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‘Hybrid agents miss whole point of property industry when they ignore sales...
Hybrid agents are missing the point when they concentrate on transactions and not sales progression and will therefore only ever take a limited slice of the market, it has been claimed. The comments...
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Negotiator Awards winner joins the ‘three portal’ club following OTM sign-up
Award-winning West Midlands estate agency Robert Oulsnam has signed up its 12 branches to OnTheMarket.com. This means the company now lists properties on all three of the UK’s main property portals as...
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Landlord tax take is hitting rental market hard, claims RICS
The increased Stamp Duty and income tax introduced by the government recently are beginning to hit the rental market hard in all regions of the UK, RICS’ latest Residential Market Survey reveals. In a...
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Profits at Savills’ UK estate agency business rise by 17% despite 10% drop in...
Savills’ UK residential business increased its turnover by 6% to £58.2 million and profits by 17% to £6.3 million during the first six months of the year despite sales volumes that were down 7% in...
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‘Eye watering’ letting agent check-out bill for £1,071 unveiled on Twitter
An ‘eye-watering’ and ‘disgusting’ inventory invoice by an unnamed corporate letting agency has gone viral on Twitter and has been retweeted 49 times over the past 48 hours. The list (pictured, below)...
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Click and collect
Before (above) and after virtual furnishing. The quality of your photography can make the difference between a quick sale and a property that sits in inventory for months. KeyAgent, for instance,...
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Property developer launches ‘stay before buy’ incentive scheme for buyers
The team behind the luxury residential development Carrington Gardens has launched an unusual opportunity for potential buyers to experience life on the site through its Try Before You Buy scheme....
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71% of estate agents have no idea what will happen to their EU employees...
Many estate agents have no idea what’s going to hit their businesses when the UK leaves the EU on March 29th next year. That’s the conclusion of a study of the property industry by a leading legal...
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More rogue landlords are hardened criminals not old-fashioned chancers, says...
The profile of rogue landlords over the past decade has changed from ‘chancers’ to hardened criminals who use aliases, fake companies and “multiple layers of obfuscation”, it has been claimed. The...
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Letting agent that says it’s also a social club for tenants lands £3.5m
The UK’s first renting platform aimed at professional 25-35 year olds who want to rent with like-minded people has landed a £3.5 million cash injection jointly from a leading venture capital firm and...
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A third of tenants have to wait ‘too long’ for deposits to be returned,...
A new investigation into the rental deposit system has revealed that a third of tenants are forced to provide a deposit to their new landlord while waiting to have their previous deposit returned....
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The office phone that’s built for estate agents
We know just how crucial communication is for estate agents and the telephone can be the most important tool in your business. Vonage is the office phone that comes with some amazing features that...
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Rental property dispute sparks street demonstrations
A South East estate agent has become involved in a war of words with a leading housing and poverty action group over repairs to a property, and is due to have one of its branches picketed tomorrow by...
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Which? is wrong about tenancy deposits
Which? has just published a report that casts doubt over tenancy deposit protection. But if its recommendations were implemented there is a real possibility that consumer protection for tenants might...
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Futurology: homes in 2050
Homes in the future will tap into neighbourhood energy systems, feature flexible layouts and use improved technology to make automatic decisions about heat, security and even postal deliveries,...
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The most comprehensive exhibition of UK & International residential property (and services) returns to ExCel London for its 2018 ‘Autumn Edition’ in October. Entry to both the exhibition &...
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NAEA | Propertymark South West Conference
EXETER Propertymark will be in Exeter on 27 September to bring you this year’s unmissable conference. Our extraordinary line-up of speakers will be bringing you your essential legal update, top...
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Agents increasingly turning to high property valuations to win instructions
Evidence of sales agents aggressively over-valuing properties to gain instructions has emerged following research by proptech firm Agent Software, which has blamed the trend on “tricky market...
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Purplebricks will struggle to make headway in New York
Hybrid estate agency Purplebricks will struggle to make headway in its key US market of New York, it has been claimed. These comments come William Carrington (pictured, above) the chairman of prime...
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ASTs and ‘other’ lets
One change in 1996 was that, providing the criteria were met for an Assured tenancy, the default tenancy would be an AST. Since then we have seen a raft of legislation around ASTs, most recently...
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