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Leading property auction house reported to watchdog over ‘misleading’ listing
The auction arm of Barnard Marcus has been reported to the Advertising Standards Authority about a listing it published on its website prior to a public sale. The legal requirements of property...
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Welsh agency Darlows needs your help to raise £6,000 for children’s charity
A leading estate agent in Wales is to hold a charity ball on June 30th that it hopes will raise £6,000 for children’s charity Magic Moments, but which it needs to sell more tickets for to hit its...
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First impressions count
Your profile is usually the first place that a customer looks to find out more about your company and its services. Making sure your profile is optimised should be the first step of your social media...
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Government to review select licensing as number of schemes passes 550 mark
One of the UK’s most controversial private rental market policies, select licensing, is to be reviewed, the government has announced as the number of schemes in the UK tops 550. These...
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Purplebricks struggles in Oz as property market crashes after years of boom
Purplebricks has lost nearly 20% of its local property experts in Australia over the past three months as the Oz property market shows down after years of booming prices and demand. In its March...
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Bellway comms go hyperfast
Bellway South London enabling ‘smart homes’ with hyperfast broadband partnership. Bellway South London will be providing day one access to gigabit broadband speeds across its new housing developments....
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Letting agent revealed as brains behind latest Easy launch by Stelios
When Easyjet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou announced two months ago that his orange brand had launched into the UK conveyancing market, there was much fanfare that the company could disrupt...
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Property Ombudsman expels record seven members in one month
The Property Ombudsman (TPO) has expelled seven member agents, which is believed to be the largest number kicked out of its scheme in a single month since the organisation was established in 1990. The...
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UK proptech “isn’t that innovative” says leading consultant
Leading proptech consultant Eddie Holmes (pictured, below) has told The Negotiator he believes the UK’s proptech sector “isn’t really innovative”, despite the mini-industry often touting itself as a...
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan launches affordable homes portal
It probably won’t have Rightmove investors quaking in their boots, but Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has launched his own property portal. Called Homes for Londoners it enables people to search for...
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Investing in inbound marketing
Outbound marketing is what used to be termed simply ‘marketing’. It’s the type of marketing which pushes a message at you, whether you want it to or not. Examples of outbound marketing include TV ads,...
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Rental scams costing tenants £5.25 million a year, official fraud...
Rental fraudsters have claimed 18,645 victims over the past four years who on average have lost £1,396 each or £22.1 million collectively, figures just out reveal. This suggests tenants are losing...
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Can he turn it around in time? Countrywide profits to be down £20m during...
The pain continues at Countrywide with profits for the first six months of this year expected to be £20 million lower than the same period last year, the company’s latest trading statement has...
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Big headlines slow sales
HEADLINES Rightmove: “Price of property coming to market reaches record high.” NAEA Propertymark: “A buyer’s market in March as a record number of homes are sold for less than asking price.” RICS:...
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‘We’re not struggling in Australia’, says Purplebricks
Purplebricks’ group head office has come out fighting over recent reports that its operation in Australia is struggling amid allegations of departing LPEs. The company claims that – although as we...
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Countrywide shares drop by a third in a single day following profit warning
Yesterday’s gloomy trading update from Countrywide didn’t go down well with City investors, who immediately began offloading the company’s shares at an alarming rate, helping drive down its share...
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More smaller agents will ‘dip into’ tenant deposits after fees ban, predicts...
The number of independent letting agents who illegally dip into tenant deposits to support their struggling businesses is set to rise, 30-branch South East sales and letting agency Romans has...
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Yom Yom! Online chat specialist Yomdel eats up mystery shopping firm 360...
Agents who would like to know both how their customers, employees and prospects behave and what they think about their business can now use live chat supplier Yomdel to find out. Yomdel, whose 24/7...
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Purplebricks told by ad watchdog not to repeat key claims about its fees
Purplebricks has been forced to alter its website after a landmark set of complaints against it were upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) today. The adjudication comes after an initial...
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SpicerHaart strikes ‘guaranteed buyer’ deal with innovative Essex development
Agency giant SpicerHaart’s specialist part-exchange business has won a contract to help a ‘design-it-yourself’ builder shift units at a site in Essex by guaranteeing sales and fast turnaround times....
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