regulations. Councillors at Brighton and Hove City Council yesterday passed a motion...
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Guest Blog: Binning freeholders will leave residents worse off
Anti-leasehold campaigners have been quite vocal in the media recently, claiming that freeholders are unnecessary as they perform no function in residential blocks. It’s a familiar accusation which is...
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Meaningful vote? Scoring system launched for UK’s growing proptech sector
Proptech marketplace Unissu has launched a reviews and scoring system for the 700 or more tech companies and platforms active within the UK, a sector which is growing fast. A hundred proptech firms...
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Winkworth share price jumps by 13% following upbeat full-year results
Shares in Winkworth jumped by nearly 13% yesterday on the London Stock Exchange following the publication of its results for 2019. Although the firm admitted that last year was a ‘difficult period’...
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Purplebricks co-founder warns former territory owner over critical tweets
Samantha Sullivan (above, left), a recently-departed Purplebricks territory owner in Wales, has crossed swords online with the co-founder of the hybrid agency Kenny Bruce (above, right) after she...
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True cost of Phil and Kirsty’s ‘love it’ TV property advice: £54,000
Phil and Kirsty are so enshrined in TV property mania they don’t even need surnames, but do estate agents make enough use of the dynamic duo’s advice? If not, perhaps they should – even if it’s ‘just...
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Estate agency staff mourn sudden death of ‘thoughtful’ co-founder
Tributes have poured in for a prominent estate agent after he died suddenly aged 69. Gerard Flint (pictured below) set up Flint and Cook with Jonathan Cook in 1996 and was a qualified Chartered...
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Yorkshire agent takes up Roy Brooks’ reins for ‘honest property descriptions’
Negotiators are often told to be careful what they write in property descriptions, but a gaffe by one scribe at an agency in West Yorkshire has made it into the national newspapers. Keighley-based...
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The ‘Boris bounce’ has arrived in central London, claims estate agency...
Agents hoping for a post-General Election ‘Boris bounce’ should be reassured by the latest results from central London estate agency Chestertons, which has reported an ‘unprecedented’ surge in...
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