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Ellis Jones appoints Richard Tombs as a Partner
Richard Tombs has 30 years’ experience and is now based at Ellis Jones’ Canford Cliffs branch in Poole. He specialises in all aspects of property law including development and sales, leases, site...
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Twitter campaign to end ‘no fault’ evictions and expose bad landlords and...
A twitter campaign to end Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions has gone viral with nearly 250 people tweeting and re-tweeting 540 posts about their experiences of renting or being evicted for no reason....
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‘Overcrowded hybrid and online agency sector will soon consolidate like...
The current over-supply of online and hybrid agents will soon consolidate down from around 80 at the moment to a handful of main players, it has been claimed. Bob Scarff, the former MD of...
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Northwood MD Eric Walker promoted to run whole of Belvoir
Franchised lettings giant Belvoir has completed a significant reorganisation of its senior leadership team and structure that sees Northwood, the franchised agency it bought in 2016, at the centre of...
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Fenn Wright announces three promotions
Fenn Wright has promoted three staff members to branch manager level – Peter Ruddy (Kesgrave), Kirsty King (Colchester) and Natasha Everett (Woodbridge). Peter Ruddy has worked in estate agencies...
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Purplebricks told not to claim it advertises on all the ‘major portals’
Purplebricks has had its wrists slapped once more by the Advertising Standards Authority over a claim on its homepage that it advertises on ‘all the major portals’. The complaint, presumably made by a...
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Eight Haart branches found to have ‘issues’ with housing benefit applicants
Estate agency Haart has been named by a joint investigation into discrimination against tenants on housing benefit as a ‘worst offender’. The allegation follows an undercover investigation by housing...
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NALS says Shelter campaign to expose discriminatory letting agents is...
A campaign kicked off today by Shelter to end discrimination against tenants on housing benefits by letting agents has been criticised by NALS as ‘vilifying’ agents and being ‘emotive conjecture’. The...
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Time for a Belfast branch? Northern Ireland booms as rest of UK slows down
Agents on the English side of the Irish sea looking to expand their business should look to Northern Ireland now that it has been revealed as the surprise star of the UK property market by UK Finance....
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Number of Airbnb landlords set to increase as lender offers first no-strings...
The UK’s first no-strings mortgage for Airbnb holiday lets has been launched, opening up the short-term lets platform to a much wider pool of potential landlords. West Midlands lender The Tipton &...
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Former Purplebricks territory manager in Oz reveals why he quit
A Purplebricks territory manager has gone public in Australia after leaving the company and has revealed shocking details of his time working there. Jason van Straalen, who has worked in property...
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easyProperty announces new MD
easyProperty has appointed Russell Humphrey as Managing Director of their online estate agency business. Humphrey, formerly of YOPA, has extensive experience in independent, corporate and online estate...
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Humberts opens first regional hub in Dorset and prepares to open second in Kent
Humberts has begun rolling out its much-vaunted ‘hub’ system for its non-franchised offices, the Negotiator has learned. This includes the closure of its other high street branches in the South West...
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Leaked sales data from Purplebricks in Oz suggests it was 70% off target in June
The Negotiator has been shown documents from inside Purplebricks’ Australian operation that shine a light on how far its sales teams have been behind their targets recently. Speculation within the...
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Former Humberts Country House chief joins property search firm Recoco
Jeremy Campbell-Harris, one of the most senior staff to be let go by estate agency Humberts earlier this year during its pre-sale clear-out, has now secured a new role at country house property search...
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Number of branches listing via OnTheMarket nearly doubles in six months
OnTheMarket says it has reached a new high in the number of agents listing with the portal. Its CEO Ian Springett says 10,500 sales and letting agent branches now list on its service, an almost...
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Regional report
STATS: Henley average rent: £1,600pcm Marlow average rent: £1,700pcm Henley yearly average fee would be: £1,536 + vat Marlow yearly average fee would be: £2,040 + vat MARLOW, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE Gemma...
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Senior appointments announced at Sothebys
UK Sotheby’s International Realty has announced three new senior hires to support rapid expansion plans. Guy Bradshaw joins as Director of Central London Sales & Lettings with 15 years’ residential...
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Foxtons turns to Saatchi to help boost its flagging business
Embattled high street firm Foxtons has begun its first advertising campaign, created for the company by one of the world’s most famous jingle-writing firms, M&C Saatchi. The estate agency has...
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Yopa gets ANOTHER £20 million to fund its expansion
Savills has injected another tranche of cash into hybrid estate agency Yopa alongside several other investors, taking the total invested in the firm to £75 million. News emerged over the Bank Holiday...
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