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Estate agents will be covered by new homes ombudsman, government confirms
More regulation of the property market is on the way after the government revealed its intention to introduce a powerful New Homes Ombudsman. Following a nine-month consultation process during which...
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Six months after Grenville Turner’s arrival, Yopa turns the corner
Hybrid agency Yopa says it has turned a corner this year after adjusting its fee structure and focusing on making more money from mortgages. The company says the new strategy has helped it increase...
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Online tool launched today is first to provide ‘per square metre’ house prices
Rightmove has branched out of the house sales and rental market and into house extensions with a new tool designed to help people estimate the labour cost of enlarging their home, rather than buying a...
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Geordie cheer: Newcastle is last city to regain its pre-2007 house prices
House prices in all the UK’s cities finally recovered to their pre-financial crisis levels at the end of December, it has been revealed, helped by ‘bouncing back’ demand but weak supply, says Zoopla....
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Mystery solved! Where Movem, the tenant referencing proptech prodigy has gone.
Leading financial services company Barbon Insurance says it has decided to integrate its recently-acquired automated referencing platform Movem into the HomeLet platform rather than operate it as a...
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LATEST: First estate agents register apps for Reapit’s new Foundations platform
Reapit has begun rolling out its much-anticipated Foundations ‘app store’ platform and is now testing it with a selected group of estate agents and technology firms ahead of a general release, The...
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Connells profits drop by 12% after a year of Brexit chaos
Connells has reported its full year results for 2019 during which pre-tax profits dropped by 12% to £50.1 million after sales decreased by 7% and overall revenue slipped by 1%. Connells Group CEO...
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Purplebricks finance chief reveals all during candid interview
Purplebricks financial boss James Davies has given a wide-ranging interview in which he criticises its attempt to break into the US, explains why its Oz business flailed, denies that any of its online...
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After years of property industry efforts for homeless, Boris chips in with...
The government has announced that it is to spend an extra £236 million to help up to 6,000 homeless rough sleepers get off the streets, and employ 2,500 extra staff to support the initiative. This new...
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Are the portals past it? UK’s largest landlord signs up to list properties on...
The UK’s largest landlord has signed up to list some of its properties on lettings app Movebubble in a sign that the big build-to-rent operators are looking for other ways to market their properties...
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It’s official – house hunters returning to the market and sales agreed...
Activity picked up significantly within the property market during January, pointing to a likely busy few months during the run up to the Spring market for estate agents, it has been revealed. The...
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Estate agents warned over WhatsApp rules change ‘ticking timebomb’
The thousands of estate agents who use the free version of WhatsApp on their smartphones to communicate with customers are exposing themselves to prosecution by Whatsapp and could face action by...
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Fund-raising auctioneer couple ‘make a bid’ for marathon sponsorship
Andrew and Rachel Parker (pictured, above), who work together in the auctions industry, are asking the industry to sponsor them when they run the upcoming London Marathon. Andrew, who is MD of SDL...
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Trading Standards given new role in regulating ‘Win a House’ property raffles
Organisers of property raffles, which have become an increasingly popular way to sell a home when estate agents are unable to find a buyer, are to be regulated. Until recently organisers have only...
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As industry awaits reservation agreements, Propertymark launches initiative...
NAEA Propertymark has moved to pre-empt the government’s mooted introduction of Reservation Agreements by publishing a ‘Sales Protocol’ pack for agents and vendors to use after an instruction has been...
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Industry reaction: ‘Have ministers kicked RoPA into the long grass?’
FIRST REACTION “Introducing these regulations is long overdue and any delay has the potential to negatively impact upon the private rented sector (PRS),” says David Alexander, joint MD of property...
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Need a hand?
Which chores do you hate the most or simply don’t have time for? Cleaning your car or ironing work shirts? Many of us don’t think twice about getting someone else to carry out tasks so we don’t have...
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Scottish estate agent trapped in Tenerife Coronavirus hotel
An estate agent and his partner are one of over a hundred British guests at a Tenerife hotel who have been told they may have to spend 14 days waiting to be given the all-clear for the Coronavirus....
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Now who’s the dodo?
Since mid-2017 Moovshack has been quietly building a powerful mobile-first property platform designed to protect what it calls ‘the trusted high street agent model’ which it believes most home movers...
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Working together has never been easier with mio
As consumers, we have come to expect seamless integration and cross-party collaboration for pretty much everything, even if we do not recognise it as such. The average consumer enjoys smooth linkage...
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