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Chestertons fast-tracks proptech lettings platform to beat Coronavirus
Chestertons, one of the UK’s leading and oldest estate agencies, has signed up to use proptech lettings platform Teclet across 30 of its branches. Lettings staff at the company have been trained by...
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Arguments erupt in Somerset over vacant property viewings by estate agent
Fierce debate over the government’s advice on property viewings and home moves has erupted once again after agents in the Somerset town of Weston-super-Mare complained to local authorities about a...
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Breaking: Your Move parent company LSL reveals CEO stepped down yesterday
LSL Group Chief Executive Ian Crabb has stepped down from the company in the middle of the Coronavirus pandemic and has made way for a former building society chief. Crabb (left) has been replaced by...
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TPO warns agents over dangers of property virtual viewings
Sales and letting agents are increasingly offering video viewings during COVID-19 lockdown to keep their pipelines going, and The Property Ombudsman (TPO) has today issued advice on best practice to...
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Land Registry relaxes rules to help property market continue
HM Land Registry is making it easier to verify a person’s identity and sign deeds for land registration purposes. From Monday 4th May, temporary changes will be introduced when verifying a person’s...
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There’s hope yet! 40% of property sales agreed before Coronavirus are...
Forty percent of buyers and sellers canvassed during a poll have said they intend to continue with property sales already agreed prior to the lockdown, while 54% said they would pick up where they...
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Six agents expelled from TPO after non payment of awards
Six estate agencies have been expelled from membership of The Property Ombudsman (TPO) scheme after collectively failing to pay awards totalling £11,834. TPO expulsion comes too late for the tenants,...
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Leading agents criticise Rightmove’s AGM access restrictions
Two leading estate agents have criticised the Rightmove decision to hold its AGM behind closed doors today, which will see just two shareholders allowed to attend in person. Rightmove says the...
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New proptech platform claims to help agents retain 80% of revenues during crisis
A proptech platform has been launched that claims to help agencies achieve 80% of their revenues despite the Coronavirus lockdown. Homehere was launched two years ago by former Cardiff student...
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Viewings furore in Somerset rumbles on as agent involved continues to deny...
The estate agent at the centre of a Coronavirus property viewings furore in Somerset has told The Negotiator that he has not been taking potential buyers to homes that are occupied. Last week we...
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Online auctions prove their worth during lockdown for SDL with £7.7m sale
The SDL Auctions team pulled together in a marathon team effort for the company’s first national property auction, which raised £7.7 million for sellers. Held behind closed doors to maintain social...
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Coronavirus rules revealed for viewings when market reopens
Details of the protocols that estate agents may have to follow if the property market is to be allowed to reopen have been revealed following discussions between the sales industry and housing...
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Which? investigation slams industry over rental break clauses and deposits
Consumer organisation Which? has slammed both letting agents and landlords for refusing to let tenants leave properties during the Coronavirus crisis, or making it difficult for them to do so. Which?...
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Revealed: More details on post-lockdown property viewings when industry...
NAEA Propertymark has revealed more information on how the property market will re-open after plans to regulate property viewings were leaked to a national newspaper yesterday. Chief Executive Mark...
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Coping with Coronavirus: ‘Yes, we’re still busy despite the lockdown’
What strange time of Coronavirus we are in, and as an estate agent with over 30 years’ experience, I have never known a market like this. I have worked through the crash of 1987/1988 when interest...
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Landlords turn to ‘moral contracts’ with tenants, but are they enforceable?
A Scottish estate agency has asked its tenants to sign a ‘moral contract’ to express their unconditional commitment to repay their rental arrears in full, as soon as possible. At the bottom of the...
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House prices to drop by up to 10% and transactions by 36% this year
Savills has revealed that house prices are to drop by up to 10% this year in the prime market as the economic downturn and the continuing difficulties of buying and selling homes impact the market....
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‘Traditional viewings are under threat from Coronavirus’
A trio of figures from the estate agency industry have told The Negotiator that Coronavirus is changing both public and industry attitudes to property viewings. Giles Barrett (left), Sales Director at...
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US realtors return to work with masks and gloves as UK waits its turn
Estate agents in some parts of the USA are beginning to reopen for business in a phased plan and have restarted physical viewings, offering their UK counterparts a taste of what will happen when the...
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Despite slow progress, easyProperty says its new strategy will succeed
Relaunched hybrid estate agency easyProperty has claimed that a strategy of growing its network locally and organically will make it more successful than other Purplebricks wannabes including YOPA....
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