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Agents too keen to bag a sale when doing viewings, say buyers
Three quarters of all home buyers who have attended property viewings believe the agent showing them around was more interested in their sales commission than providing decent information about it....
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Countrywide lettings chief jumps ship to Nick Dunning Associates
Another Countrywide executive has jumped ship to join rival Nick Dunning Associates to run the company’s lettings portfolio across both of its brands Townends and Stirling Ackroyd. Tim Van der Schyff...
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Humberts signs up to Zoopla four years after quitting to join OTM
Humberts has returned to property portal group ZPG and has already begun listing its 941 sales and 118 rental properties from its five new on and off high street hubs alongside listings from its six...
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Barclays and Housing Ministry jointly offer SME house developers £1 billion...
Barclays and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) have entered a partnership to provide £1 billion in funding to small and medium size house builders. Called the Housing...
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Ground-breaking legislation to help tenants onto property ladder enters Commons
LtoR: Justine Greening and Lord Bird. New legislation designed to force lenders to take rent and council tax payments into account when assessing tenants for mortgages has begun its journey through the...
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Homes
The housings destination event for residential development, strategic asset management and procurement solutions. The Exhibition 120 of the UK’s leading suppliers of residential development, strategic...
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Grand Designs Live
A HOME SHOW ON A GRAND SCALE Grand Designs Live, proudly sponsored by Anglian Home Improvements, returns from 10 -14 October at Birmingham’s NEC and in 2019 at London’s ExCeL from 4-12 May. Based on...
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Mortgage Business Expo 2018
In an uncertain world, it’s time for interest rates to lift off, not blast off” It’s difficult to predict what’s going to happen to interest rates and how fast they might rise over the coming months...
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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. The line-up of speakers will be bringing you your essential legal update, top business tips from...
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London sales slump stabilises as housing market booms in the north
The UK housing market is dividing even harder along regional lines with sales activity and house price rises still healthy and even improving outside London and the Home Counties but continuing to...
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Farming business established by Strutt & Parker founders being sold by… Savills
The founders of venerable estate agency chain Strutt and Parker have had much to make them turn in their graves recently including when the company was bought by French bank BNP Paribas. But now...
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Fast-growing London estate agent launches commercial property arm
One of London’s emerging large estate agents LiFE Residential has launched a commercial property arm in addition to its existing residential sales and lettings teams. The company, which recently...
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Homelet parent group gobbles up rental proptech firm Movem
Brighton-based rental proptech firm Movem has been bought by Homelet and Rentsheild parent company Barbon Insurance for an undisclosed sum. The move comes four weeks after it failed to make it into...
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Leading independent estate agency put up for sale over unpaid tax bill
Sanderson Young, a leading independent estate agency in the North East that also has a London presence has been offered for sale after the company was issued with a winding up notice by HMRC this...
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Grand Designs Live
A HOME SHOW ON A GRAND SCALE Grand Designs Live, proudly sponsored by Anglian Home Improvements, returns from 10 -14 October at Birmingham’s NEC and in 2019 at London’s ExCeL from 4-12 May. Based on...
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Prime London property market FINALLY recovering, claims Rightmove
The top end of the London property market is showing signs of revival, it has been claimed by Rightmove. The portal says 6% more homes over £750,000 have been sold over the past four weeks than...
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Countrywide exec joins fintech firm backed by £10m new funding
Unmortgage, a fledgling finance firm that offers a new model of ‘gradual’ home ownership has received start-up funding of £10 million and recruited a senior Countrywide executive to prepare it for...
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Purplebricks radically alters its fees structure in Australia
Purplebricks is to raise and alter its fees in Australia in response to both local regulatory and housing market difficulties and to help its agents earn more cash, it has been revealed. Purplebricks...
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Established Lancashire estate agency shuts up shop
A six-year-old estate agency in Lancashire that only operated out of business parks rather than on the high street has been wound up voluntarily and joint liquidators have been appointed. Lime Estate...
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