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mio – empowering agents to focus on what’s important
Encouragingly all the data suggests that Agents are busier than ever as we emerge from lock-down. This is great news, but it creates a challenge when many branches are operating with smaller teams...
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Government urged to backdate cut in stamp duty to help recent buyers
Plans to remove stamp duty on the first £500,000 of a property with immediate effect will be a “bitter blow” for those who have just completed on a purchase, say residential law experts. While...
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£2bn home insulation grant hand-out for property-owners announced by Chancellor
Thousands of property-owners could get grants worth up to £5,000 as part of a £2bn grant scheme to improve home insulation. The move, announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak, is part of a £3bn plan to cut...
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Spend, spend, spend Budget as Chancellor boosts jobs to kickstart the economy
It was a spend, spend, spend Budget, and it came from a Conservative chancellor – but extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. As Rishi Sunak splashed £30bn of government cash (read debt),...
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Belvoir takes over The Nottingham building society’s agency business
The Nottingham has today announced plans to axe its own estate agency business and enter into a strategic alliance with Belvoir Group to run its estate agency and lettings services through Belvoir’s...
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The time to act is today
Making big changes for operational effectiveness and efficiency is never easy. It is even less easy when times are good and motivation to be disruptive is low. However, that’s not the situation we find...
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Housing market recovery is under way says RICS, but long-term caution remains
The housing market recovery got firmly under way in June, with a noticeable increase in demand, though caution remains, according to the latest survey by the Royal Institute for Chartered Surveyors...
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Lockdown drove new wave of movers to enter market – as demand spikes
Data revealed in Rightmove’s June House Price Index shows record numbers of owners asking for valuations, and daily new listings are higher than this time last year. The property portal also revealed...
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Boost for proptech start-ups as new mentoring programme launched
NAEA Propertymark has teamed up with REACH UK to encourage proptech start-ups to develop innovative new products. The aim is to boost the development of software that will help to streamline the...
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Landlords with student property portfolios set for fall as universities go...
Buy-to-let ‘armchair’ landlords with student accommodation could see a huge drop in demand when the next academic year starts, if universities continue with online-only teaching. That is the warning...
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Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s stamp duty cut could just push up house prices,...
The cut in stamp duty announced in Wednesday’s Budget have come under fire from the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS). IFS deputy director Helen Miller said she feared the move to axe stamp duty on...
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Zoopla embarks on redundancy consultation process with agency software staff
Zoopla is restructuring its agency software division, with the possible closure of two of its offices – Brackley and Pocklington – where their software brands such as Alto, Vebra and Jupix were based....
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Investment in new homes is being strangled, says new report
Smaller institutional investors are being locked out of investing in the UK residential market, a new report has found. UK residential is an attractive asset class for investors such as small pension...
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Goodlord and Vouch join up to create new proptech force in lettings
Leading proptech company Goodlord has acquired referencing platform Vouch, bringing the fast-growing Vouch business into the Goodlord group. The move will bring together two of the sector’s most...
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Development land sales picking up after lockdown, but pipeline has slowed
The COVID-19 lockdown has slowed transactions of development land significantly – but as lockdown measures ease and staff return to work from furlough, activity is increasing. Confidence is rising as...
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Private renters say they are more satisfied with their housing than last year
There has been an increase in the proportion of private renters satisfied with their housing according to new data published by the government. The figures, which form part of the English Housing...
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Welsh agents finally get amber light to restart property viewings
Agents in Wales can finally look forward to the restart of the property market after the Welsh government announced viewings could restart on 27 July – providing infection rates stay low. There has...
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Sunak’s Stamp Duty holiday is a ‘cowardly’ move says leading agent
While many estate agents including the NAEA welcomed last week’s stamp duty ‘holiday’ for those buying homes under £500,000, a high profile estate agent in London has attacked Chancellor Rishi Sunak...
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Britons ‘don’t want cookie-cutter homes’ government-backed study reveals
A survey backed by the government and organised by one of the UK’s most prestigious design organisations has revealed what Britons will want from their homes in ten years’ time – and cookie-cutter...
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Andrews reveals ‘surreal’ Covid experience of one instruction a month per branch
One of the UK’s largest independent estate agency chains has admitted that it received just 1.1 property sales instruction on average during April for each of its 48 branches. Andrews, which is one of...
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