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Rent controls are top concern for estate agents, reveals report
Estate agents are more worried about the potential introduction of rent controls across the UK than any other issues, a key survey of sentiment within the industry has revealed this morning. Just over...
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Some tenants aren’t being given ‘full info’ about alternative deposit...
On Sunday the BBC published a critical report looking at the alternative deposits sector and its short-comings but one provider, Flatfair, has told The Negotiator it’s fed up with the mistakes of...
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Former Purplebricks CEO spells out challenges for UK estate agency
Former UK Purplebricks CEO Lee Wainwright has revealed that he backs the government’s attempts to regulate the industry and that technology will disrupt the industry however much some agents pretend...
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Lucian Cook: Why Chancellor’s mansion tax idea will not see the light of day
From 2012 to 2014 I spent a lot of time writing and talking about the threat of a mansion tax, a policy that was originally proposed by the Liberal Democrats and soon adopted by Labour in opposition....
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Estate agents angrily reject Chancellor’s mansion tax proposals
Chancellor Sajid Javid has revealed plans to introduce a ‘mansion tax’ in his March 11 budget that would see owners of prime properties either pay an annual property tax based on a percentage of a its...
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Letting agents condemn ‘shock’ Welsh move to triple notice periods for tenants
The Welsh government has introduced legislation to its National Assembly that will triple the time it takes to remove a tenant from a property via the ‘no fault’ eviction process from two to six...
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Second time! Leading estate agency bags silverware at property awards
Pygott & Crone, winners of three Gold Awards at The Negotiator Awards 2019, enjoyed another successful evening last week at the Lincolnshire Construction and Property Awards last, taking home...
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Estate agent banned from being director after clients lose £28,000
An estate agent based in Essex has been banned from being a director of a company for five years following an investigation by the Insolvency Service into the collapse of her business. Frinton-on-Sea...
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Election is no barrier to opportunity
Network Auctions finished the year on a high with their second largest ever sale raising a total of £5.5 million and a sales rate of 66 per cent at their 5th December ballroom sale held in the Westbury...
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Countrywide beating Purplebricks in race for agreed sales, report reveals
Latest research into the market share held by online agents shows they have taken 7.5% of the market overall and that Purplebricks has edged up to 4.98%. The figures, gathered by TwentyCI for the...
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Guild launches UK’s first iBuyer platform, but can the US concept succeed...
The Guild of Property Professionals is to bring the US iBuyer model of purchasing homes to the UK property market for the first time. Its initiative was announced yesterday at its packed annual...
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Agents warned over dangers of relying on ‘gut feel’ to spot AML criminals
New research from iamproperty reveals that almost 60% of estate agents thought that AML wasn’t a problem in their area, with the highest proportion of these based in the North East. Almost 90% of...
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Estate agents hear about new pricing deal with Rightmove and Zoopla, but...
The 400 or so member agents of the Guild of Property Professionals attending its busy annual conference in London yesterday had plenty to talk about. This included an exclusive deal that the Guild had...
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Magna Carta Park: new and exclusive parkland private estate launches
Royalton Residences is to launch Magna Carta Park, set in an exclusive private estate in Englefield Green, Surrey. Magna Carta Park offers 57 beautifully designed homes within 57 acres of ancient...
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BREAKING: Former Your Move MD Gareth Samples to take top slot at Martin & Co...
The hunt for a new leader at Martin & Co and Ewemove parent corporate The Property Franchise Group is over after the company announced this morning that one of Your Move’s former senior team,...
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Reshuffle: New housing minister is Chris Pincher, who arrives from the...
Followng the sacking of Esther McVey this morning, it has been confirmed that the new housing minister is Chris Pincher, until today a Foreign Office minister. Pincher appears to have been unaware of...
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Leading ten-branch Welsh estate agency goes into administration
One of the best-known estate agency firms in South Wales, Roberts, has called in a business recovery company after going into administration. The company behind the business is Roberts & Co...
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Hybrid lettings agency claims to charge up to 90% less than high street but...
A hybrid lettings agency in London claims to have achieved what so many of those which came before it have failed to, namely… to establish a sustainable business model. HomeMade, which has £3 million...
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New housing minister: what the industry thinks
So here we are again. Just six months after she arrived in post, Esther McVey is off, to be replaced by Chris Pincher, MP for Tamworth. McVey made only a handful of forays into the world of estate...
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Speculation rife over why Winkworth share price is ‘rocketing’
City investors can go mad for certain shares often with little reason, but it’s difficult to work out why the Winkworth share price has ‘gone mad’ and leapt by 22% over the past four weeks to £1.60....
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